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Will there be an Ask The Director 3.0, and if so when will the first expansion be released post-launch?
Maybe, but it's still a long ways off. The only reason for the 2.0 is because I had no extra time at all to answer any questions, having to leave questions unanswered for months and months at a time. So instead of necromancing the thread I just made a new one.
Why am I nervous around people I like? (Not a dating question, in more of a general sense)
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Why was my hair a golden blonde as child, but now is a light brown? Can you explain why hair changes color? (I'd really like to know this.. sorry if it's a dumb question..)
So if I'm a natural blonde, would it make a difference when I have children? (How would they inherit my genes for my hair color? Would their's eventually turn brown as well if the father had brown hair?)
?Being nervous around people that you like is a normal reaction to the fear of driving said people away.
Hair generally darkens or lightens with age based upon your genetics and environmental factors. Yours darkened which means that either you have darker haired relatives or that you simply don't get enough sun for it to remain light. Yes, your hair color could indeed effect the hair color of your children, but their hair color may also darken with age. It can also go the other way by starting off brunette and turning into a dark shade of blonde.
Why do men seem to tougher on their sons when they're outside working?
Most of my friends say their dads yell and get angry at them when they're helping with work outside.
Is there a good chance I'll end up this way when I'm my dad's age?
Why is it that at work I'm doing fine and getting done what's expected of me, but when I'm working with my dad, nothing I do is ever right?
Depends on the men, but the primary reason for the 'harshness' would be due to the high expectations that one has for their own flesh and blood. They expect their sons to know how to do what needs to be done properly and get frustrated at both themselves and their sons when that doesn't happen.
That depends on you. If you are aware of the situation than you can damper your expectations and possibly avoid this type of behavior.
Why does the site keep going offline? I'm just curious since it's gone offline twice in two days
There were some issues with the server side of the site, but they are resolved now. I am assured of this.
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I think something like 1/4th-1/3rd of normal, everyday women are more attractive to me than the standard, skinny model type.
What TD said about small features making a big difference is true, I've been attracted to derpy looking girls because I thought their small nose and voice were cute.
Here's my question:
What's the best way to improve one's lack of common sense?
Would you say having 2 children, each 1 year apart, to be a good idea when starting a family?
There kind of isn't a way to improve your own common sense. You're either in tune with social logic or you're not lol
Well it's not a bad idea on it's own, but it depends on a ton of different variables. Financial stability, what type of home you have, etcetera are all factors in play here.
Not sure if this was asked already, but what did you think of E3 2016?
I got hyped over the skyrim remaster and the FF7 remake. Also project scorpio looked awesome, but kind of to good to be true. Halo Wars 2 will probably be cool. Other than that I didn't really pay attention.
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Would most men consider a thin slimmed girl to be more attractive than one who was a bit fatter? How do men decide what makes a woman beautiful or not?
Is it true that men 'check out' women in public? Even if they are with their boyfriends?
That's not something that's specific to only one gender, but it is a stereotype. There are men who find skinny girls more attractive, medium weighted women more attractive, or even heavy set women more attractive. There are men who even find super sized women attractive. On that same token, there are women who prefer skinny men, women who find medium weighted men more attractive, and even women who are into heavy set men. Attraction is something that is completely based upon each individual. Two men can be looking at two women with similar body types and facial structures but each prefer a different woman based on the smallest details. Basically every man and woman is beautiful to somebody.
That doesn't even take personality into account, which is surprisingly important when it comes to attraction. You can find someone unbelievably attractive but then find out they are also unbelievably annoying and immediately not want anything to do with them.
Yes, there are men who check women out even when those women are with their boyfriends. There are men who check women out while they are with their girlfriends, even. There are women who do the same thing, though. My wife has actually caught a woman staring at my butt while we were waiting in line at the movies, and the woman was actually holding her boyfriend's hand at the time.
