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Now you're just being silly. There is plenty of corroborating evidence for the gradual and externally-driven change of evolution: radio carbon dating, commonalities in the genetic sequence, language development, disease patterns, celestial bombardments, seismic activity, etc etc. It might help to simplify evolution for our purposes by looking at life that has a shorter lifespan so that many orders of generations can be observed during human history: bacteria have an average lifespan of forty minutes and fruit flies have a lifespan of a couple of days. This allows us to see Darwinian survival of the fittest -- even MRSA is just plain old garden variety Staphylococcus Aureus that has evolved to be resistant to the panacea treatment used by hospitals (methicillin). Revolution! Who's with us?

that makes two of us. Fanboy topics like these prove LA's strategy right. Grunker things are not that simple. It's not: capitalism = bend over. There is a term called "boycott" even though it has nothing to do with the term called "fanboy". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Too true. The markets do (ocassionally) determine what is sold to them: by varying the demand they affect the supply. Think of genetically modified crops in Europe, or environmentally-friendly coffee and tuna. Or blatantly shallow gender politics and sexism in games. (Oh, well that's still being ironed out. )

FarimirK, you are wandering into dangerous territory. Aercheopterix is one of the first proto-birds (common arcestor of modern birds), with some proto-feathers and other bird-like features on its mainly reptilian body. Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) have a common ancestor with modern cows, which they left behind when they returned to the sea about 15 million years ago. Furthermore, during the development in untero the foetus develops wings, a tail and gills, before these are abandoned. Morally bankrupt? Not necessarily. Morally self-managed, perhaps. But Humanism is within the umbrella of atheism, and it is most certainly not morally bankrupt. Watch your generalisations, please.

Yes. But we're doomed to be spoon fed the "it doesn't sell" routine for a long time. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> blade runner type neo-Tokyo setting with implants that give near-magical powers (nanobot gravitron transceivers to create telekinetic powers and everything from Deus Ex etc). heck I'd settle for a another sequel to Deus Ex.

My apologies for seeming to target only Christianity. I lay the blame for intolerance at the feet of all fundamentalists (whether religious or not), and I brook no syllogism from them. (A fundamentalist I define a someone who is convinced that they are right beyond all doubt. That is too close to thought-police for my liking.) The skewing of the thread towards Christianity is more indicative of the collective backgrounds of the posters, rather than the relative comporable merits of religions, per se. For the record, I am aware that one of the main reasons for the anti-homosexual stance of the (African) Christian Church is due to the direct confrontation with Islam and -- I'm sad to say -- the race to appeal to the baser, lowest-common-denominator instincts of the laity. My main bugbear with the ORGANISATION known as the Christian Church (to follow up one of FarimirK's earlier comments about the Christian God being a personal one and not any form of theocracy) is the inherrent and blatant hypocrisy. Not to start a holy war ( <_< ) about birth control, but the Catholic church stance is, at best, counter-productive and, at worst, horrifically nasty when it is applied to the developing world; where starvation and fatal illness of millions is preferable to using contraception? The absolute position on abstenance is commendable (and I agree with it in principle, but I also think Marx had a fabulous thought experiment in Communism -- and look how that worked out). In sum, the Church is no better (or worse) than any other totalitarian regime. Can't argue with that: I am a believer in your philosophy, FarimirK! John Stuart Mill was a visionary.

If you found the easy combat and pointless fed-ex side quests "LOTS of [non]-stop hours of plain fun", well and good for you. I found the beginning tedious and the end frustrating and the middle lacking in consequence. But the whole game was pregnant with possibility, which added to the disheartening disillusionment as the credits roll.

... no, then you'll have to upgrade your PC.

[snip: http://www.xn--holmstrm-t4a.net/pics/medladyd.jpg ] Medieval Lady Death would be easier to cast, you could just take any garden variety actress, bleach her hair and give her contacts. Normal acting ability would suffice. [snip: http://www.madcomics.de/ladydeath/LDV07.jpg ] Now the classic Lady D is much harder, not only do you need to find a 6'4 amazon with boobs the size of mount everest to prance around dressed in the amount of cloth itd take to sew a single glove, but you actually need someone who can be convincing at the same time. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, I'm sure the target demographic are very discerning of actresses' acting skills. I fail to see the point of X-rated comics. This is just incredibly silly. Kaftan Barlast, "You're a very silly man and I'm not going to inteview you."

