Ironik
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Quote:With the whole "CoH 2" was registered/trademarked talk going on, I wouldn't be surprised if this version went F2P when CoH 2 is released with a $15 sub.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
It is a very viable business model, the number of people who are willing to pay $15 every once in awhile for something (Be it a new character slot/race/costume/etc) are far larger than those willing to pay $15 a month for game access. -
Quote:I want to have your babies.Originally Posted by Samothrake
I think I shall leave it at that. Tis quite long enough now
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Quote:I always hear my 9th grade English teacher's voice in my head when I write "over" when it ought to be "more than."Originally Posted by BrandX
I agree with Stephen Fry!
Shut up already about the "Five items or less." It's annoying.
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Quote:Okay, now you're just trying to make my head asplode.Originally Posted by KingSnake
I accually kind of get a kick out of people "proofing" my work for me, even if they are being meanspirited about it. Haven't really ran into any real bad grammer nazi's on these boards, which IMO is shows what a friendly little community we have.
I know i can't spell well. I know i'm rushing and typically will make little typos on top of my bad spelling. I know i can sound like i'm from a different country and english is my 2nd language. (i've had people ask...) I know most of this could be rectfied if i'd put a little more work into my posts. But i don't, and relise that leaves me a wide open target. I'm ok with that. I've always been a bit of an alph dork, and got ribbed for it ALOT in my Jr. Highschool days. I suppose some would call it "bullying", but, eh, i developed very thick skin and learn to, both like the person I am, but also not take myself to seriously in the process.
Some people can be really witty with there remarks and potshots at me. They make me laugh, so how can i feel bad about it?? LOL -
Quote:Shadantic! Ka-pow!Originally Posted by Dark One
I find this thread both shallow AND pedantic...
Shallow AND pedantic...
*nods*
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Quote:In his defense, it's not like that's stickied and at the top of the fo--Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
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Quote:DC said in 2009 that Superman's official age is 29, reiterating what they said 20 years ago. Sorry, man.Originally Posted by Durakken
Yeeeeeeeaaaah... No.
2000 was the last official DCU timeline and that + the few years needed for certain stories put him no younger than that later 30s at best.
Unless they are trying to argue that he was like 14 when he made his debut as Superman (not Superboy) That'd be kinda funny.
You can't get hung up on chronology in the stories. He's 29 and you just have to handwave away the fact it's impossible for him to have had all the adventures he's experienced in the 4 to 7 years he's been "officially" active in the DCU. (Depending on which writer you read. Byrne placed his debut around age 25. In Birthright his debut was about age 22.) Yes, it's silly, but that's just the way it is. -
It's not altogether a bad theory. We like what we're used to.
When Gus Van Sant did a (mostly) shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, you have to wonder what he was thinking. Other than as an interesting experiment in copying a master's work, what was the point of that exercise? I get that the use of color and the technological abilities Van Sant employed more closely realized Hitchcock's vision, but you can't really get a sense of that unless you know what Hitchcock thought of the film and the limitations (both socially and technically) he was operating under and if you watch them back-to-back (or close to it).
I know I and a lot of people have looked at Psycho and thought there were ways to improve on it, but those improvements would be so slight as to be unimportant. Were this a new film made today, it would certainly leave off the expository and lengthy ending, but in 1960 audiences needed that in order to digest what they'd experienced. Now it's just tedious. However, that's not really enough of a justification for remaking it.
The film definitely falls into the uncanny valley of being very similar yet too different from the original so that it annoys people. It did so for me. It takes place in the late '90s, so why do they talk and act (and dress!) like they're in the late '50s? That set up so much cognitive dissonance for me that I never got over it. Plus the actors simply aren't as good, which hurts it immeasurably. -
Quote:Currently, Superman is officially 29 years old, according to DC.Originally Posted by Durakken
On New Earth Clark Kent is like 44 years old in terms of years he has been around on Earth... It is unknown of whether whether there was a relative time thing which could technical put him thousands of years old and his physical age is supposedly in his late 20s early 30s.
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Quote:That's understandable and as Lothic said, different areas have different rules. I follow the same rules in all areas, but then I do have a ridiculously large vocabulary and am a very fast typist. I am cognizant of the fact that I am an outlier in this regard.Originally Posted by KingSnake
My business is international trade, mainly importing and exporting. It requires alot of paperwork, and, honestly, my paperwork is always is good order, spelled and checked carefully. I have a ton of cheat sheet laying around my desk with proper spelling of common words i have issues with, past versions of similar documents for an outline, and a whole bunch of pretyped up, double and triple checked for accurecy.
