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  1. Can't find a clip from my favorite film atm, so I'll give you a couple scenes from CHARADE (1963), one of my favorites instead: and
  2. While I'd played earlier Computer RPGs (Phantasie for the C64 for example). A disastrous experience with Phantasy Star III cooled my interest in jRPGs1, positive word of mouth on FFVI (back when it was still FFIII) led me to play it and it was the game that kind of cemented my continuing interest in video games; I'm not sure if I'd primarily stayed as a platformer/brawler/fighter player I'd have stuck around as long as I did. 1 I actually retried Phantasy Star III after FFVI and came to like it; I'd gotten frustrated that I couldn't trigger a specific event to advance the story during one of the scenarios; by the time I went back to it, I was able to use USENET to figure out what I was missing (I wasn't walking on the right part of the map, go figure) and ended up liking the game overall. Could one of you old timers tell me what this thing is about? There is definitely some history to it as I've seen you fellas write that here quite often. Gromnir. Gromnir is what its about. Its his sign off; like his posting style, it will be in each of his posts and has been AFAIK since the late 1990s. If other people use it, its probably in direct relation to Gromnir using it.
  3. If you haven't emailed support@obsidian.net, you should. While developers do read through this forum, emails are still a reliably quicker way to get your issue to the eyes of a person who can help you. Include: General (For all issues) What platform are you on? Stream/Android/iPad, etc. What version of the OS are you running? Android 4.4, iOS 9.3, etc. What model is the device? Galaxy Tab 3, iPad Mini 4, etc. What is your PFID#? (Located in the settings menu) Store Issues What products were purchased? What products are missing (if any)?
  4. They got a new Lucy in 2016 - Although apparently Scary Lucy was enough of a draw, the park still has her out in a different area.
  5. To be fair, this is actually true of the original series. As late as episode 6 of the original series, Dr. Smith was still trying to kill the Robinsons (but that's pretty much the last of it; the episode sees him changing his mind because he can't stand not having any human contact, so he sends the Robot to rescue the family). That said, I'm somewhat dismayed to hear we're getting dysfunctional Family Robinson. Not surprising in this day and age, I guess, but still disappointing.
  6. He's using imgur. When you you attach your pictures, you get a thumbnail. You can then use the thumbnail address to link an image to the original picture. You have to right click and copy the address. This gets the image thumnail address and then you remove the thumbnail designation and wrap it in img codes. So post-148297-0-29345400-1524161319_thumb.jpg becomes post-148297-0-29345400-1524161319.jpg: The other 2:
  7. I've cleaned the thread up a bit. If you think sites are too small for Obsidian to notice, then state so. "Lol jk" only gets you so far.
  8. Did anyone post that here? That shot in the water reminded me that The Meg trailer came out:
  9. Its a deadpool 2 trailer so warning on language:
  10. Now I want shield and child's chair.
  11. Okay. Wasn't really sure if I was misreading you or you me, but I was definitely confused!
  12. In a movie series that has ships flying by with screeching sound experiencing the doppler effect as they go by...do you have to ask? That said, I'm pretty sure the director and producers have said the bombs were designed to propel themselves via a magnetic lock onto their target... EDIT: NINJA'D! The sound in space is emulated for the benefit of the pilot. It's as good an explanation as magnetic lock bombs. Except bombers in Star Wars in the past could launch self-propelled bombs. No need for launch bays. Why does the audience hear the sound when they're outside of the ships though; wouldn't it only make sense to hear the emulated sounds when we're viewing ship interiors?
  13. In a movie series that has ships flying by with screeching sound experiencing the doppler effect as they go by...do you have to ask? That said, I'm pretty sure the director and producers have said the bombs were designed to propel themselves via a magnetic lock onto their target... EDIT: NINJA'D!
  14. It seems to me the moral of the story is if the Tennessee Legislature wants to prevent local municipalities from doing things, they need to craft better laws.
  15. I don't like to assume that just because I do something others automatically can or do. I don't know everyone, so no clue. If you know everyone, feel free to ask. I'm not really sure what your point is, I'm not aware that I've argued anything other than personal preference when explaining that I actually don't care one way or the other about full VO? I'm pretty sure that I didn't make any sort of "these rules apply to everyone - #9 will amaze you" claim. What I did is state my preference - to read text - and supported that with some conditional examples using friendly "if you x then you might y" statements to demonstrate my personal preference to read text and skip VO performances if I have to. And to counter your reply, to show that this wasn't, IMO, a problem with acting or writing, but entirely on my own preferred game playing preference. Ergo, to bring this back to my original point, my only concerns about Full VO as stated previously, are the impact of such a thing on the development budget with respect to the possibility of cutting things to afford Full VO. From an actual user perspective I, personally, will probably never listen to all of the dialogue so its existence will be irrelevant to my game experience.
