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Saving Private Ryan was mentioned earlier. I offered an earlier parallel film. Arguably much of The Dirty Dozen's characters are stock. Right now I couldn't really tell them apart except three. But that's my position; others may remember them vividly.

Wasn't saying it was.

Dirty Dozen is a good parallel (IMO) with Rogue One. A bunch of prisoners who aren't very likeable for the most part are sent on a suicide mission.

I have a lot of fun with Skyrim, but I don't really see it as a RPG. The Bethesda ES and FALLOUTS are almost a genre to themselves.

It irritated me that when the Destiny Ascension is first seen, a comment is made about how big its main gun was and they spend the rest of the series studiously not having it fired in action. Has no one at Bioware heard of Chekov's gun? Because they literally introduced a gun in the first act that they never fired. Frankly, if I was rewriting Mass Effect, I'd throw out the entirety of the third game and start over.

I wonder if what you see as 'americanized' is the result of the movie being an adaption of a UK children's novel? I haven't seen Howl yet, but expect it to feel different being an adaption from an English language story.

What I read at the time (and have seen repeated since then) is that NBC had lost their NFL rights, so the jumped at the chance to broadcast the XFL. They broadcast XFL games primetime on Saturday (Sunday games were aired by TNN and UPN) necessitating the removal of those shows NBC had on Saturday as they had no where else in their schedule to put the additional hours (and they needed to cut shows as they were staking 50% in the XFL). Here's a variation on the same story, from James Longworth's TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama:

Creation of the XFL killed NBC's Saturday night line-up at the time - I don't think I can forgive that. That cliffhanger on The Others was brutal and deserved resolution. ... Anyhow, Lawrence Brooks, an 108 year old WWII veteran and Saints fan was given Superbowl tickets by the Saints' Cam Jordan: https://www.facebook.com/neworleanssaints/videos/1607606329286926/ http://wgno.com/2018/01/24/108-year-old-wwii-veteran-gets-super-bowl-tickets-thanks-to-cam-jordan/

The Braves have been at times Red Stockings, Red Caps, Beaneaters, Doves, Bees with two separate stints as the Braves. While they've only been the Braves while they've been in Georgia, I wouldn't be against them changing the name. Particularly if it'd help them create a mascot that wasn't seemingly based on Mr. Met (Homer) or the Phillie Phanatic (Blooper). Sheesh.

Meanwhile, in Cobb County...

Lustmord used to have an interview section on his site with this in it (you can still see it through a WebCite citation or the Internet Archive)

Hooked me too. Then I was disappointed by the lack of a green giant walking through woods in the game. I really enjoyed the Gamescon trailer for the upcoming WiLD game (although I don't know if the finished game will be any good, the trailer definitely piqued my interest.

ObTopic: Been playing Skyrim on the Switch.

To tell the truth I've never not played games. When I was little my mom taught me how to play Rummy; my dad taught me chess and checkers. My brothers and I also played a brutal form of SlapJack that left our hands stinging for the remainder of the day. War was another card game we like. We played some other board games (I liked Sorry! a lot, Monopoly less so; later we played things like Awful Green Things from Outer Space and WIzard's Quest). One of my older brothers got into Dungeons and Dragons and we started doing pen and paper RPGs first between us and then with friends adding role playing games to board games and video games. I don't think I was 10 yet when I played Space Invaders and a home version of Pong. Through the years I played Arcade games, PC games and console games. I think I've been around for almost all of the console generations (I did miss a period of PC gaming in the 90s; only getting back on board with Baldur's Gate and then having to backtrack to play the Fallouts) I still play board games when I can get together enough people willing to give a game a try (Betrayal at the House on the Hill always being a good go to game if nothing else appeals). I enjoy reading pen and paper RPG manuals for fun (don't really know anyone who wants to commit to campaigning). And I enjoy playing video games. Its one of several things I enjoy for recreation.

Please remember this is the "Posting a Funny" thread not the "snipe each other" thread.

'And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." '

Hm, it's not hard to see what she was getting at, she should have said 'respected the same as' though to be totally clear on her intent. Also yeah, I double posted, TrueNeutral, what are you gonna do about it ? He could edit your second post into your first post and then delete the second, now blank, post. For example.

I think most of the time I don't really notice the kind of mechanics related bugs that the OP is listing (possibly because I never play in such a hardcore way that the I need to numbers to work specifically for me to win). Most of the time when I hit game stopping bugs its because a quest didn't trigger properly (Fallouts/Elder Scrolls) or a quest item disappeared entirely from my inventory (Arcanum).

RIP Bradford Dillman - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818 He was in a lot of movies (like Compulsion, with Dean Stockwell, or The Iceman Cometh) and Broadway (O'Neil's Long Journey into Night) but also was a perennial guest star in TV shows through the 60s and 70s (including a meglomaniac in a Man from UNCLE two-parter and as a victim in a memorable Columbo). And RIP Peter Wyngarde, star of TV's Jason King (and appeared on a number of ITV shows as a guest star) and the movie Burn, Witch! Burn!

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/93291-movies-youve-seen-or-would-like-to-see-recently/page-38 Previously on the Obsidian Movie Thread, Bartimaeus expressed concern that he couldn't get into Japanese film, KaineParker enjoyed Stalker but was going to need to take time to think about it, and algroth enjoyed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Return with us now to chronicle these thrilling days of our movie watching!

Thread closed for length. Incoming refresher thread ...er... incoming.