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@Niemand

You know, I don't think I've ever written a book report, in school or otherwise. hmmm

Oh, well I didn't actually read every post you know. Ooops

"Mistakes were made"

That's exactly the kind of writing that makes science writing boring. But you're right, the passive voice has its uses.

I think Jeff was making the point that if most people don't understand the difference between whom and who, than it's not worth using the two of them in his writing.

The apostrophe doesn't replace missing letters, it replaces a missing vowel sound.

Can you give me a reference for this?

I'm in favour of bringing back proper contractions.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LOGICAL CONTRACTIONS!

ca'n't

wo'n't

sha'n't

(interesting that my web-browser's autocorrect (safari) underlines sha'n't but not the other two)

I almost bought DA:O, but then I read the system requirements and decided I shouldn't.

Old imacs (2005), although still beautiful, wo'n't run DA:O.

But can't US citizens buy automatic weapons, rocket launchers and tanks?

If so, all it would take to rise up is a bit of collecting.

They're not snappy if they're wrong.

Is there no federal sales tax in the US?

Maybe you could place your party in the small openings between the palisade to prevent the soldiers from getting any hits in on the giants. I would think, if your group could survive, the soldiers would take enough damage to die, eventually.

Yeah, my mistake, Canadian schools (in BC any way) have roughly 5 hours for class instruction, 1 hour for lunch and 15 minutes for recess.

That's the problem with assessing teachers and schools based on standardized tests.

In Canada (B.C.) we have government exams for grade 4, 7, and 12. And of course the private schools always score at the top of the rankings, and the poor inner city schools at the bottom.

I'm not completely against standardized tests. They could be very useful for directing funding and other resources. But in British Columbia nobody uses the data for anything more than showing how terrible such and such a school is.

You can test the kids all you want, but if nothing is done with the data there's no point.

The purpose of school, for the most part, is to learn how to learn, not to remember a bunch of mostly unimportant stuff. The absolutely crucial things are learned in the first 4-5 grades of Elementary school.

ignorant and vicious, I like that

Is it possible to let all the soldiers die?

Geneforge is a lone wanderer type game.

I played all the Geneforge games with a blademaster guardian that never summoned creatures.

It's fun having some of the game play completely out of my control. For example, if Jeff forces two of my characters to get trapped somewhere, and I have to use the one remaining character to rescue them, that's fun. It makes for a much more dynamic story. Jeff could even outright kill one of my characters, (no resurrect) and I'd be cool with that. It would be shocking, and I'd be angry, and confused. But then that's a good thing, to you know, actually feel something when playing a game besides the standard dopamine rush from levelling a character.