Gromnir

what are your options when there is no light at the end of the tunnel? it is pointless to rage and howl at a medical problem. even despair is meaningless. being unwell isn't fair and perpetual suffering is far more likely to kill hope than it is to build character. i am relieved to hear your situation improves. you have my sincere best wishes that you might eventually reach a better tomorrow.

we recruited ulbrig. as far as am able to tell, if you want ulbrig in act 1, you should be able to acquire him anytime up until your assault on the grey garrison. we initial started a new game, but act 1 is prohibitive tedious. am gonna instead use an already existing character. unfortunate, given the saves we have available, am gonna need redo the defender's heart defense. maybe tomorrow. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, not like the mature free thinkers who made up the bulk o' the canadian convoy protests or those qanon folks waiting for jfk jr. in dallas is not a young crowd, eh? am not needing strain our recall to identify other examples. ... if you think there is some kinda age cutoff for gullibility and the desire to be led, then we got a few thousand years o' recorded history which will rebut such notions. in our experience, young people is at least capable o' change. again, we complain 'bout young people all the time, but even so, am recognizing Gromnir's generation is no less broken. 'course this is not the rosy-hued nostalgia and group hug material o' this thread, so am done. HA! Good Fun!

opposite. am always interested in what young people as individuals think. having an opportunity to get university aged kids away from social media and challenge/speak to 'em is a privilege. am the first to roll our eyes at some o' the abject and willful ignorance we see when generalizing the younger generations. am also disappointed by the continuing deterioration o' basic learning and research skills 'mongst those barely old enough to drink legal. as such, feel free to chalk us up as a cranky ol' cripple w/o any guilt. nevertheless, am more optimistic 'bout young persons than those o' us born before the firstest moon landing. is the kids who still believe they may change the world, so they is the only folks who may eventual do so. am rare regretting the chance to interact with young, privileged and unappreciative snowflakes just so long as am able to communicate with 'em face-to-face. have taught a couple classes since retirement. have also taken a couple university courses. w/o school we would probable end up in cranky ol' cripple jail... though am suspecting such involuntary incarceration would take a year or two as 'posed to days. HA! Good Fun!

“Yeah, I’m crazy,” Bourne told The Daily Beast. “Crazy like a fox.” "Bourne, who makes what she calls “cactus art” using glitter and Swarovski crystals, might seem like an unlikely person to plunge the most-watched cable network in the country into an embarrassing, expensive lawsuit." the terrible reality is stories such as this won't make a bit o' difference. the emails from the fox opinion and news hosts admitting their lies won't change hearts and minds anymore than any o' the dozens o' previous stories which did undermine the credibility o' fox and the trump campaign. post 2016 we increasing shifted towards an us v. them dynamic such that it is impossible to admit wrongs 'cause doing so is traitorous or even apocalyptic. ... got nothing. HA! Good Fun!

am also gonna note poison blow darts is more o' a south america and se asia thing. the notorious curare poison is plant-based (moonseed?) but the "poison dart" frogs which is likely what inspired the earlier quip, is south american indigenous. in any event, if poison dartings is the concern, then am thinking brazil or philippines health care should be the target for research. ... just doing our part to cliff clavin a dose o' reality into the otherwise asinine. HA! Good Fun!

huh. edit: limited info, but the extreme brief video included with the wapo story suggests mr. kemp saw self as a victim as 'posed to a villain. vid is providing zero context and am needing read into limited images more than a little, but it looks as if there is no effort to flee by kemp and am believing he may be seen pointing responders towards the direction in which the other incident participant fled. too early to reach any conclusions, but the story were... unexpected. HA! Good Fun!

