Captain_Photon
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Quote:*cough*Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini
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It occurred to me earlier today that there ought to be a couple of invention workbenches in the DATA office in City Hall. I mean, if you were going to find them anywhere in the wild, it makes more sense for them to be there than in the admissions office at the University...
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"Refuse" is a bit harsh. Say rather that they fail to remember us.
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This little bit of academic preciousness comes around every little while, and, like a mild but recurrent rash, it's always just that little bit irritating. "Just as easy" my hinder. It's not hard to decipher, no, but it still has to be deciphered. That's like claiming that leaving a door unlocked is the same as leaving it open.
On the other hand, typos don't bother me in in-game chat, mainly because I know we're all typing under time pressure and in a somewhat less than ideal interface (seriously, when things get hectic the type-ahead lag sometimes verges on comical). Typos and spelling errors in canned character dialogue? Those annoy me. There's no reason other than simple carelessness why an NPC saying something like "the world is in jeapordy" should have made it into open release. Yeah, it's trivially easy to tell what he was meant to be saying... but that's not the point. -
Quote:Maybe we need another category for "you can hurt me, but it's not actually going to make any difference." Wolverine could move there from Durable.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Hulk has been physically wounded quite a few times (a notable example being any time he's fought Wolverine, even with bone claws), it just takes a lot to do it, and he heals from it pretty quickly.
("Hulk get knocked down, but Hulk get up again. Puny humans never going to keep Hulk down.") -
Welcome to Praetoria! The real city of villains.
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Quote:Yes, and it doesn't mean what you're using it for. (P.S. It's only one word.)Originally Posted by Durakken
do you know what the words "seemed" means?
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Quote:As should the invincible Iron Man, depending on who's writing him and how much or little the current plotline needs him to get beaten up by Stilt-Man. (Seriously, has any other major superhero's durability level ever varied as wildly and arbitrarily as Iron Man's? I'm talking about within storylines involving only one model of his suit, too. Sometimes he's going toe to toe with Thor, sometimes he's losing fights to a guy wearing an earlier model of his own armor. Mind-boggling.)Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Also, ironically enough, Invincible should be included in the invulnerable section. >.>
Flip side, I would normally think of the Hulk as invincible by this list's standards. Unless, again, there's some arbitrary need for him to get punched out by the Thing, he's pretty well indestructible.
Other flip side, original-formula Superman (before he could fly) was only durable. -
"It occurs to me, Captain Solo, that this codebase may not be entirely stable."
"Not entirely stable! Well, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things." -
Quote:... but since you don't, it didn't happen.Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent
I just wish I had a screenshot to illustrate...
Sorry, dude! That's how truth on the Internet works.
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Quote:Wow. I didn't realize it was possible to /ragequit an entire medium.Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose
Until I see some major changes (retcons, never thought I'd wish for that) I'm done with comics period.
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Quote:... Yeah, see, you might have wanted to mention that, rather than implying exactly the opposite by saying "this character always seemed to be," etc. (emphasis mine) A little up-front warning that you are specifically talking through your hat. Just for courtesy's sake...Originally Posted by Durakken
Let me explain a little.
#1. I never read Blue Beetle before this. -
Quote:It is, though. It really, really is. It's the only point from the perspective of the men sitting behind the really big desks in the really high offices, and they're the ones who make the decisions.Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose
And they're response to the outcry is just, "Pay attention to the ratings"? That is not the point!
Saying it's not the point is like saying whether a gladiator's performance pleases the Emperor isn't the point. When the Emperor is the one deciding whether he gets stabbed, it's the only thing that matters.
