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This is the last thing I read regarding GOG:

That would be the first Star Trek pilot "The Cage" with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (a character who shows up again in TOS) and John Hoyt was Doctor Boyce. Hunter was probably best known for playing Jesus in King of Kings and turns in Westerns like The Searchers and The Great Locomotive Chase. Hoyt was a Television regular from the 1950s to the 1980s. Susan Oliver played Vina, the only survivor of the previous planetary expedition. Oliver was another TV veteran, possibly most identified for her role on the TV adaption of soap opera Peyton Place. Majel Barrett features as the emotionless second in command (only called Number Two). She'd go on to voice the computer on various Star Trek productions and played Nurse Chapel. Nimoy's Spock is full of emotion in this story as well. After the first pilot failed, Roddenberry was given a chance (somewhat unprecedentedly) to do a second pilot. The network wanted Spock out and Number 2 softened; instead Roddenberry fused the two into one character. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" has Paul Fix (another veteran TV performer but perhaps most identified as Sheriff Micah Torrance in The Rifleman) as Doctor Piper. Also in it are Gary Lockwood (who was in Roddenberry's earlier series, The Lieutenant), Sally Kellerman (who went on to a big film career in the 1970s) and Paul Carr, another veteran TV player who you'll see all of 50s to 70s US TV. DeForest Kelly's Dr. McCoy shows up for the first filmed episode of the series, "The Corbomite Maneuver". Because of broadcasting though, McCoy was first seen by audiences of the time in the first aired episode, "The Man Trap". Dr. Piper shows up without explanation two episodes later and fans had to wait until the 1980s to see "The Cage" and Dr. Boyce. While I look forward to re-watching TNG, I didn't find it at the time anywhere near as interesting as The Original Series. Be interesting to find how I see it now.

I'm of the opinion that its such a big change to events as we know it that it'd be almost impossible to truly categorize the fallout as it would change so many large and small things as it wouldn't just eliminate events but it'd change the way people thought. That said, I can't resist a couple of "what-ifs": French expansion led to the Natchez War which had left much of Mississippi and Alabama under Choktow and Chickasaw control (and maybe Creek?) The desire of the State of Georgia to shore up its claim to the "Yazoo Lands" (even though the Natchez War had ended with the Yazoo tribe wiped out) was only really possible post-Revolution and possibly one motivation (the return of Florida to Spain post-US Revolution) would be removed. Without the Yazoo Land Scandal, there would have been no call from Washington to control 'Indian affairs" and thus no Treaty of New York; as such there'd have been no need for the British to support William Bowles (a colonial loyalist) to form the 'state' of Muscogee unifying the Cherokee, upper and lower Creek, Chocktow, Chickasaw (covering most of North and Middle Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi) which challenged various land treaties, including those of the Treaty of New York British controlled Florida doesn't go back to Spain; without the US, there is no Creek or Seminole Wars Which leads to the big question, given that the UK backed Muscogee and seemed to somewhat back the Seminoles (they denounced the Seminole Wars, IIRC) would Britain have negotiated (and kept) agreements that gave those two groups their own lands had there been no US Revolutionary War?

Have you emailed obsidian support with it? Or just posted here?

As Hannibal said, MrBishop addressed the issue in this very thread; they are aware of the problem with the game being rendered unplayable for some users; there is a work around that has worked for some people. Unless they have a revised work-around that works better or an incoming patch, what else can they say beyond restating that they're working on the issue? Genuinely curious - would it be helpful for one of the developers to come in and say "we have no update, but we're aware of the problem and are working to fix it" periodically? Or would that just be a further annoyance? I ask because it sounds like the only answer you want to hear is 'it is fixed' and that doesn't appear to be the case yet.

No problem, I've moved the thread to the POE: Character Builds Forum.

In Hot Pursuit (1977 aka Polk County Pot Plane): Low budget regional film about a group of pothead drug smugglers who are chased by police in rural-ish Georgia (USA). There's no real characterization to talk about, and a lot of stiff acting that mostly is an excuse to set up the next chase, but the action sequences are staged pretty well for a movie that proclaims "No stunt-men were used" in the credits. Golden Needles (1974) Joe Don Baker is hired by Elizabeth Ashley who is working for Burgess Meredith to steal a small statue that shows a secret acupuncture technique that can restore vitality from a man who killed to get it. Double crosses abound; Jim Kelly offers some solid support in the LA sequences. From Robert Clouse, director of Enter the Dragon (and Gymkata).

