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curious enough, the deep fried twinkie, a staple at many county and state fairs, were invented by a guy from rugby, england... well, at least one story attributes to the englishman. co-invented with a guy from brooklyn at their fish 'n chips restaurant is how we heard it. regardless, pretty much any candy bar, pastry and ice cream confection has gotten the deep fried treatment. one o' our many sports when we were younger were swimming. a regional swim meet could be an all-day or multi-day affair. if you were scheduled for multiple events, you would often need wait a considerable 'mount o' time between time when you were actual in the pool. *chuckle* am suspecting we ate our weight in twinkies and candy bars many times over during those interminable waiting periods at swim meets. finish 100m fly and then need wait 30 minutes or an hour for next event. *groan* needed replenish lost calories and sugary snacks were readily available options. twinkies and candy bars traveled well. the thing is, we never genuine liked twinkies, but they were convenient and loaded with sugar. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.amazon.com/American-Stories-Legends-Writings-Classics/dp/0142437093/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=51ykkBk6J7L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR102%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=9SR4BMBVKAAN5ZW7SRJY is not a history book, but am gonna recommend it for the cultural perspective it affords the reader. w/o a written language, the lakota were predictably terrible historians, but they produced many fine storytellers. along similar lines, we can recommend the following author: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Joseph+M.+Marshall+III&search-alias=books&field-author=Joseph+M.+Marshall+III&sort=relevancerank as a storyteller, marshall is an okie dokie historian. as a historian, marshall's depth o' research and unique insights fail to impress. read for the stories. drury (and clavin) is a fine author and has much deserved accolades, so am gonna second gd's recommendation. HA! Good Fun!

am not wanting to put a damper on hurl's trip before you even begin, but am hopeful you consider the cultural implications if you is planning a trip to the black hills (and particular mount rushmore) while you visit south dakota. am recalling that you were quite moved when visiting the mlk and civil rights museums on your tour o' the south, yes? all am asking is you consider the significance o' rushmore when you visit, 'cause is no modern parallel we can provide. ... imagine if after years o' fighting, israel and the arab world formalize a treaty. as part o' the deal, the arabs demilitarize. peace lasts for 'bout five minutes and then the israelis break the treaty and invade. part o' the new israeli occupation includes razing of mecca to take advantage o' mineral resources found on the site. the masjid al-harām is leveled and in its place is constructed a granite monolith depicting david ben gurion and moshe dayan. is not as if hurl and his family built rushmore or took the black hills from the lakota. is folks who might wanna try and makes you feel guilty 'bout what happened way backs in the post civil war years. not Gromnir. that being said, while we can understand the pride one must feel as an American looking up at rushmore, we do hope you consider just what mt. rushmore means to the lakota. the monument is magnificent, but is also degradation and insult that just ain't possible to forget. if any lakota is still alive 100 generations from today, they is still gonna recall rushmore very different than we suspect will hurl and his family. a moment's reflection is all we would ask of you.

That was pretty cool. I could use that hammer too. ginsberg, that old letch, grabbed our arse. almost twenty years ago? were more than a bit embarrassing. our shock resulted in a most unmanly display as we reacted similar as does the typical cat when a vacuum cleaner is fired up in the same room. am thankful that ginsberg's residual poetry no doubt dissipated quickly. HA! Good Fun!

