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Yes, but those use an Apple emulator. They work fine for some people, for others, not so much. Hopefully this means that whoever has those games already but doesn't buy TBT4 still gets the reworked versions as a free upgrade. Ah, that makes sense. I knew something was weird with them (but haven't really tried to play them yet).

Wasn't the original bts part of the wasteland kickstarter? I got them and wasteland already...

3878 days = 93072 hours 800 hours / 93072 hours = .009 (.9%) .9% of 24 hours = .2 hours I forgot to keep track of my units. I'm properly mortified.

But remember, that's 375+ hours over 11 years (3878 days), so even if WOT doubled with your post count, its still only about 4.5 hours a day. For 11 years. Not making it any better, am I?

That's rather...curt. Seems like there was a fallout between the owners. Well I could be wrong, I see where you're coming from, but I can't say that sentence reads that a fallout between owners is exactly a necessity. It could be unexpected and they didn't have a proper PR response crafted, or it could be that they don't feel any more detail would actually stop the conspiracy theories, so why add more fuel to them by offering a larger text for people to dissect and read things into...

I think post counts should be invisible. They offer nothing of real value as far as I can see, yet still somehow manage to be a source of several bones of contention. Or assigned arbitrarily by a random number generator at midnight every night.

I understand the concept of the convoluted timescales in Marvel (and DC) comics. I also know that Kitty Pryde celebrated her 16th Birthday twice. This would all be well and good if it wasn't for the fact that WWII is a fixed point in time. The sliding age scale does nothing to decrease the amount of time between 1939-1944 and now. If there is a problem (if there is! As stated Magneto has been de-aged AND cloned to keep him youngish) with Magento being from WWII - as stated in the article that all of this was responding to - my point still stands that moving him from being born in 1931 to 1935-1945 (as the article suggested when suggesting they make him African-American and tied to the US Civil Rights movement) doesn't really change the "problem" with his age - you are swapping an 80 year old for a 70 year old.

In my opinion, it seems a bit insulting that instead of creating an interesting character of whatever ethnicity/race(black most of the time) they insist on changing a white character into a black character. Like putting on blackface and saying that's good enough.I notice you guys have conveniently ignored my solution to this whole Magneto issue. Why can't he be a black Jewish character? You do get black Jewish people...yes I don't think any black Jews were kept in concentration camps but its a comic...we do allow artistic licence ?Because your solution doesn't fix the perceived problem (which is that Magneto, tied to WWII concentration camps is at least in his 80s) that led to the suggestion to move the character to the 50s/60s and anchored by the US Civil Rights movement. However, as I indicated, this only swaps an 80 year old Magneto for a 70 Year old Magneto, so the issue of age and being tied to a specific point in time is still at play. There are only a handful of WWII era characters around in the Marvel U, and all of them have backstory explanations for why they aren't 80 to 90 in their physicality (Captain America - frozen in ice, Spitfire - vampire, Human Torch - Android, Winter Soldier - Kept in stasis, Namor & Namora - Atlantean Physiology, GA Vision - alien from another dimension, the remainder of The Twelve - kept in stasis, Wolverine - can't age due to regeneration, Mystique - aging irrelevant due to powers, etc). There are ways to deal with this issue that doesn't require changing Magneto into a different character, though. Edit: wrote "Magento" at least once. Totally different character. Characters age in the marvel universe at a rate of 1 year every 3 years real time. Magneto is in his 50s. Doesn't terribly look like the 1980s in the Marvel U right now.I didn't say time passes at that rate, just that characters age at that rate. Then Magneto is an 80 year old with the body of a 50 year old. It doesn't alter the problem that WWII makes him 80 (if you consider it a problem.)

I hated the ball. Dread doing it again when I do a new playthrough.

Got mine yesterday.