When it's importent, I put ALOT of effort into making it perfect. (bit of a prefectionist, belive it or not...) It's just... this isn't that "importent" in the grand scheam of things... it's really not. *shrug* So, i guess, a part of it is also lazyness on my part. I'll own up to that.
Maybe you should try Dragon Naturally Speaking -- then you won't have to spell anything ever again.
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Don't fall for it! It's a trap!
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Quote:Surely you can remember small words, though. Here you use "lead" when you mean to use "led." This is a common problem that I see all the time and I think it stems from the fact that present and past tense of "read" is spelled the same yet pronounced as "reed" and "red." "Lead" which sounds like "led" is the metal. (Homophones are fun.)Originally Posted by KingSnake
it's lead to some intresting misconnumations in the past, and a lot of laughter from my dear old Mother who would proof read my school reports and homework, for that very reason mainly.
The spelling of "intresting" could be a typo so I normally wouldn't even comment on that, but based on the rest of your post I do wonder.... There are quite a few people -- I include myself -- who pronounce the word as "intresting," which might make you think it's actually spelled that way, rather than "interesting." However, this is a case where spellcheck is your friend.
"Misconnumations" though... man, I don't even know where to start with that. That's the kind of thing which actually does bother me, because it seems like you've given a stab at it and just gave up. I can't even conceive of a time when anyone might actually pronounce "miscommunications" as "misconnumations." At least not without having had their face kicked in by Reichsman or something.
People who can write well do very well in business. It's a skill anyone should practice, really.Quote:So, all in all, my internet "speach" is always going to make me look stupid. I'm thankful I sound much more intellegent IRL. (or so i've told by people who know me both on the interwed, and IRL.) It's also the reason i shy aways from sending e-mails at work and tend to do bussiness over the phone. *shrug* -
Quote:My name is Ironik and I approve of this message.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
My thing about grammar and spelling, especially in forums and emails, is that people type like they're in a hurry or they're under some sort of character limit. You have all the time in the world to spell things correctly and use proper grammar. I look up words that I'm not sure I spelled correctly before I hit Submit. I want people to understand what I'm trying to say and not get distracted by how I said it.
Like it or not, people base opinions of you and your intelligence on how well you can speak or write before they even look at the content of your post. There are some folks on the forum that might be taken way more seriously than they are, but their inability to use punctuation, capitalization, or even paragraph breaks, dilutes their message. Non-native English speakers have an excuse. The rest of us do not.
I'm not going to correct every mistake I see, but I am going to move you down the ladder a rung or two if you're a chronic language hack.
I'm not overly pedantic, but I do have my moments. Some days I just get truly fed up with the stunning lack of (apparent) intelligence in some posts. No capitalization, no punctuation, no spellcheck, no nothin'. If you can't be bothered to make the slightest effort, I can't be arsed to try and decipher your babble. If someone has a point they wish to get across, it behooves to write like an adult, not a semi-literate barbarian who's half-baboon on his mother's side. -
Quote:Maybe, if only I had any idea what you are talking about.Originally Posted by Commander
Set up each of your rows of character slots to house villain-only, hero-only, and Vigilante/Rogue-only characters?
When Going Rogue was released, I originally had my first row of character slots for Villains/Rogues, second row for Heroes/Vigilantes, and third row for Praetorians. But, I've noticed I have more full-time Vigilantes/Rogues that I dedicated an entire character row to them. Of course, Praetorians fit into my Vigilante/Rogue row until they hit level 20 and I decide on which path they take.
So, anyone else as crazy as me?
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Quote:"In all this excitement I can't remember if I posted six times or only five."Originally Posted by SwellGuy
To misquote the great Dirty Harry "I'm a legend in my own mind."
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Quote:One word; superfart.Originally Posted by Warp_Factor
Admittedly I'm not crazy about the body language there. The facial expression makes total sense for Clark at that age, though. This is a story about a young Clark figuring out what he's doing with his life, not the iconic older Clark that's gotten comfortable with who he is and what he's doing.
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Quote:Turns out you have to watch all of a show to see it all.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Funny story, my gf and I just watched it online because she was busy last night. She missed the cameo too, and I had already told her they'd be there (but not when/how). Apparently she'd been expecting Meat to sing so totally missed the guy in the suit talking.