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I love the concealed porch weapon. I'd probably keep a melee weapon in a discreet place, too. A good framing hammer will do a lot of damage.* *I mean against zombies or humans, not foxes I have a firearm concealed in every room and space. For real. You never know! true enough. having lived in a rural part o' the US, am familiar with "never know." you never know when a rabid ninja raccoon will break into your home looking for your wife's shoes. oh sure, you immediate thought the racoon were male. bruce would be disappointed. you never know when a rabid ninja racoon will wanna look pretty, yes? and you never know when white-tailed commando, sick beyond sanity from you dog's constant barking, will break into your newly renovated florida room and plant a splayed hoof right between the canine's shocked eyes. sure, statistically you and your family is far more likely to be injured or killed by one o' your own firearms, but you never know when genetic enhanced black bears will escape from the secret government facility that is located only a few miles away from your house. the bears, bent on revenge and world domination, will no doubt be hungry after their long incarceration, and gd's fruit loops will drive the ursine super brains mad with desire. you never know. as an aside, given the current Congressional shenanigans, we is being asked by our aclu colleagues to aid with a challenge to the No Fly List. https://www.aclu.org/infographic/grounded-life-no-fly-list https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/until-no-fly-list-fixed-it-shouldnt-be-used-restrict-peoples-freedoms am very much disappointed Congress and the President keep using the No Fly List as a cornerstone o' their new gun control legislations. HA! Good Fun!

commercial pilot is different than airline pilot... or commercial airline pilots. as a commercial pilot you may have charter flights that include passengers, but is, so we is told, a broad range o' other options available to the commercial pilot. the typical airline pilot needs a college degree and all kinda extra training, but if you wanna be a pilot that does firefighting or cargo or rescue or... am mostly talking out our arse as we ain't a pilot and we got everything we know second-hand, but is our understanding that if you don't wanna fly passengers for a major airline, you still got considerable options. HA! Good Fun!

had a teacher friend o' ours quit his job a few years ago. the guy liked teaching, but he started to hate the kids, so he figured it were time to quit. so he quits his job w/o having any real prospects. that bachelor of arts in history from csunowhere that he invested four years o' his life (and innumerable keggers) pursuing weren't opening too many doors for him. our friend didn't have a genuine plan, but he were still in his early thirties, so he considered his options. commercial pilot. commercial pilot? we thought he were crazy. less than six months o' training/school and he had to pay ~$25k? guess it don't matter too much if you love your job. he gets paid well enough that it didn't take too long to pay back the school loans. the guy is happy. am not suggesting commercial pilot. have no idea what is your situation. even so, you is still young enough that you can find a career rather than a job, yes? as hopeless as it may seem, try to stay positive. HA! Good Fun! ps gd already has a dedicated melee weapon. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70860-what-you-did-today/?p=1580315

it is nice to have fighter equivalent accuracy with both a piercing and a blunt weapon. also, there is decent stilettos and a good club available at low levels. clubs is particular useful at low levels with the accuracy bonus. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, the priest is malleable and potent. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/84013-no-idea-what-would-be-a-good-initial-build-for-my-first-proper-game/?p=1771290 am thinking that far too many folks waste the opportunity to play a pc priest by going with the healbot + buff/debuff route. is not to say that the traditional support priest ain't efficacious in poe, but durance can handle most such duties in spite o' beat-to-death complaints 'bout his attributes. use durance for traditional support role allows a pc priest to explore the fringes o' the poe mechanics for more unique (and fun?) builds. enjoy the sinister skaen priest. the only thing he/she ain't good at is tanking... and the good-guy dialogue checks. HA! Good Fun!

am imagining the above would describe a typical day for tim burton... for the last 30 years. HA! Good Fun!

am honest not sure what is bruce's point, unless you is attempting to give us additional proof that the post apartheid government in sa is having difficulty with the concept o' justice. is ok to criminalize folks for shooting their mouth off in public, but actual criminals who has been sentenced to long prison terms for multiple murders and crimes 'gainst humanity will be released just so long as they offer up some kind token to the State? am complete honest that we do not see how the kock example helps you explain sa free speech limits. we will note that we is mildly curious as to how you feel 'bout our due process conundrum: do you believe that due process rights should be abridged in cases where the majority population is particular offended by the defendant's alleged crimes? if the answer is no, then why do you feel different 'bout due process than free speech? if sensitivity towards the majority and its history at the hands o' an oppressive former regime is a rationale for criminalizing free speech, then why not do the same when is due process? HA! Good Fun! ps happy father's day to all the American fathers on board. and to stay on-topic, today we used our impulse buy watermelon slicer for the firstest time. *chuckle* kinda nifty little tool. weird looking, eh? am suspecting that Gromnir were the last person in the free world to hear o' these things, and we don't typical bother with gadgets, but it did work surprisingly well for us today. shock.

