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It looks like an angry Gumby that has drunk too much tea (in fact fallen into a vat of it or something) ...

Did you play that HL2 mod, yet? (Is it any good?)

No, but I can recite the scripts of all the Monty Python films and a lot of their sketches by heart, if that helps.

Well, if we stop posting, then it will gradually fade away. Unfortunately, that won't prevent anyone from performing some sort of threadromancy and re-animating it's zombie corpse, so the best way to end its miserable existence is to post off-topic enough for the mods to lock it. Then it can retire into oblivion with no chance of return.

You are obviously not familiar with the power of the Gizka ...

Aren't you not meant to use light side "Heal" when you are a Dark Side Sith Marauder? Irrespective, the hardest part of a consular is the beginning, when the Force Points and Powers are fewer. By the end of the game my Consular had something like 1000 Force Points, which when combined with certain other things it didn't matter whether I was casting a diametrically opposite Force Power or spamming Force Valour, I still beat everyone in two rounds.

Those of you who think you know everything merely annoy those of us who do.

Handy suggestion: At the bottom left extremity of the edit screen you will find a dropdown edit box. In this box, there is an option called "Delete Topic".

What are they like IRL ? I assume the problem in SW is the Storm Troopers are just poor soldiers. I mean, they have worse hearing than German soldiers in WW2 films ...

The short answer? Because it's different. The slightly longer answer? Because video game development is controlled by producers, who expect a reasonable, predictable return on their investment. Generally, risk-averse strateggies are favoured, simply because this provides the best predictability for marketing and accountancy ROI models. This, unfortunately, provides the negative pressure against excess design ingenuity; it is better to put the same thing out there that gives X return than to put an unknown game out that may return 0 or 2X.

Certainly a good grasp of SW is not the best, nor first, characteristic to mention when presenting for a date, no. Much better to find something in common with the other person and discuss that ...

Well, you could have a time dependent event, like saving a princess before a certain time has elapsed. Then, depending on the success or failure of that goal, other plots unfold. If it was just a case of save the princess before the clock runs out or that's it: end of game, then that's not very engaging and very poor roleplaying, to boot. If the narrative bifurcates at that point -- e.g. if that actually provides a better LS ending if she is killed, even if in the short-term it would worsen the LS position in the game -- then this is good roleplaying. No chance they'll ever implement it, unfortunately, though.

I would ask you to clarify what you just wrote, but I'd rather not know any more details about any subject that refers to procreating,you and abkhome. Thank you in advance.

Certainly. I always play games to find their weaknesses, find out how to beat a game using its own strategies and tactics against it (game theory). So it is quite easy to know that, e.g. until I trigger the next cutscene by boarding the Ebon Hawk, I can run around on the planet with total plot impugnity, fighting and playing Pazaak or whatever, exploring caves or exterminating Lagreiks. I always check to make sure there is no time-lapse in the game (needlessly, it seems -- e.g. sun setting, or dialogue updates based only on time and not event triggers). It just makes the game a little tighter, less room to bunk off and mess around.

God's way of evening the odds ... "

You're really talking about time-lapse in the RPG world, then. It's not a new concept, just not very often implemented; for example, the old Infocom game Witness (a text-based adventure game) had a strict order of events; your detective PC had to be in certain areas at certain times to collect a critical mass of clues and evidence to crack the case. Good idea.

Well, they expect to be able to clone a gamete of either sex from a male or female host soon, so even though both the Exile and Revan were female, they can still have a child. Why did you want this?

It was a boring thread anyway; yet more whining about KotOR1 and 2 ... best thing for it, really, crucifixion -- first offence.

Breaking the illusion is dangerous; that's tantamount to interupting the regularity of the dosage ...

You're obviously interested enough to argue the point; that's a good start. Now, determine who the audience of the paper is, and if they might be interested in the article. (If it's a small town newspaper, forget it; if it's a psychological research peer review paper, then you might get some starters ...

It might be interesting, depending on your focus, to digest the different posting behaviours on the fora. For example, this site has quite a wide variety of fora, and I think there exists a variation in posting behaviours between them. Way Off-Topic, for eample has completely a different atmosphere to the Technical (Self-Help) ... As with all writing, it depends on your audience. First principles for all writing is to determine for whom you write, what their needs and interests are, etcetra, then write to suit.

Sssshhh! Blasphemer!

ah, your just a sore loser, old man :D :D wasn't star wars first released around your time anyways, i thought adults grew outta that stuff and became bitter like and old fart not getting a discount on everything <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But this person has neither expressed any anger, nor lost anything, so I fail to see how they are a "sore loser". (See, there's that self-admitted ignorance again; I tell it like it is, and if I don't understand, I say it!) And your ageist comment reveals that you are really na