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Davin Valkri posted:Where in KOTOR did you get to use poison to kill slaves? I can't remember this happening. Closest would be the Korriban training room area. Unless there's some other KOTOR that isn't Bioware (probably not Obsidian's) that you're talking about? It's actually a minor quest in the Old Republic MMO, one of the early minor quests on whatever the Sith capitol world was called. Basically a Sith Lord with a penchant for torture has developed a new toxin that should, in theory, paralyzes its victim and give them a prolonged, agonized death - something about him feeding on their pain and terror as they lay dying. You're tasked with subduing a slave rebellion and Darth Sociopath up there wants you to taint the rebelling slaves' water supplies with his toxin. You get to either tell him to stick a crankshaft up his primary exhaust and apply torque (refuse quest, which this being an MMO he'll have forgotten about the next time you talk to him), to taint the water according to plan (darkside points), or to pump ALL of the toxin into their water, with the reasoning that a) the poor folks are about to get crushed by the sith army anyhow, might as well give them a fast and peaceful end instead of torture practice, and b) the 'experiment' failing leads to Darth Sociopath scrapping that particular strain of toxin as a failure (and getting you lightside points). In-context it makes more sense in the long run, but still. Considering that in that particular game it was entirely possibly to play an 'ascended Sith' with all the light-side points while still tossing around force lightning willy-nilly and vice versa.. I'd think it's more about the intent behind the use of a power rather than the actual power itself. If you use Force Lightning to spot-weld shut a hull breach and save an orphan from suffocating, does that earn you a dark side point? Or is using Force Healing to bring a prisoner back from the edge of death, knowing it's just so he can be tortured for information later a light side act? Suppose this is the kind of stuff grognards will happily argue for YEARS about.
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To be fair, all you really need for water desalinization is energy - it's essentially just distilling water, boiling it and then capturing and condensing the steam while the salt is left behind - and if you use vacuum desalinization for it to lower the temperature (and power) requirement you could easily run it off waste heat from a fusion reactor or similar. That doesn't make Rifts any less dumb, though.
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...I think I need a hug 
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Tasoth posted:Yeah, but the problem is your typically high grav worlder is going to be small. Like half human sized, especially with really dense muscles. The energy requirements for day to day activities would be extremely high and your body is going to do everything in its power to minimize that. Sooooo basically Squats?
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