Sentences with phrase «not fantasy points»

These projections are not fantasy points; rather, they are expected in - game points derived from the implied team totals.

Not exact matches

Sorry honey, but you're living in a fantasy world (not that you weren't already I guess) but to claim that christians have always loved the jews is rewriting history to the point of fiction.

In Feast the point is that we can't handle the burden of making history if we are ourselves buried in it, unaware of the timeless dimension that we touch only in fantasy and festivity.»

The point of a fantasy is not to hand us tidy morals, but to provide us with growth by experience.

Returning to our theme of fantasy literature, it was Chesterton who pointed out that most fairy tales portray a world of delights which is, however, bounded by an unexplained moral injunction: Cinderella can go to the ball but must be back at midnight, Pandora has a magic box but must not open it, etc..

It also doesn't really matter if anyone believes the Bible or thinks it is fantasy from beginning to end... the point is that... by secular standards... the Bible is as pure today as it was when it was first written.

Definately would not call that limited, and is an additonal 40 - 50 fantasy points.

He's going to have some terrifying moments hooking up with Jimmy G, and should have his best fantasy football season, but I won't be surprised if he's supplanted as the starting RB at some point over the course of the season

when he signed the likes of carzola, podolski, giroud, sanchez, welbeck, and ozil, no one saw it coming... my point is we have various fantasies of what signings we want, even if Wenger were to sign players based on what fans want, he would» nt be able to satisfy all of us.

Guthrie had a ton of fantasy points that day — just not in the right direction.

DFS edge: Wilson just put up 24.84 fantasy points against the Jaguars last week: It doesn't matter who he faces.

With a total of 38 and a line of +5.5, the Texans are implied to score just 16.25 points... maybe not a team you should target in daily fantasy.

We are not told the source and extent of this research, nor the facts gleaned therefrom, but she is on target when she points out that the advantages for Illinois residents are in the realm of fantasy.

The bill has come under fire from racino operators, who point out the revenue generated from fantasy sports wouldn't go to education.

As Ian Leslie pointed out in a recent essay in the New Statesman, most people would love to see a world free from nuclear weapons, but disarmament — even in the complete fantasy world in which it is mirrored by all other world powers — wouldn't create this in a meaningful way.

Is there any point in pursuing this fantasy... I just can't get it out of my head.

As my profile name states... I'm just «curious» at this point;) What that means is that I have lots of fantasies and a HUGE temptation to be with other men, but I'm just not willing or...

Like the original game on launch day, this expansion pack balances good points with bad almost every step of the way, resulting in yet another turn - based fantasy adventure that isn't all that it could be.

Unfortunately, by ditching the high ground in favor of not - especially - convincing theatrics, the potency of the film becomes diluted to the point where we're viewing the infiltration of these secret cell groups as a fantasy, and therefore don't buy many of their tactics and plausible enough to keep us on the same edge we'd be teetering on if we felt the authenticity through and through.

For example, one solution Scott attempts to get his life back on track after going over the edge would normally be a point of redemption, but this isn't a fairytale fantasy.

But to get to the point where he can turn his violent, revenge fantasies into reality, he has to undergo rigorous mental, physical, and emotional training, not to mention become fluent in Arabic and learn the intricacies of jihadis» warped interpretation of the Koran before venturing to Tripoli, Libya to terminate his fiancée's killers with extreme prejudice.

Which isn't to say, of course, that video games have evolved to a point of such technical sophistication that gamers are living in some Baudrillardian fantasy; the dream of a Second Life simulacrum even better than the real thing never came to fruition, and maybe it never will.

Perhaps even the world was not ready for Last Action Hero (it is underrated and unfairly maligned in my opinion) and there needed to be a the ridiculous number of comic - book fantasies (and Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson films) to get to this point.

Steven Spielberg's virtual - reality fantasy «Ready Player One» may help drive sales of VR headsets — which have dramatically fallen short of previous bullish forecasts — but not everyone thinks the movie will really be a tipping point.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

But it's a fantasy subtly undercut by realities faced by the adults: When it's not showing us this world from the kids» point of view, it's because we're seeing things through the eyes of the adults taking care of them.

