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It was probably better than Jobs. So, do they continue the running gag from the trailers and poster that it is a shameless sequel? They run that through a few. The first one made a joke out of being a shameless reboot.

22 Jump Street It was hilarious. As good as the first.

Any interesting looking story driven titles announced that aren't part of an existing franchise?

Now I'm only the third newest mod. Muahaha. Nothing can stop my rise to power.

Playing? People play things? What is playing? It sounds like something I should remember from long ago...

The entire spirit is about ensuring that creators are compensated for their contribution to the public through a limited monopoly. The limitations being a series of safety valves to ensure the predominance of the public good in the spread of ideas and information. And it's a complex balance between the two that has shifted over time. In our case, it seems to have largely shifted away from public good over to creator incentive. But that too, the ability to change with time, is also the spirit of the law. Even if I personally object. None of this supports the notion that a guy, thinking some work he could nonetheless afford is too expensive, should be able to acquire it at the price of his choosing. Heck, the traditional safety valves are all about things like resale, use, and scope. Not price.

Decided to give up on my current writing project. I've been too steeped in it to look at what's worth keeping and it's just not going anywhere. I liked the characters, I liked the main plot, I just struggled at figuring out a decent way to get the two together. My protagonist and antagonist spend the first third of the outline doing something totally unrelated to the main plot thread. And after writing my way through a good portion of that I realized it's probably not a good idea. Tried salvaging it over the weekend and all that did is make me realize the entire thing isn't cohesive enough to keep my interest. Sadly, my original outline was far more cohesive. But it had terrible characters. Hopefully if I move to a different project and come back, I might be able to figure out how to both good characters that happen to work with the plot. So I'm moving onto another project that I've already got the broad strokes planned out for. And it'll be more lighthearted so I can see if I have a comfort zone with humorous voice. It's about a team of interstellar mercenaries that were formed only so a rich guy could give his son a job. An adventure of heroic delusions, grand conspiracy, and poor business decisions.

A brief search tells me that the only thing the ECC does is offer advice. They don't make declarations of legality, they're not a court.

The showrunner for the Daredevil series on Netflix also left.

How would you make a real-time with pause MMO anyway? What happens if a player pauses the game and then just leaves? Is the entire server stuck?

I saw Days of Future Past and I did like several of the previous X-Men movies. I loved it. It's the perfect capstone on the original X-Men trilogy and a good First Class sequel as well.

Not quite. He's talking about his Awakened. He stops them from hearing the call of the Old Gods, which has all sorts of other benefits like them being able to take control of their own behavior. Or just go nutters. The Architect is essentially an awakened emissary who has never heard the call. He never said anything about "we were always like this." Edit: He might have questioned doctrine though, it's hard to say. One theory is that he's a magister reincarnated since we know they can do that.

I bought a bottle of Courvoisier VS and Wild Turkey 101. This Wild Turkey could be what gets me into Bourbon. I'm cutting back on the drinking overall, though. Only one glass a night. Getting sloshed actually hinders my productivity I've found.

Not exactly. The only conclusion is that you shouldn't read too much into what he says.

New thread.

Last thread I saw Godzilla. A well made movie, but pretty dumb. The monsters bother me because they eat only radiation. Their digestion system must be a fusion reactor.

I haven't done enough lately. Mostly outline work which feels shamefully unproductive. But the changes to the outline are kind of hilarious in a big picture way. So the story was roughly about these two guys that know each other, but then get embroiled in big events that cause them to go their separate ways until the end. And I'll decide if they reconcile or try to kill each other as I get further in the process. Then I got rid of one of those guys. So it became about a single guy who gets embroiled in big events, meet new people, and try to find his place. And along the way, I added new people for him to meet. But I still didn't like that guy, so the new characters started stealing the spotlight and I got rid of him. It became about two people that meet amongst big events. Then I had an idea. What if those two people knew each other already! And I'm back to "Two guys that know each other, but then get embroiled in big events. I'm still not sure if they're going to try to kill each other at the end." But I like the specifics more. I like the characters more, they're more opinionated and driven. The setting is a lot easier to work with. They have a firmer place within the setting. I mean, instead of just being coworkers at the beginning, they're trying to kill each other already. So they have that conflict right from the start. Now the struggle to get my butt in the chair and doing more than writing technical descriptions of made up gizmos begins. Anyone have experience with Scrivener?

Scott being forced to cut too much seems like a paradox to me. The guy is pretty notorious for putting pacing above even storytelling in terms of what gets cut. His "director's cut" of Alien, for example, is actually shorter than his preferred theatrical cut. And then there's the rumors around Prometheus.

There's a couple possibilities, the DVD non-anamorphic DVD releases from a few years back or one of the various fanmade despecialized editions floating around.

There's speculation that Fox still holds rights relevant to a rerelease of the OT. And that may interfere with Disney doing a despecialized release. A shame if true, that's about the only way I could consider buying a new copy and watching it.

I warned myself It would kill my momentum. I've spent the past two days adjusting my outline for this change. There's a couple of quibbles with the new outline, mostly an issue with whether or not I need a particular subplot. But I don't think I'll be able to figure that out until the rewrite stage.

My experience is that is people in general. We are social animals, prone to following shared ideas.

I'm going to take a step back here and see if we're saying the same thing in different ways. The stakes and threat have to be established. This can be seen as something happening to the protagonist and they have to respond. I can agree on that. But I still disagree that Anakin's failure was that he drove the plot. He was still reacting in that sense, just to things that didn't matter.

You could argue that, I don't think it rescues the situation though. There needs to be something at stake. Something the character is fighting to protect and that the audience can sympathize with. It can be pain, love, revenge, his best fiend, himself, whatever. But for the first two movies of the prequel, the only thing at stake for the climaxes are government bodies. The audience does not care about the Republic to any serious degree. We're not going to be tense about Naboo's trade policies either. If we want a mirrored arc, Dooku should have been the one to kill Shmi. Then he can really mean something.