Ironik

But cleanliness is next to godliness.

When Naked Gun 33 1/3 was released, my buddy wondered aloud how long before kids wouldn't get the title. Turns out it had already happened as we overheard kids the next day asking what the heck the title meant.

As I said in the other thread, I'm opposed to global unlocks of anything that's story-driven. The Vanguard pieces are a good example, as are the Cimerora costume parts. That said, I am amenable to the Devs adding "lesser" or "plain" versions of such pieces like the Roman outfits available at character creation so people can make their themed characters, yet still give them some cool to work for later in the game.

Thanks DB.

Here's an experimental toon, Only Child. I just made him on Friday on Freedom and was surprised the name wasn't taken. It's a test of whether or not I can play a character without leveling him past 2. (Which is actually harder than one might think. Out of sheer force of habit after an Atlas Park zombie invasion I clicked on Ms. Liberty and was about to choose powers when I caught myself.)

He's a Kinetic Melee/Willpower Scrapper, just to make it easier on myself. (I wanted to go Brute to make it easier still, but I just didn't want to go through CoV or GR yet again.) Although I wasn't thinking of it at the time, inherent Fitness will also make him tons easier to play than otherwise. Aside from not training him up, I'm going to use my 3 vet powers as well as any temp powers I get or craft. All in all, this will be far easier to do than when I first conceived of it four years ago, but it should be interesting nonetheless.

I went for a British schoolboy look as much as I could. If you ignore the shininess of the Boxer shorts it doesn't look too terrible. Just wish we could color the Sneakers all black.

Fitness is the only thing throughout my years playing CoH that is a "must have" for 99% of my characters. The only ones which didn't take it were those who had powers that allowed them to steal health and endurance from their enemies... so pretty much Dark Scrappers and the like.

I was THRILLED when the temp travel powers were added. I can't even remember the last time I took a travel power except when I had an extra power choice, like with my Spines/Regen Scrapper. Skipping travel powers was a huge boost to my fun, because I could then get the abilities I wanted. Inherent Fitness will be the exact same sort of boost, perhaps (almost certainly) even bigger. Turbo boost!

For fun last night I chose a second build on my BS/SR Scrapper (hmm, Scrapper-heavy post, weird) to see what powers I would choose once Fitness becomes standard and I was actually flummoxed. I ended up taking Air Superiority and Flight because AS is the best Power Pool attack bar none, so I might as well take Flight, too. It was honestly an odd feeling to be dithering over a bunch of powers I didn't especially want. I generally only get that with my Kinetic Controllers, since they have built-in travel powers as part of that secondary.

He was the best part of it. As we have subsequently seen, as on Chuck, he's not a one-trick pony.

I just feel like it sometimes.

I don't know how many times I've had people look at me funny when I've mentioned the audio commentary for this or that film. Some of this stuff is interesting.

'zackly.

Technically Lucas is right. It's a form of spin, but he's not actually lying. (This time. He was totally lying about there being a "trilogy of trilogies" and that Vader was always supposed to be Luke's dad. That cat is waaay out of the bag.)

What you guys saw were test showings, not release showings. A slight but critical distinction. These tend to be shown around Hollywood first, but also in out-of-the-way places. (Well, they used to be. Nowadays there's no such thing.) Dayton, Ohio, was also a huge place for test screenings, where we'd see a double feature, the second movie -- a pre-release version --being a freebie. I saw a number of films which were later changed before their official release after getting feedback from various test audiences. (The test screening for Die Hard 2 was a stand-out memory for me because they were extremely unhappy with my response that there was nothing they could do to fix it. They gave me a tee shirt anyway.)

Because maintenance does not equal patch? I know, too obvious, but seriously, maintenance does NOT equal patch.

I did know that (although lie detectors are notoriously unreliable), but he was still an oddball. Few people are (or should be) defined by a single thing. No one is purely bad or purely good, or in Marston's case, purely mainstream or purely weird. We are delightful mixes of all sorts of stuff.

That's one of the primary arguments for "Batman is an idiot"* type of discussions, because The Joker has mercilessly killed and tortured so many innocent people over the years yet Batman refuses to kill him. The blood of all those people is on Batman's hands, because he's actually captured Joker a number of times. The truly heroic thing to do would be to take the psychological, emotional and reputational hits for the greater good.



* Although we really mean "the writers are idiots" because they didn't do the work of trying to make Joker evil yet still allow Batman not to have to make that choice. When faced with a mass-murderer like Joker who keeps escaping incarceration, there's only one solution. It's much more difficult to write a character who is villainous yet not genuinely evil. The best iteration of how the Joker *should* be handled was in Die Hard 3 of all places. If you've seen it, you know what I mean.