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    Not an expert like an eye doctor, but my understanding is that the pupil being distorted rather than round is common in Uveitis aka Iritis. The inflamation is in the middle layer of the eye where the iris is. Since the pupil is the hole in the iris, it makes sense to me - the layman - that the pupil might end up distorted if that tissue layer is inflamed. Edit: checked a few medical sites and they seem to indicate a small or distorted pupil as being a symptom of iritis.
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    Supposedly the script is based on the novel Warcraft: The Last Guardian Source? Because I hadn't heard that and that book is awful. Again I said "supposedly" as plot descriptions from this article - http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/31/scoop-everything-we-know-about-duncan-jones-warcraft-film/ - has led people to think the story if based on the book. Knowing next to nothing about Warcraft books or games, I can only report the speculation
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    I haven't seen Sofaking since right before the original Mistress' Lair collapsed (he was playing in my ST RPG, but I think he was often AFK even then).
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    Supposedly the script is based on the novel Warcraft: The Last Guardian It was a labor of love for Twohey and Diesel. They also had to radically alter their plans since Universal wasn't keen to move forward with the second CHRONICLES film which meant a substantially reduced budget.
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    Second episode of SLEEPY HOLLOW was about the sasme amounts of goofy and fun as the first. Definitely did some things I didn't expect. But also a lot of "wait a minute..." moments too.
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    I think that's 1500 people staring at you AND taking notes...
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    Am I the only person tired of seeing pierced navels?
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    When I hit the "post" button, something awesome happens! Oh you mean in the game...carry on.
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    Well...that's a good question. The HP titles were licensed by WB to EA as WB has the rights to exploit the properties outside of books (with Rowling's ok). So they probably licensed to EA for the previous movie series...but with that done I guess the question is whether the license with EA was done as well (some of the side projects, like Lego HP was put out by WB).
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    Uwe Boll tried to buy the rights and were turned down years ago. After some time in development, they've got Duncan Jones ("Moon", "Source Code") doing it. So I actually think it might work out well based on those two movies.
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    Having read the review, it seems to me the biggest problem the reviewer has with the games' "misogyny" isn't that it exists in the game but that she didn't feel enough had been done to either make it real and own the reality of modern gender perception within the context of the game or to push it entirely into satire so that it made a statement about modern gender perception. Instead it existed in a nebulous realm of not managing to be a satire on modern gender perceptions but being too out there to be a reflection (and thus commentary) or real life gender perceptions.
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    Stuff. Of. Nightmares.
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    You underestimate people's ability to find ways to have sex.
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    Well..and Harry Potter. Which is getting a new movie, based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Newt Scamander's adventures in compiling the information in the book. The movie, written by JK Rowling, is supposed to start ~1918 IIRC, so not that far from Victorian era...
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    They were probably smoking because they'd just had sex on the back seat.
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    but I thought she was tricked into having that photo taken at that spot, no? Not too smart of her to sit on the gun to begin wtih. Eh...she's said a lot of contradictory things about the incident. At the time, she also was on the radio denouncing the US leaders as war criminals, IIRC, so the likelihood that she was completely manipulated doesn't ring true to me (I'd say I could believe if the statement made by the photo had implications she didn't necessarily intend, but she was already there to be against the war).
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    You can have more than two piercings in your ears. Dibs on the magical nose stud. There's always going to be an arbitrary limit to this, IMO. (personally I'd be okay with ditching magical jewelry completely...)
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    Hmmm... interesting, but you haven't said anything about why you like fiction, and I'd argue that many people's reasons for liking fiction would fall under the poll options. I like fiction because I like stories; there's no one answer beyond that. I might like the wish fulfillment aspect of one story and the simulationist nature of another. There is a point in which the consumer meets the work and either accepts the work on the terms it offers or expects certain things and relates to the work on how their expectations are met. If I find an idea intriguing I want to be open to experience what the work offers as opposed to what I think it will/should offer. Which is part of why stories that embrace fantasy (rather than being beholden to reality) have vast potential to be anything (novelty) and to provide complex problems that can't be totally addressed by real world experience (challenging). So its not one thing, its all things in varying proportions.
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    Right "believable" but not real. Its all fantasy with degrees of believability; as X approaches infinity, fiction gets closer to reality but it never becomes real (or it all becomes real if you're a believer in the thoughts = existence frame of reference). Sure things happen, but fictional structures aren't real. There's degrees of believability and the best writers writing something set in the "right now" need to do research so that their fictional constructs hold up under the weight of expectations in how the world is "right now". But its still not "real" its a simulation of reality within a fictional construct. Unless you see both as magic. Which they are, because they're both fictional and thus fantasy. Even the best science fiction is ultimately a "what might be" fantasy that is grounded in our current understandings of science and technology.
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    Using all the words on that sheet of paper, I deduce the title to be: The Darkness of Eternity: the Deadly Dyrwood Shadows come over the Reload Project of Reincarnating an Urquhart Joint from the Form_Animat Chronicles, Volume 1!! Its possible some of the words on that paper might not apply to the title...
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    Point proven, I think.
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    Well that's good news, last I heard there was only talk of multiplayer.
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    We'll we're glad you joined anyway. I read that as misery first, was confused by your post as a result. If I wanted misery, I'd start a romance or multiplayer thread on the Project: Eternity Boards... Indiana Sargy stars in RAIDERS OF THE LOST THREAD
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    Hope things go to plan this time for you and your wife.
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    I'm here for the money. I'm sorely disappointed.
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