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Yeah, I'm not crazy about Hellboy, either. I also feel that Rocketeer is less than the sum of its parts. I really *want* to like it, as it has all the elements I like, but I don't. I feel exactly the same way about Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
And you're right that any list is going to come down to personal preference. But therein lies the fun of the discussion. -
Quote:Owww. Hope it's not too bad. I got just a little burn on my hand and I thought I was going to die. But then I'm a big baby. I even have the diapers.Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
not gonna be able to join, burnt my hand on the stove, and sort of out of commission til the blisters go.
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I just got home from an art thingy (appropriately) -- still have room?
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I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be clean.
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Quote:Now you finally get how the rest of us feel about you wanting to steal our names. It's not pleasant, is it? But at least this way we can all have the name we want.Originally Posted by Yogurt
This makes me very very scared I would much rather deal with no names, then too many of certain names.
Personally, I say leave it as it is. If you want a good name, think harder. -
Quote:Does this mean that when you log onto Liberty you *will* be able to discuss it?Originally Posted by Zwillinger
There are reasons for this, which I am not at liberty to discuss at the moment.
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Quote:No it's not. I once was away from the game for a little over 16 months. Last fall I couldn't play due to health reasons. This fall I won't be able to play due to work-related reasons and because I'll be on another continent. I'm not going to pay to keep my sub active, but if my experience is any indicator, then I'll be back. This is my all-time favorite game, after all. If you want a closer analogy, then go with second home. A lake cabin or vacation house, maybe. Just because it's sitting idle without anyone in it for 4 to 6 months of the year doesn't give you the right to come in and start taking my stuff. Same goes here. This is my vacation house from reality. Stop trying to take my ****.Originally Posted by Emberly
The analogous situation is not "going on holidays" but "ceasing rent/mortgage payments and vacating the premises."
I think it's perfectly valid to strip trial account names. When I had a second trial account just to see the differences between that and a regular account, I deleted all of those characters so the names wouldn't be locked up. Most people don't do that. And although it's a less-desirable solution, I'm not opposed to appending global names to game names, so long as we don't have to see those added names. So if you want to make Ironik (@Emberly), go right ahead. But don't go agitating to steal "Ironik" from me. -
Quote:This right here, this is a win.Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
In Brightest Day
In Darkest Night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power
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Quote:I'm a comic book fan and a movie fan, and I thought Watchmen was mostly tedious interspersed with interesting moments.Originally Posted by docbuzzard
Honestly I can't dispute any of the items included (maybe Blade 2 or Unbreakable), but I would dispute the order. Iron Man at 10 is ludicrous.
I personally don't see people's beef with Watchmen if you actually are a comic fan. If you aren't a comic fan, then definitely it wouldn't make the list. The non comics people I have shown it to have either disliked it a lot, or been left baffled.
Off the top of my head, I would put The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Fantastic Four 2 or Hancock on that list before I ever considered Watchmen. Or the Batman cartoon, for that matter. -
Quote:Subs lapse for any number of reasons. If my names were taken from me for being absent from a game for any length of time, never mind a paltry 90 days, I'd never come back. So yes, I see it as silly an assertion to free up every name on every inactive account as saying that you clearly don't need your belongings if you've gone on holiday.Originally Posted by Emberly
I don't feel that the two are analogous. If you stop paying for a service, why should resources (any resources, including names!) be withheld from actual paying customers in case you decide to return? Not quite the same thing as breaking into someone's house and stealing their possessions. That said, I understand that people get possessive about their names; if that's the case, they shouldn't let their sub lapse.
I find most people who complain about not having enough names aren't being creative. I recently got both "Animal Trainer" and "Only Child" on Freedom. Two days ago I made "The Quick Red Fox" on a UK server, but it's available on both Freedom and Virtue. Not terribly long ago I snagged "Mighty Lad" on Virtue, as well as "Whipper-Snapper", "Sea Devil" and "Superbull." Plus "Dynosaur" on Infinity. It's not like it's hard to get cool names. -
Quote:Zing!Originally Posted by Defenestrator
At least Luongo's okay. The rioters tried to throw debris at him as he left the stadium, but everything got by him.
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Quote:I would pay real money to be 40 again. Oh, not having gray hair, how I miss you.Originally Posted by Positron
Thanks everyone. Today's the big Four Oh.
I started working in the video games industry when I was 20. Man, I have been making games for half my life.
Hmm, I made your birthday about me!
Happy birthday, man.
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Quote:Zackly. If CoH did this, the Devs would just be adding in farms with every issue.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
How many if any of the 14,000 people they collected data on were chinese prisoners forced to be gold farmers?
If the people they gathered data from were randomly chosen then their data would be skewed by the fact that a certain percentage of their group doesn't react the way legitimate players would.
Issue 22: Farmville
Issue 23: Farmtown
Issue 24: Farmopolis
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As my friend (and former CoH player) stated: "Call the Avengers, the Mandarin has acquired Stark Tech."
