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Yeah, I'll be honest I've never met a computer game since I came back to computer gaming that didn't need patching to fix bugs. The idea that this would be the one time that it wasn't necessary didn't make a lot of sense to me. As I mentioned earlier back in the days of physical copies, install and patch (or install and wait for the patch) was the norm.

Well to be fair, Anna and Elsa's parents are following the advice of trolls. Well mystic knowledgeable trolls. Not making it any better is it? Anyhow True Confession: I've never seen Beauty and the Beast. Somehow I missed it at the theater and have continued to miss it whenever an opportunity has arisen where I could have seen it.

Well it just frustrates him. I don't mind it (everyone in LOST had the same problem). At least Frozen motivates a bit why Elsa and Anna don't talk to one another. But Hiccup and his dad don't just not talk to each other, they don't talk to anyone else either, instead just assuming what the other will think/do and acting accordingly.

Hmmm, apparently Tanith Lee passed away. http://www.tor.com/2015/05/26/tanith-lee-in-remembrance/ I'd not read as much as I'd liked of her work - just bits and pieces here, but hopefully I'll get to it someday as I did like what I'd read.

Even better so its next part of the story...I get bored in remakes and I'm not interested in the history of a series in most cases as I know how it ends. So I always prefer the future of a series as thats unknown Here's the latest news on the return of the show: http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/twin-peaks-reboot-will-film-18-episodes-plus-more-new-details-2015265 And just for fun, the Twin Peaks opening credits, done with paper:

I understand where you're coming from - HTTYD frustrates my brother because much of the problems exist simply because the characters create them themselves. I mostly like the adventure of it all. Sure (much like the TV show LOST) many problems could have been solved if someone hadn't kept an important piece of information to themselves, but its a fun adventure. Really wish I'd seen the original film in 3D just for the final dragon fight. I've never watched Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar was just...okay. Didn't like enough to watch any sequels.

Even if God made the midichlorians, God put them in Jesus and made the midichlorians work through his divine powers its...science?

Dreamworks has a bad habit of repeating certain animations over and over. That said, I loved MONSTERS VS ALIENS, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, CHICKEN RUN and THE CROODS. MEGAMIND was okay. And the pair they did in conjunction with Aardman Animation - Walace and Grommit: Curse of the Were Rabbit and Flushed Away - were good. And while I thought the first SHREK was amusing in its way, I disliked the direction of the series as a whole.

Most of the time, I can roll with it. This time I just couldn't. Whereas I have the opposite reaction: I don't generally like Pixar's style of animation, and I tend to much prefer Disney's. Give me Frozen or Tangled over Toy Story or Monsters Inc. or the Incredibles, etc., any day. Although I am willing to admit that characters do sometimes look odd in Frozen: I think Elsa looks really weird at the end of that YouTube clip, for example. Still, I prefer it over Pixar's animation. Yeah, I'll be honest I think the last few Disney movies (Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero 6) have been better than the last few Pixar films. But animation-wise I've liked both.

Well, its a continuation more than a remake. David Lynch directing 18 episodes? Yes please! Looking forward to it (have to finish my run through the series and FWWM before it happens though).

A lot of this is going to depend on the man and the woman in question but... A man who sits on his couch drinking (ie fat slob) may out-mass the top 100% woman. With respect to natural height distributions he would, on average, out reach her. Both of these would be huge advantages in direct contact competition. I have no qualms in saying that the elite athlete guy in a field is going to beat the elite athlete woman in a field. The football team example you mention would work (most of the time) not because the men were necessarily stronger (although they could be), but because football relies on mass and reach - something the average man will always have over the average woman and does not alter with training/skill. But if you get a fat slob who can barely lift himself in a gym vs a woman training to be a weightlifter (lets say olympic level so she can power lift ~600lbs), he's not going to immediately beat her. His mass and ability to shift it might give him some natural strength, but if he can barely lift his 300lb self off the couch, her training is going to win in the short term.

My recollection of the movie may be a bit hazy, since I last saw it as a child, but I am pretty sure the movie doesn't end that way. I am reasonably sure I would have remembered. Yeah I meant end of the book, not end of the film. Its why I've never seen the film, the end of the book traumatized me so.

But if Jesus is divinely empowered, its still not a surprise he can do it assuming you know before hand He's divinely empowered. Why does suprise factor matter? Does the supernatural have to sneak up behind you and go "boo!" to be supernatural? And even if you know he can do it and that it involves midichlorian, you still have no basis for how it is done, what powers God has or anything that would make it "science" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

A hundred times this. Tibetan men are much more underrepresented in media than white women are. This isn't diversity, this is whitewashing. Yup. Supposedly there was something about avoiding the magical asian trope or some such nonsense. The SJ crowd seem to be ok with this because the ancient one was "A Racist Stereotype". Same as they had no problem with the IM3 twist making the Mandarin a white guy, because the Mandarin was a racist character in the comics. Despite through most of the movie Ben Kingsley pulled off a goddamned fantastic take on the Mandarin.(Though this is somewhat mediated by Trevor Slattery having plastic surgery to look like the real Mandarin who took offense to the misuse of his name, so they can still use Ben Kingsley if they bring him back) Tilda Swinton is great and would do well in the part. I can understand the logic - the magical asian guy is just as stereotypical as the magical black guy (say Legend of Bagger Vance) so there have been people who have issues with that. That said they could just cast a tibetian actor and...not put him in the asian mystic sterotype outfit and not treat him as a walking cliche spouting cryptic one liners and being inscrutable. But little real care one way or the other, execution will be more important than anything else.

