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Looks like some hardcore fans are still duking it out ...

I am an amateur professional with aporia.

The Moonies beat you to it (apart from the scythe). And about a score of yogi-led cults in the eighties, which included communal living and sex, before the big AIDS crisis.

Not quite. It's not pussies running the industry. It's pussies lobbying against games that are slightly not PC. The people who run the industry are just in that to make money, and they don't want their games bombed because they included features that pussies consider unacceptable. On a side note, there is a mod to restore the "sex" minigame in VC. But from what I've seen, it was pretty lame. PS. Darque, quit hijacking every thread into a discussion about RE. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think this is true, especially of the US. (For a start the US has some pretty interesting ideas on what is worthy of an R rating, but that's a side issue.) Apparently, for example, the vocal minority that complained about the superbowl boob () numbered a few tens of thousands. Also, something like 98% of the complaints all came from a single (extremely conservative Christian extremist) organisation. So not all US citizens are screwy, there's just a lot of big-mouth numbskulls shooting their opinions off in public. Squeaky wheel and all that ...

It's the sign of a "healthy" community if there are babies, young children and pregnant people scattered about; I think the ratio is more like a third in areas of "general access"; higher in supermarkets and such. These would be good to prevent Jedi from letting off their munitions and taking wild slashes in public places; also be good for Sith to use as hostages ...

Wasn't that the poorly acted future-soap about a bunch of space cadets in training? That was filmed on the Gold Coast ... at my old alma mater ...

If you use a repair kit on it, you can stop it from detonating. "

Sometimes they occupied the same space, in which case the projected image replaced that part of the Exile's image. They didn't bump into each other, though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So the anti-aliasing still worked. Good, otherwise I must have been concentrating on something else, because it never seemed to be too big a deal to me ...

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It's not patently clear to everyone involved. The Japanese that I know who support these textbooks aren't disputing the facts, they're disputing the importance and interpretation of those facts. Revising history is not the same as falsifying history - it's finding a new interpretation based as much on the facts as the old one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As long as the "interpretation" is supported by the undisputed facts, then not only is the "interpretation" valid, I would argue that it is essential. It's the idea that one can 'allow' for bias, if by 'allow' you mean that you can remove it from the equation. There are indeed social scientists who take that view, but the point I was making was that in your comments to Azarkon you were implying that it was the only view possible. It's not. There are plenty of historians and social scientists who believe that history cannot be 100% objective and shouldn't try to be, and that while some knowledge of the biases of the author is useful, it's not possible simply to use it filter out the bias in the historical text as you seem to be suggesting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Let's try to untangle this gordian knot, shall we? I am not in total disagreement with you. I don't know whether it is possible to be "100%" objective with history, either. What's more, I am not convinced it is necessary to do so in order to conjure the lessons we need. History generally becomes "this is what we think is the best interpretation, but there are other factors, like these ...", not "This King did this because he wanted that and this person said this to him because of the other." That's historical fiction, not history. By including the various opinions, and their biases, we are able to weigh them against each other and the known, indisputable facts to deduce what is a very good approximation to the actual events, or near enough, damnit. That is how we "allow" for bias. See? And the elephant in the middle of the room is that barely anyone seems to be even partially aware of history, so that to argue over the internecine minuti

... And building a cohesive plot around it. So that, for example, if the ship was damaged beyond a certain point, it would have to crash land, and there were consequences. Like a party member might not survive, or the entire ship might crash into the sea and everyone wearing armour drown ...

Spiders would have increased in number too, as well as all the other sorts of predators. Probably bigger in size as well, imagine having an 8 foot spider in your bathtub :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The size of insects is limited by the weight per volume content of Oxygen in the atmosphere. Back in the past, when the O2 content was higher, the Earth had bigger insects (millipedes that grew several feet long, dragonflies a foot long, etc). If, in the future, the O2 content again rises, then there would agin be giant insects. Until that happens, there would only be a greater quantity.

What about a game set in the future as portrayed in the Epcot Centre, in Walt Disney World? Now that would be like entering The Twilight Zone ...

I would never have guessed. But that's a good thing, right? I seem to remember that a DM's job is to write a lot of stuff, stories, incidents, NPC / creature encounters, etc, etcetra, etcetr

I don't see the problem, this was a topical thread, anyway. :D What don't you agree with, specifically? My history? The Japanese even used germ warfare: Plague virus was found in Nanking. Or my assertion that the important big ticket items can be gained by studying history?

Everyone's always sorry afterwards. The latter Robocop films got a bit silly. It the first one he was killable. In the third he fell off a three-hundred story building and crashed through to the subway below, without breaking a nail. (Haha!)

He chose not to, right. But he didn't deal with the matter at all - he suppressed it. I see Nihilus as a sort of "force neurosis" that grew from that suppression. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Possibly Nihilus was the result of the cumulative repressions of the Jedi group consciousness, rather than just the Exile. The attrocities involving the Exile at M5 amounted to just a conduit; the weakness or the fault line where the group unconsciousness broke through into the four time-space dimensions of the SW galaxy.

To each man his rights, to each man his due. Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus (c. 482-565 ACE), The Roman Emperor at Constantinople, who rationalised and codified the roman Legal System. Quote from Digesta Iustiniani I.i.10.1 (quoting Dominitius Ulpianus, died 223ACE, one of the last of the leading Roman jurists, who wrote nearly 280 books). Exactly. I think they tried to make it less of a "geek's game" and more of a "everyboy's game", so they (almost completely) took out the role-playing and character building elements and over-simplified the interface. If those decisions had been made differently, the game would have been at least as fun to (re-) play. On the plus side, the writing was not entirely awful. (It was always going to be difficult to follow the original.)

Nah, not a bullpup. I prefer me classic looking Assault Rifles. I suppose I am baised by the whole SA80 affair though... Just thought I'd quickly add that in - carry on... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Um, I was using it as a re-application of the Bridge of Death scene, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Yes.

No Steve, you are guilty of reductio ad absurdum. It is patently clear to everyone involved that the Japanese are not putting history into their new historical textbooks, they are deliberately trying to revise it. There were something in the order of a third of a million civilians killed and raped (of all ages and genders, and not in any specific oder) at Nanking. It's not the first time the Japanese have done it, either. The building of the Burma railway was a forced labour camp in WW2, where about the same number of allied soldiers died (from disease and starvation) in a similarly horrific manner to the Jews in German concentration camps (Arbeit mach Frei), yet barely anyone under fifty has even a remote idea that Japanese militaristic expansionist empire-building started the Pacific WW2 conflict, let alone they commited atrocities that plumbed the depths of human depravity. The fat that Horihito was not only excused from trial, and also left in power is a disgrace to the memory of all those Commonwealth soldiers who were captured in the fall of Singapore (when the water supply was cut off). So what the Japanese are doing is not history. And everybody knows it. Sure there is a bias in writing a contemporary political document, which then becomes a historical record. But if one is aware of it, one can allow for the bias and read between the lines. Pr

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