Considering how dialogue trees in games like SWTOR are formed, it would have been far easier to make an "enable homosexual content" toggle, and have designers flag all starting points of dialogue trees for homosexual content with specific flag.
And when the homosexual content is disabled, all dialogue trees that are flagged as being homosexual content simply do not get displayed. Reality is that romance, like most things that is decided in the SWTOR dialogue has no real impact on the surrounding world beyond the content of dialogue tree itself and immediate quest outcome.
As a semi-casual player, I think I can answer the question on replaying content. Replaying content is the core of SWTOR. They even made a legacy system which specifically requires you to play through the game time and time again to get rewards. Vast majority of their content and essentially most if not all of the interesting content is in the personal stories, which require you to keep replaying the game time and time again to see.
It's simply the way the game is made. It's also why so many of us were confused at F2P model which gave the best content for free, and tries to charge for content that is sub-par (such as end game).
I'm not a lore master of star wars, but from what I've seen in KOTOR (1,2, SWTOR) twileks are basically modeled on blacks in USA. They're mostly slaves and low education level workers in the universe, but some of them do get to climb to power. But these are exceptions to the rule.
Bioware that makes SWTOR was known as "Mythic" before they were brought in by EA and fused into Bioware to take advantage of the brand.
So you're very much correct. Bioware's brand has been diluted harshly by EA that chose to use the well-known brand as a rubber stamp on games that had little to do with the original studio that made the name what is was.
KOTOR takes place in the world where rules are not really enforced all that strictly, even though they are in place. So if new kids in the order bang each other and they get found, they face about the same punishment as the kid in military school getting caught. Stop or be kicked out.
But lore on the Old Republic suggests a lot less obedience to the rulebook then at the time frame of the movies. Jedi order (and by extension sith) are not all that powerful, and there are quite a few force users that openly choose other paths and live to tell the tale.
Intriguing. Now please do share how all those capacitive track pads function? Also tell us how all those capacitive screens that came before mr. Jobs decided (correctly) that his prototype plastic capacitive multitouch iphone1 got scratched by his keys and that people would prefer glass screens on phones didn't exist?
If that happens, I think we'll actually see microsoft die. OS without mouse as a proper pointing option, which is far, FAR more efficient as a pointer device then fingers on the screen is really going to be DoA.
Not DoA like win8, which still sells to people who have to buy a windows license, but DoA as in people will simply refuse to use it. Even when they have to have windows OS.
Which is why not even the most insane of MS's managers will ever try something like that. Or if they would, they would be ejected from the company faster then cork out of a shampagne bottle.
99% of laptops are unlikely to ever go there. Even this requirement is ultrabooks only, and these are but a minor part of the laptop market.
Then there's the simple fact that when there are two manufacturers using the same tech process to make the same screens, but one has to add an extra step to add touch film on top of the screen, there's simply no way that manufacturer that has to take extra step will have lower costs.
This claim shows a lot of ignorance. The "touch" element is just a film on top of the screen surface. You can simply skip sticking the film on top of the screen, and you get essentially the same screen with no touch. Cheaper too, because not only do you save on costs of film, but you also save on costs of having to do the extra manufacturing step of sticking the touch film on top of the glass.
And then, there's of course the issue of "there are a lot of manufacturers out there, and there's no way in hell that two competing manufacturers with same tech process, and where one gets to skip a step in the process and pays less for materials will have higher costs".
Option #3: touch screen without glass. One that manufacturers will guess no one will ever use enough to matter anyway.
And they will likely be the winners of this one, with cheapest ultrabooks that will sell more then their expensive glassy ultrabooks with a feature that no one will really use anyway.
That scenario is unlikely to ever happen because touch isn't a new technology for generating images on the screen.
It's merely a piece of film that is positioned on top of the screen. In fact, you can easily put touch on a CRT monitor. Static will be a bitch and it will be far from healthy, but you can do it anyway.
Or more likely, will simply ignore the useless touch on the laptop screens and keep doing what they did before - use far more efficient and less tiring mouse/touchpad interface.
Then media was consolidated in the hands of the few with vested interest in not shaking the boat when they have installed their own captain and navigator crew.
What makes you think this 4th branch of government wouldn't just get corrupted like media did?
Ask at your workplace for people who play grassroots ball sports. Pretty much any decent team sport will do. Football, basketball and so on.
This gives you several advantages:
1. Better social links at workplace - a lot of stuff about your workplace that you'll never hear about at work you'll hear during and after practice and games. You'll also form friendships including those with bosses if they're into the same sport. 2. It creates a great group activity and it keeps you doing it due to peer pressure, even when going gets tough. Quitting solo activity is easy. Quitting group activity is much harder. Your body will thank you when you're close to retirement age. 3. You can usually choose how hard you want to practice. No one will demand a lot from a newbie, especially in a grassroots team. But you can push yourself and get better if you want too, becoming one of the people "carrying" the team. Or you can be one of the back benchers just showing up for fun time and staying in shape.
