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I like the exposition on the class system inherrent in the JK Rowlings work. I mean, you've got the nobility (pure magic blood) and the muggles (working class) and the mix (e.g. Hermoine). Nice little dark social undercurrents to be explored ... PS Kirottu, that was the second most disturbing image I have ever seen.

From the John P. installation readme: "If you do decide to install the Community Texture Pack as well, I recommend that you install it first, then install this Cumulative Texturepack afterwards. " (The community texture pack is aka "Kaif", to us.) Thanks Fionavar for a great topic! :cool:

Well... this is a hard one.. it's a conversation that you can have with Mandalore about why he travels to Orderon so often.. is in that line.. I haven't try to go trough the full conversation get.. because I have the filling that is a DS bonus mission.. ether way.. the recruiting is supposed to help a bit in the battle for Telos.. when the Mandalorians offer there help. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just save the game before the conversation. then explore it and if you don't like it, reload.

I continuously force speed from my PC's first level (and subsequent first Jedi Power), anyway. I favour monks in NwN, and I am always on the lookout for Boots of Speed, so that I can run faster through the games.

Pointing out spam has the counter-prodcutive consequence of creating more spam.

No, because there were alternatives (obviously at least one). Taking life must be the absolute last option. The debate is focused on whether taking someone's memories and identity is equivalent to taking their life, and if so then the Jedi were just arguing semantics (i.e. by that argument they still killed Revan). If they could keep Revan in the matrix, and preferably redeem her willingly, that would be the ultimate. :cool:

The Malak art was great. (Although the last one made him look like the little brother of Kyle of South Park fame)...

Ditto. And I wish the Exile looked like that in-game. Well done!

As a matter of interest, who voted for Dr Judith Mossman?

Thanks muchly, Baley! Are Koif's best? I suppose I should install that first because I don't want to have to uninstall and re-install the game again... I'll post my result here when I have done so. :cool: Oh-oh. Can't download John P's textures from his website. There will be a short delay .... ... Downloading John P's now (from Gamespot)

It's apocryphal, but yes. (I would fight until I had spent alll my money, but that's the kinda sociaopath I am. )

... And that is why we are able to debate it endlessly, because there is no higher authority to consult, no real council, not even a disgruntled vagrant ex-Jedi wondering past. " :cool: Actually the best way to incapacitate a Sith would be to put them to sleep. They could be help in perpetual matrix-style controlled environment, and in extreme cases even have their DS personality expunged ...

That's about the size of it: the devil's in the implementation. That's why you have to have a watertight third-party confirmation that you wrote it first. Because you will have to convinve either them, their lawyers or a publisher/broadcaster that it's yours. (Patenting is a whole other ball of expensive wax, though ... ) A little story a lawyer told me: If someone walks up to me in the street and tries to take my wallet, I will fight him. If someone walks up to me and says "You owe me money," for the amount in my wallet, I will argue with them. If a utility company or the government sends me an incorrect bill for the amount of money in my wallet, I will refuse to pay it. If someone sends me a legal notice telling me they are going to sue me for the contents of my wallet, I would give it to him -- otherwise I'll lose twice as much on legal fees. :ph34r:

That's true, e.g. the other KotOR2 board seems to be full of very young boys who write posts using SMS-text spelling. gr8 m8!

PC Zone (UK) had a demo level of Lego Star Wars last issue. (w00t)

incapacitate them, not 'program' them <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly. Render them harmless, with as little force as is necessary. BTW These aren't my personal beliefs! I'm not saying I wouldn't kill a burglar in my house, I'm saying what a Jedi should be aiming to do. If killing is wrong, then anyone killing is either bad or unable to control the situation (via talk / overwhelming non-lethal force, etc). You would probably object if children found guilty of shoplifting were executed. Some people, with an extreme view of the sanctity of life, would not permit even a convicted murderer to be executed -- even if it was in self defence and they would die as a result. That sort of extreme.

I am a little surprised there are so many over-eighteens; I thought the percentages would be reversed. Then again the sample space is far too small to make any real extrapolations. It seems to indicate that either those under 18 were: - not inclined to vote (e.g. don't want to advertise being under age, even in an anoymous poll); - not around to vote (don't spend time on game forums, probably on Yahoo Messanger instead " ). If I were a tabloid journalist I would make up a headline such like: "Shock Poll: Youth turn their backs on RPGs "In a poll released today we see that the people over 18 outnumbered their younger playmates by over 300%. Men dressed in official-looking white coats have taken this to mean that the RPG is dead, after a brief popularity boom in the latter half of the last century. They predict the new millennium will see a brand new type of play. "We predict the new millennium will produce a new play methodology. "Gary Gygax was not available for comment."

Copyright is granted when the manuscript is registered (read: published) by a third party -- but a lawyer will do, even if it is more expensive. The point is you have to have an independent way to prove you wrote it first.

... and, counter-productively, creates more spam.

I like both of those, that latter one doesn't look like the previous avatar -- it's red not blue!

... and spelling. "

Again we have the "End justifies the means" Chaotic Good versus "Do no conscious wrong to anyone under any circumstances" no-hypocrisy-brooked Lawful Good argument. This is a dilemma which means that there is no absolute right answer (otherwise it wouldn't be a dilemma) and that means that everyone who faces the dilemma will have to s9olve it on its merits, everytime. Well, it is always going to be difficult to contain a philosophical debate to one small area; it sometimes helps to frame one problem with another -- although that was a blatant tangent to shoot off on. Blatant plug for my other post: (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>)

We have crossed wires, then. Some people posting in this thread have said that the Jedi Council were wrong to overtly interfere with Revan's mind, by wiping it clean of the Dark Side. I was merely saying that their story is that they did no such thing. I can't find it in this thread, so it must be in another topic! Anyway, let me restate in full: Killing an opponent is the course of action when you cannot over-power them to prevent harm to innocents and themselves. Otherwise it would be morally acceptable to have Jedi acting as judge, jury and executioner -- with the obvious results. Ideally, a person against taking life would not kill an opponent; e.g. in the UK the state death penalty was removed from the statute books (in the sixties, I think). Charles Manson hasn't been, and won't be, executed, even though he is guilty beyond doubt and also beyond redemption. Other serial killers have been executed by the state. I think Jedi are more like the UK/Californian than the Texan/Floridian governments. So Jedi should be disarming and imprisoning the Sith, not running 'em through with 'sabers.

And you well be 22 years 6 months and about a week old. (Well, you might be a week older, anyway)

There is a psychological phenomenon where if ones skills are so far removed from the scale that they don't appear on it, a confident person will assume they are very good at said skill. (Think of people who are tone deaf, but don't know it and insist they are good singers.) I can't for the life of me think what the term is, and I, for once, can't think of how to search for it in an expedient manner. Anyone? FarimirK, you're a psychologist, aren't you?