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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).

True Confession: I've never seen the original because IT looked terrible to me when I saw the trailers in the theaters back in the day.

I knew THE HIGH CHAPPARRAL was a big hit TV Western in the US, but little did I know how popular it was elsewhere...

Heh, yes, that is a huge leg up. I worked my way through college and I'm still paying off one of my loans for tuition (10 years into my career.) I'm extremely thankful that my parents were able to help out with part of it. I would be struggling under even more debt without that. I worked my way through college (part of why it took me a decade to do). What they did though, was allow me to live at home while taking classes until such time as I could afford to move out. Which meant that not having to immediately deal with paying for housing, combined with starting out at a low cost two year college, getting part-time jobs and getting a scholarship, I was able to begin saving money towards being able to support myself when I did move out while also advancing towards my degree all the while not taking any loans out at all. Sounds like you also had a privileged background...you could stay at home much longer than others and hence could save more money which meant you weren't burdened and crippled by these excessive educational loans that the rest of us are inflicted with. Nice privilege there young grasshopper It was a privilege. One I'm thankful for every day - no matter how bad things are, I don't have to worry about financial debt from student loans that will never, ever go away except by being paid off. I just have to worry about everything else. It was hard being a teenager in college living with his parents (but not in the basement - thankfully I avoided that cliche ) until I was stable financially and could look at other options. But it was ultimately one of the best things they ever gave me.

Heh, yes, that is a huge leg up. I worked my way through college and I'm still paying off one of my loans for tuition (10 years into my career.) I'm extremely thankful that my parents were able to help out with part of it. I would be struggling under even more debt without that. I worked my way through college (part of why it took me a decade to do). What my parents did though, was allow me to live at home while taking classes until such time as I could afford to move out. Which meant that not having to immediately deal with paying for housing, combined with starting out at a low cost two year college, getting part-time jobs and getting a scholarship, I was able to begin saving money towards being able to support myself when I did move out while also advancing towards my degree all the while not taking any loans out at all.

My party brushes and flosses after each meal, they're just awesome that way.

^Even if you have a midichlorian you still can't explain how it works, why it binds all living things, etc. Its still mysticism (for all we know, high midichlorian count is an unsupported correlation that actually says nothing about Jedi powers). And frankly I think the world would be better off without terrorist attacks, crusades, witch burnings and such. Won't happen, but it'd be better off, IMO.

Some good points. I find that the more such absurd things as turn into a bear, women fighting dragons etc there is the harder it is to suspend my disbelief. This is how all fantasy works. I am sure you would find it hard to accept that your party can fly, use tactical nukes from their fingers, and morph to dragons at will. Its just to much. A cartoon. The difference between us is that my views (which are rooted in the real world) dont think all female parties are the ****. You are however so indoctrinated (contrary to how the real world works) with denying gender difference that you just dont see how absurd such things are Again, I have no issue if an all-female party (or even majority) breaks your personal verisimilitude - its your game and you should play it the way it makes you happy! If that means all or mostly male parties and females only in certain roles - the game supports that. And that's why I think these kind of games are great, you can build what works for you. And while I'll concur that the strength in the top 100th percentile man is going to be stronger than the top 100th percentile woman in real life, I - personally - don't have a problem with superior strength frontline fighter women in a fantasy setting, because its a fantasy setting (and at any rate, the top 100th percentile woman is still going to be stronger than, something like 80 - 90% of dudes anyhow when you're talking about elite levels). I'll also say, I have no issue with a game enforcing gender differences (there have been several that have given a +1 str to guys and a -1 str to gals; the biggest problem is the in game balance solutions to make dudettes still viable as party members are usually not well thought out and/or completely arbitrary). I know a lot of people hate this sort of thing, but I've never found it to break a game.

It doesn't work with all the secrets. It's entirely dependent on your mechanics skill. What you find without sneaking will be considerably lower than that. Yes, that was mentioned already, I was just confirming that it happened in game for me.

I dunno if it'll be any good, but it sounds promising.

If there was 1 woman for every 200 men in the military, you'd only need about 1200 men to make a 6 woman adventuring party. Mind you IMO in fantasy games when you start throwing magic around, gender differences are kind of meaningless. Even if not treating physical differences in strength between genders, two ciphers, two mages, a priest and a druid could be just as effective a party as the typical adventuring party, and the use of magic/psionics/shapeshifting/etc. doesn't really have a real world gender relationship. "No sorry, a woman shape-shifted into a anthropomorphic bear would NEVER be strong enough to hit that dude..." just fails as an argument from the get-go. That said, if someone wants to play an all male party/mostly male party because of some sense of personal verisimilitude, it really doesn't affect me provided I still have the ability to do my own thing.

You can swing both ways at the hearing and Thaos can only swing two ways at the hearing. So one of the two possible outcomes must be in Thaos' interest. Not sure what you're trying to say here. Thaos wants to be certain that there's only one possible outcome ... his outcome. That's why he does what he does. He doesn't care what the various reps say. But your argument only holds water if his outcome is to kill the Duc in any case to blame it on animancy. But if animancy is in fact outlawed in the proceedings, there's no need for him to further expose himself. So one of the two possible outcomes of the hearing should be in his favor and therefore not require direct action. You're assuming that he wants a simple outlawing of animancy. By doing what he did, Thaos caused a violent uprising against animancy, which in turn caused far more destruction to the "science" than merely outlawing ever could. It also leads to the destruction of the Sanitarium and providing good cover for killing Lady Webb - neither of which would have worked as well had Animancy just been outlawed (thus allowing the Sanitarium Animancers to go to ground with their research and equipment and not hiding the massacre of Dunryd Row under the guise of the riots).

^Inherently I think that's one of the issues with the current crop of romances is that they're designed to only fail if the PC chooses to fail them. Which is the reason that it was nice in DAI that

I've never had a problem killing the guards when you climb the vines to get into the castle not creating a problem. Did you kill anyone else? Are you going into the correct door (I'm assuming so since you got the Berathian robes from the chest)? Are you wearing the robes on your PC?

Yeah I've detected secrets without scouting occasionally since the 1.5 patch.