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Heh, if you actually were planning on playing either game (time to dig out the floppy drive, and the old cloth map), you'd be happy to know that I have spoiled so unbelievably little of it..... Besides, it's the fantastic dialogue and problem solving that made the game so great. I honestly could have known the entire plot and still would not have had an ounce of trouble playing it :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I still might pick them up and play them, for nostalgia's sake. *reminisces about the ankh and cloth map * Now there's an anti-pirating methodology that really works: a cloth map! Just to awkward to photocopy, and buying the game gives you the original cloth map! and ankh! to keep!

I haven't played Ultima V onwards ... I might go back ... maybe ...

Normally? Turn them into NPCs for other PCs to interact with ...

Interestingly enough, 1+1 isn't necessarily 2. It's only 2 because that's how we have established numeric algebra, perhaps from an intuitive notion. But in boolean algebra, for example, 1+1=11. I lack the specific knowledge in set theory but I suspect it goes much deeper. And there are parts in the universe in which the addition of two amounts makes no sense, and to explain those we had to develop new mathematical operators, new abstractions in order to make a mental diagram of reality. While it's true that 1+1=2, this is nothing more than a human abstract fabrication. ...what was I talking about, again? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How about this bombshell: I heard that π is actually a rational number in base hexadecimal ... (I haven't confirmed this yet, though it was a reputable source) ...

"Runk kari" is Finnish for "fuselage shoal, reef" ...

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I just completed Beneath a Steel Sky and -- although we are talking about graphics here -- I noticed how much better the voice acting was in this game produced over eleven years ago, let alone the comedy (I see they actually employed a comic -- are they allowed to do that? ). It's really important to get the non-graphical parts of the game right, first. I had no issue with playing this old game (apart from finding that putty!), and it seems that developers made more effort to provide the supporting multi-media when they didn't have flashy graphics engines to distract and wow the audience ...

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.