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At the 34 second mark, you can see the decapitated head of one in isolation in the med bay.

The thing about classic films is WHY they're classic films. In some cases, yes, it is an elitist thing, but usually it's because of what the film did at the time it was made.

A good example is Citizen Kane. It is a classic, incredibly important film for good reason. It did things that had never been done in film before it was made but were quickly adopted across the industry and are still staples in films today, especially when it comes to cinematography. To the average viewer watching it today it seems a rather dated, long, slowly paced movie that is often said to be boring and typically sparks the question "why is this the big deal people say it is?" Without a fairly solid background in film and film history its importance and its place as a classic is lost.

In time there will be modern films that fall into this same mode of thinking. Off the top of my head, I predict Toy Story will be one because it was the first computer animated film that got everything "right" even though it already looks somewhat primative in comparison to more recent films. Avatar will likely be the same for similar reasons (pioneering new filmmaking technologies and methods). It's difficult to predict which films will have both film history importance AND pop appeal 30 to 50 years in the future but it is an even bet to say that some of them will have one or both.

You can get no better example of this being horrifyingly true than being lucky enough to be in a market with a new, low-budget upstart station or a "emergency weather station" that ony broadcasts the weather when warnings and watches are in effect and uses filler the rest of the time.

Occasionally, they'll luck into some long forgotten gem or some old movie that was good but never gained (or lost) traction in the popular culture. The vast majority of the time, they're showing back to back to back films that were as cheap to screen as possible and that means the dregs of a century of filmmaking from 70s exploitation films that failed when they were originally made to films from the 30s and 40s that no one remembers for a good reason.

High end bars and clubs (especially the gentelman's kind) locked onto this a long time ago. Most use "funny money" that you can convery real cash into (and a lot of the gent's clubs ONLY issue "funny money" if you use their sponsored ATM). It typically works with a 25% "discount" system (for every 4 bucks of real cash you get 5 of funny money). The Funny Money is useless outside the club, naturally, but converting it changes the way you think about your cash.

Psychologicaly you accept you're getting more for your money when you convert, but once you have the fake stuff in hand you start to view it as worthless and therefore spend more of it and will accept higher prices for goods and services than you normally would if you were paying in cash.

Clubs using "funny money" usually see a boost in sales of 20 to 50% even if they have a "you can cash out when you leave" system in place form before they implimented it.

And let's not forget there is a reason ANYONE walking in the woords during deer season (hunting or not) is required by law in most states to be wearing a blaze orange vest, hat or jacket. Before that became universal, hunting accidents were far more common.

In this specific case, the boy is wearing low visability clothing, including a brown jacket and a camo t-shirt. Add in some distance, the large animal between them and the fact that there's few people left at all and an acidental shooting while hunting is dound to happen sooner or later. Whie I agree that the "blowthrough" thing is a bit hard to swallow, I can let it go from a dramatic point of view.

There's someting a bit wonky somewhere. I'm 6 years and have only 30 tokens. By Posi's numbers I should have 31 +1 if ZM is correct about getting a "free" one at Tier 1.

And I just checked, according to the Beta Server, I'm not a 6 year vet (no 6 year badge), though live says I am. Apparently it's not counting my most recent 72 month badge at all and not registering my 6th year, which would remove 2 tokens making the 30 correct.

You seem to have missed "and lists it as a good thing." Beyond that, the four you listed have a history of actual verified accomplishments, papers and scientific discoveries under their belts. Barnes has none of that, making his claims and his appearances on C2C closer to "contrail nutbag of the week" than Sagan. Appearing an C2C doesn't make one a nut but without a history of not being one, it definitely points to being a nut.

By your logic the guy claiming that the UN is in league with aliens from Zeta Retucli and the Masons to create chemtrails to steralize reptelian aliens disguised as George W Bush so the Illuminati can take over Madison County to steal Clint Eastwoods brain for Obama to perform satanic rituals with is just as credible as Carl Sagan.

He's also done the Art Bell (radio) Show a time or two and uses them as "good things" in his quotes section on the speakers websites. Not exactly a glowing endorsement there. My gut instinct is he's a fraud who's paded his resume with jargoned-up terms for common junk which any of us could do. he's just good at self promotion and gotten noticed for basically nothing.

That falls well short of the "Conducted successful visual density reduction research (invisibility)" claim especially since toys that did that were avaliable in a box of Cracker Jacks in the late 1970s. Sounds like a bit of resume pading, really.

Same here, had trouble getting in at all (took it forever to decide "ohh he did enter his name and password...") and once in, it indicates open slots but won't allow access to them. Bit of a show-stopper bug right there at log-in.

Yep. It was a big fear of a not inconsiderable segment of the playerbase when ads were announced. The idea of "Coke Inspirations," "Walmart End Redux IOs" and "MacBook Emotes" (all examples used by players at the time) were roundly bagged on to the point of reducing the whole idea to absurd levels and the consequences of having a persistant "Ad Item" when the promotional period ended (or worse, the client-game relationship went south) was brought up as well. All in all it was a can of worms few wanted to open at the time. The devs had enough trouble on their hands convincing people the "monitoring software" wasn't spyware and wasn't tell the ad clients everything we ever did online and that it was "okay" for them to charge us 15 bucks a month so we could look at the ads they sold.

When they launched, some poeple decided to protest by finding an ad and parking their character in front of it while in TF mode and just leaving it there for hours (or, in at least one case, DAYS) to skew the results. Many simply turned the ads off completely. typing in-game advantages and rewards to such ads would have stuck in the throats of those who didn't want the ads, didn't like the ads, and definately didn't want to "pay to view" them. Opting out would have had a tangible downside for players, which is good for the advertisers, but bad for the players and overall bad for the game itself when those players decide they've had enough.