Whether it's right for that to be the case is a separate question, and one that's worth pondering in an abstract sort of way. But that it is the case is not debatable. -
Quote:I'm sorry, did you just - yeah, OK, you did. Wow. OK, I could see not being impressed with the new version; I haven't read it, but based on the buzz surrounding this entire experiment on DC's part, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they're Doing It Wrong. But to say that Jaime Reyes has always seemed like a soulless marketing ploy, you'd either have to have not read the John Rogers run, or just be spectacularly dense. Rogers's Blue Beetle was one of the best comics around.Originally Posted by Durakken
Blue Beetle - A rip off, personality wise, of Peter Parker mixed with several other things... this is cashing in on some properties and minority filling more or less. This character always seemed to be like someone in marketing made them up rather than the character having any soul behind it and it really shows especially with how shallow the rest of the line up is.
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Quote:The Marvel Studios universe is still fairly young as superhero worlds go. It doesn't yet make sense for random security personnel - which, AFAIK, is all the movie Black Widow is so far - to have specialized superhero gadgets.Originally Posted by mousedroid
Why do they have the Black Widow using guns? Why doesn't she have wrist blasters like she did in the comics? This disappoints me.
Which isn't to say she mightn't acquire them over the course of the film. I mean, she does work for Stark Industries, kind of.
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Blue Steel and the Hulk have many things in common. Particularly their shared tendency to fly into a mindless rage and cause terrible harm without really noticing until afterward.
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Quote:Maybe, as a security measure, they should institute a system whereby you can only play the game if you've paid a nominal monthly fee. Say about $15, that sounds fair...Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
So our only choices are to either alienate free players from the game, or else allow ourselves to be deluged by RMT spam again?
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Quote:They could do that as a variant of the full-face masks ("Sightless", et al.) that sets the texture to transparent, like the bugged Flak Jacket from ages ago that made your torso invisible. (I always wished they would make that a deliberate option as opposed to just "fixing" it.) Then you could also have, for instance, a character with no visible head, but hair where you would expect it. Or a hat. That would rock.Originally Posted by Crazy1van
What I'd love to see is a custom head along the lines of a Jack-O-Lantern, but gaving the toon NO VISIBLE HEAD AT ALL.
"Invisible hands" gloves, also achievable with this trick, would be similarly hilarious.
Also, while I'm here, please add my vote for "can we please not have an entire month of freaking night this time". I used to really love the Halloween events. The overcooked zombie apocalypse thing put the biggest dent in that love, but the constant night for the duration of the event doesn't help either. It was kind of neat for the first couple of days, but then it got oooooooold. -
Quote:Holy cow, you're right.Originally Posted by Morgan Reed
Fair enough.
But there are still RMT /local spams.
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Quote:I'm totally going to make my BR blaster The Men Who Stare At Goats-themed now.Originally Posted by Megajoule
There's a component of the cone-attack FX that sounds, to my ear, just like a goat's bleat. (GOAT LASER)
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Quote:Since beta of the issue in which Archery was introduced, maybe...Originally Posted by Armond
A little old but still a good thread and now that we have backpacks I see no reason why Paragon Studios can't add something like... I don't know "Quivers", it's only be asked for since beta. ;-P
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Quote:The only thing I can remember doing that for was X-Ray Beam? And then only during that period when it was inexplicably bugged so that every time you fired it your character went "AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH." Weirdest sound bug ever.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
(the only thing I have filed-silenced in game)
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Quote:That was levity, son. I thought the smiley was a decent context clue, but I guess some people need more explicit warning.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Video games aren't the real world.
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Quote:To be fair, that is the way the actual world works. Perhaps the OP is simply seeking greater realism for immersion's sake.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
So, you think you should be able to pay real money to become more powerful than people who can't afford to pay it?
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Quote:Strangely, I don't remember advocating "faster". What I was looking at was "not slower". At least, no slower than anything else is around here if you choose to do it without subjecting yourself to the anguish of cat herding. (Similarly, not "better rewards," but the same ones.)Originally Posted by Emperor_Justin
I mean, if running these things solo is easier and faster and you get better rewards, the trials will be defunct and stupid.
Also, it could be argued that they're already stupid.
There's precedent - look what happened to PvP! Oh snap.Quote:I can't see the devs making something that will make their brand new system and content obsolete.