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Amentep

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  1. kill your darlings? Although if you think they are well written but no longer work in the story, maybe move them to a different file rather than delete forever. IF you find a use for them, then you still have them - just not in a story they're no longer working in?
  2. And that's also how she shortens her name. https://mobile.twitter.com/brielarson/status/1082517236789633024?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
  3. I hate to be 'that guy', but it is Brie, not Bree.
  4. Is it wrong to be excited for Dragon's Dogma on the SWITCH...despite already having it on PS3, PS4 and PC? ...asking for a friend...
  5. Even Thanos isn't crazy enough to cross PETA?
  6. Could your issue be similar to this one - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/106974-cannot-continue-or-load-a-game-from-the-main-menu/ ?
  7. Please refrain from discussing each other rather than the subject of the post.
  8. Audrey Geisel, widow of Theodore aka Dr. Seuss. She helped suggest the ideas behind the Lorax and the Better Butter Battle Book iirc. Actor Donald Moffat. Well known for his stage work, film goers may remember him as the president in CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER or as tge base commander in THE THING remake from John Carpenter.
  9. I didn't say you did or didn't do anything wrong. If a post is reported it'll be reviewed impartially by a group of mods. My noodly appendages do not reach into this forum or WoT, and as such I do not see Reports from these two forums. But that's one discussion I would have like to have seen how the consensus allowed that one to slide. Oh well. The starting post and the thread was edited, but not all posts were caught initially.
  10. haha, fair enough. I know some people who thought BBR was awesome. Haven't seen it or Mandy myself yet.
  11. You'll probably want to skip Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow too then. I'm pretty sure its more experimental than Mandy.
  12. What do you mean? This is the way my posting style has always been, since I joined. Anyone can report posts they feel that don't meet the forums guidelines. Every report is reviewed by multiple moderators under the supervision of @Fionavar. When a consensus is reached, any necessary action will be taken. Some reported posts violate the guidelines, others don't. Any action taken by the moderators may, or may not, be visible to the other users depending on what is determined to be the appropriate course of action. Users also have the ability without moderator intervention to listen to the feedback of their fellow forum goers and choose whether the feedback might give a cause to self-moderate interaction (or not, per the individual). In a, for lack of a better word, collegial environment as this we can all take criticisms to better our relationships and communication with our fellow forumites. I believe two lines from the guidelines may be appropriate to reference in this thread: We ask that the users of this board treat one another with respect, even when opinions differ Posting frequent, annoying, and/or nonsensical posts are not tolerated in these forums.
  13. You can always report posts that you feel violate the guidelines. Alternatively you could PM @Fionavar, @Gorth, @Pidesco and @Rosbjerg who are the listed moderators of this forum regarding concerns in this particular forum.
  14. I have none I'm on mobile ps phone, never get on here through pc. If you click the link gfted1 gave, you can still access the contact form through Obsidian's web page where that link points on mobile (click the link, press the menu icon, press contact, fill out the form, press "send").
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  16. I just think its not a great trailer at this point. I'm not sure I can say anything else about it; the Hellboy make-up is different, but it doesn't make it bad. The face, in shadows, would probably look more like Mignola draws the character. The feel of the trailer doesn't work for me, but I won't worry about that unless a second trailer gives me the same feel. I think part of the disconect is that the movie was touted as going back to the darkness of the comic, it was R rated, etc. etc, but what we get in the trailer is (all of the?) comedy moments from the film with no real context.
  17. Whatever utility this thread might have had - if any - has failed to solidify. I'm not sure if a thread of this type can truly derail, but whatever rails it might have gotten on seems to have left the station, to mangle metaphors.
  18. RIP. Just watched an episode of the John Russell led western, LAWMAN called "The Four" from 1962 with Jack Elam in a large role. It was a better than average late-50s/early-60s western story. I was like "That's the guy who wrote The Naked Time!" when I saw the credits.
  19. I can't find anyway to make Edge open InPrivate mode. You can always right click it from the task bar if pinned or the start menu and open a private window, but I don't see anything that will allow you to left click and it start an InPrivate window. Then again I don't use Edge much, so maybe someone else has an answer...
  20. Whether you classify them as anti-science or just dumb, they don't seem to be going away, but increasing in my experience. Given that studies on the younger generation indicate they trust friends, relatives and online 'influencers' they "trust", I worry that those in science fields (and in academics in general) aren't doing enough to break the echo chamber of people who dismiss science affirming one another. I get what you're saying, but I think with this group "outcomes no better than random chance" is better than nothing. While you're right they probably would have still tried to shut him down, or moved the goal posts or any other type of logical fallacy, at least he wouldn't have handed them on a silver platter their "proof" that 'western' science rejected indigenous ideas.
  21. You brought up the MIT council, not me, I was only pointing out that I didn't find them relevant, but I think you took my point in a different way than I intended. I'd disagree that scientific inquiry into the 'supernatural' delivers inconclusive results. We've seen studies of psychic phenomenon generally conclude that there's generally no better than random guessing in the correlation. Studies of Accupuncture have generally shown it doesn't work or doesn't work any better than other placebos. Anthroplogical studies of voodoo have turned into chemical/medical examinations of drugs that were used that could result in some of the claims around the 'magic'. And while I agree that the "decolonization of science" (whatever that's supposed to mean) is silly, at that time, and at that space, the guy could have made a better argument rather than allow the anti-sciencers the ability to shut him down and use him as an example of "western science" being against indigenous science/belief. Which is why I said he didn't understand science (or perhaps, he underestimated his audience's adherence to anti-science, I suppose, I have the benefit of hindsight that he, in the moment, did not). I'm not sure your point since there have been academic studies on magic, psychic powers and alchemy (to name a few) over the years. But (IMO) in a world that is becoming increasing anti-science, science needs to step up in demonstrating how science works and how it works objectively, not subjectively. And if that means having undergraduate students in Cape Town apply the scientific method to black magic...where exactly is the problem for the world if they can learn that science isn't something to be rejected because its from 'the west'?
  22. Was the MIT Council secretly at the meeting that was in that video and I missed it? Given that there have been scientific inquiries into tribal magic, voodoo, acupuncture, etc. etc., its not like science can't be (or hasn't been) used to investigate these things. To my mind the guy would have been better off trying to convince the lady that the scientific method was culturally neutral and if she followed the scientific method and was able to demonstrate the claim she made that it'd be open for repetition and eventual acceptance if everyone followed the scientific method. And that was my point. YMMV.
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