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Me either; I concur with you. Who reloads to get different loot? That was a low blow .... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just post in little, easy to digest chunks, rather than enormo-stomache-distending gasto-nightmares. Or lots of white space, different fonts or even an Executive Summary at the top (or bottom), if you really MUST post such large amounts of text. It's not that it isn't worth reading, just that it is difficult to read large swathes of writing on the Forum.

The laws are laws, yes. And gravity does not have a will, correct. I was asking for some clarification on WinterSun's ideas of the capital "F" Force as a small "f" force. The definition of a will is not just a secret agenda. We can ultimately discover the behaviour of laws (even more abstruce ones, like quantum entanglement) because they are consistent, so just like in cryptography, security by obscurity si no security at all. To show evidence of sentience, there must be an arbitrary component. The Force must arbitrarily help DS or LS according to some secret (i.e. unknown and unknowable to us) agenda. I was talking about two different concepts, because it appeared that you had regarded the captial "F" Force as just a small "f" force, like gravity. Okay?

I will be impressed only after seeing it in action, and it is a good game (in other words, well in excess of my expectations, which are pretty mediocre). I've just about had a gutful of poor game conversions.

It is also extremely difficult to establish a causal link between a single factor (like violent images) and an eventual outcome (violent behaviour) because of the almost limitless variables. Some doctors have insufficient numeracy skills to comprehend statistical variances; e.g. the just struck-off Professor Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence wrongly convicted several innocent mothers of killing their babies because of an illness he was championing "Munchhausen by Proxy", and he admitted that he had "a weak grasp of statistics", yet he quoted figures like "a million to one" and "winning the lottery".

Yep. When Gordon meets the Professor, and Alyx uses the teleport (the first teleport of the game). The Gordon gets in to follow her, and ... well everything begins from there ... I'd provide my source (ha ha!), but I think it might have been a recent (post release) game magazine ... I could look through them all, I suppose. I think it was the PC Gamer where they revealed the Lost Coast and Aftermath expansions. (June? August is due out any day.)

You loved my idea. Admit it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok. You loved my idea.

It's the lovechild of Kilroy and Ziggy.

To prove to your dreaming self that you are dreaming: As soon as I use this test, I can start flying (if I haven't been already), because I KNOW I'm dreaming. Your flying will get better with practice. I can do all sorts of stuff, now. Just like Neo.

I find it can have a short-term negative effect, but it does in the long term help to understand human nature. I strongly believe that, given the right environment, humans are capable of practically anything. Warning, don't go to this link if you are squeamish at all (and I'll probably delete it shortly, anyway): bad1 worse one: infantiphagia

... And how would we spot other members without following the pouches of dice ..?

I found it quite tedious and uninstalled it.

There was an article written about the little peck on the cheek that Alyx gives her father after she is teleported; it took weeks of development time to get it just right: all for less than a second of screen time. But it works really, well, combined with the Half-Life 2 engine's rendering of their faces, it looks like characters in a film. It can be done, with enough will and effort.

Half-Life. Opposing Forces. Half-Life 2. But most of all: Deus Ex (PC only).

Use the same functions that are in use now, for choosing which player kicks the ball / tackles / etc.

Send it back! Get a new card! Capture the daughter of one of the receptionists, and cut her finger off and send it to them, and say you'll keep sending bits until the exchange your video card for a new one ...

I wish my logic could take over. I've had dreams where things have been so crazy that M.C. Escher's drawings look tame and logical by comparison. Hell, even when my dreamworld starts exhibiting non-euclidian geometry, nothing seems out of the ordinary. The worst part is that I used to have lucid dreams all the time, though that was when I was pre-pubescent, so I missed out on all the best stuff. Strangely, though, it never once occured to me to fly when I had Lucid dreams. In fact, I usually spent most of my Lucid dreams trying to wake up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do you want an easy technique to help you realise you are dreaming?

I dunno. I have one of those books in my house, and I've never once found that the things described in the book as meanings having a relation to my life in some way that wasn't pretty vague. And the things connected to the meanings are pretty vague. Like, if water is an emotion, does that mean if I dream of an ocean, or if I happen to drink a glass of water in my dream? Would dreaming of meeting Queen Victoria have a different meaning than dreaming of meeting Queen Elizabeth, other than indicating what period the Strategy game I'd played before going to sleep was set in? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The missing ingredient is always the dreamer. I find the reference books are useful. Why? Probably because we all have some common archetypes (either group unconscious, as Jung hypothesized, a genetic race memory that is passed on like the BIOS of a new computer, and our lives are built with an OS and applications on top; or perhaps it is just the commonalities of our nurturing). These archetypes mean the same thing to all of us. Water equals emotion. Yes, a glass, or an ocean. Drinking the water would connote some sort of swallowing of a reaction. For example, I dreamt of flying over an ocean. It was difficult to leave the water once I was in it, but I could (as I was lucid dreaming). That tells me I was distancing myself from some large emotion. The specifics are up to me, the dreamer, to unwind, but I find that if you have a prompt (like: strong emotion) then you can make some sense of an otherwise random vision. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That sounds suspiciously like Discordian theology's Law of Fives. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... That's probably where they got it from ...

