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PUPPETMASTER - the Full Moon film about killer puppets. Fun film, great catchy opening - you can see why they ended up making 9 films - but the sex psychics seem to have wandered in from a porno film. A really bad one at that, and they take center stage for far too long. And yet I did think the film overall "worked" for a low-budget, direct to video 80s film. APOLLO 18 - found footage horror film; the idea of using a secret moon landing makes the "found footage" work - NASA is filming the mission and all the cameras for a moon walk make sense. And there a lot of nice creepy touches up until about halfway through when the monster is more or less revealed. And then the film devolves a good bit; the motivations of the creatures doesn't match up with what they're doing and the two astronauts don't actually act very intelligently. Lot of potential but not as much payoff. IRON MAN 3 - I still enjoyed the film. The dodge on the Mandarin works well, Pierce is a good villain and I think the thing holds together well with the other two making a complete sort of statement about Stark as a character. AGENT CARTER - the Marvel One-Shot Short, Hayley Atwell returns from Captain America. Its one year later and she's nominally a field agent but chained to her desk by a superior. Until working alone at night, she gets a call for a mission that gives her an opportunit...fun film, probably one of the better Marvel shorts if you liked Carter from the Cap film. Domnick Cooper shows up again as Howard Stark too (and an even funnier cameo by Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan).

They probably only really need 4-5 to cut syndication deals...

Yeah its not an American Horror Story, I'm enjoying Sleepy Hollow but I'll be pleasantly surprised if it makes it past season 1 So far Sleepy Hollow has had good ratings - only being beaten by THE VOICE's second hour (putting it past ABC's Dancing with the Stars, CBS's 9:00 comedies or whatever the CW is showing). Unless it plummets in the next few months, I'd think its looking good for renewal.

I waited 30 minutes in the rain for a bus in a covered bus stop. Unfortunately there was a puddle formed right in front of the bus stop so that every car splashed a wall of water into the bus stop. Luckily I had my umbrella pointed towards the street and only got partially soaked. I also was standing on the seat and trying to protect the poor woman with me who had no umbrellas. Moral of the Story: I don't miss public transportation where I live.

RE:SHIELD and Coulson

Yeah I enjoyed SHIELD. Glad they got the team building out of the way.

Read this initially as "Ate a sandwich nude..."

My hour meeting that I suspected would last two hours lasted three hours and a half. The meeting with the french speaking delegation went well other than the fact that the headphones for interpreting didn't work, so we just all strained to hear what our poor interpreters were saying.

I think the male equivilent to the "overnight case" women have. Lol, seriously its a bag that you can throw a few things into for a short trip. Its a device for opening corked bottles easily Its a combination tool. The one pictured - the Skeletool - has a stainless steel combo blade, pliers, bit driver, removable pocket clip and carabiner/bottle opener A fancy coffee pot. I'm never going to be a man, apparently, because I find coffee a vile drink.

I really hated BG's "Get too evil donate to a church, get too good whack a villager" method of things.

Since I always shot Vulpes at Nipton(?), I always had the Legion as a hated faction. Never played a game to side with the Legion, so I never saw that quest. Kinda glad I didn't.

Well I suppose there's something to the simulationist aspects; I know I appreciated being able to kill Vulpes after he explained why he killed everyone in the town with the lottery in FONV and pretty much said "if you don't like it, kill me". One of the rare instances I ever intentionally started a fight with a non-hostile NPC in a game, but very fitting, though I can't say the game would have not worked for me if I didn't have that choice (particularly if he didn't have the line paraphrased above). Yeah, sadly, it is. Fortunately no one has sunk quite that low on these forums. ... ... Yet. Yeah, I've seen all those comments made on message boards - enough times and with enough conviction to believe the people saying it were serious.

I prefer to be early for everything as well. I'm not crazy on lateness.

I enjoyed the film a lot - I thought William Fichtner was all kinds of awesome. Dare I ask what point she waked out during...?

Some sort of...parody of Kekko Kamen, I'm taking it?

Watched Sleepy Hollow episode 3. Definitely stronger in the "monster of the week" elements of the show, but with more backstory for Abby and her sister. Next week looks like it'll be playing up the "National Treasure" type Americana conspiracy.

I've never had to have a suit since I was a little kid. I've never not gotten a job if I got an interview (so far, knock on wood) going in with khakis, shirt and tie. Getting the interview was a struggle sometimes (in fact I went about 7 years working PT jobs because I couldn't get a FT job interview).

I'm not saying it isn't a concern, what I am saying is that there has to be an acceptance of some arbitrariness at the end of the day and that we shouldn't assume that one arbitrary element is inherently better/worse than others without considering the context of the greater game design. Based on the discussion I've had with a lot of people (obviously not everyone so perhaps my perspective is skewed). From my perspective, the argument seems to come from roughly two groups, those who feel that the inability to not have friendly fire is unrealistic and believe that any hostile/non-hostile/friendly target should be considered, for tactical purposes, when throwing around area effect attacks or line of sight attacks. And then there are the other group, who seem to show up and say, more or less, "OMG, I got to chunkify the brats! This game is 1337! Its sooooo realistic that I can hack and maim all the kids!". This group is, IMO, not that dissimilar to the group that thinks "romance" in games means you should be able to have sex with your sister (like some on the Bio boards when Bethany was announced in DA2) or that slave ownership should be in the game so their PC can own slaves, rape them and kill their inevitable offspring. Its the latter group that I feel see these elements as "edgy" thus desirable in all games.

Ah, you're using damages different from how I initially took it. Yes they are liable for restitution of what you paid (if you can track the entity down and it has assets). I imagine you'd be hard pressed to prove them liable for anything beyond that though (which is why I think Kickstarter added the refund caveat to their contracts).

The problem - IMO - with this argument is that it comes back to the arbitraryness of ANY kind of "well this can't happen" in the game. Take BG2, for example, you can stretch an argument that your main villain didn't kill you initially because he wanted to study you. There's no reason why he shouldn't have killed you (there were other Bhaalspawn and you were a problem) when you get captured in Spellhold. Other than that would suck as a game ending. A REAL sadistic monster would put your hand in a vice crushing it, rape your friends, etc. etc. But I don't really want to play a vice crushing minigame and can't imagine playing my PC being raped and left for dead because I sided with doffy old King Niceguy whose army got obliterated by the REAL sadistic monster would ever be "fun". YMMV, of course.

Yes, I believe it was to address some "take the money and run" scenarios still being played out.

AFAIK, that one is creator owned, not DC owned.

They're not AFAIK liable for damages. As I understand it by contract, they either have to give you what is promised in your tier or refund your money. (That doesn't mean one couldn't sue, but damages aren't inherent in the Kickstarter contract). What isn't promised is that the product will be made (they could just refund all the money), the product will be made in a timely fashion (I think some early kickstarter "successes" still aren't finished) or that it'll be good.

I only ask because my eye issues were acting up over the weekend and I couldn't figure out why I felt so sleepy (right after falling asleep) only to realize that my eye drying out made me think I was sleepy (I was wide awake after getting my eye drops in). But it could be anything - not a doctor.

Are your eyes dry? Do you look at a computer a lot? Could it be Computer vision syndrome?