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am actual enjoying badlands in spite o' our criticisms, is simple irksome that a few o' the obvious shortcomings (in our mind) is so darn... obvious. wouldn't have taken much to improve. and we understated how much we dislike the superpowered kid. nevertheless, am enjoying. HA! Good Fun!

is good as long as you don't take too serious... and the wire-fu, while limited, is utter unnecessary. am also not certain why they felt the need to make fantastical pickaxes that weigh next to nothing. sure, the show is campy and we got the weird nonsense where women actors gots reasonable footwear in 90% o' scenes but then sudden display ridiculous high heels for 10 seconds o' wiggle, but some o' the aesthetic choices is striking us as insulting to our intelligence rather than mere camp. also, the super-powered chozen one is so annoying and stoopid that we want him to die in some comical horrible way. HA! Good Fun!

For my part, the only reason to put up an x-mas tree at all is to have an actual goddamn pine tree in the house for awhile. It's nice to have lights in it (which enhance the experience of lying beneath the branches on one's back and looking upwards), but I could do without all the other decorations. I go buy one every year from the parking lot of the paramedic station around the block. They sell at a ridiculous markup, but I think of it as a donation to a neighborhood nonprofit, and I enjoy the experience of strolling in to buy one and surprising them by carrying it home by hand. haven't had a christmas tree these past few years, which on one level is ironic given that we own a christmas tree farm. the "farm" is on less than five acres, and it is in idaho, so is a bit o' a drive for us to bring home one o' our trees. +80 year old woman works the place for us with minimal help from her kids and grandkids. is one o' the properties we is seriously considering retiring to. mary, our caretaker, is gonna get the house as well as 3 acres whenever she tells us she wants to retire... or when Gromnir retires. haven't told her yet. maybe next christmas? in any event, is a good chance that we will be having a christmas tree farm in our backyard in a couple years. am inexplicably amused by the thought. HA! Good Fun! Holy Smoke Gromnir.....you allow a women that old to work?That would be illegal and criticized in South African but we can sometimes be a little overly concerned with SJ sjw would be beating down our door if we kicked her outta her "home" 'cause she is too old. we bought the land from her some years ago when she were desperate to sell, but she didn't wanna go live with her kids and grandkids. we handed her a big pile o' money and she got to stay in her home. for all intents and purposes, she lives there rent free and makes a bit o' money on the side selling christmas trees and some produce. her family thinks Gromnir is some kinda bonafide saint, which we find a it unsettling. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

For my part, the only reason to put up an x-mas tree at all is to have an actual goddamn pine tree in the house for awhile. It's nice to have lights in it (which enhance the experience of lying beneath the branches on one's back and looking upwards), but I could do without all the other decorations. I go buy one every year from the parking lot of the paramedic station around the block. They sell at a ridiculous markup, but I think of it as a donation to a neighborhood nonprofit, and I enjoy the experience of strolling in to buy one and surprising them by carrying it home by hand. haven't had a christmas tree these past few years, which on one level is ironic given that we own a christmas tree farm. the "farm" is on less than five acres, and it is in idaho, so is a bit o' a drive for us to bring home one o' our trees. +80 year old woman works the place for us with minimal help from her kids and grandkids. is one o' the properties we is seriously considering retiring to. mary, our caretaker, is gonna get the house as well as 3 acres whenever she tells us she wants to retire... or when Gromnir retires. haven't told her yet. maybe next christmas? in any event, is a good chance that we will be having a christmas tree farm in our backyard in a couple years. am inexplicably amused by the thought. HA! Good Fun!

am avoiding star wars stuff as much as possible til we see the new movie. nevertheless, am certain that if we don't see the flick soon, am gonna be spoiled either intentional or accidental. 'course the problem is we is a curmudgeon who don't wanna deal with lines and hordes o' sweaty nerdlings... and am pretty sure that most schools is now out for the holiday break, so we can't sneak into a mid-day showing to avoid the teeming throng. am not thinking we can avoid all spoilage til january neither. oddly enough, we can play swtor solo stuff much concern as all we needs do is disable chat to avoid those who wish to bring grief to a star wars christmas.. HA! Good Fun!

cory everson were ms. olympia during much o' the 80s. as an aside, it occurred to us that nowadays we gots actors/actresses/models trying to play action heroes in movies... and action hero movies is big money. we hear how so-n'-so spent 3 months training to play _______ or that _________ worked out a bazillion hours a day to get physical prepared for the demands o' their role. made us think o' musicals o' the 30s-50s... serious. is hard to imagine cyd charisse or rita hayworth being daunted by the physical demands o' any modern action role. the dancers o' the musical era endured rigorous physical training for decades. the actors and actresses doing musicals got their parts in large part 'cause o' how athletic gifted they were. it seems that hollywood has a demand for action stars now more than at any time since the swashbuckler films were popular, and is w/o question that hollywood is looking for more actresses who can kick arse. nowadays you can't turn on tv w/o seeing sports drink or workout apparel commercials. every mid-sized town in the USA has at least one gym and people is increasingly aware o' the benefits o' physical fitness. nevertheless, it were +60 years ago that hollywood were producing its most athletic and physically capable stars. just struck us as odd. HA! Good Fun!