in the US, the undereducated working class white part o' the majority has, with the help o' rush limbaugh and steve bannon, come to realize they is the real victims o' oppression and discrimination. blm is out there burning down their own communities while the libs qq over wrongs done hundreds o' years past. honest and hard working americans is suffering to put their second kid through college, but who weeps for them? they, the undeserving them such as illegal immigrants and inner city minorities gobble up handouts such as school lunches and snap benefits while decent people struggle silent... save on social media and january 6. you all know the free money programs being paid for by real americans is being wasted on the undeserving p00r, yes?. they is purposeful having more children than they know what to do with and the homeless is just gonna use their free money to get high or drunk anyways, right? the internet and fox news gives the underappreciated and genuine deserving poor educated working class white american a safe and anonymous place for the snowflakes to rage 'bout immigrants, crt and crime. yeah, the immigrants willing to work sh!te jobs for less money arriving just as we had a historic inflation problem reminiscent o' the post spanish flu inflation btw woulda' been a solution rather than a problem for any legit economist, but *insert here something nonsensical 'bout crime and the fundamental wrongness o' illegal immigration while deflecting with meme worthy concentration camp silliness* and no, crt ain't being taught anywhere at public schools in the US save at least the university level. crime got worse during the pandemic and is current seeing higher levels in deep red oklahoma than california, but never let facts get in the way o' a good rant. ... sounds like distilled crazy until you talk to ordinary working class americans. for the past couple decades, the economic situation for undereducated working class whites has been deteriorating in ways paralleling the suffering o' minority groups. you might think the shared burdens would create a kinda empathy 'tween peoples who typical don't intermingle much in the US. nope. thanks to internet, fox news and conservative radio, the "suffering" o' the ignorant snowflakes has been exploited for political gain resulting in previous implausible stoopid such as qanon, tucker carlson and donald trump. brave new world. HA! Good Fun!

and so a harebrained shadowrun style (not shadowrun rules 'course) game but in an indiana jones setting as inspired by the incredibles aesthetic? am cautious optimistic. HA! Good Fun!

serious? first group is almost all neo-nazi and white supremacist. second group is also not particular controversial with beltway sniper, fort hood and omar mateen representing easily recognizable examples. if the feds hadn't split so, Gromnir would ask why they were being so obtuse to avoid the obvious characterizations. HA! Good Fun!