Sorry to hear that. When I broke my ankle the morphine didn't completely kill the pain for me either and it was a very, very sucky first few days.

To be fair, it was - I think the fifth Covenant novel that began to annoy me and the sixth that drove me off. I did like the original trilogy pretty well, but have never went back to reread.

I'm not saying that the Inhumans trailer isn't a disappointment - it is on several levels for me. But it also looks a lot like the last few seasons of Agents of SHIELD, to be honest.

There's also a certain degree of repetition in the Thomas Covenant books. I never completed them because after the umpteenth time Covenant ran the words "Leper! Outcast! Unclean!" through his mind while doubting himself (or similar; I read this years ago) I just couldn't take more of it. Not that it isn't true to life, I guess, but it just grated after awhile. YMMV, of course.

I think you'd be better off comparing Inhumans to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD or, say, Legends of Tomorrow, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Gotham, etc, than the cable and streaming shows you list.

Eh, its a TV show with a little more money thrown at it to show the first two episodes on IMAX screens; I don't think it was going to ever look like anything other than a TV show. Its still sad to see Medusa's prehensile hair (she's defeated Venom with it!) so reduced. Wonder if they'll explain why she's not using it regularly...

Apparently Cinderella Man made Max Baer into a villain who enjoyed his reputation as a man killer, whereas the real Max Baer was torn-up over Frankie Campbell's death and almost quit boxing over it, so I've heard its historical accuracy challenged a bit.

Public Libraries are great; spent a lot of time checking out books from them growing up (and our HS library wasn't bad for mainstream books and classic literature). But I don't remember a time where books were hard to buy growing up. Within driving distance there was a mall with a Waldenbooks, a bit further away was a mall with a B. Dalton. But really close was a great used book store where I got plenty of books for under $1 (until it closed down when I was a teen) and a great newsagent that existed up until about a decade ago or so.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster from 1978 was the other early Star Wars book. It came out a year before 1979's Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley. The Daley book was the first of a trilogy (Han Solo's Revenge and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy being the other two). Anyhow Splinter of the Mind's Eye is an interesting artifact of the pre-Empire Star Wars (and in fact exists as a 'might have been', as Foster's book was developed to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars should the film have failed at the box-office) and shows how in-flux some things were at the time (Luke and Leia's relationship, Han Solo's return)

The continuance of Nintendo eStore, PlaystationsNetwork and XBoxLive is probably tied to the existence of the stand-alone console market that they support. Similarly, something like Origin will probably last as long as that publisher wants their in-house system. Steam and GOG are pretty diversified, so can probably withstand a lot of change in the market. Unless the majority of publishers want their own Origin, a Steam or a GOG should do well without the intervention of a better competitor. I'm not sure worrying about the long-term future of these really makes sense. Its about like worrying whether my PST, BG, and IWD discs are going to suffer CD rot. Odds are, eventually, they will. And I won't have access to the data on them.

I was just thinking about reading my collection of the HHGTtG. “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” Don't really have time atm, too many other things to read. ... I hate those oddball questions in interviews. Thankfully only had one: "What kind of bird do you see yourself as?" Couldn't think of any bird at all except the damn albatross because of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Finally said it, and the interviewer kindly said "so you see yourself as being able to stay aloft over sea for long periods of time" which I guess was a better interpretation than "results in curses for sailors who shoot them".

A picture is worth a 1000 words.

The internet says they're supposed to be okay to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. No clue if the internet is right, though.

Its been republican since 1979 when they first elected Newt Gingrich, IIRC. That said, it used to not have North DeKalb in it but instead part of Walton County.

Pretty sure the 6th district avoids Atlanta's city limits. Its North Fulton, North DeKalb, and East Cobb counties. Eh, he lives a mile and a half from the 6th district while his girlfriend is attending Emory medical school. Supposedly he grew up and lived previously around Northlake, which is currently part of the 6th district but wasn't part of it until 2013, I think.

Fixed that for you.

There's a long running gag* that we're all alts of about 12 people. *or is it? dun dun dunnnn

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