  16. IMO, that he didn't go through with it is because he's the guy who wouldn't kill Vader. But we know he did plan to kill Vader once (prior to knowing their relationship, admittedly) and later thought better of it. I don't see why, under pressure and possibly being semi-manipulated by Snoke, Luke - already prone to rashness - couldn't make a rash decision which was stopped by the better part of his self. The part of him that thought it better to try to bring Vader back from the darkside than give up on him.
  17. I'm not sure you can use the crowdfunding raised to create a budget comparison; I'm pretty sure that non-crowdfunded monies were applied to both games.
  18. If the scene isn't investing you, then the writers and actors have failed you. I wouldn't say its a failure for me so much as, having grown up on games with no voice acting at all, my method of game play is still primarily focused on reading, and if you read faster than people act, it can make the game frustrating to wait for them to act out a scene. So since pacing in a game is usually user controlled, as opposed to a subtitled movie where the movie has the pacing created by the editing of the film, I tend to still favor reading and advancing at the speed I read. Only a scene of something remarkable (visual, acting, writing) will make me pause and watch it as it is, and honestly I'm more inclined to do it in a 3rd person game than a isometric one.
  19. And he didn't. He just had the one moment of weakness, of hesitation, which makes him human—unlike a certain other protagonist. ROTJ Luke showed that he can be one angry mofo, all because pops teased him about his sister a little. That's the only part of the movie I actually liked, tbh. Impatience, insecurity and a proneness to rash action is pretty much Luke's MO in the original films. He feels left behind by his friends so wants to join the rebellion, he doesn't want to help his family because he wants to get on with his life, he hides that R2 is missing because he knows he'll get blamed so his solution is to search for them himself, he argues he's a better pilot than Han despite never actually piloted a ship in hyperspace, he overlooks Yoda because he isn't "jedi mastery" enough and gets mad when he doesn't get the training he expects, he leaves his training despite being warned not to and loses a hand because he's not trained enough to beat Vader, conceitedly faces off with Jabba assuming because he's a Jedi he'll win and when that fails, has to improvise and not learning from that lesson he does the exact same thing in facing the Emperor. Regardless of how Luke got the vision (Snoke induced or otherwise) that Luke would do something rash AND impatient (jump to the conclusion that killing Ben was the only solution rather than trying to connect with and train him) and that he'd then become insecure over his ability to train anyone again seems pretty in keeping with the character. Yoda even calls him on it a bit - saying he's always looking for the next horizon is an indicator he never really got past his impatience and rashness. Not really where I expected the story to go for Luke, but I never felt it didn't fit the character. I think Ben set out to be Kylo, but its a mask (literally) through all of TFA and most of TLJ. Its something he wears because he felt rejected by his family and pushed into; then he tries to use it to please Snoke by becoming someone he isn't (Vader). I think the idea in The Last Jedi is that by the end, Ben actually finally has an internal goal of his own rather than doing things as part of a reaction to external events and people.
  20. Eh, I think it depends on the DM and what the group wants a lot. And some of the settings can tend darker than others. Ravenloft, with its evil Darklords trapped by their own obsessions and failings, ruling over people who can't escape their grasp is intended to be dark and horror filled. Even if the adventurers somehow can topple the ever present Darklord of one of the realms, odds are that there will be someone else who'll take their place just as bad or worse. Birthright with its political backdrop could also be ripe for exploiting humanities cruelty to one another through infighting and manipulation (one only needs to look at some of the real stories behind people trying to get or keep power and how individuals were crushed or used as pawns to further agendas to see how dark it could be). Mystara or Forgotten Realms, with their respective emphasis on heroism and adventure probably won't get superdark for more players.
  21. I should also admit that I'd listen to the voice acting if I liked the voice regardless of scene. A character being voiced by Tony Jay or Jennifer Hale, for example, were always a listen. "Promised? Promised? I made you no Promise" - how many times did I listen to that bit of dialogue in Icewind Dale? I was gutted that Rebecca Sanabria wasn't a voice option for Saints Row 4; the dialogue and her voice kinda helped make my Saints Boss character so memorable in 2 and 3.
  22. Its kind of irrelevant to me other than the cost impact to development / limiting dialogue potential consequences. From a practical standpoint as a game player, I read faster than most actors speak their lines and unless the actual acting or scene itself engages me on a level beyond the usual, I'll be reading the text and choosing dialogue options without listening to the VO; in games where the choices weren't fully written out in text choices, I'd have subtitles on, read the subtitles and advance to the next dialogue piece when I was done unless, again, the scene invested me somehow.
  23. RIP Mr. Anderson. He was great in Night Court, and in the miniseries adaption of IT.
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