@Sarexmeme says, "anti defamation league." however, can't blame on adl 'cause is likely the me author who borked. "Since September 12, 2001, the number of fatalities caused by domestic violent extremists has ranged from 1 to 49 in a given year.” The report noted: “[F]atalities resulting from attacks by far right wing violent extremists have exceeded those caused by radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of the years since September 12, 2001. Of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in death since September 12, 2001, far right wing violent extremist groups were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while radical Islamist violent extremists were responsible for 23 (27 percent).” where meme got wrong is the number of deaths as 'posed to number of incidents. however, fbi, dhs and doj is all kinda on the same page regarding definitions and the meme is based on a 2017 government accountability office report. read appendix II starting page 28 if you are genuine curious. we will underline below to show where adl got wrong. Summary of ECDB Incident Description Date City State Number of Victim Deaths White Supremacist member of Aryan Brotherhood killed a man 9/15/2001 Mesquite Texas 1 Same white supremacist as previous case but another victim a few weeks later 10/4/2001 Mesquite Texas 1 White supremacist murdered an African American 3/21/2002 Portland Oregon 1 White supremacist skinhead murdered a transgender person 4/10/2002 El Paso Texas 1 Far right violent extremists murdered 3 fast food workers (one Native American and two Hispanic) 5/19/2002 Mesa Arizona 3 Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 6/12/2002 Tucson Arizona 1 Anti-government “Sovereign Citizen” murdered an Ohio police officer 8/2/2002 Massillon Ohio 1 Two white supremacist skinheads murdered a man 8/30/2002 Las Vegas Nevada 1 White supremacist skinhead beat a man to death outside a diner 9/1/2002 St. Louis Missouri 1 White supremacist murdered bisexual man 12/14/2002 Salinas California 1 White supremacist gang murdered a homeless man as part of a gang initiation 3/23/2003 Tacoma Washington 1 Anti-government militiaman shot and killed a Michigan state trooper 7/7/2003 Fremont Michigan 1 White supremacist shot and killed 6 co-workers at Lockheed Martin Plant 7/8/2003 Meridian Mississippi 6 Neo-Nazi killed sex-offender priest 8/23/2003 Shirley Massachusetts 1 Anti-government “constitutionalist” killed 2 in standoff over land 12/8/2003 Abbeville South Carolina 2 White supremacist killed a man while “hunting down Mexicans” 1/9/2004 Dateland Arizona 1 White supremacists murdered two homeless men 4/15/2005 Hingham Massachusetts 2 Six white supremacist inmates beat another prisoner to death 10/14/2005 Kingman Arizona 1 White supremacist skinhead murdered an African American woman 12/16/2005 Mays Landing New Jersey 1 Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 3/23/2006 New Port Richey Florida 1 White supremacist inmate killed his African American cellmate 11/13/2006 Chipley Florida 1 White supremacist murders Hispanic man in convenience store after argument 7/2/2007 Lubbock Texas 1 White supremacist murdered Lubbock, TX police officer 8/15/2007 Brandon Florida 1 Two white supremacists murdered a homeless man 9/3/2007 Reno Nevada 1 Two white supremacists murdered a gay man as gang initiation rite 10/26/2007 Goldsby Oklahoma 1 Skinhead gang murdered an Hispanic man 12/4/2007 Yucaipa California 1 Middle school skinhead student shot and killed gay peer 2/12/2008 Oxnard California 1 White supremacist teens beat a Hispanic man to death 7/12/2008 Shenandoah Pennsylvania 1 Anti-government violent extremist killed 2 at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church 7/27/2008 Knoxville Tennessee 2 White man obsessed with Nazism murdered an African American man and a Hispanic man 8/1/2008 Bristol Pennsylvania 2 White supremacist teens murdered an Ecuadorian immigrant 11/8/2008 Patchogue New York 1 Two anti-government violent extremists planted a bomb inside a bank, killing 2 12/12/2008 Woodburn Oregon 2 Far rightist murdered a homeless man 1/19/2009 Woodstock Illinois 1 White supremacist killed 2 immigrants 1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1 Same perpetrator as previous case in Brockton, MA killed a homeless man later the same day 1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1 Neo-Nazi murdered Wesleyan University Jewish student 5/6/2009 Middleton Connecticut 1 White supremacists murdered 2 immigrants in home invasion 5/30/2009 Arivaca Arizona 2 Anti-government Sovereign Citizen murdered abortion provider Dr. George Tiller 5/31/2009 Wichita Kansas 1 White supremacist killed Holocaust museum guard 6/10/2009 Washington District of Colombia 1 White supremacist and associate killed a child molester 6/30/2009 Carmichael California 1 White supremacist murdered his stepfather to gain “street cred” 7/28/2009 Paradise California 1 White supremacist murdered a convicted sex offender 8/28/2009 N. Palm Springs California 1 Two white supremacist skinheads shoot at interracial couple and killed female 10/3/2009 Phoenix Arizona 1 Anti-government violent extremist flew a small plane into an Austin, TX office building with U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office in it to protest the IRS and the government 2/18/2010 Austin Texas 1 Neo-Nazi killed an African American man 3/29/2010 South Huntington Pennsylvania 1 White supremacist shot and wounded 4 women then killed a man 4/20/2010 Wichita Falls Texas 1 Two Sovereign Citizen members killed two police officers 5/21/2010 West Memphis Arkansas 2 Prison gang white supremacists murdered another inmate for not objecting to having an African American cellmate 3/1/2011 Atlanta Georgia 1 White supremacist teenagers run over and kill an African American man in a motel parking lot 6/26/2011 Jackson Mississippi 1 