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

I hear they won't let you in while the iron crisis is going on.

I got to admit, that while I disagree with you (being its a fantasy with magic and stuff so gender is kinda irrelevant), its nice to see Sheena name checked. (Yeah yeah, there was the 1950s & 2000s TV show and the Tanya Roberts movie, I'm trying to make a Golden Age Comic Book Reference here). Unless you mean Xena (as in Xena, Warrior Princess) in which case, the reference is distinctly less interesting.

I agree....why do people derail threads Bring out the pitchforks....lets tar and feather them !!! Derailing threads is like an institution here. Except when people request that threads be derailed and everyone ignores that call and studiously posts on-topic.

TARZAN AND THE LOST CITY (1998) - I have a soft spot for this film; the end is a bit anti-climactic, but its a fun pulpy adventure for much of it (in its way a lot like the later Tarzan stories). HARPER (1966) Paul Newman plays a private eye hired to find a missing rich guy. His family only seem moderately interested in finding him, and there are some parties really strongly interested in him not being found. Its very funny in places, and yet also manages a real brutality; oddly it manages both well - something most films fail to do. Great turns by the cast (including Robert Wagner, Shelly Winters, Julie Harris and Lauren Becall, amid others). The end is a complete subversion of the hardboiled detective genre. POLTERGEIST (2015) - Weak remake of the original; it doesn't manage to be scary on its own (its best moments are expansions of ideas from the original) and it swaps the the mostly non-existant older daughter for a characterless younger daughter. The opening 30 minutes is a paint-by-the-numbers family in conflict handled so poorly it elicited laughter (when the broke dad beats up his steering wheel in frustration like you've seen in countless other films, you realize the film has nothing new to say. When it shows the other side and it looks like a poorly realized video game, you realize the film has nothing new to show you either. And Jared Harris is an imminently likeable actor, but he's no Zelda Rubinstein. POLTERGEIST (1982) - The film is really well done; there's a lot of effort to create an interesting family but to also telegraph how the characters will react through the film - whether its the mother smoking pot turning into her "New Age" embrace of the early, benign poltergeist phenomena, or the older teen heavily invested in her social life becoming less present when things go south at home, there's a natural, believable element to how the story and characters unfold. When things go south, it makes sense for the family to deal with it the way they do.

I read the title and was like "cool a positive thread". Lasted only for the initial post. Not sure if I just lost faith in humanity or had my faith restored by the Obsidianites that we can derail a thread faster than anyone else.

Okay so you die and go into the afterlife and God's there. Its no longer faith, its fact. The fact that God could be fact doesn't negate faith. But you still don't know why midichlorians do anything - it is still just something mysterious...maybe God, maybe spirits, maybe Satan, maybe magic, maybe Qi...who knows? And...does that change God in anyway? Does it change the nature of the universe? Would it be...bad? I'd heard about his election run but seen nothing from that time! Thanks!

Would this be by adding the romance to the "Beastiary" or through Quest XP?

Well yeah, that's why many of them prefer to be called "illusionists" now. The only people going around calling themselves magicians are those crappy ones who can't perform without a group of actors pretending to be amazed for the cameras for their TV series. Err, I might be too opinionated on this. They can't all be Doug Henning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7U_oHL_vzg

If a magician does a trick, then certainly he knows how it is done (whether you do or not). Does that knowledge make it any less magic? it makes it doesn't even magic I'm really not sure what you're saying here. So if science explains one of God's creations, the creation is no longer Godly? -snip- i. If you look into science, then why bother about "Godly creation"? Science don't prove or disprove "Godly creation" because "Godly creation" is based on FAITH, not FACT ii. Jedi claim about the Force is proven by midichlorian, before midichlorian it is not proven true, just belief iii. Before science, everything is mystical. It seems to be you just want to argue for the sake of arguing, that's why i am not bother answering i. If God created everything, then God's creation is scientific fact. ii. Midichlorians don't prove that the force is something that is in every living creature (we know only that it is in humanoids based on the check), we don't know that it binds the universe together. We don't undertand why or how it works. The Jedi belief system is not challenged by the existence of midichlorians. iii. And after science nothing is? If science proved the existence of God, would God no longer be mystical? I'm sorry you feel I'm being argumentative; I'm trying to understand your perspective but it doesn't make much sense to me.

Well...I created an idea for how your idea for a game might work. There'd need to be a little prototyping and playtesting to make it a game. EDIT: Oh and some more decisions need to be made like how many spaces from center to start and such.

"Titan Knees Some Justice" - sound like a move from a 90s era fighting game.

I'm a fan of "build your board" board games but not a game designer, so my (easily ignorable) suggestion: Each player chooses a "Net Warrior" type. Each player's start is represented by a computer terminal tile (showing their Net Warrior type at a computer) with a direction from the tile. The start tiles are placed a specific number of tiles away from a center tile, called "W1ns teh Internets" Players start with a 5 cards and 5 pathway tiles; at least one card and one tile at start determined by Net Warrior type, remainder of "hand" is random pathway tiles include simple direct paths to any card edge, loops backwards and dead ends Cards are arguments and gambits. Arguments may be Good Arguments, Bad Arguments and Counter Arguments. Gambits are special cards that effect how arguments are won Good Arguments have positive number values, bad arguments a negative value. Counter arguments may have + or - numbers both Each turn, each player plays an argument - good or bad or counter The total value of the cards are added Before a winner is determined gambits can be played; gambits are special cards that may alter the determination of winners. Without a Gambit card, the winner is determined by who played the card closest to the the total value of the played cards when added together. The winner places a pathway tile between their computer and the center - unless they played a counter argument in which case they must place a tile on one of the opponent's pathways. With a gambit card, winner is determined by the rules of the gambit; there may also be special rules about tile placement as well Once a round is over, everyone draws a new card to replace what they played Once a player plays their last of 5 pathway tiles, they are able to draw 5 new pathway tiles Whoever can create a pathway to the center tile first, wins

