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Umlauts signify a specific vowel pronunciation as I recall, so are in all parts of names and words. Eg, das mädchen = the girl (which can also be used as a forename, eg Mädchen Amick) for German. That said Jääskeläinen is a Finnish name I think, so its not an umlaut if I understand it correctly, but a Scandinavian character used in the Finnish alphabet (if we still have some Finnish speaking posters they may be able to elaborate further). Diacritical marks (like the umlaut or acute accent) are typically used to represent something that differs from the non marked usage. The acute accent in Spanish from my memory is used to indicate an irregular vowel stress or a distinction between words otherwise spelled the same. So González having an acute mark in her name in the text & picture should indicate pronunciation as gon-ZAH-les as opposed to Gonzalez which would be pronounced gon-zah-LES as I recall (however as we all know names aren't always pronounced how they're spelt, so...). A Spanish first name with an acute accent is Adrián, used to indicate the ia doesn't diphthong IIRC.

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3D printing advancement, nicknamed "The Replicator": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forget-everything-you-know-about-3-d-printing-mdash-the-replicator-is-here/

I always liked "This Thread Sucks" and "Drama!". "You lose" and "Nice theory" were also good. Well they were all good I guess.

Yeah I can't find them either. I can't remember who used to have them as well.

1st Thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91743-portraits/ 2nd Thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/96828-portraits-ii/ 3rd Thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/99990-portraits-iii/ 4th Thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/103065-portraits-iv/

RIP **** Miller, 90. Did a lot of B movies (including a bunch for Roger Corman) and a lot of TV. I just saw him in an episode of TNG as a holodeck newspaper vendor. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/****-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/

That ad series didn't go anywhere I thought it was going to.

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Bring out your funny stuff!

Neil Jordan's latest film now has a trailer:

Arlington Cemetery innit?

Hahah, yeah there has been a perception that MLS was a "retirement league" - a place for the international stars to wind down their career with good paychecks after they stopped being able to compete on the international stage. I think having Premier League on tv can help as well; as good as the MLS players can be, the top Premier League clubs are at a different level and it shows in a good competitive match.

I read that and my first thought was "...but who cares?" If you're obsessed with people knowing the real you (enough to go crazy for the character in the book!) then you're probably doing life wrong. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my time with my friends and family but I actually don't care if they know the "true" me or not just like I don't care if I know the "true" them. I'm content to let us be the people we are and perceive when we are together.

Obsidian doesn't have a D&D license so unless they or Microsoft license the IWD setting from Hasbro/WotC they are not going to be able to make a game in the setting (even if they want to, which we also don't know that they do).

I love IWD, but unless Microsoft gets the D&D license, I doubt Obs will have anything to do with an IWD3 if it happens. But since we're reminiscing, the thing that comes back to me from IWD at times is when someone says "promise", I hear in the back of my mind Kresselack saying "Promise? I made you no promise..." RIP Tony Jay.

I think prequels, in general, are a bad idea although it also depends on the prequel too. I still enjoyed Solo, but it doesn't feel like an essential story either that we needed to see.

RE: Textbooks - there's only I think two college textbook producers in the US, each with several divisions to hide the fact that there's only two. They do revisions not because the information is wrong or bad (although science textbooks need revisions as new discoveries are made), but is more done to minimize the power of the used book market. A number of colleges have been researching open sourcing course materials (ie creating the course content themselves and making it free to students), and some schools are trying to use mass market paperbacks (I've seen this in philosophy or history) rather than textbooks to lower prices.

Catwoman (2004) and Han**** (2008) I didn't think of because I was thinking of earlier than Blade even though they fit the criteria, and spot on for me missing Spawn (1997) which should have been on my list.

I think the expression was intended to convey that the film was the first stand alone film with a "black super hero" from Marvel Studios in their cinematic universe. Besides the three Blade films, off the top of my head, Steel (1998), Blankman (1994) and Meteor Man (1993) predates Black Panther as superhero films with a 'black super hero' lead. I'd have to research if there were earlier films than that.

Popular film shows up in Oscars nominations. News at 11. Seriously if you look at the Oscars history, it goes through periods of nominating popular films - arguably since 1929 when top grossers THE BROADWAY MELODY (winner) and HOLLYWOOD REVUE were nominations. I suspect rather strongly that for Black Panther, the honor is in the nomination and it won't win (joining films like STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, E. T., Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, BABE, AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, TOY STORY 3, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, etc.). That said, if it does win it won't be a bad thing (and whether you agree with it or not, Oscars history is littered with noms that "shouldn't" have won, "shouldn't" have been nominated, and examples of great films, directors and actors who never received a nom).