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Bummer.
Favreau was the ideal choice as director. After seeing Zathura, I was stoked when I head Jon was taking this on. Aside from Joss Whedon, I can't think of anyone offhand who has the perfect combination of humor and geek cred to do this movie. I wouldn't mind seeing Nimrod Antal do #3. Not because of Predators but because of Armored. If you haven't seen it, you really should. It's a great caper-thriller. -
That was crazy awesome. Great YouTube day, I must say.
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Quote:You've never read any comics? How is that possible?Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
This ^^^
Trailer looks good and never read any comics (incl. Thor ones) so...yeah.... -
Oh my god.
If laughter is the best medicine, I am now inoculated against everything forever.
Awesome find, Marcian! -
Quote:I was just going to recommend this, too. A truly amazing-looking film.Originally Posted by Oliin
Thematically and storywise, it sits halfway between The Stuntman and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Starring everyone's favorite piemaker. -
Quote:I'm with you, brother. Quite easily one of the worst books I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. The only reason I can think of why this is a hit is that neighborhood book clubs all over the world are chock full of secretly kinky women who skip over the pages and pages of incessant and irrelevant lists to get to the juicy bits.Originally Posted by NarfMann
I just muscled my way through Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
It pissed me off in such a way as to nearly turn me off of reading for a while... on several occasions... It was good in places, which only served to make it all the more irritating when it wasn't. Started off slow, got slower, irritated me, got really good, irritated me again, and then got good again, and then got boring again, and ended up with pissing me off again...
I really really hated this book, and there's absolutely no way I'll be reading the rest of the series... unless he writes one called "The Girl Who Died in a Fire" because then I'd know there's a happy ending.
I hate everyone who recommended this book to me, too.
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You'll be back.
Because you LOVE us, you want to KISS us....
Ozzie and the forums, sitting in a tree
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First comes the hero, then comes the villain
Then comes GR in a golden tin.
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Quote:I was thinking it's actually a cool outfit for Braniac.Originally Posted by Samothrake
It would have made a good super-suit for a villain, but yeah, no superman in any way shape or form.
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Quote:Do you shop at Ouroboros Comix & DeLoreans?Originally Posted by Caeruleum
Mine is a short stack:
John Byrne's Next Men #1 -
Quote:Every thread is different, of course, but page 4 was far too late for this one. In some other threads you can state your opinion up to ELEVEN pages in. Those are good ones. This isn't one of those, sorry.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Page 4 isn't early enough? That's odd, people that have been debating it jumped into the thread after I did.
I was only responding to the person that quoted me out of context. They snipped one sentence and accused me of spitefulness, while ignoring the rest of that paragraph where I said that I saw no reason to change it now. I actually hadn't planned on posting in the thread again until I saw that. -
Quote:Man, I wish I could get TS to work. It sure sounds cool.Originally Posted by Balanced
You can use Titan Sentinel to export your existing build from the game to Mid's now. It's a little touchy about inherent Fitness slotting, I found, but works beautifully in general. It's saved me a lot of time and effort.
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Also, I don't understand what constitutes "long" or "short" arcs. I kind of think it's the number of missions, but that's really not a good guide. One of my arcs used all the smallest maps -- the university basement one, a bank, a small warehouse -- yet it got autotagged "long" when I specifically designed it to be story-focused and short. Get in, experience the story, get out.
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Quote:I was making fun of the "antisocial" crowd. I play the game the same way you do, except all of my SGmates have moved on to other games.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
We're more common than you'd think. Global channels are a god-send for us.
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Quote:In the "realism" department, knocking him in the lava makes less sense than pulling him into the hallway. I did it once and he just stayed there. I can see taunting him into chasing you -- "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" -- but getting the holy mother of all hotfoots and just standing there seems silly.Originally Posted by BBhumeBB
Once I figured out that he sizzles quick in the lava, all I have needed is a way to get him into the shabu-shabu pot. If that remains the viable tactic, I am not sure the clones matter.
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Quote:Hey, don't blame me, you started it.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
I actually decided to view this post.