That movie was pretty funny but he followed that up with «Your Highness,» a fantasy spoof that is one of the biggest botches made by a recognizably great filmmaker of recent times, and «The Sitter,» another misfired comedy whose main selling point is that it wasn't quite as unwatchable as its predecessor.

My theory is that people don't read his books for the rather rudimentary, step - by - step, point - to - point thriller elements that form the backbone of the story so much as for learning a little bits of history, philosophy, and even fantasy elements that reside above the surface, many of them expounded upon at length in between the plot points.

Instead of asking students to develop another fantasy project, or something for which they can't see the point, Design Ventura offers a context in which students can research and inform their work online or in person if they visit the museum.

So keep that in mind when considering your book's production and price point; you want the book to look nice and fit in someone's purse / bag / backpack (and 6 × 9 is a little hefty for fiction books), but you also don't want your epic fantasy at 200 - thousand words to cost $ 20 to print at cost (the flat fee you pay simply for the materials, without the distributor's or your profits factored in yet).

I'm not sure how I feel about the covers on these... on one hand, they're kind of classic at this point, and they definitely show the YA fantasy genre clearly.

But to writers who think that their only job is to write a salable book, I'm sure it seems like a lot of unnecessary work (the fact that they're living in a fantasy world if they think they won't have to do stuff other than write in traditional publishing now too is entirely beside the point).

So I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci - fi or fantasy isn't the point.

If teens want to read about romance, adventure, fantasy or any other topic, a good librarian or bookseller can help point them toward lots of great books that don't involve blood, guts or self - mutilation.)

And none of them showed up with huge backlists to start out with (Granted, they've all been insanely prolific, but I do want to point out that these were science fiction and fantasy people, not authors writing romance or erotica or whatever genre you've heard is super popular).

The authors rightly point out that readers who like your fantasy works (for example) may not be enthusiastic about your gritty crime stories.

This makes it easy for indexers to come to feel comfortable in a fantasy world (I don't mean to hurt people's feelings but I do want to make this point clearly) where the price you pay for the stocks you buy doesn't matter.

In the witch doctor's world, people don't think twice before spending $ 122 for fantasy points that can and will inevitably devalue in just a few months.

For one, he bears the honour of being the first truly homosexual male romance option in the series (if not all of gaming), alongside the bawdy Sera for female Inquisitors — to this point, romance options were hetero or vaguely bisexual, and it's about time the representation was balanced, to see a character truly dealing with his sexuality in the fantasy world.

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And no, your elaborate fantasy backstory isn't a unique selling point — it's just an aid for insomniacs.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotfantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

The point here is straightforward, but easily ignored: the conditions into which every game appears are set by the games that are already being played, and when this isn't taken into account, there is a tendency to produce games that — whatever their merits — acquire no audience because they are either too hard to learn or do not offer an imaginative fantasy players will pay for.

It's nothing you haven't seen in any other Middle Ages tale, what with forests and run - down towns and castles and so forth, but it gets style points for keeping the vibe grim with colors on the opposite polar end of other fantasy fare like Dragon Quest and characters not as cartoony as Wizards and Warriors.

As artist Coco Fusco would rightly point out later, the ensuing debate brought to reality the Scanlan character's «castration fantasy about white male erasure» at the hands of a newly empowered group of younger, politically savvy artists and critics who read the works not from Scanlan's vantage point, but as women of color.

Making the misleading fantasies plain can't be a bad thing — the IPCC isn't speculating that the emission scenarios will come to pass and their underestimated projections of temperatures, ice melt and sea level rise are being pointed out.

Just as Lewandowsky couldn't take the perspectives of climate sceptics in good faith — he had to probe inside their minds, using a shoddy internet survey — Read does not take issue with the arguments actually offered by actual climate change - denying libertarians, he takes issue with his own fantasy libertarian, abandoning all the rigour and practice that the discipline he belongs to has established over the course of millennia, to score cheap rhetorical points.

Numerous attempts (such as the very carefully researched NIPCC reports) to point out the inconsistencies between the CIC fantasy science world and the real world have not always convinced the alarmists, however, perhaps because the public finds the technical discussion of the many areas of science involved too difficult.

But the whole point of fantasy is it's not real and just thinking something doesn't mean you want it to happen.

He began to have vainglorious fantasies of all kinds of amazing accomplishments, but the point is, those deeds weren't an option, they were necessary for his emotional survival!