Cyber_naut

Yeah, I've seen stories about parasites that can force or induce the host to do things it normally would not do, for no other reason than to benefit the parasite. Eating sure doesnt' seem to provide much in the way of nutrition or sustenance for the decaying zombies, lol.

If merle was the one who stole the truck, then he probably already knew his brother wasn't in camp, as he was probably following the sheriff and his gang, which included merles bro.

Regardless, the guy is a lunatic, so maybe he's pissed at his brother too for not coming to help him right away.

LOL, nobody is claiming the 'devs can do no right', the fact everyone posting here is playing their game shows that we all enjoy what they produce.

The complaints are coming due to the fact they are consistently late in releasing new content. Again, some of the stuff we are still waiting for was supposed to be released with GR. You can play games with semantics all you want, but a lot of us are aggrivated with being strung along waiting for the incarnate content. If you're not, that's great, but acting like there is no reason at all for some of us to feel the way we do is ridiculous. It's a valid argument that they've missed a lot of release dates recently, and most customers don't like it when the person they are doing business with is consistently late with providing products or services.

Man, I wish ncsoft was as forgiving about our end of the deal as you are with theirs. Call them up and tell them that you really wanted to send in your game fees on the due date, but due to technical difficulties you have to delay.

NCSoft: "Thats OK electric knight, we LOVE our players and really appreciate the fact you've supported our game over the years, so don't worry about this months bill, send it in whenever you want! We know you agreed to send it in on the (insert date here), but it's ok if you just guess or make up dates then just send it in whenever you want. Heck, if you do send it in, to us it's just 'extra'! Thanks again for being a super-duper customer. We're gonna send you a free code for the party pack just for the heck of it. Is your address still 34 gumdrop lane in candyland?"

Yeah, lol, why not make it available now until nov 29th? Gonna have intersting results if the store goes down or is down on that one day...

Fixed my typo.

If you're fine with missed release dates or waiting longer for i19, thats fine, but c'mon, lol.

I18 was released 3 months ago, not 'like yesterday'.

The main point of issue 18/GR, the alpha slot, was supposed to be in going rogue to begin with, and even when it releases, we won't be getting the full alpha slot, so claiming they are 'on schedule' is ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, the second half of going rogue (and the better half imo), is LONG overdue.

And finally, 3 updates (2 of which were supposed to be in one update, and we're assuming i19 will be launched before 2011...) out of a, as you yourself stated, 'promised' 4, is not 'all good', it's another failure to deliver what they 'promised' us. Outside of the ridiculously devoted, that results in disappointed customers and loss of business, which hurts the devs, the game and everyone still playing it.

Don't get me wrong, I don't blame the 'little guys' working on the game (the work they do overall is outstanding, which is why I love this game), this is most likey the fault of those at the top, looking to maximize profits using methods that actually will end up killing them, like swapping out experienced workers for newbs and/or cutting employees all together, while pushing unrealistic work goals, and more damaging, making promises they continually miss on, which is only going to result in more and more disappointed customers.

Having said that, you absolutey cannot release an update if it cripples an entire AT. However that doesn't change the fact that a company needs to deliver on its promises and/or stated goals consistently to continue to be successful.

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Please do research it, I'd like to know exactly what you were talking about. If her situation was similar to parkers and she invented something on the scale of web fluid that is strong enought to support tons of weight and devices that allowed it to be projected, all on the cheap, you'd have some kind of point. Of course even then, that does nothing to address the idea that it's easier and more sensible to incorporate the ability to spin webs to the mutation that resulted from a radioactive spider bite from a story telling perspective...

Aw c'mon, just because some people disagree with you on what is a better origin for spidey's webshooters, you want to try and imply the opposing argument is just 'dumb'? How ironic.

I think they're nuts for going 'on the cheap' for spiderman. If marvel/disney can turn profits on Iron Man with their costs, how the hell can a studio screw up a more popular character like spiderman? I actually don't think you need to hire a superstar actor, and from what Ive seen of garfield I think he can do a great job, but if they skimp on the special effects, that could be a disaster.

So for the web fluid to be organic it has to fire out of his ***, lol? Last time I checked spiders and humans have different body composition, so webs firing from spidey's wrists can be easy enough to explain via this fact. I guess the mutation could have resulted in a closer spider-like mutation with extra eyes and appendages too, but it didn't.

And my argument is not that a kid can't be a genius or that a kid can't invent anything incredible. My argument is that it makes more sense for the webbing to be part of the mutation, rather than create another ridiculously hard to believe scenerio that isn't necessary. If we're already being asked to believe that a radioactive spider bite can result in a mutation that creates a superhuman spiderman, you might as well tie a power that already is relatable to that situation, than create an entirely different scenerio for one of the powers. Going further, the new scenerio doesn't fit into the set up either. Parker, a HS kid, and even after that, is poor as dirt. Where is he getting the resources to create this incredible invention, both the fluid and the shooter devices, and keeping up what seems to be an endless supply, when he's usually scraping up money for rent? And while parker is supposed to be very bright, that can be easy enough to demonstrate without having him needlessly create a synthetic webbing that is strong enough to support a buick in his bedroom, and just so happens to go perfectly with his spider theme, especially when its easier and more believable to simply incorporate that into his mutation.

Having said that, obviously this is all a matter of opinion. Obviously the original origin of the character had the web shooter devices, and some people prefer to leave the original story alone. Even I didn't like the idea of changing the story when I first heard the idea of organic web shooters in the lead up to the movie, but for the reasons I've already gone over, I changed my mind. Ultimately, this new movie won't succeed or fail based on what kind of explanation they give for the webshooters (unless they really screw up the script...), it will succeed or fail based on story and the performance of the actors. And chances are they'll change some things from some of the various comic book stories that also changed some of the things from the original story.

But most people did enjoy the raimi spider man series overall, even if a few people, apparently including yourself, did not, because overall it did remain true to the character of spiderman and peter parker. The oddest critique of that series I continually heard, even while leaving the theater a couple of times, were people complaining that peter parker was too nerdy, or not cool enough, and wondering how they could miss the point of the character so badly and still claim to be spiderman fans. Having said that, I would like to see more of the wisecracking spidey always does when facing off with villains, that was the only thing I think raimi underplayed in his movies (and 100% less song and dance routines.... lol).

A guy gets bitten by a radioactive spider and mutates, gaining spider like abilities including the ability to create webs.

A guy gets bitten by a radioactive spider and mutates, gaining spider like abilities except for the ability to create webs. Luckily, his dead father was working on a web like substance and his HS son picks up the work (and wow, what were the chances that his dead dad's work would go with his new spiderman abilities!), creates a powerful webbing solution that the worlds top scientists would marvel at, creates web shooters of similar technological brilliance, and maintains a steady supply of this fluid as a HS student and then college student working part time as a photographer.

And you think choice 2 makes more sense? Gonna have to disagree with you on that one, lol.

Exactly. It makes way more sense that this incredibly strong webbing is the result of his mutation than some HS kid invents it in his bedroom. The kid is supposed to be really smart, but he shouldn't be inventing **** in his room that the worlds greatest scientists can't replicate in the best labs technology has to offer. Making the webbing organic was a great move in the last movies.