we watched a few stargate tv episodes with mcgyver staring in 'em. meh. the movie, with the 'girl' from the crying game and the computer who wore tennis shoes weren't much better. am not a stargate fan, so we got no horse in this race. that being said, we thinks ditching the tv show lore is a good idea, particular if your intent is to bring back professor daniel jackson, but no longer a milquetoast. have movies all 'bout prof. jackson subverting and neutralizing alien cultures. have an older and more cynical david spader channel his black list and ultron work. now that sounds fun. ... go heavy on drones to do reconnaissance and wet work. at the very least you get gifted to go see. HA! Good Fun!

all kinda deals is made with defendants and prisoners. give relaxed sentences for testifying 'gainst ______ or describing where is stolen loot or buried bodies or to convey expertise 'bout how a high-tech crime were committed. 'course somebody gotta approve such deals, such as a judge. roman polanski's deal with the da, for example, were rejected by the judge in his case. even so, am not certain o' your actual question. do criminals in the US get early release for cooperating with the State? is not all that common, but sure. would the US release a guy such as kock under similar circumstances? dunno. doesn't strike us as likely. however, am thinking we is missing your point if you suggest that the kock scenario is related to our previous discussion 'bout denial o' free speech when that speech might tend to anger the majority population o' south africa. our comment 'bout due process rights is not actual analogous to kock. kock were tried and found guilt and sentenced, presumably all with authority o' law. did the south african courts treat kock different just to get a conviction that would satisfy the south african majority? would you be offended if the south african courts had treated kock different just to insure a conviction? if such prosecutorial shenanigans do offend your sensibilities, then we see a serious problem, 'cause you is clear supporting the diminution o' free speech rights when a speaker is tending to offend the majority population. HA! Good Fun!

we gave you multiple examples. 1200 civil servants controlling a nation of 300 million? the spanish had 1000 soldiers conquer the aztec empire, which were having a populace of millions. the number o' spaniards in mexico were relative small for most o' the 300 years. and why does colonialism make a difference? were no emerging democracies during the colonial period? mill wrote during the 1800s. is unique in the sense that sa took longer than the rest o' the western world to be embracing the notion that regardless o' race, all men and women deserve equal treatment by the State. even so, is any number o' nations that struggled with the exact same issues as did sa, but they did so in the 1800s through the early post ww ii era. am not sure why you think 1950s, when numerous nations were finally freeing themselves from colonial rule is making a fundamental difference compared to 1994 end o' apartheid. again, the real tragedy 'o south africa were not that it were unique, but that until relative recent in history, it were common. regardless, if a fundamental human right such the freedom o' expression can be abridged 'cause o' sa's unique situation, then what personal liberty is truly protected? because o' due process rights, an otherwise guilty white criminal would get away with _____, which would inflame the black population o' south africa. so we got an excuse for suppressing due process in sa, yes? what freedom is free in sa if you genuine believe that your unique situation can lead to the abridgment o' that which mill and others knew were the most essential o' all rights: free speech. democracy is dangerous. we have mentioned elsewhere, and to no avail, that democracy and liberty is actual antagonistic. the founders o' democracies invariably set certain liberty rights beyond the reach o' the majority will, because the majority can be fickle and vicious and stupid. everybody loves free speech, until the majority is offended by an utterance. everybody loves freedom of religion, until a religion makes most god fearing people uncomfortable. democracy has always been the greatest threat to liberty in modern western nations. for sa to prioritize the emotional well being o' the majority over individual fundamental liberty rights is a dangerous reversal o' philosophy. HA! Good Fun!

