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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bosstone View Post
    I've encountered them before, but typically only in online RPG circles where openly hermaphroditic characters were common. It's completely nonstandard and very very twee, especially when being used as presumably "polite" gender-neutral terminology. It's also wrong, given that the usage I've seen it in is specifically to refer to characters known to be neither male nor female, but not to characters whose gender is an unknown. That's always been "they."

    Now please, please let's all pretend I don't possess this knowledge.

    Thank you! Twee is the word I couldn't remember when I used pretentious earlier.

    I was familiar with "hir" from SF, Peter David uses it in connection with his hermaphrodite character in Star Trek: New Frontier. Don't recall if he uses "sie" though.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    And no one will top the original Poison Pain! I miss her.
    Obviously since it is Perfect Pain.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Well, that'd certainly be a first
    I know, right?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    It's not pretentious, really. Some people just don't like having their gender assumed and/or sorted. It's the way of the world.

    Unfortunately, the words haven't really caught on, so they always have this foreign tinge to them anytime they're used.
    I found it pretentious in this case because PP had already shown that they had an axe to grind about their game experiences as well as giving unsolicited grammar and proofreading advice. Using "hir" and "sie" on top of "Kanada" in the location text, felt like just a demonstration of a superiority complex.

    Really curious if there will any response from PP. (not to be confused with the original and still the ginchiest PP)
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Obscure Blade View Post
    Those are hermaphroditic/gender neutral pronouns. Why PoisonPen is using them, I have no idea.
    To show how pretentious they are?
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    I've been trying for days to switch back to Hero on my Scrapper, and I've stalled at Rogue. No matter how many enemies I kill in Paragon City, in missions or on the street, I'm not getting any tip drops. My fame bubbles are empty, and I'm killing enemies over 20, and yet I have no tips. I even went back to the Rogue Isles, and I haven't secretly gotten any tips there, so what's the deal? Am I the only one, or is there no way to switch sides now?
    Apparently it's a bug with Rogues at the moment. A friend in game has been having the same problem and he was told this in reply to his petition.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Do you shop at Ouroboros Comix & DeLoreans?
    Why would he? It's the new Next Men series being published by IDW.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Sure he's frustrated, tired and lost his best sample to work on. Would that be enough to, right at that point, decide to kill himself? Maybe. But I think all those things PLUS the idea that he now managed to potentially infect himself would be the tipping point. He did mention sparing others from his "embarrassment". He's drinking wine (so presumably has plenty of food) and he seems to be safe from the Walkers. Why kill yourself right then unless there was a REAL reason to hurry up and do it more or less ASAP?

    It's possible he was reluctant to break containment protocols, but he would have likely muttered to himself, "No, I can't let you in!" instead of, "No, go away!" if that was the only thing motivating him. It really was as if he was trying rationalize whether there was any point to letting them in because they would be no safer inside than out.

    Frankly I think we are dealing with some confused editing and some uncertainty on the show's part which way they want to take this CDC guy motivation-wise.

    We don't know he was actually about to top himself right then and there. And we don't know how much wine he'd had, who among us hasn't had a good drunken ramble about the inequities of life and had "the thought"?

    Like the majority of the main characters in the show we know next to nothing about how he got to this point. And with CDC guy we've "known" him for less than 15 minutes. All the speculation is fun, and obviously the writers did something right since it's sparked such diverse takes. But we can only go with what was said in the episode. "[W]ould have likely..." doesn't enter into the discuss IMO. And I'm pretty certain the writers and producers had CDC guy's motivation pretty solidly in place months ago when they were filming.

    Anyway, I'm gonna take the novel approach and wait to see where the show takes us in this (completely different direction from the comic? Been a while since I read them) turn of events. But tbh I'll be pretty disappointed if he conveniently got himself infected just before he gets company. I think it just might be the final, lazy, serve-the-plot convenience for me.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Basically I figured the whole point behind him becoming suicidal and saying "No, go away!" to the campers on his monitor is -precisely- because he knew he might have infected himself. The whole thing comes off as fairly confused if we the audience can't be sure which way to interpret what happened in the lab.
    I honestly felt he'd reached his breaking point with filing video reports that very likely were not being seen, not finding a solution to the problem he was working on and now his best sample for continuing his work was gone due to his error, so his growing his frustration and the knowledge that going out was not feasable brought him to a point where just giving was an attractive thought. Not that he would necessarily follow through, those sort of things ususally pass.

