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County ← Anglo-Norman counté ← Old French conté ← Latin comitātus, meaning "Jurisdiction of a Count" Country ← Middle English contree ← Old French contree ← from vulger Latin contrata as used in the phrase terra contrata meaning "land opposite" My guess (can't find any evidence online to support it so possibly wildly inaccurate) is the "u" in Country came from one of the standardizers of the language.

Seriously though (I can't just leave the joke answer), the tradition in English is to spell and pronounce words from other languages as they would have been in that language (or at least as close as you can get translating it into the English Alphabet). Sometimes over the centuries, the origin of the word gets obscured, but the pronunciation remains. In this case the spelling got changed; can't tell you why bas in Middle English became Bass in English. At some point that's how someone codified it to be. Typically you'd find Shakespeare (the biggest of the early Modern English authors), Dr. Samuel Johnson (influential Modern English Dictionary in the early 1700s), and/or Noah Webster (for American English) at the root of such things, but given the timing we might also find blame for Robert Cawdrey, Thomas Blount, Edward Phillips, John Wilkins and William Lloyd, or Elisha Coles as I think they all created modern English dictionaries prior to Johnson.

Not much, we mostly use email now...

I think google is a bit off - Bass (instrument) comes to English from Italian Basso which is from the Latin word Bassus. Bass (fish) comes to English from Middle English Bas, which derives from the Old English word bærs (similar to Dutch Baars) which itself derives from the Germanic Barsaz.

I'd love a Pathfinder traditional RPG - isometric or otherwise. I confess I'd also probably enjoy a Pathfinder Action RPG that allowed you to play the Iconic characters in a game like an updated BG: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath or Dungeon Siege III type as well (but I understand not everyone likes action RPGs).

Film expert, Hollywood Reporter columnist, author, actor (mostly with Desilu; Lucille Ball was a mentor and encouraged him to write about movies) and TCM movie host Robert Osborne passed away at 84.

Are you dragging the characters to the left most open circle? If you drag them to the middle or right circles - even though they're highlighted - the character won't fill the slot. Has to be the left most open circle.

Thinking about it a bit more, for all we know there are alchemists working with merchants to create soul powered respec-potions. Since so much in Eora is tied to soul power™, a magical alchemist using soul-power to create a respec potion is just as valid as an animancer, really.

I understand and I agree it will get more visibility as its own topic.

I think that if the NPC is going to be a fully-fledged character, they have to have their own interests and attractions - including those of sex and romance. That's not to say that an NPC can't exist who is up for anything, but that has to be part of their character from the begining of their creation, not something tacked on at the end to ensure that every player choice gets a romance (the validation of player choice is just as strong in being denied something due to your choices as it is by achieving something, a thing that often times is forgotten by creators and players all the time).

Since I view respec as a game aspect and not a game-world aspect, I don't really need an in-game explanation for it. However the plot of Deadfire itself - that Eothas somehow soul sucks your skills away so that you're a level one newbie pretty much establishes that even the physical skills that are grown through training are still somehow filtered through the soul in the gameworld, so the argument that animancy might be a way to game-world respec still seems to fit to my mind. That said, given that animancy is such a dicey proposition, it seems like there should be an element of risk if you're applying a real game-world condition to respec.

Whether you felt the answer you received was the answer you sought or not, it is still a fair point that one shouldn't spam the forum with the same question in multiple places.

I think the idea is that all the skill and powers and stuff is driven by a character's soul, therefore respec in a gameworld sense could/would require a tweak of the soul to accomplish.

Should have been a barn door anyhow. Then when people using ranged weapons missed you, you could have taunted them that their aim was so bad they couldn't even hit a barn door. ... I'll get my coat.

Schultz isn't retired, he's working on a new 60 page Xenozoic Tales story - https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/12/14/a-new-60-page-xenezoic-tales-comic-from-mark-schultz-to-pick-up-its-20-year-cliffhanger-in-2016/

TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) - Its been awhile since I last watched this film; Grant, Kelly are great as leads, Landis, Auber and Williams all do well as support. But while it works as a fun breezy film, there's some sloppy elements that seem to be fairly unusual for one of Hitch's films. The bit where Grant is attacked towards the end is a mess. Still you watch this kind of film for the fun and breezy dialogue and that is totally nailed.

Are you pulling them down to the left most open circle? If not they will not be added, the circles are there to show where you'd place them generally, but you have to drag them to the left most open circle.

Probably rather go for a meteor hammer, as it could possibly still be useful against an armored opponent for more than just disarming and tripping, but animating it would be a pain.

Alien Covenant Prologue short:

The Criterion Collection is certainly an embarrassment of riches in many ways. There is so much there to try and work through.

Yeah the CGI complaint about Crimson Peak was hilarious. Not that the film isn't without its problems, but CGI...not it.

93 is a good age, but you can't help but wonder what he could have done if his dismissal from Nikkatsu in '67 and the subsequent lawsuit he won hadn't led to his blacklisting for a decade. Although with Nikkatsu's content change in 1974, there's no telling really what his career would have been like during that period, I guess. I'm pretty sure I know his films primarily from reputation, though, as I haven't delved too deeply into the Nikkatsu catalogue.

And Ivan Koloff And long-time TV actor Warren Frost, (Doc Hayward in TWIN PEAKS amid many credits) also passed away. He was also the father of Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost. And Time Magazine's film critic Richard Schieckel has also passed away. He was also an extensive documentarian with 5 emmy nominations for his documentaries on film (like THE MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES (1973)).

I've heard good things about Jane Doe, will see it eventually.

I frequent a forum on certain classic films that has a complete forum dedicated to memorializing those of artistic talent who have passed away (...and its been going on so long, memorializing some of the posters of the board). Given that we've had individual threads on various people here before, I don't think there's anything wrong with mentioning people of distinction - actors, directors, scientists, musicians, writers, artists, etc. And with that in mind, Bruce Lansbury, producer of Mission: Impossible, Wild, Wild West, Knight Rider and - working with his older sister - Murder She Wrote passed away - http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bruce-lansbury-angela-brother-tv-producer-dead-87-article-1.2973846