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  1. Amentep
    The leftover pizza I was going to eat had went south, so instead I made myself a quesadilla.
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    The whole "regurgitating" argument is rooted in the idea that remaking a FL film is somehow unoriginal. Which is also - arguably - true of any adaption from any other media including filmic ones. IMO, it whether something is a remake, an adaption, a retread or a wholely new work, there are a lot more important things to consider when regarding the merit/lack of merit when viewing the film than whether it started out as another film (or book or tv show or...) Since in these cases Hollywood is targeting foreign successes for their remakes and the fact that Americans live in a cultural bubble so they are unaware of them. I think regurgitating is fitting, even though I use the term plagiarism myself. Like putting Martin Scorsese's name on the headline of a foreign film that he had nothing to do with just because it can be better marketed to American audiences. Its not plagiarism if they arranged for the adaption legally anymore so than "The Lord of the Rings: The Desolation of Smaug" is plagiarism; regurgitating IMO still doesn't fit. What I watched: The Croods. It was funny but a bit heavy handed in the "message" dept.
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    BANANA? You are wrong and must be stopped. Banana is delicious on a pizza, you must try it I would rather swear allegiance to the Champs Elysee and then urinate on the Queen. So not totally out of the question then?
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    Well it was funny because they weren't after them (but there are birds of prey in the area so big bird shadow = run for cover). The vultures just sat in the road eating road kill.
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    Still going on: Indf/RTwP/TB 684/6331/6582 I hear the TB fans are voting via an orderly queue but its taking a lot of time to get through; on the other side, some joker yelled out "SPACE BAR" around the RTwP fans and now they're stuck waiting for someone to yell it again.
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    When they did some expansion during boom times, they upended a vulture rookery. They moved to an area behind my house for awhile (about 3 years), which was fun as they're huge birds and I admit it was funny seeing all the small animals run away when they saw their shadow flying across the yard.
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    My point is that if the perception is - and it most definitely is - that PST's combat sucked, its not that surprising that people would vote against doing what PST did. The pros/cons of TB or RTwP isn't going to factor into it, much less better versions of one or the other (like BG2). The "experience" (and important word left out of my previous post) were vastly different for the end user. Or its just the die-hards and there usual TB fandom turning out...dunno. As I said, I don't really care one way or the other if the game is good. I like both styles.
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    Actually, what they're saying is they "want Heroes of Might and Magic-style combat rather than Planescape: Torment combat". Which, as I recall, is the one thing almost universally derided by even the most ardent of PST fans. PST combat wasn't the same as the BGs or the IWDs.
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    I really don't care which it is, so long as its a game I enjoy. So I'm not voting.
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    *sigh* this just ain't the Falcon's season.
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    This is exactly what happened to my first party in BG1. I recall this like it was yesterday! :D Ah, the fond memories of being torn to pieces by serrated fangs the length of scythe-heads... I actually encountered my first ankheg coming out of those kobold-infested mines on the other side. The result was the same though. Yeah I got ankheged myself just trying to wander around in the first game. I also those spiders near High Hedge got me a whole lot.
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    Never even heard of it before today.
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    The whole "regurgitating" argument is rooted in the idea that remaking a FL film is somehow unoriginal. Which is also - arguably - true of any adaption from any other media including filmic ones. IMO, it whether something is a remake, an adaption, a retread or a wholely new work, there are a lot more important things to consider when regarding the merit/lack of merit when viewing the film than whether it started out as another film (or book or tv show or...)
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    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22285033/mansion-lord-a-murder-mystery-rpg-business-sim I dunno if it'll be any good (they say they're industry vets but don't list what games they worked on before coming together for this company) but the idea is pretty darn intriguing.
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    The Park Chan-wook film was based on a Japanese manga series, so you could argue that film was itself regurgitating.
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    The sex trafficking thing was fairly low key (ie they never really showed what the bots did, for example), the skin farming and abductions and murders par for the course for a police procedural show. Maybe its just that I never figured I'd hear people talking about "ball draining" on network TV. Like I said, its a good show, but I was just a but surprised at that.
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    You can't make a point if you don't have a point, I think...
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    I confess I was a bit shocked about the "ball talk" in an 8:00 pm network program. 9:00 wouldn't have seemed weird, but 8:00 did. I guess I'm officially a fogy. That said the show reminded me of a sci-fi take on the modern CSI/crime procedural, to be honest. And in that sense I enjoyed it a good deal. Maybe this will be the "Cop partnered with a android" show that will actually last more than one season (following Holmes and Yo-Yo, Future Cop, and Mann and Machine)
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    The new Ms. Marvel is actually not the first Muslim heroine in Marvel comics. You have Sooraya "Dust" Qadir in the X-Men books (debuted in 2002) and Dr. Faiza "Excalibur" Hussain in Captain Britain and MI:13 (debuted in 2008) that I know of. Might be accurate to say she's the first Muslim heroine to headline her own comic, though. And despite Oby's pic, she's not fighting crime in a Burqa (or even an abaya with niqāb like Dust does).
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    That's the traditional argument. But is it actually what's going on? I don't think so. These people are quite capable of understanding the correct sentence constructions. They do not consistently use double-negatives. I suspect that the phrase itself functions as a single signal unit, like a word would. Modern British is littered with common use phrases, such as "to be fair" or "at the end of the day" or "**** **** **** biscuits". I also suspect that it is deliberately incorrect. By rejecting proper grammar one stands apart from mainstream acceptance. But one also by default joins another group of incorrect grammar users. I don't think its deliberately incorrect so much that its use has been consistent and wide spread enough that its meaning has been accepted into conversational speaking. I don't think it'd work in an academic setting, but in conversation most people understand the intent of the phrase taken as a whole. I'd argue its similar to "I could care less" being understood, conversationally, to mean "I couldn't care less", ie "I don't care". I don't think it has anything to do with the people using it now being "uneducated" - whether that's how the phrase originates or not. I think its common now through use, not educational levels, and again represents the growing, changing nature of conversational English.
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    Not really sure where to put this, however this is the closest place I can think of - Flying Frog Productions (Last Night on Earth, Invasion from Outer Space, A Touch of Evil) is kickstartering a new game - I've liked some of the other FFP games, and this seems like it could be the physical game equivilent of an "Icewind Dale" type dungeon adventure. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1034852783/shadows-of-brimstone Currently they've more than met their goal and have 5 days remaining to try and hit some more stretch goals, if anyone is interested.
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    Its their money to waste but...it makes no sense to me. Is there a point?
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    The news announcer when I was driving home yesterday said "Toronto's city council has voted to strip Rob Ford today." *pause* "That is they voted to strip him of his mayoral powers today..."
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    Thinking about Snowblind (who did Champions of Norrath) also did Lord of the Rings: War in the North (360 - but multiplatform). Which I didn't like as much as the Norrath games, but I did think was kind of fun and played a couple of times. Which reminds me that I quite liked the co-op fantasy title that InXile put out at around the same time - Hunted: The Demon's Forge (360/PS3)
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    I wouldn't wish Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel on my worst enemies. As a fan of hack and slash (since its not fantasy perhaps that should be "shoot and...shoot some more"?) games, I can say that its one of the few that I actively disliked. I was, however, a fan of Hunter: The Reckoning (XBOX), Hunter: The Reckoning: Wayward (PS2) and Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer (XBOX). I seem to recall liking the original more than the other two and the XBOX games slightly better than the PS2. And I loved Champions of Norrath, but again very hack/slash and not as strong on story (although it is there) as some games. They're probably more like Diablo II in terms of story focus, I guess. I'm not a fan of the IE games in multiplayer - know some love it but I didn't.
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