I was randomly browsing through the Mando'a word list today - I need to get myself to learn some new vocab somehow - and I came across the word cyare (pronounced SHAH-ray), which means "beloved, loved, popular". And it occurred to me - that would be the Mandalorian version of my name. "Amy" means "beloved" or "loved one", so were I a Mandalorian, I could be called Cyare. Cool!

For those of you who like Mando'a, you might be interested in my adventure to translate some of my Livejournal layout text. It was surprisingly difficult, as we only have a thousand words to work with. But I think I did pretty well.

I've been thinking a lot about the first time I saw AotC, and trying to remember my first impressions of the clones. I hardly noticed the clones at all before I read Hard Contact (that was in March 2005 - hard to believe it's been a whole year now!) but I do recall one thing. The scene near the end when Padme and the one clone fall from the gunship (and Anakin has his semi-tantrum about going back for her)... I remember thinking that we'd seen the last of the clone, as the picture centered on Padme. But then he came over to see how she was and I thought, aww, he's ok, and he's so nice to make sure she's ok too! I think that was really the first time I saw a clone as an individual soldier - I didn't see them as people right away, but they weren't just faceless, nameless, and uncaring droids. (A droid never would have gone to see if Padme was ok.) They could think and react to their situation in ways that, well, real soldiers do. Just a little thing, and it's probably slightly clouded by hindsight (though I really try to be aware of that nowadays... you'll never catch me saying "I loved the clones at first sight!" because it's just not true), but I thought it was interesting.

I can't wait for the next Star Wars Insider. I want to read Odds, like, now.

I've been replaying Kotor recently. I need to replay Kotor II as well, but I wanted to be uber-darkside just once in Kotor because despite playing it three times prior to this, there were some plot lines that I just couldn't make myself do the darkside option. Like killing the big fishy on Manaan. It was too cool to kill. But I did kill it today. I must say though, there is something very amusing about always choosing the option of "I'll do whatever I want... and I'll kill you too!" when talking to people. It's so incredibly unnecessary that it makes me giggle. Darksiders are funny. But yeah, my dude (male soldier), Vito Giavani (long story), is super-evil and makes the other darkside characters look light. I've mostly been using Canderous and HK-47 in this game, because I haven't used them much before. HK is awesomely hilarious, but he's not so good in a fight and thus I haven't used him much before this game. But since Vito can own just about everything singlehandedly (I love soldiers... I normally play as scouts because I like the skills, but soldiers can own a lot easier!), that isn't really a factor. And when it is, I just swap him out for Bastila. Vito's old-school though - he uses two swords. Their stats were higher than his lightsabers! Anyways, just one more planet to go (my favourite, Korriban... though it might not be quite as fun when I'm darkside) and then the boring Unknown Planet, and then I can own tons of stuff in the Star Forge. Woot!

Well, I should go do some actual productive stuff now, so re'turcye mhi!