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Falsity is true? What sort of doctrine is that? Unless you are arguing that all things are true at all times (and we therefore live in a huge multi-verse of universes, which bifurcate into each possible result of all options in space-time, every time a choice is made, everywhere in the universe), or that all things are an illusion (e.g. Buddhists, Existentialists), i.e. Science is a phantasm, then Ki Rin is wrong. PS If you are arguing that science is an illusion, then -- if you're right -- I'm probably talking to myself, anyway.
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I loved (still do, I guess) John Wyndham, and I recommend The Chrysalids and The Kraken Wakes, too. I'm currently reading the 2005 EFA Global Monitoring Report, and what a hoot it is! For 'fun', somebody gave me a biography of Bill Clinton, but if it doesn't pick up soon, I'm giving up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You read the EFA Global Monitoring Report for leisure? Boy, are you in trouble. (I didn't list any books I'm reading for work ...)
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[2]Sprite just makes me thirstier (even more so than Pepsi, Fanta or the like). Don't know why. [3]The best drink ever is Melon Soda, available from the best vending machines in Japan. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. You don't drink caffeine yet, Baley? Boy are you gunna be trouble soon ... 2. It's probably the eighteen grams of sugar / carcinogenic-sugar-replacement that you drink with the can ... 3. I shall continue to regard all products derived from a Japanese vending machine with paranoid skepticism, based on my mercifully-little knowledge and exposure. I'll stick to San Pelegrino for effervescence and Coca Cola for energy fuel (supra-zero cold, in glass bottles, just as God intended).
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Funny you should ask... It was uploaded about 15 minutes ago! (Sorry Launch, I just couldn't wait anymore! )Right here The site hasn't been refreshed yet, so if you click on the link in my sig you won't find it. <_< (hence why I haven't changed it yet) The direct link should however work. This is a loooong chapter (hence why it took me so long to get it online). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, I wondered where you'd been ... :cool:
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Yep, you have to be pretty secure in your masculinity to wear such castrating clothes ...
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I love HG Wells' style; it is luxuriant and harks back to the days when people spoke in complete sentences, and it also evokes very clearly the stentorian voice of Richard Burton, from the album. Haven't read Day of the Triffids (but I've heard some of their music ).
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I tend to start reading lots of books, and then finish them in order of interest to me. (I tend to do this online, too; what I mean is, with my online reading I will follow a hyper-trail to its end, or my satisfaction, and then pick up reading at the next-most intersting place, to me.) Currently I am reading: Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale (Philosophical thought experiment about a totalitarian state based on Genesis 3:27-30.) Non Fiction: History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell: a very readable book, actually; I stopped halfway through becuase I wanted to re-read taking notes, because it really is exhaustive, but the "fireside chat" style makes it difficult to scan for absolute historical dates; a blessing and a curse.) 1421 (The year China discovered the world) The Times Compact History of the World Birdsong (A book about the tranplanting of the miners who had just dug the Central Line in London to the trenches of WW1 to dig underneath the Central Powers' fortifications for to explode them from underneath, whilst avoiding their German equivalents as they did the same.) As well as a few more less intersting titles, like: Hacking Eposed, gamer magazines, and the odd New Scientist, etc. I will be reading next: Pat Barker's remaining two novels in the trilogy begun with Regeneration (WW1 British decorated officer designated "Deranged" for publicly stating that the Allies were guilty of War Crimes for not suing Germany for peace, at the time, in late 1918); The Eye In The Door and The Ghost Road; Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English; plus another half-a-dozen that I haven't started to ponder their place in my reading list yet, but that have been purchased and are in the waiting list for the reading list ... I just recently completed The Music Of The Primes, by Marcus de Sautoy, a spectacular reading experiences I can recommend highly. It is more an historical description of some of the best mathematicians in civilization (liked by the theme of prime numbers); a brief summary of the lives and their societies and even their social, political and psychological mappings -- all done with the bare minimum of little equations and graphs, (one may count them on one hand), so as not to scare the innumerate away. A very easy read, well worth it. (If you can't name three mathematicians -- exluding Newton: he's famous for being a physicists! -- then you must get this book.)
