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Quote:/signed.Originally Posted by DarkGob
This is getting out of hand. I can't even stay logged in for a few hours now. If I dare remain inactive I get logged out the next time I visit. vBulletin is broken beyond hell and approaching worthless.
Lock this thread, hell nuke it from orbit for all I care, just fix the friggin' thing.
Yeah, I'm getting tired of logging back in every time I come here. It's not like it's hard work, but it's irritating. -
Ok, I have a question, going back to the walker's live flesh preference... I didn't see this addressed already, so appologies if I missed it:
The walker hanging in the tree had had his legs eaten by the other zombies. This would imply that they are willing to eat dead flesh, including their own kind, unless perhaps he didn't manage to kill himself and was hanging there, slowly suffocating and they came upon him at that exact moment. So, if there is a lack of living food and the walkers begin to "starve", would they start eating each other? Can they starve to death?
Also, given how mindless they are, I would have expected them to stay theyre, trying to pull his body down forever (unless, as mentioned above, he was still alive when they found him and they wandered off when he died). -
I would like the travel power itself to be inherent and then the option to choose related abilities from a pool power. For example, if I am able to choose an inherent travel power at level 6 (for example) and I choose Teleport, then the Teleport pool would be open for me to buy the other abilities if I so desired. I'd possibly rework the pool powers to make them a bit more useful.
I always thought that, since Flight and Super Jump have powers to grant some defense, it would be cool to have a defensive teleport ability-- say teleporting randomly around your foe (staying in melee or line-of-sight) and gaining a defensive bonus. -
Just watched the trailer for Tucker and Dale...
It's on my must-watch list now. I hope that the trailer doesn't have all of the good bits. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Jagged
That is so much better than the awful movie rubber suits!
I love the suit as presented in AA and AC...
I would get a second and third job to buy this if I had to. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Adelie
I created a chat window just for NPC text but it still is more trouble than it should be.
Thoughts?
This is what I have been doing. I just read everything at the end. If I am on a team, though, it can such because everyone else will start a new mission while I read the old one. -
Mirror Spirit is hot.
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Been hoping for this right from the start. -
Quote:No, not you.Originally Posted by BrandX
Cynacism? I just prefere the other product. It's a nice thing they're doing for sure. I just won't go buying it because of it.
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Huh. Lots of cynicism here.
I don't care about the whys and wherefores of this. They're raising money for a good cause. I believe they were committing up to 3 million.
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Quote:I loled.Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
In the Dmitri Krylov mission where you kidnap civilians and bring them to Vahzilok surgeons, why did one of them ask my seven foot tall flaming skull faced incarnation of wrath "Are you leading me to safety?" No, probably not.
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Quote:/signedOriginally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
With the upcoming issue, we will have effectively run down the list of Praetorian AVs with the exception of Diabolique (who's pretty much thrown aside into the First Ward) and Infernal, leaving only Emperor Cole himself to throw down with.
Now it's likely we'll be fighting him in a trial, but I want to voice my opinion that I hope we do not. Rather I would prefer a sort of special TF/story arc, much like the Ouroboros and Signature story arcs where we CAN solo it but we can also team it, but this time as a good old eight man team.
The reason is so that we have a better sense of just how far we've come as Incarnates and in our power. I can't help but feel the full effect of an Incarnate character's power gets drowned out in the sea of 18-24 other players, and at the same time still have a better measure than just turning regular stuff up to +4/x8. (Especially since in regular content, we can't use all of our level shifts)
Plus, a by not having it be a trial, it could let players take the story and weight of the scenario in more, make it feel more personal. Make it feel like after wasting all of Cole's croonies, he decides to settle things with you face to face.
This also would let the individual player feel like a greater contribution to the battle than just another small tick off of HP from an endless, eroding wash of damage.
As far as trying to keep Cole from feeling like a pushover when you do invite seven other friends, a possible suggestion is to give Cole a special Self-buff aura that draws on players-characters only that boosts his max health and other stats per-player on the map.
Edit: I realize only after I posted how condescending the title sounds, I probably should of worded it: "here's why I hope the fighting Cole will not be a trial"
I like this better than a trial. I agree with many of your points, especially the feeling of not really being important, or getting a sense of one's power as an Incarnate when surrounded by a whole pack of them. When I did the Jade Spider for the first time, it felt tremendously epic, because I was fighting this giant monster "solo". I'd love to see more content like that, where I actually feel like I am taking on something powerful by myself, or with a normal-sized group. -
Quote:Didn't he say something like "I feel at least six pieces?"Originally Posted by Lothic
Yes the scene with Andrea getting attacked was a little bit contrived. *shrugs*
The part of this episode that baffled me the most is when the doctor somehow determined that the bullet in Carl's gut had somehow broken into 6 pieces. How did he come up with that exact number without X-rays or being able to dig into the boy more than an inch or two? That seemed a little bit like "drama for drama's sake" to me.
