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You're right, that's way off-topic.

I would question your definition of "Free" -- I doubt Al Gore could have his own chat show on Fox. As much as it is denied, I certainly believe that there is an implicit -- if not overt -- editorial policy straight from the Board of Directors.

Emmanuelle? Older games should be easy to rate -- either or <_< . So a series like Ultima can go on indefinitely? Until the copyright goes t**s-up, that is. Some of the older games can seem a bit incomprehensible in comparison though. A bit unplayable too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's the one. Boy was that crapola. I agree that everyone is taking their ratings a bit too seriously; simply a "liked it lots", or four stars, or versus a "Meh", or two/three stars, or <_< , and "Yuk", or one/no star, or should do it.

Firstly, actually, "stupid you" got it wrong again. Yes is PC, No is XBox. Secondly, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not another stupid flame-bait Xbox v. PC thread. This is the worst sort of posting. Cease and desist.

actually, I think we still do fluffwise. if you decide to swoop race on Telos, for instance, I believe it is your bike that supposedly gets used. however, we have never, to the best of my recollection, had to take swoop bikes out on missions. this would add alot of ambience, IMO, even if it was just cutscreen-based. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree, the fact that we have to walk / Jedi Speed run everywhere is kinda unrealistic. Sure in a the Telos satellite system we should be zipping around the metro system, but on the planets' surfaces we should be able to roam much further. It is even feasible that it could be a mini-game in itself, sort of like the turret mini-game in K1, and there could be multiple locations to swoop to. Even stealing a bike or something -- don't tell me only Maul had a little scooter.

I agree with those thoughts completely! The whole interaction needs more depth, and I think that a freeform exchange -- while obviously providing the capacity for such depth -- would not provide the support to make the interaction fun. Definitely a blunt "charisma" score doesn't do the art of conversation justice, that's why the "persuade" skill was created. There needs to be a further evolution of these skills, as they play such a central role in the game mechanics and delivery of the plot.

There was a minotaur henchman character in one (of Adam Miller's, I think -- Dreamcatcher, maybe?) mod. Wasn't a girlie, though.

We had a swoop bike in K1. Must have been jetisoned in a battle. As for shuttles, I don't think that's workable. It would be just as useful to have one group dropped off and another doing something else on the same planet, with a rendezvous at some predetermined future place / time ... with the inevitable rescue scenario when one group doesn't show up. Yeah, and a shower cubicle! I really wonder about that Atton and his phobia of soap and water ...

I am not sure if this correct. The skill of the party member played at 1st persons, is definately taken into account for creating items. I know this because when i open the bench with Bao Dur I can manifacture almost everything while when doing it with the Exile almost nothing. ( I am taking for benches out of ship). So it is inconsistent to count the members skill for creating an item and only the exiles for breaking it down. Strange. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I haven't checked, but I also can confirm that the first person PC is the one who's skills contribute to what can be done at the workbench. I would change between characters, and swap inventories of items like Czerka belts, etc, to create new items. My Exile generally had a reasonable Repair skill, so if what you report is true it would be a bug -- or the fact that one can use another party member's skills to build items is a bug; the two are logically mutually exclusive. Ergo, not strange, broken.

Do these people who create their first post and become objects of derision just disapear out of overwelming embarassment, or do they venture forth with a brand new identity, or what? Unless there is one sad dude that keeps making elementary errors in netiquette, there seems to be a lot of people that don't read the FAQ, or even -- at least -- follow the "lurk before you post" heuristic. Is fame such a potent drug that infamy becomes almost as desirable? I'll never get it, I suppose. <_<

Don't you have a twenty-sided die?

I don't understand. If you want to be good, but don't then is your alignment really neutral evil? I thought you must be trying to be evil to be truly evil, otherwise you are just a weak-willed neutral.

Yes, that sounds quite feasible from a player point of view. This is a serious point, there would need to be pathways to escalate the argument into different stages of confrontation, from mind distrust, annoyance and bitter anger and jealosy right up to physical assault. And there would be ways to diffuse a situation, too -- bribery comes immedaitely to mind.

So how do minotaurs reproduce? And what does a female one look like?

Well, that is not a clear conclusion; the Director General resigned because the Hutton Enquiry did not find proof that the government was guilty of the "sexing up" of the "dodgy dossier" of intelligence of WMD in Iraq, as had been alleged by the erstwhile tabloid reporter Andrew Gilligan, and so the buck stopped with Dyke. I don't believe it is possible to be completely objective in reporting; what needs to be fought is the deliberate spin-doctoring that has become the norm for all governments: propaganda gone mad! Speaking of the Labour party's tenure in government, they have completely co-opted the ostensibly-impartial public services into the Labour propaganda process, so public srevants are now giving party political statements for and on behalf of the ministers! We are on a slippery slope, not only does the public not believe most of the governmental disclosures, but also it is not a large step to a malevolent power in government using the existing tainted system for absolute ruthless self-aggrandizement, feduciary gain and power. For a democracy to function it must have a free press. The electorate cannot make informed decisions without information. I fear for the consequences of the choices made by some of our politicians now.

