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Since Bruce started it with his romance suggestion... Bruce the Lover A problem he'd hoped remained hidden came to the light of day quite unbidden; forbidden was the marrying of women three when found out he made his last decree - "Romance isn't dead, its resting"

SHE (1935) - Merian Cooper's follow-up to King Kong was an adaption of H. Rider Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure but with elements from other entries in the series. Transplants the action to the artic; no giant stop-motion creations like Kong, but some nice Art Deco sets. Story is about what you'd expect with an adaption of She. Interesting to see the missing scene (cut from the film for its 1949 re-release, a high quality copy of the scene is lost so not restored for this version). Also of interest is Ray Harryhausen having painstakingly colored the film based on the original plan to shoot it in color that was lost. While not replacing the original film, its interesting to see the late Harryhausen's attempt at matching the color of 1935 on film.

I bet you could wake him with a few rounds of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"...

I'm not sure if this thread has become comedy gold or horribly scaring.

I still have my Kirk, Scotty and Klingon. And I should have my bridge play set (assuming it hasn't fallen apart in my attic). That said I think I've lost some of the accessories (those darn tricorders!)

Both of those songs are pretty catchy...

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/hidden-sheet-music-hieronymus-bosch-triptych-recorded

Not sure if this should be here or in the weird news thread: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/babymetal-metal-japanese-pop/

RE: Agents of SHIELD Well the Atlanteans are iffy since Namor may still be controlled by Universal. And I imagine they'll save Atlanteans for a Namor project. Kree would tie in to GotG, but Korath the Pursuer in the trailers isn't blue like he is in the comics and he's the only Kree we've seen on screen. Also GotG will be premiering between the end of this season of AoS and when next season (if picked up) would start so it'd be difficult to do a direct tie in this season. Frost Giants and Dark elves have both been introduced, but Frost Giants never made it to earth on screen, and Dark elves made it after Coulson's return. That said we know in AoS continuity that there are some Norse around so why not a FG? Inhumans are a bit of a dark horse, we know that Marvel has indicated in the past that they intended to treat them as the live-action-verse's mutants, but - like Atlanteans - would they introduce the Inhumans in general before the royal family? But my guess is that Skye's origins and the half-a-blue-man-group dude aren't necessarily connected.

Asterix and Obelix?

The most prominent blue people are the Kree and the Atlantians; the frost giants, Nebula's people and a few more exist though. A lesser chance would be a post-Terrigen Mist Inhuman (because they can look like anything). Lorelei is Aurora's - The Enchantress' - sister. Both are Thor villains (The Enchantress and her partner-in-crime The Executioner being particularly early villains in the Thor series in Journey Into Mystery).

Hey, they had to save *something* for the sequel.

In the case of Bishnu Shrestha, he didn't have a gun, he had a khukuri. IIRC, the thieves (who originally started out as just robbers before deciding to try to rape the young woman) were armed with knives and guns, however many (if not all) of the guns may have been fakes (apparently a common ploy in banditry in India). If they had real guns they were at a disadvantage of the crowded space (a lot of chance to hit each other, not as much chance to hit Shreshta) and the fact that Shrestha was a trained military man having just left military service and familiar with his weapon of choice and its use. It is a nice story, even heroic. However, I wasn't really commenting on it or the type of weapon used in it, but the context in which it was posted, since such stories are commonly used to set the tone for the "self defense" argument in such discussions. I understand, but also wanted to elaborate on what happened - I think its important to note that Shrestha was not going to defend against the theives until they attempted to rape the woman which in my mind puts him in a vastly different category that the guy with some martial arts training who thinks that with a little knowledge he can whip the world. And I think its fair point that ties into what I perceived being made - that knowing when to use a weapon (external or internal) is an important thing to understand in regards to self-defense. Situations can easily escalate by deciding to threaten to use a weapon when its not necessarily. If we see it in the police force who are trained on these things, how much easier is it for a civilian to go off the rails (its part of the reason why that - even though I feel that a person has a right to self-defense - most "stand your ground" laws, as I understand them, seem to encourage reckless behavior.)

I hope you would admit that the case set forth by the developers that they don't think they could do it to their satisfaction will indicate a solid point as to why Romance shouldn't be part of the specific RPG of Pillars of Eternity, however. For me the case for/against romance is always predicated in what the developers are trying to accomplish with specific games.

Are any of those the giant Australian megafauna I remember from geology class. That's a great idea, if so. Thylacoleo carnifex is the Australian "Marsupial Lion". The Aptornis defossor is the "South Island Adzebill" from New Zealand but actually much shorter than a lot of other giant birds (which tended towards to be plant eaters except for maybe one which there is debate on). Nothrotheriops Shasta (one of the smaller giant ground sloths with razor claws), Glyptotherium texanum (a giant armadillo that could serve as an aimal tank), Miracinonyx inexpectatus (the "American Cheetah"), Kolponomos (an early Ursid) and Dusicyon australis (the Falkland Islands Fox or Flakland Islands Wolf) all come from North/South America. But there are a lot of extinct megafauna from the Pliocene/Holoocine eras to explore. Might be harder to model since some of them are different from common modern animals though, I guess.

