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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.

And this is my point as well. The movie Constantine missed the point of what the character is, why the character is why he is, how he looks and acts, his motives which is a big part of the comic, and pretty much threw the source material out the window. And I understand that; I'd argue though that IAL though is a poor film and a poor adaption; Constantine to me was a decent film that was a poor adaption. Actually if you changed the title to Angels and Demons, you'd be wondering what Dan Brown had to do with it all. *ba-dum-dum* Heck I'm familiar with Wolverine's origin and still liked X-Men Origins: Wolverine (but then I'm not expecting fidelity to the comic books from the X-films; that ship sailed with the first film). The TV show does look closer to the comic character; but if its like the new 52 version of the character its a definite pass. Mind you I preferred Constantine in the pages of Swamp Thing as a supporting character than I ever have as a lead.

Well it looks a hundred times better than that horrible movie. At least the actor looks like the comic book character. But I don't have high hopes for this series. I would've preferred it was set in England like the comic. But it's an American TV show so it's to be expected. Will wait and see when it comes out. What I found humorous were the comments suggesting the TV series looks crap and the movie was great. Obviously not a lot of people have read Hellblazer. That's like saying Will Smith's 'I am Legend' is great and someone making a TV series more aligned and very close to Richard Matheson's book and calling it crap. Interestingly, I am Legend scored higher than Constantine on sites like imdb and rotten tomatoes. So who knows. The movie wasn't very true to the comics, but it was a good movie. Omega Man was better than I Am Legend. Last Man on Earth > Omega Man > I am Legend (movie) I am Legend the movie seemed to actually miss the point of I am Legend the novel, something LMoE got (and, in its way, OM did as well) But I still liked the Constantine movie even if it was nothing like its source material. Unfortunately the casual interest I had in the character at the time of the movie has turned to a full blown loathing after he became the "it" boy of the New 52, so the likelihood of me watching the TV series at the moment is along the same lines of me watching Batman Forever again. Also liked the Agents of SHIELD finale. Felt it managed to wrap things up in a not-terribly tidy way, but a very satisfying way. Loved the final Garrett bit.

They were probably both covered before, but she's used to the arm now and doesn't hit her leg or torso as much with it so is willing to risk it.

Theory: The mechanical arm tends to get very hot, thus explaining why only the leg furthest away from it is fully covered.

How are you finding the derogatory references to women? And yes I haven't played this game but its not just the Eurogamer review that made a point of pointing this out. Other gaming websites had the exact same criticism so there must be some truth to it How am I finding them? Mostly by going through the game. *ba-dum-dum-tsch!* Thank you, thank you...I'll be here all week. Be sure to try the veal. Seriously, I'm not sure I'm far enough into it to see anything that's terribly bad (if it exists). There is a scantily clad character who is both commented on (and disliked both for appearance and for "being a witch") and gives back what she gets. There are some unsavory comments regarding women - but this to me seems specific to characters (the biggest amount of "whore" calling, for example, is a drunk) or to the society that has yet to crumble more than some kind of commentary on the real world (certainly exceptional women exist in the world, and aren't all scantily clad sex workers).

Its pretty awesome video. Our cat we had when I was a kid had kittens and when a doberman in the neighborhood got loose and came around the front fence. It barked at the cat who hissed back, but the doberman was undeterred. Our cat changed tactics by jumping over the fence, landingd on the back of the doberman and starting clawing. She rode the doberman's back through our yard like he was bucking bronco and our cat was a cowgirl. When the doberman got to the edge of our yard, our cat jumped off his back and calmly walked back to where we had her kittens at. The doberman ran back home yelping. So cats aren't afraid to fight for something, that's for sure.

Added Bound By Flame to my playing list. So far it makes me think of a Budget Dragon Age title, but it has enough of its own charms to keep me interested. Glad I figured out how to skip dialogues as I read more faster than the VO actors act.

Glad this thread turned me on to Bound by Flame. Wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

^Ran by the creators of Reaper and the screenwriters for CA:The First Avenger and Thor: The Dark World. Also Agents of SHIELD renewed for 2nd season. Sleepy Hollow will also get 2-5 more episodes than its 1st season for its second. iZombie picked up by CW (based on the Vertigo comic by Roberson and Allred and show run by Rob Thomas and many of the other people behind Veronica Mars) Constantine picked up by NBC (based on the DC/Vertigo comic character; who appeared in an unrelated movie a few years back)