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The flintlocks are beautiful.
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Jade Empire Ninja Gaiden Halo 2 Honorable mentions: early release of K2 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Cancelled, due to lack of support. "
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Kotor 3: Ideas and Suggestions
metadigital replied to Fionavar's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
The only problem with a space battle is that you are almost unable to do so without including a RTS-based element in the game. I don't have a problem, per se, but I would not be surprised to find it was near-on impossible in the current, or similar, KotOR engine. (A minigame turret shooter is one thing, a Warcraft III or X is totally something else.) Also, you are more talking about the Skywalker family, not the Jedi in particular. (Obi-Wan hated flying; I never saw Mace personally in control of a flying machine and Yoda was better at man -
I sense a disturbance in the Force...
metadigital replied to Centaur's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
its Daedalus from Deus Ex if i remember correctly and for that "fourth wall" thing, i immediately think of hot shots <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. Yep, it's D -
the most disliked thing in kotor
metadigital replied to Solar Xero's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
That's Darth Spud, to you. -
Question on Old Republic troopers
metadigital replied to Eddo36's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
The OT is cannon. The NT is just a CGI dream that passed through Anakin Skywalker's brain as the electro-chemical charge dissipated from his neurons in RotJ. (This will all be made clear when the cut scenes are added for the 30th Anniversary Super Speical Revisionist Remake Blue-LASER-DVD Director's Hernia Gift Set.) As it is a dream, it has sugar-coated the entire experience so that we see only Anakin's subjective egocentric view of the universe (and it has lost a little historical accuracy as a consequence). Actually, Anakin's mother was a sex slave of Jabba the Hutt, and he grew up as a peasant digging in mud and f -
TSL Restoration Project: Work in Progress
metadigital replied to Aurora's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
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Yes.
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... Too fly for a white guy.
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What about that female in Donkey Kong ... I saved her every level, but still -- curses -- Kong stole her back! (What was her name?) So, I again set off the find Kong, to effect the rescue. "Where could he be?" PS What was the topic?
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I feel deprived: I've never encountered Spiderweb software, have you got a link?
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When an unstoppable projectile collides with an immoveable object ...
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1. The answers you seek are behind you. If you don't seek them , then you ought to stop looking for them. Certainly I know the answers are not what you have posed for your questions. If in doubt, read back a few pages. In fact, read them all. 2.What scientists believe the universe is contracting? Images developed over the last decade from the Hubble Telescope have shown clear visual confirmation of the expanding "shells" of matter that correspond to the shockwaves of the Big Bang -- it is on these shockwaves that some eddies of matter have cooled and contracted into various predictable patterns of matter (like the colourful sheens on a soap bubbles surface, if you like); it is these "shells of matter" -- like ripples in a pond after a stone drops into it -- that contain the galaxies like our own Milky Way (100 light yers across, a couple of hundred billion stars) and the closest galaxy to ours, Andromeda (on a tangential coliision course with the Milky Way, probable major catastrophes in a few billion years when outlying soloar systems of each galaxy start to collide); so this should help explain the scale of the Big Bang explosion, which is now a sphere about 15 billion light-years in diameter ... 3.You can't be. Ibidem.
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Fireworks displays.
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Did you draw that, meta? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes! (Ok, No) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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Yes, it was particularly bad. I think it is some sort of interpretation of the Scientologists' version of Revelations, isn't it? Bueller? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Stop Press, this is on ITV tonight; good for a few laughs (but nothing else).
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Kotor 3: Ideas and Suggestions
metadigital replied to Fionavar's topic in Star Wars: General Discussion
Or even have more than one landing zone on a planet, so that we can pilot to different areas without need for hyperspace journeys, thus making the planets bigger and more involved. The seaside at the Forbidden Planet and Telos was a nice change, the underground bunker and maybe a desert and an underwater setting: but all on one planet. Then have a mechanised planet, like Taris was or Telos will be and Nar Shadaa is. Aslo, it would be god to go to the ruins of Taris, maybe looking for some artefact, and dig in the rubble / fight some monsters there / find the underworld people we saved in K1 in their promised land (maybe an underground cavern, -
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