Captain_Photon
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I mean, the guy who runs it's not called Neutron.
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Quote:Sadly, it's the nature of the beast. Yes, it would have made a lot more sense, if they were going to play it that way, to document James T. Kirk's entire career from (PANCAKE)(PANCAKE)(PANCAKE)(PANCAKE)(PANCAKE)(PANC AKE)(PANCAKE)(PANCAKE) midshipman to war hero to youngest-ever-to-date starship captain - but to the General Public, for whom - let's be honest with ourselves - such films are made and not The Fandom, that would have been entirely too much faff. John Q. Public wants to see Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise, and he's not going to be up for sitting through Mr. Midshipman Kirk, Lieutenant Kirk, Kirk and the Hotspur, Kirk During the Crisis, and Kirk and the Atropos just to get there.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Really? REALLY? That's the best you could do?
Mind you, what this reveals is that the entire "start at the beginning" strategy was flawed and should've been discarded as unfeasible, rather than what they did instead to make it fit into their expectations of the public's patience for such things - but that's life in the big city. -
Quote:I have to disagree; nothing has ever been interesting when it was the Borg. They were the lamest villain group ever invented, and I say that on the boards of a video game that includes no fewer than three Cobra knock-offs (four if you count the Praetorian Police) and the Snakes. :)Originally Posted by SolarSentai
It would've been interesting if it were the Borg.
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Quote:Cap props his shield up on the handlebars of his motorcycle at one point, just like Plastic Shield Cap in the TV-movie.Originally Posted by Nericus
I think I missed that due to blotting the 1979 movie from memory, what was it?
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I finally got around to seeing this today. It's presented pretty much the way I've been saying for 10 years or so that I'd make a Captain America movie if I had the opportunity - as a period piece - so I was already predisposed to like it, and I wasn't disappointed. Fantastic. Of the current crop of Marvel films, comes in a very close second to Iron Man in my book.
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Quote:... have you ever read a superhero comic book?Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Antimatter delivers an insane rant from atop a reactor - and amazing how we can hear what he's saying from 100 ft away, down on the ground
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A) That's not a spelling error, it looks like a buffer overrun.
B) This is what we have /bug for inside the game. Nobody who can fix that is likely to be reading the For Fun boards. -
Quote:Riiiiiight. I bet you heard that from Paragon Transit's PR department.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
The Red Line was destroyed in the first Rikti War. All of the Green and Yellow trams were labeled from the Red Line in memorium, alongside any surviving Red Line trams.
(You know what that is, that's the lore people covering up an art screwup, is what that is. Back in the day you could win a No-Prize by explaining a mistake in a Marvel comic with some similar sort of handwave - so at least it's got that classic comics vibe about it. ;) -
Quote:Presumably that last bit would be made out of the progress bar.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Extra points if the loading screens are Indiana Jones style maps with our travel paths in a red line...
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Quote:You'd need some chemical assistance to get through your workday too, if you were the city engineer in Paragon City. The psychotic requirements of the PTA tram system are the least of that poor sod's worries. Mind you, Paragon Transit as a whole is a pretty iffy organization. I mean, these are people who can't manage to buy correctly labeled tram cars. Paragon City doesn't even have a Red Line.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
The monorail engineer was on something pretty serious, if you actually have a hard look at some of the lines, especially in Talos. At least one of the lines is....just...it....no, that hurts my brain too much.
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Quote:I've always assumed that the ferry is where it is relative to Portal Corp. exactly because Portal is where the action is - in order to force characters to run the sniper gauntlet in the middle of the island. One of the game's several (often inexplicable in any other context) "hey, kid, work for it a little" structures. :)Originally Posted by Zombie Man
3. We need a drop off point in IP near Portal Corp, where all the action is. Ask for a Portal drop off point there.
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I have no input on the suggestion itself, I just like saying "Terror Volta".
