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Super-intelligent shade of the colour blue.

TOO BIG!!!! What are you? Crazy? I want there to be like 10 planets each morrowind size or bigger. And like 10 million side quests. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just so long as the side quests don't entail spending eight hours (real time) running around looking for a couple of mushrooms to make into a stew for Yoda .... "

hahahah .. no .. it's me! :D (Never knew I looked like a transvestite!?) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's the hair. :D Darth Coran: Sith Strategist. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Odinson: is it true that Wookies have 147 different words for "hair" in their language? Rosbjerg: you ain't no Buddhist monk with a scalp like that, that's for sure! (More like Richard Gere than the His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Sith Lord for sure!

Mu! It is a lovely refreshing breeze washing over the mind after disappearing up one's own metaphysical bottom trying to untie the Gordian Knot. Shoot, I forgot that Nike was a Greek Goddess (equivalent to the Roman Goddess Victoria). Now, I must return to my meditations ... "Who said that? ... Who? ... Who?" (Dang, how do you do this without sounding like a blasted owl?)

"... now go away and stop bothering me, I have a meeting with my bank manager ... Muwhahahahahahaha" LucasArts leads by eample: The Way to The DARK SIDE is easier than you think ... will they be redeemed like a certain dark, mask-wearing character?

And certainly not Lord Pookie. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wouldn't that be Lady Pookie? Or is it a Pooka ? :D

Three Cheers for Aurora and the team! :cool: Hip Hip

2. hmm you seem to focus a tad too much about refering to sources .. that's cool with me, and as long as you are doing the work for me .. who am I to complain? :D "Calvanism: (who are we to second guess God -- but I thought we were talking about The Force?)" .. yes well since we are talking about The Force as a a kind of sentient being, it's normal, albiet not correct, as a western, to assign ceartin Judeo-Christian ideas to the properties of such a force.. 4. http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/mu.html <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Too many references? Well, I just want to make sure we are all talking about the the same things: if we get agreement on the background facts / statistics / theories, then we are free to discuss them and come up with (perhaps) some new interpretation or master theory. If we spend all the time arguing what Calvanism is -- for example -- then we don't actually get to the interesting philosophical stuff. Feel free to call me on any reference, that's why I put them there (and why it takes me so long to compile responses ... I'm checking the references to make sure they are good enough). :cool: Apologies, it was late and I forgot to add a (") emoticon to that quip about God and The Force. Yes you are quite correct -- my bad, no offence meant. :"> MU: great link, thanks! (Who are you calling a cowherd? ) Nice hosing down of the Western Philospohical obsession with deconstructionalism; :D I shall indeed meditate to selflessness to feel the disapearance of the "I", and attempt to become one with The Force. But, as well, I cannot in good conscience cease my Western analysis, either, as my Left Hemisphere of Logic hungers too. (And it kind of kills the thread, too. Sort of like a metaphysical Shoe company saying "Just Be It". " ) Excellent! (w00t) :cool:

Not quite what I was saying. The Force is merely a reflection of life. It is a BIG mirror. It wants the same thing life wants. Its only 'emotions' are those that life has. Its only patience is what life has, as well. [1.] The Force is am embodiment of all that is living. It isn't necessarily alive itself, but is a connection. Since it IS life, naturally it will act like it. [2.] If life stayed single celled, then the Force would have too. But Life went and got a brain, and discovered "Hey, if I run this through an old lady, then she dies! FEEL THE POWER! I can take away life!" and other such emotions and morals. The Force, being an embodiment of life, had to follow suite, and also developed a form of sentience, but it is only a mirror. It wants balance (because it is a more powerful reflection of nature). [3.] As for it guiding you: It will only follow along for the ride. It's more of a cause and effect thing; As you make choices, it 'determines' the eventual effects, and MAY (or may not) 'send' (via the Jedi) somebody to a critical point in the new timeline that was just created. BUT, there are THOUSANDS of MILLIONS of things like this going on, which is why only those that can also control the Force are likely the only ones that feel like they have a responsibility to preserve Balance and Peace. [4.] Now, ask a more-than-average person what their favorite state of being is. Most people (if they actually dig in deep; I've had a teacher that did something like this at one point) will say Peace. Anything else is turmoil, or another taxing state, and can be quite uncomfortable. Nature (all of it) naturally seeks this peace and tranquility, which is also the Force's goal. [5.] It's not good or evil, but a reflection of those that it touches. Each person can see it as something different, based on their personality (either something that can give you power: You'd be controlling the ONLY thing that ALL life has in common; or something that should be preserved and protected: once again, it's the ONLY thing that ALL life touches). [6.] I still think that you shouldn't believe Kreia's reason for hating the Force. It is likely that she blamed it, because her tormentors were (rather coincidentally, I might add) those touched by, and could control, it. Kreia was quite like Ca

... and then being miraculously saved by some young wannabe hopefuls, to become the greatest LightSide Jedi Master, ... oh, hang on, maybe that has been done before ...