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EXCEPT, that obviously you have no idea what ILB was or who commissioned it. Bungie had NOTHING to do with ILB and it was created by a 3rd party and was commissioned directly by MGS. So no, ILB was not part of Bungie's Halo 2 marketing, nor did Bungie provide any content or time towards it.
As for IRIS, it a similar marketing ploy to ILB, except it had direct relevance, considering it revolved around Forerunner Artifacts on Earth, at which time no one knew there was any on Earth. Yes we knew Earth was/had something to do with The Ark, but it wasn't revealed exactly what. Hence the relevance of IRIS.
The point is, at no point did they show Halo 3 gameplay or characters directly from Halo 3 participating in events that were not in Halo 2 or Halo 3. As to which, Halo 4 and 5 did a lot of this, only to have NONE of it in the actual game. The only blunder on that front was the Halo 2 E3 reveal...but we all know about that by now.
Not only was the story for Halo 5 the biggest turd in existence, but the entire Chief vs Locke was so misconstrued and overhyped, when in actuality, the entire grudge/fight story of it all had NONE of the impact or hype.
EXCEPT that I actually do. 42E was commissioned by M$ to make the ARG, sure, but Bungie approved of it so much that the ARG eventually made it's way into canon. Which is irrelevant because I didn't say that Bungie made the ARG, did I? No, I simply stated that Bungie had weird and off-topic marketing approaches. Then I pointed out two marketing approaches for previous Halo games that were similar to the ones for H5, one of which WAS created by Bungie.
Iris gave no further information than what could be reasonably assumed by the books and by the ending of Halo 2, and most of the information was irrelevant to Halo 3 and only later became relevant again with the Forerunner Saga and Halo 4. You remember Adjutant Reflex turning out to be none other than Mendicant Bias, right? And that the whole thing simply detailed the ending of the Forerunner race with only a tidbit about artifacts that were on Earth?
And actually, Master Chief was shown in Iris in a couple of different ways. His visor showing glyphs a couple of times as well as appearing on the advertisement for The Cradle of Life, which kicked Iris off in full. I'm actually just teasing you here, because the actual way to completely destroy your point is the live action videos for Halo Reach, which were just like the commercials run for Halo 5. They featured main characters, but none of the things in the trailers made it into the game. Instead they opted for going the route that that was simply backstory to the game. You barely even get acknowledgement that anything in the trailers was actually relevant to the game as well. The closest thing to relevance was the ARG Patrol LAT, which is the patrol you go looking for in the first mission of the game. They barely mention how Noble 6's predecessor died, and they didn't even mention the spartan training camp.
Yeah, Halo 5's trailers weren't super relevant to the game, but like the Reach trailers the themes were there. The ARG wasn't very relevant, but it was right about the same relevance as the ARG for Halo 3.
Halo 5's suckage, again, wasn't due to the marketing. It was because of poor writing of the main story line, which is what we have all come to expect from comic book writers who go to write for video games. We expect it so much so that if a story is simply mediocre and has only a couple of forced plot points we praise the crap out of the writer for being one of the best comic book to video game writers of all time.
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Mr. Director. What's my favorite color? Do you remember!?
No I don't, but if I had to guess I'd say purple.
Recently I made a friend from Japan, my question is.. why does she love blonde hair so much?
Also.. how many Poprocks candy could you put in your mouth without spitting them back out? :3 (Tested by my friend and I, personally I got 3 packs worth in.. but the popping would NOT stop, lol.)
Probably because it's difficult for blonde hair to be natural in Japan due to the dark haired genetic trait being so prominent. Plus blonde hair can easily be dyed any other color.
I've got 8 bags of poprocks into my mout at once before, with a swig of coke. That didn't end well.
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I literally cannot think of a Halo game that had a marketing campaign that actually led into the game or was a part of the game. Especially the viral marketing.
So you're basically bashing 343i for continuing in Bungie's footsteps of kind of weird and off-topic marketing approaches. Or have you forgotten about Halo 2's viral marketing campaign featuring an AI that didn't exist in the game? Or Iris (AdjutantReflex) for Halo 3, which again had little to nothing to do with the actual game and was more or less about the books? And then all the live action trailers?
