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Based on what's been said in this thread so far it seems like you could actually take the book, the Swedish film and the American film together as three versions of a single Rashomon styled story. Each version highlights different elements of the core story and collectively makes them all stronger for it.


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I personally enjoyed the exploration of the relationship between the vampire and her apparently older original companion. I haven't read the book yet to know if it clearly defined how old Abby/Eli was but even from the American film it was made pretty clear that she was at least 50+ years old (perhaps even much older).

I know this relationship has been described as "pedophilic" because that's the first thing people think of when they see a hinted-at sexual relationship between someone who looks like an older man and a "person" who looks like a 12 year old girl. But the vampire factor makes this story interesting because you have to force yourself to realize that the "little girl" in this relationship is quite likely far older (mentally if not physically) than the supposedly old man is. Can you really label something like this pedophilic when both parties in the relationship are at least many, many decades old? As a twist you then have to realize that the relationship between Abby and Owen is actually the more aptly named pedophilic relationship in this story because even though they both 'look' to be about 12 years old Abby is of course much, much older than Owen is.

Well like I said I'll wait until someone more "adventurous" than me breaks the laws of physics and invents the warp drive or something equivalently fantastic that'll make travelling to the stars a realistic possibility. I suppose I'm personally satisfied being a "Luddite" about it until that scientific impossibility happens mostly because it's pretty clear it's not going to happen in my lifetime, if ever. We can't even generate the collective will as a species to work together to go back to the Moon at this point - what makes anyone seriously think we're going to get our act together enough to do anything better? *shrugs*

I'll suppose I'll leave it to the far future generations to create the Star Empires needed to fight the Aliens, Predators, Klingons, Sith Lords, Daleks, Cylons, Tribbles and/or whatever else is out there...

If you're sick of the negativity then nothing's really stopping YOU from inventing warp drive for us.
Since you're apparently so "optimistic" about it why don't you let us know when you've got that figured out...

And don't confuse the "we suck" as a species thoughts with anything other than realistic self-assessment based on historical truths. Pessimistic downer thoughts aren't what's going to keep us from the stars anytime soon, the laws of physics will do that well enough on their own.

Sure I'd like to live in a Star Trek future too.
The diference is that I'm not "assuming" it's going to happen that way for us.

The simple answer is no, there is no way to change the Origin of an existing character.

IIRC there's like one or two others that aren't obvious on the Vidiotmaps. I think one of them was in St. Martial but my memory's a bit fuzzy on that. Basically between the Vidiotmaps and the info available at Paragonwiki all of them are covered.

I didn't quite say it would've been a "bad thing" but it would have been a distraction for a while.
For instance it took me a couple of seasons of Enterprise to finally get over Captain Quantum Leap.

At least they could have played "superheroes" on the holodeck instead of Paris' Flash Gordon tribute.

When you think about it Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine was actually pretty close to a sci-fi version of Wonder Woman already. She was tough, no-nonsense, smart, statuesque and arguably "amazon-like" in her mannerisms, outlook and determination.

While Lynda Carter on a Star Trek show would have been interesting I think we got a Wonder Woman from Ryan without even realizing it.

These kinds of "surprising screen tests" happen all the time in Hollywood.
I've heard about this one several times over the years.

While Lynda Carter is a decent enough actress and probably could have handled being in a Star Trek series I almost think the Wonder Woman thing typecasted her too much for any other established franchise like that. If she had been the captain on Voyager I would have kept expecting her to solve all their problems by spinning into her Wonder Woman outfit and deflecting phaser blasts with her bracelets.

They've shown a "willingness" to give us these things only after many, many NERFS over the years allowed for a game that had some "wiggle room" to inch back up towards Incarnates. Don't confuse the inclusion of the Incarnate system as a hint from the Devs that they now love tankmagery.

Sadly I'm pretty sure the Devs can't count on players to be "self-regulating" about these kinds of things. If players are allowed to break a game (any game) by exploiting the limits of what's allowed they'll do it.

We have seen nearly countless nerfs over the years where the Devs of this game have LOWERED our capabilities just enough to let people "comfortably fit" into the level 50 power levels you listed off.

I simply have a reasonable concern that the Incarnate system could possibly serve to re-upset that balance established over the years. I'd hate to think a month after Incarnates go live we're going to have to be hit by yet another round of nerfs to make it all work again.

I suppose the definition of what makes a foreign film "obscure" is, like most things, relative.

For me Let the Right One In was "obscure" enough because A) I had never heard of it until Let Me In and B) any movie that only manages $7.2 million in worldwide box office can't be something that would be considered in the "common public knowledge". I'd be willing to bet if (especially before Let Me In was made) you went and asked 20 average Americans about Let the Right One In most of them would tell you they never heard of it. Take that for what you will.

Having seen Let Me In I do now want to see Let the Right One In just to understand and be knowledgeable of the differences. I suspect what I'll find is that each of them did some things better and some things worse respectively. Obviously it's also possible I'll agree with you and realize the American remake is vastly superior. Who knows until I've seen them both I guess.

What I do know is that IMDB has Let the Right One In rated on their top #250 list so all I can say is that I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt at this point.

I completely agree. Ultimately I was stressing the key point that some people are mistakenly assuming that "random" in this game must mean that a set of things are EQUALLY likely to happen.

There is an obvious difference (at least to me) between something that is UNIFORMLY random and something that NON-UNIFORMLY random (a.k.a. weighted). There is no rule that says drops like Purple drops MUST be uniformly random in this or any other game. To the people complaining that's somehow "unfair" or "misleading" I'd once again point out that the Devs, being the Devs, can basically set it up any way they want.

I completed the new "An Instant Army" arc a few days after I18/GR went live but the "gold star" for it did not trigger.
I reported it as a bug and have been patiently waiting to see if any of the recent patches have fixed it.

It'd be great if anyone could report whether the gold star for this arc is now working or not.

Just remember that every MMO has its own slang that everybody has to learn. It's just like every job having its own terms and shorthand for things. Some of it here is common to most MMOs, but some is probably unique to this game. Everybody has to learn it whether English is your first language or not.

Good luck to you and have fun.

This Paragowiki link might be more directly helpful to you.
That link lists the mission links you need.
Good luck.

Sadly that doesn't really surprise me. Even I had to read a review or two and watch a few previews to figure out enough about this movie to decide I wanted to see it. I'm guessing most people are giving it a few seconds of thought and giving up on it because it's not the kind of film that makes itself instantly recognizable to the masses.

Then again when you check IMDB the original movie (Let the Right One In) apparently only made a total of $7.2 million worldwide so the remake making $5.1 million on its opening weekend is, relatively speaking, not that bad. You figure it'll probably make another $5-10 million in the following weeks in the theater and maybe like another $5-10 million in total DVD sales.

It's too bad a movie like this won't do better at the box office, but it's done better than the original alone would have.

It's been a long time for me but I remember being the "poorest" right around level 25 on my first character. It seems to be the natural time to be poor. But as I recall as you get up into the mid 30s and beyond you start getting a lot more INF per unit time. It's just a matter of sticking it out. Also you have the market to take advantage of - the market didn't even exist when I was first coming up.

Good luck to you.

Since the aura leak was not supposed to happen at all it is kind of hard to be upset it's not perfect for everyone yet.
But yeah the Firefly aura is really pretty cool and I do find myself wishing it had leaked towards being available for females now.

It's funny how that works:
If even a crappy remake can HELP an original imagine what a good remake of an obscure foreign film can do.