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Originally Posted by Lothic

I suppose we could all quibble over whether Adrianne Palicki is "amazony" enough or not for the role until the cows come home. But seriously, trying to offer up Hudson Leick as someone who's "significantly different" to Adrianne is a lot like the episode of Futurama when they were making the joke about the two presidential candidates being politically unique despite being identical clones:



I don't mind the idea of comparing Adrianne to someone who's a little more "stout" like Lucy Lawless, but let's not bother comparing Apples to Apples shall we.

Originally Posted by Wolf Bait

I have done some of the Ouro missions on occation. Usualy to get some back story that I missed. Doing it just for the drops just feels a bit grindie. The same with turning off the xp. That is a good idea that I would love to try for a charictor concept but the content would get old real quick.

The deffinition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

For me it is not so much about getting to 50 as spending time with friends. However, when you do that, the end result is you end up with a few level 50 charictors. I have four right now. I even have builds planed out for three of them. Almost complete with my main!!! Just a few more hero point to go! I do end up playing her a lot so I would like to get a little salvage on her that I could use for the others. I see her as the big sister looking out for the younger ones. Though I am not sure how my name sake is related to speedy sprite other than she found it in the SG base one day playing on the ceiling fan....

I am starting to think my self into circles so I am going to stop before I get dizzy.

Wolf Bait.

Originally Posted by Lothic

Well according to imdb.com Adrianne Palicki is 5'11". I guess that means some people will consider her too skinny to be Wonder Woman at 34-25-34. Perhaps...

Then again I've never really understood this idea that all superheroes have to look like super-cut bodybuilder/wrestler types.

Originally Posted by Ironik

If that's what they're doing, it ought to be mentioned or at least hinted at in the film. Kind of sounds like it's not. Being forced to make stuff up in order to justify a plot isn't good entertainment value in my book.

A really good indie (low budget) alien invasion movie is the 2010 film called Monsters. This isn't going to satisfy everyone's desire to see a widescreen action movie, because it's extremely low budget and is about two people just trying to get back to the US. It has a loose, improvisational feel to it because the actors were encouraged to wing it and the camerawork has a documentary feel to it. It's like a far superior Cloverfield, but it cost less than the catering did on that flick. The invasion in this instance is basically that of invasive species. There's no intelligent intent behind it -- the creatures are just things that grew from a contaminated space probe which crash-landed in Mexico. The special effects are competent and effective but few and far between. (SyFy could learn a lot from this movie, honestly.)

As I was watching it, I was thinking, "This is not too bad for such a micro-budget flick with modest ambitions." Then very near the end there is a hummed tune that lasts less than a second (I timed it) which utterly changes the entire movie and made it suddenly more awesome. It's akin to the split-second shot in Memento which completely changes everything you've seen, and if you aren't paying attention, you'll miss it. After I heard that brief snippet of a song, I went, "No way!" and watched the film's beginning again. Wow.

For all its bombast and money spent, it sounds like Battle: Los Angeles doesn't have that same impact. Loud and pretty can be cool, but clever is far more cool. For me, anyway.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Now this I can agree with. Well, I don't know if her face looks like it hangs down from her temples per se, but then, could they find an actress who could do the roll who had the face, looks, and ability to act?

Originally Posted by starphoenix

Destiny wasn't based around the capabilities of Stargate, but around the Ancients. If anything needed to be fixed on the shuttle, then the repair drones would be able to fix them. Also, we haven't seen all of Destiny's capabilities so they could have manufacturing drones to extract materials from asteroids and various worlds to create shuttles and whatever else they need.

Originally Posted by Baarogue

Did you really just say only bad players use good builds? Surely not. :P

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Okay, but I'm a firm believer in "You get what you pay for." This doesn't mean I automatically go out and buy the most expensive stuff. Just that in some cases I spend a little more for a better class of component.

Originally Posted by Wolf Bait

I understand it is not a perfect solution. My reasoning for the suggestion is that at higher levels you typically have more money and your levels are not going any higher. You can afford to be a little more patient with the market. On one occasion I had a bid in for alchemical silvers and out leveled the need for them before the price dropped to where I could afford them. This could be very frustrating for a new player.

I did have a thought on another solution. Well, my hubby came up with this one so I need to give credit where it is due. Better recipe diversification by associating recipes to a player origins. Say if you receive an accuracy and you are a magic origin you would need a luck charm and spiritual essence to create it. However if you were tech origin you would need a bore sight and computer virus. Science could be human blood sample and brass. These are just ideas. I do NOT mean that there should be a ton of different recipes that should be dropping. Just when a particular player gets the recipe it would adjust to that players origin. I am not sure how difficult that would be for the dev's but I don't mind presenting them with the challenge.

