I actually preordered X-Com 2, yes I know preordering is bad, but X-Com 2 was beyond worthy of that in the end since with the base game, general mod workshop catalogue, Long War 2 mod, War of the Chosen, and the Tactical Legacy Pack meant you could ended up with several games instead of just one.
Obviously that's a lot of hindsight working in my favour so preordering is still something that shouldn't be advised, as ironically was the case with Julian Gallop of all people siding with Tencent money for Phoenix Point. Sure he offered the existing backers their money back but that really just made it worse because now it didn't need fan support or interest since Epic had dug their claws into the game hence the 1 year exclusivity when it launched. While I love the original X-Com and what Julian meant for the series his decision to sell out like that soured my opinion of him permanently. Even Jake Solomon doesn't seem to care about the series anymore hence "X-Com 3" being nothing like what anyone thought there would be when Chimera Squad came out instead.
At least I can play X-Com 2 with my mod list until the heat death of the universe.
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The actor could stop taking roles either historically known for being one way, such as Perry White from Superman, or modern live action adaptations which have a source material that includes visual media, like with Regis from the Witcher series.
Someone made a thread about the Witcher casting when it was announced earlier this year with visual comparisons from the game.
I actually had that one. It may have been the first EU novel I read which isn't great since it was set 8 years after ANH while Heir to the Empire happens almost right after RotJ, but it was still quite good from what I remember.
in the UK right now, with no disasters, no horrors except the existential one of living in London.
Or the PM or anyone else suggesting something might happen leading to that very thing happening as David Cameron did some years ago when he advised/warned/fucked up telling the public they might want to top up just in case.
Cue panic buying and stations running out of petrol for no fucking reason.
Ah, it was #4 I was thinking of when writing that. It's the costume he uses when teaching at the school the first time in the 1980s run of the original New Mutants series. Before he was made evil yet again and destroyed the mansion. Again. 🙄
And tbf, #6 is Erik the Red who despite the name is a completely separate character first seen when Cyclops pretended to be the character only for it to somehow be an existing person from the Shi'ar that later turned out to be part of a super secret order 'of the Red'.
Pandas are bears, Ursidae, while honey badgers are mustelids, Mustelidae. Both are of the same mammalian Order of Carnivora, but it's the same magnitude of difference that exists between hominids, Hominidae, and tarsiers, Tarsiidae, despite both being of the same mammalian Order of Primates.
At best you might be able to John Hammond giant pandas with one of the seven other species of bear but even then any offspring would very likely be sterile mules if they even managed to survive.
Part of the problem is that pandas are the kind of animal that generate donations which can then be put towards other less generally appealing animals that are also endangered. The general public like cute and fluffy animals. Wet and slimey ones less so. So pandas end of as the flagship species for conservation efforts.
There are bowel movements that lasted longer than Concord and were still less shit.