Captain_Photon

Or, over on the other side of the aisle, Batman and Robin - probably the highest-profile characters with that effect happening, and one of the big reasons why live-action Batman costumes have never... quite... worked.

It's still a good idea, though I'm not sure how it would be implemented as an option. Fortunately, implementing it isn't my job.

(Also: I'd like characters' eyebrows to be able to match their hair.)

... except all that, you know, infrastructure that wasn't there before.

That's fine, I don't want you to argue. I just want you to maybe think before misusing a deeply loaded word next time.

That's... not really how being a consumer works, but OK.

Nemesis might be a bad choice of example, being the silliest-looking villain faction in the game and all. I mean, they're awesome, don't get me wrong - they have a mole drill - but they're still dressed like they ran away from band camp.

Minus 2000 points for misuse of "atrocity". The BLANK of Nanking - Charles Nelson Reilly! ("The History Sanitizer says 'Nanking Massacre of 1937-38'") - was an atrocity. This is a costume change you don't like in a multiplayer online game about superheroes. Let's try to have some frickin' perspective.

The same thing that's next for the rest of the United States government: internal squabbling, Congressional neglect, indifference from the general public, and eventual supersession by foreign private enterprise.

I always wished there was a "bare hands w/wristwatch" option under Smooth.

Only five hours? That'd be the television edit.

Well, OK, I'll grant you that, although last time I checked we didn't really have re-enacting the Normandy invasion on the to-do list either, particularly since we've lately developed the interesting habit of only getting into fights with landlocked or near-landlocked countries. But hey! That could change. We might stop fooling around with these desert nowheres and go after North Korea someday. They've got a coast.

I'll tell you what, one of those old girls would sure give those Somali pirates an unusual day at the office. 9x16"/50-caliber naval rifles: 1, Zodiac full of AK-47-toting speed freaks: 0.

It means it's not Predacon. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Unless you're Technology Origin. Then you're already doing basically what the OP suggested all the time, just on a smaller scale.

You heard it here first - Tech characters undermine the central principle of the game!

Anyway, I quite like the idea, but don't go by me. I've long wished that my Robotics Mastermind's Fly power worked by having her climb onto her Assault Bot's back and surf the sky like Norrin Radd, if Norrin Radd had a heavily armed combat robot instead of a cosmic surfboard, so the whole premise of the original post appeals to me on an entirely un-rational level.

Aw, it does, though! Check out those peg-shaped alien missile things and that aerial shot at the end. Someone tried really hard to make those bits have a Battleship flavor. Which is very silly, but then, it looks like it's supposed to be a pretty silly movie, so it's all good.

The U.S. Navy's WWII-vintage Iowa-class battleships were modernized and recommissioned in the '80s as part of the Reagan-era "600-ship navy", then put out to pasture again in 1991-92, when it became clear that the Soviet Union had been perfectly capable of destroying itself without the Navy's help. Entertainingly, though they're not in commission and are being converted into museum ships now, they're still being kept on the books in some nebulous bureaucratic state of readiness-for-readiness, just in case we should suddenly happen to need a decisive advantage in a re-enactment of the Battle of Jutland. Or be invaded by aliens, I suppose, as we see here.

Why the Navy's website should choose not to reflect this I couldn't say, though one wonders cynically whether it might have something to do with the brass hoping people will forget about that disgraceful episode in 1990 wherein one of those ships suffered a serious accidental explosion and the Navy tried to blame it on one of the dead sailors being - hmm, I bet I can't say that on this board - Not Quite the Thing. (This was both irrelevant and, as it turned out, untrue.)

For values of "shortly after" that include 1992, anyway...

I think of him as more akin to greats like Michael Caine and Christopher Lee, neither of whom have ever let the possibility that a movie might suck dissuade them from taking the job.

On the other hand, the music is fixable. Oh snap.

I'm not sure which Circle of Thorns prison rooms you've been visiting, but the ones I've seen have been guarded better than Paragon City's banks.

Over the years I've found that - strange as it seems - sarcastic petulance doesn't really help when you're asking for a favor; particularly one based on a premise (more inventory and/or easier account-wide access to same) which prior policy has demonstrated a standing bias against.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana (1863-1952), The Life of Reason Volume One: Reason in Common Sense, 1905

"What we got back... didn't live long. Fortunately."

That could be awesome if it's the right barbershop quartet. Sadly, Da Vinci's Notebook broke up years ago.

One of my very oldest characters works for Paragon Light & Power. He got his electric blast powers in an accident at work and figured, well, why quit the day job? PL&P has a good benefits package and, unlike electrical workers, superheroes don't have a strong union.

I know, right? And yet not one word about removing that crap music from Blyde Square.

("If my teeth hurt, I must be on my way to see Positron.")

Sam, how did you get to more than 32 and a half thousand posts without realizing what those little round yellow things with the vaguely anthropomorphic features mean? Sheesh.