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RIP Yvonne Craig - http://www.yvonnecraig.com/news/2015/08/19/a-word-from-yvonne-craigs-family/ Besides being Batman's original Batgirl, she also did a memorable turn on STAR TREK amid many credits in television (Man from UNCLE, Six Million Dollar Man, Love Boat, Wagon Train, Tales of Wales Fargo, Wild Wild West)

I've been playing DAI, but I'm getting the itch to restart the game with a different character.

Not to mention my avatar is facing the viewers right and yours the left - totally different! Yeah finding that perfect picture that also scales just right at Avatar size isn't easy. I've ditched a lot of proposed avatars because they didn't look right at smaller sizes (so they were there for like seconds). Its about time for me to change my avatar...hope that doesn't break when I try to upload one if I find a new one I like...

TOS is the best Trek, IMO. TNG went from exploring new worlds and civilizations of the old series to being a galactic taxi service for ambassadors in between fighting the Borg. DS9 was pretty good, though. Voyager wasn't a bad idea and it had a game cast but kind of became "alien of the week" for much of its run until they became "alien of the week" in between fighting the Borg. Enterprise just didn't gel; it summed up the post TOS series pretty well in that it totally failed to work as an adventure show where they explored the unknown to find what was there. Which - unlike TNG and Voyager - was the point of the show making it a glaring issue.

What has Erin Moran been up to lately?

Because it sent Connorminator back from the future in the same time machine that Kyle used. Arnie-Terminator created the room knowing that blowing up the time machine to destroy Skynet had always been the plan. Presumably in the couple of decades he had to plan, it was able to create a safe room that'd actually survive the explosion. They indicated the liquid metal was ready to be a terminator if it had the proper memory chip thingy which Arnie had and was exposed as he went into the metal. What are you doing, Dave? I actually liked her. Thought Kyle was a bit bland, but okay. Then again other than the very immediate end, I liked Salvation, so what do I know?

Just because that's the way I deal with approaching my mid-life crisis. Still, since I haven't actually posted in this thread in awhile, I suppose I should actually be somewhat serious. The cancer and continuing medical conditions finally hit their peak last week and my mother passed on in that grand journey. So it's been the running day by day juggling things with my father and sister to get everything sorted. Funeral plans and all the rest of that needed legal issues that result from bereavement. Now after having spent the last fifteen years as her carer, and having had that as a central piece of my life I have to re-figure who I am without that and where I'm going from here. Condolences on your loss.

Great, now I've remembered "A Boy and his Dog" and can't get it unstuck from my mind...

I read that as "Kill XP and Romance XP" for some reason.

Westworld TV series Teaser:

Could also be hiking XP.

She was old and opinionated, not really evil.

Can someone who understands German summarize? From the gameplay it looks like you do play as gravelly voice guy. I'm disappointed, I wanted to play as foxy black woman with afro. IGN says you're playing as the main dude in the trailer (Lincoln Clay) and the others are crime heads that can be recruited into your new mob. Time period is 1968. http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/05/mafia-3-exposes-the-dirty-new-face-of-organized-crime Weirdly, 1968 was also the debut of MOD SQUAD, with that other famous Lincoln, Lincoln "Linc" Hayes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahPytSx9GU

^I laughed at this bit (true or not): "The Ecuadorean government has treated Assange like he’s its first AirBnb customer and it’s desperate for a good review..."

A college teacher I used to work with used to to tell her students who complained about the temperature "if you'd dress to learn instead of to catch the eye of a man, you wouldn't be cold". Anyhow, I've worked in offices where I've had to wear a sweater even in summer (I kept one in my office regularly). My current office is usually too warm in summer, though, and often humid. I had a supervisor who was sick every winter because the air blower was situated over his desk. The real reason wasn't "men" or "sexism" but "poor ventilation planning" and/or "poor HVAC" (the current building I'm in has air conditioning that - based on how often it breaks down - I swear is held together by old chewing gum and hope).

I assumed - perhaps wrongly - that nature had reclaimed the roads.

I ask because I've never seen one. I'm in the group that refuses to see them because they made Phelps the villain in the first film, but the impression I have is they're not the caper style stories of the tv show.

Yeah Roddy and Dusty Rhodes are pretty big blows to my Childhood and Teen years. Mister Wrestling II is still with us, so there is that.

Quit dissing on the Duke brothers...oh wait you're back on cows and lions...

Isn't that true of all the Mission Impossible films?

William Shatner's crazed killer in IMPULSE (1974) makes the film. Its a bizzare thriller; full of weird plot elements and possible discontinuity in the story. And yet if you're a fan of Shatner style-crazyness, its pure genius. One of the best quotes https://www.youtube.com/embed/T7EIL1AhN2Q Love how no one seems to react to Shatner's outburst - even Balloon lady just sort of walks away...

Like the game itself, it breaks Val Royale into the small area you see and a series of mini places that you might see fir specific story points. But most if the game isn't about Val Royale politics

I loved New Frontier, but admit I haven't seen many of them.

Yeah, going "see through" is usually how I've seen decay (CD, DVD, and as far as I know Blu are all possible to experience it). I've yet to find a CD/DVD/Blu I own that has done it, but my brother had a few CDs that did, and they ended up looking like plastic discs; the silver reflective part was just gone.

I wasn't trying to label you unreasonable; by all means I wouldn't argue that anyone shouldn't specifically make their points on whatever forums will allow them to, but I also can understand - from Bethesda's perspective - there's no pleasing everyone. The Fallout fans have agreeable "not really bothered" sorts like me, passionate ones like you and the fringe element like the isometric guy mentioned earlier. And while they may not earn a sell to those - like you - who feel that they need more explanation of why there are changes to "tried and true" systems, I also don't feel that Bethesda is actually obligated to give them. As you say, they may just have no reason but thought it was cool and can't defend it otherwise so opt not to speak of it. I'm not trying to argue motivations for Bethesda so much as to argue I think its quite understandable about how addressing complaints to the strong Fallout fanbase may not always be a productive use of their time, regardless of reasons. Because reason doesn't always stop the "but...but...but..." reactions in some (many by the Interplay experience). I'm not trying to defend them so much as I'm more or less stating that I don't expect a company to give a **** about me beyond my wallet. Its nice when they do, but I don't expect it. You may say that's not right - maybe it isn't. But most companies aren't in the business to please a fanbase, they're there to sell the most product - and they'll ditch the fanbase if they can sell the most product by appealing to others than the fanbase. And if pandering to the fans gets the most sales, then they'll do that too. Maybe there is an exception in those companies that are led by creative types who might feel more justified in making an artistic decision over a financial one because of the feels. Maybe. But I don't really think Bethesda fits that mode?