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Right now its showing is good on TV By the Numbers Renew/Cancel index and they think renewal. BubbleWatch on the same site (which uses the same number but tries to predict the ratings for a full season) puts it in the bubble but with only four episodes and one on a different night it may be difficult to predict at this point.

Maybe it'll be as good as the original Japanese Manga that the Korean film was based on...?

Looking forward to the Persona 5 for sure. Also new news on the fighter sequel. And I really need a 3DS...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marktaormino/adandd-1e-module-the-hanging-coffins-of-the-vampir Old 1E style, OGL based retro Dungeon Module, "The Hanging Coffins of the Vampire Queen".

They're actually filming a lot of the actors performances now in the booth - particularly for facial expressions - to then be viewed by animators to capture the essence of those actions/reactions. So yeah a very different world now.

I totally agree with you. I remember getting into an argument in the 80s with some fellow anime fans about US voice actors vs Japanese voice actors. They claimed that Japanese voice actors were clearly superior. I pointed out since neither of them knew Japanese they really couldn't comment on the quality of the acting so much as the quality of their vocal intonations, and what they were really responding to were voices that sounded cool because - without an understanding of what they're actually saying and contextually how that should be delivered they couldn't really understand the quality of the acting. One instance was the Rin Taro directed Harmageddon which the main villain has an awesome sounding voice...but without understanding Japanese you really couldn't understand if the performance actually fit what was needed. Needless to say they disagreed rather vociferously claiming that when they had subtitles they knew what the story was and what was supposed to be said (which doesn't explain how they praised performances in the unsubtitled films they got their hands on - this being the 80s when most anime didn't make it to the US) but also neatly sidesteps the fact that the subtitles are an approximation of how things are said and you still lose the context provided by nuance in the original language. All of this to say, I usually look at stuff from other cultures differently from stuff in my own; I think in particular a lot of films from China, Japan, and Korea are very reflective of standards of acting rooted in vastly different forms of theater than either US or UK productions and so you either adjust to the expectations or get lost, I think.

The leftover pizza I was going to eat had went south, so instead I made myself a quesadilla.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I really don't care which it is, so long as its a game I enjoy. So I'm not voting.

*sigh* this just ain't the Falcon's season.

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.

Never even heard of it before today.

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...)

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.

The Park Chan-wook film was based on a Japanese manga series, so you could argue that film was itself regurgitating.

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.

You can't make a point if you don't have a point, I think...

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)

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).