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  1. Ditto. I'm concerned about staff turnover behind the scenes, particularly the loss of David Gaider, but still keen to see the next installment. I hope they move on to Dragon Age II for remastering next - I love the story and characters, but there's room for improvement with the gameplay and especially with the locations. Yeah, I've been mostly working from home for years, but on the occasions that I do go all the way in to town and back, it is surprisingly exhausting. I don't know how I'd cope if I hard to start commuting every day.
  2. Yeah, I'm a BioWare fan. I played the Mass Effect series relatively recently (years after it was first released) though, so the remaster is a bit too soon for me and I don't have much time for gaming at the moment anyway. Are you finding it a big improvement?
  3. The US editions of the Doctor Who novelisations changed "jelly babies" to "jelly beans". It's a pity they didn't publish The Face of Evil, which would have ended up with the line "They say the Evil One eats beans."
  4. Hitchhiker's Guide manages that rather well, but it needs relatively lengthy digressions. Frequently interrupting the action with brief comments wouldn't work.
  5. Yes, that's right. Gendered pronouns are only used when talking about someone - but if you're talking to someone, it's quite likely that you'll also be talking about them at some point, and you need to know the correct pronouns then. And even if pronouns aren't used directly, they indicate the gender identity of the person you're talking to, which can be useful.
  6. Indeed; I'd be perfectly happy with that quality on a blu-ray release. I suspect younger viewers would still consider it primitive compared to modern fare, though. It's a question of whether the extra cost of redoing models and textures would pay off in attracting new viewers. Even that is still a big improvement over the cropped and zoomed widescreen versions, though. Hopefully more files than currently known are still in existence and will be uncovered if a full scale remastering does go ahead. Not that long ago we didn't know any files still existed. Well it does help, it's just not sufficient. Fingers crossed the raw footage does still exist and they're willing to go to the expense of finding and scanning it!
  7. Depends what the goal is. If you want everything to look as realistic as modern CGI, sure. But re-rendering the original CGI in HD to match the resolution of the live action film would also be a valid choice.
  8. Cool That's one of the more interesting public holidays I've heard of.
  9. Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam! So what is Prešeren's? I really should visit galleries more often.
  10. Upscaled from the 4:3 SD masters should still look significantly better than the cropped and zoomed 16:9 versions, though. Any word on a blu-ray release?
  11. It might help to know the first season takes place over many years, and each of the main characters starts off at a different point in the timeline. The second season has certainly had difficulties with production (mostly due to covid) but seems unlikely that they'd write off all the work and money that's already gone into it.
  12. Looking promising so far Nice weather, no hangover, and nothing out of the ordinary in the news. Fingers crossed the rest of the world makes it across the line without any new major disasters. Have fun this evening, all, to the extent practical given your local circumstances!
  13. I was in my very late twenties for a while. I think I gave that up after my twenty-fifteenth birthday
  14. Increasingly so over time; it starts off just a bit subtexty, but gets gradually more overt.
  15. I just finished watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - highly recommended!
  16. Can someone change the thread title? It's not a rejection, it's standard for every manuscript to get feedback from the editor no matter how experienced the author, and the length of the delay isn't necessarily indicative of the amount of editing required. It could theoretically be as minimal as "does this one sentence need an Oxford comma for clarity?", but if it takes him a year to decide, then you've got a year's delay. The actual edits are probably more substantial than that, though, and it could easily feel like rejection even if he knows logically that it's a normal part of the process, which wouldn't help with his mental health.
  17. This might be of interest to some of you: https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/rurangi - "a fiercely contemporary new drama series written, produced by and starring transgender talent."
  18. Nah, you're in the right place! It's great that you want to be supportive. It's a legitimate worry, though hopefully she'll pleasantly surprise you. It's hard to advise on living arrangements without being familiar with the family dynamic, but letting him know there's a place for him in your home if he needs it seems like a good plan. Let him know he's welcome, but don't pressure him. One who's explicitly LGBT-friendly, certainly.
  19. There's a little bit more in "In the Beginning". He left it in the wrong person's bedroom
  20. I inherited my grandmother's collection a while back. I mostly read SF/F, but I've been slowly working my way through the Christies. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a highlight so far.
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