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I think it is perfectly feasible to have three options at the start of any third KotOR game. Play as Revan, the Exile, or another character. Play them from different geographical and ideological locations; have the new character set out from Coruscant to find the others ... I am thinking of Alien Versus Predator, where you can choose the other viewpoints. Or the new Bioware Dragon Age game; where you can start as one of half-a-dozen characters with different backgrounds, baggage and asperations. Feasible but improbable. More likely LA will spit out a clone of K2 as expediently as it can, to rake in Return on Investment on the first title. Then invest some capital in a new series. (I dodn't say it was smart, I am just identifying their behaviour.)

I just hope all of you who are posting about Natalie Portman are not twice her age. Mien Gott she was about sixteen in Episode II, and about thirteen in Episode I!

You finally noticed. I didn't want to break it to you but... " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, it's a matter of degree: I knew I was out of sync with most of reality, but all of it!?

Cheers. Now do I risk adding it over the JohnP stuff ...? "

Thank you oh Roger-who-until-recently-was-of-the-Sith. It does pose a quandary, though: you have had your Revenge; and, if -- and when -- your avatar returns, it will be Return of the Sith.

Light brown hair? * adjusts monitor; scratches head * Looks chestnut, dark-reddish-brown to me. Maybe my eyes need adjusting. *rubs eyes* Maybe my reality has just slipped slightly out of sync with everyone elses ...

Dang, you mean there was another one I could've installed? What's the MicroTexPack do? Actually I found it better (though I haven't really played for long).

Have some fun at the same time as whining in the cinema? Okay, you do that.

Apart from that method, I recommend forgeting all about it and forming new sentimental attachments to other things.

British policeman to an escaping suspect: "Halt!" Suspect keeps running. "Halt! Halt, Isay, or I'll say halt again!"

My thoughts exactly....5 days left Maybe all the action could make a great movie ^_^ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just don't expect King Lear or Faustus. Actually I found a lot of similarities to this reviewer's analysis and the faults of KotOR 2 ...

Well, I can understand some of their frustration. It can't be easy: not wanting the same things as everyone else, not being seen as equal to everyone else (let alone the same as them), to have to find your own dreams, because all the ones taught to you as you grow up don't fit ... You're sniping from the covers is not going to help things, either: it will just make them more aggressive and paranoid! Just remember all the ac/dc icons out there: Madonna (Ciccone), Angelina Jolie and Portia de Rossi from Ally McBeal. Jolie especially doesn't look more screwed up than anyone else ...

Well when he's right ... he's right :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Now if we could only help Baley's aim to improve that hit-to-post ratio ...

(My lecturer for Prose Fiction A at University was the Editor of the Collins dictionary.)