(w00t) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Beware the Broderbund undead hunters! They shall sweep all away in their path, in their dark quest to make the ultimate cRPG adventure for the PC -- Frankenstien-like -- from Loderunner, Karateka, Ancient Art of War, The Mask of the Sun and Choplifter!. Shares in other publishers, such as LucasArts, have droped over 20% since the news was released. "

"Medic!"

Awesome (w00t) He might even be trained in the force by Yoda Q: Does he die in ep.3 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I suppose that would be a musical. :ph34r: A. We live in hope ... "

Yep, I concur with that. Lucas should listen to Dirty Harry and "know his limitations": farm out the dialogue to experts, and don't try to be too clever (pretending to be Shakespeare -- yes I heard the rhyming couplets at the end of the Acts in the NT). Reminds me particularly of the wince-inducing interpresonal-relationships and female character sketches in general drawn by a very young Isaac Asimov (in his early pulp sci-fiction short stories, c.1950). At least Asimov added editorial apologies in his collected works. Maybe it will be possible in the future to create a "SW Popular Cut" where the annoying characters (Binks, ewoks, muppets -- including the Gamorrans) are digitally remastered as believable digital characters and all the cheesey dialogue is replaced ... naw that wouldn't work. Incidentally, here's something to scare you all! :ph34r:

"We have no choice." "Step up to the fight. Take 'em down." "Complaints?" (as spoken by a clerk in the Complaints Department) "Is this the right room for an argument?"

---- 1. And we have seen, in the universe of SW, multiple beings trying to take ultimate power .. but thus being consumed by their own desire according to the well known quote of what power brings .. Is The Force involved? Who knows .. 2. Well Rasputin wasn

It's a misquote: "If you want a quote for your news buletin ... I have every desire to be famous for saying something stupid enough for you to mention my name," wrote "Obi Geewhyen" at the fan Web site Liningup.net. "I'm in it for the egomania only and don't give a darn about the idiocy of my lackluster, so-called 'Geek' brain." "

I'm...telepathetic!! No offense intended, in fact I think that game would actually be pretty fun...what? Don't you? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sort of like "civilization" ... or c-Diplomacy (wait, that wouldn't work unless it was multiplayer only ... dang!) :">

Winston Churchill ... wait ... Jedi Sentinel / Watchman, seeking out evil and fighting the Germans because they invaded neutral Belgium ... and then invaded neutral Norway ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> metadigital: You are the first Cannok to gain sentience. You can write, type, speak, and cuss like a Mandalorian merchant. Your creed is "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer." In effect, you have resigned to the post of Lord Satasn's loyal pet, as you covertly observe his plans against DeathScepter. But unbeknowest to either, you plan to betray them both and ascend to the post of Sith-Cannok Lord. May you have mercy on the galaxy. Odinson? You are a Geek God! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Odinson ... has a crush on concetrated orange juice (see what I did there) because he once had a cameo in a cage at the end of Trading Places. Darth Coran's mother wanted him to be a doctor, so he became a dentist because he has a talent for causing pain (and you might as well turn your hobby into a career). Lord Satasn wanted to graduate from the Traya Academy but crashed his father's speeder whilst high on Juma, and had to take an unskilled job to cover the uninsured accident. Subsequently became a rogue scoundrel, then a mature-age Sith Marauder. Voted Most Likely to Destroy the Galaxy.

You ... Joker! "Say hello to my little friend!"

... well, females don't get to frolick with The Last of the Handmaidens ...

Winston Churchill ... wait ... Jedi Sentinel / Watchman, seeking out evil and fighting the Germans because they invaded neutral Belgium ... and then invaded neutral democratic Norway (England is the only democracy to invade another, in history) ... Edit: clarified statement and showing off with some added historical trivia

Sounds to me like your describing an omnescient, omnipotent and omnipresent diety -- a God. It's sitting back, with unlimited patience, and helping individuals up to a crisis for them to choose (free will). You've just described the Judeo-Christian God. All you need to do now is garnish with omniscience: The Force knows what you will choose beforehand, and -- even if / when you choose poorly / Darkly -- will be there to help you at the next bifurcation in the space-time reality. (A Merciful God.) Which is fine -- except it is vastly different to a gravity-like force (small "f"). :D

Um, "beggars can't be choosers"? Heck, if its appropriate (e.g. funny) I have no qualms. (A bit of humour might just be the tonic.) Whatever, I am happy to give these brave souls as much creative room as they want. Sure beats reading/wading through the script files and imagining how the game would look, had it been completed. :cool:

Yeah, it's cruel. They should install a pool. Did you see the next article? You gotta wonder about those parties: I for one wouldn't want to eat the finger food ... Police raided the Boise bar Monday night for violating the city's nudity ordinance, which requires that dancers wear at least pasties and a thong unless they are engaging in a performance with "serious artistic merit." :D