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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!

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

I think that's 1500 people staring at you AND taking notes...

Am I the only person tired of seeing pierced navels?

When I hit the "post" button, something awesome happens! Oh you mean in the game...carry on.

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).

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.

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.

Stuff. Of. Nightmares.

You underestimate people's ability to find ways to have sex.

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...

They were probably smoking because they'd just had sex on the back seat.

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).

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...)

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.

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.