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Not a big fan of respecing (I usually just restart the game if not happy with my choices and create a new character from scratch). That said, I could see some lore related reasons (say a Diety granting a respec into a priest class after a quest) for it being in a game. And I'm not sure a lore related reason is absolutely necessary; really depends on the game and whether it fits that game.

True, but child murder(I'm counting Jason Todd as a child because he was a teenager) is also a fairly abhorrent crime by most moral and legal standards. Furthermore, Batgirl being sexually assaulted by the Joker is at best implied(IIRC Alan Moore said somewhere it wasn't his intention to do that in TKJ and most people I talk to about comics didn't really take it that way) while Jason Todd being brutally beaten and murdered was explicitly stated and shown. Yeah, but IIRC Moore has said he can see why people read it that way and Brian Bolland has said he read the script that way and drew it that way. Yes, but variant covers don't always match the contents of the comic. By this logic, wouldn't the Skoottie Young baby variants or the selfie variants DC did a while back also draw criticism for not matching the tone of the book? Sure, they don't. They're also kind of irrelevant, so getting upset over one seems meaningless. This cover didn't fit the book. It wasn't approved by editorial on the book but by marketing. It was a meaningless variant cover that ultimately had no bearing on the book itself.. If we were talking about the real cover and changing the content of the book, then its a different scenario. This though? Its a tempest in a teapot, IMO.

Do you know who the characters are? Invincible and an alien whose name I can't recall. She raped him because she needed to reproduce and didn't want to have sex with a human. Yeah I don't know the alien either. I remembered it was from Invincible. People weren't that happy with **** Grayson getting raped in his title a decade back either. Because murder and rape aren't the same crimes? Because the book that was on (I'm assuming its a cover because I can't find the book it was the cover to) wasn't just relaunched as a light, fun book?

Censor... :D Fair enough. TRIGGER WARNING (if this is even allowed to apply to men). It's comic strip about a woman raping a man and then telling him to "man up", it's sort of graphic NSFW: http://s23.postimg.org/45i39zfbf/CAXDa_Vi_Uw_AA2ys_T.jpg http://s23.postimg.org/jofj73nm3/CAXDa_Vg_Ug_AATxuz.jpg http://s14.postimg.org/l3qzlzugx/CAXDa_Vi_VAAAoehc.jpg There was quite the outrage over that scene at the time it came out.

^Superman went through a phase where he was always crying on covers. It was usually because he couldn't stop something from happening (as opposed to being in the control of a villain).

People confuse initialisms for acronyms more often than they do irony for coincidence. "I saw Mary at the store today ... No way! So did I. How ironic!" we blame the japanese. why not? they like to turn initialisms into acronyms. ufo is Not a word. oofoe? HA! Good Fun! U-foe is how it was pronounced on the TV show.

No, DC Comics changed a variant cover that was created by marketing as a retailer incentive after concern that the cover - -referenced the potential rape of the main character* -didn't fit the tone of the current book -wasn't approved by the creative team or the editorial in the book because it was commissioned by marketing -the artist agreed, in retrospect, the cover wasn't appropriate to the current book The disturbing thing to me isn't that they pulled a variant cover (not even the actual retail cover!) but that so many people seem to think that blocking anyone who disagrees with them - no matter how benignly - is the appropriate response. *While it wasn't his intention, Alan Moore IIRC has admitted that there's a lot in the text that could imply sexual assault of Barbara and IIRC again Brian Boland has indicated he read it as a sexual assault in the script and drew it accordingly. Within that context, had Barbara been at the mercy of any other bat-villain I doubt it'd have been as big an issue.

Truly UNCHARTED territory.

