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You know, I felt much the same way the first time I saw the 'net shift' thing in Kotor 2. It makes a moral decision come across as an accountancy transaction. I guess there's nothing an RPG can't reduce to numbers. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that's because accountancy is based on the only perfect science: mathematics. There are no sects in geometry. Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

Apples and oranges. "All comparisons are odious." "

Every time GL makes a new film the "canon" is overwritten with whatever he decides to create. Ergo, all the EU "canon" is subordinate to the actual material, not the other way around. My game allows me to chose Revan's gender and race EVERY TIME I PLAY IT, so unless they take that option away -- and it would seemingly have to be retrospectively -- then that obviously takes precendence. If you need more evidence, here is the official Star Wars® Lego® Revan character. Notice it is gender neutral. Q.E.D. You only prove your own prejudices and psychological weaknesses by insisting that the character has to have a gender and race to your approval. If you let your consellor know this important information it might shorten your treatment and even, eventually, lower your dosage.

net ... net

overrated Edit: Blinking nested quote limit just broke my post. :angry: All I did was Reply and add the above single line!

one where they don't want you to get to the later stages, because they never finished debugging them ... now that's a tactic that might have come in handy for another group of devs ... "

Personally I've never played it: that's a question for the Far East to answer, I think: that's where the majority of the millions of regular subscribers are. (I hate MMORPGs, too many kids and too much level grind. That said, I might give Guild Wars a go as there is no subscription!)

Yep, looks like post 1957 paraphenalia there -- all clusters and no swastikas.

Haven't played the games in question, but if I understand the concept correctly (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I don't :D ) there is seperate dialogue for the PC, depending on their INT ability score? No? Then what's the point? I think there should be extra dialogue options depending on ability. I remember the Paladin series where one's PC was able to Detect Evil in a conversation (not a core ability, one that Rick Burton deliberately added). So too the [Wisdom] and [intelligence] options, there should also conceivably be penalties applied for INT 3 characters ... I'm sure they'd be easier to do a Jedi-mind-trick on, so they would have a convo like this: Jedi: These aren't the droids you're looking for. ============================== NPC: [1] These aren't the droids we're looking for. NPC: [2] I'm tired I think I'll gfo lie down. Jedi: He can go about his business. ============================== NPC: [1] You can go about your business. NPC: [2] That's a pretty brooch, can I have it. Jedi: Move along. ============================== NPC: [1] Move along, move along! NPC: [2] My head hurts. I think I'll clean it with my gun ... :cool:

Why are the American Cowboys Living Underwater such a militant group? Is it because of the drastic decline in dugongs? Maybe we can help them come to a peaceful win-win solution -- we could adopt a dugong each!

Not following all my links then, Green Dragon? "

Cool: ... West Germany permitted its military veterans to continue to wear the Iron Cross, however German law prohibits the wearing of an Iron Cross with a swastika. In 1957 the German government issued new Iron Crosses to World War II veterans, altered to display an Oak Leaf Cluster, instead of a swastika, in the center of the medal. ...

You didn't mention dislike, you mentioned a preference. :D that reminds me, I was listening to extracts of the NF book on the race to the Moon with the USSR cosmonaught and US astronaught's perpectives, Alexi Leonov said that the most startling thing about space, was that it wasn't black at all. In fact, once you are out of the Earth's atmosphere, there is no great impediment to the cosmic lightshow ... everywhere one looks there is light, light miliions and billions and trillions of little and great pinpricks of light. That's why I want to go to space. Oh, and "zero gravity" sounds neat. :cool: Perseptions are an interesting conundrum; I would say that the beauty we see is linked to the very balance of nature. Our intellects are designed to find patterns (that's an overactive imagination can lead to paranoic meanings being derived from innocent situations ... a bit like finding god in the universe " ) -- after all I don't think it is an accident that we find storms beautiful. That sort of love is just an overloading (as in the Object-Oriented subclass constructor type of overload) of a basic bonding required to raise offspring. To explain: in mammals, for example, because the pregnancy is relatively long, the young are born helpless and mature over years (e.g. elephants are pregnant for 2 years, their young take a decade to reach young adult age, they live for as long as humans, typically); they need to make sure that the optimum result (procreation) is ensured as a maximum probability. Historically, a two adult parental unit would survive more efficiently than a single, so there is a biological advantage for animals that have a stronger bond to survive. Love is just an over-emotional intellect being co-opted by this biological advantage. We feel it so strongly for the same reason we feel compelled to copulate -- it rewards us with pleasure (although quite different sorts!). Yeah, that hypothesis I came across -- and I was about to get upset and say someone had forgotten George Orwell's 1984; but Edward Sapir died before Orwell wrote his seminal novel -- even if the theory wasn't published until after Orwell died (he died almost as the last full-stop was typed on his manuscript). It's just the Newspeak theory, really.