Seriously, Halo has always gone off kilter with it's marketing approaches. Yeah, H5's story was disappointing but the marketing wasn't why, it was crappy writing from a guy who should've stuck to comic books.
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Why is mahi gif not working as Fphowtow?
Is it under 90x90 and under 1000 kb?
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So I've forgotten how to set gifs as profile pictures... How does one do this again?
First the gif has to be the proper size, and you have to do that yourself. You can use http://ezgif.com/resizeor another such site. Once it's the proper size all you've gotta do is save it to your computer and upload it. Then it should work.
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What is the meaning of life? How do we know the life we live is real or not?
What would likely happen if the United States was hit with a nuclear attack?
What if zombies were real?
Why can't I do things without being judged by others?
Why do some people have no feelings whatsoever? (At least don't express them)
Why don't you like Pandas?
What are your feelings for Role Playing Games?
Have you ever Cosplayed before? If so what did you cosplay as? If not, what would you cosplay as?
Life: [noun] the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. As far as knowing whether our life is real or not, I would refer you to the philosopher Rene Descartes, who when faced with a similar conundrum stated, "je pense, donc je suis" or "I think, therefor I am." Basically, if it is real to you then it is as real as can be to you. No other perspective matters than your own when it comes to the reality of your own existence.
The United States would immediately retaliate against any and all nations who could/would potentially attack us with nuclear weapons, assuming that we cannot immediately confirm who attacked us. So basically, if Russia used nukes against the US and the US couldn't immediately prove it was Russia, the US would use nukes on any nation that had the motive and means to use nukes against the US. This would include China, Russia, Pakistan, and North Korea at the moment. This would significantly degrade the quality of life for nearly every living being on the planet. This nuclear strategy is shared by every Nuclear Superpower, and has been coined Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
If zombies were real then you would have had to kill one at some point or another. As would nearly everyone who lives near where zombies exist. Especially so if zombification happens at the time of death regardless of a bite/scratch/etc. from another zombie.
That is the nature of a society. The judgement of others is a social motivation mechanism that helps prevent you from doing things that are 'socially unacceptable'. These things may seem minor at first glance, but bear in mind they include murder, rape, and theft. If there were no judgement from your peers, then doing these things would be socially acceptable and likely commonplace.
Everyone has feelings, but most people feel differently about different things. Even complete sociopaths have feelings, but their feelings vary wildly from what is considered 'normal' to feel. For some the showing of feelings is more difficult than others because of social factors or the way they were raised. There are also psychological implications at play that determine what someone feels, how they feel it, and how they express those feelings.
I do like pandas. About as much as is normal to, at least. I'm not a super-fan or anything like that, but they are amusing to watch. Here's a livestream: http://en.ipanda.com/live/chengdu/08/
It depends entirely on the RPG. Some of them I absolutely adore, others I abhor. It basically boils down to gameplay and the level of immersion that I can get out of the games. For instance, I like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim but hate The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion because the graphics in Skyrim are more immersive than the comparatively cartoonish graphics of Oblivion. Skyrim's gameplay is more fluid, the missions are more interesting, and you are actually the hero of the tale rather than the overworked sidekick.
I have not cosplayed before, and I don't ever plan on doing so. I would not dress up as anyone other than myself or something that at a stretch could be me.
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I find myself agreeing with a lot of the points being made in this thread, but I also know something rather important.
It doesn't matter if we trust them or not, they will be making H6 and HW2.
Even if we rant and rave, type angry messages until our fingers bleed, throw feces at M$ headquarters, or even beg on our hands and knees M$ won't change this. The reason is that we are the loud minority. The people who are happy with the games rarely come onto forums to say, "Hey, great job." M$ also knows that a lot of the long-time fans didn't like the direction that H5 seemed to be headed, but H5 still grossed $400 million on it's release day. Actually, all of 343i's releases have sold really well. That's what Microsoft cares about, not that within weeks the multiplayer shrinks 10x or that the game is panned by die hard fans.
