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Smokey wasn't randomly destroying the jungle he killed the Captain of the ship (just like he did with The Black Rock); my guess was he was trying to do specific actions - taking out people in leadership positions, scaring and confusing people - to maneuver himself to a position he wanted (just like he did with Alpert and the Black Rock). We don't actually know why Smokey responded to Ben's call, so we can't really say there was ever a real intention to have smokey be a security system. The Others having superhuman strength could come from having access to the temple (which several people have said changed people). As far as the well goes, we don't know how many times in the past this stuff has been repeated, how many wells created and destroyed. Certainly its implied there are more than one. What was the exchange from "The Incident"? Something like MIB-"I'll end this again" to which was give the reply from JACOB-"It only ends once; everything else is just progress".

I agree. The writers of Lost trifle with philosophical topics far beyond their comprehension, trying to give the show a "theosophical" ending, or whatever. I was under the impression that show was intended for an entirely different audience, seeing as how they fill it up with time travel and all sorts of geekish topics. They should get John Boorman to write the script for them. I remember his interpretation of Thomas Malory's description of Merlin's cave in "Excalibur"; "Here you enter the coils of the Dragon. Here my power was born. Here all things are possible and all things meet their opposites." They should've introduced their "glowing cave" 3 series ago, not two episodes before the ending. J. They did introduce it - in fact I think it was at the end of season 3 or 4. It had a donkey wheel attached to it and Locke was supposed to spin it to move the island but Ben did instead. That's what MIB was trying to do in the well before The Mother went all Norman Bates on his people (ha-ha!) to tap into a way to control the power in the glowing cave (MIB even pulled a bit of the rock showing the glow just to hammer the point home).

First season finale killed it for me as well. Not only was the resolution lame but that they had Silar survive just pissed me off as a viewer. My brother got frustrated with the "each season is about bringing the group together, again" sometime in the third season I think.

Yeah I missed that in that post. My board-fu is weak.

None in the 2000s. There were a few over the years like "Duck You Sucker!" aka "A Fistful of Dynamite" aka "Gi

Its not like there's much new to talk about the game yet. And three westerns of the 2000 use ":" in the title. Clearly this is a typographical outrage.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly has one comma in the title in English, but two in Italian (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.)

I have no problem with the FO:NV Boxart. It is to my mind thematically similar to other Fallout covers, Which have been, from memory: close up of a dude with a ruined city behind him close up of a dude with a purple mist behind him close up of a dude with a red wave and some character art behind him mid-range shot of a dude and a dudette with a ruined city behind them close up of a dude with a stone wall behind him Plus the expansions mid-range shot of a dude with a snowy bunker behind him back view of a guy with an axe walking up to a shack shot of a planet with words over it mid-range shot of a dude with a gun with a stone wall behind him mid-range shot of a dude with a nuclear explosion behind him So yeah "mid-range shot of a dude with a gun with a ruined city behind him" seems to be more of the same, really.

I didn't like Xenosaga 1. Had a few okay moments, but overall didn't feel like it was strong enough to warrant wasting time on two more games (IIRC they planned 8? 9?) Which was a pity because Xenogears is one of my favorite games of all time.

Actually I think other countries still use commas (or even other methods, isn't 100 000 in India still denoted as 1,00,000 aka a lakh?)

Adding to the 'strange european things' : here in Italy we actually use the comma to separate the decimal points from the rest of the number. Some variation, but the official way of writing "1,500.25" would be 1 500,25 around here - at least according to the style manual of the Helsinki Court of Appeal, which I happen to have. Yes, I believe the official congress(?) of weights and measures determined that either 1 500,25 or 1 500.25 was the appropriate way to write. So 1,235,567.89 would be 1 235 567,89 or 1 235 567.89 and so on...

IIRC: When we moved to Arabic numbers from roman numerals, a bar over the decimals was common usage; later Arabic Mathematicians standardized an "ink stroke" to seperate decimals "ˌ" which when typeset was translated as either a "." or a "," There were issues with using a . with typeset using

I don't think we need all the i's dotted and all the t's crossed, so I don't mind. They said before the season started they would only answer the questions important to the characters - who at this point has a burning desire left to find out who did that?

I always talk to all of them. I'm weird that way.

That said, a dress code in and of itself is not against the law either. And certainly if there were a legitimate reason to ban colors on clothing that included the colors of the American flag, it would probably be upheld. There's no law that says a citizen of the US is entitled to wear the flag (there is a flag code that says its not really "proper display" to have the flag on clothing though). Who is bashing "Amerikans wearing an Amerikan flag in Amerika"? All I've seen is people saying that context is important and that better judgement could have been exercised on the behalf of all parties involved.

Apparently there was an ROTC student who got suspended for removing a Mexican flag which was flying above the American flag, which is a violation of protocol. I heard that on the radio but couldn't find the story to link to. Why'd the kid remove it instead of put them in their proper order? There is no proper order. You cannot fly one national flag above the other, it's an insult. You either have to have 2 flagpoles, or 1 flag. D'oh! Had a bit of a brain fart and was thinking the US Flag was on the wrong side on different polls. Dunno why, you clearly say above not beside.

If I understand the statistics I've seen, registered Hispanic voters make up about 20% of the total voting population (despite having less than half the eligible voters being registered to vote) in Texas.

That

Perhaps its just me being blindly optimistic, but I assumed "Mr. House" was a pseudonym as opposed to a real name. Like Mr. Big in those 70s urban crime flicks; dude wasn't actually named Eugene Robert Big or something.

Apparently there was an ROTC student who got suspended for removing a Mexican flag which was flying above the American flag, which is a violation of protocol. I heard that on the radio but couldn't find the story to link to. Why'd the kid remove it instead of put them in their proper order?

That's my way of thinking. Yeah this only effects sports games and online content now, but if successful its going to expand to all games and all content. As someone who routinely buys used games and sales used games to buy new games (and who above that still buys new games straight out if it something I'm particularly interested in) this worries me that its going to ultimately kill the used game market. If people aren't buying used games because of a ridiculous activation fee to access all the game content then why would used game dealers keep accepting them? It also makes me worried that game makers are a step closer to instituting monthly fees for all their games.

EA tries to find a way to profit from used console game sales by limiting the ability to access online content for used game purchasers unless they purchase online access.

I dunno, I never had it be a problem. In fact the only animal encounters that annoyed me was when the friggin' bloatflies could nail me when I couldn't even see where they were firing from (because a shrub was between us - I couldn't target it but it could target me?) Radaway is a rare item? Egads, not the last time I played it where I was carrying enough radaway and rad-x to be the main supply of a small army. My favorite accidental encounter first time playing was a random fight where I was walking along the wasteland in the middle of the night and found robots fighting mutants (at least until they spotted me and they all started firing on me - I was lazered and rocket launched into oblivion (not the game)). Good times.

I'd leave mine with Katamari Damacy. Fun plus I'd at least know where all my stuff was (even if I had to go through 3.2 meter of other stuff to get to it).

Never found the raiders or enclave fast to respawn. With Yao-Gui and radscorpions yeah, but outdoors it makes sense that animals might roam into an area you've cleared out so intellectually that's never been a problem. Except the Fallout universe has a magical pill that removes all radiation from a person. So any argument about what should happen with radiation is kinda moot. And everytime people come out of a vault into the wasteland they're bringing science, math, reading and writing with them. I wondered about little lamplights population. Its curious.