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They're still talking Carol "Captain Marvel" Danvers for the Avengers in the rumor mill. I watched FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964) an adaption of the HG Wells story. It was fun, but I felt the framing sequence took some of the oomph out of the story and they spent too long on Earth. Then I watched 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957) which is one of the few Ray Harryhausen films I'd never seen. The effects work is great, seeing William Hopper (TV's Paul Drake on PERRY MASON) as the lead was a hoot (not a position he was in a lot). And the scientific implausibilities and general ridiculousness was entertaining.

This thread had me going And then I read the posting dates and was all

You can sort out the completed ones. Add a search criteria for only live projects.

Supposedly Costas is suffering from an eye infection. I thought the delayed coverage of the Opening Ceremonies to be weak. Lots of dead air and inane comments. You'd think if they had to tape delay air it they'd actually make sure that we could get the best commentary (or no commentary).

I've wondered about trying the series. Huge fan of the original movie (and enjoyed for what they some of the previous derivative works EXCEPT the remake which was just wrong-headed IMO).

Finished CARBON GREY. Got a bit too metafictionally for me in the end. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it but I feel the series didn't make the most of its idea (almost being a travelog for a longer story, in many respects) and the end - while set up properly - would have had a better impact if the story had played out longer, IMO. Read the latest POPEYE collection which is always fun. Also read the first collection of the Occultist - a fun magic hero vs demons/undead/wizards series. And caught up with all my monthly comics reading. Currently going through DC's CREATURE COMMANDOS collection. One of the stories I was surprised that it managed to get past the censors of the time (including, as it did, children brainwashed by a Hitler double into loving only him, the children being given super-strength through science, the children killing their parents, fighting the Creature Commandos (also products of whacked-out science) only to have their brainwashing crack, turn and kill their Nazi re-programers and fake Hitler before exploding into fleshy masses due to the instability of the science that made them super-strong). Crazy stuff.

I always heard the missing part as "where women grown and men plunder", but I don't really trust my own ears. Pretty sure the lyrics are: ♪ Do you come from a land down under / Where women glow and men plunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder / You better run, you better take cover. ♫ That's the first chorus. The second chorus goes like this: ♪ I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder / You better run, you better take cover. ♫ In this case, chunder means vomit if I recall correctly. Man...been so long since I heard the song, I didn't remember the second chorus was different. Guess its a good thing it didn't come on recently with me singing along - would have led to funny looks.

When he created his stage name (real name Eric Bishop, IIRC), Foxx made his last name a tribute to Redd Foxx. Redd Foxx's name (real name John Sandford) came from his early billings as "Chicago Red" (due to his reddish hair) and from baseball player Jimmie Foxx. Jimmie Foxx came by his surname naturally, being born to farmers Dell and Mattie Foxx in Maryland. ***** For my purposes, I watched THE LEGO MOVIE (2014) which was a lot of fun. The one sequence (if you've seen it) came as close to maudlin as I'd want without actually ruining the movie. Then I watched DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (2010) which I thought was pretty good; the action/fights were well done and it was a true mystery with clues that could be figured out (I guessed the mystery - yay me!).

I always heard the missing part as "where women grown and men plunder", but I don't really trust my own ears. Pretty sure the lyrics are: ♪ Do you come from a land down under / Where women glow and men plunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder / You better run, you better take cover. ♫

Mamoru Samuragochi (who was credited for music on the Dual Shock version of RESIDENT EVIL and OMNIMUSHI: WARLORDS) considered by some to be Japan's Beethoven has announced that he actually had a ghost writer write his music as he was too deaf to do more than suggest themes. The ghost writer came forward (apparently distressed that their music was being used by one of Japan's figure skaters) and said that not only did Samuragochi hire him to compose music, but that Samuragochi can't compose music himself. Oh and that Samuragochi isn't actually deaf. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/arts/music/renowned-japanese-composer-mamoru-samuragochi-admits-fraud.html?_r=1 http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/02/winter-olympics-japan-figure-skating-composer-daisuke-takahashi/

Yeah I thought it was okay. I saw in the theaters. Wasn't a "buy on DVD" but I enjoyed it.

