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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.

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...

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.

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'?

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.

I'm moving this to our section on general pen and paper games, since it doesn't seem to be about the Pathfinder Adventures Mobile Card Game ap that Obsidian developed.

Have you emailed support@Obsidian.net with the issue? They'd be the only people who could assist with the issue. There was a reported issue last year regarding nicknaming characters - it was believed fixed but is still being reported: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92917-workaround-for-losing-characters-with-a-nickname/page-2

Its not just Canada, US stations have also been dropping the song because of younger people insisting its "rapey". https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-its-cold-outside-backlash-as-more-radio-stations-ban-song-over-lyrics-amid-metoo-movement/ https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/12/04/is-baby-its-cold-outside-really-too-offensive-to-play-in-2018/

well whole science is based on scepticism, I think that science have done tons of work already to prove that black magic does not work/exist? Skepticism and belief cloud science as you assume that something does/doesn't exist and are potentially biasing your reading of the data to find what you think you should find. You can use scientific results to be skeptical (and I think that's why science is generally skeptical claims of magical/psychic powers, since no study has demonstrated better than coincidence), but that's a bit different (IMO). But my point is, if you're dealing with someone like the young woman who believes that science is anti-indigenous science or concepts, the way to approach is to get to the core of science. Talk about observation, collection of data, impartiality, repeatability. If these very concepts are called into question then there's really no common language that you're speaking. But if you can agree on that, then maybe you can bring around people to the idea that if there is a correlation between a black magic ceremony and lightning strikes, that science would be able to prove that (just as they have for years tried to verify with mixed to negative results a lot of asian medicine), not that its something 'outside' of science.

Seems like both the speaker and the person who protested against her actually don't understand the way science works to me. To use the example the young woman gives of the black magic practitioner, there would be a way to study this in science and either prove it or not. The young mans response is coming from the conflation of scientific inquiry with skepticism (which is, an admittedly all too common occurrence).

I can't help but wonder if this is a case of lost context with respect to this song since most people are familiar with it from countless covers and not the original version in context of the movie it was in, Neptune's Daughter (not a Christmas movie, but it was a hit, as was the song). The movie has two couples singing the song, switching the parts between the men and women, and its clear for both couples the concern is what people will say, not in their not wanting to stay and canoodle. Even more ironic is that "Baby It's Cold Outside" was a substitute song according to Esther Williams. The Hayes office wouldn't approve "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (supposedly they interpreted the "get" in a particular way). When "Baby It's Cold Outside" was nominated for an Oscar, other songwriters protested as Frank Loesser had created the song for him and his wife to sing at parties, but as it'd never been professionally performed, the MPAAS allowed its nomination to continue.

Brief history of Carol Danvers in the comics as I recall it - Carol, working for the military, is exposed to ancient Kree technology while helping Mar-Vel (Captain Marvel) Carol develops powers like Captain Marvel's due to ancient Kree technology bonding Mar-Vel's genetics to hers, begins career as Ms. Marvel Carol is attacked by Rogue at the behest of Mystique. Rogue's powers and the genetic manipulation from the ancient Kree technology create an unpredicted surge in Rogue's powers. Rogue steals Carol's powers (which is why she has flight, invulnerability, and super strength) permanently and her memories (which Professor Xavier helps her with; eventually Rogue fights an entity made of the memories and defeats them ending that storyline) Carol is abducted by the alien race The Brood who further mess with her genetics, giving her the power of a star. She goes by the name Binary, using her powers (star energy blasts, altered energy form) and eventually regains most of her memories Carol burns out her Binary powers saving the sun, but now has her Ms. Marvel powers but at drastically reduced strength and takes the code-name Warbird Carol eventually gets all of her powers more-or-less restored and after helping a briefly resurrected Mar-Vel fight the Phoenix force takes on the code name Captain Marvel The movie seems to be starting her off with all her powers wrapped into one (which makes sense, as trying to condense 30 years of storylines into a movie would be silly).

Have you emailed support@obsidian.net?

At least one of the local bookstores I go to has a (very small) western section. That it is almost entirely Louis L'amour reprints is irrelevant.

