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wasn't legit boushh a dude anyway?

also coop wayy belatedly but yes Centurion is so worth it. best movie i have seen all year.

 

Well that's the rub--an EU fan would look at Boushh and see a guy, but a movie fan would just see Leia.

 

Is it cheating if in Crusader Kings II I save every year to a new save and if something catastrophic happens (like I father a second son to divide the realm and then die right after) I load a save and act like nothing happened? If it is, I answer that the point of studying alternative universes is to not make the same mistakes.

I wouldn't like to live in that alternative universe where I got butchered by the King just because I wanted to try war. Explaining that to the citizens would have been hard.

 

It's a sandbox, you can do whatever you want.

Though, IMO, half the fun is having catastrophic things happen and then trying to claw your way back.

 

So the Jurassic Park ride at Universal is fun, but less impressive than I remember.


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Ugh, the Jurassic Park section at Universal. I dislike it because it's right next to Harry Potter, which highlights how Jurassic Park is everything you don't do for a franchise. I feel like I'm at "Generic Dino-World" rather than stepping into the movie. I don't know why out of everything out of Universal, that's the odd man out - only the "International Pavilion" at the main park was more worthless, and that's becoming the Simpsons' Springfield.

 

I also visited the Harry Potter area- I enjoyed the movies well enough despite the major adaptation decay, so I don't mind the art style used in the park. They could have done a lot more with the whole Hogwarts thing, though supposedly they plan to.

Re: Jurassic Park, I love that they don't even sell official JP figures anymore, and licensed out the molds.


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I think it's completely fair. The city sets in the main park are quite nice (except the NYC portion that's just a painted backdrop, but that's because it was originally part of the Ghostbusters show and you couldn't get back there). Even the Jaws ride captured a New England town from the early 80s pretty much on the nose. In Islands of Adventure, Seuss Land is like stepping into a Dr. Seuss story. Marvel Island is like stepping into a Rob Liefeld illustrated copy of Marvel Comics. Even generic fantasy island inspired Rowling enough with their cool "Tree Tavern" for Harry Potter (which of course was then torn down to make room for Harry Potter).
So they have no excuse at all. Just like they have no excuse for keeping the "Twister" ride. IT'S AWFUL.

 

This is pretty impressive:



Wish they'd movie-magicked the lightsaber, though.

 

I'm not even sure it's still there. This, if I remember correctly, was shortly before the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was released, so Harry Potter excitement was at its arguable peak. Hence, a half-assed Harry Potter museum. There were props from the movies

 

CKII 1.10 Patch notes!!!

"Bastards may now marry normally. If they have children, they will start a new dynasty."



"Revised Gavelkind succession to work better and be smarter about titles that characters already hold"
"Prevented Gavelkind exploit where you could grant your oldest child and heir extra titles before succession"



Hopefully this means no more situations where my eldest son inherits the Empire, but my second eldest inherits the largest kingdom within the Empire.

"The event "Comet Sighted" can now actually fire"

IT'S AN OMEN!!!!

 

You do have a long line of friend requests.