Now that you're a subscriber, all you need to do is not be in Pretoria. The buildings containing the AE interface don't exist there. To exit pretoria you'll have to reach level 20 with your current characters.

After you enter "Primal" Earth just open your map, find the AE symbol and go into that building, up the lift to a terminal and you can make up to three arcs with your free slots. Expect your first attempt to be long and tedious while you learn the interface and what can and can't be done in a mission grouping though. Don't get discouraged most of us spent a good little while scratching our heads at how it all worked and what we could and couldn't pull off in a mission before finally getting something that we could publish.

RTD has said many times that Jack being called "The Face of Boe" when he was younger and the character named "The Face of Boe" could be a coincidence and that he "loves to kill characters off" so ANYONE can die at any tie for any reason at all, including Jack, Gewn, children, dogs, anything he decides needs to die.

In the Doctor Who/Torchwood universe, most invasions and alien incursions get hushed up fairly quickly with various agencies using a variety of cover stories. Some have been very hard to cover up and just go on without much being changed; for instance, the downing street incient was covered up as a huge hoax, the Daleks moving the whole planet was a totaly different story to even try to cover, and people are scared to death to stay in London around Christmas because something screwey always happens but Wilf is considered a bit weird for thinking those screwey things are alien related. Very few people have any idea what really happened with the 456s. It's more surprising an FBI agent (even a ranking one) would know the 456 Amendments than wouldn't know what the 456 incident really was.

Even as far back as the Seventh Doctor the human race has been amazingly adept at explaining away unusual events. In Rememberance of the Daleks, he mentions several large, unmissable invasions to Ace, who'd never heard of them and with mild frustration comments that "your species has such an amazing capacity for self-deception."

Yes, the contunities are the same. The 456s got name checked a couple of times in Ep 1 as did Owen Harper. The repercussions of the British's actions before and during CoE are the justification for forcing Torchwood into the US. Expect many more refrences to previous episodes as well in the future.

That is a relief, because it could get really messy otherwise.

You missed the part where I said I go from ViP to Premium and back again. Okay, let's do it slowly.
ViP: 12 Slots
Purchased and applied: 24 Slots
Vet (not applied): 6 Slots
Going Rogue (not applied): 2 Slots

Single Server Play on Virtue.
Currently: 36 Slots, 8 Slot Tokens
Under ViP; 36 Slots, 8 Slot Tokens
Under Premium: 24 Slots, 10 Slot Tokens
Under Premium After Applying all 10 tokens: 34 Slots 0 Tokens
After Returnign to ViP which reopens the original 12 Slots with a sub: 46 Slots, 0 Tokens

46 Slots isn't possible, 36 is the maximum, so where do the 10 extra slots go?

Let's try that again... Assume that I've bought 24 slots in the second example I had. So I have as a ViP 36 slots on Virtue and 8 avaliable tokens. I go Premium, I have 24 Slots on Virtue (puchased before Freedom) now and 10 Tokens (the original 8 +2 from being Premium). I now use all 10 t unlock 10 more slots on Virtue. I now have 34 of 36 slots on Virtue. I then resub and get back my original 12 "free" slots. I now have 46 out of 36 poossible slots on Virtue. Where do the extra 10 go?

This actually brushes up against the biggest factor making it impossible to come up with a good estimate of how much an item will cost when paid for with points; the cash cost to buy points.

If 1 point sells for 1 buck (it definately wont), our "monthly stipend" is insanely valuable. If 10 points sells for 1 buck (they won't), then it's still a huge value. If 100 points sells for 1 buck (very likely), then our monthly stipend is "less than half of a super booster." If 1,000 points sells for a buck, don't expect the stipend to buy much of anything at all.

We can pretty much make the assumption that existing Super Boosters, when they're put into the store, will cost $10 or MORE in points to maintain that profit in the new system. It's also a good guess future Super Boosters will have a similar (if not higher) price point.

Right now, the bean counters are putting the finishing touches on their final projections for how to make the game definately produce specific sum of money every year. To do that, they want to get AT LEAST a monthly sub (about 15 bucks/mo) from every existing player and AT LEAST 3 Super Boosters (about $2.50/mo) from every existing player and possibly a slight increase over that. They don't care if I give it to them, you give it to them or Frank-who-just-joined gives it to them. They don't care if it's from point purchases or sub+points. All they care about is that over the year a player spends at least $210 and preferably more.

To hit that goal, they want the 400 Point stipend to be "worthless" without seeming "worthless." They want us to appreciate the 400 points, but also have to buy into the Point Purchases on a regular basis to get more stuff and to buy in at a much higher level to get the REALLY good stuff in addition to the basics and the good stuff.

The developers will fully support that goal, but from another angle. Yes they want the game to make money, the more of it the better; after all, it's how they keep their jobs. But they also want us to want to spend money on the game, even if it's above and beyond what we are now. So it's in their best interest to "hold back" the best of the best and drop it into the store so everyone has to spend something on it in addition to producing store items that we'll want beyond what was once "issue content." It's in their interests to burn up the 400 point stipend every month so we're "forced" into point buys regularly to get the awesome shineys but to do so at a low enough rate that we don't notice the increase in the cost of the game. They'll rely on the "well, what's $5 extra this month" every month rather than "ohh man, to get the stuff I want is going to cost $20? Forget that...." every 4 months.

It's just business. They'll act in their interests. With any luck, OUR interests will stay alighned with theirs for a long time.