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So... If there's a werewolf in Vampire the Masquarade: Bloodlines 2...will we be able to kill it? The revised WoD setting is Vampire: The Requiem, isn't it? Wouldn't them using "the Masquarade" indicate its set in the same world as the original game?

Sorry I wasn't clear - I think remakes, adaptions, and sequels can be creative. And yes "Spotless" and "Inception" aren't adaptions or sequels. My point is that there are people who think that adaptions aren't creative. There are people who think remakes aren't creative. There are people who think sequels aren't creative. And that's fine. But when a person complains that any of those things are a sign of the creative bankruptcy of today's Hollywood, all I have to say is 1916 - 1918 would like to have a word with that person.

I'm a little stumped on when people think Hollywood was "creative" when they talk about sequels and adaptions. They've been doing sequels (first generally believed in 1916) and remakes (1918) from the earliest days. Not to mention adaptions from other media (novels, short stories, folk tales, radio shows, etc) of already successful stories. RE: Crowdfunding - I like crowdfunding simply to support things I'd want to exist. But a long term model for anything but the smallest of companies or individuals it really isn't.

Can't you delete the team and the charcter you created and start over? It's been awhile and can't remember for sure.

$40M is for all the confederate stuff as I understand it from that article over ten years, but again the vast majority of the 700 monuments covered by the $40M are going to be obelisks and statues and not grand estates, cemeteries, etc. There are also - I'm assuming here - still organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy that are donating to the upkeep of some of these places as well. Also wasn't there a big mismanagement deal about ten years ago at Arlington that's led to them having to spend more to repair things that shouldn't have been allowed to fall into disrepair?

Isn't Arlington something like 600+ acres and Beauvoir 50? I'd imagine just cutting the lawn is 12 times as expensive...

A lot of people here about don't really want to do an even cursory examination of the history. There's the perpetuation of the lost cause ("it wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights (to keep slaves over the Federal Government's objections)", "it wasn't about slavery, it was about economics (because the wealthy couldn't maintain their wealth without the forced labor of slavery)" etc) without examination most likely because people kind of know the lost cause won't stand up to scrutiny, so it has to be taken on faith. Its possible this may have to do with keeping private donors happy, but its frustrating to read something like continuing the happy slave narrative from a supposedly educational historical location. (There was a local situation in the last year or two where the demographics of an area with a private museum changed. And a recently elected representative expressed concern / complained about a the museum flying the "confederate flag" which ultimately led to the private donor of the items pulling the items and the museum closing. It was silly considering the flag known as the modern "confederate flag" never flew over the confederacy; its proportions are wrong to be the battle flag of the southern regiments and its colors are wrong to be the 2nd naval jack and only the second and third confederate flags even sported a red/blue St. Andrews Cross. So all of this could have been avoided by, perhaps, displaying the actual 1st flag of the confederacy that might actually be able to be viewed as the part of history it is. But instead they decided to die on the hill of the modern re-interpretation of the Confederacy). Regarding the monument upkeep, I imaging the majority of that funding goes to keeping up period plantations, battle sites and museums with relatively little for things like upkeep of markers, columns, statues and such that have no personnel involved daily.

I will hold that omission against you forever. I haven't seen Beast Wars since it originally aired.

SEE SCIENTISTS CREATE A LIVING BRAIN! WATCH IN HORROR AS THE BRAIN CONTRACT ITS MIGHTY MUSCLE! STARE IN DISBELIEF AS SCIENCE'S UNHOLY CHILD CHALLENGES THE WORLD!

Typically colleges will have some sort of review process and appeals process for students in this matter since they're already admitted (when false records or cheating is discovered when they're just an applicant the applicant is generally just denied admissions if it warrants it, although usually there are still ways to appeal). The hope is that the rush to distance themselves as much as they can from the scandal doesn't rush to judgement with respect to the kids and give them a fair review. That said some of the stuff that's been reported - if true - implies either a complicity in the scheme at worst or an almost staggering amount of naïveté at best.

Students found to have been dishonest in the admissions process face expulsion. Film at 11. This is the normal course of action in these cases. Its generally speaking, from my experience, actually stated on the application itself that falsifying or lying in the application can result in expulsion. A lot of times minor omissions (like not telling that you went to a previous school where you wrecked your GPA and ended up owing the college money so you can't get a transcript) won't lead to expulsions just holds until the student provides all of their information. Other things - like lying about prior convictions, providing falsified transcripts or test scores - can. There's no surprise here that schools would look at their options within their policies to address these charges.

Yes, I forgot that DiTillio was a writer on Beast Wars.

I usually think of him first as the apprentice assassin in THE MECHANIC (aka Killer of Killers) Although thanks to repeats in the 1970s, the first thing I remember seeing him in was the DANGER ISLAND tv segments of THE BANANA SPLITS...

I think it was first reported last week that Jan Michael Vincent had passed.

Also cartoonist Tom K. Ryan (TUMBLEWEEDS) and writer Larry DiTillio (co-creator of the She-Ra cartoon with JMS, writer on Babylon 5)

Whenever the power goes out here and its dark, I get sleepy.

I don't disagree with you. But I can turn my phone off for days and not be stressed about it. For younger groups, as I understand it from this talk, they rate parents and siblings as their biggest influences on their life, then friends and people on the internet. For most younger people the cell phone is how they connect to these people, and a broken cell phone means they're disconnected from everything that (at least at this point in their lives) matters most to them.

Can do both... Its interesting, I was at a lecture on stress, and while on the face of it, it may sound silly to us, one of the things the study they were talking about (not this one) was that the generation after millennials is even more stressed over technology because they don't feel like they can disconnect from it, which in turn means they're stressed when they're on it and stressed when they're off it.

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The thing is they're not being charged for cheating on the admissions to the colleges. Normally if an applicant or student is caught lying on their application, the admissions decision is rescinded or the application denied. Cheat on a test, the test is invalidated (and the test company may bar you from testing). The parents are being charged because Singer was allegedly laundering the money they were paying him to get into these schools through "donations" to Singer's non-profit which was in turn avoiding taxes on the money he was getting as a "non-profit". This led to a number of conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and conspiracy to defraud the US charges for Singer. The parents are being charged with "mail fraud" for - as I understand it - allegedly having wired or transferred money into the money laundering scheme disguised as donations to the non-profit, when instead it was payment to Singer and his cohorts for their work and the bribes being paid out to testing officials and coaches to guarantee the students got admitted. Edit: I think the people who took bribes are charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering as well.

It was preempted; Fox aired the iHeartRadio Music Awards last night. Last episode of the season for The Orville is 3/21.

She smirks as she says it, I took it she was being funny. I don't recall the line being in the movie. Doesn't mean it wasn't, I just don't recall. That horrible "I'm going to end it" line definitely isn't. Its when they're driving and Fury says something like "So, Skrulls are the bad guys. And you're Kree. A race of noble warriors?" And Carol follows up with "Heroes. Noble warrior heroes" and smirks or smiles when saying it, like she's not really being serious about it, recognizing the pomposity of the Kree's self-image even though she at that point still sees herself as Kree.

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