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At this point I'd probably have to give it to IT, but there are quite a few films that I didn't get to see (either because timing didn't work out or they didn't show up locally) that I think could top it, potentially.

The only time I've totally failed to understand English was meeting a pleasant older gentleman from Scotland whose accent was impenetrable for me even after listening to him for a bit (usually if I hear someone speak enough English it gives me the ability to de-code their accent). My brother ended up having to translate for me (he'd been in the UK for awhile when I came to visit). Total embarrassment.

You're right, I misremembered the article I'd read on the polls earlier this morning. Ah youre right, I mixed up Chancellor and President. Or Trump could be a one term president. Stranger things have happened.

“We made too many wrong mistakes.” ― Yogi Berra The real shame is the lack of voter turnout. By all accounts the Alabama race is "too close to call" but will have only ~20% voter turnout. Meaning if Moore (or Jones) wins with a minimal simple majority, he was elected by ~4 thousand people to represent ~4 million.

I've not read the Dark Tower stuff, but thought the movie was fine for what it is.

I dunno, the look for the original Manga is pretty stylized. But then again making Alita look less human I think fits the story. Anyhow...

I think there were multiple problems with into darkness; Khan was just a singular part. It also suffered from not really giving the cast a lot to do as well as not allowing the story to stand on its own as it had to (weakly, imo) homage the wrath of khan. The whole "no really, I'm not khan" stuff in the lead up was also distracting because the mystery never actually is important to the story.

Besides the knife shows, I think there are two different organizations - one for knife collectors (National Knife Collectors Association) and one more geared towards ownership and legislation (American Knife and Tool Institute) - that are knife related. How many members do those have? Dunno, just know they exist. Looking up AKTI just indicates they had a record rise in membership in 2014, not what the membership was, or is. You also have to remember that Spain (in Florida and a concern for Georgia) and the French and English (Louisiana, Canada) were also still seen as threats. They'd want frontiersmen and frontierswomen to be able to defend themselves if trouble came. And lets be honest given the focus on the state rather than the federal government, the idea of needing a well-armed and trained militia was probably also needed in case the states squabbled (if you want to see some interstate nuttiness, look up the Walton War of 1804 between Georgia and North Carolina).

Besides the knife shows, I think there are two different organizations - one for knife collectors (National Knife Collectors Association) and one more geared towards ownership and legislation (American Knife and Tool Institute) - that are knife related.

Did we ever post/talk about Alex Garland's Annihilation? I'm looking forward to it.

Not to ruin your day... but... you probably want to move this to the pillars of eternity(1) forum rather than the current deadfire forum. I left a forwarding link in the Deadfire forum so the original poster could find their thread since they'd look for it where they posted it - in the Deadfire forum. But if you follow that forwarding link and look at the top, you'll see the thread itself rests in PoE1 forum.

It was moved to the Pathfinder because there are too many forums that begin with the letter "P" here.

I ultimately used the criteria of how often I'd played the game; ie games I came back to again and again. Still had around~30 games though so then had to make some hard choices.

I'm not sure its the "worst" version mentioned earlier (IIRC Kitt's version is the original), but I couldn't resist. Its Chekov's gun in internet form - you mention it on the first page it has to happen on the second. I actually don't like Santa Baby as a Christmas song, to be honest. Its not a bad song, but not a good Christmas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMyF9fDKzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d2RfblImA4

I can't stick to songs, gotta have some music compositions as well (eg The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy).

I was reading reaction to the 'Arrow-verse' crossover Crisis on Earth-X (which personally I thought was a lot of fun) and found myself weirdly bugged when a poster made the statement that the original Freedom Fighters characters were purchased at the same time as DC bought Fawcett Comics characters. 'Busy' Arnold sold his Quality Comics stable to DC in 1956; DC continued publishing GI Combat, Blackhawks, Heart Throbs and The Three Musketeers. They revived Plastic Man in the 60s and then The Ray, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, and Uncle Sam in the early 70s for CRISIS ON EARTH-X, one of the annual Justice Society - Justice League cross-overs as the Freedom Fighters (which then led to a short-lived late eponymous 70s comic). Also in the 1970s they brought back Quality's Kid Eternity and then in the 1980s they revived Quality's Midnight, The Red Bee, Manhunter, Firebrand, The Jester, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown and The Invisible Hood. The 1980s also saw the end of the longest surviving Quality Comic, GI Combat. By contrast, DC didn't purchase the Fawcett Comics characters until around 1994 or so (from IIRC then owner Ballentine). Any appearance prior to that date was from a license DC had. The only connection between the two companies or their characters was that in the 1970s a DC story made their licensed version of Fawcett's Captain Marvel, Jr. the brother of Quality Comics character Kid Eternity (who had, prior to that point, not had a name and no relations outside of a grandfather killed by Nazis). And then I realized it was weird to be bugged by somebody getting such minutiae wrong, and probably weirder that I know all of this **** to begin with.

I guess its more than the dice that's haunted...ooooOOOOOOO0000000OOOOOOOOOoooooo