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While that is probably very true, I also can't help but wonder if Hurl accidently left his account open...

I think the Skylander game and Infinity has some differences (of course Skylanders has had longer to perfect their approach); IIRC in Skylanders the figures open up new areas of a singular game whereas Infinity is really about a bunch of minigames (some just fairly long minigames). I've enjoyed Infinity for what it is, but will admit that particularly this iteration is very basic (and yet I still enjoy playing it and building levels). That said, a lot of what has been announced about Disney Infinity 2 is moving the game in a direction that I really think will improve the experience overall (including making the playsets bigger with Marvel Manhatten and flight for characters).

Veronica Mars is awesome. I still enjoy seeing how the mysteries play out even though I've seen the series before. And the movie was great (glad I backed the kickstarter). The recent tie-in novel was only okay, but I liked it enough I would get the second one that's coming out.

Who is actually the daughter of the Red Hulk. Awkward.

Goyer's statements could be an outgrowth of playing too many Bioware Romances*, so I declare it fair game and on topic. *Or perhaps just reading the "Let Hawke romance Bethany" threads during DA2's development

The only Source engine game I've played is Bloodlines. Looks like Bloodlines and Left4Dead for me. As a bonus, I never played the first Half-Life.

If he thinks that female characters created to protect trademark erosion of male superheroes who are cousins to the male hero are designed as sex-objects... ...makes you wonder how he'll introduce Kara Zor-El in the MAN OF STEEL series, dunnit?

Also its sad for the team members in Atlanta who lost their jobs; not sure if any of them were really employees of the old pre-CCP White Wolf or not (which would be sadder) but still its sad. Hope they find work soon.

My interest is piqued, of course, but a lot is going to ride on that first trailer and seeing it "in action" so to speak.

Well your opinion is valid; I just didn't agree. Different strokes and all that. TrueNeutral: Nah, if that were going to happen, the film would have been scripted by Akiva Goldsman

Part of the reason I mentioned Radithor was that Eben Byers was a rich industrialist who did indeed feel better drinking radium dissolved in water. When he did pass away, his doctor insisted it wasn't due to the radiation, but the gout, because none of his other patients had passed away from radiation. And if I remember my reading, he was quite piqued that the company stopped producing the stuff. But the rich "recruiting volunteers" is pretty likely scenario.

"Yes, Sir Reginald did become a flesh eating mindless fiend...but as I warned him, those with weak souls just aren't suited to the process. Mind you I had...heard of unsavory rumors after I'd treated him but he insisted his spirit wasn't weak or degenerate. Surely, though, a fine noblewoman like yourself has a strong soul capable of handling the energies that shall provide lasting life..." To be honest, quackery through the generations tells us that people in general will grasp at even the most unlikely of health solutions - including those that damage their health (see Radithor and Eben Byers, for example). I suspect the sufficiently able salesman/conman would convince those of the right mindset to try out the new discoveries of animancy.

I disagree; I think they made a good balance of the human story and the giant monster story and kept the main monster mash-up for the finale. Which isn't that dissimilar in structure to a lot of the earlier films, but I felt the human story was compelling (even if it had its problems).

You meet one in one of the DLC, and meeting him clarifies that the Architect from Awakening was one too. I thought one of the books clearly stated the Architect was a born "mutant" darkspawn? The internet tells me the only mention of the Architect in the LEGACY DLC is if the player killed the Architect, Anders (IIRC) indicates that the Warden-Commander knew that intelligent Darkspawn weren't to be trusted (or some such).

So far BBF makes me think DA is the low budget knock-off made by amateurs who know nothing about making games or write anything except cloying or maudlin dialog. Of course so far no homosexuals have hit on me, and no one told me about their sad childhoods or long lost siblings, so there's always hope. I wasn't really talking about quality of stories (or even comparing the stories even if they share some common tropes - both have a main character who becomes invested with a power that makes them uniquely qualified to face a menace to their society. Both have scantily clad witches found in woods, and female members of what appears to be a scholarly religious order, etc). I was more thinking in some of the production elements (although this may be from playing on a PS3 and not a computer, too, think about it). Things like the handling of the controls (I sometimes have to walk away from things, turn around and walk back to get positioned to trigger a "pick-up" notice), some of the quests not triggering (or failing) properly, etc. Its an enjoyable game, hope I get some more time at it.

This would be based on whether the omniscient creator is a part of our universe or outside of our universe, I'd think. If that creator is apart from our universe* then the scope of their knowledge would be greater than just all that exited in our universe by some unknowable amount. *note the creator being apart from the universe can hand wave the determination paradox of an all powerful creator who knows what you are going to do but gives you the free will to do it; if the creator is apart from the universe than the creator knows what you did (because, from their perspective, everything the universe was, is, will be has "happened") thus making both statements true; its a bit harder to make that argument with a creator constrained, for example, by time (as the only knowledge of your decisions would be on when you made them, but if the creator knows what you're going to do before you do it, do you really have free will to do it?)

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Something we'd never know; a true omnipotent creator, should one exist, would have to have a perspective that would be so completely alien to human understanding that trying to fathom why would just be pointless, IMO.

Godzilla. I liked it. Thought it was well done and all that.

If time means nothing, constructing infinite complexity would also mean nothing. At least I think so. Easy come, easy go, right. It would mean nothing for the creator; if time was created at the start of creation from the perspective of the creation time would still matter even if didn't to the creator.

Skyblivion? Egads, what a horrible construct (not a comment on the effort to put Oblivion into the Skyrim engine, but just...yuck).

Well I admire them for trying something decidedly different, I'll give you that. Not sure how it'll work every week but I'll be curious to see if it does better than other musical shows have done in the past.

He replaced Martin Landau's Rollin Hand in the fourth and fifth season after Landau and Barbara Bain departed the series. He played The Great Paris, a retired magician and make-up specialist. Bain's Cinnamon wasn't directly replaced in the 4th season, instead they had rotating female agents (only one making multiple appearances, Lee Meriwether's Tracey). Season 5 brought in Lesley Ann Warren's Dana Lambert. In season 6, Lambert was replaced by Linda Day's Casey, but Nimoy's Paris wasn't replaced, instead the series opted to give a bigger role to Greg Morris' Barney and a slightly larger role for Phelps rather than bring in a new male lead.

Technically though, there are still Christians out there who do take the "God created the earth in six days and rested the 7th" literally. They exist on the fringe, certainly, in the direction of the sort of Christianity where people hide their television because they don't want the neighbours to know they have one. But they still do exist. To be fair if there was an all powerful creator and that creator created time, the Big Bang through life on earth could have taken 6 days AND also lasted millennium since the natural flow/evaluation of time would mean nothing to an entity who could create it and thus manipulate it at will.

I agree with Avellone, MANIFEST DESTINY is a great comic so far. (yeah that was my whole take-away from that ) Ooo, playing Betrayal at House on the Hill. Awesome game.