My 5230 plays videos just fine and offers a resolution that is exactly half of the 720p, which means no resizing artefacts. It also has Nokia Maps (they rebranded ovi maps back to nokia maps some time ago).
My 5230, which is ancient my modern standards (it's from symbian generation that came around the same time as first iphone) received its last update 19.11.2011 according to phone management that I just checked.
It went through over five major iterations and upgrades of UI during its lifetime (each 10 version up was a major OS overhaul).
We already do. That is why medical personnel has mandatory shots for things that are voluntary for others, and that is why in case of breakout of epidemic, first batch of vaccines and medications always goes to medical personnel, past even country leaders.
You are radically under estimating the brand value of nokia. It's on par if not more known and liked then apple in most of the Latin America and Asia.
It took a shitload of hits lately, but it's still extremely high up. They bought themselves a lot of clout with projects like bringing natal care to mothers in rural third world, and they ran dozens of these (and still do to an extent).
Radioactivity is nonexistent in terms of harm done. The real harm comes from tens and hundreds of tonnes of various toxic chemicals needed to split the target rare earth from the raw ore, these chemicals seeping into the ground, getting into ground water, and spreading into the area.
Soil radioactivity from Fukushima and Chernobyl are a joke in comparison to that toxicity. People can live on food produced in farms surrounding Fukushima, with just a noticeably higher cancer rate. People can not, and likely won't be able to live off food grown around the rare earth mines for tens if not hundreds of years due to extreme toxicity which isn't going anywhere - most of the chemicals are heavy enough to sit there for decades and centuries before they are diluted to tolerable levels.
We're talking about really nasty stuff here, from various heavy metals to toxic alkaline compounds to acids. There's life on radioactive soil and in radioactive lake. There's none in soil and lake poisoned by that stuff, outside some microbial activity that specializes in living in those conditions.
This isn't about dust. This is about soil and ground water being poisoned for tens and hundreds of years into condition where humans cannot live on it. Dust is just a minor pittance in the entire issue, barely a rounding number when it comes to total damage done if even that.
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Considering how dialogue trees in games like SWTOR are formed, it would have been far easier to make an "enable homosexual content" toggle, and have designers flag all starting points of dialogue trees for homosexual content with specific flag.
And when the homosexual content is disabled, all dialogue trees that are flagged as being homosexual content simply do not get displayed. Reality is that romance, like most things that is decided in the SWTOR dialogue has no real impact on the surrounding world beyond the content of dialogue tree itself and immediate quest outcome.
As a semi-casual player, I think I can answer the question on replaying content. Replaying content is the core of SWTOR. They even made a legacy system which specifically requires you to play through the game time and time again to get rewards. Vast majority of their content and essentially most if not all of the interesting content is in the personal stories, which require you to keep replaying the game time and time again to see.
It's simply the way the game is made. It's also why so many of us were confused at F2P model which gave the best content for free, and tries to charge for content that is sub-par (such as end game).
I'm not a lore master of star wars, but from what I've seen in KOTOR (1,2, SWTOR) twileks are basically modeled on blacks in USA. They're mostly slaves and low education level workers in the universe, but some of them do get to climb to power. But these are exceptions to the rule.
Bioware that makes SWTOR was known as "Mythic" before they were brought in by EA and fused into Bioware to take advantage of the brand.
So you're very much correct. Bioware's brand has been diluted harshly by EA that chose to use the well-known brand as a rubber stamp on games that had little to do with the original studio that made the name what is was.
KOTOR takes place in the world where rules are not really enforced all that strictly, even though they are in place. So if new kids in the order bang each other and they get found, they face about the same punishment as the kid in military school getting caught. Stop or be kicked out.
But lore on the Old Republic suggests a lot less obedience to the rulebook then at the time frame of the movies. Jedi order (and by extension sith) are not all that powerful, and there are quite a few force users that openly choose other paths and live to tell the tale.
Intriguing. Now please do share how all those capacitive track pads function? Also tell us how all those capacitive screens that came before mr. Jobs decided (correctly) that his prototype plastic capacitive multitouch iphone1 got scratched by his keys and that people would prefer glass screens on phones didn't exist?
Why not? Touch existed and still exists without glass, including on the notebook I have at home. Multi-touch touchpad that has no glass in it.
If that happens, I think we'll actually see microsoft die. OS without mouse as a proper pointing option, which is far, FAR more efficient as a pointer device then fingers on the screen is really going to be DoA.
Not DoA like win8, which still sells to people who have to buy a windows license, but DoA as in people will simply refuse to use it. Even when they have to have windows OS.
Which is why not even the most insane of MS's managers will ever try something like that. Or if they would, they would be ejected from the company faster then cork out of a shampagne bottle.
99% of laptops are unlikely to ever go there. Even this requirement is ultrabooks only, and these are but a minor part of the laptop market.
