Amentep

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.

As many times as I've said it before, I'd think I wouldn't have to say it again. So I'll just quote the forum rules -

Why do the shots at 1:11 and 1:32 look they are literally just Katie Sackhoff's Starbuck straight out of Battlestar Galactica? That doesn't even look like Brie Larson to me. Because that is a fake trailer video from Smasher.

I'm pretty sure he said (joked?) that one of the conditions of his return was that the accent wasn't returning.

I'd think - if any of the companies involved was pushing for an on-sale physical edition - it'd be THQ Nordic. Weren't they the company handling the physical releases? Maybe they needed something more to distribute than just to the FIG backers to be interested? As an aside, the stated reason during the campaign for dropping the physical discs was the difficulty for Obsidian to keep the disc version patched. So if the set on sale at Amazon really has the game on discs (i notice the picture seems to be a promotional image) - how is it getting patched? From THQ Nordic? Versus Evil? Or is it the steam installer disc talked about early on and doesn't really have the physical game on it?

New thread ahoy...https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/105758-cin%C3%A9ma-v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9-and-all-other-types/

The new Movies thread. Disney's released an official Mary Poppins Returns trailer: For my part I watched THE MAZE (1953) which was a pretty fun 50s horror film (with a bit of a push, could have been a Lovecraftian tale)

I guess it would have been nice if he'd addressed his team-mates. But IMO pulling himself out was better than staying and bringing the team down, or getting himself/teamates hurt, for not really having his heart/head in the game. The shot on Cam Newton was unnecessary and disappointing. I know ATL hates Carolina and Cam, but there's no need for that kind of stuff.

Florida used to sound like an amazing place until I saw these three pictures. They can climb fences, crawl out of sewage drains and ring doorbells. How is anyone still alive out there and why aren't there more horror movies about alligators? They're basically that creature from Alien They couldn't top 1980's Alligator so they just stopped trying.

As I recall, Gina Torres character, Jasmine, used Cordelia as a vessel to incarnate herself, so wasn't literally the child of Cordelia and Conner (but I could be mis-remembering, I haven't watched an episode of Angel since it aired).

Just want to say that again, so far, I hate the local political ads. Nothing terribly new from past years, I guess, but a couple of egregiously bad, logic defying ads running that make my head swim.

Excactly. Someone called me an idiot in laugh. Doesn't matter if you'd laugh, or even if the target doesn't care. Not everyone would laugh, so the rule of thumb is to treat others with respect. Which wouldn't be calling one another idiot.

I wasn't advocating for either, just thinking that treason wouldn't be the right charge. Thanks, I seemed to remember that sedition was scaled back, but couldn't find online how, so when thinking about it sedition seemed a 'better' fit to the actions if one were to charge anyone for such a thing than treason.

Regarding the anonymous Op-Ed, wouldn't it technically be considered (if one went that route) as sedition rather than treason? Treason in the US is - if I understand it correctly - limited to levying war against the US and/or giving comfort and aid to its enemies, so I'm pretty sure it'd be difficult to prove the Op-Ed was treasonous given that narrow definition. And if I'm correct they'd be trying to to prove it was seditious rather than treasonous, the statements would have to be proven false, scandalous and malicious with the intent to bring the President into disrepute. If I understand correctly.

I'm not Amentep but I'm pretty sure that is Hazel Brooks. Yup, Hazel Brooks is correct!

At the risk of quoting myself...as the thread continued to go off topic, the utility of the thread is gone, and the last posts have been removed.