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Quote:If you run the unlock mission in a group, it doesn't take very long to accomplish. It reallly probably doesn't hurt to at least unlock it and start accumulating stuff as you play those characters.Originally Posted by Magnarsh
Really digging that uncommon Cardial thingy with my /WP. Running about 8 toggles, so I always had to keep an eye on my end. Now I don't even have to look at it.
I have no intention of unlocking the Alpha slot with all my 50's. Will probably get it on a few of my tanks. Maybe on my Def and a Scrapper or two.
Trying to decide if I want to work on another enhancement branch or to start hording shards and components for when the rare and ultra rare ones come out. -
Quote:A friend of a coworker works as an airline pilot. Apparently, when Leslie Nielsen would board an airplane, he'd look in the cockpit and say, "I just want to tell you both 'good luck,' we're all counting on you."Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Well, he had his family around him and was still making people laugh in hospital (which is a big building with doctors and patients in it, though that's not important right now.)
Of course, that's all sorts of awesome. -
Pneumonia? That's no way to die.
Getting caught in the gears of a combine. Now that's a way to go. -
Quote:If it's not pictures of something jumping out from behind a rock and yelling "bleah! bleah!" at one of our fallen space probes, I'm not really interested.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
I'll take a stab and say it has something to do with Enceladus or Titan.
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Unlocked 1 alpha slot last night, and want to get the rest of my 50s ready to go. I don't have as many as some other people do, so it's not as huge of a deal for me.
I should have more time tonight than I did last night, so if anyone is running the Alpha Unlock arc, I'd be happy to help get a team rolling. -
Quote:It should be up next Monday.Originally Posted by all_hell
When will it hit the interwebz on the adultswim site?
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Quote:The things "The Venture Brothers" have going for it:Originally Posted by Lothic
TV execs do dumb things all the time.
Just saying...
Apart from reruns of "The Family Guy," this show is the highest rated show on Adult Swim.
The DVD/Blu-Ray sets are Cartoon Network's biggest sellers.
The DVDs continue to sell more with each new season, which means the audience is GROWING. (And Cartoon Network does not get DVD sales from "The Family Guy.")
They may not have the new contract worked out currently, but "The Venture Brothers" is turning into a cash cow for a small cable network. Adult Swim would be crazy not to keep this going unless Jackson and Doc suddenly wanted dump trucks full of cash to be delivered to their homes. -
Quote:Former 38 was the guy that got run over by the limo. He could talk to 24 because he was dead.Originally Posted by LiquidX
Something I have to wonder though... the former 38 was apparently able to see 24, yet 21 could no longer see him after he releasied he was probably hallucinating it.
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Quote:The IV drip doesn't run on electricity, so whenever the bag runs out, it's out. No more nutrition. The human body can only survive for a few days without water. Even with possible explanations, I still have an overall problem with how this was presented. And when you consider the whole scenario was handled much better in "28 Days Later," I have an even bigger problem with it.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
The IV mostly had me bugged there. We know it's been a while, as the flowers were dessicated. We don't know when the IV was last changed (and I don't recall if the bag still had anything in it, but then again, the monitor... whatever that thing's called they run them through now, had no power. I don't know what the effect of that would be.
The monitor/IV/etc may have shut off recently enough to keep him somewhat hydrated. *shrug* He did need water badly when he got up, of course.
Military? They're not seeing him walking. They see him inert in bed, so... not a threat. (And later they're probably too busy shooting to care.) The zombies? With whatever state he was in, he probably just didn't look like "food." Being (essentially) comatose, he wouldn't have made any noise or done anything to attract their attention. (And wasn't the door closed anyway?)
I see what they're trying to do. We're seeing and learning things through the protagonist. I'm okay with that. They could have just set it all up better.
If this is their only real misstep, I'll be okay with the rest of the series. -
Overall I enjoyed it, but...
How did a guy go unnoticed by the military and/or walking dead in a hospital bed for...some indiscriminate long length of time? A week? Two? More? With only one IV bag and no food or water? The hospital had clearly been overrun at some point as evidenced by the barricaded door.
That little bit has kind of stuck with me and sort of put me off of the rest of a pretty good show. I just don't buy that this guy is still alive. -
Quote:I'm sure he was delicious.Originally Posted by Nylonus
Paul the Octopus
2008-October 2010.
/kidding!
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Quote:You mean, like Lawrence Kasdan, who worked closely with Lucas early in his career. This is not to say that Kasdan always made the right decisions or had the best ideas, but when you're bouncing ideas around three guys like Spielberg, Lucas and Kasdan, you generally will come out on top.Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina
George Lucas is creative and underrated, but to BE creative you need to have a kind of openness that makes editors important. I don't mean some sort of executive meddler, who is almost always worse, but at least a trusted collaborator who isn't a yes man.
In the case of "Crystal Skull," there didn't seem to be anybody there to say, "Hey, George, maybe those cute little anthropomorphized prairie dogs aren't such a good idea" or "George, maybe we should cut the whole scene with the monkeys, because it's really pretty stupid." -
Quote:I missed that. On another note, "Army of Angry Monkeys" would be a great band name.Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
The ridiculous use of monkeys as an attack force was implied when i refered to them as an 'army'... lol. Ya, there is ridiculous, which can be acceptable up to a point if the rest of the movie is good, then there is just plain stupid ridiculous, which is what that scene was.