Ahh, but it's always nice to go out on the water: must be all those negative ions, like just after a thunder storm; there is something magical about the waves lapping on the shore, like they have done for four billion years and will continue to do for as many again. Makes one feel small and insignificant ... so can we have your liver, then?

Now that's a character! I likee a lot. I disagree that she is not as exciting, that's an injustice. She is obviously an intelligent character, therefore not as easy to write a brief synopsis of, as she has subtleties and hidden depths. Good work!

Ah, Ultima ... *reminisces of Ultima ][ on the Apple //e, then Ultima ]I[ and the marksand cards, after the character creation through the gypsy in the fair ... (why did I end up as a Shepherd when I answered honestly?) ... Ultima IV ... good memories * I wouldn't know where to start with all the RPGs and Adventure games I've played; I think I've forgotten more games than a lot of people have played ... yet a lot of the ones posted above I haven't played ... :"> I even remember that silly French one where you went to different planets and had to try to decipher their language using a "typewriter" of pictographs to communicate with them (and end up eventually offering to copulate with them) ... what was that one called? (I never bought it, I played it at "work" on a summer job as a call-out computer technician -- i think it was on the Amiga ...)

DAmmit, this thread is too big -- i went all the way back to page 18 and couldn't see it, before I posted. :"> Skills of Note: Coming up for taunts for hate foes, and for those she cares about. She also has a great baritone voice, and is probably the only dwarf musician in known existence that actually spends time playing the flute around camfires. Maybe she should just sing, as flute playing is obviously so de rigueur as to be clich

What was their excuse "We thought you were meditating, then those people all died and the rest of us hadn't heard about you and then someone found a shopping list in an abandoned apartment and we realised that that was your apartment and so we can looking for you ..."

What constitutes "today" in the land of the midnight sun? Is that just a figment of speech, or a convenient way to refer to recent history ... where did you go?

No organisation the size of the BBC can be perfectly impartial. The point is that there is an institutional edict to remain impartial; so much so that they have been accused of being the "unofficial opposition" to the government since the real opposition is quite weak. Also, I believe there is a lot more to the Hutton enquiry and Greg Dyke standing down than we know about; certainly the fact that the Prime Minister commissioned four inquiries, all with a very small, specific scope -- including Hutton -- rather than a large, general enquiry into the whole decision to go to war on Iraq without a second resolution from the UN; and considering the pausity of reliable intelligence and the disparity of what the PM knew to be fact and how he reported the scenario to the parliament in such a disingenuous way all make for a large political attack on the BBC. Greg Dyke, the former Director General of the BBC, stood down on the findings of the Hutton Enquiry, which totally exhonerated the government of complicity in the death of a senior government advisor (David Kelly, the senior Weapons Inspector for Iraq over the last decade). Mr Kelly committed suicide because he tried to leak his knowledge about the actual state of Weapons of Mass Destruction to the media anonymously, and the government (allegedly specifically Alistair Campbell, formerly of the tabloid press and at the time the senior spin doctor of the Labour party and close, personal friend to Mr Blair) leaked his name and he was beseiged by the press until he could not take the pressure. I don't feel the BBC has suffered a blow to its credibility through all this. That doesn't mean any of us can be complacent; life is a constant battle for truth. Unfortunately the Murdock Fox network is more akin to the Ministry of Information than the BBC. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. I wondered the same thing; still there doesn't seem to be a diminishing of wannabe-famous-for-anything participants to similar shows like Jerry Springer, so I guess there is no reason to alter the modus operandi of the "host".

It's an adventure game...a very food adventure game... Some shooter elements along the way too.. Point&Click all the way... I actually posted it here..like 15 pages back <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks, I was not looking forward to searching for it. Mad place: it took me about ten minutes to find a way to register!

What is truly sad is that this is regarded as news journalism. One of the main bright points in internation news is the BBC, reknowned for its impartiality: they do not have these "Jerry Springer" confrontations, instead, where polemics are involved, they will interpret each argument and be the person who puts the best of those arguments to the opposition, thus taking some of the emotion out of the debate and helping to focus on the issues rather than the personalities. This is a perfecct example of something, but it isn't journalism. More like vigilante public execution in the Fox colloseum.

Bucharest,Romania playing Scrapland and Blade Runner.... Also on RPG codex and Winterwind lately <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is that the Bladerunner RPG you posted a link to before, or some sort of weird Japanese MMORPG ? PS Do you remember where you posted that link to BladeRunner? I might download and play it ...