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I liked the first two, hated the third and never played whatever came after that. I'll have to keep an eye out on Eiyuden Chronicle.

If you start now, you might even be able to finish the novel before the second part of the movie adaption comes out!

Its a strangely named game, but I love the Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics style games, and the Octopath Traveler-like visuals make for an interesting look.

I literally can't remember the plot for Morrowind. I remember jumping around all the time to raise my jumping skill. Oblvion plot was the Daedra portals unlocking which I have no clue how it ended up since I hated the mechanics to close the holes. Skyrim was the Dragonborn stuff and the civil war, both which were ignorable, really. But that was kind of my point, Bethesda's style of games don't really need strong plots; that's not what brings people back to them. So the continuing desire to make something the player cares about be a person (Dad in FO3, son in FO4) when none of the other games seem to go in that direction seems counterintuitive to me.

I'm not sure if they can't, or if they just don't realize that its not all that important to Fallout to have a railroaded thing you have to care about. Even the original ditched the reason you go to the Wasteland if you follow the story long enough to solve it. Part of why FO:NV works IMO is you choose to care or not about who shot you. Eventually you'll end up in New Vegas.

I've never seen TEAM AMERICA so can't really say. Sounds more like a problem with the plot railroading to set-up ME3 (much like the difference in the companions between ME1 and 2). They probably had feedback from fans that Jacob wasn't a big pick for FemShep players and decided to close off the romance arc.

Its funny, other than some information about Quantrill's Raiders, I think most of what I know of Bleeding Kansas I learned after High School.

As a testing professional, I'll add that while proper and timely testing can be very helpful when given with specific goals, a lot of exams aren't given with a targeted purpose and using test scores to the exclusion of other metrics cuts out the fuller picture of the student academically. As a former Learning Support/Developmental Studies/Remedial Learning professional, I should also point out that according to what I've seen the vast majority of college freshman (at some points up to 50% of the incoming class) don't test at the college level in writing, math and reading. In most cases, they're still going to be picked up by the generic freshman courses and do okay.

TNG Second Chances Riker returns to a planet he left and finds himself. Once again, the story is hurt by the McGuffin (getting the data), because the interest in this is the two Rikers. While there is some fun bits, rather than have Data & Worf speculate as to why the Rikers are having trouble getting along, it'd have been nice to actually have the Rikers deal with it (and not in the yelling at each other when forced to work together to get the McGuffin way). EDIT: OH I forgot, I watched the first two episodes of ST: Lower Decks' first season. "Second Contact" - a nice introduction to the basic tone of the series, a bit goofy, but ok. "Envoys" - Beckett kind of annoyed me in this episode. Still overall funny.

I remember one of the history books trying to make it about states rights and economics, and everyone in class was like "but...states rights to keep slaves and the fact that the rich people wouldn't make money without free forced labor that slavery gave them!" Like a lot of insults, its overused to the point of meaninglessness. And mostly seems to exist to shut down conversation.

Was there any context provided for this? I seem to recall this sentiment was strong around, IIRC, the similar conditions at Elmira Prison (24.5% mortality) and Andersonville (28.7% mortality) where only the commandant of Andersonville was tried but that's the only case I recall (unless someone's still hot over Sherman's march to the sea or something). Wut? "I woke upon a cold winters day; the whiteness o'er the ground insulating the world in a blanket of snow..." Yup, totally legit that 'woke' and 'whiteness' aren't "real English words". Also "white fragility" isn't a word, and frankly in the land of free speech, I'm not sure any words should be 'banned'.

? He talked about Bloodlines 2 from the beginning. His conclusion is that Hardsuit Labs, not having had a narrative team before Bloodlines 2, made major dumb moves because they'd never managed a narrative team including finalizing and recording VO too early in the process that set up delays in the development and incurred extra costs.

I've replayed the trilogy a few times (although I never played the updated ME3 endings). I think the things that disappoints me the most about the trilogy is that the series starts as pure heroic space opera and by ME3 the series is "war is hell, there is no good choices, life sucks and then you die" kind of storytelling. Which isn't bad per se, particularly had the series always been that way, but I don't find that to be a satisfactory conclusion to what started as a heroic space opera. I could accept the sort of darker ME2 with the idea it was the "Empire Strikes Back" of Mass Effect, but instead it was like, in movie terms, ME1-3 were Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - Full Metal Jacket. 'Fixing' the end of ME3 is never going to fix that tonal problem with the series.

I guess for Halloween, everyone is going as Bruce...

In Lee's case, it was a squib load in the barrel used for a close-up to make it look like the gun was loaded with real bullets. It wasn't cleared from the barrel when the prop or arms master loaded blanks into the gun, as I recall. In this case, it was the Director (Joel Souza) and the Cinematographer (Halyna Hutchins) who were shot. Souza was wounded and Hutchins was killed. This makes me speculate that they were probably filming a scene where Baldwin was supposed to fire multiple times at the camera for a POV shot. Could have been too short of a range, or could have been the wrong gun used, or an improperly loaded one. I'm sure the investigation will take some time.

I didn't say worst, just the densest prose. You could cut it with a metaphorical knife. I remember my college English 101 professor claiming that when we wrote papers for class, he'd sit down and ty to grade our papers fairly. Then any he couldn't read he gave to his neighbor's kid to read and grade, and after that he'd take any essays the neighbor's kid couldn't read and sit down with a bottle of wine to read and grade them. I never had to read student prose, but I did at one point have to record professors ratings for some essays for a few years (it was a standardized essay prompt that was graded by three readers; the faculty would convene in a room to read and grade them and I kept track of which were graded and which needed another reader) and while I wasn't a grader, I did see some of the essays that were written. And of course, read all the creative writings done in the creative writing classes I took as we all had to critique them. Oh yeah, ObTV: The US adaption of the UK Ghosts series is kind of a cute fun comedy.

Never read him either - I'm not super familiar with him either, since I haven't really delved into military history (assuming a bit that we're talking about Carl von Clausewitz), I've heard in passing of Vom Krieg - is that's what you read?

Never tried to read any of his works. The densest prose I've read and liked was from Herman Melville, so... Someday I'm going to come back to Dune and try to read it again, but right now my reading time is so limited so it'll have to keep (ditto anymore Melville).

Dune's one of the few books I've started and never been able to finish. I think I just don't connect with Herbert's prose, ultimately, but I just couldn't get into it, any of the times I've tried.

Did they do a referendum before they put it up? And if not, why do they need one to take it down?

By that logic, no decision for government should be made without a referendum. The point of governmental committees is that not everything needs to be a referendum. IF the people are upset about the decision of the committee, they can make their voices heard in the polls by electing officials who would convene a new PDC who would, theoretically, review the decision.