Jahled

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Very nice photos Krytos! Saturday morning Ninja edit: Clicky for HUGE! ..betterfied using the power of CS2 at work yesterday afternoon...

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To think it was for rent!!! People wore this SACRED ROBE at stag do's whatever... It's too late now, but ... a devious person (had they the knowledge at the time) could have "rented" said cloak, then replaced it with "another" Shss..

Arf! It's just a drone, clone's are human! They can bang their heads as well. Poor git probably had the piss taken out of him all evening in one of the bars on the Death Star all night..

^yay! What Elvis said, Doctor Who for grown-ups. It's like ace. Very refreashing.

To think it was for rent!!! People wore this SACRED ROBE at stag do's whatever...

Very wise. From a younger chap as well. Most impressed Tofu! Convert? That's not what I guess we're on about fella! Tex didn't demand my decapitation because I find the concept of a conscious architect as a divine creator to be rather feeble in my own view. That's ultimately rather pleasant. He is entitled to his particular faith, just as as is any other human being. If Christianity brings warmth and love to families and personal faith, as with conduct in life, then it's a matter for the individual and in probability a good thing. Life's hard fella, the more so the more you keep on living it. When i've had a tough day for whatever reason or another, and I look up at the stars and wonder what the hell it's all about, when i'm walking home at night, I have my particular way of approaching the subject, other people have theirs. That's life. Having a particular concept of how each of us as unique individuals come to to terms with this majestic apprehension that is the shear scale of the universe, and our meek place within it, bullied and shuved down our throats by zeolots, be they Muslims, Evangelicals, or Marxist nutters is bang out of order. Hence my alarm a few posts back.

Not yet. Just read what the official source says about the stormtroopers. (source: starwars.com) Looks rather that it´s still the common and old vision of the classic stormtroopers. Human soldiers encased in a white armoured-suite, who obey every command without questioning. It´s told that the clone-troopers became the ranks of stormtroopers, but I guess we have to see that this must have happen in the beginning of the galactic empire era, where they still hadn´t any regular army to my knowledge. Maybe there were still lots of clones in a stormtrooper-regiment. But I rather believe that these have been reduced. As far as I know clones weren´t seen as real individuals. It´s said that "... they still maintained a spark of independent and creative thinking, making them far better suited than droids to handle unexpected turns of warfare." But that´s just all what makes them individuals. That misses my point Eagle. starwars.com is not George Lucas. It's also full of stuff from beyond the movies. If you simply watched all six movies and couldn't care less about anything else to do with Star Wars, you would quite obviously assume they were all clones.

I agree with ya JH. If anything, there can't be good without evil. Simple as that. So this god-guy creates the entire cosmos but not consciousness amongst a carbon-based life form wherein dwells such plots as good and evil? For christ's sake it had about thirteen billion years to get it right. What an oversight! And it demands to be worshiped?

^This But that's like saying the American basketball league is owned by the fans because they pay to watch games; yet the fans don't make a dime out their 'ownership,' or have much active say in the daily running of individual teams, even if they turned their backs on any interest of following basketball, and the league folded. Or Harry Potter by the fans on account of it's popularity; yet JK Rowling doesn't heed to any fan input or speculation. But in so far as any creative input from Star Wars fans to the movies we own nothing, other than fond memories from watching the movies. It was George Lucas' baby and has always been free to take it where he wanted. The argument that he made the prequals simply out of greed might seem apparent in the shallows when you glance at the sheer multitude of commercial spin-offs, but given the shear scale of popularity of the franchise, that could be argued as inevitable. But from the depths, you might gleen a film-maker with limitless resources trying to push the cinematic film experience to the limits. In so far as special-effects go each of the prequals came out better than the other, and were simply breathtaking. Also, note how the expanded universe has always been kept vague about the clone war era, or even the events leading upto a New Hope, upto the point of the prequals. That was quite deliberate I suspect because George Lucas probably always knew he would come back and conclude his masterpiece. So no fan ownership there. That was always going to be his blank space for his imagination to fill. I've been following the EU since 1977 and can boldly say there has never been an instance of a Stormtrooper been seen with his helmet off other than the comic adaption of Dark Force Rising on the last page or a pane in Enemey of the Empire. He ignored the wider expanded universe which might have developed who or what Stormtroopers are and showed us his vision, that they are all clones. So no fan ownership or input there. I think George's love of the Star Wars saga is genuine; it's not his fault it's been so successful! Just because there may be elements in the prequals you (or virtually all of us with Jar-Jar) may groan at, Padme having a costume change in virtually every scene can be argued as the 'visual cinematic experience,' he has always said he has wanted of the saga. All the fans do is buy every conceivable plastic action figure with her costume change. But supply is born out of demand. I could go on but I think I am burning my supper.. must investigate..

