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If they can just fix that neck thing going on (see Morrigan in DA:O) so that I'm not creeped out when it comes to nappy* time, I'll be okay. I'm not sure the only way to make romance work would be to make it integral to the plot (although that would make them have to make it work). I do think that if romances are to be a less perfunctory portion of the game, then developers need to get away from a few things, like resolving them in a single story or requiring that all of them end in some form of consummation (or, for that matter, that all of them succeed unless the player rejects the romance). Part of why they're - as they exist now - problematic is because they exist as a player ego stroke where the NPC in question stops being a character and becomes an object puzzle that the solution results in a horizontal mambo cut scene and some sort of bonus somewhere (quest items, relationship bonus, etc). *nap·py1 ˈnapē/ noun Brit. noun: nappy; plural noun: nappies 1. a baby's diaper.

I bought mine off the back of a truck, no questions asked.

Now I have visions of die-hard RPG fans dusting their shipping labels to see if they can identify which developer's fingerprints are on it...

I'm sure someone will be offended by the words "unicorn"* and "rainbow" and you'll be left with nothing in your land but like minded people. *True story: I actually typed "Unicron" and the thread was in danger of being derailed by the Transformers.

Valeska the Actress There was no role she could not play. So natural in talent, so powerful in conviction. So good in fact was she, that we are not entirely sure she's deceased.

Actually when I was being bossy as a kid - ordering people to do things and being petulant if they didn't do as I said - my mom called me bossy. Not a leader, not assertive. She called me what I was being and if I persisted I was punished. Maybe things have changed radically since I was 6 or 7, but I don't think *that* much. As to not being about banning the word - "BAN BOSSY" is on every page, so...

Given that The Bling Ring is based (however loosely) on the real Bling Ring thefts, and given that - from what I've read - they burglarized Rachel Bilson's home multiple times in April/May of 2009 it sounds like the quoted bit above is actually close to what actually happened.

Once again its not about the word but what the word symbolizes around this campaign. The campaign is about the word. Oh they have other stuff too, don't get me wrong (some of it a bit of a headscratcher to me), but they wouldn't target the word if it wasn't about the word. But as you say, the word is a symbol (and not really a symbol of what they say - a bossy person is a bossy person and has never to my mind indicated gender) and the problem isn't the word or really what it means and in that sense I think they're terribly misguided in their approach. Like many social movements they attack the symptoms in the hope that they'll damage the root cause when they should be attacking the root cause which will render the symptoms meaningless. IMO.

Oooo, just remembered Secret of Evermore and Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest

The word isn't the problem.

The only SHE I saw was the 80s B-movie with Sandahl Bergman. Decent movie altogether considering the budget. There's several versions filmed of the story, including an 1899 adaption directed by Méliès, a 1911 one with Marguerite Snow, this 1935 one, a 1965 with Ursula Andress and a 2001 version with Ophélie Winter. The Sandal Bergman film (from 1982) ... I'm not sure if it is an adaption of the book. Never seen it but the descriptions sound more like early 80s post-apocalyptic fantasy fare.

Here lies Mr. and Mrs. Findangle It was love at first sight Love still in last light His golden codpiece matched her golden booplate and the world was made right.

She did the news locally here for awhile. At one point she was the biggest draw for that station.

In that case, I'll just tell you that the coda of Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans is predicated on Rhona and Kate looking similar (it ends up being "why" Vampire Lord Viktor spares Beckinsdale's Selene when he kills her family - she looks like Mitra's Sonja who is Viktor's now-deceased daughter)

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).