Jahled

Yea Jahled.. I'm with you on that.. I got real pissed seeing that.. it made me wonder why the hell it was never used before and why the hell didn't Obi-Wan use it when trying to get to Qui Gon and Darth Maul.. instead of getting trapped in that red field thing... that led to his masters death.. utterly convenient.. anyways.. i wont get started... What I meant by Supersonic Jedi was what we were introduced in AotC and RotS to a concept of the Force that virtually went against the 'mysterious mysticism,' we were earlier introduced to in the original movies; hints and subtle displays of power, completely ruined by Yoda not least doing his John Woo bit in subsequent movies, which simply didn't look or feel right. That and Jedi apparently being Supermen/women capable of John Woo feats of agility and violence (which I personally can't stand in cinema). I got the impression the the whole concept of being a Jedi was much more spiritual and subtle than the apparently John Woo influenced exaggerated martial arts antics, from the original movies.

The other way round for me. My experience of anything other than the movies tends to turn me off Star Wars, though some of the antics of the prequels pushed me dangerously close (supersonic Jedi etc). Darksaber got thrown into the Mediterranean from a boat in Spain, Ironfist abandoned on a tube train half way through. Then there's the completely daft themes that echo as 'cannon' throughout the expanded universe, like rebel fighter superiority when in both films and the original novelization they are described as 'antiques,' in comparison to their Imperial counterparts. That and forcestorms devouring twelve mile long spaceships, galaxy guns, suncrushers, fleets of Star Destroyers shoved through hyperspace by the combined efforts of teenage Jedis, etc. Nah. I'll stick with the movies for my enjoyment of Star Wars and forgive George Lucas for the occasional inconsistency.

^this, kind of big time I voted on this ages ago, and probably aren't allowed to do so again (I would hope not!), but this is the sort of argument that entered my mind, and why the Easter Island Statues got crossed off my list. To be something that is truly a human endeavor, the context of it's wonder must be utterly taken into context. Yet another taller skyscraper or statue these days simply cannot match the resilience and brilliance of our ancestors who did not have the engineering means or know how that we have had within the last century or two. Stonehenge remains a mystery, despite it's comparable simplicity to other wonders of the ancient age, in how stone age people got the stones their in the first place. The fact it is also an astronomical calculator, is also something that freaks me out. The Easter Island statues don't impress me though, given their very construction led to their creator's destruction as a society. So what achievement was there in that? To build them they destroyed all the trees in their environment, and hence created an unsustainable habitat they couldn't survive with. And they died out. Remarkable. I've forgotten exacly how I originally voted, but I think it included the great Pyramids, Stonehenge, Angkor, Machu Pichu, the Athenian Acropolis, which is where my memory dies..

*votes*

I can't remember, for it was two decades ago.. But the adventure the ref asked me to play him was called Twilight's Peak and more or less ended like the Aliens movie, (except the Aliens had rather far-out guns), after stumbling upon some far-future tomb of the ancients; or those who first colonized and ruled the galaxy 200,000 years ago. The ref of the campaign was one mean 'Dungeon master' and was last heard of 'entering the bar,' and becoming a lawyer. Good luck to him. Had some pretty memorable weekends on account of his story telling skills.

Honestly M! It's about a day in Dublin, written by James Joyce! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce#Ulysses

I'm one of the masses who struggle with the book, never to get very far, before giving up..

I thought was quite good actually, the more so given who pops up at the end

Huzzah!

Thanks chaps, but has no one noticed what book the little fella was reading prior to needing some more kitten-sleep?

