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Given just how fast the Immortals can heal, if someone was able to heal in real life as fast as some of them appear to in the movies and TV shows, it would use up calories and generate heat at the wound site.

However, where it really gets interesting with the speed of the healing, is just how that increases the calories used and the result of the heat generated. Something like a papercut on a regular mortal takes a few days to go away, an Immortal might have that vanish in seconds, but a deeper cut can take a few weeks to heal. How long does a deep cut take an Immortal to heal? Maybe a minute or two?

The amount of heat generated in healing a deep cut that fast, apparently, would cause the wound area to catch fire and maybe explode! Even if it took ten minutes to heal, the heat energy generated would end up leaving the area cooked.

But the same would be true of a papercut healing in 1 second too.

Now I doubt the writers had any idea of this, and given this is Google's AI giving me these details without any citations to double-check, I do have my doubts, but if it is true that this would happen, then clearly the Immortals would have to have some other biological or magical or supernatural element in play to counter it.

It certainly puts a different look on Dr Who's regenerations.

There's got to be a few other wandering Barbarians out there with similar MO's and outlooks on life as Conan, even other characters written by Robert E Howard himself.

I know there's been a lot of discussion over the years about whether He-Man was meant to have anything to do with the Arnie Conan movie or not, and if you look into some of the original premises details of He-Man where there's no Prince Adam alter ego, that version seems to be much in the Conan type mold.

Discworld parodied Conan with Genghis Cohen, a very old barbarian warrior, a lifetime in his own legend, but I'm struggling to think of any other characters influenced by everyone's favourite Cimmerian.

Or can age alone make an Immortal powerful?

We know the setup, one Immortal takes another's head, Quickening happens; the survivor walks away more powerful in a somewhat unspecified manner.

But what's to say that a young Immortal who's barely been immortal for a century, who's gone and taken, say, 400 heads in that time, would or wouldn't be as powerful as a thousand-year-old Immortal who has only taken one head, then noped out of it and spent a millennium as a monk in a monastery?

To use Amanda and Methos as examples, we only see Methos take one head, another horseman at that, and Methos claims before that he last took a head about 200 years before that. Amanda, probably more thanks to having her own spin-off show, ends up doing a fair bit of headhunting in that timeframe. She's over 1000, he's over 5000. Their respective ages would be quite lucrative if age alone was the biggest factor in how powerful an Immortal can be.

I suppose another question is just what makes Immortals powerful in general, and how can they become more powerful beyond training, taking heads, or getting older?

Obviously, we've no way of knowing at the moment whether the geography of the new game marries up in any way with the originals (probably doesn't) but we do know there's plenty of the previous games locations, or at least their namesakes, being used in the new game.

Here's my idea, assuming the base game map for the new Fable is large enough and already has areas with the names from earlier games, would you like to see some sort of remake of the older games using the new game in some fashion?

Obviously, Fable 3 would be very unlikely; there's probably no Aurora at all in the base game, and there's probably a load of places from the first two games missing as well. BUT!

But, what if they simply reworked the quests from the first two games to take place in locations the new game already has? There's bound to be new locations with different names that could serve the same role after all. And the quests could be modified to allow for this, and the fact that this Hero is a different Hero can be allowed for by having quests looking for OG Fables mother to be the New Hero looking for another hero's mother and so on. Likewise, the time settings can be smudged up a bit.

As for Fable 3 and the likes of Aurora, that could be added later as a much larger DLC, with the same kind of timeline smudging, but with Aurora as its own landmass and unique settings and NPCs.

It's a pipe dream, isn't it?

So, last time I visited the greenhouses, I realised the map showed there were additional wings to the greenhouses that we can see from the outside, but when you are inside, not only are they not there, but there are no doors into either of them.

On this map, you can see the accessible areas in white, but then you see the inaccessible areas in the darker colour. When you go outside, you can see there are actually greenhouses where those darker areas on the map are.

Any idea what might have happened? Cut content? A future expansion that never happened? Or just good old-fashioned oversight?

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Given the way technology has developed since, and given what we were shown from the early demos of Infinite that were never in the finished game, could we have a Dev make a game with those unused ideas, and make it an open world to boot?

I always found it odd that there were some parts of Columbia that allowed you to return to previous sections, while other sections were completed gated off, literally in the case of the fare, and again after your encounter with the first Fireman. Big metal gates you can't open, forcing you onwards, but then there's the restaurant after the Fireman where you meet the Leuteuce twins, and you can actually go back to the Fireman battle area, but no further back. It's like they had the idea that going back to a previous area should be a thing, and put in the groundwork, but then seemed to forget about that.

But what would an open world Columbia be like?