Sith Happens *** Mild semi-spoilers towards the end. *** The last Star Wars Prequel isn't half the pop-culture epic it thinks it is, say Cosmo Landesman. When Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first of the Star Wars prequels, came out in 1999m many Star Wars fans hid their disapointment by claiming their hero, the director George Lucas, hadn't lost his touch. No, they insisted, he was just setting up the story. Just wait till Episode II is released, then you'll see! When Episode II: Attack of the Clones opened in 2002m they said: well, it's better than Episode I. Just wait till Episode III us released, then you'll see! Now Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is here, and there are no more excuses to be made. Lucas has to deliver a film that not only is great in its own right, but justifies the making of the other two. His fans will say it's amazing, awesome ... and we told you so! I say it's all been a big nothing. Lucas's prequel trilogy has set out to exploit the affections the public rightly has for the first three Star Wars films. If he had released Episodes I to III first, I doubt there would have been a Star Wars phenomena at all. Some will claim that Revenge of the Sith is classic popcorn entertainment. If only it were. This isn't great popcorn entertainment; it's popcorn pretentiousness. That happens when people like Lucas start believing they are Serious Artists with something to say about the human condition and good and evil. Since the 1960s, pop culture has become incresingly ambitious and hungry for respectability. It apes tje forms of high culture. It wants to do Shakespeare (Baz Lurman), make its own operas (Tommy) and create its own timeless epics (The Matrix). There's nothing wrong with with wanting to create the great epic of pop culture, but so far it hasn't been done. Even Star Wars episodes IV, V and VI were too sweet and simple to be taken seriously. But I, II and III could have been it. After all, Lucas promised that Revenge of the Sith woulf be more "grown up" and "darker" than his previous films. And look at the central theme of these prequels: they're all about the moral decline both of the state and the individual. The trouble with this film -- and the entire prequel trilogy -- is that it offers the stuffy self-importance of high art with none of the vitality or imagination of pop. The original Star Wars trio was a fast and fun sugar rush of special effects and great characters. It offered a wall of sound and spectacle. It took science fiction away from Stanley Kubrick and pulped it up with the spirit of Phil Spector. The prequels, on the other hand, are ponderous. They are tedious tracts that plod along with no narrative rhythm or real oomph. As the title suggests, the film is about the attempt of the evil Sith to seize power and turn the Republic into a dictatorial empire. Lucas is fascinated by the machinations of intergalactic politics, the Machiavellian struggle between the Jedi Council and Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). But does anyone but the army of Star Wars anoraks really find Lucas's Edward Gibbon-like account of the rise and fall of the Republic interesting? What does he have to say about people or politics, other than power corrupts? "Dialogue doesn't have much meaning in any of my movies." There are lots of little things that are wrong with Revenge of the Sith. Dialogue has never been one of Lucas's strong points. As he once said "Dialogue doesn't have much meaning in any of my movies." But here, the dialgue is so bad that it frequently draws attention to itself and undermines the drama at hand. During a crucial fight scene, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) tells Anakin (Hayden Christensen) that he should resist joining the Sith because they're really bad guys. Anakin replies: "Well, from my point of view they're not bad." It's the sort of clumsy, amateur line you'd expect from someone who has never witten a screenplay before. Then there are the battle sequences, always a big part of the Star Wars experience. Here they are really undistinguished. Thankfully, most of the key encounters are between characters, not huge armies of CGI figures. However, the novelty of seeing two bits of strip lighting smash into each other has worn off. There's no skill or subtlety to these fight scenes; they're all flash'n'bash, whoosh'n'whish. none of the bad guys has any bad-guy cool And none of the bad guys has any bad-guy cool. Count Dooku is just Christopher Lee doing the old staring-eyeball routine. And Darth Sidious can't be serious, can he? I mean what's with that ha-ha-ha bad guy laugh of his? When he boasts "My power is great", and out pops this little blue electromagnetic force, he looks like something you'd find in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As for the good guys, what can you say? Nothing has so marred these prequels as Lucas's decison to cast McGregor as young Obi-Wan Kenobi, a part made famous by Alec Guiness. It's like casting Ray Winston to play the young Steven Fry. Natalie Portman, as the pregnant Padm

Do you say "his navy" ?

Well, Bling is an idiomatic phenomena. Think of the reverse process, if you encountered the word in a newspaper (e.g. the Times) and didn't know what it meant, then you would be unimpressed if you couldn't find it in the OED. And anyway, the complete OED has every word in it; it is just the abridged ones that have an editor choose what is in and what is out.

Maybe Kaftan should be Ross ...

Well, I thought the firebox ones were new models (I don't know for sure though). Did you pay

Mods for the game or biomods? I can recommend electrostatic discharge (passive!). Then get yourself an energy blade. Then you can cut at laserbeam (alarm lasers, gas lasers etc) projectors to disable them. in fact, one or a few hits disables most droids. At least with the biomod at lvl 3. I just loved the fact that I never had to waste any multitools on lasers. I still do, since I'm playing the game again... funny thing, I'm not sure the texturepack is doing it's job. Or I've been spoiled by new games and their high-res textures Vision enhancement biomod is recommended... I don't think I would've found those specially modded pistols without it. I also got strength. Carry more inventory, lift heavier things. *shrugs* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good tips. (I was talking about the biomods in the top slots.) Yeah, always go for enhanced vision, although L3 is kinda confusing with everything outlined ... I forgot about the link between strength and inventory! Does that affect the amount of items that can be stacked in a slot? Because I seem to hit a limit with some multi-tools, but not all the time. Cool, I hadn't played the electrostaic / energy blade: where is the first energy blade I can get? I don't remember any in the early game part of the ... (I usually have the thermal masking and even cloaking to just slip by / up close to pound them with a pistol with a silencer.) I think I'll start again ...

So you would say Buddhists are spiritually retarded then? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> MU

I would think it's the same as the German das vaterland which is a neuter term saying "the land of my father", since Scandinavian languages are essentially Germanic, I would guess the same goes here. But I must admit, never given it much thought. ^_^ Also, in Denmark at least, I have never heard anyone refer to the nation by gender. Except for ships though, but that's not what you meant was it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I didn't understand this bit: did you mean that when talking about the fleet of Denmark, one would refer to it as "Her navy", or a particular ship is referred to as "her", as in "her crew"? Also, Phillip K. D1ck (PKD) specifically reversed the proportions of latin and germanic derivative words in his writing. His works contain words with roughly 90% germanic and 10% classical origins.

but they are not an english speaking country... it would probably be hard to say they speak any one language given all the dialects that exist within chinese cultures. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I guess it depends a bit on the strongest marketplace in our current market economy, no the amount of speakers in the world. If the Chinese, for arguments sake, decide to change apostrophes to