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According to that one episode, both brothers have returned multiple times from Heaven. I forget the state of Bobby's soul regarding his deal when he got killed in the finale last season, so does he count?
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Quote:Success doesn't equate with quality.Funny thing is, they're also completely irrelevant. As much as people can whine and moan about Smallville (And I've done it as well) it's managed to stay on the air for an entire decade, and is leaving on its own terms. Nothing else in the sci-fi/fantasy genre from the last few decades can really even come close to competing with that kind of longevity.
As bad as it may be sometimes, it's managed to stand the test of time while other shows have faded into dust. The one thing that all the ranting and complaining can't deny is that the show was a success.
I think most people complaining about it are doing so from a place of wanting it to be good. It's a superhero show and we play a superhero game. It is a shame that it's a constant disappointment; aside from a few individually excellent episodes, overall the quality is pretty low. I think a lot of that stems from the fact it was created by a couple guys who had neither knowledge of nor interest in Superman or comics. Their original show idea was shot down and they were offered the chance to reboot Superman and they said, "Yeah, okay, sure." And when they started doing a little research (VERY little, from all accounts) they were repulsed, hence the "no flights, no tights" rule. Even now, three years after they've left the show, it's still saddled with their baggage which is why they're just now getting around to showing the suit.
But all that doesn't excuse the really poor writing of last night's episode. They really should've come out swinging and they didn't. -
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Quote:Tavern on the Green went out of business.I loathe the Arachnoid caves. Ugh.
The mineshaft caves I can take or leave, though the cake room does tend to drive me a bit wonky.
Troll caves are fine as long as it's not the BOSTON MARATHON TO REACH ATTA cave.
Cimeroran caves are nice too.
But I would throw the devs a party at Tavern on the Green if they ever get rid of the Nazi Fish Farm.
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It's amazing the random trivia my brain has stored up from watching movies back in film school. In this case, Kurosawa's oeuvre. Doubly amazing that it actually turns out to be useful 25 years later.
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Interesting question... if someone tries to conquer infinite universes and there's a universe where that can't happen, does it matter philosophically that they can't (by the cosmic rules) or just that "infinite" means that the conquerors just haven't gotten around to it yet (and will never get around to it)?
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Quote:There are at least five more alternate Earths if my roster of characters counts. And it so does!Exactly. Established canon never claimed that universes had to be uniquely different and that exact duplicates didn't exist. That's all I'm saying, only I assert that every unique universe has an infinite number of identical duplicates. You can have a thousand dimensions draw a thousand Infernals from Infernal Earth and you may still find Infernal there afterwards anyway.
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I actually hadn't noticed, either. But then I've spent 99.9% of my time in Praetoria this month.
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This thread is complete. Rylas wins.
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I thought it was decent enough, but I am fully prepared to consider Dean sitting at the table with Lisa and Ben to have been the series' final shot and ignore everything that came after. Worked for the finale of Buffy season 5 for me.
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Some very cool pieces in the new batch. Good show, thanks for sharing.
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Seeing those tubes in Cadmus Labs, seems like someone on the Smallville art staff plays CoH.
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Quote:My greatest triumph (now surpassed by subsequent updates to the game, and perhaps the inspiration to the Devs... hey, I can dream) was to utilize the body sliders to make a small character transform into a larger character.Lemme explain. With the advent of Power Customisation we can make our powers look like anything we want - so how have you turned one powerset into something else?
For example, I have a scrapper called Goldwave who's meant to be a super-speeder. So you'd think he's MA/SR, right? Nope, Fire Melee.
"But Duncan!", I hear you cry, "Fire fists have nothing to do with superspeed!"
Wrong. He's punching the air so fast that the friction causes his fists to burst into flame and ignite bad guys.
So what weird ways have you used powers as something else, or strange excuses for powers on characters that shouldn't really have them?
Monster Child is a teenage boy searching for his missing sorcerer father, using his father's books to command a demon. In battle he transforms into the demon.
Here are the original incarnations from whenever the scales were added to the game:
Demon-form is a full head taller and more massive. When I added the IO Demon Wings, which are bigger than standard wings, he looked even bigger. Back in the day I enjoyed wowing onlookers with the costume change, bound to firing off Build Up and the phrase "Unleash the beast!" Looked cool. I had to plan ahead with this character, now anyone can buy the size change emote. -
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Quote:I definitely admire the extra effort. I wish I had the brain power and energy to do it.On the note of why I care: it's a personal thing. I realise that most people wouldn't know the difference and some people who should probably won't look hard enough to see it. However, I'd still rather have something clever that most people miss but someone gets every once in a while over something wrong that no-one knows better about, but horrifies someone who does from time to time.
Again, I tend to be on the receiving end of this with people's ****** Russian born from horribly flawed online translators concocting garbled language that has no discernible meaning unless you translate it back into English and read from there. I try to not be that guy if I can help it.
But I think Engrish is hilarious, so I'm more than willing to be the Japanenglish guy for them and give them a good laugh. The true man laughs hardest at himself, after all. -
I recall that when Japanese surnames first came into usage for commoners (whenever that was), some rules were laid down and a short list was offered for people to choose from. As I remember it, the rule was something like a generic location (mountain, field, river) combined with a qualifier like a specific plant, a location, etc. And that's where the most common Japanese names come from and why they have meanings like "village + center" (Nakamura - probably where they lived) or Fujimoto (Mt. Fuji's base) or Katsumoto (pine tree base).
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Quote:I did the same thing for my Japanese anthropomorphic dog samurai from an alternate Earth where dogs are the dominant species: Tsuba Inu. "Guard Dog." But the guard in this case derived from the guard on a sword. Since he's a Katana Scrapper, it worked for me.I have a Fire/Dark Corruptor named "Ghost Wind" in Japanese.
I didn't want to go through all the research to mke sure my grammar is correct, so I just went ahead and named him Reikaze. There are several words that translate loosely to "ghost", I picked the one I liked the sound of the best.
I figured that if kamikaze means "divine wind" and kurokaze means "black wind" then Reikaze would mean "ghost wind". It may or may not be grammatically correct, but it's good enough for me, and it was available, which Kurokaze was not.
My explanation for any grammatical inconsistency is that the Japanese on his world is slightly different from ours. -
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