Reveilled

Are burglaries less frequent when it's daylight at 3am?

Because sometimes, at least for me, I've spent a long day doing nothing but thinking, and I feel like doing something which doesn't take much thinking at all for a while. Even playing something like Quake requires you to do things like aim. Not every game I play has to be intellectually engaging. Sometimes, just clicking things and watching them die is fun. Also, if like me you find listening to music hard to do (my hands and eyes get bored because they don't have anything to do), something which you don't have to engage with can provide a useful diversion while you listen to the music. Whenever I play Diablo, I put on a CD I want to listen to, and play that in the background while I click things.

Always the meanie,aye Flatus " MY Pics are GREAT... Yes..and we need a blonde with huge assets as Leia...and The Ewoks are atractive women...and It's got an M rating And I'd love Clint as Solo Ooh..who should play Yoda? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Jackie Chan. And then he can fight vader and say "Kick your ass with my crazy kung-fu antics, I will!" Oh, and in Attack of the Clones, instead of Jango Fett being cloned, it can be some hot woman being cloned! And they can wear chainmail bikinis instead of mandalorian armour! Chainmail Bikinis and samurai swords! Oh, and replace the Sith with Sith-Ninjas! The powers of the dark side and the REAL ULTIMATE POWER of the Ninja combine in one hyper-violent death machine!

No, no, I'd have plenty of dialogue, just none that wasn't some sort of swearword or promises to rip someone a new orifice and do dirty things to it post mortem. :D Arnie as Darth Vader, Vin Diesel as Luke Skywalker, and for old times sake, Clint Eastwood as Han Solo. Oh, and Han's dialogue would just be lines from various spaghetti westerns.

The way I interpreted the question was if I was the director, how would I have made it? If I'm making it, then George Lucas isn't making it, and if I've not seen Lucas' version how would I know that Vader is Luke's father, in order to put that into my version?

Each Jedi Master you meet should give you lightsaber (IIRC), and there is at least one other quest on each of the planets that yields a lightsaber. The guy locked in a room in the basement of the academy should have one (unless you got one of your parts from him), as should Vogga's stash on Nar Shadaa. I don't remember where they are on Korriban or Dxun.

I was never able to get into Morrowind, mainly because the plot was way too vague at the start. It never really gave me any motivation to the ton of FedEx quests at the start of the game.

You mean, you'd actually have thought to make Vader luke's Father, and Leia his sister?

Since I have a thing for punisher-type characters, I'd have Luke find a holovid of his father being killed by Vader, and have a saber battle between Luke and Vader after this where Luke overpowers Vader and proceeds to kill him in the same manner as Vader killed his father, in front of Han and Leia, horrifying and shocking them in the process. Not quite sure where I'd go from there. My version of star wars would inevitably collapse into a pile of bloody eviscerated corpses as a lame excuse for a sci-fi death fest with lightsabers. It'd have an NC-17 in the states, and an 18 in Britain.

I used to be very much an evening person, and if I had nothing important to get up for (such as during school holidays), I would sleep later and later until I was getting up in the evening and going to bed in the morning. A few months ago however, that suddenly changed. I can't explain it, but somehow, my body clock went from being on 26hr days, to 23hr days. This time last year, I was going to bed at 3am and getting up at midday. Now, for some reason, I'm going to bed at ten, and waking up at 6am and considering getting up. Having been an evening person all my life, actually becoming a morning person, and getting a full night's sleep on weekdays, is unbelieveably good. Were I depressed, I'd be depressed no longer. As it is, I feel like I'm on a permanant morphine high. I have it so good. I wouldn't change this for the world. :D

Standard English and Standard American English are essentially the same spoken language, with only a few words to distinguish them. The only real difference comes with their written froms, and outside of extremely formal documents like government and scientific papers, no one writes in purely Standard English anyway. We might write different from the Americans, but we'll probably all end up speaking the same way.

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

Does this mean Mark Hamill is a whole hazelnut? :D

I was going through last week's Weekend Web on Something Awful, and one of the forums they were looking at was a furry one.

while reading some posts from a furry forum, I have developed an actual honest-to-god real unconcious twitch in my eye. With all this SAN loss, I am succumbing to a total loss of mental health.

Cool, I had to go searching for the info -- I saw it on tv a couple of years ago. I can't for the life of me remember who the Scottish monarch was, though: I thought it was Mary but she was executed in 1587 -- which was too early, wasn't it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, by this point (the 1690s) there was no "Scottish" monarch, per se, as the Union of the Crowns had already happened. The King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland were by this time William III of England and II of Scotland, and Mary II, ruling jointly. in 1702, Queen Anne ascended to the thrones, and in 1707 became the first monarch of Great Britain and Ireland. I realise now that I had been getting confused by what actually happened, and what might have happened with regards to the Scottish East India Company (I studied it in depth because I was writing some alternative history on it). To correct what I had said previously, many English investors offered to continue their investment in the company in exchange for guarantees of protection from the English parliament and a large say in the running of the company (meaning that the colony would go in Africa, where they preferred it), but these were rebuffed by the Scottish EIC, which instead continued with it's original plan without the investors.

If it's the same Bladerunner game I played, it's a semi-3D detective quasi-RPG. Pretty much everything you do in the game effects the ending and the course of the game, and characters can be human or replicant depending on how you handle situations. I thought it was a pretty good game.

The accepted idiom is to use the vowel indefinite article "an" before a silent "h", so not in front of "hotel", but yes in front of "hors d'oeuvres". Thing is, I'd pronounce "hors d'oeuvres" with the 'h', so many silent h words aren't silent at all in my speech. Bah. Who cares? EDIT: Besides, how do you know I'm not talking about the capital of Connecticut?

I might have got it had I ever heard FAQ pronounced "fack". As it is, I've never met a person who pronounced it as such, so I had never considered that it might be pronounced in such a way. In much the same way, for many years I refused to believe that putting an "an" in front of words beginning with "h" was correct English for any words other than "historical" and "historic", simply because having come from the west of Scotland, h's are vocalised in pretty much every other word. In 'artford 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen.

... And we don't seem to have a problem with Platinum ... ... but, what about uranium, plutonium, neptunium ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, we could change them, but since everyone seems to agree on the pronunciation, they should probably stay as is. I've never been a big fan of American spellings, but American pronunciations often sound a lot nicer and softer than their standard English counterparts. While we're on the subject of pronunciation, has anyone here seen that show FAQ U? Am I the only person who didn't even realise there was a pun in the name? Is "fack" more common than "eff-ay-kyoo"?

Some American spellings are better. Aluminum, for one. It rolls off the tounge far better than the overly staccato aluminium.

Hitler's Germany is included in the general term "Germany".

Oh my god. (w00t) If that is actually authentic leet, I am truly impressed, as it's the first piece I've ever been unable to read. The only words I got were "Pah" and "English". Would you be so kind as to offer a translation, please?

I have no issue with your logic, per se. I do think we will eventually lose the etymology of words as they change completely into new forms. (One of the irritating things about Australian English, for example, is the patently ludicrous tendency to use British spelling and US grammar -- which is almost illiterate.) I guess there will always be a recorded mapping of the new idiomatic lexicon back onto the derivations, so I will always be able to get to the true meaning of words (very important to me). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It would also be very interesting if numbers became common parts of words. Using the number 4 to represent the word "for", 4 example, could signal the metamorphasis of Written English from an alphabetic language into a syllabic language. It probably won't happen, but if it did, it would make English the only language (AFAIK) that has ever done this. Far from our descendents learning only 1000 words, they could be learning 1000 syllables in which to write their new English. :D