Thank you for your suggestion about AE. I was enjoying the system last night. I am saving up for some orange salvage.

Wolf Bait

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Hmm. Someone's bridge is missing something... Must be Baarogue. Back under ya go!

Hey, clueless, listen up. Those same builds have been tearing through content without inherent stamina for years. Soloing rikti pylons, GMs and AVs? Soloing TFs? Done long before inherent stamina. Some builds have been very effective without stamina, period. They're certainly not "worsening everyone else's paid-for playtime," and respeccing into inherent stamina has absolutely NO reflection on how good or bad of a player they are.

Now, your post... THAT seems to highlight a bad player, or at least one who's so uptight and has such a bad case of CRI that they're best avoided as they WILL "worsen everyone else's paid-for playtime." (That's you, sunshine.)

Originally Posted by Pebblebrook

I didn't forget, i have CoX related promos listed along with the numbers so i can use to correlate with the sales. If you want, for 4Q 2010 you can also add the reactivation promo in 10/7/10, the origins pack on 11/1/10, the 6mo/12mo subscription promo on 11/29/10 to 12/13/10, issue 19 in case anyone resubbed for that, the LTX CoX poster for $15 each on 12/7/10 along with that cyber monday sale with the 50% off on many select booster packs.

But subscription revenue has always been what consistently comprises the majority of the sales figure with occassional spikes from box releases and some promos. And depending on what promos are there, it might show up on the sales figure (assuming subs don't fluctuate enough to offset it)

Also, you might want to check that article again...they've updated it to note that the numbers are from 2Q 2009. At that time, CoX sales is about $5,179,637 which makes more sense for 125k subscribers.

Oh, just to have consistent info, that 2Q 2009 sales will also have the AE box 4/8/09, magic booster 4/17/09 and issue 14 4/8/09 and issue 15 6/29/09.

Originally Posted by ThugOne

As I recall, it worked out this way:
Shuttle #1: Was found in old, but flyable condition.
Shuttle #2: Was found broken, not flyable, with a hole in the windshield.

The Dad sealed himself up in Shuttle #2 because they didn't have spacesuits at the time.
A few episodes later, they found some suits. With these, they could remove the body and partly fix up #2.

A few eps later, they found a planet that several people wanted to stay at. They were given Shuttle #2. It could enter an atmosphere (once) and fly around a but, but was in too bad a shape to reach space again.

A few eps later, Shuttle #1 crashed; leaving Destiny with no shuttles.

A few eps later, something that looked like #2 materialized in deep space right next to Destiny with the "remain behind" folks aboard it. They all died before the end of the episode. The shuttle was in brand-new, factory-perfect condition. The assumption is that some godlike aliens had built a copy of the shuttle and some short-lived copies of the people for mysterious reasons. Call this Shuttle #3.

This last ep: Rush went through a time-loop. They now have an identical copy of Shuttle #3 that's 12 hours older than the original, and slightly crispy. Call this Shuttle #4.

Did I get that all straight...?

And does anybody else think that they went for this whole "Dock the shuttles on the exterior of the ship" business because the production crew didn't have the budget to build a set for a hangar bay?

Originally Posted by Anti_Proton

Funny, everyone seemed ok with this even today.

Originally Posted by Lothic

Sadly it'll probably go like that. Even Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman only got one season on ABC before CBS gave it another chance with 2 more seasons.

Originally Posted by Pebblebrook

So for that quarter a significant number of people have paid maybe $50 for a serial code and 2 months sub instead of $45 for 3 month sub? Kind of?

Originally Posted by Roderick

EVERY character has Fitness now. If you had no powers from the Legacy Fitness Pool when i19 was released, then Inherent Fitness was added, no respec necessary.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

I've got a better idea, how about you stop telling people how to play the game?

On some of my toons I just haven't gotten around to it. And yes, I am going to tell you that I can't figure out which 3 powers to pick. With no extra slots to spend on them, there's not much of interest. For my Elec/Elec Blaster, for instance, there's not much that's very interesting from his primary or secondary. I guess he could pick up Zapp for pulls, or Voltaic Sentinel for kicks. But nothing that matters enough for me to respec immediately. My Inv/SS Tanker is another matter. Inherent Fitness allowed him to take Resist Elements and Resist Energies, along with Laser Beam Eyes because I didn't have anything else I wanted to take and it's a cool power.

Seriously, lighten up. There's a whole world of difference between not taking Dull Pain on your Invuln Tanker and not respeccing from Legacy Fitness into Inherent Fitness.

Originally Posted by Lothic

They've already mentioned that people like Katy Perry are going to be at least indirectly involved in the new WW's life as a sort of "competitor of fame and notoriety" as far as their public lives go.

If you're looking for the "gritty ancient battlefield amazon warrior" version of WW this isn't going to be your show.