gadot doesn't have a noteworthy positive acting resume. her role in furious 7 is what gets her ww part? hope not. pick a skinny actress such as emily blunt or even kiera knightly and we would be less concerned. we know that either o' those skinny girls can act and am near certain that they would, given the limitations o' their natural frames, workout to keep from looking ridiculous when fighting doomsday or lifting a sword... or eating a cracker. but again, most important is that blunt and knightly has acting chops. am disappointed. is no way gadot could improve her acting resume to dispel our concerns, but we figured that working out a bit would at least be showing that she took the role serious. didn't need gadot to shame cory everson. gadot don't look bad, but she looks like a model instead o' somebody who engages in strenuous regular exercise. isn't strong s'posed to be the new sexy? am also not certain why gadot gets a pass. if henry cavill had played superman looking like that guy from the terrible axe dry spray tv commercials that is current airing, we would hear no end of criticism, yes? again, is kinda a minor quibble. what is gonna be important is seeing if gadot is a convincing ww on screen, but lack o' dedication in the gym does set off alarms for Gromnir. why not add a bit o' gravitas to her frame as well as her acting resume? HA! Good Fun!

am knowing it is a minor quibble, but is there any reason why gal gadot couldn't workout with jessica biel's trainer from the blade movie? just sayin... HA! Good Fun!

that were our point exactly. chris non answer allows anybody to infer what they wish. am also gonna note that the bit 'bout chis role at obsidian not being clear sounds all too familiar to us, but from employer pov. have worked with many a valuable associate/employee that wanted more or different responsibility. tell such folks what their job is and they sudden develop selective amnesia. yeah, Gromnir has, more than once, explained that elizabeth or bob or phil were an invaluable asset and we needed 'em to continue doing A, but we were indeed aware that they is capable o' more... when situation changes or time permits, we is gonna get elizabeth more opportunities to do B or C or D. two years pass and elizabeth is still doing A with very little B, C or D. is not as if we didn't give 'em a shot at more litigation or whatever, but elizabeth ain't a litigator. is not a criticism. nevertheless, elizabeth keeps asking for chances to B. C and D. *shrug* am not having any notion o' what chris situation were at obsidian, 'cause he were as clear as mississippi mud, but even if he were clear, we suspect that fergie mighta' seen situation different. HA! Good Fun!

No, but he implied that he left because: 1) There was some project or projects he wanted to do but wasn't able to. 2) He was tired of fighting turf wars over his authority. he implied, or you inferred? is such a gray area. yes, chris observed that his role were unclear to him even after multiple years at obsidian. yes, he he made axiomatic observation that there were projects that obsidian would not and could not do. he also rambled on 'bout his role in alpha protocol and offered up chestnuts o' wisdom regarding difficulties employees got following conflicting direction from multiple bosses (welcome to teh rheal world,) but he never actual answered the question. regardless, is the kinda response that different folks is gonna read into it what they wish. HA! Good Fun!

y'know, chris didn't actual answer the freaking question. HA! Good Fun!

to be fair, beamdog is using the setting rather than the module, yes? is a bit like hating movies set in chicago 'cause you saw red heat and were justifiably disappointed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWRhNZNFzw unlike tim cain, beam dog is NOT trying to recreate old d&d pnp modules... thank goodness. am still not certain why folks at troika failed to talk cain away from that blunder... as well as his flamboyant pirate. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

we get the feeling that msnbc and fox news is in constant struggle to find wingnut-homeostasis. if fox news makes a ridiculous statement, a msnbc personality must make an equal outrageous claim or the earth will spin out of its orbit and wander into deep space. our resident obsidian board conspiracy nutters no doubt see such perpetual balancing as contrived by the alien jewish bankers o' R'xvlzic VI, but Gromnir sees as a natural/supernatural phenomenon. HA! Good Fun! ps if unclear, Gromnir were responding to the melissa harris perry contributions to star wars hype.

'cause stevie wonder makes every song? tough to argue against that proposition. HA! Good Fun!

am tending to agree with al2o3. the notion that folks were shocked and appalled that game journalists lacked integrity or standards were comical. folks feigned surprise. folks acted out their shock. *snort* game journalism has always had more in common with professional wrestling than it has with legit traditional journalism. yeah, folks were indeed disappointed that game journalists were a bunch o' self-appointed pundits trying to promote social causes through game coverage, but were no surprise... and weren't necessarily a bad thing neither. the genuine anger we has seen is focused not so much on lack o' integrity, but rather on the "sjw" sideshow... which al2o3 observes never were the sideshow at all. gg, from the start, has been a repudiation o' sjw and seeming liberal bias o' the industry's media coverage. unlike al, we do believe that there has been an annoying trend w/i the gaming industry to be indulging political correct agenda, but seeing as we never took the journalists serious, it has been difficult to work up any venom over the fight against the dominant paradigm... which ironic, has become the seeming dominant paradigm. yeah, is a few game developers that has gone too far (too far for Gromnir's tastes) trying to appeal to a vocal minority, but our remedy is no different now than it were 10 or 20 years ago: don't buy the games made by developers we don't like. as such, in our opinion, the whole gg debate is utterly pointless. and no, much as al is not, we do not intend to link every post in these game journalist threads that is actual condemnations o' sjw or pc... we would be here all day doing such links. HA! Good Fun!