I imagine Misty Knight and Colleen Wing would be more likely to be supporting characters in the Netflix Daredevil/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Luke Cage/The Defenders series.

Ah I mis-read your sentence. And yeah Taskmaster would work in this show.

They've introduced at least 4 comic book characters that I know of (Franklin "Graviton" Hall, Donnie "Blizzard" Gill, SHIELD Agent Victoria Hand and now a version of Deathlok) in the series. I enjoyed this episode, but then I've enjoyed the series general - with some quibbles - so far.

But they can be prodigious reproducers, so I'd imagine that might offset the size issue.

Any music that combines carillon and canons can't be all bad.

The pro-Michael Bay argument, in a nutshell. If you enjoy it for some reason, I'm not sure it matters if others aren't as high quality as you might like. This applies whether its a noisy summer blockbuster or late December emo Oscar bait.

You are going to have to explain this one old boy, because I don't understand how removing the costs of cancer treatment from the equation does nothing to improve the healthcare bottom line. I took it to mean that if 100 people would die of cancer tomorrow and you cured cancer today those 100 people would still die - just not of cancer. The cost to keep them alive shifts from cancer treatment/management to whatever came next in the breakdown of the human system.

No one said we won't like it, but it isn't what was "promised". Wasn't it Kresselack who said "Promised? Promised? I made you no promise...". :D If the game is an isometric, real-time with pause party based fantasy role playing system and those things all make it "a successor to the IE games" you are getting what they "promised", even if its not what you actually wanted or thought you'd get. IMO. Mind you the game will always have two evaluated axises; "is it good" and "is it a good follow-up to BG/PST/IWD (or all three or any combination of the three)". But that's different from the "bait and switch" feeling I've gotten from the arguments so far. YMMV.

Perhaps. Honestly though I'd much rather like/dislike PE for what it is than for what I thought it should/could have been. Too much expectation will raise the bar so high nothing can ever live up to it.

Something that credibly captures the spirit of what went before. Which this doesn't. That doesn't mean it's going to be bad... but it does mean that Obz were being a bit lawyerly with their pitch. Really depends on your what you're looking for. Any game that met the keywords of "High Fantasy", "Isometric", "party based", "role playing game", "real time with pause" could argue that it was a spiritual successor of the IE games and not be incorrect (which is pretty much where I stopped with my expectations, too).

I can actually. The writing doesn't stand out much (as most of us agree), but that goes both ways. Not bad, not very good. Serviceable. In writing terms being unremarkable is in most cases worse than being actively bad. At least actively bad stuff like 2-dog/ Moira/ Jean-Luc Picard Uriel Septim is memorable, if the best you can say about writing is "well, it exists" then it may as well not. Your post was unremarkable. Please stop posting until you write something truly bad or a true pearl of wisdom. Is that how your logic works? As I already said, not all writing has to be memorable or noteworthy. As long as it is serviceable, it is OK. Just like in real life, on bulletin boards, in movies, in newspapers and, yes, even in books. As long as it keeps your interest long enough for you to find the gems, it's OK. I also disagree with your opinion that actively bad is better than serviceable. Actively bad ruins a game for me. Serviceable is just that, serviceable. Sometimes that's all that's needed, as long as there are some good parts too. Its probably worth pointing out that games have the benefit of providing entertainment outside of the writing. To be honest I've never felt positively or negatively about Bethesda's writing and have enjoyed playing the games. They're not perfect but they entertain me. Serviceable writing is problematic IMO only when writing is the only resource of the creation (ie novels, short stories). A movie can have spectacle or a game gameplay that makes the good/bad writing irrelevant if the other aspect is appealing.

I don't think anyone equated science with religion though. I certainly did not.

^the distance between two points being halved being infinite is true. The thing is its irrelevant unless your feet are themselves infinitely small (lim-> inf = 0). There's a limit to how small a distance can be that's relative to size of locomotion as you can only half any distance to a ratio of the size of the feet (or perhaps the motor coordination of the individual to shift their feet micro-distances) in a real-world scenario. In other words if you can't take a .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 foot step, that distance is covered when you do step and the ability to divide infinitely is lost. or something...

Yeah, I'm not crazy about these kind of developments (much like New York's attempt to ban supersized drinks). They just seem wrongheaded.