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But the characters are too powerful now. What would the Exile, for example, fight in a perported K3? Storm Beasts? Level 30 Stih? Certainly not poor little gizka, even a planet of them wouldn't put up enough of a fight! (Super-Storm-Gizka? ) Maybe fewer, tougher opponents, like True Sith, or clones of Revan ... The devs (for reasons that will probably remain unknown) have painted themselves into a corner. Add to that the fact that there are-- even being generous -- only a maximum of eighteen very similar class permuntations and I start to wonder what the point of retianing the character is -- equipment?

And I thought you were making it up. I remember that Tasslehoff Burrfoot, but still this is not a standard mythical beatie, and certainly wasn't the little beastie that Hooah was referring to (pyromaniacal?) ...

All: the new website is up, but not the (team-gizka one) ...

Seriously, Meta, stop your jesting. Obviously, knomes are a hybrid where the father is a kender and the mother is a gnome. Gender are the exact opposites. (Sort of like the liger and tigon.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't a Gender get confused -- what gneder is a Gender, if a Gender has a male Kender and female Gnome, if the Kender was a she-male? And, WTF is a Kender? All in all, a very iknoble mistake ...

Yes Hooah, I can see that English is your strong suit ... " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *turns speakers on* NOOOOOOMES! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ROFLMAO

Yes. Every response you have posted has been a direct attack on religion and religious people for having faith. I have no problem with people having faith, per se. I strive to ensure that people have all the facts about that which they wish to believe in, so that informed decisions can be made (or re-made), but I don't openly criticize people for having faith. (As has been mentioned ad absurdum here, some measure of faith is required for science.) For example, Albert Einstein had faith in a god (he was more a deist: the Watchmaker's argument By Design); he was both intelligent and a quantum physicist.

Well, at least we agree on that. Ohhh, I'm burning. Actually, it is more down to the fact that I will not read garbage; the last time I read a book with dialogue similar to that quoted was before I can recall the name of the books. ANything that I accidentally read on a par with this sort of tripe I just throw away. Time is too precious to spend on crap.

Arch, he's trolling. Don't feed the troll.

... And also the very lame baddie in the repugnantly execrable last Tombraider game ...

I think I was a little old for them, but that doesn't mean I didn't burn my eyes with the occassional accidental glimpse ...

No, the main problem was that no enough effort, time and money was spent on writing the story in the first place. Subsequently, large swathes of the story was cut, which had the effect of making the holes in the plot large enough to drive a Death Star through without touching the sides.

Well, it's not actually a "theory"; at least, not the part about Kreia having sought to train the Exile. Did you follow her dialogue trees on Malachor V? It was what she was doing throughout much of the game, with all her "lies" and manipulations, whilst taking care of "other things" along the way. Kreia's "ultimate goal" was quite simply to train the Exile, to forge him into the greatest of her apprentices. Her hope beyond that was that the Exile would choose to follow Revan into the Unknown Regions to assist him in confronting the "True" Sith, but she did not seek to actually impose that hope upon him. It was enough of a reward to her that he had surpassed her at all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, read it and wrote it out and studied it. It's all very poorly written, and is very cclose to meaningless gibberish: nice sounding philosobabble that contradicts itself -- even in the same speech, in adjacent paragraphs. So Kreia just wanted to train the Exile to defeat her in combat. And why did the Exile have to go and face Kreia in the first place? Why not just go off and save the Republic from the real "True" -- I really mean it this time -- Sith? (Hint: Atris provides the motivation by saying that if the Exile does not go and face her, Kreia will kill herself and the force-bond will have the effect of killing the Exile on M5 -- even though the Exile is not there -- which will "kill the Force". Which is patently nonsensical. And if Kreia could kill the Exile via killing herself, what would this prove? And if she couldn't, what would she do then -- chance after the Exile beyond the Outer RIm?) Meh.

Um, you do realise that Mical the Disciple is only available for a female Exile, don't you?

1. That's patently ridiculous: it is a sequel, so discounting player experiences of the first game is absurd. 2. Notwithstanding this assessment, you are still wrong.

