Someone should institute a Diversity Score. I'll start with the game I'm playing... former Dark Lord of the Sith (+1 Sith, +1 Evil) Jedi Princess (+1 woman) Republic solider (-1 white male) Jedi Cathar (+1 woman, +2 non-human) Gray Jedi (+1 black, +2 old) Wookiee (+2 non-human) droid (+2 non-human) evil droid (+2 non-human, +1 Evil) Mandalorian soldier (-1 white male) Twi'lek (+1 woman, +1 child, +2 non-human) +18... do I win anything? :)

Especially for flight sims... thinking back to X-Wing and TIE Fighter, I don't think I could have survived all those dogfights with either a keyboard/mouse or a console controller...

There's always eBay. I got my KOTOR from a local Half-Price Bookstore for $5 a month ago, and now I'm kicking myself for not having gotten this years earlier. I'm just thankful at this point that I never stumbled upon story spoilers before!

I'd imagine that the difficulties in designing a shield/screen to continually withstand the forces wanting to pull it into the engine more than offset any advantage it'd provide in screening any foreign objects out.

I still remember the music to this one. And it somehow managed to sneak in some economics lessons, too!