I've always wanted to see a game take a cue of animals from some of the extinct species in nature - and not just dinosaurs (I'm trying to do wolf-bear sized critters from memory so apologies if I miss remember). Instead of a normal fox or wolf, how about Dusicyon australis? Instead of a brown bear, how about a Kolponomos? Instead of a lion or tiger, what about a Miracinonyx inexpectatus? Along those lines I would welcome Nothrotheriops Shasta, Glyptotherium texanum, Thylacoleo carnifex, or Aptornis defossor, or similar. Or, you know...a wolf and a bear and a wombat or something would still be cool.

Life isn't action movie, and guns far more commonly used by criminal elements then some regular joe who saves the day. So this is the exception that prove the rule. It reminds me an old statistic that showed that people who trained in martial arts are far more likely to be involved in fight and require medical attention. In the case of Bishnu Shrestha, he didn't have a gun, he had a khukuri. IIRC, the thieves (who originally started out as just robbers before deciding to try to rape the young woman) were armed with knives and guns, however many (if not all) of the guns may have been fakes (apparently a common ploy in banditry in India). If they had real guns they were at a disadvantage of the crowded space (a lot of chance to hit each other, not as much chance to hit Shreshta) and the fact that Shrestha was a trained military man having just left military service and familiar with his weapon of choice and its use.

I saw a western with Susan Kohner (The Last Wagon with Nick Adams and Richard Widmark) in it a few weeks back; Kohner was a minor film star (best known now as one of the leads in IMITATION OF LIFE) and brought back to the attention of modern film goers by being the mom of Chris and Paul Weitz (co-director of American Pie). However Kohner's mom was also a movie star - Luptia Tovar. Possibly best known now as the female lead in Universal's Spanish-language version of Dracula filmed with at the same time with the same script and set of the Lugosi film, she starred in a number of films from 1929-1945. The picture of Tovar is a publicity photo from the 1930s, I believe.

Well I plan on getting it, but then I liked DA2 so you might not want to use my opinion to base your purchase on!

"They don't have the resurces to implement more than 4 types of Godlikes" I believe is what he meant. Doesn't that mean that there is only four gods, or am I misunderstanding something? AFAIK, a godlike is the union between one of the base races and a god. If there are only four types of godlike doesn't that point to their being only four gods? Or that out of the multitude of gods, only four dally with mortals in ways that produce offspring...

Congrats Enoch!

Man...time really flies then. Doesn't feel like 17 months.

Reminds me of the fun I had when people would refer to Diablo 2 as D2 and I would make comments about Kenji Eno's / WARP's survivial horror sequel, D2 and everyone would be confused. Good times...good times...

What the hell is Eurovision, anyway, I had to pick two girls kissing, because of course. Damnit! I missed that as I didn't get that far, I recognized Lordi and went "Oh someone I know!"* and clicked the check box. *I actually know about from Eurovision, actually...

This'll be the third time in a month that I reference the "there won't be misses in attack resolution, only grazes" decision, that was followed by apparently-useless-because-a-decision-was-already-made discussion, which Josh and co. didn't find so useless. However, I'm not sure that there was 6-8 months of pro/con discussion prior to the revelation about misses/grazes whereas there has been that for romance. This isn't a topic that we've only gotten a revelation on either, the early indicators from various interviews - like Avellone's - was that romance options for the player character wasn't in their radar for the game. The "Anti-mancers" crowed about those interviews every time they came up. According to your own line of reasoning, there's just as little point in arguing against it, since it's already not in the game, right? Also... No there's no real reason to continue the discussion along these lines; the discussion could be shifted to - again - what they've indicated they want to include rather than arguing for/against PC Romance. But then if people want to keep the discussion up for/against romance that's cool too; I just don't think its going to be particularly productive. You do realize that the post you just quoted me on specifically pointed out that not every comment advocating romance is stating "but you gotta have romance in PoE," right? I'm not sure - how in the context of a PoE forum - you can advocate romance without advocating romance in PoE. If this was a general discussion on the pros/cons of romance in video games or even video game RPGs specifically it wouldn't be an issue, but pretty much, by default (and IMO) if you have a thread called "THE CASE FOR ROMANCE" in a forum called "PILLARS OF ETERNITY: GENERAL DISCUSSION" the odds aren't that you're actually advocating that romance be in the next Oddworld game. But we're not talking about buying a product, we're talking about creating a narrative entertainment. A closer example would be that I decided to write a novel set in the future and using a first contact scenario and you arguing that I would be better off spending my time writing about subsistence farmers in China because that's what some people would rather read. I'm not exactly sure what 17 pages of this thread are going to detail within this context that the last few months haven't already mined, to be honest. And that's fine, but that's not what I've gotten that this thread is about. What I've gotten is that people want to discuss romance with their player character, not NPC romance. I didn't say you couldn't discuss it and far be it from me to suggest that. What I did say - and believe - is that such discussion was rendered useless by Obsidian's decision. There's a difference. And I may not be right, but its my $.02.