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Wil Vinton, father of Claymation: https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/will-vinton-dead-dies-claymation-animator-1202969895/

Yes, certainly its on the low end of the MCU as a whole in terms of box-office.

Ant-Man and the Wasp made more a little more money theatrically than Ant-Man ($216,154,693 domestic/ $621,401,629 worldwide vs $180,202,163 / $519,311,965) so I'm not sure it'd be considered not so successful. Seems like the sequel had roughly the same level of interest from viewers as the original. I would agree that from the perspective of the narrative, they didn't juggle the characters as well as in the first film. However there were a lot more characters fighting for screen time (all of the original cast + more Wasp because she's a bigger player + more Luis because people liked him first time around + Janet + Ghost + Goliath + the tech thieves double crossing the Pyms + the SHIELD agents/Jimmy Woo)

I've never been a big fan of the epistolary format of Dracula. It feels like you're distanced from the proceedings so while it can be creepy, it's not really goosebumps hearing-sounds-at-night paranoia inducing. RE: Stephen King, I think Needful Things was the last book I read from Stephen King - and I did enjoy it. Most of his plot hooks after this period didn't hook me enough to pick up the book so I can't say if they are good or bad, but there are a few I'll eventually read (Desperation/Regulators and Dr. Sleep for example). Mind you a lot of his work seemed to get lost in the Dark Tower, the first book of which I found unreadable.

That might help on interstates, but when you get into city traffic - well you've still got distracted pedestrians and cyclists for your computer to deal with.

The push for education started in the US post-WWII. With GI's returning and women not leaving the workforce because they'd shown they could succeed in the job market of the time, companies and government worked to forestall a huge unemployment number for the GIs by encouraging high school students to complete their high school diploma rather than drop out of school at 16 and join the job market. The problem is, once you establish education as an arbitrary gate-keeper to employment, its relatively easy to lower the candidate pools by increasing the educational criteria needed to hold the job. And while some jobs really can use the extra education because of their highly specific nature, that doesn't follow for all the jobs that hold a higher education requirement. Further the push for students in higher education has been to the detriment of the trade schools, which really are a viable alternative (and the skilled trades have a deficit of people going into them).

I've tried reading DUNE at least a half-dozen times but have never managed to get more than a third into the first book.

Talk about the ideas, concepts and issues - not each other. Thanks.

I saw the first Jurassic Park multiple times at the theater. The last time I saw it, I'd mistimed the end of the movie so bad I had to run a mile and a half so as to not miss my last chance to get a ride home (instead of the leisurely walk I'd planned). Good times, good times.

Since this thread seems to have turned to a general RPG discussion rather than discussing Kingmaker and Deadfire, I'm closing this thread in favor of the existing thread in the appropriate forum - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/104002-pathfinder-kingmaker-is-bigger-then-deadfire/

I know there is an in game encyclopedia, but I can't seem to find if there's a manual somewhere (I don't have the game yet to say).

I've read Jurassic Park a few times, and seen all the movies a bunch and I just re-read Jurassic Park right after Jurassic World came out. The dinosaurs in Costa Rica in the opening always stuck with me, though, since its a big difference between the two and actually implies a lot about what you'll find out in the novel, IMO.

The Compys that were only there in the novel? I don't recall that subplot making it off the page. My memory mixed the book and Lost World Jurassic Park. Opening of LW has the girl attacked by Compys, but that's apparently on Isla Sorna and not on the Costa Rica coast like it is in the book.

It came up twice here on the forum (at least), however it seems plans at the time was for a STEAM installer disc: Hey Karupt, I am not quite sure what you are referring to. As for when you can the badge, we're working on it as being part of our backer portal, and we'll hopefully have news soon about when it'll launch. Hi Merany! Sorry for the confusion about the wording of the Physical Box Tier. We're going to get that corrected. What it should say is that you will not get an additional digital key. When the game launches, you will also receive an email with the same digital key that will be in the physical box. So you won't have to wait until your package arrives to start playing. As AndreaColombo has pointed out, maintaining patches for dvd backers was a real struggle for us. In the past, we were not able to release a installer patch in a timely manner and it would cause a disconnect between physical and digital users. The reason why the disc comes with a Steam installer is that our primary focus now is to get future content, features, and bug fixes to all users in a timely manner. There's a hotly debated bit in the FIG campaign in update #1 where they have a Q&A answer that might also (but not definitively) refer to the change: Q: I want the boxed edition, but have no intention of touching the disc inside it (nor do I own a device that can read a disc of any type). How can I play the game if I purchase the physical box? A: Purchasers of the box copy will receive their digital code both in the box and via email on release day (same code, you won't get two different codes). You will not have to open the box at all, if you don't want to. Personally I'd encourage those who feel unhappy to reach out through the customer support page/email in addition to posts here (if everyone isn't doing that already).

Regarding JW:FK, I don't think they could realistically keep putting the genie in the bottle over dinosaurs getting off the island (how many times have pterosaurs escaped the island again? Three isn't it? And did they ever get rid of the Compys in South America?) so I'm not surprised we had a "release them all" story. I think you'd have a hard time explaining a post-apocalyptic dino story based on the end of JWFK to fit the modern POTA films as a logical template; that story had two prongs; humanity was decimated by the virus that was making the apes smarter; consequently this gave the apes time to not be molested and grow/create their society. More than likely the next JW story will be about military forces trying to capture the escaped dinosaurs (since that seems to be the direction of the first two JWs), with a group of heroes trying to prevent that from happening while also containing the damage they're doing.

That still doesn't hold up to the very first claim that the income was cut in half the day she got sick. The only way that makes sense to me (without more information because it could be a type of work situation I just haven't encountered) would be if the person was something like an independent contractor who only gets paid for work completed. But in my experience, work-for-hire contractors aren't paid employees getting insurance, nor would they be eligible for FMLA. So I don't disagree that there might be more information not being let on in the story, even if some of the story does match things I know of or have experienced during employment in the US (and even then there are some state specific stuff that I'd never see unless I worked in that state).

Thnx Pidesco, that was what I was trying to get at. Regarding severence, not all employment factors a severence in, and once FMLA runs out the employer can try to keep the person, but there's pressure to open the position up and hire someone (some employers will try to fund an equivalent job when the employee is able to run, but that's not a guarantee and may end up in a pay cut, and of course no vacation/sick/FMLA means no pay until you can come to work)

A couple of points... First, let's keep insults out of this. Second, regarding the story, unless it's in an employment contract, I doubt the company would have given her severance pay. And once she was fired, she'd lose the insurance from work - which in turn would mean the cost of treatment would fall on them or on another insurance company if they found one that would pick them up. As I understand it.

Usually I'm not bothered by bad tactics in movies, but I remember feeling the end of **** TRACY was particularly egregious, where all the criminals try to escape by driving directly into the cops crossfire...

I might have been too subtle.

Lets keep to the topic of shaming classes and not each other. Thnx.

I'm sure it's only women who use that word in the wrong way. Because we all know that only men are the masters of linguistics, right. I'm still in shock that women now have voting rights when they still can't speak properly, jeez... What's next? Employment laws for child labor? Pfff!I can't change my experiences Boeroer! And honestly, who uses that term in the right way?! Anyone who uses the word literally.