Canonical has lost all respect from me by passing on the opportunity to call their release "Pretty Pony".

Some people just have no class.

I don't really have any links on their process, but I have a friend who worked on Skyrim.

Broadly, different designers get to come up with their own ideas, and as a group they decide which to include. Once something is in, it sounded to me like a single writer/designer has a great deal of creative control over the particular quest lines they work on.

Oh yeah, I believe that. I've been in several car crashes over the years. That one was both the slowest and the only one I wasn't able to immediately walk away from.

Probably the worst was colliding with a rock wall in a Geo Metro nearly head on at about 45 mph. The car bounced back into the road, rolled a couple of times, and was completely totaled. But both me and driver were able to walk away.

Only injury was to the driver, which was cuts on his hand from punching through the windshield in anger over having just totaled his mom's new car.

I've never been able to understand people who don't wear their seat belt.

George Lucas is worse than a common mugger.

At least the mugger has the decency to take your money once and leave you alone.

Let's not get all crazy here.

As a corroborating anecdote, I was once knocked unconscious riding in the back seat of car when it hit a telephone pole traveling ~30 mph, while wearing a seat belt.

I have never been involved in a head-on collision at any speed, nor would I like to be.

I agree, but I hope you're not suggesting that this is the immoral, intolerable thing that the people behind the Sony corporation are guilty of.

In poor taste? Very much so.

Immoral? Intolerable? Meh. Not so much.

One thing Mass Effect has going for it is that unlike in a Final Fantasy game, the player drives the cut scenes. The interactive conversations were really what did it for me. They finally managed to create a real role playing game on the computer (or xbox or whatever).

So many CRPGs seem to think "role playing" means "stat advancement", and ME (and even more ME2) threw that out the window in favor of defining who Shepard really was.

Because the alternative is the system we have now.

Oooooooh.

Yes, now I remember. Thanks. I wish I hadn't required the explanation.

I feel like there must be something to your comment, and I wish I'd seen that movie recently enough to remember anything about it.

[Note: This post is utterly sincere. I have seen that movie, but probably not within the last 20 years, so I have no idea what the context is.]

Perhaps these hypothetical aliens captured a comet, send their ships into orbit unmanned, and then thaw the comet's water, adding it to their ships in an environment of minimal gravity.

Or perhaps they're massively technologically advanced, and they have technology to defy gravity, so getting tons of water into orbit is trivial.