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My only problem with this, is the lack of actual "mechanics" so far. Quick Time Events, Add Spawns and Escorting are not mechanics, they are scripts added onto core mechanics to expand and enhance said mechanics.
Spawning in general, or the act of spawning/respawning "aka placing an object" is the mechanic sysyem. I would suggest that this thread title be renamed or rediscribed to clarify the issues for the sake of correctness involving the issues you have.
Quick Time events are simple cinematic mechanics at it's core, where a script places the camera at a first person perspective, instead of a third person, and adds a trigger "script", to start and end actions. Again, the actual Cinematic Mechanic is not to blame, but the way and extent to which it is used.
For example, "Game Mechanic Expansion and Usage Issues" would be a much clearer and effective title.
So here's a couple more.
Story Integral (Mandatory) Minigames: So you've been playing a game for a day or two and are really enjoying the story. You've gotten used to the gameplay, however difficult, and are now moving along the story at a decent pace. Then all of a sudden, MINIGAME! And I don't mean an optional minigame, I mean a minigame within the story arc that you must beat to continue the story. Like hacking in Bioshock, or the nightmare in MGS3. These aren't always annoying, but they really can be if you suck at the minigame but are great at the normal game.
Mandatory Tutorial Missions: The biggest killer of replay value there is. The longer a mandatory tutorial mission, or a tutorial that cannot be skipped, the more annoyed you get on your second playthrough of a game. There are some horrible examples, like the Spiderman Trilogy games, Legend of Zelda (nearly all of them), and Fallout 3. The reason for most forced tutorials is equally annoying, game writers trying to justify cramming exposition into the beginning of the narrative.
Unrealistic Damage in 'Realistic' Games: So in reality a .50 caliber bullet coming into contact with a human being will prevent that human being from continuing combat. Usually because that human being is very, very much dead. However, there are quite a few video games out there that brag about being realistic yet have issues putting realism into terms of damage. Fallout 4, for instance, will allow you to create a .50 cal sniper rifle and also allow bandits to survive headshots from said rifle. Even if said bandits were wearing helmets (which they weren't, in my experience) the bullet would have caused a sizable chunk of the helmet to replace the bandit's brain in anywhere near reality. This is actually one of the most common cliches in video games, and in most cases it's beneficial. However, when 7.62 mm is > .50 cal, that's when things are ridiculous.
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Going to try to play it when it's released.
Would be hilarious (and awesome) if it got a port to Xbox as an indie game, though.
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Let's have some fun by listing some game mechanics, dynamics, and cliches that we all know and hate.
I'll start us off with a few.
Quick Time Events: The general idea of a quick time event is to give the player immersion, but more often than not it detracts from the experience. Especially so if you miss one during what you thought was a cutscene and have to fight through the level again. There are some games that use quick time events to their advantage (Indigo Prophecy), but the majority of QTEs these days feel unnecessary and annoying.
Forced Stealth Gameplay in a Non-stealth game: I'm not talking about Splinter Cell or other games that rely primarily on stealth as their selling points, I'm talking about games that don't have stealth in any other part of the game than that one level that everyone hates. It feels as if the games are trying to show off their stealth mechanics, which are often subpar at best.
Add Spawning Bosses: A boss-type enemy who spawns additional, usually weaker, enemies can be cool. Especially in games where killing the adds benefits you with exp, health, or ammo. But most add-spawn bosses don't spawn additional enemies that do anything except annoy the crap out of you while you're trying to take down the boss. Some bosses spawn adds so frequently that it's best to just ignore the adds and kill the boss, which kind of defeats the purpose of the add spawning to begin with.
So what are some game mechanics and/or dynamics that annoy you?
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What are your thoughts on> Forge: Halo 5 Edition?
Considering the title, do you think there will be more then one Forge game for windows 10 in the future? The Halo series will be around in my early thirties you know.