the british raj lasted more than 100 years. 1200 british civil servants running a nation o' more than 300 million. want to talk horrors? we can recount ottoman empire rule in greece and armenia and various part o' the middle east. very frequent the turks were minorities in the nations they ruled. spanish and portuguese conquests and rule of indigenous peoples in central and south america were long and bloody. cortés destroyed the aztecs with ~1000 spanish soldiers, yes? 1521. 300 years later, the mexican people free themselves from the yoke o' spanish oppression. elite ruling class brutalized the native population for centuries. etc. sa is different? sure. sadly, it ain't near as unique as bruce suggests.

was there ever blu-ray for btas? on dvd we got the volumes 1-4, which is kinda confusing as it includes season 1, 2 and the new batman adventures... or that is how we recollect. we actual took a date to see mask of the phantasm when it played in theatres. needless to say, we didn't date long, but we still got fond memories o' seeing btas batman on the big screen. HA! Good Fun!

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86008-what-you-did-today/?p=1808651 is same answer todays as before. sa ain't as unique as you suggest. common men, the majority, finally throwing off the oppression o' the nobles after centuries o' degradation and suffering. that is not a new or unique historical story. ill-treated masses, after centuries o' subjugation, sudden find themselves with freedom... and all too often, those freedmen created a new tyranny and a more brutal society than the one they left behind. "reign of terror" is a common stage following most such revolutions. in a majority o' the middle east and asia where european empire builders ruled over vast numbers of people and enormous tracts of land, the majority native populations and cultures frequent found themselves with a choice 'bout how to rule in the absence 'o western devils. the evils done by the liberated peoples in such places is at least partial to blame for why we now see so much violence in what were known as the third world. in the united states, we got people preaching hate and vitriol every day. baptist minister in sacramento applauds orlando shooting. a minister in gainnsville burns quran and claims that all of the middle east should be added to the pyre. *snort* such stuff happens frequent enough, and it makes for fascinating tv, but 99% of americans is either revolted by the message, or they simple give a cursory eye roll at the news o' another fringe nutter speaking nonsense. the guy in sacramento? his church can't even seat the 49 people who died in orland. the church is in one o' those business parks where merchants common sell used auto parts or do cheap smog checks or whatnot. such stuff is news because is rare and... stoopid. the US is diverse, and big and has a great deal o' income inequality. we got far too many have nots. relative homogenous societies such as japan and much o' europe got it easy compared to the US. even so, is the United States that remains dedicated to those ideals that john mill believed to be essential to a democracy. in recent years the conflicts in ferguson and baltimore were ugly, but we shudder to think how bloody and terrible woulda' been the long-term cost if either whites or black or anybody with an opinion were forced to remain silent. yes, when the situation in ferguson were at its worst, there were people o' all colors preaching hate. fine. we would much rather have such folks shouting for change rather than shooting their enemies. sa is unique? sure it is. every nation on earth is unique. even so, certain truths is universal. guys such as mill and shakespeare weren't just talking to their fellow, centuries-old, englishmen. such enduring truths is why christianity, buddhism, islam and hinduism has all thrived. unfortunately, the truths can be... perverted. we gets radical christians and islamic extremists. and we get democracies abandoning free speech for a false security. gonna choose liberty, or tyranny? is not as complex as bruce suggests. HA! Good Fun!

'cause, y'know, criminalizing the racist for expressing themselves will make them less racist in the future, and less likely to raise their children as racists. silencing offensive viewpoints has always been the best way to make those extreme elements in society disappear... as 'posed to festering. "those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. they did not fear political change. they did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. to courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. if there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." --brandeis concurring, whitney v. ca, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) attempting to silence unpopular and offensive elements in a society only leads to further polarization and increases the likelihood o' extremist behavior. if the nutters can vent, they is less likely to do harm. furthermore, those elements that the State silences has a tendency to align so that extremist groups with very little in common (perhaps even natural enemies) become allies against their government oppressors. no long-term good comes from viewpoint-based restrictions and criminalization. in a democratic nation, such attempts to silence is, at best, impotent-- politically motivated handwringing meant to curry favor with the electorate. at worst, such misguided policies lead to greater social division and likely increase violence. terrible. post the video and her identity. let society punish her the way all such societies has done since time immemorial. don't hire her. treat her with scorn and ridicule. makes her feel like the pariah she is. no violence, please, but societies has always been adept at punishing offensive elements, even when those offensive elements don't deserve punishment. for chrissakes, let society actual do some good by exercising its traditionally petty (but effective) abuses on perceived ne'er do wells. HA! Good Fun!