Two white supremacists murdered a 53-year old African American man 10/4/2011 Eureka California 1 Same perpetrators as previous case in Eureka, CA; perpetrators killed a teenager they thought was Jewish 10/7/2011 Corvallis Oregon 1 Neo-Nazi killed 6 at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin 8/5/2012 Oak Creek Wisconsin 6 Two neo-Nazis and a third associate murdered a local drug-dealer 1/9/2013 Verona Kentucky 1 Anti-government “survivalist” boarded a school bus with a gun and demanded a student be given to him; he then shot and killed the bus driver 1/29/2013 Midland City Alabama 1 Two white supremacists killed a husband and wife because the husband was a sex offender 7/21/2013 Jonesville South Carolina 2 Anti-government extremist kills Transportation Security Administration officer at Los Angeles International Airport 11/1/2013 Los Angeles California 1 White supremacist shot and killed 2 at a Jewish Community Center 4/13/2014 Overland Park Kansas 2 Same perpetrator as previous attack in Overland Park; perpetrator murdered another person at a Jewish retirement center later the same day 4/13/2014 Leawood Kansas 1 Anti-government married couple killed 2 officers during shooting rampage on Las Vegas strip 6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 2 Same perpetrators as previous attack in Las Vegas; perpetrators murdered another person later the same day 6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 1 Anti-government extremist Eric Frein murdered a state trooper. 9/12/2014 White Haven Pennsylvania 1 White supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed 9 African Americans in a shooting at an African American church in Charleston, SC 6/17/2015 Charleston South Carolina 9 Right-wing extremist opened fire and killed 2 young women among patrons during an Amy Schumer movie 7/23/2015 Lafayette Louisiana 2 White supremacist shot and killed 9 at his community college 10/1/2015 Roseburg Oregon 9 Anti-government survivalist extremist killed 3 at Planned Parenthood clinic including a responding police officer 11/27/2015 Colorado Springs Colorado 3 Number of incidents: 62 Total victims: 106 Table 2: Radical Islamist Violent Extremist-Motivated Attacks that Resulted in Fatalities, September 12, 2001 through December 31, 2016, as reported in the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) Summary of ECDB Incident Description Date City State Number of Victim Deaths Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in state of Washington 2/16/2002 Tacoma Washington 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Arizona 3/19/2002 Tucson Arizona 1 Radical Islamist violent extremist killed 2 at Los Angeles International Airport El Al ticket counter 7/4/2002 Los Angeles California 2 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Atlanta, GA 9/21/2002 Atlanta Georgia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Montgomery, AL, 19 hours after attack in Atlanta, GA 9/21/2002 Montgomery Alabama 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Baton Rouge, LA 9/23/2002 Baton Rouge Louisiana 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/2/2002 Wheaton Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Rockville Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Aspen Hill Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Silver Spring Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Kensington Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Washington District of Columbia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/9/2002 Manassas Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/11/2002 Spotsylvania County Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/14/2002 Fairfax County Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/22/2002 Aspen Hill Maryland 1 Perpetrator kills 1 at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle 7/28/2006 Seattle Washington 1 Perpetrator kills 1 and injures 18 in hit-and-run driving spree in San Francisco and Fremont, CA 8/29/2006 Fremont California 1 Salt Lake City, UT Trolley Square Shooting 2/12/2007 Salt Lake City Utah 5 Perpetrator killed one army solider outside of a military recruiting center in Little Rock, AR 6/1/2009 Little Rock Arkansas 1 Nidal Malik Hasan kills 12 soldiers and 1 civilian at Fort Hood, TX 11/5/2009 Fort Hood Texas 13 Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev helped murder 3 persons four years before Boston bombing 9/11/2011 Waltham Massachusetts 3 Reshad Riddle, a convert to Islam, murdered his father 3/24/2013 Ashtabula Ohio 1 Boston bomber brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing 3 4/15/2013 Boston Massachusetts 3 Tsarnaev brothers shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology security officer 4/18/2013 Cambridge Massachusetts 1 Incident 1 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed a man in a drive by shooting 4/27/2014 Seattle Washington 1 Incident 2 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed 2 men in Seattle leaving a gay club 6/1/2014 Seattle Washington 2 Incident 3 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed a man in a drive by shooting and killed a college student 6/25/2014 West Orange New Jersey 1 Justin Nojan Sullivan, a convert to Islam, murdered his neighbor 12/18/2014 Morganton North Carolina 1 Perpetrator opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, TN, killing 5 7/16/2015 Chattanooga Tennessee 5 San Bernardino, CA shooting spree: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik shoot up office party, killing 14 and injuring 22 12/2/2015 San Bernardino California 14 Orlando Night Club shooting. Omar Mateen killed 49 6/12/2016 Orlando Florida 49 Number of Incidents: 23 Total Victims: 119 so, the meme is wrong/misleading, but that weren't your concern. definitions is page 28. (edit: weird formatting errors... maybe fixed) HA! Good Fun!