So if science explains one of God's creations, the creation is no longer Godly? Skepticism is the belief that things that are thought true should either be proven true or not thought of as true. It has nothing to do with eliminating mysticism through science; but in finding the things that are provable to exist. While some skeptics may argue that the lack of proof implies non-existence, the truth is lack of proof only indicates a lack of proof. Logically you can't make a statement about existence without making foundational assumptions (which isn't bad; we all make foundational assumptions). And there are many skeptics who believe in some supreme deity; others are atheists, or deists or agnostics... That logic doesn't follow. Based on your logic, the fact that the moon revolved around the earth was mystical until it was revealed why it revolved around the earth at which point it become un-mystical. An explanation doesn't - necessarily - remove the presence of a supernatural element. And at any rate, there's an explanation that Templars don't need lyrium IN DAI; their anti-magic properties are based on their belief in what they know of Thedas (ie what's "real" vs what's "Fade") making the barrier between the Fade and Thedas stronger, thus interferring with a mage's ability to pull energy from the fade. So Alistair is right in DAO when he says that Lyrium isn't needed to be a Templar (although all evidence is that Lyrium makes shoring up the "wall" between the Fade and Thedas easier). Who said I don't believe in miracles or higher powers? Sort of an odd assumption to make based on a internet board discussion. Why would a non-Jedi believe a Jedi explanation in the first place? How does the existence of midichlorians necessitate (or even imply) that the Force isn't energy that surrounds, penetrates and binds all living things together? Midichlorians do not explain the Force. They only give (at best) a correlation between the Force and people who are "Force Users". If a magician does a trick, then certainly he knows how it is done (whether you do or not). Does that knowledge make it any less magic?

It's such a crazy idea, it just might work!

Your question makes no sense to me. There isn't a duality that something can't both be a scientific fact and spiritual. If science suddenly proved ghosts existed, and proved they were the souls of the departed would the soul be seen as non-spiritual simply because science had advanced enough to detect and describe it? There's no reason why a Jedi Knight couldn't believe in the Force as a living thing that influences all AND understand that it gathers around those who have a higher midichlorian count. Is higher midichlorians why a force user can use the force? Or do midichlorians gather to those who can use the force? Maybe they're force parasites? Or maybe they're energy batteries that store the force going through the body and allow the user to manipulate the fields running through their midichlorians? We don't know. And therein lies the room for Jedi's as a mystic order.

Sure they mock the old religion - the Sith only have two force users, the Master and the Apprentice. The order itself is considered long gone. But you seem to be working under the assumption that any opinion held by a religion must be related to mystical or spiritual matters which doesn't seem to be true. Obi-Wan did not say that it was a mystical or mysterious power, though. Yes? Or they had super-charged midichlorians that channeled the Force (" an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together") in a greater degree than others. Not really. It is still unknown. You could still debate whether it is the hand of the Creator directly the bestows midichlorians on the blessed family lines (not unlike the "Divine Right of Kings" theory) or a creation of the creator that passes like genetics from parent to child. Midichlorians are, ultimately, a handwave. They don't explain anything and I confess that I've never understood why people felt it took the "magic" out of Star Wars. Why would the existence of XYZ gene make Chi crap in your example? There's nothing necessarily mutually exclusive about an XYZ gene providing Chi power and Shaolin Training being the way to tap that Chi power that would make one invalidate the other.

^And my point is it was never mystic. I'm not talking about the Jedi Order - they were mystics as represented by Obi-Wan. But something that surrounds and binds everything and is in everyone isn't mystical. That would be like saying that magnetism was mystical.

I like it all. Turn based, RTwP, RT. Mostly its how its implemented that's important. That said I like TB just because its easier to play a game and watch TV with.

When the sex-cut scene starts, be sure to yell "THIS IS FOR YOU, BRUCE!"

I'll admit, it was this trailer that sold me on the game (I was coming into Fallout after I'd played BG1 and IWD so other than mixed reviews and the giant grey dude on the box, I didn't know much about PST at the time). Was a bit thrown off when none of the game music was like the trailer music.

Well I was hoping we'd see a Giant Green Walking guy like in the original Planescape: Torment (around 0:35). Mind you, he didn't appear in Planescape: Torment the game, but you know eventually we'll get a game with a giant green walking guy that has Torment in its name. I want to believe!

Obi-Wan in STAR WARS - "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." Obi-Wan specifically says all living things are connected to the force, that's mundane - not miraculous. Energy field that ONLY people with a lot of "X-gene" can manipulate and use it. That is why it is no longer mystical/miraculous, all you need is "X-gene" Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you (or you I); Obi-Wan hasn't been proven incorrect that the Force is a mundane element of the Star Wars universe. It still surrounds and penetrates and binds the galaxy regardless or how many people can manipulate it. Its still a mundane, natural element of the Star Wars universe.

Given that its a luzarius thread, I expected diagrams showing how Cassandra's face maps to a "mans" skull.

lol, what a dumbass. All I got from that article is an overriding sense of "Ha ha ha! I have a PHD and am an ACADEMIC! HA ha ha!" What I got from it is that twitter is a piss-poor platform for serious discussion - if anyone wanted that and honestly with all the twitterage that goes with every. single. event. that. happens. ever. its pretty damn clear that the majority of people posting on twitter aren't interested in a serious discussion.