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Well, in all the wars on planet Earth that involved aircraft (basically WW2: it is the only one that drained resources to enable the comparison to be made), the limiting factor hasn't been the budget to build aeroplanes, it's been the training and provision of pilots. Maybe the TIE ighters were as simple to fly as a modern-day car? That's how the Empire saw it, yes, but it also cost them a lot of pilots who switched to the other side. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe they switched due to political allegiances, a lack of commitment to the Empire, rather than to fight on the side with better ships. I don't recall too many US troops switching sides to use the Panzer Type VI TIGER I, even if the Shermans were regarded as "Purple-Heart Boxes". :D

Maybe the galactic diagram was side-on.

What collective jedi group consciousness? The Exile was the only one to reject the dark side - all the other jedi either died or fell to the dark side and joined Revan and Malak in the conquest of the galaxy. Don't forget that the Exile was the only one to ever return to the face the jedi council. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Eh, the very same Jedi Council that rejected the dark side I'd presume. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Precisely. I was thinking it might be: the Jedi who left to fight in the Mandalorian Wars, who repressed all the atrocities they had to commit and witness, plus the Jedi who stayed behind and repressed the fates of the millions who would die because of their inaction, their own Canterbury Cathedral Syndrome (as in Winston Churchill's enigma dilemma).

It's more a Jungian concept, actually, so there is no need to go and Freud it up with sexual connotations (although, conceivably, their monastic lifestyle may indeed unwittingly invest more power into their collective repressions).

I thought Goth's were all about pain and suffering, not all this guff. I mean, I know they like dressing and vamping up

Same thing, except I get prettier kaleidoscopic imagery. Must be my bad. (Strange though, because some movies work and others don't.)

For some reason I get no video for that clip, just the audio ... maybe my Windows settings are corrupted?

Oh, you mean the little movies that are unlocked as your PC explores further into the game universe? Maybe try Darth333's website; there are bound to be tools to do it (I couldn't find it immediately, but I'm sure she can help.)

Machinima? Never tried, though it is a growing phenomena. (There is a cartoon on children's morning tv made from Halo, I believe ...) It is a very cheap method to storyboard a film idea, for all budding directors.

Wouldn't they be known about after they had been visited, i.e. when the films (and a lot of the EU comics and novels) are set?

Check your nipples for detonation caused by excitation.

1. How do you shoot a goldfish out of a motorboat? 2. Is it permissable to rig up some other motorised transport vehicle to launch the fish, instead? It gets you thinking about who it was the lawmaker had in mind when they wrote the law ... Why don't you read it, and then make up your own mind?

Actually I'm still on my latest playthrough (with al the extra tectures, it crashed last time I sat down to play it for a good stint ...)

Robocop was the story of a machine that became a man. The sequels were more about the battles of a superhero with supervillians, in the mode of Godzilla versus Mothra (obviously disregarding the size).

It's the first rule of pantomime villainy; the evil arch-nemesis must create an elaborate deathtrap for the hero to struggle in until the last-second escape and counter-attack that manages to kill them, even though the only purpose of creating such a trap is to give the baddie time to escape beyond reach. If villains don't behave sillily then someone has to think and write, which has been prohibited under the KotOR Development Act.

About a quarter after one.

Don't understand what that means but I'll take your word for it Meta. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It means that twice a day, Meta fights as a Clone Commander in armour of his own design with his troops in a familiar galaxy far, far away. That's at least the closest I got to a pedagogical analogy... EDIT: The other option would be you having a sig with references to a literary masterpiece... Er, suddenly I'm not so sure of this. I don't think this particular clock is broken, Meta, it's just arbitrary. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Margaritas ante porcos.

I think they're millipedes, actually ...

It's a function of an imbalance in the reporting of minorities in the media. A democracy requires that minorities are represented, and that they aren't drowned out, just because they are a minority. However, they should be drowned out because they're stupid (technical term).

Crusader Rabbit? (That was a cartoon from the sixties, I think. I can't remember his sidekick's name ...)

Yeah, I keep feeling that, whenever I watch the intro, I think "Wow! What a cool looking game!" and then it just doesn't match up to the expectation the game creates for itself, let alone any hype from being a sequel to Deus Ex.

... Or Tammy and Jim Bakker ...

Okay, without breaking a screw. There are a couple of them.

Small, Medium or Large?

Yes, meta sure does love his diphthongs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, it's a special type of digraph called a ligature. And I can neither confirm nor deny any pleasure associated with the addition of aforementioned ligatures to said posts. (A diphthong is a sound that merges one vowel into another, like coin or loud.) PS I can confirm that my personal happiness is jeopardised by the absence of punctiliousness.