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  1. Red Hulk in the new Hulk show? *sigh*

    Could someone please throw that Villain Sue into a volcano?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg View Post
    I turned my DVD subscription back on with Netflix and have been (re)watching B5 with my daughter. We're just about through with season 1.

    I was reading some of the B5 wiki pages and was reminded there is a B5 ranger named Marcus Cole! I wonder why CoH never got in trouble for using that name?
    Probably because Marcus Cole and Statesman are very clearly two entirely different people.

    Now if Statesman wore brown robes, spoke with a british accent, fought with a stick and kept on talking about The One, then there'd be an issue.
  3. Clearly, the Magistratium plaza leads to a mirror universe to Praetoria where Emperor Cole is a ruthless dictator instead of a benevolent emperor alongside with goatee wearing versions of all of the praetors!
  4. So, on a lark I decided to take some comparison shots between CoH with all the graphical bells and whistles and at the absolute minimum settings. The difference was quite a bit bigger than I thought it'd be. I took these shots in Nova Praetoria as that is the newest zone and therefore should have the greatest difference in the high and low end.

    High End:


    Low End:


    High End:


    Low End:


    High End (The water looks much better in motion):


    Low End:
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    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    I've not heard about this "Beware the Batman"...

    And I have to admit that I wasn't sorry to see the Spectacular Spider-mole disappear.
    The more that you don't hear of Beware the Batman the better.

    I liked Spectacular Spider-man, though from what I understand, it was less the rights reverting back to Marvel and more that Sony was given the choice by Disney when Disney bought out Marvel to either keep the movie rights or keep the tv cartoon rights, and Sony chose the movie rights.

    Ultimate Spider-man's sorta grown on me though.
  6. its a completely new series, EMH is ending after season 2. Lets hope they didn't end it on a cliffhanger.
  7. If you're working on a build, gimping damage in order to squeeze out another 1.8% defense is not necessary as you could get the same benefit from simply swallowing a purple or 2.
  8. The X-Men always seemed be off in their own little corner of the Marvel Universe doing their own thing aside from Wolverine. They really do work better in their own universe than as part of a greater superpowered universe, especially with the whole racism angle. How would the average person know that Spider-man is not a mutant but Iceman is? Why would they even make the distinction as they're both super powered metahumans running around being vigilantes with no oversight.
  9. DLancer

    I24 hopes?

    Typically if your car's engine is 8 years old, hand built by people with only a passing knowledge of how cars work, constantly tweaked and modified by several sets of completely different people with only a vague understanding of what had been done to the engine before, and the dashboard starts to rattle as if its about to collapse on your legs when you go over 50 mph, its probably time to get a new car.
  10. DLancer

    I24 hopes?

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    Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum View Post
    The problem that I see is that they seem hellbent determined to design events that hammer at and exceed the engine's limitations rather than emphasize activities that can be done safely without reaching these limitations."
    I suspect that by this point its probably impossible to do anything that doesn't hammer at the engine's limitations. The engine is held together by toothpicks and prayers.
  11. DLancer

    Lantern Draft

    And Thunderbolt Ross was a major jerk and became a Red Villain Sue major jerk. Gamma radiation kinda struck out there.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    ... But keep Cyclops dead.
    Or keep Cyclops alive and make the new third movie far less Wolverine centric.
  13. While it is certainly imaginative, I think it would work better with an original IP rather than with the X-Men, and as a animated series rather than a movie. He's talking about putting quite a bit of characters and plot into what would be a 2 hour movie.

    Overall, his reimagining strays too far from the source material.
  14. Its just sad that the redside plot is doomed to failure as there is no way that the devs are going to write out Arachnos like they did with Statesman.

    We could really do with having less of an Arachnos stranglehold on redside content.
  15. He thought about going to Independence Port, but figured it was too much effort.
  16. One thing that bugs me is why are the Clockwork the old Electric type and not Psychic, like they are in the rest of the high level content like the LGTF?
  17. I bet 20 Inf that my villain's supposed lackey tries to betray me at some point. She seems the type.
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    Originally Posted by Oliin View Post
    He's been pretty obviously putting off 'evil' vibes since scene one. If he's not Amon he's most likely at least connected to the guy somehow.
    I'm thinking he's arrogant enough to assume that his bloodbending can take care of Amon and that his political savvy can use the Equalist movement to his own advantage.
  19. The queen explicitly reveals herself to be Sorceress Serene.
  20. You know, Liam Neeson should have done more, seeing as A) His daughter was basically a captive of the aliens as far as he knew B) As we saw in Taken, he's pretty vengeful when his daughter's life is at stake, C) He has Jedi powers, D) He is also Zeus God of Thunder, and finally E) He could have RELEASED THE KRAKEN at any time.

    Oh, and he's the guy who trained Batman.

    So, yeah, Liam Neeson was kinda slacking off with the whole alien invasion thing.
  21. They could do Battleship or MIB 3 pretty easily, I think.

    And Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter just writes itself.
  22. I'm perfectly ok with Jim Temblor being the Luke Cage of the CoH universe.
  23. It did seem like they were sorta phoning this one in.

    Hopefully their other summer blockbuster parodies are better.
  24. Nothing to watch on G4 but reruns of Ninja Warrior.