Be careful if you walk into the Double R Diner in Twin Peaks, Washington. Great pie and cup of joe, but the owls are not what they seem.

Well okay. So I liked the first half of Wall-E. But then they get to the space ship. And for me the story broke down in illogic. So they've been on the ship long enough that the Captain doesn't really remember what the previous generations of Captains were originally looking for. We also see where they are dumping their trash out (since the end of the movie is an anti-consumerist, pro-environmental plea, more or less). But in doing so they break down the logic of the stories - where are they getting the materials for food and for supplies (cups, plates, etc) that they're dumping out and have been for more generations than they remember if they've never found another planet to live in? Remember that they left the earth because they'd used all of earth's resources, so there should be limited resources on the ship, but it is presented as if its an all-you-can-eat buffet. Sure you could imply cannibalism, but even that would be a dwindling resource as they couldn't up the population without decreasing available food. In essence to make their real world point, they broke the fictional world they'd created. And that kicked me out of the movie super-fast. Those similarities are so broad and vague and with its connection to the H.C. Anderson story being what it is, that one is getting laughed out of court. If anything, Disney used to be a lot worse. Yeah, without seeing the full suit and based solely on what was presented there, there's much less evidence of Disney ripping off something for Frozen than there are Kimba. Or even the Atlantis: The Lost Empire / Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water similarities. Oh gah, Fox and the Hound. It may be the BEST. MOVIE! EVAR!!!!! and I won't watch it. Had the displeasure of reading the Fox and the Hound novel it was based on. Ruined my childhood. Edit; Meant Book not Film in spoilers

I think the Lion King is overrated, but I dislike Wall-E (and Up!) But enough negativity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H2rO4HC8s8 The movie was decent, but that bug was the worst character in any movie ever. Even Jar Jar is better. I don't think Jar Jar is as bad as his reputation would lead you to believe. And the bug was funny. An American Tail is technically a Universal film, produced by Amblin and directed by former Disney Animator Don Bluth... But a good film, we saw it as a sneak preview.

Eh, I liked the bug. But then I liked the movie pretty well - maybe not Disney's best, but still a lot of fun. EDIT: Been so long since I seen Tangled, I forgot that song...

Don't care would have been the right option for me as well if it existed when I voted. You can delete votes and re-vote I thought that was an interesting quote. I suppose there is a question of perception - I know sometimes when I see Early Access, I'm thinking "this game isn't finished, why would I want to try it". Which wouldn't be a notion in a regular release being patched. Mind you back in the days of BG/IWD/PST release and patch was normal - perhaps I just haven't gotten into the swing of the new digital distribution days...

I voted no, albeit I actually don't care one way or the other but there wasn't an option to choose that. Here was some posts about Early Access worth noting: Our team is still discussing whether or not we are going to do Early Access. Early Access has pros (influx of money, additional feedback from the community) and cons (releasing the game in an unfinished state to the general public, lesser impact of our final release), so it isn't really a slam dunk either way. As a gamer, I am not a huge fan of Early Access and I am usually wary of games that go that route. It is a good thing for some games (I think WL2 did a great job of using the money to help polish and finish out their game), but other games use it as an excuse to have a never-ending development. PE's asset list and feature set is essentially locked at this point. There are still a large amount of bugs to fix and things to polish, but we aren't really generating additional content (besides audio, VFX, and a few B priority weapon and armor sets). Any money raised would likely into future projects (PE XP1). There is an additional pro. The beta costs more than the final game, since you need to match its price to the beta Kickstarter tier. As Wasteland 2 has demonstrated, there are plenty of people out there willing to pay $60 for an unfinished RPG. It'd be a shame to leave that money in their pockets. That is a pro, but it isn't as good as it seems at first blush. Let's say that EA is a $10 premium over what we would normally sell the game for on Steam. This isn't necessarily the number, but it is an okay placeholder. Say we sell an additional 10k - 25k copies of the game as EA. Again, I am not sure if this number would be legitimate, but it seems reasonable. Assuming that EA cannibalizes our future sales, this would generate an extra 100k - 250k in cash. After Steam takes its cut (30%) that leaves anywhere from 70k - 175k. That isn't a paltry sum of money, but it also isn't enough to really affect the game's development in any substantial way. That is enough to pay for an extra couple of weeks of development on the game. We have to weigh that against all of the potential problems and ill will if things aren't handled perfectly. EA is like playing with fire, in my mind, and if it isn't handled correctly it could burn the project (and the company).

Midichlorians are just an uninspired version of Mitochondria. Still doesn't mean they explain why the force works, what the force comes from, how they interact with the force, why the force has a light and dark side, how the force can manipulate non living entities, etc., etc. Really, religion? I thought it was the Star Wars discussion thread...

But midichlorians still don't explain how the force works. "I wave my hand and the force clouds weak minds" is just as non-scientific as "Midichlorians somehow allow me to manipulate the force so that when I wave my hand the force clouds weak minds". You still don't know what the force is, you don't know why it works, you don't know what midichlorian involvment in it working is.

Yeah...still not going to watch it. Why break a perfect record now?

Sure Thaos COULD have killed Lady Webb at any time. And there'd have been an investigation into who killed her, possibly including powerful Ciphers. She gets killed (along with a clean out of Dunryd Row) then who bothers to think that she wasn't killed in the Massacre to investigate further (excepting Watchers, which raises the question of why not make sure the PC got killed too, but hey no villain is perfect).