In my opinion, it seems a bit insulting that instead of creating an interesting character of whatever ethnicity/race(black most of the time) they insist on changing a white character into a black character. Like putting on blackface and saying that's good enough. I notice you guys have conveniently ignored my solution to this whole Magneto issue. Why can't he be a black Jewish character? You do get black Jewish people...yes I don't think any black Jews were kept in concentration camps but its a comic...we do allow artistic licence ? Because your solution doesn't fix the perceived problem (which is that Magneto, tied to WWII concentration camps is at least in his 80s) that led to the suggestion to move the character to the 50s/60s and anchored by the US Civil Rights movement. However, as I indicated, this only swaps an 80 year old Magneto for a 70 Year old Magneto, so the issue of age and being tied to a specific point in time is still at play. There are only a handful of WWII era characters around in the Marvel U, and all of them have backstory explanations for why they aren't 80 to 90 in their physicality (Captain America - frozen in ice, Spitfire - vampire, Human Torch - Android, Winter Soldier - Kept in stasis, Namor & Namora - Atlantean Physiology, GA Vision - alien from another dimension, the remainder of The Twelve - kept in stasis, Wolverine - can't age due to regeneration, Mystique - aging irrelevant due to powers, etc). There are ways to deal with this issue that doesn't require changing Magneto into a different character, though. Edit: wrote "Magento" at least once. Totally different character. Characters age in the marvel universe at a rate of 1 year every 3 years real time. Magneto is in his 50s. Doesn't terribly look like the 1980s in the Marvel U right now.

Wow, the Dark Side really DOES have cookies!

I dunno, the Warden still stopped the 5th Blight. Corypheus is a different problem entirely. DA2 is mostly stage dressing for DAI, IMO. Some pieces get moved around the board but its nature as starting out as a side story is completely evident to me. Frankly I have no interest in ever playing a Grey Warden again, so I have no issues with them not forcing us into that role again.

Best wishes on his future endeavors. I'll certainly be curious to see where he lands in game-making-land and what said game from game-making-land is (assuming he's staying in game-making-land, of course).

^Corphyeus wasn't behind the Blight in DAO; its cause was the bumblings of the Architect (himself a fallen Magister like Corypheus, but one who doesn't remember his past). Arguably the Architect and Corphyeus - as magisters - seem to have caused the Blight with their goofing around back in the day, but that doesn't make them the sole cause of everything that happened, either.

I was totally hoping for a Martin Van Buren life sim. Maybe we'll at least get Martin Van Buren's sideburns in the game.

I wouldn't mind if that was the way it worked. For example, if in POE setting your gaining a spiritshift is specific to an animal encounter (like Hiravias and the Stelgaer) then in theory the form for your spiritshift could be randomly male or female depending on what you encountered when acquiring the form as the form would be based off of that specific animal with respect to gender You probably want to avoid the Boar shapeshift as well then; its canine teeth are, based on the direction and size, too large to represent a female boar from my understanding.

In my opinion, it seems a bit insulting that instead of creating an interesting character of whatever ethnicity/race(black most of the time) they insist on changing a white character into a black character. Like putting on blackface and saying that's good enough. I notice you guys have conveniently ignored my solution to this whole Magneto issue. Why can't he be a black Jewish character? You do get black Jewish people...yes I don't think any black Jews were kept in concentration camps but its a comic...we do allow artistic licence ? Because your solution doesn't fix the perceived problem (which is that Magneto, tied to WWII concentration camps is at least in his 80s) that led to the suggestion to move the character to the 50s/60s and anchored by the US Civil Rights movement. However, as I indicated, this only swaps an 80 year old Magneto for a 70 Year old Magneto, so the issue of age and being tied to a specific point in time is still at play. There are only a handful of WWII era characters around in the Marvel U, and all of them have backstory explanations for why they aren't 80 to 90 in their physicality (Captain America - frozen in ice, Spitfire - vampire, Human Torch - Android, Winter Soldier - Kept in stasis, Namor & Namora - Atlantean Physiology, GA Vision - alien from another dimension, the remainder of The Twelve - kept in stasis, Wolverine - can't age due to regeneration, Mystique - aging irrelevant due to powers, etc). There are ways to deal with this issue that doesn't require changing Magneto into a different character, though. Edit: wrote "Magento" at least once. Totally different character.

John Steed - 100% Figured you for Dr. Keel, personally.

I get what you're saying and understand the logic behind it, I just think it's a bad idea that doesn't really address representation of (insert whatever here) in media. Granted I've been disillusioned with capes for a while as is, and find myself gravitating towards comics that aren't capes. I read whatever piques my interest. Don't care about the genre. Favorite comic out right now is Manifest Destiny, but there's a lot to like from the major publishers. Comic book sales in the US actually prove you wrong. Most comic book readers will not buy brand new characters. The new characters who sell are generally using older names or relaunches of older properties. Two of Marvel better selling new books are Ms. Marvel (new character using an existing name) and Gwen Stacy Spiderwoman (aka Spider-Gwen) an alternate universe take on existing character Gwen Stacy being the one who got Spider-powers. Understand that the market for comic books is primarily a fan market and it makes sense how the market is going to favor retreading old ideas (because they're not in the same position of yesteryear where they have a growing and changing market). In comics, the characters don't suddenly change race or gender - although it does happens too, usually in reboots. Usually a new character of a new race adopts an old moniker. For example the aforementioned Ms. Marvel is a fan of Carol Danvers - the previous Ms. Marvel. Danvers now uses the name Captain Marvel, previously used by three generally deceased members of the Vel family of Kree warriors. Adaptions usually just cast a minority (like James Olsen in Supergirl, Pete Ross in Smallville, Perry White in Man of Steel) so they were always a minority in that universe.

