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I'm still mad that Pretender, Profiler and The Others were cancelled for Vince McMahon's XFL.

Both concerns would be addressed with a teleporting Segway, let me tell you...

http://www.thewrap.com/cnn-instant-poll-hands-debate-victory-to-mike-pence-over-tim-kaine/ So the general consensus is Pence won the debate over Kaine. This doesn't change people's view on who to vote for in the presidential debate as it applies to VP only How many people actually vote for a VP candidate instead of Voting for a Prez-VP ticket?

I had a dream where I owned a teleporting Segway and could teleport back and forth large distance on it, then ride it around locally. Also Mickey Rooney was pestering me to let him use the Segway, and people I knew was mad at me for no longer having a work commute. Then I woke up and found I still had to drive to work. The end.

Apocalypse in the comics was a "survival of the fittest" type to the nth degree, as I recall; he mostly supported mutants because he deemed them more fit to survive than non-mutants. There's a little hint of that in the movie, but not so much.

I actually couldn't watch Supergirl because of Calista Flockhart's Cat Grant. I understand the appeal of such a character, I guess, but not one that I'm enamored of. Supposedly the CW move will minimize her involvement (because Canada) so maybe it'd be more to my tastes. I might see if I decide to watch all the arrowverse crossover this year. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to watching the new Westworld.

23 years - sounds like a lot when you count it up...

Remind me to never ask a Hockey fan to clarify his/her point...!

Tee-hee.

Sure, there's some objective statements; but things like the Republican saying he gave him a "blank stare" when they first met or the Democrat who said he was clueless and didn't want to learn (or something like that) seem...a bit character assassinationy - although they may actually be true. That's why I wrote.

Democrats and Republicans complain about a third party candidate (who used to be Republican). The question, of course, is do they raise fair complaints, or are they putting this out there because both sides are afraid Johnson is "stealing" votes from "their" candidate?

Hasn't that been the problem for years, though? That it is more important to vote for a "winner" than it is to vote for who you want to represent you? Therefore the goal is to win at all costs? This has been my explanation for the "if you don't vote democrate/republican you are throwing your vote away" types.

Shouldn't it be 12 years (this is 2016, join date is 2004)? Anyhow... I started on usenet rec.arts.games.* heirarchy around 1993. Was a lurker on Interplay's threaded forums around 1999. Joined Black Isle in around early to mid-2000. Joined Obsidian in Feb 2004.

Thank you Volo. I don't think I can please your post. I didn't. Sorry I'm not getting this post? I thought you were saying you can compare the Island to SA ? No, I wasn't saying anything. I was trying to clarify the point of someone else which seemed to be misunderstood, while making no statement regarding my thoughts on any matter at all.

Thank you Volo. I don't think I can please your post. I didn't.

Your entire country is a hellhole where sexual abuse is rampant. What does that have to do with anything though? Someone from Brazil saying Chicago's gun violence is too high isn't invalidated as Rio is worse, no? Takes one to know one, eh? Seriously I think the point is, unless you're going to equally condemn both in the situation, pointing out the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye while having a plank in yours is considered bad form, perhaps?

Well of that list, 20 are rip-offs of Mad Max and 15 are rip-offs of Night of the Living Dead. Heck 8 are Planet of the Apes films and 4 of those films are the same basic story (albeit 1 of those is the inverse of that story). And 80% of everything is "terrible", its the "law" of creative media. I find it interesting that Fallout is seen as a "stroke of genius" given that it's origins are completely derivative - yes it built SPECIAL (because the already implemented GURPS system had to be removed because they didn't get the rights to it). Sure it created a tongue-in-cheek iconography and set its own tone. But at the end of the day, the game is built on that which came before - Mad Max and Mad Max 2, Wasteland and X-Com. It is as original as it is derivative.

What other games are you talking about? Wasteland Fallout Fallout 2 Fallout Tactics Fallout Brotherhood of Steel Fallout 3 Wasteland 2 Fallout New Vegas Fallout 4 the end of the world never ends Its worked of the moves for at least 50 years. Titles off the top of my head in the "Post-Apocalyptic" genre include - Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, Cherry 2000, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Escape from The Bronx, The New Barbarians, Exterminators of the Year 3000, Warlords of the 21st Century, 2019 - After the Fall of New York, Warriors of the Apocalypse, A Man Called Rage, Equalizer 2000, Wheels of Fire, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Steel Frontier, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, Gas-s-s-s, The Ultimate Warrior, Steel Dawn, Waterworld, Stryker, World Gone Wild, Cyborg, Doomsday Tank Girl, New Gladiators, The Sisterhood, America 3000, She-Wolves of the Wasteland, Warrior of the Wasteland, Zardoz, Quintet, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead Dawn of the Dead, Panic in Year Zero!, Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, I Am Legend, Bellflower, Waterworld, Salute of the Juggler, The Postman, Book of Eli, Enemy Empire, The Road, Land of the Dead, Night of the Comet, The Prophecy, The Prophecy 2, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Day of the Triffids, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Time Machine, the other version of The Time Machine, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, After Earth, Wall-E, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the other Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Wizards, Silent Running, Logan's Run, The Bed-Sitting Room and, arguably, The Terminator franchise.

Well I did say "generally" worthless. There were times they could come in handy, but for the most part I found them not worth spending time using. Mind you its been ages since I played either the PC or Console version of the game. I still think the intent was the styles were to encourage multiple play-throughs even if its not very effective at that.

There's an extra male character model in the PC version. Monk Tieng was available in the Limited Edition of Jade Empire for the consoles. The Limited Edition also had a Weapon Style, Tien's Justice. The Special Edition on PC has Monk Tieng, but not Tien's Justice. It also has Iron Palm, Viper, and Rhino Demon Transformation Style not in the Limited Edition. EDIT: IIRC there was an AI reworking for the PC port as well. As to the fighting styles, I think Jade Empire wanted to do the "replayability" thing with them by allowing you different choices and combinations. That said the execution of the styles is one of my biggest problems with the title (which I overall liked an awful lot) as the requirement of the paper-rock-scissor's style meant that your character - for all the choices they could have - was generally speaking going to be very similar because you really had no choice. Also the Demon Transformations were generally worthless, IMO. But I loved the setting, would have liked Bioware to revisit it with maybe a bit more work on the styles system.

To be fair, everyone seems to have missed where Gfted1 said he thought Hillary looked worse than Trump (implying he thought Trump looked bad too) and then said that he judged everyone on looks. So he's not applying a double-standard to Hillary (judging Hillary by looks but Trump by some other standard), he's applying a standard you don't agree with (judging primarily by looks).

Online polls? Really? They might as well include our little presidential election thread. Why not? It's a valuable public record! Well except we didn't appear to run a poll in 2012.

Not to anyone who wouldn't vote for either of them. Maybe if they'd actually let a third party candidate into the debates, it'd have been exciting...

The original MacGyver actually always reminded me of The Six Million Dollar Man in its set up. Sure, Steve Austin worked for a "spy agency" but other than some specific story reasons, Oscar Goldman was usually the only connection to that agency and Austin was left to do his thing solo. Similarly Dana Elcar's Pete Thornton was really Mac's only connection to the DXS and later the Phoenix Foundation and usually the setup was done so Mac could do his thing. So I'm not surprised to see modern Mac ape aspects of other shows for its set-up borrowing a bit from Chuck, Arrow, Human Target and whatever else it can get its hands on.