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I support Aloth's right to bodily integrity. Iselmyr shouldn't be used just to make Aloth player sexual. And as I've said before, I'm not really interested in romantic relationships being open to the watcher.

The older I get the more often I find myself having to run to the bathroom mid movie. As a kid I always wondered why adults couldn't manage. I'm not even that old! When nature calls...

If it was a truly free market, then prices would be set based on old people who have banked savings and are fully vested into their insurance policies. They would also rise significantly due to the rich people around the world using it to side step their nations socialized health. Health needs to be regulated in some regard. The major problem I see with it is that you need to pay doctors well to lure them into such a grueling highly regulated industry. You need to pay them well to justify their years of training. You need to pay them well so those that got through on loans can pay them back. They negotiate ask for a lot from the insurance companies because they are worth a lot. If the market was free, they'd still jack the prices up as long as they were maximizing profit. You'd have lesser institutions coming in and serving the bottom rung with a lesser services. You'd be back to square 1. That said, I'm not convinced a single payer system won't do significant damage to the world medical industry. America's system works hard for the whole world, not just her people. So it's always funny to see people in Europe acting like righteous for all the medical advances that are the result of the US's industry. It's really the insurance companies greed to hold onto their own wealth that bargains medical prices down, not the individual payer. So having a single state payer would really gut the financing of the US industry.

Or maybe the gods are actually good and people have just lost their way. Damn post-modernists!

I noticed a big jump in Poe from 5 to 6 because my 6th was Sagani and I really ended up at 7. If I'm packing Maia most of the time I don't think things will feel that different from PoE tbh.

The Winter Soldier I thought was one of the best films in the MCU. At least content and pacing wise. It went more in depth with characters and inter-character relationships than any of the previous movies. Plus it had compelling antagonist and finale. I'd probably say the best comic book films are X2, Spider-Man 2, Batman Begins, First Class, Winter Soldier, and Logan.

I wouldn't say Aloth is two-spirited, not in the way our real world uses it as an identity. His body is being hijacked. Iselmyr is distinct and separate person. Why can't Orlans just be Orlans? The hell?

Something to do with young white liberals wanting to buy into the idea that white civilization is so great it changed the concept of beauty in all of Asia. As if the upper class of those societies hadn't long developed beauty standards for fair skin a long time before. But they just love thinking that not only is there heritage so great to affect such a change, but their ability to transcend their own inherited guilt imbues them with considerable amounts of fungible virtue. Throw in a little bit of speaking on behalf of other people because you need propagate the notion that those people have no voice in the modern age to still hold true in order for you actions to be justified, all while co-opting the crab mentality of held by a vocal minority in some identity group other than your own and turn it into a rhetoric point by which to play power politics within the their own identity group for which they feel they are too low on given their innate virtue.

The thing is, that isn't really Eothas. It's an adra vessel for him. So presumably, if we encounter him, it will probably be on that soul plane. I'd bet he'd fit on screen there.

Maybe we'll have to fight inside him...

We'll see his foot.

Another big part of homelessness if not leaving your community. A lot of people might live in an expensive city but can't afford it. But never choose to move away for cost of living. Then they get evicted and their vices take over.

The major issue with Elba I believe is his age. Even though I'd be fine with him only doing one or two movies, Eon probably wants to sign someone for far more than that. They are getting 5 with Craig and even he seems like he's about to crack.

I think that sentiments now means "maybe for Pillars 3 after we've tightened up the gameplay."

With double the VO we might get close. I hope we'll at leas be wadding through flooded temples. Getting full underwater levels would be both a surprise and shock. But if navigation works nearly the same as on land then that would be really neat to see. Maybe some Archemage has an underwater breathing trait he can bequeath your party. Or diving suits even. There's even a diving helmet already ingame. There are diving suit designs that did exist in the period that the PoE world is roughly technologically at (15th to 18th centuries. Though there aren't any hints of work on the steam engine. Actually, I'm surprised the dwarves haven't developed it already.), so, they wouldn't be too out of place. Wouldn't be surprised if there was some archmage or something in the Deadfire that was more focused on water related spells. Well we haven't seen much of dwarves of dwarf culture yet. So maybe that is about to change.