purchased a breville’s polyscience control freak. will be here march 9-14. we got plenty o' stainless steel cookware, so we should be good, but am now contemplating buying a decent carbon steel pan. am a big fan o' made in, but am thinking o' going lodge since we have such a good track record with lodge. most all our impulse buys nowadays is cooking related. is kinda a sickness. HA! Good Fun!

azata just got a silly kinda item related upgrade. the ring of triumphant advance doubles morale bonuses. incredible might is an azata sooper powha which adds a morale bonus based on mythic level bonus to ab and damage, so up to +10. the ring makes this bonus potential +20, albeit level 10 mythic is achieved at the extreme end o' game. the morale bonuses for the azata spell believe in yourself is to attributes and went from max+5 to +10 when wearing the ring. previous to this patch, believe in yourself were unaffected by the ring of triumphant advance. admitted, the ring is now working as described, but is nevertheless a nice bonus for azata to be seeing believe in yourself bonuses doubled. edit: is a handful o' new druid spells which interest us more than a little. winter's grasp and tidal surge is cold conjuration spells which cause prone and do damage. as they are conjuration, they are gonna ignore sr. explosion of rot, a necromancy spell, is also kinda nifty as it does decent damage but also renders foes staggered. HA! Good Fun!

citizen kane wasn't a box office smash in 1941 and is even more difficult for a 2023 audience to appreciate. bartimaeus didn't begin watching movies in the 1930s, and is unlikely his movie viewing were entire chronological based. your viewing history makes it difficult to appreciate how movies changed with citizen kane. the thing is, both from a storytelling and cinematography pov, citizen kane altered the manner in which films were crafted. (fixed)orson welles' flick were revolutionary but not in ways you might immediate recognize as a 2023 viewer and maybe not even in 1941. years o' marriage covered in a minute and a half o' screen time. kane weren't the first to do montage, but it fundamental changed how it were used, but for a 2023 viewer, is something you even notice? deep focus weren't pioneered in kane, but again, the filming changed the way stories were told. above is a scene where kane loses his empire and in the span o' a few seconds we see kane, who woulda' been literal larger than life on a movie screen, shrink. 'bove is only a couple examples. unlike Gromnir, the real film students may wax rhapsodic for hours 'bout kane. like it or not as entertainment, citizen kane is one o' those few genuine revolutionary films. how many films literal changed the way subsequent films were made? HA! Good Fun!

is complicated. women are not minorities and they have the right to vote. from a Court pov, women do not fulfill the the suspect class factors for achieving strict scrutiny when applying equal protection or substantive due process analysis. says landed white men, the Constitution don't have explicit protections for landed white men and such is not needed 'cause men got the right to vote and always has. however, women has not always had the right to vote, so a grey area is created and the Court, in a decision written by J. O'Connor, determined women should enjoy quasi-suspect class protection and receive intermediate scrutiny when there is a gender-based question before the Court. is perhaps ironic but the most significant legal obstacle to women receiving equal rights under the current Constitution is the fact women voters is the majority. ... the thing is, as should be obvious by now following the death of roe, reliance on SCOTUS opinions to preserve fundamental rights is a strategy requiring the continued good will o' nine (at the moment) individuals who were not themselves democratic elected and who owe no allegiance to the People. logical, creation o' an amendment guaranteeing the equal rights for women when women is representing majority in the democratic republic which is the US should be unnecessary and is arguable self serving. 'course is one o' those situations when logic is gonna trip you up. in CA, there has been at least one female US senator since the early 90s. adam schiff is seeking to replace dianne feinstein and he is facing substantial democrat opposition in the liberal state in large part because he ain't a minority or a woman. is hard to imagine any time soon when tommy tuberville would face a gender or race obstacle in alabama but like it or not, is many women voters in alabama who make tommy tuberville possible just as is women who is gonna decide whether or not adam schiff satisfies identity politics prerequisites. in our opinion there should be an amendment protecting women's rights, but Gromnir's opinion is almost complete immaterial. a new amendment requires 2/3 o' states or a Constitutional Convention to be happening. given the current degree of polarization in the US, is difficult to imagine any meaningful amendments being passed. a fair number o' states have equal rights baked into their Constitutions. California is an example o' a state which historical protected women's rights and is not 'cause CA has always been liberal. CA had community property and women's rights from early days 'cause o' the most practical reason: california needed women. more specific, CA wanted women with money to come to CA and/or not leave CA. the california gold rush brought a whole lotta impoverished men to CA, but not so many women. regardless, this issue o' the era is perhaps more complex than it first seems. HA! Good Fun!

is not uncommon for us to get a hankering for fry bread, but our grandmother made with lard, so it don't taste right to us unless is made with lard. probable the only reason grandma used lard is 'cause such is what we typical had available. unfortunate, we rare have lard on hand anymore, so is equal rare we make fry bread. oh well. our grandfather claimed he preferred absolute ghastly wildrice flat bread/cakes. the wild rice abominations were a pre-colonial staple not requiring wheat flour or baking powder. eating those things is where our lifelong disgust o' wild rice began. HA! Good Fun!