our initial reaction to a few o' the announced choices were ambivalence. were gonna be almost impossible to get shadow correct based on the physical descriptions. numerous characters in the book mention that they don't know what is shadows ethnic background. light eyes, dark skin and a somewhat grizzled don't-f@#*-with-me trucker/biker/lumberjack vibe. physically, mr. nancy is old, short and skinny. doesn't take much effort to make an actor appear older, though is rare done well. gotta be able to dapper and sardonic for mr. nancy. orlando jones is skinny-- leave it at that. czernobog is old, eastern-european, and having grey hair. the man is all rough edges and blunt force. peter stormare can do the rough edges part o' the character. media first appears to shadow from a tv broadcast o' an old i love lucy episode. will be kinda fun to see gillian anderson doing lucy ricardo. am a big ian mcshane fan. in the books, mr. wednesday coulda been described as a 6'6, 300 lb mexican man in his early twenties and we still woulda' approved o' ian mcshane. mr. wednesday is a morally bankrupt conman extraordinaire who manipulates... everybody. he is burt lancaster doing elmer gantry, but w/o any conflicts o' conscience. dunno. the book got a bit messy and lacked focus at times. is not our favorite gaiman. is possible that it will actual do better in episodic tv format. each cast member and unique american locale will have time to shine w/o distracting from the core story. as we noted already, a few o' the casting choices don't strike us as intuitive, but none o' the choices is necessarily bad, and we will give almost anything with ian mcshane a shot. showrunner bryan fuller were responsible for wonderfalls and pushing daisies, both o' which we loved unabashedly. kinda liked dead like me, and we heard hannibal were okie dokie. *shrug* am optimistic. not even need qualify as cautious optimistic. HA! Good Fun!

the biggest obstacle for a players trying to get the most outta their priest is that they typical only got one in their party. if you only got one priest, and you mistaken listened to min-maxer recommendations on how to build the correct poe priest, you is gonna be little more than a healer/buffer/debuffer for most o' the game. in a typical battle, by the time you buff and debuff, or vice-versa, the battle is gonna be over, at which time your low perception, high dex priest with middling might and no combat talents is gonna be a waste in combat- weapon or spell. you want a priest that can buff and do damage in both spell and weapon-based combat? make your first talent choice your deity weapon-focus for +10 accuracy. second talent is gonna be the weapon focus talent that includes your deity weapon (or in case o' skaen, weapons). you now got fighter accuracy with one or two weapons. congrats. as long as you don't min-max yourself into combat impotence by lowering might and perception into handicaps, at low levels you are gonna be able to get considerable use from divine mark (big single target damage) and iconic projection (smallish per unit damage, but considerable total aoe). and 'course any battle with vessels is gonna result in you being the party hammer with your per encounter holy radiance. as you increase in levels, take sion of flame and then use your considerable fire spell repertoire to watch the world burn. durance has one o' the most underrated weapons in the game. the burning lash is not particular special, but crush/burn of his staff is a unique quality that many people has failed to exploit. unfortunately, durance sucks with staves. swords and or arquebus is your durance options if you want him to aid in combat. but again, if you only got a single priest, chances are that you ain't gonna be able to see him/her doing damage in combats. buff. debuff. heal. repeat. end of battle. priests, even at lower levels, is potentially highly efficacious in combat both with weapons and offensive spells. need play smart... and chances are you need another support companion. HA! Good Fun!