To be clear, this was NOT the cover of the issue. This was an alternate cover - an incentive varient for direct market stores to buy that was created by DC Marketing (a "Joker" month) and not approved by editorial or creative on Batgirl. The Batgirl title recently went through a revamp to make the character lighter and funner (the previous version had been pretty grim) and generally speaking the creative team/editorial felt the cover was inappropriate to what they were doing on the title. That Albequrque asked for the cover to be removed only helped the case. I didn't care for the cover but it was an alternate cover that I wouldn't buy. Since I wasn't buying it, I don't care that DC isn't making it. EDIT: To be clear, as a variant cover, its irrelevant to the issue. Had this been intended to be the real cover and tied into the storyline of the comic, there would IMO be justification for argument that there is an issue with creative storytelling by removal of the cover. But there isn't here, IMO.

Are you talking about Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition? Because I don't recall there being any subclasses or kits in the original Icewind Dale (as, IIRC, it came out before BG2 which was the first to have kits). I think ID:EE though ports over the kits from BG2 into ID.

Be interesting to see the community try to rise to the challenge.

I admit Nipton was always a place that bugged me. Vulpes Inculta has a line that says something like "if you don't like what I've done (in killing the town), try to kill me" and then when you try to kill him everyone attacks. Didn't you hear the man? He said I could attack him!

I didn't like it as much as I did Maleficent. It has less...Tim Burton than Alice. Alice is - to me - just a frustrating film to watch; for every good bit there's a bad bit and a lot of it doesn't hang together very well. Cinderella is - to me - one of the hardest fairy tales to sit through just simply because the subject matter. Cinderella does a good job of capturing that but it makes the beginning drag a bit because you have to watch as the plot dumps so much misfortune on Ella before the story can get her to her Fairy Godmother and the Prince's ball (which is a pretty well done sequence in the story and the movie really takes off once everyones goal is to get to the ball).

Yeah that's true. The cost for airmail would probably be around that sum we added for the shipping (for a basic version at least). So I really don't know why chose slower option. Because Paradox is fulfilling the packages in Europe (as I understand it), the sum total of Europe's loot has to be sent to Paradox to ship through Europe. So they're not going to airmail all of Europe's stuff to Paradox so that the orders can be fulfilled. Obsidian isn't fulfilling orders, themselves, that's why they made the deal with Paradox. (This isn't to say you can't be upset with the handling, just that - the way I understand it - this isn't a case that can be easily compared to an individual sending another individual a small package).

That was kind of my point. There's no real need for dock & crop for a pet.

I myself wouldn't but I thought it was a common practice for that breed. Im not sure Ive seen one irl that wasnt clipped but maybe Im just remembering the past. Don't think the US has a prohibition against it, so I think it still happens a lot. And if its a working dog, clipping the tail and ears may help the dog not being injured (a doberman as a police dog would be liable to injury if someone it was set on was able to grab its ears or tail).

If its not a working dog, why would you dock and crop? EDIT: Or I guess, a show dog.

At a guess - and I don't have insider knowledge - the problem could be not just with sending the items out but when they got the manufactured items in. The dock workers slow down/shut down has been on and off for three months. There was a resolution to end the stoppage in late December (with contract negotiations going on) and in February. There's no guarantee that tomorrow there won't be another shortage (unless a contract agreement was signed since the last time I checked). So even if there were cost effective solutions that didn't "break the bank" in terms of shipping rail to the east coast and the boat to Europe, there plans may have been hurt if the products were shipped and then sat on a dock in Los Angeles for three weeks before they could get and sign the signature tier extras.

Well I had to type in codes from the manual every so often in PHANTASIE to keep the game going. This is clearly the kind of mechanics that kids these days need to see since we all faced them growing up. We need to institution a 10% chance that at any time, doing anything the player character could drop dead of a heart attack or stroke. Because otherwise the players will think they can't fail. Or, alternatively, it could make people pay more attention to the story instead of "did I collect 'em all?" hunt and peck minigaming. Speak for yourself (I for one don't give a fig). One doesn't just sell 25 wolf scrotums.