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After watching it a couple times, it's pretty obvious: Capt. Janeway in disguise talking to Chakotay.
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Quote:Nicola Tesla, duh.Originally Posted by Diggis
Yeah, sure. But who is s/he talking too on that phone? No Cell towers, no other cell phones. Don't buy it.
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Welcome to the club, Patteroast. C'mon in and have some of the Kool-Aid.
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I am literally L out L!
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Quote:I agree with that. I think there are a lot of movies from the 1930s through the 1950s which could stand a remake, simply because they weren't allowed to show/do/say things back then due to the Hays Code. I watched Arsenic and Old Lace on PBS the other day and as great as it is, if you've seen the play you know there's quite a lot they simply weren't allowed to film. Heck, the last line of the movie is, "I'm not a Brewster, I'm the son of a sea cook!" Which is kind of a wet fizzle, since the actual line is, "I'm not a Brewster, I'm a *******!" The whole point back then was being a ******* is a *bad* thing, but in his case it's a *very good* thing. Plus, the line has symmetrical weight and therefore a kind of poetic resonance to it.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
However there's been good remakes as well as bad. The problem is the bad ones sting so horribly that nobody remembers remakes that were acceptable. There was a TV remake of the classic film Fail-Safe back in 2000 that I thought was done very well. But then you get something like the remake of The Fog which was terrible and I'm sure people can supply a dozen or two more examples of bad remakes. Enough to make a fan of the original anything (movie, TV, comic book, song) concern when they here a remake is coming down the pike.
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Quote:This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about vis a vis both The Thing From Another World and The Thing: the John Wayne version of True Grit is a terrific movie and deserves the kudos and awards it garnered. That said, however, it bears only passing similarity to the book, so there's plenty of room for a remake. There was stuff they weren't allowed to put in back then and there were things that they just didn't put in.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I think the thought some people have about remakes is that they're afraid the newer version will be the only one young people know about, or will ever see.
For example: Went to see Hereafter yesterday. There was a trailer for True Grit (stars Jeff Bridges, comes out holiday time, looks like it might be good, but I digress). When I first heard about this remake, my first thought was "What was wrong with the John Wayne version?" If someone were curious about the movie, I'd point them toward the Duke every time, no matter how good this new one is because it's John Frikken Wayne. There's a bunch of people that have probably never seen any John Wayne movie (and they're missing out, but I digress again), and might think that this year's movie was the original. The people that are old enough to have seen the classics don't want those movies to fade away when newer shiny versions come around, especially when they tell the exact same story. If they took a different approach to telling the story (set Romeo and Juliet in modern times, for example), then a new version is more tolerable, and can be dismissed more easily if it's not any good.
Similarly, movies like The Lord of the Rings are also ripe for remakes someday, because of the things they altered, the stuff they left out and the dumb things they enhanced or added for no apparent reason. People love those movies, but there is so much other stuff in the books they could talk about that there's plenty of room for someone else to come along and re-imagine it. -
Quote:That's a very good point. Setting is as much a character in Devil's Cape as any of the heroes. I think Ex-Heroes is quite specific in this way, too, mostly because author Clines worked for so many years on the Paramount lot.Originally Posted by Olantern
Same. Devil's Cape is also notable as having what I consider one of the best-realized settings in genre fiction, period, let alone superhero prose. In fact, I've never read any superhero fiction in any medium with a similar setting. For those who haven't read it, its setting, the city of Devil's Cape, is to New Orleans what Metropolis and Gotham City are to New York. Really interesting stuff, and an intriguing variation on the "create your own contemporary city" idea that permeates superhero stories.
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Okay, I watched it. No preaching for a change, no shilling for some crap, just a regular story. Will's creepiness was fine with me -- everyone has faults and this is the big one he's exhibited all along. The musical numbers were fine and the two cameos were fun. This is the kind of show Glee should be: mostly fun with some side dilemma to up the stakes, a bit of a moral at the end and some good music.
It is, of course, completely preposterous that any high school except the richest ones would be able to afford to put on something that looked like that. I actually went to high school in southwest Ohio and believe me, few of them had that kind of money to throw around. The costumes alone cost more than every production we ever staged, that's for sure.
Unfortunately I hate John Stamos now. He's THAT good looking *and* he can sing? Damn him. I thought he just played bongos as his special talent. ("Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya...") The only consolation is that his super hot wife left him for a total meathead. Although that was probably for something lame like the fact he's friends with Rickles.