I don't recall seeing it at in the sequel, and yes it was broken by the end of the first movie, but is there any official word on what Arnie's Conan did with his father's blade once he had avenged his parents and his people?

I'd have liked to have seen him either lay it to rest in honour of his father, either by travelling back to his home village and burying it there in memory of the dead, or simply burying it somewhere else, like near the ruins of the cult once he burnt it down.

I'd also would have liked to have seen him have it reforged and used as a backup sword, or have the broken parts recut into knives, the main part maybe being a duelling dagger of sorts.

And while I'm thinking of Conan honouring his father and his people, do we know what happened to the other survivors who worked the wheel of pain? Were they all sold off into slavery or did they all just die from exhaustion? Imagine if Arnie's Conan actually found the other survivors, and freed them.

Given there were four immortals left alive by the start of the Highlander movie (five if you allow for Yung Dol Kim's lost footage) we can probably assume these were the very best of the best of the best of the immortals by this point.

Fasil is clearly a skilled fighter, and I would say the fight is close between him and McCloud. We don't really get a feel for how good Kastagir really is, but he must be very good to be one of the last few standing.

So, a multi-part question.

If Fasil and Kastagir had fought, who would have been the more likely victor?

And if that victor had fought McCloud, could they have realistically won?

And whoever won that fight, then went on to face the Kurgen (slightly less powerful since he's not taken Kastagir's head, and may or not have taken Yung Dol Kim's depending on his canon status), how might that have worked out?

I think we've probably all heard about certain hardcore Harry Potter fans that seem to think any story that is remotely similar to Harry Potter's adventures is directly ripping it off. Classic case, one such fan accusing Terry Pratchett of doing so with Discworld's Unseen University - then getting annoyed when Pratchett pointed out his books massively predate HP.

And there does seem to be a lot of people finding books with very similar themes and settings to what was used in HP that also predate that series and think that HP ripped them off. Worst Witch being one of a few different examples.

Now, I do have an idea for a magic school story, it's nowhere near ready to start writing, I'm worldbuilding right now and I think I have some concepts and plot ideas that are very different to anything down in HP, and hopefully anything that predates it. But still, I'm pretty sure comparisons will be made and accusations thrown, and I'm wondering: can anyone think of any way to at least minimise the chances of that? Or are we all doomed to be accused of ripping off HP if we try to write about our own magical school?

So I've been reading a little about how the newer show is filmed, one episode per day, with each game/set/event/whatever-term-might-be-best setup, played on, dismantled and replaced by the next set and so on.

But is there a reason it's done this way and not say, have each day dedicated to filming just one event with the same sets in place for however many episodes they need it for for all the different contenders? Then set things up for the next event and dedicate the next days filming all for that event?

I'm almost certain some variation of this question will have been asked 700 times at some point, but what if EON had managed to convince Connery to stay on in the role? Sweetening the deal when they needed to keep him interested and on board, until he finally decided to say Never Again.

Would this mean no Lazenby Bond movie? Almost certainly no Thunderball remake, and I'm just assuming we're seeing Connery in the same movies Roger Moore did, which probably has the biggest advantage for my sanity in not having a reason to ever watch Zardoz! The big question is of course, when would Connery tap out, or could have wound up doing the movies Dalton did as well? Would they have wound up recasting the role in this timeline? Do a full Craig-era style reboot, or just let the franchise rest?

Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - Could Connery still being in the role have changed things so Saltzman didn't have to sell up and maybe not slow down production?
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)

The ship's layout, in general. I like how it's set up with engineering at the rear near the engines, makes sense, along with the mining section along the bottom and the bridge near the front.

But I would have thought having medical nearer the engine room and the mining section would have made more sense, in order to get medical treatment to these areas fastest if and when accidents, injuries, etc happen. Even having hydroponics and medical nearer each other would make sense, assuming they grow their own medicines as well as food. Am I alone in this?

On a slightly different note, does the layout of corridors make sense from a practical standpoint? There's a very old gaming convention where corridors take you past vast, blank areas that aren't really part of the map, but clearly should be some sort of room, and the Ishimura is as guilty of that as any other game location. Thing is, they could have covered that by having sealed doors that lack the red/blue hologram to show it's still working.

Kendra. She seems to be the only one beyond Hammond not suffering too much from delusions like Issac is. Issac sees Nicole, sometimes in place of other people who are there, and they in turn see him as someone else. Kendra sees her younger brother, still as a kid I think, but as she knows he's dead and not in denial about it, unlike Issac who's denying Nicole Is Dead. Do you think Kendra wouldn't have betrayed Issac if he hadn't been suffering hallucinations too?