Ah, good point. I think the Captain America example just feels particular ill-motivated. But if I'm being honest, I don't care too much. I'll just not read it. While I enjoy the MCU because it's a large collaborative adaption. I'm not really a fan of a single writer coming in and basically doing professional fan-fiction. Especially when they're primary goal is not to write a story for an established character, but the purpose is to do a re-characterization within the main canon. But people are free to fill their consumption with that sort of material.

With double the VO we might get close. I hope we'll at leas be wadding through flooded temples. Getting full underwater levels would be both a surprise and shock. But if navigation works nearly the same as on land then that would be really neat to see. Maybe some Archemage has an underwater breathing trait he can bequeath your party.

There is never merely just a common goal to work towards. There are uncommon goals. A goal proposed as being common doesn't make it one. A goal that is particularly common does not imply a common solution. I don't know the details of that law that you speech of, but the problem you take with it not making sense to me. But perhaps you disagree with the above?

They have been threatening to do that since the Tom Baker days. I'm surprised it took this long! Wow, pop culture has turned on it's head. We've had gay characters in westerns, Superman renounced his US Citizenship, celebrities are running for President... and winning, Spider-Man is black... no Puerto Rican... no both (it's a bitch when you can't decide), Doctor Who, Thor, and Captain Marvel are all women now, and Han solo and Captain America are dead. There are no rules anymore, anything goes. It's THUNDERDOME! As for Jodie Whittaker taking over, file me under "whatever". I used to like Doctor Who back in the Tom Baker/ Peter Davidson days. But then I grew up. Haven't watched an episode since Caves of Androzoni (but that was a good one). Doctor Who is different because there is sort of a reincarnation nature. I suppose Marvel works for certain characters because it's just another person taking up the moniker as the previous hero ages out. Which is fine. The thing I'm not a huge fan of is the character assassination of established characters. Thor is no longer worthy to wield Mjolnir, Captain America is now a fascist. It's all too on the nose. It's funny how the people that push for that type of change love to champion respecting identity, but they can't extend that respect to fictional characters.

So does this prove that Moffat is a hack?

Did you always know that you wanted to be a solider. Speaking completely from arm chair. The profession that people tend towards, it often seems like they have less of a tolerance for depictions of whatever that profession is. Most of the kids I grew up with that liked military stuff and war movies didn't go into the service. Those that didn't seem as interested were more likely to take that path as they got older. I know most people that were into tech didn't care much for hacker / programmer movies because the depictions just rubbed them the wrong way. Those same people tend to dislike Silicon Valley (the show.) There might be something there with this affect. You get enough just knowing about the real thing.

I think I took eyestrike at level 1 and I didn't feel strong as a Cipher. I guess I was sort of building my Cipher as a glass cannon / mob controller. Just because classes have really strong early builds doesn't mean there is a problem.

It seems the violence isn't the problem? Are they too politicized or nationalistic? Or is it just "war is hell" realism being too much? Not trying to judge, just curious. I know American Sniper rubbed me the wrong way with the heroization of a single solider, who didn't seem to be all great of a person. Yet possibly my favorite war movie is by that same director.

Ever seen Letters From Iwo Jima?

blue-collar america: "but trump didn't require funding" Yet he's been living unpayed loans and tax exemptions for his whole life, coasting on inflation and his family's wealth. Inflation is half the reason why people stay poor or never pay back their taxes. Because they have to keep up with interest. Anything they can save or put away depreciates. Yet there debt does the opposite. It's great in the neoliberal sense of benefiting established critical infrastructure. But those who have stopped contributing anything just become a tumor at the top of society. There is a huge difference between blue-collar working america and heroin-ally. You can't really blame the working class when their democratic rights are undermined by targetted media, preying on the fact that they don't have the time or capacity to grapple with their situation.