Yep, I have to concede I thought you might have a slight chance of being moderately more inclined to to better side of correctness than I might have been ( " )when I was going over the figures in my head as I fell asleep last night ... I started thinking about the elephant in the middle of the room: the other empire that occidental scholars (me! ) tend to forget, or worse, ignore: China. (I'm currently reading all about Emperor Zhu Di who sent Zheng He, his trusted right hand eunuch, out across the oceans of the world in a grand series of voyages of discovery lasting six years and circumnavigating the entire globe.) So, to rapidly change the subject, next bit of miscellania: Christopher Columbus used a map based on the Chinese voyages of discovery led by Zheng He in 1421.

Judging by the fanboy responses in the forum, this doesn't pose much of an issue. (I guess it doesn't matter if you're spending Mummy's money. " ) I might buy a PS3 if the platform has great games -- whether that includes a putative KotOR3, or not. Then again there will probably be much better games available for PC, and the environments are set to converge imminently.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I call "cheat"! The only reason the movie is better than the game is because the game was a pale implementation of the books / radio plays. The film is apparently okay (haven't seen it yet), but not in the same league as the books. I'll let you know my opinion when I see it. :cool:

... And people with low intelligence should not be allowed to breed.[/sarcasm] It's a popularity contest, not a quantifiable measure of quality through peer review.

Malak is not a betrayer. He conducted one act of betrayal. There is no modus operandi. No history of betrayal. Just an anomalous act. on the other hand, was a betrayer all the time. At no stage can you reliably trust anything she says (except when she says you are clever not to trust her ). QED Edit: Yah! Level 4.

You could do dialogue for GL.

Hey, nice one: you've got the goofy imbecilic grin just perfect! "

ζ or The Jedi formerly known as Revan.

I think the Padawan idea is a good one, too. The impact of one's actions is better demonstrated on a Padawan who must follow your lead. Makes much more sense than the whole alignment system. Also opens up possibilities for sending the Padawan off on smaller scale missions (stealth), and rescuing the Padawans when they fail.

Revan Revan. It's like MacGuyver: MacGuyver MacGuyver.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/dead.htm <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmm, I'd like to see the working for their statement. The world population was tiny (technical measurement) for thousands of years: to claim 6 billion since 5000BCE is a bit rich. I take the point that it's a little difficult to estimate the beginning of humans, so the normal cut off is generally human history (which we can safely cut off at Babylon and the writing of the Bible -- insults to other indigenous cultures notwithstanding). "

Actually, stars are in spherical orbits, in equi-distant layers travelling outwards from a central point (we can currently see a couple of degrees of an arc and about three layers using the Hubble telescope), consistent with the Big Bang theory (aptly named telescope). Asimov wrote an interesting short story about how to reverse entropy, about fifty years ago. ...

A german ghost!

... or -- thanks to the Reformation and the consequential political upheaval of the eighteenth century -- none.

... or the jews. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, actually, the Rabbi's today teach that non-believers go to a sort of purgatory and are cleansed for eons, then let into heaven. Sound strange? I thought so too... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hadn't heard that bit of gossip. Then again, Christianity is just a group of schismistic offshoots of Judaism, anyway. How many sects of Judaism are there? Hassidics, progressives, conservatives? I dunno lots. I haven't got the figures to hand, but, assuming Christianity is about 1 billion, that leaves upwards of 5.5 billion people who aren't going to heaven. Not sure what the most populous religion is -- Hinduism, Islam; Buddhism; maybe Taoism? Certainly there are going to be a lot of disapointed dead people. Unless they're all dead. (Nihilism.) And there are more people alive today then were ever alive during the whole of human history. (oops, that should have been in the useless info thread. )

It's a cRPG forum, and I am comparing and contrasting with another cRPG. And then we entered into a digression that helped explore some of the more interesting plot points. Perhaps if you played the game you might understand what was missing from KotOR2. Or do you only play games with glow sticks? Did you have anything constructive to add, or are you just making redundant statements?