Ironik

Crashing is why I don't lead teams any more.

I think anyone would love to have a career half as amazing as Lumet's.

Say, Psi, you seem like you have some talent. You should try to do something with it someday.

Reptiles are dumb. The way to fight cats is with water cannons. The Thundercats would go crazy once they were even slightly wet.

I saw Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark and I have to say that I am down with this.

For all its good and bad points, Martin's opus is definitely not escapist literature. It is grim and brutal and he often employs the same gambit that both King and Whedon do, in that he creates an interesting character, spends a great deal of time developing them and gets you to care about them... and then snuffs them randomly. At first it has the shock value you expect, but after the fourth or fifth one the shock wears off and a certain numbness sets in.

Anime anime anime anime CGI!!! anime anime anime.

Wish I could've come -- spent the day doing tax stuff.

Do you have a DeviantArt account? I looked but nothing turned up. I really like your stuff and wanted to see more. (Plus add favorites so others might find your work.) It's where all the cool kids hang out 'n' stuff.

I like it, too.

Rocky VII: UFC v. The Fighter.

I want to like this show -- it's superheroes, c'mon -- but the writing is terribly inconsistent. It started strong and then lost its way. Which is why it lost viewers, I think. The Dr. King character is easily the worst. He started out as a mastermind but ended up as a mere toady. It would've been much more interesting if he had been angling to take over the secret organization, with plots and plans working for and against people. Julie Benz is hot, sure, but his lusting after her seemed like a bizarre motivation for them to pull out of the hat like that.

What's oddest about the writing is that all of the secondary characters were far more interesting than the main characters. I would much rather watch a show about Joshua, Katie and George than the Powells. This was a decent attempt, but they dribbled out the storyline too long. You really need to pack stuff into today's shows, not drag them out the way Heroes did. So we're left with a feeling of "oh, what it could have been."

Do any of you want to take your Incarnates out into the wider game world and stomp some AVs and GMs? Or do you just want to play them inside the equivalent of the AE?

I have never said these things are too hard. I've said they're not fun. Easy does not equal fun.

Also: if you have to read outside sources to find out how to succeed an encounter, then it's a badly designed game. Period. I'm really getting tired of people saying that we just need to read the guides. Everything every player should need to know should be right there in the game.

The other problem I have with it is that we have raid content designed to unlock Incarnate abilities which are designed to make our characters even more powerful... but only inside the raid content. Apparently I missed something in the past year this Incarnate system has been discussed, because I never realized this stuff was only supposed to work within its own gated community.