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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.

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.

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...

Point proven, I think.

Well that's good news, last I heard there was only talk of multiplayer.

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

Hope things go to plan this time for you and your wife.

I'm here for the money. I'm sorely disappointed.

...and its this kind of thing that makes me only ever want to play solo games or at best only with people I know. Which makes me kinda sad that Deep Down was being touted as an MP game...looks good but I won't play it without a single player component.

Well I'm not an expert. New York seems to use sheriff's differently than we do here, so... the big take-away is that the heroes have trouble from Jones' character and he has some sort of authority over Beharie's character.

Its just you. If I'd liked Demon Souls or Dark Souls (and I'm not saying their bad games, they just weren't for me; the quality was evidenced in what I played) I might be excited for this. But it looks like its going to give the people who liked those titles more of what they liked, so that's good.

Well its kind of unclear how far away the other cop actually was. But the other cop The role of Sheriff I'm a little unclear on too. From what I understand they are either an officer of the courts, or the chief of police, while here he was like a beat cop with an office. I think they're treating him like an "old west" sheriff, who was actively involved in the policing of the town. In reality I think the Westchester County Public Safety Department is led by a Sherrif but Sleepy Hollow itself has a Chief of Police as its public safety head. I'm a bit unclear over the delegation of power too - Orlando Jones is playing a police captain, but he seems to have authority over the Sheriff, so I'm thinking that Jones is the Captain of the Westchester County Police (seat in White Plains, not far from Sleepy Hollow about 15 minutes) and that the Sheriff is specific to the town of Sleepy Hollow and falls, at some level, under the direction of Westchester County public safety (thus giving Jones the ability to pull rank on Beharie).