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Iron Man #10? Watchmen even on the list? Are they insane?
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Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Remember that terrible first trailer? Apparently that captured the essence of the movie perfectly. -
Quote:CIA? You mean Olive Garden. That's what all their commercials say.Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
Should you be advertising that you work for the CIA? j/k My niece and sister in law were just there for a week, I am told it's unforgettable. Safe travels and hope your return is sooner rather than later... enjoy the pasta!
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Quote:I wish you well on your new adventure.Originally Posted by the_fox_Rox
Well here is as good a place as any. I am moving this friday, I wont have internet at the new place. The "company" is sending me to italy for training for "awhile" shortly after I move in so I wont be able to play. It'll be end of july or august before I will be back. I make no gurantees then because I'll be travelling a whole lot and my laptop isn't really up to the challenge of playing COH. I'm looking at new ones but <shrugs> they are too expensive for now. Thursday, tonight will probably be my last night, I'll still be around the forums, or try to be.
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You posted an f-bomb and blew up the thread. Bye-bye thread.
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Quote:I think if you go on vacation, your computer should be fair game.Originally Posted by Emberly
I'm of the opinion that if your account lapses for three months, your names should be fair game.
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Quote:That's definitely an issue. Another problem is that someone decided to hang Magneto's origin on the Holocaust, which makes his birth year no later than 1932 (in the movies) whereas in the comics it's specifically stated he was born in the late '20s and was sent to the Warsaw ghetto when his family was rounded up in 1939. So in 2011 he's either 82-85 (comics) or 79-84 (films). Doing that really limits the stories you can tell in present day without evoking the magic reset button on his age.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Re: everchanging ensemble cast of heroes.
So you are going to do X-men. Which X-men? What era? Who's running the team? Who's not on the team but is at the school? As a student or teacher?
So you end up with a team of everyone's favorites and throw in Storm to give the team a little color. But you can't make the team too large or the general audience won't remember who's who.
Through a dart at the collective 40+ years of X-men and you will get a different answer. Thor, Hulk and Shellhead are solo players. And they did change a few key points with those guys. Where's Blake and his walking stick? What about the Gamma Bomb? Iron-man was the closest to his origins but they messed up his enemies.
Trying to condense so much history and continuity into a trilogy or two simply can't be done and someone won't be satisfied.
If you read Straczynski's run on Thor, you'll see a number of those elements made it into his movie version. I agree with you; I also quite like the way they've cleaned up Iron Man, Thor and Hulk, hewing to the core of the characters and their backstories, evoking their histories without becoming encumbered by them.Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Say what? Iron Man came kinda close, I'll give it that. Thor and The Incredible Hulk don't come anywhere close to the comic book backstories of those characters: they are more "inspired by" than following the origin stories of those characters and their surrounding cast.
The X-Men are closer to the spirit of the comic book's backstory than either the Hulk has gotten in two movies or Thor got. Personally, I liked all four movies at least a little, although I think the Ang Lee Hulk really went way off the reservation. But even the Incredible Hulk is closer to the television show than the comic books. And Thor? What I like about Thor the most is that they *adapted* that story for a movie, keeping a remarkable amount of the "mythology" of the story while basically tossing all the parts that really aren't important to telling a Thor story, like Donald Blake for example. In other words, the creative people behind Thor were smart enough to take inspiration from the comics without being beholden to them, because a direct translation of Thor would have probably been a failure. It needed to be grounded somehow, and they managed to do that. -
Quote:If it's like the record store scenes in High Fidelity, I'd watch it.Originally Posted by Not_Rhino
I don't think it will be like that. Kevin Smith is certainly involved in the production, and being that he IS a comic book fan, I don't think he'll try to make everyone look like a bunch of lifeless nerds. They did say they are looking for funny and outgoing people. I imagine this is basically an attempt at making Clerks into a less offensive reality TV show while focusing almost exclusively on the type of nerd banter that was featured in Clerks.
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That would cool if it were ever to work, especially based on this image:
That's wicked hot. -
Quote:I beg your pardon? Whysoever would one, especially a man or -- dare I say it, a lady -- of genteel means ever deign to place any sort of machinery upon one's lap? No matter how marvelous its many mechanical attributes, one's lap is sacrosanct and, as anyone of superior breeding would know, inviolable. Such an affront to propriety would not stand in a gentleman's drawing room, never mind a more formal demesne. The only thing one might place upon one's lap is a finely-woven cloth napkin during high tea. Or perhaps a delightful strumpet from a harborside tavern. Merely in the interest of comparative anatomy, of course.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Steampunk computer, but not a steampunk laptop since this would crush the lap of anyone using it.
Now then. What is it? -
Quote:You can see it in Caem's art thread or his DA page.Originally Posted by HardRider
Where did you get a pic like that?
thats amazing!