got our christmas spirit going for swtor HA! Good Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRr2kf84V2M watched fargo tv show... perhaps were the cause o' our late 70s nostalgia. HA! Good Fun!

no. you don't read, do you? HA! Good Fun!

not adopted. adoption is a legal process. there were no adoption. also, if such a birth happened today in cleveland or bakersfield 2015, adoption would not be necessary. child is the legal son/daughter o' the parents. assume betty is 9 months pregnant and she marries bill the day before she gives birth to fred. we do not ask if bill is actual the father o' fred. bill IS the legal father o' fred. paternity is a different issue. no need for adoption. HA! Good Fun!

right up until he needed a place to have his passover observance, at which point he relied 'pon one o' his wealthy followers to put out a nice spread for his disciples and himself. HA! Good Fun!

our veneration o' dread Cernunnos is the reason we continue to celebrate halloween. when children come to our door in the darkness o' october 31, we challenge them thus: Do you fear the Lord of Antlers? if they show proper humility and obeisance, we offer them a treat-- a symbolic reward from the king o' the underworld's everfull purse. or not. christmas in japan? *shrug* we celebrate 'cause we can. we never begrudge a soul for finding harmless joy in small things. HA! Good Fun!

that was mildly terrible. HA! Good Fun!

Not really, there are plenty of Republican supporters on this forum and they not racist video Sorry I'm not sure what your point is, are you saying because Trump makes racist comments then any Republican supporter of his must be racist ? perhaps her point is that she finally admits her ignorance. the individual being interviewed by msnbc is a proud american who bleeds red white and blue. no condemnations o' the great satan or anti-semitic rhetoric from the rashid. the marine advocates tolerance and noted that his marine brothers were o' all races and faiths. is ironic that qistina, who seeks to paint america and americans with a single misguided brushstroke, has far more in common with trump than with rashid. link is a recognition o' logic challenged intolerance shared by trump and qistina with an american marine as example at other end o' spectrum? HA! Good Fun! ps took out video.

Fair enough, I was wrong about the security sweep. I read an old news item that pointed to this case and misrepresented facts. Thing is, sadly I don't really need to make up hypothetical scenarios, when actual real life occurrences illustrate the point better. In this case, they were serving a warrant, "probable cause" being trace amounts of weed found in the trash. No previous criminal record, no history of violence. Funny that you mentioned me coming out of my boudoir brandishing a butter knife (and in a pink robe no less, whatever floats your boat I guess...), because that's basically what happened in this case. No questions asked, just some guy getting shot in the face inside his house, in the middle of the night, by militarized police. Must have been one of those "fatally stoopid" folks you mentioned. That's for a minor drug-related offense. Are they going to go any easier on suspected terrorists? Interesting asides about the British in Boston, and regarding the exclusionary rule not applying even when knock-and-announce is violated. SCOTUS recently left the ruling in place, btw. edit: thanks for the exhaustive explanation, too. again, your initial hypo were not similar and we already observed that there is indeed a problem regarding police training in regards to suspects with weapons, so you is largely repeating. *shrug* swat-style raids has become more prevalent precisely 'cause serving warrants is dangerous to cops and bystanders. like it or not, we gots a well-armed citizenry, and our criminal element tends to be better armed than our law-abiding citizens... except in the deep south. no doubt after the first few times cops get injured/killed while serving drug offense warrants, local law enforcement agencies, often with support o' voters, authorize increasing force to protect cops while carrying out LEGAL warrants. the op-ed writer suggests that warrants is handed out by judges like candy at halloween, but he don't exact offer support for such... most likely 'cause he is trying to sell another book. also, you are confused. you are getting refusal to award tort damages confused with Constitutional issues. this case were not actual a 4th amendment case but rather were the kinda thing you might see on a first year law student exam... for torts. the Court agreed that the cop entry in the case you linked were illegal, but no damages were awarded 'cause the son o' the PLAINTIFF's actions were a superseding cause o' his death. the evidence found in the apartment woulda' been excluded. in any event, am not sure if we can agree with the decision (which has NOT been addressed by SCOTUS) but is not a 4th amendment case as is being presented. but again, in our opinion (not legal, but personal) am agreeing that there is something fundamental wrong with cop training in 2015. far too many folks that is "armed" is getting shot and killed. the cops is seen as dirty by the public when they shoot #'s brandishing his butter knife, but for the most part the cops is doing what they is trained. am also not a fan o' fleeing felon standard. regardless, we agree that changes is needed. HA! Good Fun!