Then there's the simple fact that when there are two manufacturers using the same tech process to make the same screens, but one has to add an extra step to add touch film on top of the screen, there's simply no way that manufacturer that has to take extra step will have lower costs.
This claim shows a lot of ignorance. The "touch" element is just a film on top of the screen surface. You can simply skip sticking the film on top of the screen, and you get essentially the same screen with no touch. Cheaper too, because not only do you save on costs of film, but you also save on costs of having to do the extra manufacturing step of sticking the touch film on top of the glass.
And then, there's of course the issue of "there are a lot of manufacturers out there, and there's no way in hell that two competing manufacturers with same tech process, and where one gets to skip a step in the process and pays less for materials will have higher costs".
Option #3: touch screen without glass. One that manufacturers will guess no one will ever use enough to matter anyway.
And they will likely be the winners of this one, with cheapest ultrabooks that will sell more then their expensive glassy ultrabooks with a feature that no one will really use anyway.
That scenario is unlikely to ever happen because touch isn't a new technology for generating images on the screen.
It's merely a piece of film that is positioned on top of the screen. In fact, you can easily put touch on a CRT monitor. Static will be a bitch and it will be far from healthy, but you can do it anyway.
Or more likely, will simply ignore the useless touch on the laptop screens and keep doing what they did before - use far more efficient and less tiring mouse/touchpad interface.
ClassicShell mostly uses things that are already in the OS. It just makes them usable.
It can't conjure something that was specifically axed from the OS, such as 7's search or functional recent programs list generator.
That used to be role of the media.
Then media was consolidated in the hands of the few with vested interest in not shaking the boat when they have installed their own captain and navigator crew.
What makes you think this 4th branch of government wouldn't just get corrupted like media did?
Ask at your workplace for people who play grassroots ball sports. Pretty much any decent team sport will do. Football, basketball and so on.
This gives you several advantages:
1. Better social links at workplace - a lot of stuff about your workplace that you'll never hear about at work you'll hear during and after practice and games. You'll also form friendships including those with bosses if they're into the same sport.
2. It creates a great group activity and it keeps you doing it due to peer pressure, even when going gets tough. Quitting solo activity is easy. Quitting group activity is much harder. Your body will thank you when you're close to retirement age.
3. You can usually choose how hard you want to practice. No one will demand a lot from a newbie, especially in a grassroots team. But you can push yourself and get better if you want too, becoming one of the people "carrying" the team. Or you can be one of the back benchers just showing up for fun time and staying in shape.
My 5230 plays videos just fine and offers a resolution that is exactly half of the 720p, which means no resizing artefacts. It also has Nokia Maps (they rebranded ovi maps back to nokia maps some time ago).
My 5230, which is ancient my modern standards (it's from symbian generation that came around the same time as first iphone) received its last update 19.11.2011 according to phone management that I just checked.
It went through over five major iterations and upgrades of UI during its lifetime (each 10 version up was a major OS overhaul).
Perhaps you just forgot to update your phone?
Compared to what they gave up to sell windows phones, this is equivalent of "nobody buying that".
We already do. That is why medical personnel has mandatory shots for things that are voluntary for others, and that is why in case of breakout of epidemic, first batch of vaccines and medications always goes to medical personnel, past even country leaders.
You are radically under estimating the brand value of nokia. It's on par if not more known and liked then apple in most of the Latin America and Asia.
It took a shitload of hits lately, but it's still extremely high up. They bought themselves a lot of clout with projects like bringing natal care to mothers in rural third world, and they ran dozens of these (and still do to an extent).
Except that windows phone is no longer new. It's been around for a while and it's in its third major iteration (7.0, 7.5, 8.0).
I still have a symbian phone. It works fine.
Of course I'm a bit old school, I prefer my phone to be functional rather then stylish.
Radioactivity is nonexistent in terms of harm done. The real harm comes from tens and hundreds of tonnes of various toxic chemicals needed to split the target rare earth from the raw ore, these chemicals seeping into the ground, getting into ground water, and spreading into the area.
Soil radioactivity from Fukushima and Chernobyl are a joke in comparison to that toxicity. People can live on food produced in farms surrounding Fukushima, with just a noticeably higher cancer rate. People can not, and likely won't be able to live off food grown around the rare earth mines for tens if not hundreds of years due to extreme toxicity which isn't going anywhere - most of the chemicals are heavy enough to sit there for decades and centuries before they are diluted to tolerable levels.
We're talking about really nasty stuff here, from various heavy metals to toxic alkaline compounds to acids. There's life on radioactive soil and in radioactive lake. There's none in soil and lake poisoned by that stuff, outside some microbial activity that specializes in living in those conditions.
This isn't about dust. This is about soil and ground water being poisoned for tens and hundreds of years into condition where humans cannot live on it. Dust is just a minor pittance in the entire issue, barely a rounding number when it comes to total damage done if even that.