So Ultima is out as well then. :D

The first one is a Burmilla Tiffany, and the second is a Blue Mitted Ragdoll (although her daddy was a seal). They are reknown for eating small children that annoy their owners, and gnashing grown men's legs and arms off, leaving them crying foul as they threaten to "bite ya kneecaps off!".

Logic is very cool.

Ah! Now I remember those tragic cartoons ... boy, what a lame idea GoBots were. Thanks Baley.

Yes Hooah, I can see that English is your strong suit ... "

... And so religion will continue to fulfill this role, because science will not. QED

I regarded mathematics as a religion when I was in high school. It still is the only perfet science: where you can proove something conclusively. Vectors can be complex, matrices (or n-dimensional vectors, and their operations) are pretty interesting, too! Solving simultaneous equations was always a favourite: I wrote a c programm at uni to solve three (or was it four?) variable simultaneous equations ... Kaftan, you don't know how many dimensions there are ... and the point about String theory is that six of the dimensions "fold up", sort of like fractal dimensions. Don't tell me you don't believe in fractal dimensions, because they are visible everywhere around us: look at the earth from space: see the coastline? Zoom in until you can see the headlands, see the extra detail? Now, keep zooming, see the shoreline? Keep drilling down and the coastline keeps changing, keeps getting more and more variations: see the grains of sand? These are fractal dimensions (according to Glieck and Chaos theory).

1. There are plenty of religious scientists (although they are just as likely to be Jewish as Christian or Muslim, and all the religions are represented, just as agnostics and atheists are). 2. Science does not how metaphysical answers (i.e. those beyond the laws of science). 3. There is actually a part of the brain (frontal lobe, near the pineal gland, IIRC) that has been shown to become active during religious experiences, and those people with a larger section tend to have stronger religious experiences: whether this is a transceiver to god, human collective unconscious, the noosphere, or a centre for illusory stimulation for distraction is not clear. 4. If god did not exist it would have been necessary to invent him. (Voltaire)

Yes. Exile is alive. Exile had no Force. Ergo, Exile survived without the Force. :D

I agree. Before Malachor V, she probably was good in the Jolee Bindo sense - always asking questions, challenging the assumptions of the Jedi masters, genuinely trying to open her students' minds to new ideas. But on Malachor she found the wrong answers, and stopped asking the right questions. After that, whether as a Sith Lord or exiled from both sides, she went on to make more and more evil choices. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kreia was, at worst, amoral, not immoral and evil. Big difference, because Kreia is more a chaotic good; she seeks to save the universe from eternal slavery, shackled to the monstrously meglomaniacal Force: Kreia is single-minded, not evil. You'll see, when you realise your destiny is controlled by something else, and you are just a actor forced to follow a script written by someone else for their own benefit. ...

You can't just shrug everything aside like that. What about the Exile? He was the living representation of what Kreia would have wanted for the galaxy as a whole. He had severed all of his ties to the Force, so much so that his only hope of rebuilding his connection with it was to do so through a Force bond with another being (Kreia), yet...he still lived, even without it. That was exactly why the Exile was so important to Kreia. It was proof, to her, that life could exist without the Force, that it was at least possible, which gave her hope. She had no interest in destroying all life everywhere. In fact, compassion on some level was what drove her "vision for the galaxy" to begin with, as she loathed the Force for imposing its will upon the galaxy solely to achieve some form of "balance" while letting so many die in the process. I don't even like to call her "insane" or "delusional" because all it does is take away from the point of her character and to serve as an excuse to conveniently shrug aside things she has said. Really, in my opinion, she never had any intention of or "plan" for destroying the Force. It was her personal vision for "a better galaxy", yes...her dream and hope, yes...but not her ultimate goal over the course of the game. She didn't lure the Exile to Malachor V to "use him to kill the Force". She lured the Exile to Malachor V because it was to be his "final test": Confronting both Kreia and the Malachor V from his past. Her "ultimate goal" was to die by the Exile's hands, as the final step in his training. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nice theory, but the Exile's training for what?