    I thought he just didn't want to take the responsiblity for the newcomers and the protocols for not breaking containment would be pretty ingrained in him.
  10. And once again Internetz Rule number 2 rears it's ugly head - Don't Feed the Trolls!

  11. This show, like so many genre shows before it and probably after it, doesn't hold up to any major scrutiny. But the nit-pickers will over-analyze and the die hard fans will defend and the circle will be unbroken.

    I'm just gonna enjoy it, warts and all, for the one hour of entertainment per episode that it is meant to be.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    I am not going to do well in a zombie apocalypse without super powers.
    Try to find a book called Ex Heroes by Peter Clines. Superpowers are no guarantee for zombie apocalypse survival.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    Has anyone brought up steak yet?
    Yes. Yes I did.
  14. At a family dinner at my folk's place my then 4 year old daughter asked, while eating her bit of steak, "what kind of chicken is this?" because to her all meat was chicken. Also around that same age she did not want to try the scalloped potatoes I made for supper. After finally convincing her to try them she pipes up "How did you make them taste like tataoes?"

    For a while it was fun to ask her what animal was black and white and stinky cause she'd answer "snunk" instead of skunk.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Olantern View Post
    Same. Devil's Cape is also notable as having what I consider one of the best-realized settings in genre fiction, period, let alone superhero prose. In fact, I've never read any superhero fiction in any medium with a similar setting. For those who haven't read it, its setting, the city of Devil's Cape, is to New Orleans what Metropolis and Gotham City are to New York. Really interesting stuff, and an intriguing variation on the "create your own contemporary city" idea that permeates superhero stories.
    Apparenty there is story about Sherlock Holmes in Devil's Cape in an anthology called The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The list of contributors has some pretty interesting names.
  16. I'll throw in a recommendation for Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers.

    Next generation heroes learning about their powers and legacies in a corrupt city with a supervillian pulling the strings.
  17. Burmuda Triangle connection + Area 51-like detention/research facility + human looking prisoners = first (accidental) and now second (much more public) contact with the Lost City of Atlantis civilization?
  18. I love seeing my stupidly lowball 6 figure winning bids in the middle of 4 other 7 or 8 figure bids.
  19. I used to play Fallout and Baldur's Gate with my 3 year old daughter on my lap. I let her loot the corpses and she got to the point of "kill something else Dad!" so she could keep on having her fun.

    Now she sometimes teams with me in the Cities. So you have that to look forward to.

    Back in her younger days (3-5) she loved the Freddie Fish and Pyjama Sam games but I don't know if they are still available for current gamer spawn, if you want him gaming on his own or with you.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    I doubt this will satisfy the only a national television campaign counts as advertising crowd, but I think it's pretty cool.
    I don't really know how buying television ad time works as far as putting something on individual shows but if they did a decent commercial it could run on the Syfy and Cartoon networks and on the new fall shows - No Ordinary Family and The Cape. I have hopes now of seeing something like that.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by FreckledAvenger View Post
    The Maelstrom one was in all my DC books, so I'm guessing you're right, that's the DC one. I don't read Marvel...
    Interestingly enough my DC book, Legion of Super-heroes had the Desdemona ad.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    If you have a scanner would you be able to share it with us? The ad that is, not the comic book.
    Sorry, I don't have a scanner. Hopefully someone else will step up.
  23. I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see a full page ad for GR in the DC comic I picked up today. Surprised that it was in a DC book while they are also advertising for their own DCUO game and happy because it is a natural place to advertise CoX.
  24. I started down the Vigilante path with one character and for two missions he was fine with it. But then I had to decide if I let a Hero die or save him. I honestly couldn't turn my back on him. Shades of grey indeed.
  25. Comicbook Resources has a GR background and link too.