I am also in the camp that is starting to feel for Shane. I think that he is basically a good guy, who is in a bad situation and not sure how to process it all.
I also think Sophia is dead and that it is perfectly valid to never see her again and never find out her fate. May not be satisfying for the audience, but I think it's much more real. They should eventually move on, always wondering if they did the right thing. "What if we'd waited one more day?" -
I'm not sure about this...
I generally like Holmes and I love RDJ... but I was fading in and out of consciousness during the first one. It bored me to tears. I might still see this, but I'll probably do like Lord_Nightblade and wait for Netflix or something. -
Good interview here where he admits that he's said it before but "they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer." They also told him they might get a sound-alike and he'd have to explain to fans why he didn't want to do it.
It's so easy to be cynical and negative. I would like to take his comments at face value when he says he just wanted to leave the character on a high note. I can understand that. If I had been doing something for years and years, I would like to be remembered for doing it well and not for doing it until I sucked at it. -
Quote:This actually took me a few seconds to get.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
He'll be back. Mark Hamill without Arkham is just Mmill, and no one likes that guy. Or something.
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I dunno... I really hate to be cynical, but as a coworker once said to me, it seems a bit like "I'm not doing the Joker anymore... at this price". If they throw big gobs of money at him, and have a suitably interesting story, I see him coming back.
At least, I hope so. He is Joker for me now, just like I cringed when I heard the voice from Batman: Year One, because it wasn't Kevin Conroy. -
Some great choices here so far... I am constantly amazed at some of the costumes people come up with. A number of these are just plain gorgeous.
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One of the comments mentions "these Marvel shorts", plural. Are there more out there?
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What I hear most often is that Norton-- being very conscious of his craft and a perfectionist-- wanted more input into how his character was being handled. When they wouldn't give him more leeway in determining his character's role, he opted out.
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I don't know Mark Ruffalo, so I don't want to judge him. He may be an amazing actor and may be the ebst incarnation of Banner ever... But the Entertainment Weekly pic I saw of him makes me think of some weird... latino-pimp-meets-Zoolander , or something. Other pics look ok, but in the Avengers images I have seen, he is a very odd-looking man.
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I'm still hanging on to my old Rules Cyclopedia, with 2nd ed stuff mixed in. I see no need for a new edition every few years. I also couldn't get into 3rd or 4th edition. It was just... too much. It didn't feel like D&D to me.
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Excellent. Loved it.
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Quote:Is it sad that after reading this, I want to find this person and correct him now?Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
When Iron Man came out, I was on hand at my local (well, as local as these things get in the wooded neverland where I live, anyway) first-run theater for the Thursday-midnight show, 'cause I'd been waiting for an Iron Man movie since about 1980 at that point and it seemed like the decent thing to do.
What I hadn't been counting on was that the theater would make an occasion of it. They had a Local Television Personality emceeing a little floor show for about 15 minutes before the film started, and part of the proceeding was a little trivia contest giveaway featuring some tie-in toys donated by the local mall's K-B (remember them?). I sort of sat over in the corner observing, feeling a bit like a sociologist watching some bush tribe that's never seen television before.
The thing I remember most clearly about it, besides the fact that it was all kind of stilted and twee in the way that "gin up some enthusiasm in the stadium" exercises always are, was that one of the toy-giveaway trivia questions was "What is Russian for 'Iron Man'?" Now, as it happens, my "local" theater is also the nearest first-run theater to the University of Maine campus, so it gets a fairly international crowd for a movie theater in the middle of nowhere, and there was a Russian kid in the audience. So he blurted out the Russian for "Iron Man"...
... and the emcee, reading from a card and clearly having no familiarity with the material at all, told him he was wrong.
"I'm Russian," he quite reasonably objected. "I think I know what a simple phrase like that is in my own language."
But no, the emcee insisted, that was not right. According to his card, the Russian for "Iron Man" was supposed to be...
... have you guessed it yet?
... "Crimson Dynamo".
I have at no other time felt such a powerful cross-current of emotions - equal and opposite riptides of the terrible urge:
1) to be That Guy who explains that the Crimson Dynamo is another character, and while he might arguably have been intended as the Soviet answer to Iron Man, he sure as hell wasn't supposed to be Iron Man, and anyway "Crimson Dynamo" isn't even a Russian phrase so how in the hell is it supposed to be Russian "for" anything; and
2) to just go home and forget the whole thing because it was just too embarrassing to even sit there and witness this sideshow.
Fortunately, I stuck it out for another five minutes or so, the theater staff eventually gave up trying to be entertaining and just showed the frickin' movie, and all was forgiven, but...
That's the kind of thing that happens when regular people try to get down with the comics 'hood. It's the superhero fandom equivalent of the Segway scene from the "White & Nerdy" video. It's partly mortifying and partly just sad.