^Not 100% sure what scenario you're talking about, but there are two forces at work when introducing new characters in US comic books: 1) Most readers will read the adventures of All-Ready-Published Man whereas they won't read the adventures of Brand-New-Never-Heard-Of-Him-Before Boy 2) Companies have to continue using trademarks to have them continue to be considered trademarks for governmental protection. If Established-Character Lass didn't sell well the last time around, you can rebadge Established-Character Lass' trademark name to a new character and strike both birds with one stone - a name the reader recognizes and use of an established trademark. If the comic fails you can always bring back original Established-Character Lass (because the fans demanded it!) or create a third Established-Character Lass the next time the trademark needs to be trotted out.

There is truth the the problem that Magneto is tied to a time and place that is slowly aging him out of relevance. The same thing happened with DC's EARTH 2 characters who, when re-introduced in the 60s on an alternate universe were in their 40s and 50s so served as slightly older hero types to the DCU of Earth 1. But by the 1990s were in their 70s and editorial (if not fans) had trouble seeing them as being viable and killed them all off. The solution, IMO, isn't to turn around and tie them to a date that isn't that far removed from the one that is problematic. For example Magneto in the Singer movies (cited in the article) is about 13 years old (not 10 as the article suggests). The date given is 1944, meaning Lehnsherr was born in 1931. Since the suggestion is to tie Professor X and Magneto into the US Civil Rights movements, you have to consider that Malcolm X was killed in 1965; assuming that both Xavier and Lensherr should be adults, this would put them as being born anywere from 1935 (30 when Malcolm X was killed and able to be there for much of the 50s and 60s history points) to 1945 (20 when Malcolm X was killed). This means a character who is anywhere to 4 years to 14 years younger than a Magneto tied the concentration camps. So you're trading an 80 year old for a 70 year old. To me the solution would be to not tie them to any dates at all, if you could avoid it - that is if you were going to worry about it at all. BTW Marvel claims that the Secret Wars isn't a reboot, so there's no telling if there will be any continuity fixes out of it or not.

The two Flint films are fun (but then I tend to like anything with James Coburn in it). That said, I also like the Matt Helm films i've seen. The sequence at the end of THE SILENCERS with Stella Stevens and the trick gun is hilarious. That said there are loads of Eurospy and Spy Parodies in the 60s and 70s. Some good, some bad. Take KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE: I'm blanking on the last one I saw - I think I mentioned it here. For this Weekend I watched INSIDIOUS 3 (2015) - Its a bit tamer than the first two by virtue of being a prequel, but manages a few creepy images and a couple of surprises. Hopefully they'll go back to the present though now that they've got an origin story out of their system. THE STING II (1983) - this is one of those films that lurched to production; one of those things where I think it got made because the process had started despite almost everyone connected to the previous film had dropped out. There's two ways to judge it - against the previous film in which case it does not live up to expectations - or as a separate story that takes some basic ideas (two con men who'd conned a 'bad guy' in the past teaming up for a new con). There's a lot of carry over ideas (Jake gets chased by a policeman, but to little ultimate point). Its true that the Lonnegan of the first film would have just found Gondorf and Hooker and killed them, so you almost have to see this as an alternate reality adventure. On its own, it has its charms; Jackie Gleason is game and Teri Garr does well as the mystery woman. Karl Malden is hilarous cast against type and it works (Gleason one-upping him in the restaurant is a hoot). The ultimate payoff and the con itself are less memorable though and never really manages a place alongside the original even as a companion movies instead of a sequel.

Thor 23% Hawkeye 21% Black Widow 21% Nick Fury 14% Captain America 7% Iron Man 7% Hulk 7%

Yeah I read "doctrine" as "definition" so I may have been ass-u-me-ing us all.