Same, and yes I do think there will be. Forge is one of the most popular features of Halo, and one of the biggest reasons it's kept it's edge against other first person shooters. I'm willing to bet that there will be a Halo 6 Edition within a year of the release of Halo 6.
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What are your thoughts on AT&T buying DIRECTV? I am not really informed about this that much.
It's primarily in response to Time Warner being bought by Comcast. It is as close to competition that telecom companies get to. Basically, they want each other to agree to locked prices for their customers so that they won't be in direct competition price wise, and can make a fortune without having to worry about cutting their prices lower than their competitors.
It's some bull, basically.
HHey Director! Can you help me get in touch with someone at 343 industries. 343 took 140k req points and i never recived my memories of reach req pack. it simply would not open it and then it just dissapperared all together. Hopefully someone of importance at 343 can see this.
Help Director i was robbed by 343. i need contact info. some who can get me my req points back or memrioes of reach pack that i never Recived!!!!!!
343i doesn't have public-facing contact info with the exception of social media and internet forums. If you were sent here by Microsoft Support, they were wrong. You can message some of the top 343i employees on Twitter, but they'll usually ignore you. Try posting on halowaypoint.com, as that's the official 343i run website.
How much should I be able to lift for bench press and squats to be stronger than the probable majority of the others in Marine boot camp? I don't just want to be a typical Marine, I want to be a really good Marine.
Lift strength isn't much in the USMC, unless you're going into artillery. If you can do more than 4 pullups, 200 situps, and run 3 miles in under 20 minutes you'll be good better than most.
What was the most ridiculous thing you've purchased in your life?
Destiny. I returned it though.
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What are your thoughts on the Mother series? (EathBound) As a whole?
I kind of lost interest in it after the second one and haven't followed it. I think I beat the second one in '05.
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What do you have against Lenny? And completely unrelated, do you have any tips for packing up stuff and getting ready to move in one day?
Lenny is dead. Caboose murdered him.
Packing in one day is pretty easy if you sort everything that you're packing. That way you spend less time wondering where you should put something. It's also fine to make more than one trip. Smaller items should be the first ones to go to your new place, and then the big items.
Why?
Because.
What are some of the rarest animals in the world?
Why do people think it's okay to scare someone in a unexpected fashion?
Sumatran Rhino, Florida Panther, and White Lions are some examples of super-rare animals.
People think it's okay because it's a generally harmless form of practical joking. Startling someone can happen accidentally rather easily as well.
Why are poisonous animals not affected by their own poisons?
Because they generally don't eat themselves.
Have you played a game called Serious Sam, and if so, did you hear they cancelled the 4th one, to make the 5th one?
I have played Serious Sam, but didn't enjoy it much so I don't much pay attention to news concerning it. Just wasn't my kind of game.
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Why are mums always brought into trash talk conversations?
Most people are sensitive about their parents, especially so when it comes to their mothers. One of the reasons for this is because most mothers are charged with the upbringing of the children.
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How much would a pumpkin weigh if it were made of solid gold?
At what altitude can a Eagle soar? Also, how fast can they descend when diving?
What are 3 of the most known soft drinks in the world?
What is the most poisonous spider in the world and how many people are killed each year by it? Also why are spiders so creepy looking?
Statistically speaking, which flavor of bubblegum most likely has the longest lasting flavor?
Why was Leonardo Da Vinci considered 'Ahead of his time?' ?
Out of all of the colors in the world, which one is the most recognizable to humans during the morning?
Which animal(s) has the ability to breathe underwater and air?
Will humans ever be able to breathe o2 trapped underwater as a method of breathing underwater without scuba gear?
1. Between 160 and 200 lbs, assuming it wasn't hollow. Maybe around 20 lbs if it were hollow.
2. Up to 10000 feet, and up to 100 miles per hour.
3. Coca Cola Classic, Diet Coke, and Pepsi.
4. Well, spiders aren't poisonous, they're venomous. The most venomous spider is the male Sydney funnel-web spider, and it actually holds the world record for it.