1. Because although Metallica may have metaphysical leanings, but their music is as mellifluous as cats mating, amplified by 196 decibels. And Billy Joel simplifies cosmic ruminations down to simple terms, so that the everyman in the audience can ponder along, too. 2. Because no-one's been there yet. (I'm sure when OS is as boring as Utah, no-one is going to be in a hurry to go there.) 3. For faces, it is a ratio of facial features, i.e. size and relative positions, that is the closest approximation to the Golden Mean. Look at anime (or Pandas); see the big eyes and small noses? 4. Please clarify which type of love: eros, agape, religious devotion, etc. We just need to expand our meta-dictionary to include transcendental terms such that they may encompass the new phenomenological discoveries ... or should that be the other way around ? I too find that certainty unnerving. As you can tell, I believe these things are beyond our knowledge. We can speculate as to the motives or the reasons of a creative power, and I believe we can get close to the right answer, but to claim that you know is to defeat the very purpose of religious belief. How can you believe in something when you claim to know already? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good point, well made. All singing from the same hymn sheet.

There is definitely a law against any display of Nazi insignia or emblems in Deutchland,

Tanks.....?????? <_< I think not, for the splendor of spam has once again taken charge....LMAO " Remember.......Icewinddale.com rocks......... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, we've been lucky today, I guess the big green dragon has a day off on Sunday ...

use black decals on a black background. If the decals don't come conveniently this way, I suggest blackening them carefully with your own craftwork (or should that be kraftwerk?) whether that be scissors and sewing, or paint and ink.

I wonder if it would be written in a third person voice, a multi-first-person voice, or perhaps a multi-first-and-third-person voice? (I bet someone will now write in a second-person voice, just to be contrary. You know who you are! " )

That's what I didn't like. There was no need for me to make any particular dialogue choice or my PC to take any specific direct action, because it made no difference at all after Dantooine. That is just an basic interactive FMV. If that's all I'm looking at, then my plot standards are significantly harder to meet, because I no longer feel I am the protagonist, instead I have to identify with them. And this is why the end sucked (technical term).

Nice supposition. OE would have done worse than employ you on their author team. You still haven't dealt with the wound. To paraphrase your comments, the "wound" is: (i) the Exile's strong bonds with others and (ii) the deaths of those who were bonded to the Exile (e.g. on Malachor V) then, what is it? This vacuum or "hunger" that attracts other force sensitive people and causes them to follow the Exile's actions without thinking. The Exile's power grows as the number of followers and the amount of death grows

The Ebon Hawk was really Fredon Nadd's personal envoy's pet's dam's owner's sister-in-law's junkshop reject that she did up. (Okay, maybe she used a couple of spares from the Star Forge, but nothing so as you'd notice.)

1. As Jags said, there was originally going to be a Droid Planet, which is reached after the sublevel of the Telos base. 2. Yes, the intention is to restore the entire lost HK-47 quest, which includes the lost planet. 3. The Sarlacc doohickey was planned for Tatooine.

The loot dropped by monsters is determined when you enter an area, as w666tvr said earlier: so the higher your PC level is the better the loot (generally speaking). Don't forget that at certain times in the game you play a character that doesn't add to your Exile's XP total, like T3 on Peragus II, for example.

I like what Yoda did to the two guarding Palpie. That's probably my fave part of Ep III.

Yes. So far it hasn't been disproved and the antithesis hasn't been proved. Ah, but we must keep collecting data until it all makes sense. Did Mendelev give up before he discovered that elements can be arranged in a lawful taxonomy? Did Heinrich Hertz give up because he didn't believe James Clerk Maxwell's equations would come to anything? I fear the insanity of certitude that grips too many religious people. I would more readily believe that our models are wrong than a particular faith is straight from the mouth of god.