Where the hell did you even get the last half of the post? Glad to see you're still putting words in my mouth. I KILLED the bifurcations AS they spawned and never saw them spawn faster than one every 30 seconds. On seven characters. That IS NOT LUCK.
I never said they didn't exist. I never said the mechanic wasn't there. I said they spawned at a regular pace, not rapidly, and I KILLED them rather than try to whittle him down through his regen.
You keep posting what you want to hear though, it seems to be working for you. And I appreciate the name-calling. You're just pissy because I called you on your bull@#$% and you have no other comebacks other than making crap up and insulting people.
I'm specifically referring to the post you made where you all but called people talking about the fast respawns of the bifurcations liars. As proof, you held up the fact that you went seven encounters without experiencing that. (As you just now did.) Well, here's the thing: sometimes the bifurcations spawn at an increased rate. I experienced that in two of my four encounters and others experienced it, as well. Yet you essentially dismissed those statements as being untrue. Because if it didn't happen TO YOU, then obviously it NEVER HAPPENS AT ALL. It *was* luck for you. A coin coming up tails seven times in a row isn't evidence of design, it's just luck. The rest of us who've seen it come up heads aren't lying about that, we're just reporting what we saw.
This is why I can't respect you. Also the fact that you cried and put me on ignore. This is your thread. Man up and stay in the fight that you started, dude. -
Quote:That's exactly how my encounter went. My Fire x 3 Blaster is a killing machine, so I simply burned Trapdoor down. Who needs lava, I *am* lava! My AR/Dev Blaster, on the other hand, got spanked, hard, and repeatedly. And not in the fun way. I had to get help on her mission. My Energy/Energy Blaster simply pulled him into the hallway and batted him around like a cat smacking a mouse. My Brute just beat him to death.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I decided to try a "stupid" strategy against Trapdoor yesterday. I took my Fire/Fire/Flame Blaster to the encounter, took on two reds, two purples, Hasten, Aim and Build up and just rushed the guy. I managed to put him down on his knees shortly after he summoned his second bifurcation. I'm not sure if this is unique to Fire/Fire having severe shock damage and very fast attacks (I doubt I'd be able to do that with AR or DP), but he was doable like this. I didn't have a chance to try his bifurcations to see how hard they'd be to kill for that Blaster.
On that note, that same Blaster managed to down Hero 1 without dying, largely because Ring of Fire seems to -fly him for about five seconds at a time. -
Quote:Didn't you read Ballsock Aztec's replies? HE didn't have a problem and his lucky streak was seven encounters long, which means YOU don't have a problem, either. You gots to get yer head right, boy! Those extra bifurcations you saw were *imaginary* because they never happened to him!Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I can't beat Trapdoor now (at -1!) and they're making it *harder*? Inspirations helped a lot: they allowed me to remove 1/8 of his HP between chasing down his far too frequent and apparently unending "bifurcations" before the inspirations ran out and I died. I'd like to bifurcate the Midas-eared person who designed that encounter and then the bastitch who decided it couldn't be auto-completed - I have a sharp axe and a dull sword available for the task and right now the latter sounds altogether most suitable.
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Quote:LOL. Now *that's* funny. "Give me the gun, I'll do me myself!"Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
While I was eventually able to defeat Trapdoor with my Emp/Psi Defennder solo, it was long and tedius, its really hard to kill folks with a wet noodle... I think at the end, Trapdoor got so bored of my attacking him, that he Kavorkian himself by diving into the lava pool...
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Quote:Seems like it would've shown up pretty quickly during beta. I mean, three of my four 50s are Blasters, so pulling is one of the key items in my Blaster Toolkit. After getting creamed by Trapdoor over and over on my first Blaster, I pulled him into the hallway with my second one.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Seeing as how there was a lengthy closed beta there was plenty of time to make this intent known DURING the beta. To me that's a failure on their part, as they could have had their beta testers TEST this.
