Joe Smith

"Dogs never bite me--just humans."
--Marilyn Monroe

[Joe Smith @jsmit104]

Agreed. Kimberly Brooks looks nothing like Mass Effect's Ashley Williams, yet she did a tremendous job with the character. Jean brought up a good point when she mentioned that they're using voice actors for mo cap work now, but if I might offer a rebuttal, Hollywood has traditionally used stuntmen and women to stand in for actors, so using similar to do mo cap should work just as well. The main reason I can see why they wouldn't would be to pinch pennies.

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@DanticsOfficial That's why I like Minthara as a companion in Baldur's Gate 3--she tells it like it is, has her own views, and doesn't sugarcoat it. Give me at least one companion I despise, but I need to have to get the job done.

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@Noirchick1 I've got to go with Ann Margaret although there have been some very attractive redheads who have graced television and film over the years.

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@Michele_Tafoya He was one heck of a tight end too with both the Bears and the Cowboys. One of the all time greats.

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@Noirchick1 I'd have to go with The Searchers: Jeffrey Hunter and John Wayne in what I think was his most complex role.

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@SandyofCthulhu Here's my world domination scene. 😀

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@Noirchick1 I use that scene and the one with her and her roommate in my classes when we get to the 1920s as they showed the New American Woman-single, independent, working women, with her roommate being a single mother. Classic movie from the pre-Code days.

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@ChuckForeman Sorry, I've got to pull for the Bucs--they're my home team and you've got to root for the home team.

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@PaulFox13 I'll take it and be grateful--means I won't have to run my AC so much. But we've still got about a month or so before we start to see cooler temps.

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@ShamashAran My first pre-teen crush:

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@miles_commodore The Rams had some very good ones over the years: Glenn Davis, Elroy, "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (He played halfback with Davis--in their day they were the "Greatest Show on Turf"), Eric Dickerson, Jerome Bettis played with the Rams, and, of course, Marshall Faulk.

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@Noirchick1 Dean Martin in Rio Bravo. His portrayal of Dude stole the film from The Duke.

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@horrormuseum Hello! I always look forward to your posts.

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AI detectors are flawed. You have to examine the flagged work alongside the student's other work, talk to the student, and what I like to do is give the student an opportunity to submit a 100% original rough draft or revise their paper. Also Grammarly and Copilot are baked into their word processing programs so the student is liable to get flagged even without doing anything more than revising their work.

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@ShamashAran Kennedy's assassination. I remember watching the funeral on our old black and white Dumont (yes, it was a Dumont) television set.

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@horrormuseum You guys really know your onions. :)

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@Noirchick1 Number 1--no doubt about it.

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@miles_commodore Julie London

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@miles_commodore Gilda was a talent, no question. But I've got to go with Lucy and Carol Burnett with Imogene Coca and Gracie Allen not far behind

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At the time it made sense. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Ditko, the other creative staff all either lived in the city or near it, so it was a common point of reference. Recognizable landmarks, and it was a good way to allow characters to meet easily because they were geographically close.