The end of SoU was pretty disapointing. Aside from that, I thought it was good. The HotU expansion was pretty cool, it just got silly with the ph4t lewt magic at the end.

I never even considered playing a Paladin character, until I came across Rick Burton's mods. Now I play Paladins a lot ... but he has spoilt the class for me, because he customised it (in a good way). Good ideas, especially if you want some improvements for gameplay over the OC, and considering he's now working for Bioware ...

... ... "We are best known for our Star Wars IP, but we feel like we oversaturated the market in the past," says Geoghegan [pronounced Go-Heegan] vice president global sales and marketing at LucasArts. "We were inadvertently harvesting the brand and we were shipping too much undifferentiated, mediocre product. We have to be more careful about how we manage the brand." ... Sounds like as much of an admission of guilt as we're evver likely to hear. No mention of the patch for the game described as: ... some gamers going so far as to argue that the best Star Wars products recently released--on any media--are videogames. Adventure KOTOR II and action game Battlefront have many admirers ... What does this remind me of ...? Trust us, this time for sure! Nothing up my sleeve, and Presto! Bulwinkle the Moose! (Bull something, that's for sure.)

Well, I suggested an Initiate who turned out to have empathic force powers that were vital to how the plot evolved, but nobody bothered to comment on that idea... ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Perhaps if you restricted your novels to just the five hundred words at a time, then people would be more able and willing to read them? " Sure, but don't forget that Malak's attack on Dantooine was centered on the Jedi enclave and the starforge map. He really couldn't care whether any of the other rabble lived or died and wouldn't waste laser fire on them. Taris was a different matter, however, because the point was to kill the entire planet just so that he could be certain to get rid of Bastila. Even then I don't think it's a planetwide destruction, but since we did see the attack being centered right on the area where Revan and Bastila were active, I doubt the Undercity could have survived, seeing as how it was directly underneath. And as for Dantooine, just how many survivors from KotOR1's Dantooine did we meet in KotOR2's Dantooine? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, but Malak wouldn't even know about the undercity: to him those people were already dead, beneath his notice. I don't find it nearly so implausible. A lot of the K1 Dantooine people were at least mentioned; the warring families, for example.

No, you mentioned something to do with the Outcasts. I fleshed it out by suggesting a Force sensitive Outcast is actually the PC. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, that idea! I didn't like that one, anyway. No, I want the protagonist to be a non-Sith, non-Jedi. That way, it would make sense that they are a true "grey", with some dark and light powers and with emotional and Jedi-like influences. It needs to be a character taht the audience can bond with, a ostracised member of the universe, like Nemo with his gimpy flipper. Maybe choose between a non-combat Ithorian strong in the Force, or a more assassin-like scout/scoundrel with lesser Force Sensitivity ...

Are there? I've never encountered a problem!

I dunno. I have one of those books in my house, and I've never once found that the things described in the book as meanings having a relation to my life in some way that wasn't pretty vague. And the things connected to the meanings are pretty vague. Like, if water is an emotion, does that mean if I dream of an ocean, or if I happen to drink a glass of water in my dream? Would dreaming of meeting Queen Victoria have a different meaning than dreaming of meeting Queen Elizabeth, other than indicating what period the Strategy game I'd played before going to sleep was set in? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The missing ingredient is always the dreamer. I find the reference books are useful. Why? Probably because we all have some common archetypes (either group unconscious, as Jung hypothesized, a genetic race memory that is passed on like the BIOS of a new computer, and our lives are built with an OS and applications on top; or perhaps it is just the commonalities of our nurturing). These archetypes mean the same thing to all of us. Water equals emotion. Yes, a glass, or an ocean. Drinking the water would connote some sort of swallowing of a reaction. For example, I dreamt of flying over an ocean. It was difficult to leave the water once I was in it, but I could (as I was lucid dreaming). That tells me I was distancing myself from some large emotion. The specifics are up to me, the dreamer, to unwind, but I find that if you have a prompt (like: strong emotion) then you can make some sense of an otherwise random vision.

So you dremt of being murdered, eaten and raped on purpose? Then you were doing whatever you wanted. All that means is you are an emotionally unbalanced individual. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If I were would it be wise to poke fun at me? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Over the internet, YES.