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Interestingly, Mon Mothma is mentioned in the credits - I was watching. A pretty small, non-speaking part, apparently, like the current Queen of Naboo who was also seen for all of two seconds (if that) but got mentioned in the credits. (Her, I saw. Not Mon.) Nice, complete credits on that film...

Plants are easier to ignore because we don't have the chemical senses to 'hear' their screams. Plus they're a lot hardier than animals so can take more punishment. However, I'd say it's still possible to abuse them - just easier to ignore, like I said. Doesn't mean I'm going to become a pure...

'Yes, but...'. I'm currently running a game with a group who's never played before, and at first we didn't have rulebooks (I left them back home a thousand kilometres away), so I gave everyone the SRD. Two out of the six of us at the table have laptops, so they became the reference monkeys. It...

I can seal my nasal cavity to avoid nasty smells. Whenever someone mentions an imminent stench, I say 'Dasal seal idiziaded'. I can bend the last joint of my left index finger without bending the other joints. I can control the minds of the weak, although mostly through the application of...

Possibly when I realised the purpose of life. I was doing my paper run, thinking about evolution, and suddenly realised that was it. Life was about surviving, diversifying, and spreading. I started seeing waveforms in my head describing four-dimensional (or analogs thereof) patterns of...

To be honest, I thought it was almost definitely true, but I had some doubts so inserted the 'apparently'. Good to be set straight - I'll never reject new knowledge.

On a different tack, hair and nails apparently continue to grow after death, and in historical Western times were used as evidence that exhumed bodies had been engaging in vampiric activities. It could be applied to Eastern undead just as easily, and it's a great visual image - long hair, long...

My roommate has a couple of issues, and it surprised me with how good-looking and compelling a read it was - even though I generally hate fighting games on principle. As a notorious miser I haven't pursued the avenue any further, but I certainly wouldn't turn down an opportunity to read more.

Bioengineering is the way of the 21st century, IMHO. It's going to happen, somewhere, somehow, and it's probably best if 'we' hang onto it... From what I've read, historical zombies are pretty easy to make if you have the right pharmacopia. Some simple narcoleptic herbs to KO the victim...

I like this post a lot. Thus I shall forward it to my acquaintances, if you don't mind.

'tele'+'port'. 'Tele' means distant or distance. 'Port' means 'move', as in porter, transport, etc. Thus teleport means to move something a great distance, in its rawest etymological form. Nothing about destroying it in there. Thus, unless you perform a metalinked energy transmission using...

The big ears are visually eminent, and as certain manga and anime seem to draw from a rigid lexicon of nigh-hieroglyphic symbology, it's useful. For my part, when preparing Dungeon Damage, I decided that long ears were very expressive - I lived with a dog and three cats, and their ears are...

'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth' - Hammurabi, early Babylonian ruler. Or so my theologian researcher tells me (a very useful fellow to have around). At the time, this code was a great invention. It was previously (and subsequently in places) the practice to exact disproportionate...

Well, it's both more logical and more moral to incapacitate rather than kill enemy soldiers. My grandfather in WWII never killed anyone, simply because he was such a good shot that he'd get the enemy in the kneecap or shoulder or something, thus disabling them, and requiring a couple of other...

Sorry for the delay - didn't have access over the weekend, turned 24, got distracted by a friend's bereavement, etc etc. Yep, that'll be fine! Do you want a high-res version and/or a backgroundless (white) version? If so, probably best to let me know via email at eslashnz AT yahoo.co.nz - I...

Well, here's what I've got sitting around (and am reasonably proud of today). The dancer could pass for a tiefling, although she's actually a tallaern-qor child from my Twilight world. The other two are variants on the same core file, which is Thetis from my webcomic (see sig) and thus my IP...

Hold on, I'll see if I can track anything down. Should have some stuff lying around on my dorm box... back tomorrow. (Yes, I'm back on the Net. Fear me.)