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I enjoyed the Black Cauldron when I saw it many years ago at the theater when it came out. I remember being upset seeing the production art for it after THE FOX AND THE HOUND came out and thinking it'd never be done (Disney had, of course, announced that they were leaving animation behind. It was around this time that they started the Disney "PG Initiative" that gave us Watcher in the Woods and The Black Hole) I like all forms of animation; I'd hate to think of Disney foregoing traditional animation entirely (just as I'd hate to think that no one would do stop motion animation like Henry Selick as well)

Disney said that both Lilo and Stitch and Princess and the frog were their last hand drawn animations They shut down their animation studio after THE FOX AND THE HOUND, with preproduction on the Black Cauldron already underway.

I hate myself already.

Its not a 50/50 chance at that point? Nope. The way its set up each door has a 1/3 chance to have a car. When the player picks a door their door has a 1/3 chance of having the car, as do the other two. So the player's door has a 1/3 chance to have the car, while the remaining doors have 2/3. When Monty Hall reveals the door with the goat amid the other two, it means that the 2/3 chance the other two have are now with the door that didn't have a goat and that the player didn't pick. So the player will win a car by switching 2/3 of the time, compared to the 1/3 if he stays.

Unambiguous Monty Hall Problem: "Suppose you're on a game show and you're given the choice of three doors [and will win what is behind the chosen door]. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats [unwanted booby prizes]. The car and the goats were placed randomly behind the doors before the show. The rules of the game show are as follows: After you have chosen a door, the door remains closed for the time being. The game show host, Monty Hall, who knows what is behind the doors, now has to open one of the two remaining doors, and the door he opens must have a goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses one [uniformly] at random. After Monty Hall opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to decide whether you want to stay with your first choice or to switch to the last remaining door. Imagine that you chose Door 1 and the host opens Door 3, which has a goat. He then asks you "Do you want to switch to Door Number 2?" Is it to your advantage to change your choice?" The answer is "yes, it is to your advantage to change your choice"

To be fair, a lot of mathematicians and statisticians are utterly clueless when it comes to the Monty Hall problem/fallacy. It's awesome. Yes, yes it is awesome. That doesn't help that reading through this thread reminded me of that long lost, grand time.

It can't really be argued IMO that he wouldn't have plead guilty if he'd known what sentence he'd have gotten because we actually don't know what sentence he'd have gotten, since he never got his final sentence. He fled the country rather than face that. Just because the judge mentioned that something was possible doesn't mean that it would have actually happened (and arguably he'd have had ground to appeal, depending on what had been brokered in the deal).

There's been a lot said about the mother and Polanski; according to the girls testimony though Polanski asked her and her mom if it was okay for Polanski to use her as a model for Polanski's photography; later they arranged a time for him to do so where the incident in question happened. "Cheating into confessing"? He plea bargained to a lesser charge. Whether he did this simply to avoid jail time as he claims, there's no indication that his plea was coerced; the problem from Polanski's perspective has always been the sentencing (this was in fact what the Swiss court wanted to investigate and when they didn't get records from the US Justice Dept they let him go; Polanski claims that his original sentence was to 90 days psychiatric evaluation; he didn't serve all of it at which point the judge suggested that having him serve the rest of the time in jail and an agreement that Polanski would leave the country as opposed to transferring the evaluation time to time served on his sentence along with some probation time. Instead of attending the final sentencing, Polanski fled the country).

What would they rather had? More bobbleheads? Bubblegum cards? Tragic the Garnering decks? Stuffed marsupials?

The victim was 13 and given champagne and quaaludes prior to Polanski's sexual activities; I'm personally not comfortable not calling that rape.

the smurfs predate blue meanies by about a decade... possibly the young beatles were disturbed by the evil little belgian faeries... kinda likes how some kids is 'fraid o' clowns? *shrug* never made the connection. There's a lot of conflicting information about the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine - including some indication that they were originally not intended to be just blue. But I think their design was down to Heinz Edleman (who would have been in his last year at the D

Oh god, I'm having flashbacks to trying to explain the "Monty Hall problem" back on BIS...

No problem, glad to help.

Never read it, but the internet tells me it was a guy having a relationship since they were young with his twin sister. This continued even after the sister married (and all the kids during the marriage were actually fathered by her brother, she terminated the one from her husband)

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*cough* A song of ice and fire *cough* Yeah, that was actually referenced in the Bio thread.

It reminds me a bit when a movie trailer hits the screens (or net) and people complain about the CGI while not bothering to realize that the CGI in movies is usually finished weeks (if not days) before the release and whatever is in the trailer - which is compiled months beforehand - is (baring a total lack of funding) not what is going to be in the final product. They are early screenshots. I'd be a lot more concerned (not really, but its the best word I can come up with) if those were new screenshots and it was being released today.

He could via the mouse and cut & paste...

I love playing games over, but I also like my fair share of games that I doubt I'll ever finish again (heck, I only ever beat Baldur's Gate once). Worth - for me at least - is an upfront thing, ie does it interest me enough to pay for and play it at all. Re-playability doesn't typically factor into it for me.

Grace's reaction was pretty amusing too.

Its weird, but so far I've always adapted to the changing game market. I've always found something I've liked. Maybe there have been years where I only bought 1 or 2 games, but there's always been something. Not sure how I'd feel if it got to the point where I didn't (but them maybe my wallet would be happy...).

Or just looks stylized and clawy.

I hate this argument. Why on earth are you comparing games to movies? Hey, try it with a book! A book costs like $20 and it lasts for up to 100+ hours. Gee, suddenly the deal isn't looking so good, is it? It's so pointless to try to compare different media this way. Is 10 hours of entertainment worth $50 for you? That's the only question you need to answer. My point was that the market supports specific price points because there is some kind of value there as determined by the market (what the company and customer can afford from their respective perspectives). And that value for the customer is what they're willing to pay for it as you say. However, the price/value for the company might be viewed very differently. I'd think (and perhaps be wrong, I admit) that the companies would look at pricing in a way that compares it to movies, which is why I brought the comparison up (in that I don't think gaming companies will go to a pricing system that places their product as more expensive per time invested by the customer than movies or DVDs and that they probably see their competitors in those arenas and not in books, comic books, radio, etc.). Or something. Wasn't trying to start an argument but look at the customer-company business relationship; perhaps I could have been clearer?

Did it had great one liners like the original? Somehow I don't think so. The delivery of lines by Topher Grace and Walter Goggins was pretty fantastic.

That price range seems to be what price most people will accept from a game. And honestly at $50 game with 20 hours of gameplay is a better investment cost vs entertainment time compared to most other entertainments (heck in most places $50 for 10 hours is still better than movies and I say this as someone who loves going to the movies) from a purely practical point of view (the value for the individual will, of course, vary).