Wow J, that brings back memories I embarassed to admit I never got to play Traveller, but I did do alot of Car Wars and AD&D though As for my screen name ... that should be obvious Fond memories.. right i'll have a rumage in my loft, grab that issue of White Dwarf, and scan the article tomorrow at work.. as memory serves me, our ref asked me to play the Jahled NPC who was important to his Twilight's Peak* campaign, and the name just took over my real one! He was like very hard as Traveller went.. *best rpg scenario for any system ever

Very nice D fella. But everyone now be quiet please http://www.jahled.co.uk/sleepy.jpg

I'll scan the article in question when I get a moment

Agreed! More simply, Hitler and his Nazi chums were on an active campaign of conquest. Iraq was not. They got the west's backing to invade Iran during the cold war, achieved nothing more than squandering the lives of a million young Iraqi and Iranian men with may I add the help of some nerve gas the USA sold him. Iraq then invaded Kuwait and quite rightly got it's arse kicked by a united coalition of nations backed by the United Nations, which included numerous Middle Eastern nations who were quite rightly fearful of a tyrant such as Saddam in control of so much oil supply. I thought the people who protested against that war to be absolute twats. However, the present invasion and ongoing occupation had no context. Saddam had no capability or economic interest in invading any of his neighbours. He got soundly thrashed ten years before by a united coalition, and would gain nothing by exhausting his military machine again on some pointless military enterprise. Yes, we sold the gas that murdered all those people to him. I won't harp on about this any further because it was during the cold war when Iraq was an ally against an even greater evil that was communism and the threat of Soviet fascist supremacy; though I do have misgivings about the morality of selling an obvious tyrant, even if an political ally, such barbaric weapons of mass destruction, as you quite rightly boot them Tex. And a good point, you quite rightly point out has been ignored or mutated by the media. A Point me thinks you might have missed Tex is the threat it posed us, more immediately as Europe, or you guys the other side of the world in America. He would have had to have the means to deliver the 'huge' stoke piles of toxins, or that little veil Powell produced at the Security Council, to us via missiles, which was a technology he clearly did not have, or was anywhere near having; and as I pointed out above, why on earth would it be in his interest? The shear stupidity in all this, is the fact there was no military threat from Saddam's Iraq following his utter defeat during the first gulf war. He learnt his lesson, but still smug with a very handsome oil revenue we were happy to continue trading with, whilst NATO maintained a ten year air-blockade of the country. I appreciate this might have gone in some way to full-fill it's mission profile in protecting minorities like the Kurds from the barbarity of his tyrannical sense of vengeance, but it does point out how incapable Iraq was in posing a threat to us was. You pay that little Tex? Hell, there's always the long run, the more so given how much modern Russia is exerting it's economic clout over pipelines into Europe, tax with former block states, etc. Plus Nigeria is ever the spackoid unreliable African state, and Venezuela seems to want to swiftly become one.. /just my rant fellas

Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T.S.Elliot.. but yea you're right, I think.

Macavity: The mystery kitten and the case of the unordered Chinese.. http://www.jahled.co.uk/Macavity_mysteriouschinese.gif

So it was! On a more serious note, your 'commander-in-chief,' wants to send yet more of you guys to the disaster zone, as if it's going to stabilize a civil war. Our respective countries seem to have liberated all the religious lunatics a tyrant's regime kept under control as was evident in the execution videos on Google with all the Shia religious chanting for that fruitcake who said it was religiously acceptable to enslave our service women if captured as one of his 'enlightened preachings.' Weird, freedom isn't it? Oh, forgive.. for a sec I forgot it was all about oil.

I think everyone won on account of effort! But I agree with SOCL on what made me laugh out loudest, so Tex gets my vote if i'm forced into the voting booth..

I can't even remember D16 dude, probably something to do with Rumsfeld's antics. This is why I hate leeching pictures, no control over them. It can't have been that funny though otherwise I would have seen this comming and hosted it myself. Oh well.

http://www.voco.uk.com/ You might have to have watched 'Jeeves and Wooster,' for it to make any sense though..

I should be around SOCL!

I stumbled upon Leia singing via that, which I found deeply disturbing.. I hadn't seen that cartoon though!

Right, back to square one. Who around here is an eccentric billionaire? Reveal yourself lurker!

Click for Duncan's favourite IPod tune whilst taking pot shots at what he pleases crossing the Masi-Mara plain.. The gun was making life somewhat easier..