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I think this is actually one of the purposes of embassies. Find the nearest Italian consulate in your country and reach out to ask them for support.

TC posts like someone who doesn't know Starship Troopers is satire.

Sunburst posted...

Oh I didn't realize it was 17 years. That probably is the setting.

Yea. It's more or less the best time to do a "hunt for gollum" movie while also showing the details of an event that canonically happened and is an excuse for cameos from the fellowship cast before they headed to Rivendell.

Sunburst posted...

How much time passed during that time skip? Could the film be a prequel taking place when Gollum first started living in the caves?

The movies don't do a good job of showing it but when Gandalf goes off to do research he's gone for 17 years. In that time Mordor hunted down Gollum, tortured him, learned of the shire, and sent the ring wraiths from the north to hunt him down.

I like modern magneto more. It's funny, but that sort of attitude is better on someone like apocalypse.

darkace77450 posted...

Forced? They had no choice but to release a trio of films?

It's fair to point out that it didn't have to be a trilogy, but that doesn't negate the fact that they had a plan in place and were told that a third of the story they had planned could no longer be used. Whether you want to blame that on the studio, the producers, the Tolkien estate, or Peter Jackson is going to depend on information that none of us have.

AceMos posted...

here is the thing there where actual plans in place to bring high speed trnas portation to cali he ruined it

the hyperloop is a scientific impossibility

putting chips in your brain to connect to technology is not actually possible

as our brains ARE NOT COMPUTERS

Dude, there are already companies that have given vision to blind people with stuff like this. All this chip does is move EEG technology and how it's used to under the skin in the same way a pacemaker no longer has to be worn outside the body. You're either thinking too narrowly or just fundamentally don't understand how brain patterns get used today to convert signals to something computer-readable if you're stuck on "brains can't talk to computers" as an issue.

EDIT: That's not to say everything is possible. Just that you're way behind on the technology and its medical uses if you're looking at Elon's atrocity and going "well here we go, this entire branch of research is a dead end."

Murphiroth posted...

Quiet, Elon simp.

Don't confuse a good idea with how Elon chooses to do it. Elon also pushed for high speed transit in California, and while his hyperloop ended up being a giant joke, that doesn't mean Cali doesn't need more high speed rails.

This reminds me of the guy who put something like 100 hours into WoW, cataloguing his journey as a new player, only to reveal when he had done everything that his username was an anagram for "wow sucks dick" and that was his review after all the time he put into it.

EDIT: It was UberDanger on youtube playing WoW Classic. His username was "Swockwickdus"

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

I can see that, and I'd even call them straight up bad, but Id still say theyre totally worth a watch.

I'm always willing to give The Hobbit trilogy a little bit of a pass because as I understand it the original plan was for the first two movies to be an adaptation of the book and the third movie would be a collection of all the material bridging the Hobbit and The LotR trilogy brought together into an all-new story, but relatively late in the process the Tolkien estate rescinded the rights to tell those stories and the studio was forced to turn a two movie plot into a three movie plot.

So my real problem with the Hobbit isn't so much the story as it is the excessive use of CG after the original trilogy did such a wonderful job with practical effects.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Fair, my bad.

First from Dunkey's publishing company, I should have said it like that.

Hey, no problem. I still think it's worth the effort to highlight these indie titles like you're doing.

VFalcone posted...

Yes. "People should just relax" is they way to go about it. If this guy who regained access is as bad as everyone says he is, he'll re-purg himself by the end of the week and be gone. Doesn't sound so bad to me.

That account was banned like 20 minutes after it was reinstated for posting anti-vax stuff. It's already gone.

Did he have any involvement in making the game? I thought he just started a publishing house for Indie titles.

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis are involved so it's absolutely gonna be worth the watch.

I don't know. The Hobbit trilogy wasn't really all that great. I think it's really going to come down to how much they splurge on practical effects versus how much of this is just one giant green screen adventure.

The topic after TC types horny into the title:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/03dc9c23.jpg

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Ok what's a kos user

Kill on sight. It means that the user has been banned so many times that every single one of their accounts forever will be banned the moment it's discovered.