am knowing britain has laws 'bout replica weapons being displayed public. am also recalling a few o' the original sw prop weapons were real pistols or whatever with added doodads. have a friend who does this kinda thing and we were shocked when we picked up his han solo blaster and we realized just how heavy it were. reason for the heft were 'cause there were a real mauser underneath the extra bits. am wondering if you ever get forced to make a weapon look less realistic just so it won't be confiscated or worse. unrelated, am remembering at least one o' the original movie lightsabre hilts were, at its core, a flash attachment for a camera, the kinda camera which no longer exists in 2023. is no doubt a bit more difficult to make "authentic" replicas (weird phrase) o' a few items nowadays. try and follow the original prop designer plans is gonna be improbable and not just 'cause a real mauser is likely verboten in britain. HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned previous how the goal o' many stories written for kids is to teach 'em bout death and/or to make 'em weep. why? dunno. steinbeck's red pony, patterson's bridge to teribithia, yawlings yearling and too many others to list has a beloved pet, animal companion and/or dear friend die. in fact, disney added the death o' gurgi to their black cauldron 'cause old disney had some weird rule that kids need weep at least once in their earlier films? how many theatres over the years went nuts with kid wails when bambi's mother were shot? it is not difficult to make kids cry, so am always having been curious as to why a goal o' many writers o' children's fare is to generate tears. suppressed sadism? HA! Good Fun!

exactly. is unlikely this were the first movie trailer keyrock had ever seen, so is doubtful he were genuine caught off guard by the disconnect 'tween epic music and a few seconds o' scenes taken outta context. indeed. am suggesting he struggled to find other problems. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting your recollection is the norm as 'posed to the exception. perhaps too few parents nowadays is reading to their kids, but even if they are, am doubtful peter and wendy makes top twenty lists. we frequent lament how underappreciated is authors o' children's fiction, mentioning lloyd alexander, phillip pullman, simon juster, madeleine l'engle, rudyard kipling and neil gaiman just to name a few. am old, so am no doubt ignoring a whole catalog o' recent authors making great youth fiction, authors o' whom we ain't even aware. furthermore, is vast repositories o' fairytales and mythology from 'round the world we would be reading to kids before we would ever get 'round to considering barrie. heck, we would even read shakespeare before trying barrie. have seen criticism o' the recent trailer other than epic music in a movie trailer. New live-action 'Peter Pan' trailer shocks with major character changes: 'Diversity nonsense' predictable. the book peter and wendy is pre adolescents, but the author did not otherwise describe their appearance in any detail save for attire. tinker bell? author left her visual characteristics up to the imagination o' readers, and her personality is as broken as is peter's. 'ccording to barrie, tinker bell is so diminutive she may hold onto no more than one emotion at a time. disney influenced the multitudinous versions o' peter pan which followed far more than did the original novel and play. as such, the expectations 'bout character appearance and personalities is more linked to disney than barrie. gonna repeat, am not a fan o' the barrie works but we also weren't a fan o' disney, so we had no good will built up in advance o' the trailer. the trailer changed our mind for the better, 'cause while we ain't a fan o' barrie, we ain't ever seen an effort to do peter pan based on peter and wendy v. peter pan. peter pan is functional suffering a curse which keeps him perpetual shallow, selfish and smug, incapable o' making and maintaining meaningful relations. the curse ain't some kinda faustian bargain in which he sacrifices his soul, nor is it akin to greek tragedy in which he were cursed by the gods for impiety. peter pan is a kid in perpetuity. that's it. you would think such cynical thematic material would be a hard sell particular for family movies, but every few years there is a new effort to do peter pan. fascinating, no? while am not a fan o' barrie, am curious to see what a director produces when trying to be faithful to barrie themes especial 'cause am believing most people is like bartimaeus and they do not know the source material. curious, the expectations created by disney allows a director who is faithful to source material to nevertheless surprise audiences with something unexpected. HA! Good Fun!

we said we didn't like the peter pan stories, but am nevertheless recognizing something clever j.m. barrie did with the play and novel. children is gonna enjoy the tale in a much different way than will adults. is not simple a matter o' how with more education and experience adults will recognize aspects o' story which may be less obvious to children. is not a phantom tollbooth or even rocky and bullwinkle situation. the core themes o' pan stories is dealing with childhood and kids ain't equipped to understand. the inability o' children to grok peter and wendy is a cognitive development obstacle as 'posed to lack of knowledge. events and scenes from barrie stories in which child audiences is meant to laugh and cheer, an adult audience is likely to feel pity or even weep. have never seen return to neverland, so we cannot speak to its quality, and as already noted, am not a fan o' peter pan in general. even so, peter pan stories should be viewed different as adults compared to when one is a child. if you saw or read a peter pan tale as a kid, then is appropriate your childhood memories should be fundamental altered when experiencing as an adult. HA! Good Fun!

