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The Force "flows through all of us, it binds the galaxy together" (something like that) - Kreia may have been insane/delusional evil but that's still bad nevertheless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No no no no! Kreia was the first, the greatest and the one true prophet! She Knew that the force was controlling ever being, for its own secret agenda. There was no chance for the Great Liberation of the universe with th Force still in control. We must all FIGHT the evil tyranny of the Force; it is the only true way we can be FREE, freedom of choice, freedom to make our own destiny. Kreia will be proved right, and the disciples of Kreia, the Anti-Force Force, adepts of Force-Non-sensitives (like the Echani and Miruluka) will do battle against the ignorant tools of the Force, the jedi and Sith, who battle evermore in a yin-yang cycle that only results in the Force growing towards its own self-actualisation. And at what cost? How many lives must be lost in this self-gratifying orgy of Force onanism? When will the death and suffering of the universe be unshackled from the secret agenda of some powerful puppetmaster? JOIN US!

everyone needs an ego inflation every now and then ...

Your're right, of course, but that would drain all seriousness from the film, and totally ruin it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... in your completely ignorant and ignorable opinion.

But if you have a decent automobile accident (

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Steve, you sound like the lawyers of the burglars who are injured on the property of their victims, sueing said victims for compensation (assumedly under the safe workplace legislation). Why do we care if the rapist's schlong gets gangrene and drops off? Use them for MRSA experiments, at least they'll be some use.

I know of the yiddish mildly insulting terms, like putz, and schmuck, but yutz seems to be a neoligism (maybe combining Yiddish and pUTZ). AFAIK "yutz" isn't a common term. Secondly, it is still completely unapparent what Darth Abomination wanted this article to be; we still have not been appraised of who the audience is, why the article would enrich their existence nor what this mythical article would contain. If the question is: should an article be written, and we assume the article will be written well, then the answer is simply, Yes. Any more details necessitate the provision of the requested requirements, above.

My solution is a painful castration, without the benefit of an

This was very apt and funny, btw Kaftan, says metadigital in a statement of retropective respect. :cool:

I don't think it is impossible for the audience to identify with more than one protagonsit, unless they are in a direct confrontation, in whcih case they would necessarily consciously have to make a choice. This doesn't rule out the subconscious identifying with both of them, or indeed every PC and NPC in the game (to a lesser or greater extent).

... and the games are more often than not released on the PC as well as any other platform ... if they can meet the specs. "

What Fugging Role Play

Wow, are those Gobots from the seventies? Man, look at those flares!

It does if you are a transformer, though.

That is ... an impressive feat of research, scholarship and writing! (Aside: so that's where Fionavar has been lately, editing RolePayer's post!) I was about to add the Wizardries, when I realised you said "PC" ... AFAIK Wizardry 1, 2 & 3 were only released on the Apple ][, but I might be wrong ... certainly you don't have the recent Wizardy titles there ...

Another enjoyable aspect is that the game goes a long way to restoring the Axel F tune to its former unsullied status, too.

Following on from a bit of research I completed, there is some breaking news for all you Transformer fans out there in MMO land, as I first posted in the correlated Way Off-Topic (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>). There is a MMORPG, scheduled for release in Autumn, called Auto Assault. "massively multiplayer online isn't a fantasy game: it's a technology, a technology for putting lots of people together in the same game. ... People see the 'MMO' tag and want to make judgements. ... It's one of those perfect game ideas: post-apocalyptic road war online. Mad Max with bigger guns, Carmageddon with clans. NetDevil [the devs] should be pleased that they got there first. It was only a matter of time before someone took up this particular guantlet. Auto Assault is, in NetDevil's own words, an action-RPG. ... "... As excursions to alternate worlds go this is one of the most vibrant we've seen. Trees catch on fire, footsoldiers attack with flamethrowers, motorised mutants and motorcycle cyborgs duke out their differences on wasteland highways, while in the background a colleague's giant truck transforms into a towering stompy robot. Oh yeah. You heard me right. Stompy Robots. ..." PC Gamer, issue 150,, July 2005, p44-5. "

I was wondering if anyone would read that ... It is either that they don't believe the US winners would be able to pass the skill test, or some other reason

Yeah, what Nartwak said.

There is a MMORPG, scheduled for release in Autumn, called Auto Assault. "massively multiplayer online isn't a fantasy game: it's a technology, a technology for putting lots of people together in the same game. ... People see the 'MMO' tag and want to make judgements. ... It's one of those perfect game ideas: post-apocalyptic road war online. Mad Max with bigger guns, Carmageddon with clans. NetDevil [the devs] should be pleased that they got there first. It was only a matter of time before someone took up this particular guantlet. Auto Assault is, in NetDevil's own words, an action-RPG. ... "... As excursions to alternate worlds go this is one of the most vibrant we've seen. Trees catch on fire, footsoldiers attack with flamethrowers, motorised mutants and motorcycle cyborgs duke out their differences on wasteland highways, while in the background a colleague's giant truck transforms into a towering stompy robot. Oh yeah. You heard me right. Stompy Robots. ..." PC Gamer, issue 150,, July 2005, p44-5. "

Civ 2 Half-Life/CounterStrike/Half-Life 2 Deus Ex in no particular order

FPS Graphics have for a long time been the cutting edge; the very best available for our technology. This was not always the case, years ago the flight sims were the best, and now, with games like Age of Empires III and Rise of Nations 2: Rise of Legends the RTS genre may perhaps take the crown. There is no reason why role playing equates to second class graphics, other than historical imperative. In fact, Age of Empires III borrows heavily from the RPG genre, taking ideas like mechanics and progression. For example, experience points granted for winning battles that can be spent on buildings in your home city; each of which, in turn, grants a unique bonus in future conflicts, resulting in custom culture "characteristics".

Though apparently the Visas introduction movie is an exception, and you can download a mod that plays it with the game engine instead of the movie. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A lot of other movies are obviously made with the game engine then compressed in ugly .bik : * Visas introducing. * The betrayal of Sion and Nihilus in Malachor. * All the movies on Dantooine during the mercenary attack. This could be done with a mod I think, unless the content patch decides to release. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is because all crucial plot points must not be movies, otherwise the people with movies turned off (because they are so buggy) won't know what has happened.

If you play his speech backwards it says "George Lucas is the anti-christ", and "Star Wars is god's way of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich".

Maybe Kashyyyk, in the first KotOR? :D