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I am so pedicularly anal that I have to write in complete sentences and punctuate adequately and spell the constituent words correctly. I even write strict English in SMS text messages (which is a lot easier now I have a 'phone with a handwriting interface). I can't help it. I guess it's analogous to St Augustine's epithet on patience: "The reward of patience is patience."

Yeah, a real nut-sack! :cool:

Yeah, it's just another form of combat -- using verbal weapons. It doesn't fulfill the role currently taken by dialogue, though, as you point out. I like Plano's addtions to Yst's comments, too. I know there are more improvements to the dialogue methodology, but I haven't come up with any revolutionary solutions as yet.

I won't. :D Nothing at all, please go right ahead. "

Was it just me, or was that Gonarch very similar to an anatomical protuberance very familiar to about 3 billion people ...

Try the hangover test ...

Ironically enough, Morgan Freeman plays himself in every film...and he's an outstanding actor. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I think he's been typecast rather than the other way around. Heck, Madonna can't even sing!

I would rather perform eye surgery on myself using a concrete barrier from in front of the Palace of Westminster for the delicate bits. (Although I hear she does die horribly, I don't want to witness the bits where she isn't screaming in pain.)

Delegation.

What's funny is Madge really wants to be a good actress, and she's terrible. Acting is all about empathy, and she has no truck with anyone else's pov. She plays Madonna in each film. Meh, Guy Ritchie was lucky and is totally overrated. I did like A Legue of Their Own, too.

I find her quite ugly and not at all worth spending any time watching doing anything. I can't stand stupid people, but moreso, I can't stand stupid people who are proud to be stupid. If ever there was an argument for death duties, there it is. Make her go out and work for a living, rather than insult society and everyone in it with her ignorant, vapid nihilistic consumerism. I wouldn't put her out if she were on fire, with the contents of your member.

That can also happen if you watch too many French films at once. They are peculiarly quirky, what with lots of ugly people having sex and discussing the consequences in endless permutations, but they are generally more fulfilling than ten films from Hollywood. Go and watch "The Piano Teacher" if you haven't already.

About what?

What was that noise? It sounded like a million people saying "Wop!" ...

Now there's a narcisistic recursive loop if ever one existed. We should all be very careful that a minuature black hole doesn't appear where they are, next time they are to a mirror. ...

Sure, i wasn't being rude, I was just interested to see if you were a player as that would explain your passion for the sport. (I see there is a Women's European Football cup/thingie coming up shortly on tv, too.) In fact, I'd much prefer to watch women playing football than men. For example, most people hate cricket. I don't, but I suppose that can be explained by my being an ex-player. (There is nothing better when you have a hangover than to drift in and out of slumber watching the cricket on tv: nothing happens for the most interminable periods of time, all with the appearance of frantic movement (bowler running in, batsman facing a ball, fielders scampering around the oval) -- cetainly the moment anything of any significance happens there is a dozen replays after the ambient volume jumps 18 decibels, until you drift off to dreamland again ...) I would find your fanaticsm a little more difficult to understand if you didn't play the sport that obviously means so much to you.

You should cut down on the beans, man.

I'm sure that's a misspelling, it should be "bitchslap".

While I normally disapprove of murder in any form, sometimes the one must be sacrificed to save the many. (Not that its much of a sacrifice or that he wont deserve it.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, but how do you know that someone far worse than Hitler wouldn't come along later? Maybe the world got off lightly? A few more years after the end of WW2 and Germany would have had intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons (after all, the USSR and US atomic programmes were staffed almost exclusively by captured / dissedent German scientists). Perhaps Hitler was the least worst outcome: certainly the Nazis have given us a salient reminder of the evils of totalitarianism and racism. Out of Great Evil, some Great Good must come ...

Special Attack: Bus Stop +7 to bump, and automatic knockdown on hit

Well, if we remove all the holy war flame fests and all the mutual ego-stroking from all the fora of the internet there would be a deafening silence ... Seriously, though, I do think the plot is set up well for the next installments. After all, this is exactly what Dickens did to make ends meet; the Pickwick Papers was a serial that went for months in the newspaper. If this allows Valve to deliver quality, then I'm all for it. (Certainly EA's modus operandi doesn't seem to be very successful for anything except making their shareholders happy, certainly not producing flawless games.)

The problem is that even historical sources use the term "morningstar" to describe fixed-head and ball-and-chain weapons. I actually try to avoid using the term at all because it just confuses people. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... exept where it is intentional to confuse them.

Tom Cruise is starring in Steven Speilberg's remake of War of the Worlds this Summer. Still, I find the soundtrack captivating (at least the first time through for a while, after that I need a break!) "Bows and arrows against the lightning!" Richard Burton was a dude.

That's because Japan is basically a US colony since their defeat in WW2, and consequently they idolise anything US. " Just curious Launch, do you play soc football?

I agree, but how on Earth do you map intention in a cRPG? The only way so far is through the dialogue tree, so I guess a natural extension to this would help untie this gordian knot, thus a typical dialogue might be as follows. You arrive at the scientist's lab, she is inside, do you: 1. [Chaotic] crash in and kill her with the element of surprise before she can do anything 2. [Lawful] knock on the door politely 3. [Lawful Good] bang on the door and demand entrance in the name of all that is holy 4. [Hide in Shadows] run away and hide 5. [set Traps] set a booby trap on the door and retire a safe distance. Then you can map alignment. One of the neat strategems / plot flaws in any RPG is that the players alignment is not taken into account. For instance, with the KotOR series, it would have been a great feature to be able to bluff or lie to achieve some end (unlike in most Bioware games, where lying is just a pointless way to rack up Chaotic alignment points), like saving Hitler in WW1 so that he will be elected to power in 1936 and start WW2 in 1939. You see Hitler in your rifle sight: 1. Kill the mass murderer before he has a chance to cause more death 2. Miss him (let him take his place in history, because out of his great evil will come the new US world order in sixty years time) 3. Miss him (let him kill all those non-Arians) 4. Miss him (it is never right to kill another, even when it might save innocents) etc ... :cool: