Trithemius

The relatively unstable economy has meant everyone has had to downsize, even dopefish. ;_;

Thumbs for pr0n? o_O

Once was Tao, twice was... something else. Not that is isn't good advice. Yay for not stealin'!

Sid Meiers? I understand that Firaxis cunningly removed the option to perform terrorist atacks on rivals' cities to make it more palatable to governments nowadays. Regardless of ones' personal opinion on censorship (even self-interested self-censorship) I suppose this would make the Civ series acceptable in schools. That being said the fact that Genetics leads to The Cure For Cancer might upset some people.

"Taking one for the team", as it were?

Dare I say it looks more survival horrorlike? I'm not really an expert on survival horror type games, but if stalkers are not zombies then I am the Pope.* (*Not Chaospope)

My right thumb is providing boring, but entirely neccessary leverage for mouse-usage. My left thumb is mostly tucked inside my other fingers for warmth. It is not supposed to be cold in Australia. It is not supposed to snow in Australia.

...boned?

It seems less a spiritual successor to TA than its "offspring cloned in a lab from collected DNA".

STUPID SUPPLY LINES. I think the biggest problem is that, when you do this mission, the controls for flight are not entirely clear. I went back and did it on the second re-try (my first re-try I crashed into Zero's building and ran out of fuel before I could get enough altitude). Stupid stupid stupid mission.

I liked Life Aquatic and Garden State. The last film I watched was some Kurosawa's Seven Samurai on DVD. That is some quality entertainment. Random recommendation: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner [IMBD entry]. Its really eerie and strange and good. People might find it a bit pretentious, but I found it to be brilliant and moving.

Perhaps it is some kind of mystical practice? The Sacred Art of Self-Negation and Destroying The Fond Childhood Memories of A Million Nerds? George Lucas' scriptwriting is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural...

There are some pretty could "weird" duels in a couple of films that I thought would have been better to be stolen by Star Wars they didn't need to go so crazy with the Matrix-esque wire-fu stuff in order to rip-off the wu-xia genre. On the other hand, I suppose we should count ourselves lucky there was no Bullet-Time... I mean Force-Speed... scenes.

NooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooo! Not the National Symbol!

Wow. I totally agree. I was astounded at Sidious' l33t jumping skills and really wanted to know why he and Yoda didn't fight some kind of "mental" battle, or at least parry shit with telekinesis or something. Don't be raining on my wu-xia though. :I

Should we get him a nice pair of jugs? Hold on, that is Thundercleese...

Oh. Or course.

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I thought TIE-Fighters were supposed to suck? No deflectors, no hyperspace, no slot for a droid?

I have terribly images of Lucas cackling maniacally and demanding cannons.

Curses, I am foiled! I would have hoped that the design people were more clued up. Lucas surely didn't stand behind them as they worked so he could slap them every time they deviated from his masterplan? Or... did he?

I think that most theists might take issue with the idea that human perception is the ony valid position to adopt; perhaps suggesting that apprehension of cosmic reality might involve transcending the very human perception that you are appealing to. Beatific union with God is not something you can have too much of, or get sick of. It's not like eating Doritos. P.S. Check your Atheist Card for spelling errors!

I saw two Jedi fighters and squadrons of the pseudo-X-Wing-things - which I expect is because there were vastly more clone starfighter pilots than Jedi... Did the Empire decide to totally change the basic design philosophy? Why would they abruptly change to using the same patterns as the (presumably) vastly less common Jedi starfighter? Seems badly considered to me. :I

I am really confused by a lot of the visual design choices in the film, such as: - Why the Trade Fed/Seperatist droids switched from sleek AG-tanks to weird pseudo-steampunky buzzsaw and paddlesteamerwheel designs? - Why the clone forces use X-Wing precursors, and the Jedi use TIE-Fighter precursors (seems a bit backwards...)? - Why the capital ships scenes have this "ship-of-the-line" feel, with the breech-loading turbolaser batteries, when the Ep4-6 ships had a much more "slick" design? Seems like a case of botched "retroactive foreshadowing" to me.

Sometimes they are the only way to get quality sipahi in the correct scale too.