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Doesn't anyone remember the Canadian Iron Man?

Well, I don't care if it's a swoop bike, as long as it means bigger areas to explore and (consequently) more people to interact with. It would also be an interesting game mechanic; if you only have one mount, then that means a solo mission.

Love all the ideas except the stamina bar. (Why?) Factions could include the ability to go undercover, and turn spy. And double-agent. This would necessarily affect your lawful alignment barometer ... or would it? If you are following the laws, even if they are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive at times, you are still following them, so I guess that's still lawful (as in following the laws you set down). Similarly, using a tactic from a different side (healing for DS, Harming for LS) should incur penalties to the PC's lawful barometer.

And bigger areas on the planets. And mounts to get around the bigger areas, to, fro and within.

Are you talking about the Rancor beast guarding the back door to the hideout on the sublevel of Taris ?

The force is strong in the Binks family. My father Jar Jar, me Jeb Jeb, and my sister, you Joo Joo.

Swell. Marvelous. (I know they are technically in reverse order of Magnum Force, but I thought more meaning was conveyed in this order. Think about it. Thant's IT!)

Random questing and NPCs are possible now. To use Rick Burton as an example again, the concept of random quests (or at least random selections of a superset of quests) is already possible using the current NwN engine. See his brilliant Twilight and Midnight modules (and hopefully Dawn is still being worked on ... ). In these, Mr Burton moves the triggers for puzzle solutions around, so that every reload sees them in a different combination.

Sounds like the Apple Macs. I have always thought that they should have kept the open architecture of the Apple ][ series ... ah, memories: PR#6 Will somebody get this walking carpet outa my way?

With the prevalence of photoshop, they are all airbrushed and digitally altered -- unless specifically notarised. Even Half-Life 2 cover had Gordon's neck being strangled by the blue tentacle of a monster that never appeared in the game (just a demo that circulated at the fateful E3 just before the September that never saw the announced release of λ

US markets (with economies of scale) are much more competitive than most of the other (protected) markets of the world. For example, the UK is unofficially regarded as "Rip Off Britain", for example Apple's iTunes website charges more for a song to British surfers than any mainland Europeans (I think it's

I only read the magazine for the articles.

You're s<bleep>t outa tissues, punk!

You have shackles to keep your arms up? Was Rogue the X-Men girlie from long, long ago in the comics ..? I seem to remember there was a big fight between all the DC and Marvel heroes against Dr Doom ... around early 80s ? And Rogue (if she's the one I am recalling) was one of the only ones to survive. Anyone remember that?

Don't remember much more than that, actually. (This is all just my regurgitated trivia ...) I don't seem to recall if the chicken ran around in an erratic and panicky way, either ...

Soylent Green is made of people!

I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them...

Verbal traps and riddles are very much trickier than the normal divine and negative energy BoG standard traps ...

I think Sonic's fifteen minutes of fame ended with the end of the Sega Megadrive.

A one... two-- A one... two... three... four... Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see? But can a bee be said to be Or not to be an entire bee When half the bee is not a bee Due to some ancient injury? Singing... La dee dee, one two three, Eric the half a bee. A B C D E F G, Eric the half a bee. Is this wretched demi-bee, Half-asleep upon my knee, Some freak from a menagerie? No! It's Eric the half a bee! Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee, Eric the half a bee. Ho ho ho, tee hee hee, Eric the half a bee. I love this hive, employee-ee, Bisected accidentally, One summer afternoon by me, I love him carnally. He loves him carnally, Semi-carnally. The end. Cyril Connelly? No; semi-carnally! Oh. Cyril Connelly. [whistling]

Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough, R2!

... Keeping non sequitur comments within the general terms of the thread. Oh, and I liked it when he lost a life and all the rings went Spring! around the screen.

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I used to frequent a lot of message boards, before the web. Some of my favourites were Pave The Earth and Scorched Earth. Sonic The Hedgehog was pretty amazing.

Ding Dong the merry high, the merry low, Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead! She's gone where the goblins go, Below, be - low, low, low, ... low, Let's open up and sing, And ring the bells out, Ding Dong the witch is dead, Which old witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is dead! Refrain Oh, I'm bored. I don't want to do this any longer. (Background: "You say you always wanted to be a gynacologist?") I always wanted to be ... A LUMBERJACK! Jumping from tree to tree ... The mighty Scotch Pine, Birch, In my best garb I would sing ... Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I works all day ...