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You're ignoring the point where I said that you can kill NPC's. So what exactly is the reasoning why you can't kill children? Do you really see a logical leap required here? It doesn't matter; its a video game which has to have a fairly well defined operational parameters. There will always be arbitrary things you can't do because they're outside of the scope of the game. I see no particular reason to treat one arbitrary thing you can't do from a different arbitrary thing you can't do. But then I really don't give a crap about having all the NPC's killable in the first place (unless the game in question is a serial killer simulator, in which case that would be entirely within the scope of the game)

At this point, yes I would support it.

Fictional things are not real, ergo they are fantasy. Genre is also an artifice, typically used to sell things.

Probably immersion purposes. You know, the same reason why you want towns that actually have buildings rather than a few NPC's standing out in the open. But you can't destroy those building either, usually. Or the trees. Or poison the watering hole or invite the dragon for tea. You can't forgo all of that "questing" stuff and become a lint farmer in the Dryer-wood and live a happy life where you never ever fight or go anywhere. At some point the realization that its a game matters, I think. Didn't help Alpha Protocol...

Her hair looks fine to me.

Thinking about this some more, maybe Elves don't have babies, maybe they start as eggs that hatch into an "elf larva" state and squiggle around forests mindless for 80 years, make a chrysalis which they stay in for 20 years at which point the elf baby emerges from the Chrysalis ready for 20 years of education. Would explain the low birthrate and affinity for nature - there has to be some nature for those elf larvae to squiggle about mindlessly in and they'd be very vulnerable to predators, disease, falling off tree limbs, etc in their larva state. Half-elves skip straight to the baby state thanks to their human parent and earn resentment from elves because they didn't spend 80 years squiggling about a forest like they did.

IIRC the flying car is actually nod to Nick Fury's Flying Car from the 1960s Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD book. http://marvel.wikia.com/S.H.I.E.L.D._Flying_Car

Hope they're ants and not termites... Anyhow, speaking of bugs, insects, arachnids, etc... I had to kill a spider (he made a web on one of my comic books. Which you know on the one hand could have kept them safe if there was an invasion of silverfish, but also no one likes to read a webby comic unless its THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in which case its at least ironic). I was sad, but he was too small and fast to capture (read I tried to capture and release but accidentally squashed him). There was a yellow and black "writing" spider building a web outside one of the windows though.

Happy birthday! I

Yeah, you don't want to start the pump then get in and of your car - very easy to build up static electricity and ignite fumes.

Glad to hear your second appointment was an improvement. When I had trouble with my eyes a couple of years ago I had many appointments with my eye doctor. High pressure can create an issue with sight - I think damage to the optic nerve if left unchecked (as I understand it, Glaucoma's blindness is because it causes increased interocular pressure which is why they test eye pressure in the first place for signs of early Glaucoma). It might be a side effect of the iritis, if she didn't seem that alarmed over it.

No... no it definitely HAD to be specifically about how Anomen was extremely likely to wear a dress. I'm pretty sure that was it. He just liked to feel pretty.

^I believe the argument is that if a character had the second portrait, you'd have noticed the disconnect between what s/he has on in the portrait and what his/her avatar looks like in-game.

They have some Serenity/Firefly ships but it looks like they're the larger ships. The Firefly class itself was about a 3rd of the Longbow Patrol Cruiser in size. Interesting to use this to get a sense of scale for ships from other series (or that aren't included). V'Ger was 3 times as large as the Independence Day ship...yikes! The Sovereign/Harbinger reaper types were about 2km so about the size of the Athena Class Command ship from Starship troopers.

There were actually two attempts to make another game. First one was right after the last one, stopped production because lack of interest. Second one was more recent, but it was also cancelled in favor of this new game. I'm surprised with the "lack of interest" in the first attempt, the second attempt was even tried. Not surprising they decided to do something different with the IP. I figure if they ever go back to the story of Kain (which I doubt, honestly) they'll either ignore or change whatever continuity this game creates to suit what they're doing...so still not seeing the issue.

I still laugh about HOUSE OF THE DEAD. That was a so bad its good film. Sadly ALONE IN THE DARK went past "so bad its good" and was just bad...

The same reason kotor fans will never see kotor 3. So...there were no plans for a Legacy of Kain sequel but the fact that its using the setting and not being a Legacy of Kain sequel is...upsetting?

Since its not trying to be Legacy of Kain but just set in the world...what's the issue?

If a virtual reality is indistinguishable from reality then it is reality for as long as the person is in that virtual world. The problem is in creating something that is indistinguishable.

I have no idea why you have no idea why he has no idea why he keeps coming here.

The only woman out of your league is the ones you don't try to talk with. Rejection hurts, but for all you know you're her type. Like in this case. It happens. I've hit on a lesbian before and well it happens. In at least one case I made a friend instead, and that was okay too. So be happy for them! Good on them. If they could do it, you can too. I have friends who've been happily married who overcame that when they decided being together was what they wanted (and eventually they settled the where to live question). Unless we're talking age of consent issues, age shouldn't matter that much if you're emotional and intelligence match up nicely (and if it doesn't work out...well you at least tried). Ask them to set you up then! They may know someone and be able to introduce you. Look here's a recommendation from a old phart...its possible to over think these things. And its also possible to talk yourself out of stuff. Worst regret I had was when I found out a girl I'd liked (but she was out of my league! And I lived at home! And she was dating someone! and we were friends!) confessed she'd always wanted me to ask her out... Confessed a week before her wedding. Oops. Okay, so you know her through business - have you ever met her outside of the work relationship? If no - why not try it? Meet her SO. Maybe they can turn you on to someone like her. Or maybe the SO and she'll break up and you'll be there when it happens. The big question to ask yourself is "What is it that I actually want" and setting forth a plan to achieve that. And if it fails or doesn't work out, keep trying. Which appears to have been flogged as advise and I'm probably the worst person to give advise as I'm practically a hermit these days...

Fictional structures don't exist in real life, therefore they're not part of reality. They're constructed concepts that apply to a creative work. Again life has no plot, there's no foreshadowing, you can't flashforward to events that haven't happened, etc. They aren't both magic. That is a gross oversimplification, since science CANNOT be magic by definition. The words are not the same and they do NOT describe the same thing. Science /= science fiction (and anyhow Clarke's Law 3 for fiction) Yes they are the same in that they're fiction. They're not the same in intent, structure, simulation of reality, themes, plot, audience, etc. That they're fictional makes them a fantasy, of some sort or another. Genre really only exists as a marketing tool.

Enjoyed the first ep of Agents of SHIELD. Very curious as to what's up with Coulson.

Well I think its Brendan Connelly writing the article (the head movie writer for BC) and not that he's always wrong, but I think Rich's contacts in the comic world seem stronger than Brendan's in the movie world. That said, that's the most speculation I've seen on it, thus "supposedly".

Yeah the doctor should have explained what you were going to be seeing symptom wise. Its not like you weren't going to notice!