I think from a community standpoint the bigger question is going to be whether or not they continue the trend of waiting an entire year between major balance patches or whether they're going to start to be a little more aggressive going forward.

Do you have any preferences on what the core gameplay of the base game is like? Fallout shelter, factorio, and rimworld all meet the criteria of good base building games but neither of them are a third person action game like the other ones you listed.

Murphiroth posted...

Changing their mind implies DToast does any kind of thinking before letting people back in. Recent events have shown that he does not and likely just goes "yeah sure whatever"

Half the board thinks it's some grand conspiracy to intentionally reintroduce toxic users so that he can make a case for shutting the board down entirely. The last time I suggested that he simply didn't care and was letting people in without vetting them I got dog piled. People are getting really unhinged over all of this.

WingsOfGood posted...

This happens after Lotr?

Realistically, and given that the title has hunt in the name, it probably happens during the time skip in the fellowship between when gandalf goes to research the ring and gollum is captured and while tortured tells them about the shire.

Someone saw the reception of the gollum game on release and really thought "hey that's a good idea."

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

He's like the British Keanu Reeves

Hey now. Cavill's American accent is way better than Keanu's British one.

ScazarMeltex posted...

Also, @s0nicfan, stfu.

So how close was my guess that everyone shit on for not being conspiratorial enough? Wouldn't want you to miss out on an opportunity to prove you're better than the person you just called a coward for running away after being wrong.

In the spirit of fairness, what probably happened is toast saw the entire board light up with these terrible policy changes and he made an earnest attempt to actually do something for the community by letting in somebody who didn't have access without knowing or understanding the history of the account or the individual. And then it backfired because it turns out you can't really manage a community if you're not a part of it.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

how do people find out this information?

Toast himself said so in another topic.

whitelytning posted...

What was that? I was about to post and then it got closed.

Im not into the Tails drama but how does DToast allow a user here that immediately posts crazy shit like that? Was that real?

Must be one of those "experiments" to boost traffic.

They should also count them as missed shots against his FGP

BlueTigerLion posted...

Good for Reddit gaining about 6 millions users in 3 months.

Those are rookie numbers. Just wait until you see what DToast's experiments are gonna cook up!

Something I'll point out that might get lost in the noise, but if Hamas is trying to put in a contingency that allows them to return corpses if they can't find enough people for the first round of exchanges, there's a reasonable chance that the number of surviving hostages in total is now less than 30. It's either that, or they're hoping to pull a bait and switch where they return bodies and then after the ceasefire is over they announce that they're still holding hostages.

I think it's a shame cuz all it does is make the world of Dragon Ball a little more boring. Plus they put animal people back in with the universal tournament and those wolf people so at the end of the day it didn't even fix whatever problem toriyama or his editors thought needed fixing.

bfslick50 posted...

Has Israel said what about Hamas' ceasefire was unacceptable? I keep seeing vague statements of "that's not what we discussed" but I can't find specifics.

Israel outlined their issues with the current ceasefire text:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-68963839?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

We can bring you more now on the Israeli position on the ceasefire deal offered by Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept.

An Israeli official briefed on the talks says a mid-level Israeli delegation is due to hold talks in Cairo this evening.

The delegation is there to see if they can negotiate some "new answers", the official says.

According to the official, there are four aspects of the proposal that Hamas has agreed to which Israel takes issue with:

--The document refers to the end of the war, described as a permanent ceasefire, according to the official
--They believe it would see female soldiers released too late in the process
--They say the document references a contingency that if 33 living hostages cannot be found for the first phase, then bodies can be substituted instead, which the Israeli official said was unacceptable
--Israel believes it would be obliged to release an agreed number of prisoners from a list that Hamas will provide, with no power of veto for any individual case

A reminder - we have not had confirmation from Hamas or the mediators as to what is included in the deal currently on the table. We do know that Israel also already dismissed it as "far from meeting" its "core demands".

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff928b4c.jpg

I've had that level of caffeine in one sitting before and it's not something I would just casually try for the taste.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b1367a6.jpg

Because bytedance employees in China illegally accessed a journalist's data to try and get to who their informant is because the journalist wrote a story they didn't like, after repeatedly assuring Congress that tiktok data was completely separate from bytedance and they had no ability to get to it.