aside: is no surprise to us that the chinese like the warcraft movie. the chinese have been retelling slight variations of the romance of the three kingdoms since the 14th century. epic story o' kings and generals and battles for control of middle earth... sorry, the middle kingdom. there is no western equivalent for the romance of the three kingdoms. as popular as been any shakespeare plays or homer, you will not see multiple yearly tv and movie projects for romeo and juliet or iliad. explain the chinese devotion to the most popular o' their four great classic novels? attribute to unique sense o' chinese respect for tradition. maybe if you is less generous you will suggest that such is an example o' lack o' creativity. doesn't matter. the point is that the chinese has been retelling the same story with minor variations for centuries. regardless o' what they tell themselves, sales figures show that the chinese is hungry for new epic fantasy. sure, the chinese tries 'new' three kingdom knockoffs all the time, but production values is typical questionable... and they is knockoffs. the hobbit: the battle of the five armies were not a great film, but it had a big release in china and it were the most akin o' the hobbit films to romance of the three kingdoms with its massive (and chaotic) battle scenes. the last hobbit film set all kinda records in china. warcraft, from all accounts, is even less coherent than the battle of five armies, but it is setting all kinda new records. the chinese clear want new epic fantasy with hollywood production values. doesn't need be particularly good neither. the chinese has been fed vanilla ice cream (yes, am knowing that dairy ain't popular in china, but just go with it for a minute) since the fourteenth century. they has had cheap vanilla and vanilla that is produced from special god cows that produce only a gallon of milk per year. they has had vanilla with every possible topping-- sprinkles, whip cream, chocolate syrup, strawberries, banana, pineapple... probably pinenuts. they has had vanilla deep fried and likely as part o' an enema treatment. regardless, is almost always vanilla. it is disrespectful not to be vanilla. westerners can make their rocky road and pecan-praline and capannari and sweet potato with torched marshmallows and stracciatella and... whatever. the chinese will all public admit that such decadent choices is nowhere near as good as a perfect chinese vanilla, but they will nevertheless consume such alternatives by the freighter load. the chinese do like the romance of the three kingdoms-- is a cultural duty to like, but is also seeming genuine. nevertheless, western epic fantasy that has similar elements, different stories and far more impressive production values is gonna go over like led zeppelin or the beatles or elvis for folks who has only been exposed to the neil diamond catalog for four centuries. is just a theory... not the least bit tongue-in-cheek neither. HA! Good Fun!