Aegis 7. Did anyone ever find a way into the room Nicole goes into after you land there? I've tried tailgating her in, but it looks like there's a good old invisible wall there, and yet, the whole area shows up on the map.

So a running joke in the books is that the Defence Against the Dark Arts position is cursed (by none other than Mr Nose 1981 himself), hence the turnover in professors of that subject each year. Dumbledore seems to have made use of the curse to a degree by having a professor who might not be really that suitable for it, or who might have something to hide (or who he might have suspicions about), take up the post and end up leaving due to it.

Quirrell, killed while possessed by Voldermort
Lockhart, revealed as a fraud and mindwiped by himself
Lupin, outed as a werewolf and forced to resign
"Mad-Eye" turned out to be Barty Crouch Jnr
Umbridge, used the position to become headmistress in very short order thanks to the Ministry's corruption
Then there was Snape, who wound up killing Dumbledore, fleeing the school, taking over as head, then being killed by Voldemort himself

So would Snape's death have counted as part of this curse, especially given who killed him?

And FYI Snape's immediate DADA successor was Amycus Carrow, who wound up in Azkaban.

So the Romans developed the Lorica segmentata to basically be half loops of armour around the body, with a gap or join at the front and back where the halves met and are tied up by string or buckles and so on.

But why have that join there? Why not along the sides, where the joins would be better protected? It just seems to leave a weak spot quite near the front where a spear or polearm, for example, might stand a better chance of getting through.

It would be incredibly freaky if they just didn't rot away at all, and their corpse was just in the same state it was when they lost their head. That would surely get people talking. But what are the odds that an immortal's dead body breaks down and rots more slowly than the body of a mortal?

And just as an aside, could an immortal heal from a decapitation if they were able to hold onto their head after the cut and hold it in place? It kinda looked like that was what would happen with the Kurgen when Connor partly cut his head off, but the Quickening still happened and seemed to push Kurgens head off a bit more.

Given her father, Rico Dredd was basically Joe Dredd's "twin" brother as they were cloned at the same time and had the exact same DNA, it seems pretty likely she's got to have inherited at least some of her father's facial features.

I've not been able to find any images of Vienna's mother, Fabienne Brown, might have to do a really deep search for that, but what if adult Vienna's face is an answer of sorts to the question what does old Stony Face look like under his helmet?

I know Mark Ruffalo has stated his interest in the role in the past, and I do think he'd do the role justice, and there was a stage show version at some point with Dirk Benedict in the title role, but I have a different suggestion.

John Leguizamo, and my reasoning might sound insane.

Remember his role in the first John Wick movie? As the guy in charge of the crew that cuts up cars? Who refuses to slice up Wicks stolen car and tells the mob boss's son to F off? Then has to call up the mob boss and be the bearer of the worst news ever?

Might sound weird, but his mannerisms, though not some of the language used, especially during the phone call, reminded me of Columbo having to play games with his prey.

There's so many ways this could go, from a single genetic difference they all share, to a whole host of DNA differences that set them apart from us mere mortals, to even no difference at all, and any of these could make the mystery about the immortals just a bit more, well, mysterious.

Especially the last one, because that would reinforce the question about what makes them immortal in the first place, because there would be no clue at all.

I think the classic example of this is taking say the grip from a katana and putting it on a longsword and vice versa, or giving a two handed swords grip onto a blade meant for a single hand and so on, but I've not seen many examples of this and I'm wondering what experiences people might have with this and any videos or write ups about testing this out.

I've got a couple of solid suggestions, who are both, somewhat familiar faces to us, even from the same two-parter, and both gave performances to me that screamed The Doctor!

First up, Harry Lloyd (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Harry\_Lloyd) - you might remember him as "Son Of Mine" and before that, Jeremy Barnes whose body was taken over by "Son". Playing the role with a delightful madness and face-twisting that could have had Jim Carey taking notes, there's a madness in his "Son" performance that feels like an exaggeration of Barnes's nastier elements, which, if toned down, could make for a very effective, if potentially scary Doctor.

Second up, Thomas Sangster (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas\_Sangster) - who played Tim Latimer, a young school boy with a very Doctorish personality and perception about him who was a victim of bullying by Barnes.

But why would the Doctor end up using their faces? There was a reason he wound up with Lobus Caecilius face as the 12th Doctor, and there might be a reason why he would up with Maxils face as the 6ths (not quite sure what yet, maybe a reminder to be more forcefull?) that could carry over to having either of these faces.

If the Dr took on "Son"/Jeremy's face it might be a reminder to not be so vindictive and over the top with punishments, to be more forgiving, especially when you consider what he did to "Son."

Taking Tim's appearance and even personality might be a reminder to be more true to his core self, young at heart, looking out for everyone, even if no one really knows their age.