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More importantly I guessed who Skye and her dad was in October, so it was nice to be right (I usually am not on this kind of thing).

I haven't gotten any writing done in years. But that probably doesn't have much to do with Dragon Age: Inquisition. It did turn me into a newt though... (I got better).

I've been going to bed late regularly playing the game. Yikes!

Play with cats?

Agreed, nothing lasts forever. Fortunately Im not worried about forever. Im worried about the here and now that I live in and currently theres nobody that can take the US down. If we wait long enough, approximately 7.6 billion years, the sun will become a red giant and engulf the Earth. Hahahaha, suck it China. "Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future."

I think, in some ways, the idea is to create such uncertainty that you have to go get your idea "vetted" by those who "speak" for the "proper" way to represent women so they can "approve" your take. Could be wrong, but the damned if you do/damned if you don't approach only works if there's a way to avoid damnation - ie some form of a seal of approval.

Yeah I've beat Crestwood Dragon now and I agree it was less of a fight than Hinterlands. Iron Bull and Sera were both still excited though.

California and Rain - sounds like Georgia and Snow.

Minorities have been victims of society - are they off limits? Women have been victims of society - are they off limits? The differently abled have been victims of society - are they off limits? The poor and homeless have been victims of society - are they off limits? If the answer is yes to each, then you've got a game of white, rich men who have no disabilites...

I took a few weeks off of the internet for that same reason. To be honest this whole situation is rather depressing.

You did not. Damnit. That's a hilarious typo. Took me a minute to even recognize I did it.

I admit I'm slow to pick up game mechanics and sometimes make blindingly stupid errors.

Yeah, I never do first try on Hard unless normal has no complexity. I'm just not that awesome first time around.

Haven't tried the other dragons, I did Hinterlands at 12/13 too. I'd imagine though since you can technically get to it without opening the other areas up, it'd be weakest of the lot.

I kept reading NY as "New York" and was thinking "Oh Bruce is visiting New York for Christmas". Awkward.

Well Earth 1 you have (off the top of my head*) Kal-El (Superman) Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) All the residents of Kandor, the Bottle City (captured by Brainiac) Zod, Ursa, Jax-Ur, Non, Faora, and the remaining Phantom Zone Criminals Dev-Em Chris Kent (Zod's son) Karsta Wor-Ul *For the record I'm not carrying about pre/post-CRISIS and adding the additional earths are a headache (but honorable mention to Kal-L and Kara Zor-L, Superman and Power Girl of Earth 2)

That's actually the origin from Roman poet Ovid. The original Greek myth involved three sisters monsters*, Medusa being the only mortal one. Each were with snake hairs, boar tusks, wings, etc and could petrify at a glance (they were children of Phorcys and Ceto and counted the Graeae as sisters). By 490 BC, Medusa began being described as beautiful and deadly (a relief described her as "fair cheeked") with Ovid giving the rape origin in 8 AD. Since Medusa's head is on Athena's Aegis, the general thought is that both are adopted from another pantheon early in Greek culture at some point and may have a completely different original origin somewhere in the mists of time. *"monsters" who, in their main story with Perseus, are hidden on an island so hard to find Perseus has to steal the Graeae's eye and blackmail them to find the location; he then uses gifts from the gods to kill her in her sleep and fly away to rescue his love, so no less problematic than Ovids...

You know my original idea when John Harrison was still thought to not possibly be Khan in STID was that Harrison was from the Mirror Universe invading our universe first (rather than other way around from "Mirror, Mirror"). They could still use the Mirror Universe if they wanted to get Shatner-Kirk in the next film and he was willing to play the villain. Just say that the MU wasn't rebooted when the main ST timeline was (reasonable given that a rise of a Nero like character was rendered nigh-impossible by the damage done by the Terran Empire to Romulus and the control of the MU in the future by the Klingon-Cardashian Alliance). The resulting inbalance between the MU and regular univese timeline (no longer matching up by stardate) could lead to a catastrophe in the MU where they turn to the ruthless Kirk as the person to solve the problem (created by the regular universes reboot, hence his assault on the regular universe). Or not. There's a reason why I'm not a screenwriter.

I don' think they're attempting to lie. There isn't a spell that "heals" you unless you're knocked out (the revival spell). Most people would say that was a "resurection" type spell. Albeit I think you're technically correct.

I listened to half hour about DAI before giving up, personally.

I think all of DAI's AI went into the damn bears. Sneaky little bastards coming out of nowhere to maul me in the middle of fight with bandits...

Its true; like games Hollywood could make the same money by pumping out lower budget films in the long run too. The problem is that there is a mentality in business that its better to make a $20 million film and make $70 million than to make 5 $4 million films and make $10 million on each film. This seems to exist in games as well for the "AAA" producers. It also exists for retailers who don't like budget-titles as much because they give lower profit on the sales. That said there were people making niche games all the time, they're just distributed like crap because the distribution system (excepting digital) isn't friendly to them (and digital can be a long shot to get noticed unless you get picked up by a digital platform).

Yeah, I'm not sure how we got to real world death in either scenario....

And blind devotion to the status quo continues the deaths of innocents that could easily be prevented. Wait, so not preventing a game from being made out is allowing the deaths of innocents? What?

When the lim x → ∞ = 0 happens in probablility, sure something might be possible, but the scenario is such an outlier that its near impossible to account for. Should Nobakov never been allowed to write Lolita? Should Lanzmann never been allowed to make Shoah? The problem with your theoretical hyperbole is that there are probably books and movies that already deal with the themes or incidents that you're talking about. And Japan has already put out games involving the rape of virtual minors.