a typical 4 unit class at a university on the quarter system (10 weeks) is gonna involve 40 total hours o' class time, and depending on whether you went to Stanford or Ohio State, your total hours o' study between classroom & outside study is intended to be resulting in 120 hours o' total work, assuming we ain't talking 'bout a lab class. 120 hours for the entire quarter. 140 o' game time means you spent more effort learning poe than does the average Stanford student when they complete a typical 4-unit course. sadly, am not thinking that your poe achievement is gonna carry the same cache as completing a Stanford class. the fights in white march were more difficult than those in poe. good. the people most likely to have purchased white march expansions is those 9.5% who actual finished pillars of eternity. am thinking that if a person couldn't work up the interest to finish poe in five months, they would be far less likely to buy white march expansions than would a person who devoted the dozens of hours it took to complete poe. just sayin'. if you ain't realized it yet, these games is teaching programs. sure, no useful skills is being learned while playing poe, but you is, like it or not, being trained to overcome poe combats. after 140 hours, a developer is gonna assume that you has learned how to play poe with some level o' expertise. our personal experience for poe were that during our initial playthrough o' poe, the last third o' the game were disappointingly easy. part o' the reason the difficulty curve took such a precipitous drop at the end o' poe were the capacity to over-level w/o much effort, but another factor were simple that Gromnir were much experienced with the game. successive replays o' poe required utilizing solo and/or ironman options to maintain the difficulty we were recalling from back in the beta days when fighting beetles or cultists. predictable. as we added hours of experience, we were learning better ways to deal with poe combats. as such, am thinking that the developers had justification in believing that players such as the genesis poster would be very much skilled at poe combat before they did purchase and play white march. as such, were perfect understandable that the developers would increase difficulty as between poe and white march, no? we did find a few o' the white march battles to be highly challenging. such a result were much refreshing. sure, we were intial frustrated during a few battles-- poe's sahuagin knock-offs creamed our corn more than once, and while we laughed at little shop of horror's audrey ii, the radiant spore battle took us more than two tries to overcome. white march were more difficult. good. yeah, poe combats were, from the very start, designed to appeal to players at the more hardcore end o' the crpg spectrum. while such a choice worked for some o' us, we wonder if it were the best choice for obsidian. bg2, for instance, had a handful o' difficult battles, but most such battles could be overcome by having the correct equipment or layering the appropriate buffs/debuffs. the tactical sophistication o' bg were, in our opinion, far less demanding than poe. poe and bg2 tactical demands, while much different, were likely similar. 'course the average bg2 player probably already had dozens o' hours o' infinity engine combats experience. am understanding why many were daunted by the relentless and unforgiving nature o' poe combats. maybe obsidian erred on tactical demands o' poe. that being said, white march purchasers were gonna be poe fans-- guys with 140 hours experience and at least some positive level o' appreciation for poe style combat. am suspecting that if white march had been any less challenging, there woulda' been widespread complaints 'bout the ease o' the expansion. a black isle developer once shared that the two most frequent complaints of every crpg they ever released were as follows: the game was too easy and the game was too difficult the fallouts, ps:t, bg, iwd, bg2, etc. is a no-win situation for developers. and while many boardies, including Gromnir, finds bluepotions rant to be ridiculous, the truth is that his/her opinion is, historically, an inevitability. no matter what obsidian did with white march, many folks were gonna complain that game were too hard... and many others were complain that it were too easy. obsidian had to make white march more difficult for reasons we note above, but there were always gonna be more than a few such as bluepotions. HA! Good Fun! ps feel free to mock Gromnir for posting a serious reply to a rant post. we deserve your scorn.

... makes us feel old. we had already completed our undergrad degree at berkeley when we saw darkman. apologies for the moment o' geriatric reflection. to bring back on-topic, we will note that while the raimi spider-man films were lite on those qualities for which raimi is best known, spider-man 2 is clear in our top 5 superhero movies... most days it is gonna be top 3. in the sequel to spider-man (2002?), peter parker managed to grow as a character, and alfred molina's performance were superlative worthy. the 'raimi moment' in spider-man 2 when a surgery team attempted to remove doc ock's prosthetic arms were one o' the most memorable scenes from a superhero flick-- can't help but chuckle at the recollection. spider-man 3 were a tremendous letdown for Gromnir. am thinking that what made the final raimi spider-man so disappointing were that the impressive thomas hayden church performance were wasted. regardless, while it is still difficult for us to think o' raimi as a superhero movie director, he gots a couple movies in our personal List of the Best Superhero Movies. HA! Good Fun!

such characters is not always meant to be taken serious, but they is still our favorites when we reflect 'pon the pantheon o' superheroes. admittedly, movies is often unkind to the brooding and introspective as it can come off as cartoonish. is perhaps why such characters work so well in cartoons. nicholas cage were also excellent in kick-a$$ and am suspecting many folks hardly recall liam neeson in darkman, which is a shame. as far as non-print media is concerned, batman is our easy all-time favorite. the oldie batman: the animated series, batman beyond, justice league, justice league unlimited, and at least a few o' the dc animated movies were excellent, in large part 'cause o' batman. am also admitting that we liked the tim burton batman as well as well as the first two christopher nolan contributions. in fact, we would likely rank the dark knight as our top superhero movie to date. so far, deadpool has 'bout 2/3 of a movie we enjoyed. am suspecting that it is gonna be a long time before we place deadpool at the top o' our list o' favorite superhero film characters. HA! Good Fun!