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That's too harsh Meta " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not really. (A favourite line of my fathers was, in English, "Strawberries to pigs".) I guess people in asian cultures might be offended by the comparison to animals, but then again it is a metaphor.

Or just a lot of "convenient" dark passages. Such contrivances would detract from the immersion, because there is no way an army base is going to have a nice dark alley next to a manhole cover from a drain that neatly tunnels under all the perimeter fencing ... But there is no reason why the PC can't have some sort of cloaking abilities / properties; especially if they are circumvented as soon as the PC attempts offensive action. That's a fair balance, IMO.

I'd be more concerned about the spec of the PC, not the OS. And if you are running 98 on a new PC, then I can't understand why.

You can't kill off the hero of the narrative like that!

February 17, 2001 - Has The Practice Jumped the Shark? By Kimberly Potts

1. Steve mentioned them as an example of the difficulty reconciling polemic viewpoints. 2. Not sure what your point here is, if indeed you are a nihilist, because surely money is power, and if there is nothing but this world (as nihilists believe) then there is no consequence for getting and keeping it any way possible. Whether the indiviuals are happier is a good question, whether they are happier than you is obvious. 3. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin, ANH.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

You do realise the Visitors were a SF version of the Nazis, don't you Steve? Happy Days. (But only before the Shark Jumping moment

"I've suffered for my art and now it's your turn." Vin Diesel quoted recently on his motivation to keep acting.

It pays well... and during the qualification process we get lots of time off.. for studying. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In Britain, especially, the remunieration is about 20% higher than every other country. (Not sure why that is.) Hey, you are not your job title, you are the person who happens to magic pecuniary re-imbursement using that particular arcane speciality. I always wanted to be an astronaut. Never got there, despite visiting Cape Canaveral before I was ten. (PS, Ender, all you need to do is use two or more different browsers, as the cookies are not communitive).

Does it have all those happy 50's smiling people with flying cars that have big fins?

Does one even exist?

What's TOMBS ? :"> I concur. Or The Machinist ...

You're not gunna get to the Hall of Fame with it sitting there ...

Sorry, I meant the practice area before you start at Liberty Island. (I was also thinking about the demo of IW, which I thought was better than the actual game, at the same time as writing the above.)

I'm like Llyranor's avatar, but at five times the speed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think Llyranor's response was better than that unwanted graphic image ...

Except there's more ways to achieve this than by excessive use of vent crawling. Multiple path and associated level progression doesn't need to be confined to the same one trick pony. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly. As I said earlier, the demo in Deus Ex is a better example than almost everywhere else in the game ...

Nanobots, of course ...

I'm waiting for a real digital personal assistant. When "they" combine a telelphone, diary, bank access, AI secretary, fax machine, electronic mail, instant messaging, GPS [], IFF [] and interconnected detailed personal public information database [], all on a HUD. And I wanna be able to see emr in below infrared and above ultraviolet [], too. I guess it'll need an auto-distress beacon, for emergencies: []. :D

Oi! Where's that Witcheta module?

Did someone say The Sith Lords? "

But even the tutorial (Deus Ex) had a better example of sneaking that using the cop-out baby vents. Vide ut supra; although there were lots of areas where there was an open area that the PC could move through according to their own whim, the vents were just a bit too obvious. Also, inside MJ12, it was easy to snipe and hide in the underfloor vents, such that it was obvious how short the attention span of the AI was ... (Two big thumbs up from me.)

I'll bet he didn't like the Tee-shirts.

When do you get an official gernsey?

Ah, but there weren't too many Zero pilots switching sides, either. The propaganda that the Allies didn't take prisoners, combined with thier cultural attitude that surrender meant a total lack of honour, and the fact that the pilots had families back in Japan that were liable to be used as hostages should they think that kamikaze wasn't such a brilliant rearguard strategem; all are factors that the Empire could, and presumably would, use to keep their armed forces motivated.