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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 ...

The Drow is an assassin: I was labouring under the impression that assassins were evil. And as for the Dwarven flute-playing archetype, we have not been appraised of her character portfolio as yet ...

Not a dialogue, no; the character (the three you posted were al evil evil evil). Hmmm, much as the typing practice might do you good, I wouldn't think inflicting the resulting prose on us would be fair ...

Yeah, that's what I see, too. The "dialogue combat system" is a seperate entity, not capable of replacing the function of dialogue. The limitation to a free-form approach is that you cannot distil the plot through the dialogue (i.e. by providing dialogue options that give backstory or new narrative information), and also it is more than probable that some/most information will not be found in the course of normal conversations ... also I find the whole process of asking the same questions "name, job, grudge, fed-ex mission for me" to every NPC more tedious than navigating a dialogue tree. Perhaps having an extra option or two in the dialgue trees, for a standard riposte / question (if you were role playing a dectective, for instance), or even free text input for parsing? I'm not sure it would be an improvement, however. I gain a certain amount of satisfaction when a new dialogue option opens up on an NPC that previously had nothing to say. I would say that it is inevitable that we will have (pseudo-) natural language processing in RPGs and Adventure games eventually. After all, that was the pinacle of the text based adventures: Infocom replaced the standed "VERB NOUN" two word input of the existing adventure games with their own natural parser, and it was very successful. It will come at a cost, though: that little feeling of achievement when the pesky NPC gives you the extra dialogue option that you've been wating for.

Actually there is not immediate danger from procreation, either, to be completely accurate. It would take a few generations of incestuous relationships to create any real genetic problems ... social and psychological problems, on the other hand would certainly make this an untenable practice. It's all a bit narcisistic, too, but I can understand the motivation: the people who know you best of all in the world (at least initially) are your siblings, as they have witnessed first hand your emotional growth so there exists a real understanding. Underatanding doesn't equal amity, however. Just because I know my brother well doesn't mean I like him -- Obi-Wan and Anakin knew eack other pretty well and I doubt they want to sleep with each other (although, they did act like they had tried it in AotC. <_< ). I guess it is a salient reminder of why diversity is good; opposites can attract and viva la difference!

Is there a good NPC encounter?

But when the day comes that some sadistic producer casts him as something else, he's toast! " I heard Al Pacino succeeded in only playing 70% of himself in "the merchant of venice". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did that make you cry? :D When he's good he's brilliant, though: at the end of the Godfather, when he springs his trap, and his wife suddenly realises what it means to be married to the Godfather ...

Where's Baley?

Or Mr Hanky ... that was a watershed moment in tv history.

If I could live anywhere I would.

Like the Mandy and Mical threads ... "

Well, if anyone will be able to determine all the levels in the shortest period of time, it'll be you, Mr Baley.

Kreia was the first, the One True Prophet of Truth. She has lit the torch of veracity for us to follow: we must release the universe from the grip of the totalitarian Force: restore fredom of choice to the galaxy! Join us in the Anti-Force force as be do battle in the ultimate conflict: against the Force itself!

Yeah, they certainly telegraphed it. I found interesting that there was not more of an uproar about it. I guess no-one who played the game thought it was anything other than the joke it obviously was, and saw no need to make anything of it. I must admit I laughed when I saw it -- not sure when I first heard its (rather obvious, as you've pointed out) name: is it in the save game title?

Yes, her only redeeming grace is the fact she has none. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I like that, I'm going to pretend I made it up next time it would make me look witty in a casual conversation. :D

Meece coffee? Is that some sort of coffee that is made from beans regurgitated by Meeces? Like this Civit coffee? "

That's exactly the point, not only is it lazy, it is impolite. Fora are as formal or casual as we make them; I write formally to keep my writing skills sharp (laziness is not going to do me any favours) but I don't object if people use vernacular or worse modes of speech in their posts. I do object to people who make it difficult for the readership to grok their meaning, with unintentional ambiguity or deliberate insensitivity. Writing is a form of mental exercise for me, I use it like an athlete might incorporate shuttle runs and aerobic work in their training.

It comes from a very bad (and politically insesnitive) joke that has some person going to the doctor to find out why they have such charisma issues ... anyway, the GP sends the person to a specialist ... blah blah blah ... and the specialist says you have "Zackery disease". "Oh my," says the patient, "is it serious? What is it?" "Your face is zackery like your arse." says the man of asian descent.

Obviously you have never been out of your tree enough to ponder such imponderables. "