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You can still read messages from people you put on ignore. For example you can still read posts from Hitler BruceVC (or whoever you ignore) if it seems worth doing so. I admit I use the Ignore list, even though usually its because they're people who post large volumes of what is, to me at least, dribble and I was getting carpal tunnel scrolling past walls of text.

The inside of the mailbox is dark. Your are likely to be eaten by a grue. If it was an Enchanter game, I'd: >Cast Frotz on grue

I don't think he's always asked and/or makes himself available for non-Marvel films. That said, for FOX, he was Willie Lumpkin in Fantastic Four and cameod in X-Men and X-Men: The Last Stand, and portrayed himself in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (riffing on the comic scene where Stan and Jack Kirby try to get into the wedding of Reed and Sue). Anyhow, saw Deadpool and it is really good. Very funny and over-the-top. Might be worth seeing again, sometimes the audience laughed so much I think I missed a couple of jokes.

>Open Mailbox

Problem with IWDII - as I understand it - is they kinda had to do a lot of workaround to get the Infinity Engine to do 3e D&D (sorta kinda) which would have to be redone to Infinity+ for them to make IWDIIee. That said, I'd be okay with them ditching 3e since IWDII was originally supposed to use 2e and kits (yes, I never got over losing the Landsknecht kit ) but that may actually be JUST as problematic.

I haven't found them to be terrible. Nor necessarily great either. Servicible, I'd argue (but to be fair, they have moderately more detail to them than the vast majority of BG1 joinable NPCs who were basically introductory text and a random skillset in the original). It really depends on what you want, I guess. I'm no BG expert, having only played it a few times and to completion once. Of the new companions, I've really only dealt with Monky Monk and Wildy Mage though, skipping Broody McBrood the Blackguard and Drowy Evil the Sorcerer. Should games be balanced for murder-hobo playstyle? I ask because I'm always intrigued by the dichotomy I see in players, some insisting that everything should be balanced and prevent degenerative choices and others saying if you don't like having boots that break the economy, don't murder-hobo people to steal their boots.

Seem to recall reading elsewhere that PST and IWDII would be bigger undertakings than BG 1/2 and IWD and so would require more work to convert. Which I guess would be why Seige was more appealing as an option in terms of resource investment and return?

From the Titanic script (AFAIK): Jack is American, a lanky drifter withhis hair a little long for the standards of the times. He is also unshaven,and his clothes are rumpled from sleeping in them. He is an artist, and hasadopted the bohemian style of art scene in Paris. He is also veryself-possessed and sure-footed for 20, having lived on his own since 15.

This reminds me that not too long ago, I was on a local university's campus and was looking at the fliers that had been put up on the student boards. One was an advert looking for actors for a horror film. Three guy roles total, two being searched for, and 2 women roles. One guy role was already filled by the producer/director who would be the lead actor and film's star. The 2 women's roles indicated that they required nudity and pornography and that this was non-negotiable. One was a girlfriend role and one was an evil cult leader. A little later the plot synopsis clearly indicates that both women would, at different parts of the story, be having sex in the story with each other and the character who was the lead guy role. The role that already belonged to the actor/producer/director. Surely there's a cheaper way to get women to have sex with you/a three-way than producing a film?

I think the "elegant" would be the objection (if there is one) as it could be an unnecessary physical description (potentially). If the script needs the character to be elegant, it could be shown in the script in other ways. But its certainly a mild introduction. Sure if the writer is the director is the producer you could argue that he'd have control over casting. But you could also argue that if you have control over the casting, you already know who you want so what's the point of describing them instead of just asking for a particular actor or actress? I should also say that one of the biggest flaws of this is it presents these characters without context so its hard to understand whether if there is a contextual reason for the physical description. For example sexy woman introduced in the shower, if its a sex comedy it may be important to establish that context when the character is introduced to the reader (ie the producer). But again if you need the woman to be attractive within the narrative context, you can establish that through the script without hamstringing the production by being overly physically descriptive. EDIT: Typed "acting" for "asking"

I bought BGEE pre-release under the impression it would be an Enhanced version of the original. What I received when I played it wasn't an enhanced version of BG and regret my decision buying it. How people want to define 'enhanced' is up to them but I did not see it as an enhanced version and gave up on it due to a myriad of reasons which I've stated in previous threads and wont go into again. I'm not a BG expert (heck I only beat BG1 once) but BGEE has additional NPCs and class kits, so it is "Enhanced". Whether you like the "Enhancement" is an entirely different matter. Personally I'm not finding my experience with the game to be radically different from the original with the exception of the NPCs, kits and more named magic items found earlier.

Well you could make an argument that the script would tell you if the person is physically attractive or not and ultimately the writer isn't the casting agent, so being overly descriptive of physical attributes is pointless.

I dunno, they have a brand, so I could see them sticking with BG but starting with a new cycle (either as BGIII or BG:Subtitle Part 1)

Good luck to him and Beamdog on whatever he's going to be doing!

Sometimes no matter how you try, it refuses to remain budless

Makes me wonder if Beamdog's plan post Seige is the BGIII they wanted to do before (but with added old-BG team members)?

I know it's election year... but 51% + 59%? Someone is inflating the voter numbers somewhere. Or multi ethnic people counts for both His state numbers include the city (so not really "the rest of Georgia" but "all of Georgia"). :D Per 2010 census: Atlanta city demo (pop ~420,000) is 51.4% black/African-American, 41.3% white, 3.7 Asian, 4.7 Hispanic/Latino State (including Atlanta; pop ~9,900,000) is 59.7% white, 30.5% black/African-American, 3.3% Asian, .3% Native, .1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 4% Other

I promise to try really really hard at caring. GT failed to impress when they tried being anything other than a collection of trailers. I really didn't know they were anything other than a collection of game trailers until reading about them. I mostly mentioned it because I recall about 2-3 years ago several users linked game trailers from them.

So apparently GameTrailers is being shut down. Recall the site being linked a few times here by members. https://twitter.com/GameTrailers/status/696858020215586816

Maybe settled blood? Gills have a lot of capillaries attached to them, so that'd seem a possibility.

Yeah, when EA was beating banks during the foreclosure crisis, I stopped paying attention to that competition. As I recall the format for the "competition" is designed to skew any usefulness the thing has.

I liked this (emphasis mine):

I have been using Excel for about 12 years, its much more powerful than people may initially think I have seen people manipulate the macro functionality so it serves as a database Ugh, Excel is less than ideal as a database (IMO). Use Access if you're using office products. When it was important to do such thing, its relatively easy to keep your data in ACCESS and export it to excel for periodic analysis. Conditional counts FTW.

Reminds me of the guy who complains when the comic shop makes him order 125 comics (~$500) so he can get that rare 1-125 variant cover because "he had to have it to sale on ebay" instead of buying 1 comic with the regular cover and reading the comic. Its like some sort of weird one-ups-manship (WHY YES!!!!!! I GOT EVERYTHING THAT WAS EVER RELEASED, SEE HOW AWESOME MY PURCHASING POWER IS???????) where the only person completing is the person who thinks he's got to go Pokemon on everything. The only one of the pre-order options that seemed important was Tier III which gave you no choice anyhow. Given that I can't imagine that they wouldn't release all of the Bonuses as an extra purchase anyhow for those who felt they had to have it all, I'm with Hurl I really didn't understand what the big deal was; really buying a game 3 times so you can have 3 different leathery all-black costumes for the protagonist to wear - would anyone have actually considered that?

Does seem to be a bit contradictory in statements there.