Amentep
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The verdict of not guilty can be overturned in the case of jury tampering. Otherwise the system has always been to let the guilty to go free rather than let the innocent go to jail (in theory).
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Okay I'm not sure how to take this. Was there a "previous member of the porn industry" requirement before posting here that I didn't know about or do Avelone, Urquhart, Sawyer, et al have a much more varied career than I first thought looking at their public CVs? Do you mean emotional bondings intended by the game (ie narrative bonds intended by the story) or player bonds with their PC or other NPCs because of things that draws them to an interest in PC/NPC that may be as much investment by the player as investment by the creators?
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My understanding - and I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV) - of Florida's law was that it would have been near impossible to convict him of murder under the law. 2nd degree murder requires 2 things in Florida (from what I've read) proof of a depraved mind and action that wasn't premeditated. I don't think they could ever have proven the "depraved mind" - ie that Zimmerman knew his actions would lead to murder. There's three manslaughter charges in Florida, the second is about getting someone else to commit an act that leads to death so its out so doesn't apply; the first requires the death to result in the course of action considered to be unjustified and unexcusable (hard to prove, IMO, as Zimmerman's actions were as a result of him being a neighborhood watch captain). The third involves murder as a result of “culpably negligent” conduct, which might have been provable since Zimmerman had been told to not follow Martin by the police dispatcher so it might be possible to prove his negligent actions escalated a situation such that an unlawful killing took place.
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I enjoyed PACIFIC RIM. It was fun. The battles were good. If I had to quibble I'd say that the story is structured wrong, starting at even one (the opening Gipsy Danger fight) and not where the story starts (with the pilots getting back together after the program is cancelled) thus not allowing the movie to explain the nuances of a lot of the character relationships. Still a lot of fun though. Later I saw RISE OF THE GUARDIANS which I thought, overall, was a lot of fun. Better than I thought it'd have been when it was first released but seeing positive reviews made me finally try it out.
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Weirdly, I think this suggestion actually points out one of the issues people have with romance as an option. At some level there's a tipping point between an interesting PC-NPC relationship and a family simulator. The former could still be a fantasy adventure game, the latter not so much. -
I made some sprites back on a Commodore 64 back in the day for a game me and my brother were going to make that involved ninjas. Good luck with your project!
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Busty elven women in chain-mail bikinis? An wats "WRONG" with that ? Being sexal id suddenly started to be a crime ? Wasn't saying anything was wrong with it, making a joke based on the use of the word "Fantasy"
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Got it off the back of a lorry, no questions asked. I remembered the gist of it from some reading years ago. Although I had to look it up to get the details I couldn't remember. Most likely looking up why the difference in pronounciation existed in high school, I'd think.
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The product doesn't exist when you're seeking funding for it. So you're not a customer you're a backer.
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"Past Master of the Back Door Entry"? I dunno, I didn't see the issue with the name, to be honest. The thing is there's a conceptual difference between pre-order and crowdfunding. IE the entire Kickstarter campaign wasn't just a bunch of pre-orders.
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Er...while its fine and dandy to blame the Americans for duffing up the English language, Aluminum was coined by English chemist Humphrey Davy in his 1812 book CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. Later an anonymous writer, objecting to the "less classical sound" of aluminum (despite the fact that it followed the convention of several other elements) suggested that it be named aluminium in the same year's QUARTERLY REVIEW (not unlike an anonymous message board post; me thinks it was the "Walshingham of 1812" who wrote this letter to QUARTERLY REVIEW suggesting aluminium...) Correspondingly different people, companies and countries went with the different suggestions; the US originally used Aluminium exclusively, but this gave way to aluminum due to Charles Martin Hall using it on handbills and dominating the production in the US and Canada. So the aluminum-aluminium thing can't really be laid at the feet of the Americans, I'm afraid. The IUAPC didn't standardize to aluminimum until 1990 and still see aluminum as an acceptable variant.
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I never paid attention to the relationship stat bonuses in DAO/DA2. This really depends on the NPC; no amount of Bond Charisma is going to win over the truly devout nun. (Note Bond himself started pursuing a woman, found out she was married and backed off in the MOONRAKER novel, so I'm not sure he'd pursue a nun unless she was actually an agent posing as a nun)
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If they're a distributor only, do they defacto count as a publisher? Or am I splitting hairs?
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combining Chuvash language with Turkic languages in one group is political decision, its all about Pan-Turkism. Too many people want destroy Russia, and steal rich lands for yourself. So what you're arguing is that the classification of Chuvash as Turkic is wrong, and thus Bulgar too? Rostere - is their a link about what those lineages on the graph means? This isn't a topic I'm very familiar with.
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How about a system where you have to give a party member a note that says ...to initiate romance? Seriously,t I think the romance being opt-in-able or opt-out-able should be up to the NPC involved. Some people want to pursue, some people want to be pursued, some people are oblivious to hints, some people are frozen by self-doubt, some people say what they mean, some people bottle their feelings. If you're going to go the romance route, IMO, you have to try to understand the NPC involved. It can't just be "The PC Anoints you as the Guy/Girl of the Game!" kind of thing where what the NPC might want is totally sublimated by the desire of the PC. (I also think romances should fail for reasons other than the player choosing to fail it once initiated; the NPC - particularly joinable NPCs should remain a character - romanceable or not). EDIT: I know that some people think the PC should always be rewarded for their choices, but I see this as precisely that. Attempting to romance the celibate nun who'll never break their vows SHOULD lead nowhere, and not a quick roll in the hay. The PC can be rewarded with an appropriate through story of love that will never be.
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Looks good to me too; hope they can come back to it at some point.
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The MERP thing was weird, as I understand it. I can't imagine the Tolkein estate got what they wanted out of that deal.
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Statement: "Bulgars were a Turkic people" Claim: "But Bulgar language is not Turkic. Only one language from Bulgar group is survieved. It is Chuvash language." Refutation proof: "In our scheme, Chuvash (and to a lesser extent Khalaj) deserves special mention because it is quite different from other Turkic languages" Emphasis mine, but doesn't the fact that Chuvash is a Bulgar language and the refutiations classes it as kin to other Turkic Languages" actually prove the opposite of the claim? What am I missing?
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I'd rate SR2 higher too. I loved Fuzz and some of the other minigames that didn't carry over to SR3. Still enjoyed SR3 though.
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Reading the Funny Things thread before bed?
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Never played SR co-op and probably never will. Still fun to me.
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I think this is a blanket mis-characterization of the "anti-romancers" just as wildly off base as it would be to call "pro-romancers" a group of people who get their jollies off romancing sprites because they can't do it in real life. BOTH make no attempt to understand the interests and complaints of the other and only serve to attempt diminish the other side so as to dismiss it. One of the big problems pointed out in previous discussions is that if you choose not to romance an NPC like Aerie then the character has little to say. They become an unresponsive cypher because the vast majority of their character interactions with the PC and other party members is built into the romance. That complaint doesn't sound very much like "I dun liek to reed, I jus wanna hack n slash!" now does it? Other complaints - about resource allocations, appropriate contexts, etc. again have nothing to do with reading desire.
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Aren't there earlier games with father / daughter relationships? (Nier is 3 years old, but would something like Silent Hill count?)
