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Beethoven's Fifth

Ah, but it was an abnormal fear of the number thirteen. What is a normal fear of the number thirteen? The chicken story has been independently verified. Valid for two days only

What? When new prophets arrive? Are you a Mormon, or something? The last prophet that hasn't been discredited was Mohammed. Secondly, your premise is totally flawed. To compare prophets who claim to speak the word of God with those scientists who work to discover the meaning of the universe by endless toil and ingenuity is like comparing a surfer to a shipwright. I know who I'd rather buy a boat from.

Shame there is no such thing as the PC then isnt it. Love to see what a $300 PC would score <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I might concede that it was a little biased (what the PC Format?) ... interesting that the opinion expressed basically mirrors that here: The Xbox 360 512MB 700MHz DDR3 shared between ATI 500MHz & triple core 3.2GHz (2 hw threads / core) The PS3 256MB Cell 8-core simultaneous threads, with nVidia 256MB 550MHz DDR3 XBox 720p and 1080i (theoretical resolution of 1920x1080) PS3 1080p standard (HDTV top spec) It's two crucial aspects, IMO: Xbox shared 512MB RAM for CPU and ATI (versus PS3 dedicated 256MB each CPU nVidia) PS3 multi-core processor ⇒ steep learning curve for devs

KAFTAN: There it is! The Bridge of Death! UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Oh, great. MKREKU: Look! KAFTAN: There's the old man from Scene 24! MUSOPTICON?: What is he doing here? KAFTAN: He is metadigital, the Keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each traveller five questions-- MKREKU: Three questions. KAFTAN: Three questions. He who answers the five questions-- MKREKU: Three questions. KAFTAN: Three questions may cross in safety. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: What if you get a question wrong? KAFTAN: Then you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Oh, I won't go. MKREKU: Who's going to answer the questions? KAFTAN: Sir Universal soldier! UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Yes? KAFTAN: Brave Sir Universal soldier, you go. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Hey! I've got a great idea. Why doesn't 11XHooah go? 11XHOOAH: Yes, let me go, my liege. I will take him single-handed. I shall make a feint to the north-east-- KAFTAN: No, no, hang on hang on hang on! Just answer the five questions-- MKREKU: Three questions. KAFTAN: Three questions as best you can. And we shall watch... and pray. 11XHOOAH: I understand, my liege. KAFTAN: Good luck, brave Sir 11XHooah. God be with you. METADIGITAL: Stop! Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see. 11XHOOAH: Ask me the questions, bridge-metadigital. I'm not afraid. METADIGITAL: What is your name? 11XHOOAH: My name is Sir 11XHooah of Camelot. METADIGITAL: What is your quest? 11XHOOAH: To seek the Holy Grail. METADIGITAL: What is your favorite color? 11XHOOAH: Blue. METADIGITAL: Right. Off you go. 11XHOOAH: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: That's easy! METADIGITAL: Stop! Who approaches the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see. UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Ask me the questions, bridge-metadigital. I'm not afraid. METADIGITAL: What is your name? UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Sir Universal soldier of Camelot. METADIGITAL: What is your quest? UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: To seek the Holy Grail. METADIGITAL: What is the capital of Assyria? UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh! METADIGITAL: Stop! What is your name? MKREKU: Sir Mkreku of Camelot. METADIGITAL: What is your quest? MKREKU: I seek the Grail. METADIGITAL: What is your favorite color? MKREKU: Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh! METADIGITAL: Heh heh. Stop! What is your name? KAFTAN: It is Kaftan, King of the CounterStrike Geeks. METADIGITAL: What is your quest? KAFTAN: To seek the Holy Grail. METADIGITAL: What is the calibre of the FN 2000? KAFTAN: What do you mean? The bullpup NATO metric 5.56mm or the civilian imperial .223? METADIGITAL: What? I...I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh! MUSOPTICON?: How do know so much about the FN 2000? KAFTAN: Well, you have to know these things when you play CS, you know.

1. You'd be pretty pissed of you opened that pr0n mag; those girls are minging. 2. Is that for an insurance record? 3. Does it come in dayglow ?

PC Format #176, July 2005, p 25 has an hardware comparison between the Xbox 360, PS3 and the PC. Xbox scores 6, PS3 scores 7 and PC scores 10.

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 ...