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I'll "pray" for you too J Compassionate attitude! This is more what what I was on about.. Nicer than this: http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/Jahled/muslims.jpg God 'apparently' created the enitre universe, so i'm perplexed how God neglected to overlook a few flaws in human nature. Like why? Our Sun is terribly large. Antares is even larger. The size of the universe is vast beyond compression, and God overlooks evil? It's like, let me give humaniti a project, just for the sadistic sake of a pointless project. 'I create WITH ERROR,' world class!! 10/10 god dude! Eternity must be very boring. It's our apparent unique speciality.. me to..

I don't mind that they practice their religion their way, BUT anything that they think must be enforced on others against their will really rubs me the wrong way I don't think the word "tolerant" exists in their (religious) world I'm sure there are some very good, moderate Islams out there. If Christianity were judged based on the Ku Klux Klan and extremists who have chopped off their children's hands in what they claim to be the name of God Christianity would get a horrible reputation as well. While Islam has a larger history of violence that is not to say that its followers as a whole are violent. What you miss my friend is that according to that bbc article, 1/3 (37%) of young Muslims living in my country want to see Sharia law in my country, and about 1/6 of them think the 7/7 bombings were understandable according to further bbc findings. To put this level of insanity in the context of the larger Christian religious community, and tossers like the Ku Klux Klan, is wrong. The vast majority of Christians worldwide I should imagine find the racist ideology of the Ku Klux Klan vile and repugnant, and at a far larger ratio than the percentage of young Muslims who think the imposition of religious law 'to underpin society,' as they see it, is a healthy thing. Remember this is the stone age law the Taliban imposed in Afghanistan that got women executed for the crime of being raped because they couldn't produce four witnesses. And on repeated occurrences. You would have to be completely consumed and blinded with hate to think there aren't Muslims who are perfectly normal and not so overwhelmed with religious crap that they are all potential suicide bombers lurking in the midst of our societies; I don't think of someone with that particular faith that way, but I am a little rattled by the statistics of the young men who are Muslim who apparently see their faith as the highest law in the land, when it clearly has major flaws, like girls being executed because they were raped for example. And how dare they judge or condemn anybody for having sex in the first place when they choose to for christ's sake! It's about the most basic function known in biology. I'm not an obvious fan of religion in general, but feel slightly less threatened by the presence of the various Christian elements living in my country than the presence of Islam. When I tell Bible-bashing Christians to get out of my face, I am left with the feeling they might prey for my soul (in their eyes) as opposed to behead me in the case of Muslims because i've cursed their invisible friend and thus forfitted my right to existance. Lovely guy, this god fellow.

That did cross my mind, , but my boss decided to hover around my desk this afternoon thus making further uses of my .psd files futile...

Rebellion lurks everywhere... Moving the production rate to 100 will red-shift it's process rate to almost infinity. Lower it instead. Yes. You are terribly wrong.

After some early trials Lucas ruled out the umbrella option http://www.jahled.co.uk/anewhope.gif

http://www.jahled.co.uk/helpingtehanimals.gif It couldn't be resisted

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Ewoks eh?

Channel Four producers came up trumps with putting that working class twat Jade back into the house , but with her far more vulgar mother and brainless boyfriend. What did they expect to really happen? The United Kingdom being humiliated by our representation by some working class chavs out on a bitch, who have been thoroughly bashed to earth as a consequence. The entire specticle was extremely unpleasant. The show is a circus engineered for contraversey for advertising revenue. This time it back fired due to English working class slags being entirely themselves. Working class people should need permission to breed. Rock on Sholpa!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6309979.stm Tolerant bunch aren't they. I don't like Islam. Rough remark from an otherwise very liberal fellow.

This is also, in all probability, a good way to overcome the needlessly irritating and pointless 'natural disaster.' When the game attacks you planets with the said dreadful thing, overcome it by lowering the need for the combat facilities... this will help out the AI as well given the 'natural disaster' is shagging game play for it at the same time. What cretin ever suggested the 'natural disaster' as a playable concept for christ's sake. All it does is make the game a frantic race once you've built up your fleets and are enjoying character development etc, given hyperspace transport times; for facilities we yet can't alter.

Nice work fella on your wider findings! On this particularly point, it doesn't matter what you load up in the standard slots for starting ships and fighters/regiments etc. Giving the rebels Neb-2's in the Gallowfree slow wont crash the game, for example for starting with regiments, but ingame play works just as Terran points out. The AI/you can't reload them once deployed.

In the original novalization Fett was described as wearing the armour of a 'group of evil warriors defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars,' or something along those lines. The book's probably been edited to 'warrior' now though..