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I've long thought that origins should be assigned by power set rather than character. For instance, Captain Photon's energy blasts come from his mutation, but his devices sure don't, so it's a bit weird for him to be slotting genetic alterations in order to make e.g. his Targeting Drone more effective. (It also annoys me a little that he gets gypped out of the bonus damage on his vet-badge Nemesis Staff. I thought discrimination against mutants went out with Zubaz pants.) But then you get into what happens to pool powers and would players who aren't that into high concept go for having to shop at two different stores and whatnot, and the whole thing quickly becomes too much of a faff to bother with.
As for a wholesale character-wide change, I don't think I'd have any pressing use for it myself, but within the confines of the Standard Code Rant I'd support it for those who did. -
Quote:I dunno, there's plenty of precedent for doors that pop up "You cannot enter." if you're not allowed through them, but don't say anything if you are. The mission doors all work that way, as does the entrance to the Tiki Club in Pocket D. It doesn't throw up a box every time saying, "Do you seriously want to go into the Tiki Club?"Originally Posted by Xzero45
I always assumed it was that way for the game to check if you're allowed access or not, since certain characters can't get into Resistance bases, or go Redside.
(Also, since you mentioned red side, similarly, the dialogue box that says "Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President, uh, go to the Rogue Isles?" could do with a yeah-I-get-it-stop-bothering-me checkoff too.) -
You know those dialogue boxes that pop up and say "you're about to go into the Underground" or "this is the Sekrit Resistance Base, do you really want to go in there?" I'd sure be obliged if those got the "don't show this again" checkoff the "no fighting in Pocket D" one got, please. Thanks.
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Quote:Er, yeah, I wasn't talking about that part, I was talking about the "worst thing ever to happen" part.Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
Laser Jesus came up with the idea initially. Seriously.
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Quote:They were supposed to be epic, but in testing it didn't fit into the Balance Vision that way. Looks like they missed one in the ensuing global rename.Originally Posted by Cobalt Azurean
when levelin' up and you get the option to pick a power from'em, it says Choose One Epic Power Set. This was double-checked on a second build on a hero.
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Quote:Really? Really? People are still saying this? Oh. My. God. The teleporter sent me back in time.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
That wasn't the players. That was Emmert. Don't ever confuse the loyal playerbase of City of Heroes with the worst thing to ever happen with the game.
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Quote:Yeah, well, it's not as if anything else about Venom ever made any damn sense.Originally Posted by Lastjustice
Wouldn't that make it a parasite instead not a symbiote? heh.
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Quote:To be fair, such a thing makes plenty of sense in the context of Krypton itself. I mean, Kryptonians don't have superpowers there.Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex
Then you will really wonder about Supermans ceremonial Kyrptonian armor due to appear in comics.
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Quote:That's what he wants them to think. All hail Lord Nemesis.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Well, they also told us that Nemesis died a simple toymaker.
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Quote:And it doesn't even work! I've got "She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult in there now.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Your avatar is a jerk.
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Quote:Don't all movies nowadays?Originally Posted by Midnight_Flux
Is it just me, or does this look more like a very realistic artist's rendering, rather than an actual picture?
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Quote:... but you won't be able to make any of it out because of the psychotic heavy-metal-video editing.Originally Posted by je_saist
It's got Zak Synder heading it, so it will have better action...
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Er... no. Just... just no. I don't know why superhero movie art designers always feel the need to darken the colors and add weird textures. As long ago as the Flash TV series they've been doing that, and I can't think of a single occasion offhand on which it's worked. It sure didn't in Superman Returns.
That one example I can kind of understand - the series was greenlit because of the huge success of the first Tim Burton Batman film, and the suits, in their infinite savvy, thought the Flash would only latch onto that audience's coattails if he, too, was presented as a grim avenger who operated mainly at night. That's dumb, but at least it makes a sort of Hollywood sense. (Hmm. Are we seeing a Batman-success knock-on effect here too, because of Nolan's involvement?)
Superman, though... no. I have to admit I like the Spawn-y cape, but the rest of it leaves me not just cold but putting on a sweater. At least a sweater has a reason to have a 3D texture.