Just a FYI, with respect to the Port of Los Angeles being closed, the actual problems affected most of the ports on the West Coast for awhile. It was so bad that at the height of the dispute in December, McDonald's had to start rationing French Fries to customer in Japan. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mcdonalds-rationing-french-fries-japan/story?id=27638403 Yes, it was so bad that McDonald's - one of the biggest corporations in the world - had trouble getting potatoes shipped to Japan. The last update I saw was in early February where another shutdown ended - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/usa-ports-west-idUSL1N0VJ1OS20150210 - but a contract was still being worked on. While I doubt this will assuage the feelings of those upset about the delivery issues, the idea that you could "just ship it from another port" wasn't really a going solution; while Obsidian mentions the Port of Los Angeles, most ports on the west coast are experiencing slow downs and shut downs as part of this labor dispute.

Cinderella (2015) - another of Disney's big budget fantasy fairy tale remakes. This one is less revisionist (although it is a little) and is a fairly straightforward adaption of the fairy tale. You'll definitely hate the stepmother by the end (if you don't start there). Night Train to Paris (1964) - Leslie Nielsen in one of his leading man roles, shows a bit of the sense of humor we knew him by in his later career. 2 years after Dr. No, but before Spy-Fi really hit in the late 60s, we get a fairly down to earth spy story. With its moody B&W photography it is part Film Noir, part down-to-earth Spy-Film, part romantic comedy (shades of CHARADE or ARABESQUE), and part Peter Gunn (with its driving Jazz soundtrack). Nielsen is good as the ex-OSS agent pulled back into helping a friend in Europe. Pretending to be a photographers assistant traveling with models in order to deliver a tape to the right hands. Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens do well as the female leads who Nielsen can only partially trust. Eric Pohlmann is a solid heavy - the spy killer stopping at nothing to get the tape. While the reputation of the film is rather modest, I think its probably worth a second look. Footsteps in the Night (1957) - the last of the Detective series that saw western star Wild Bill Elliot play a sheriff investigating murder in Hollywood. More Dragnet than murder mystery, the series followed the procedures of the department as they looked for their man. This entry was interesting simply because of how scattered the entire thing was (I would have never guessed how it all happened, even if the show kind of telegraphed who did it). Also fun to see perennial TV Guest star Douglas **** as the wrongly accused. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937) - The last of WB's adaptions of Earle Stanley Gardner's Perry Masons. After Warren WIlliams left the series (two movies ago) the series moved away from the Thin Man-esque boozy, breezy mystery solving and returned to Gardner's original take on the character. All of the pieces familiar to audiences of the 50s TV series are here (in fact, the novel this is based on was adapted to the TV series). Its a fun movie if you like Perry Mason as its a good take on the mix of detection and court room theatrics.

Did you watch the interview? He does say that the world would be a "lesser place" without artists. Now, admittedly my experience with this is fairly limited, but I've never met anyone in an artistic profession who believed their work was utterly pointless. People in finance, admin, clerks, etc? Yeah... Seriously, I was kidding when I wrote that watching it would rot your brain. I guess what I'm trying to get out is that people who think there job is pointless or more likely not engaged in their job more so than their job being pointless.

I laughed out loud. Sooo true! Or they'll invent a bionic male organ. Not sure the world is ready for the bionic sound from the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN to suddenly emit from men's pants.

Okay so I can't really discuss this in the order you bring it up, so let me try to summarize: A book like Robert McKee's STORY is vastly different than the IGDA supporting something it calls "Best Practices". In my line of work when a body publishes "Best Practice" the intention is for these to become industry standard. Often, there will end up being penalties if you do not follow these Best Practices, including no longer being able to participate in the organization that published the Best Practices because you don't follow their Best Practices. Who do I think its geared for? Its Best Practices. Its intended to be an industry standard. Otherwise it'd be "Some friendly suggestions" or even "Localization: Some Pitfalls You Might Want To Think About If You Like To Do That Sort Of Thing". Sure I may be making a lot of ado about nothing. BUT there is language that I've seen before in other industry standard Best Practice documents in my own line of work so I have a hard time accepting that the goal of the document isn't to become industry standard. And it DOES effect game development. To you in a negligible way, to me in a worrying way that makes me see developers second guessing their ideas so as to not offend some theoretical person "out there".