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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.

Oh that's a load of bull. It is impossible to classify the politics of an entire state you have never visited by the reputation you think it has because of what you've read on the internet. Yes obviously GD But I want valid opinions about the states, anecdotal if possible. I can research a lot, I have relatives in the USA and I watch international media but your stories are important ...I share them with people on the radio and other mediums so people don't generalize about the USA Be specific - its not really state but city region you're looking at. Metro Atlanta isn't like Savannah, which isn't like Macon or Augusta or Albany. Also it might be helpful to know what metrics you might like. Cost of Living? Crime? Traffic? Happiness Index?

Be interesting to know how it pans out.

I like the idea but they're asking a lot if they expect you to discern the feelings of those bulging eyed mannequins Remember this is Poirot! "Always I am right. It is so invariable it startles me. And now it looks very much as though I may be wrong, and that upsets me. But I should not be upset, because I am right. I must be right because I am never wrong."

Is the murderer supposed to be different from in the book? Just wondering if the game would be anti-climactic to one who has read the novel to then play the game.

I see a problem with that but not a new one. Say it's just a random doodle that anyone could do in parallel with no intent to imitate, I'm thinking of Tyson's face tatoo, So I guess they would be like company logos, a twist or two in some of the letters and you have something trademarkable. I mean the Nike logo is just a doodle thicker in the middle, apparenly that's all it takes. Maybe this is why so many people have a random assortment of enspiring quotes written on them like the movie momento. I mean If they were that profound surely you would be able to remember. That Mike Tyson tattoo was the subject of a lawsuit with respect to THE HANGOVER PART II http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/warner-bros-settles-hangover-ii-203377

I loved the third episode of X-Files. It was a great X-Files episodes - no qualifiers. Had some great callbacks too (like Scully's joking she's immortal which is a callback to the Peter Boyle episode where when she asks how she dies he says she doesn't). And of course the visual nod to Kolchak, the Night Stalker.

Unless, of course, God actually told you to do it.