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5-star documentaries:
Spellbound -- about the national spelling bee. The filmmakers were tipped as to who the contenders were likely to be, so they started following them a year before the big bee. Throws in some history of the bee, too, including a short interview with the very first winner (!).
Man On Wire -- this is like a thriller, full of cool, crazy people. The title comes from the arrest warrant NY's Finest wrote for the focus of this film, Philippe Petit, who stretched a tight rope between the Twin Towers and walked it.
Word Wars -- about a national Scrabble championship and the odd fellows who play at that level. (It's better if you've read Stefan Fatsis' book "Word Freak," but not necessary.)
Food Inc. -- You may never eat chicken again, but day-am is this a good movie.
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight -- this is not an artsy documentary, non-flashy with a simple structure, but it's about Milton Glaser, so it doesn't need to be. You point the camera at a genius and let him speak. No one outside of design knows who Glaser is, but you've seen his work. Every time you go to the grocery store, you are walking through his design of traffic flow and product labeling. He also did that famous Dylan album cover and came up with "I ♥ NY."
Trumbo -- this is about Dalton Trumbo, brilliant screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Funny, smart and interesting, it makes history entertaining because Trumbo is so entertaining.
Who Killed the Electric Car? -- an interesting look at GM's electric car project. -
Quote:Yes, both In Bruges and Lost In Translation are 4-star movies for me.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Based on your tastes that I've seen so far I think you'll at least appreciate Lost in Translation.
Add me to the pro In Bruges camp. A great independent movie about mob hitmen. If you like your comedy dark and British....give it a spin. -
An empty Netflix queue? That's impossible for me to imagine, seeing as how mine is always at max.
Do you like documentaries? Because I can recommend a whole bunch of those, since you seem to be getting a lot of recs for sci-fi and fantasy. (Although I did enjoy Zombieland quite a bit, a film I haven't seen mentioned yet.) -
That's an entertaining bit. You might want to post this in the Comic and Superhero Culture forum. That's usually the place for these sorts of things.
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Mama always said threads were like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get.
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Quote:But we think he should. Should I post or should I go?Originally Posted by sleestack
Charlie don't post!
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A thousand noobs descend upon us. Their prattling will block out the sun. So we will post in the shade.
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Quote:If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.Originally Posted by UltraDynamicMan
still a "work in progress" but its getting there -
Mm, uberbacon.
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Quote:Why thank you.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
That's a great cossie and name!!*
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I've never used it myself, but I'm given to understand that The GIMP is a freeware version of Photoshop.
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Kung-Pow Chicken versus her evil doppelganger, a brutal fight with pretty light show. (Although I'm not sure how the opposite of white is pink, but whatev)
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Quote:Although it's probably just a continuity error to have a younger Shalice and older Hamidon, since it's a parallel Earth one can always handwave it away as things happening in different order. That's the rationale for a number of parallel world and/or alternate history stories in other superhero universes. Marvel's 1602, for instance, where current heroes appeared 4 centuries before they did in the mainline universe. DC created "hypertime" to explain how sometimes characters like Superman are first active in the 1940s and sometimes appears on the scene in 1999. Everything else is the same except for the date.Originally Posted by Shadow State
There are 2 pieces of conflicting data on how all Sister Psyche is. First we have the Freedom Phalanx novel which puts her as 16 during Nemesis's VE Day invasion and then we have the Calender Wallpapers on the CoH webs site which list Shalice's birth day as July 13, 1920.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodoan View Post
Was thinking much the same.
Assuming both Shalice versions are of the same age, then we're looking at characters at least dating to 1930, and seeing as Shalice has been referred to "over 80" since the start of the game (I assume), then her birth might be closer to 1920. That said, Praetorian Shalice, battles in the Devouring Earth wars, joins Cole, and later receives her Praetorship at age 22. Does that mean then that the Hamidon Wars were in the 1930 or possibly 1940s? If so, apparently there was no WWII, like Prime Earth knew it, and therefore was no 5th Column?
Something sounds really off.
As to when the Hamidon Wars started, the Korean War is mentioned in Tyrant's Bio as predating it, so presumably sometime after 1950.
Also Tyrant's bio seems to place the current date as 25 years after the end of the war (1985) at which point Mother Mayhem is less than 22 so it would seem she couldn't have been born any earlier the 1963.
I admit it's a slightly cheesy way to account for both modern stories and classic tales, but that's kind of what one has to do for such long-running properties. I find it best to ignore that sort of thing as it becomes impossible to rationalize.
Hopefully there will be some in-game rationale for why things occurred on such vastly different time frames, yet led to the creation of specific characters. I really doubt there will be, but it would be nice. Hamidon might be easier to explain, since there doesn't seem to be a lot of specific info about him floating around. Maybe in Paragon Prime he became the giant monster in his 70s, while on Praetorian Earth he did so in his 20s. Whatever the trigger was just happened a few decades earlier. (There's probably some canon lore I couldn't find, but a quick search didn't turn up anything.) -
"Love me do" is British for "love my hair."