That's why they're banning it but not Facebook and instagram.

So has anyone addressed the fact that bytedance lied to congress and Chinese employees were able to dig through the very data they claimed they can't access to look for journalist's sources for a story they didn't like? No?

Israel outlined their issues with the current ceasefire text:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-68963839?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

We can bring you more now on the Israeli position on the ceasefire deal offered by Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept.

An Israeli official briefed on the talks says a mid-level Israeli delegation is due to hold talks in Cairo this evening.

The delegation is there to see if they can negotiate some "new answers", the official says.

According to the official, there are four aspects of the proposal that Hamas has agreed to which Israel takes issue with:

--The document refers to the end of the war, described as a permanent ceasefire, according to the official
--They believe it would see female soldiers released too late in the process
--They say the document references a contingency that if 33 living hostages cannot be found for the first phase, then bodies can be substituted instead, which the Israeli official said was unacceptable
--Israel believes it would be obliged to release an agreed number of prisoners from a list that Hamas will provide, with no power of veto for any individual case

A reminder - we have not had confirmation from Hamas or the mediators as to what is included in the deal currently on the table. We do know that Israel also already dismissed it as "far from meeting" its "core demands".

superbot400 posted...

I blame iOS for that. Macos is pretty open.

It's open, but only if you already know what you're doing. Like... The standard install process completely hides install locations and the file browser tries it's best to hide root. I've had to pop open a terminal and cd/ls/grep my way through the drive manually to find directories before because a file needs replacing and even macOS doesn't want you to know how the file system is organized.

I blame Apple. They intentionally obfuscate a lot of OS actions to make it so you become trapped in their ecosystem since none of your knowledge transfers to anywhere else.

The cat didn't have to be moved because it bit too many people, which is why nobody talks about his cat.

I don't think I've ever once seen someone call Mario a glory hog.

Let's be honest... if the weapons are in the last game, they'll be Chadley VR challenges.

How about we stop glamorizing a pissing contest between rich assholes who are both making major bank off this entire "feud"?

Investigate them both for any potential criminal activity and toss whoever is guilty in jail.

Trumble posted...

Maybe because those prisoners are not arrested on legitimate charges in the first place; Israel has no moral authority to be in Palestine; it's their fault that a rebuild is needed; and they have no right to implement a blockade in the first place?

Some of them are in jail for literal murder.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

It's only generous to Israel if you actually believe that Hamas means a word they say about promising to stop attacking Israel and admitting they have a right to exist.

I also don't know how "for every one hostage we return you'll give us 50 prisoners and also you'll leave and also rebuild and also we get to stay in power and also lift your blockade against us" is generous in any way to Israel.

This assumes the third game isn't going to be largely an original story. I wouldn't assume the last game will just be "finishing the rest of the original game" when the Remake games are explicitly not that.

tankboy posted...

A big part of the problem is that there are exactly zero "sympathetic countries in the region". The story of the Palestinians is the story of being abandoned by the other Arab tribes/countries/sub-ethnicities/etc.

Well, there's Iran, but half the reason the Oct 7 attack happened is likely Iran getting really uncomfortable with the entire rest of the middle east getting on friendly terms with Israel in the first place. On the surface this is somewhat about Islam vs Judaism, but behind the scenes there's also a serious Shia/Sunni divide at work.

EDIT: And also, the Palestinians really didn't help their case with potential friendly nations when Jordan took them in the 1970s and the refugees tried to kill their king and overthrow the country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

If Bethesda ever does a FO3 remaster I expect them to not include NV and claim that licensing and legal issues prevented them from doing so as they quietly filter all the Obsidian emails saying they're cool with it directly into the trash.

ironman2009 posted...

So terms were made without Israel's involvement in the terms? Not too shocking that they'll be ignored.

Even if they are favorable or even for Israel, they'll still want a say.

Supposedly this is the current state of negotiations between both parties, but "softened" by Egypt and then accepted by Hamas before Israel had a chance to review. So it likely represents most of what the two sides had agreed on but with a few key changes or things that both parties never reached consensus on.