You don't need to justify not liking it - not everything is to everyone's taste. IMO with respect to the episode you mention, Dipper is still a kid and doesn't understand how to actually relate to Wendy (who he thinks is cool and as an almost 13 year old wants to have what he thinks would be a relationship with her) and he sees her hanging out with her then boyfriend and how he's bad for her (he's introduced and in a few episodes before this) and definitely selfishly trying to get her to like him over her boyfriend of the time. Its part of his story arc IMO that Mabel and Dipper being at odds is part of their sibling relationship and it changing over the summer is also an important part of the show. The time travel guy is in several other shows after this, but a lot of things seem random in the show that come back later as the mysteries of Gravity Falls are unraveled. But that's how I see it - I was totally invested in the show though.

I personally loved GRAVITY FALLS. in fact I'd be hard pressed to think of an episode I disliked. Maybe it helps to have grown up fascinated with myths and legends of monsters and mysteries of the unexplained?

As a parapsychologist he also did a few books in that field, like Explaining the Unexplained: Mysteries of the Paranormal and Are You Psychic?: Tests & Games to Measure Your Powers (both co-written with Hans Eysenck)

RIP. He did work for TSR. For the general line he did DMGR4: Monster Mythology (statbook), Night Below: An Underdark Campaign (Adventure) and Tome of Magic (rulebook, one of many contributors). Also he worked for some of the settings - Greyhawk: The City of Greyhawk (boxset, with Douglas Niles and Rik Rose), The Marklands (Sourcebook), Iuz the Evil (Sourcebook), The City of Skulls (Adventure), From the Ashes (setting), Five Shall Be One (Adventure); Mystara: King's Festival (Adventure), Queen's Harvest (Adventure), Gazeteer 13: The Shadow Elves (setting), Creature Crucible: Top Ballista (city & faction), Eye of Traldar (Adventure); Forgotten Realms: FOR1: Draconomicon, (background, one of many contributors) and Amazing Engine: For Faerie, Queen and Country (core rulebook, with Karen Boomgarden and "Zeb" Cook) For FASA he worked on Shadowrun:London Sourcebook (with Marc Gascoigne), Paranormal Animals of Europe monster manual (with Mike Colton and Tom Dowd), Celtic Double Cross (Adventure), Harlequin's Back (adventure, one of many contributors), Imago (Adventure), Prime Runners (character book, with Marc Gasciogne), Tir na nOg (setting, with Mark Gascoigne) and The Grimoire (rulebook, one of several contributors) and on Earthdawn: Denizens of Earthdawn v. 1 (setting, one of many contributors), Sky Point & Vivane (setting), Sky Point Adventures (Adventure with Chris McCubbin and Teeuwynn Woodruff), Name-Giver's Compendium (setting, one of many contributors). He also did the Shadowrun novels Black Madonna, Nosferatu and Streets of Blood and the Earthdawn novel Shroud of Madness (all with Marc Gascoigne) For Games Workshop he worked on two properties. Warhammer: Castle Drachenfels (Adventure), Death's Dark Shadow (Adventure), Empire in Flames (Adventure), The Enemy Within: Power Behind the Throne (Adventure), Lichemaster (Adventure, with Rick Priestley), The Restless Dead (Adventure), Warhammer City (Setting, with Phil Gallagher), and the Warhammer Companion and Plundered Vaults (as one of several contributors); Judge Dredd: Citi-Block (suplement)

But you can't deny it has the most loving flybys of the Enterprise, ever! I actually love ST:TMP. That said its not without its flaws, and I totally understand why people would feel it was dull.

... ... ... ... ... I've like played only three of the games listed and I think I have a two more but haven't played it yet. And I wouldn't know any of the esports people if they came up and punched me in the face. Ditto the content creators.

Fixed the joke for you.

Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs. Old photographs have problems that don't fit into modern facial recognition (lots of beards and profiles rather than full face) but technology is trying to solve that.

I didn't back for either of those reason. I backed because I like Obsidian games and wanted to support them making a new game. If they'd tried to kickstart an action RPG like DSIII or Alpha Protocol on consoles, I'd have supported that as well. Heck, I didn't even know backing the Kickstarter was helping Obsidian at a time when their finances were problematic due to cancelled titles (I knew there was cancelled titles but now how badly it had affected them). If I had known how dire their straits were, I'd have tried to pledge more. The primary thing to me is Obsidian, a company that makes games I like, making games I like. Time will tell what impact the MS purchase will make on this, to me, bottom line but for now I see no point in worrying about it (particularly given that, in the end, there's nothing we can do about it).

I wasn't crazy about Avatar. Wouldn't have seen it if not for the insistances of family members. I enjoyed it, but the trailer pretty much told you what all the story beats were so there was little reason to actually see the film (IMO).