Fun factoid: all of the variations of the British accent are fairly recent, rising within the last 200 years or so. Americans in the northeastern part of the US actually speak the King's English, so authentic Shakespeare would essentially be done in an accent similar to the Boston-Maine area. Along with the accent, a lot of Ye Olde English expressions and phrases were preserved over here, as well. -
Quote:That's only on Praetorian America.Originally Posted by Dark Ether
July 33rd doesn't have anything with it.
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Quote:I can't believe you just admitted to kicking kittens. Again. Man, you never learn, do you, rian?Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
it is kind of scary really. i posted the exact quote he used he OUTRIGHT SAYS THAT THIS IS A WORST CASE ESTIMATE, AND THAT IT IS NOT A DOOM POST but people still are confused about it. It seems that no matter how clear you make it, people will co-opt what a person says for their own purposes.
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Quote:That would underscore another issue: don't reference in-jokes so far in that even people like me who've been here since beta don't get. Or explain the joke with, I don't know, a sig?Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Because he got the name from a post AmazingMOO made, where AM called the marketing department a "silent black pebble".
I want to reiterate something I mentioned before: my friends who played this game for 3 years were surprised to learn that Going Rogue was coming out this summer. The only reason they know is because I happened to mention it on Facebook. If former paying customers don't know about the expansion, how are people in no way connected to the game supposed to find out? I saw a brief mention months ago on MMORPG.com, but nothing since. How is that "building brand awareness?" -
Quote:Does anyone else see this as indicative of why City of Heroes has had such poor marketing?Originally Posted by Black Pebble
Hello everybody,
I am the silent Black Pebble, otherwise known as the new North Americanbrand manager for City of Heroes.
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- Guy without a cool signature, avatar or costume.
How is that a marketing guy DOESN'T have the perfect sig, costume or avatar? Why is he SILENT, for cryin' out loud? No offense Black Pebble, but that's exactly the opposite attitude any good marketer should have, and you should be honestly embarrassed for actually bragging about that level of not-getting-it.
Why ISN'T CoH advertised everywhere gamers go? How come almost no one has heard of Going Rogue? You have 6 weeks until GR's launch and even my friends who are ex-players here have never heard of it. That's ridiculous, quite frankly.
It can't possibly cost that much to advertise on websites. Why does Newsarama have Neiman-Marcus ads but no CoH ads? Superherohype's background is Super Mario Galaxy 2. Comic Book Resources features Comfort Inn. Massively, a huge supporter of CoH, has never had a CoH ad that I've ever seen. Hell, putting an ad on BoingBoing will garner more eyeballs than almost any other website. -
Here's a few of mine, some of you may recall one from such TFs as Citadel's.
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Quote:You made me actually L out L.Originally Posted by airhead
Airhead's battle with Airhead was more exciting than you can possibly imagine:
Winner is the one with break-frees... oh well. Note the two Airheads have different hair - costume-slot-zero for Airhead only shows the primary colour, not the secondary. But the bug is not there for the other costume slots, nor indeed, for clones. The support response to this bug suggested it might not qualify as particularly high priority -
I'm not sure I'm following your complaint. Are you saying you chose Katana over Dual Blades because you wanted a specific weapon?
I think you're correct in that Dual Blades has more options, both standard and unlockable, but I don't think that's a recent change. Weapon Customization was added about 2.5 years ago, so this information has been out there for quite a while.
I disagree that Dual Blades looks better than Katana, since I tend to like quite a lot of the powers and animations in this game. (The exception being anything Stone.) But that's something we each decide based on our own preferences. Maybe instead of another Stalker, you can roll a Brute or Scrapper who use Dual Blades. I actually prefer those over Stalkers, and they will definitely give you a different feeling as you play through the character.
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I will counter these Time Agents with my Alarm Clock of Justice and Calendar of Truth.
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Quote:I agree. Every time I create a new character, he's experiencing things at the same time my original characters were. Basically it's just a flashback.Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000
I don't think there's any strong correlation between 'in-game' time and real time. I always view things like this; my new character completes the tutorial and it's shortly after the Rikti War, events unfold as my character does missions, in-game time passes. With each new toon, time 'resets'. The events of Going Rogue etc are certainly meant to be at least a few years after that.
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Where does "burn Kheldians as fuel" come from? That's something I've either missed or forgotten.
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Quote:Post your arm-length list, please.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
I'm a lore junky. I've got a list as long as my arm of stuff in the game that contradicts facts as given by Hero 1 and Manticore. I've got an even longer list of stuff in the game that contradicts the novels and the comic series. If there's nothing in game about it, I defer to the comic series then the novel because they are the most recent. When something is added to the game that contracts those sources, the game takes precedence.
The only way to rationalize it at all is to just accept that when new stuff comes out that contradicts facts that were established before, the retcon becomes the real lore, even when that goes against the devs' lore bible. Whatever makes it into the game simply wipes over anything said before, even if they maintain it's supposed to be otherwise after the fact.
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