5. Original.
6. Because people are annoying and use broken metaphors and similes to describe things. Also because he had created several rudimentary designs for several objects that couldn't be created at the time because engineering had not yet caught up to the theoretical science behind the designs.
7. Yellow is the most noticeable color every time of day.
8. Several amphibians can, but the most notable is the lungfish.
9. Well sure, O2 trapped underwater can be breathed by anything with lungs. If you meant IN the water, though, then not without severe genetic manipulation on our part. We are close to scuba gear that can do it though.
Why is human resources such a boring subject to learn?
Because you don't find it interesting. 'Boring' is completely relative to the individual experiencing it, after all.
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I'm aware it wasn't a question, and for me, the paradox still exists.
Either I'm not well enough equipped to understand, or you haven't explained it well enough. I still see the major flaw in traveling to the future and being able to travel back to the previous time frame being acceptable, but other combinations being incompatible-- put bluntly, if you can't travel back in time, but you can travel forward: A. What use would going back to "current situations" be and B. Wouldn't the previously established rule disable backwards travel?
Maybe I'm not getting it..
Ah, see, you didn't make it clear that you were speaking of time travel rather than the way that time actually works. What exactly would prevent you from travelling to the past in your scenario? Because if you could only travel to the future then you wouldn't be able to travel back to the present, obviously.
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That is actually an incredible take on Time Travel, you've opened my mind to new possibilities sir.
And.. since I posted again might as well ask another pointless question!
If I froze a human inside a cryogenic tube/chamber with life-support, what would be the chances or possibility of the person inside to die of probable causes? Also (Dragon Ball Z Question) The water therapy chamber-tube Goku was placed inside after a battle to accelerate healing, would this be possible in treating injured people in today's age?
You have to be dead to be frozen lol so 100%. The water therapy thing in the DBZ universe doesn't really exist in ours because it's considered pointless by many medical professionals.
So here's the pros and cons
Pro: It would keep a patient from smashing themselves on the bed during a seizure. Con: They could still hit the glass and even pull the breathing tubes out, drowning themselves.
Pro: Ointments would be easier to apply. Con: You can't really control where the ointment goes.
Pro: A patient would be unconscious for the majority of the treatment so they suffer less. Con: They can't tell you how they hurt if they're not conscious, and it'll be far easier to make fatal clerical errors.
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Paradox: Once you're in the future, the "present" is in the past. Explain.
Not a question lol and also incorrect. The present is defined as "existing or occurring now". This means that no matter what, right now is always the present. The past is "gone by in time", which means that literally .00000000000000000001 second ago is the past. If it isn't in this exact moment in time, it's either in the past or in the future. The future is "at a later time", which means that literally .000000000000000000001 second from now is the future.
These concepts are pretty simple. Past, future, and present are completely relative to every individual. If you were to travel through time to year 1970, then you would still be in the present (relative to you and everyone existing around you at that moment). Same if you were to travel to year 100070. You cannot 'be' in the future or the past relative to yourself, because every time you move throughout time you are in your own present.
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So two questions.
One - Who are the top five members/staff/mods who have the highest recorded time online on the site?
Two - There isn't a second question... April fools
1. Azaxx - 548 Days 2 hours
2. GermanShepherdD - 505 Days 19 hours
3. Twam - 474 Days 12 hours
4. Drizzy_Dan - 405 Days 16 hours
5. RedStarRocket91 - 379 Days 7 hours
What is one game that you would always play and never grow bored of? (Basically favourite game/series)
66 days, 9 hours. Here.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on PC with mods. xD
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Another question, because it's fun asking you questions.
Why are cats love boxes so much? It seems like they would rather play/sleep in a box rather than anywhere else, why do they do this? lol.
Cats love boxes for several possible reasons.
Cats are ambush predators, and there's hardly a better hiding place than a box. Boxes are also pretty enclosed, which offers cats a sense of security. Tight spaces are also usually pretty warm, which is something cats love.
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Nik Sant is not Captain Rex.
Jaing Skirata could be, due to Ko Sai's data.