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But we can't delete other people's threads.

As long as the inventory inteface is improved. The ability to "Pick up All" and "Drop All", or one item at a time is not sufficient (and probably tells us more about why there were no inventory limits ... :D).

You are obviously English literate, surely there are secondhand bookstores you can check? I haven't read all of his books either, I just look for one I haven't read when I'm in a store ... ditto for Asimov, he wrote about four hundred novels and anthologies ...

War of the Worlds, eh? You will lose.

It's okay, it's all steroidal posturing. " Anyone that has actually fired munitions into a human and likes it is a) very rare and b) hopefully safely contained.

I'm just an old reader. :D You, too, can speak like you've swallowed a thesaurus; just keep reading! Might I ask who the other two writers are? I too share an admiration for PKD's writing... I have never been able to find his short stories in Romania... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I was trying not to rank order them, because all comparisons are odious. There are a lot of writers that have contributed just one novel, for example, but that contribution is critical and super enjoyable. But you don't want to hear me equivocating, do you? For sheer volume of important contributions, Isaac Asimov must rank up there. I would put Arthur C Clarke in the top few, as well, although he is nowhere near as prolific in his profound scientific concepts (he openly cites his inspirations, e.g. for . a large diamond at the centre of Jupiter in 2010, his second Odyssey novel), but he did "invent" the radio satellite! Also his Profiles of the Future contains some very sober concepts for all SF writers to consider when delving into fiction based on our laws of physics. I have read a lot of SF writers, though -- probably forgotten more than most people have read :D Political novels that dress up as SF to avoid the censors (e.g. Man in the High Castle) are always interesting too: why invoke the wrath of the totalitarian forces in society talking about equal rights for all races, when you can use a green-skinned monster to the same effect, to put the same message across but encoded to avoid conflict with the entrenched opinions, even in an unsuspecting readership ... The Man Who Rule the Universe is a particular favourite, one of a few Alan Dean Foster original novels (he tends to write film novelisations). William Gibson ("Neuromancer" -- which was an okay game, too), of course, and Vernor Vinge wrote a couple of interesting novels on a plausible time travel device. (Only forwards: the Peace War and Marooned in Real Time.) Very interesting readng, I highly recommend it. Ray Bradbury ("Fahrenheit 451"), Robert Heilein ("Job", named after the Biblical character, is terrific), boy, the list is almost endless. I still try to swing by a bookshop and pick up a SF anthology for the latest year: I find some very interesting short stories in those, too. But then, I haven't read SF seriously for a few years now. I mainly read NF, things like Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

No word on the game yet (don't tell me Reveiled has a social life!) I must warn you PKD has hundreds of books and anthologies once in print (not sure how many still are, though ...)

... or other people's ...

Hope is that single quality of humankind that is, confoundingly, their greatest flaw and their greatest asset.

So stop spamming, all of you.

Why do the Romanians want to crush little old inoffensive me?

Mental note: must stop moving, lose too many good books that way ...

Thanks. Yeah, I really can't see the difficulty in crafting a narrative where there are different intermediary goals and consequences, depending on the plan and success of the execution. You might think your PC is the bees' knees at political machination, but the reality might see them totally fail and cause the end of (Jedi Order / Sith Invasion) due to your efforts; or -- more likely -- some compromise in between. It is no different in development complexity to a normal puzzle planet like Onderon, just with a few more layers to it; just because one sets out to achieve a goal, if it is difficult, the possiblities of partial successes and partial failures should be present to give the narrative depth. We love characters as much -- or more -- for their mistakes as for their successes, mistakes are what defines us as humans, after all. (If the major goal is a set of minor achievements that are themselves of sufficient difficulty then this counters the urge to restart the whole goal from scratch.) For example, in the NwN HotU expansion, chapter two entails five side quests; it is possible to complete just two before the next critical point on the narrative path, and whatever the PC has done over those five goals is reflected in this crisis (either making the crisis easier or harder).

I like this.

You've heard of E3, I take it? "

I'd buy it in an eyeblink.

That's right, set a good example.

Or it could be that the story/general fan ideas are being collected and collated by OE for and on behalf of LA, on the off chance that LA commission a sequel, as the final part of the OE developers' contract.

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I agree it was completely ridiculous to have Mandalore running about helping a LS Master Jedi! Why? What a lame reason! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, he travelled with the Exile in order to stop the sith from conquering the galaxy, since he wouldn't want the Sith to get in the way of his crusade. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Meh. I don't see why a LS Exile would want him along. It's not like the Exile needs directions on the Ravager (because he doesn't get any from Mandalore), or Mandalore is any significant factor in the combat. It's just a clumsy device to include Mandalore for the sake of it -- which, ultimately, is the worst reason.

Mental note: buy Sun Tzu from bookshop ... (Rome: Total War is a great source of tactics.)

So that's where Saddam's WMD went ...!

No offence, but your grandfather sounds more like like "Stupid Good"; getting into a fight for an unknown cause, and supporting someone simply because you wish to prevent the other side from winning sounds like a recipe for disaster. I hope, for his sake, your grandfather was a good fighter.

Romania now have an army? What's the world coming to... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's right up there with the Bolivian Navy ...