That hardly seems possible. Years ago my harshest criticism of the beta process was that beta testers would point out problems, but for the most part the missions would be pushed out as designed. (Every once in a while one would be changed due to tester feedback, but infrequently.) Then you'd see the general population react in pretty much the same way as the testers, which would then get the encounter altered. Seemed to me that's what betas were for, since the proportion of complaints and helpful advice were generally the same in the much smaller beta test group as in the larger general playerbase.Quote:I've found communication between the devs and players during betas have gotten considerably WORSE. -
Quote:Oh, that would explain it. I don't randomly try to click terminals, so without an indicator I wouldn't have stumbled on it except by accident. I'll have to try the mission again sometime and get Nance to come along.Originally Posted by Charcoal_EU
It is a computer in the first security checkpoint. It has a reticle but no glow/sounds. Bug?Quote:Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
There's a computer terminal in one of the hallways, i think one of the first, it's a security checkpoint alcove with a pane of glass over it, there should be a spawn of Sky raiders inside, I believe that's where a glowie would be that would allow you to contact him with.
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Quote:Stop complicating my game!Originally Posted by srmalloy
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And DPS is, of course, the only measure of your effectiveness as part of your team.
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I've been grinding my Elec/Elec Dominator to 50, and have been running a disproportionate number of ITFs in the process. I discovered that I'd been playing her wrong for maximum effectiveness. I'd been throwing my Gremlins and Voltaic Sentinel into fights, then hanging back and using my ranged attacks. But I discovered that this is suboptimal; once the tank has aggro, I want to be right in behind the tank so Conductive Aura covers as many of the grouped mobs as possible firing off my attacks -- the Minotaurs and Cyclopes are much less annoying when they're standing there at 0 End wondering where it went.
Do I do any more damage this way? No. By the gauge of DPS, I'm not any more effective as part of the team. Am I contributing more to the team? Absolutely; even though I don't have any heals, everyone else on the team isn't taking as much damage, because the mobs aren't able to use most of their attacks. So there are a lot of factors that make up 'effectiveness on a team', and DPS isn't a particularly good gauge of it.
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Quote:A social soloer... well, now we've seen it all.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
I solo almost exclusively, only teaming with my VG mates, but I still utilise the game's multiplayer aspect constantly. Soloing doesn't mean I'm not being multiplayer. It just means I'm playing an awesome super-powered character that can take out small armies by herself.
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Quote:Look, ClawsandEffect, it's like this: there are only a certain number of slots available for people to state their opinions and you just showed up too late. Next time, jump into the thread earlier and we'll let you state your preferences.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Funny that while everyone else in this thread is stating their preferences and opinions, I'm apparently not allowed to do the same.
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Quote:"Challenging" is in the eye of the beholder, too. I made an arc that featured all custom enemies but it was expressly designed for lowbies. I took a half-dozen of my under-10 characters through it specifically to see if the arc was soloable by sub-optimal and low-damage toons and I had no problems at all. But two or three people told me it was way too hard. I can't imagine a character less capable of soloing than my level 6 Storm Defender who didn't use Vet powers, but that was the feedback I got. /shrugOriginally Posted by Eva Destruction
When you rate an arc you have the option of selecting tags. Does this do anything? Maybe it would help if you had both author-selected tags and player-selected tags visible. That way, if players tag the arc "challenging" and the author did not, it's a pretty good bet that the arc is simply poorly designed and will kill you.
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Quote:In one interview Branagh said that Thor was his favorite character as a kid, so it's no surprise he'd go with a more classic feel. The Thor of the Claremont/Byrne Marvel Team-Up was one of my favorite depictions, being more widescreen action-oriented than palace intrigue, but the machinations of Loki and the Valhalla politics do help frame Thor's story. I found Ultimate Thor to be somewhat ill-defined. He was sort of a mouthpiece for Millar's beliefs, but never really all that finely defined compared to the other characters in the books.Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Ultimates Thor could (potentially) be a more interesting character to have in the Avengers than classic Thor. what with his anti-capitalist stance and everything, but the standalone film would of been less interesting had they tried to merge the two-takes on the character.
I definately think Branaugh knew what he was doing when, (despite the whole Ultimates slant on the Marvel films lately), he opted without hesistation to depict the classic Marvel Thor.
Edit: This one.
