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I think that there's just a lot of people who want to dump on Bethesda because that's what the majority seem to want to do. I played Fallout and Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The stinker of a story was not Fallout 3 in that group. Fallout & Fallout 2 have more narrative railroading (due to the timers) than either of the others. At the end of the day the biggest sin Fallout 3 did was force a narrative choice at the end rather than let the choice come about based on how the character had played. The rest of the game was - IMO - pretty fun.

I'm reading Jurassic Park and The Lost World...I'll confirm in a few months. Maybe..

My primary interest in Stick of Truth was Obsidian (having never watched a South Park episode). Not sure without that Obsidian name that the game holds much appeal (although I guess slightly more appeal because I played Stick than had it never existed).

Regarding T-Rex in the first film - there's a fan explanation that the T-Rex had a cold as to why Grant's "just stand still" strategy worked given the T-Rex's sense of smell.. I mean I guess it could have gotten better overnight, but... My theatrical cut never had wall bursting. So sad. At least I did get to see the weird 13th Warrior edit that's not the film out on DVD...I'll always have that bit of film trivia. I'm not surprised that the boat sequence was added - it felt added on in the second film. I guess I can kinda buy the Spinosaurus theory, since they were clearly at an outlet for a river...and I guess it didn't like the saltier seawater and went back to freshwater after grabbing a snack.

Watched all the Jurassic Films over the weekend. Was fun. JP was the only film I watched 3 times at the theater. I probably liked the 2nd film better this time around than any other time I've watched it, although I still find it falls flat in San Diego. JPIII is a tight film; not terribly ambitious but it does what it sets out to do. A few lingering questions Jurassic Park - How did the T-Rex get into the Visitor's Center? It was last in the savannah grasslands when the power was turned on. Nedry left the doors open, but why would the T-Rex run all around the park just to keep chasing Grant and the kids? Jurassic Park: The Lost World - Okay so what killed the people on the boat? The baby T-Rex wasn't there, the T-Rex was locked in the hold, so what killed the crew and where was it after the crash? Jurassic Park III - again with the boat deaths, what killed the two guys in the speedboat to set all of this off? The aviary wasn't opened until much, much later. A sea dinosaur? But Jurassic World is the first known appearance of InGen doing a mosasaur...? Anyhow, the main event was Jurassic World. It hooked me like the original film did; it may not be quite as strong, but it does a good job building the new world and setting it on its spin. By the time the end rolled around I knew where it was going (whether it made sense or not) and it was exciting to see. Lots of dangling plot elements to be picked up in an inevitable sequel.

She-Conan? Is Red Sonja that obscure these days?

Personally, I have no ****ing clue what you're speaking about, Frodo.

I like the basic idea of fantasy Victorian setting and magic vs tech, but IMO the thing would need a ground up overhaul.

Yes?

RIP, truly sad news.

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.