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Quote:You can get suspended and/or banninated actually. It's happened. In the ToS, it's included in the "don't be a jackass" part.Originally Posted by Chant
Ha! I heard you can get in trouble for doing it actually, but I am not sure where it mentions this behavior in ToS.
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The jerks always seem to come out in droves for this event. Was on a very low level character trying to get some Halloween salvage yesterday and had a level 10 jump in and wipe out my spawns in one shot...then try to Global Friend me.
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Quote:If I hadn't been at this movie with other people, I would have walked out of the movie and asked for my money back at this point. Seriously.Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
Because it's by FAR the most ridiculous, impossible and just plain dumb looking scene in any of the movies. Some greaser kid suddenly learns how to swing from vines through a ******* jungle, gathers an army of monkeys, then somehow manages to catch up to a speeding caravan of motor vehicles. There are pleny of other ridiculous scenes in that particular movie, and in temple of doom as well, but this scene is by far the worst of them.
And yeah there are other ridiculous scenes including improbably meal selections and unlikely survivals from falls, but they just don't compare to fonzi turning into tarzan, imo. It took the stupid meter that used to go to ten, and made it go to eleven.
You summed up my thoughts as to why this doesn't work at all. Throw in all the other just utterly stupid things leading up this point of the film, and this was just a big bag of fail (though you forgot the inclination of the monkeys to suddenly launch an unprovoked surprise attack on Cate Blanchett). -
It was really just an "okay" episode (keeping in mind that an "okay" episode of The Venture Brothers is still awesome) when compared to the rest of the season, but it had some great moments in it. Also...great job at moving some of the bit players forward.
Jackson and Doc really seem to love Shoreleave. Hilarious character.
And always good seeing the pirate captain again. -
I haven't been able to play too much, but I'm honestly going to be less inclined to make Controllers in the future. I like Dominators that much more that I see little point in Controllers now. I'm also glad I got my Stalker to 50 before this happened, because I think they're currently outshined by the other melee classes. (Although Energy Melee stalkers are still pretty awesome.) The problem is now just about everybody is going to have access to Focused Accuracy, which pretty well nullifies any advantage a Stalker would have.
And don't get me wrong, I can still have fun with my Stalker, but I still have other characters I like more.
Leveling up yellow side is interesting. On one hand, everything is much better written, and everything has that nice new car smell to it that makes it more appealing.
On the other hand, there are some missions that are truly unbalanced and difficult as hell to complete without incurring mountains of debt (the You vs. 100 mission where you get no XP or inspiration drops, the you vs. 12 Vanessa DeVores mission, etc.). A few of these were pointed out in beta but the feedback obviously fell on deaf ears. Throw in better designed (i.e. tougher) MOB groups and yellow side can be frustrating at time. I'm all for a game that provides something of a challenge, but there's a difference between "challenge" and "beating your head against a wall." Still, I probably like yellow better so far. -
Quote:To be fair to those parents, they believed they were protecting their children by burning a child molester (not excusing it...they shouldn't have done it), but it's really hard to envision the consequences of that guy returning as an evil, scarred dream ghost who murders them all years later. That's not exactly rational thinking.Originally Posted by Coin
Or what about the parents in Elm Street? Given what they did and then hid it from their kids, sure as hell cost them a lot!
I'm going to throw my vote in for Jonas Venture, especially after the after-credit revelation from this past episode. There's a reason Rusty is all screwed up, which in turn is why Hank and Dean are all screwed up. -
Quote:My actual biggest complaint about "Crystal Skull" was the lack of puzzle-solving things that Indy does in that movie. The first three (yes, even "Temple of Doom") worked because Indy had to put the various pieces together, which lead to more pieces, which finally lead to the MacGuffin and a special effects set piece to close everything out.Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
Also, Mutt doesn't have the education. He may be smart, (didn't see much evidence of that in the film) but I don't think he'd have the chops to know things like exactly what page to find a picture of the arc in an unabridged copy of the bible, or how to speak fluent Hindi, or how to interpret old-English clues from the coffin lid of a knight.
He's just not as interesting a character, nor does he have as interesting a skill set. Motorcycle riding and fencing does not an Indy Jones make.
I don't care how much "teaching" his father and mother gave him after crystal skull. He'll never have the world experience and education that Indy had.
In "Crystal Skull," he mostly just followed a crazy guy around the jungle and got betrayed by his "friend" roughly 24 times.
In short, it wasn't an Indiana Jones movie. It was a poorly-constructed adventure film starring Harrison Ford as a pale shadow of Indiana Jones. I couldn't endure another film like that, and I certainly won't endure a "Mutt Williams" film. -
Quote:An ORB device that, as it turns out, did nothing. Oh, the tangled web this show weaves.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Good points. Wasn't Operation: Rusty's Blanket an important covert operation to monitoring the mysterious and important ORB device, though? And isn't his current gig with Sphinx (Sphinx!!) more suitable for his talents?
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I was hoping for Rocket Propelled Grenades. Leaving disappointed.
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Quote:It was no "Mansquito."Originally Posted by Flarstux
I haven't watched the 4th one starring Harrison Ford yet.
