Amentep
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13 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:
but all of my passion for gaming died over a decade ago
i am just a withered husk of my former self
"The Top 10 Reasons I left gaming and became a withered husk of my former self - number 3 will surprise you!"
8 hours ago, Gorth said:How to summarize 40 years of video gaming in a single blog post...
Maybe break it into parts and pitch each part? Nothing in Fio's post indicates you couldn't have multiple bites at the blog (cue Fio clarification).
12 hours ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:Mulholland Drive (2001)
I can certainly bang out a very big blog post about games but I'm not sure if it has to be Obsidian specifically.
Based on Fio's wording, I think they'd want a blog post to tie into Obsidian's games in some way.
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Comic artist, writer and historian Trina Robbins
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What post? I don't see no post?
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10 hours ago, Gorth said:
Maybe a rabies variant? Instead of resenting water, you started resenting food? Please tell if the urge to bite people suddenly comes over you!
edit: Iirc, the rabies symptom is called hydrophobia, no idea what the food equivalent would be
Trofiphobia?
59 minutes ago, Keyrock said:I'm completely fine and normal in every other way. I'm weight lifting like I always have, going for bike rides, I have energy, I'm active. The only thing "wrong" with me is that I have no desire to eat.
I think loss of appetite in general is called Anorexia (not to be confused with Anorexia Nervosa) but is usually a symptom of other things. I would think as long as you're getting enough calories when you do eat and everything is going through your digestive system fine and you're also not dehydrated, the only worry would be if it persists since weight loss is tied to some cancers and other illnesses (but also to more benign sources like stress and reactions to CBD).
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Watched LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
I liked it, but feel like there were a few things that ultimately didn't come together and ultimately I don't think it came together as well as it could have.
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One thing I've read regarding polling is that younger voters tend not to have landlines and don't answer unknown cold calls, which has been speculated to skewing any phone based poll in weird ways when trying to extrapolate data to the population.
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RIP to Mr. Gosset.
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Old thread:
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You should be able to click the "Circle D" that currently represents where your avatar would be. This will take you to your profile. You should see a icon (by the Circle D on your profile on desktop, I think its to the left of your Circle D profile symbol on mobile) that allows you to change your photo. Max file size is .1MB. Once you upload the picture, it should give you the option to 'center' the image so you can get what you want in the profile area.
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I think Alien and Beetlejuice sequels look good. Hoping for the best for both of them.
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Character actor M. Emmet Walsh
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I love Deep Rising, Stephen Sommers film before THE MUMMY (1999).
That said, they could have not killed Una Damon's character so early as I liked her banter with Kevin J. O'Conner and Treat Williams and it'd have been nice to keep the crew together for longer.
Loads of fun actors in support too (Wes Studi, Jason Flemyng, Anthony Held, and Djimon Hounsou from the top of my head).
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I understand it's set 100 years before THE PHANTOM MENACE and involves a former Palawan forced to team with their previous Jedi Master to investigate a series of mysterious crimes.
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James Ward, game designer and author who co-crested the original Gamma World game from TSR with Gary Jaquet.
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Mutsumi Inomata, who besides working in animation (City Hunter, Leda, Gundam Seed) and manga (GB Bomber) was the character designer for the Tales series (Destiny through Berseria)
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5 hours ago, xzar_monty said:
I believe it was Louis Kuehnle from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who once got more votes than the city had voters. This would have been in the 1910s or 1920s, and the main opponent was one Woodrow Wilson.
Kuehnle didn't run for governor of NJ, but was supporting the Republican candidate Vivian Lewis, who lost to Wilson in 1910. Kuehnle was the boss of the political machine in Atlantic city at the time. It was reported in the New York Times that Keuhnle, on behalf of Lewis, did deliver more votes for Lewis in Atlantic City that there were voters. He was paying people to vote for deceased voters still on the rolls and for seasonal hotel employees in Atlantic City who weren't in town in November but whom he'd gotten to register to vote.
Wilson ran partially on cleaning up politics in NJ, and was able to successfully pursue criminal charges against Kuehnle after he got elected. Kuehnle was chairman of the water commission and Wilson was able to uncover where Kuehnle was changing contract terms to pay companies he owned more money from government contracts that was originally bid. Knucky Johnson took over the machine, and while Kuehnle came back after his conviction and got elected to the city commission, he never wielded the same power again.
5 hours ago, BruceVC said:That is interesting. Im sure there are more cases of that and it would be applicable to happen in NJ and in that time period if you think of the era of prohibition and the influence of the mob and the rampant political corruption
This happened prior to the Volstead Act / Prohibition (1920-1933); Atlantic City however was home to a large number of criminal rackets (gambling and prostitution, primarily I believe) and a political machine believed to be as effective as Tammany Hall or the Vare's in Philidelphia.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
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Opting out of not one, but two, Alfred Hitchcock films, a John Ford film, a Coen Brothers film, a Terry Gilliam film, every adaption of a certain Dumas story, and if you're not that particular about the article "The", then also a Miloš Forman film.