epic music is the fail? you ain't never seen a trailer before yesterday? is a trailer, so is not gonna be more than one music track anyways. *shrug* peter pan, the character from the book, is s'posed to be an unlikable and smug little d-bag, though in a trailer which peter gets two spoken lines and less than ten seconds in which you could see his face clear enough to read facial expressions, am thinking you are perhaps trying too hard to find fault. and again, peter pan is a kid. in the novel (and play) he is written as selfish and immature because, he is a kid. peter pan says inappropriate when is most inappropriate and habitual takes credit for the achievements o' others. did we mention selfish? needs repeating 'cause other than foolish bravery, selfishness is his most defining quality. IF peter is "straight up smug" in this new iteration, and from the extreme limited trailer exposure am not sure how one arrives at such a conclusion, then it means this version o' peter is far closer to the author's intended character than most previous adaptions. example: in a follow up peter pan story by the original author, it is revealed that tinker bell died a short time after the events o' the peter and wendy tale, and within a few years peter has literal complete forgotten tinker bell. peter doesn't genuine care 'bout anybody. peter does have a somewhat obsessive fixation with wendy and her descendants, but is extreme shallow and childish. we wouldn't say wendy has only one expression in the trailer, but she does suffer from the open-mouth wonder, fear, confusion bit. if is some other reason... HA! Good Fun!

reasons? personally, we dislike the peter pan story and the cinematic graveyard is littered with bad peter pan films. also, live-action disney remakes o' their animated catalog has been near universal miss. we didn't know anything about this film 'til we saw the trailer, which is another example o' our zero interest. was every reason to expect seeing the trailer would confirm our disinterest. ... peter and many o' the lost boys look like little kids. in the novel we got no specific mention 'o peter's age, but he proud announces he retains all his baby teeth at one point. many o' the themes is inextricable linked to peter and the kids being... kids. in so many movies, peter and the boys appear old enough to break a few themes from the book. if you think a peter pan movie should follow the source material regarding theme, then this trailer provides a glimmer o' hope. again, am not a fan o' the novel, but am admitted more curious 'cause the movie looks as if is trying to handle core themes in a way all those crap adaptions did not. am at least curious. am not having complaints 'bout visuals and sound. did not go cheap. is scenes which reminded us o' scorsese's hugo, and not just the clock. is only a trailer, but we saw a few genuine beautiful shots with fantastic use o' light. jude law, alan tudyk and molly parker is in the trailer and mr. law sounded appropriate menacing. am optimistic 'bout the cast, though kid actors is always a crap shoot. after viewing the trailer, we checked and saw the director is the person who did the recent green knight. am far more interested today than we were yesterday, and yesterday we had not seen the trailer. 'course the thing is, we still don't particular like peter pan, so... HA! Good Fun!

gonna pretend this is a serious question. admission: am never having played wotr on a difficulty lower than core, so am only able to speak to core and above. the thing is, even on core you may enjoy +90% o' the game w/o any kinda munchkinism or effort to craft character and party builds which focus on efficacy. the remaining less than 10% o' encounters is the problem. many/most boss battles, and a few other encounters, represent dramatic difficulty spikes and if you didn't choose the right character and party builds with the correct feats, spells and weapon choices, is more than likely you will face considerable frustration. play wotr and if you do not already have intimate pathfinder and owlcat version o' pathfinder experience, as well as meta knowledge 'bout specific wotr encounters, then chances are you will at some point need come to a board like this for advice or seek out guides to help get past __________ or __________. also keep in mind there is a whole lotta combat in wotr. we would be shocked if normal difficulty didn't suffer similar difficulty spikes as core. am realizing people don't like the munchkin label as it has a negative connotation, but am gonna suggest it is difficult to enjoy wotr w/o embracing your inner lollipop guildmaster. if you wanna take down the evil wotr witch, you need do more than wait for a house to fall on her. you are gonna need choose the right weapons and right multi-class choices and right feats if you wanna avoid frustration in those less than 10% o' threshold encounters, and many o' those encounters is not optional. HA! Good Fun!

am betting a dollar josh would shrink an inch after watching this 'cause seems more than likely he were the one responsible for the eye-roll caesar pronunciation from fo:nv. HA! Good Fun!