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Quote:None of which helped my Fire/Fire/Fire Blaster last night. I always targeted through a Tank and running 7-8 oranges at a time never kept me from getting held and killed whenever one of the 9CUs noticed me.Originally Posted by DeProgrammer
Spamming reds, purples, oranges, and yellows for the last 10-15 seconds before the hospital door unlocks makes short work of all the NPCs there. I seriously recommend everyone do that every time they're sent to the hospital. (Grab a few break frees and respites while you're at it.) :P
For some reason, the game crashes every time I leave the hospital, so I'm loathe to go in there. Since there aren't any inspiration drops while you're fighting (at least there weren't during any of the times I tried it), I run out immediately. By the fourth time they shot straight through my inspiration defenses, I just stopped bothering. Didn't see the point, really.
My guy is a Blaster, I expect him to die. A lot. That's like their secondary inherent. But dying like that while providing almost no benefit to the team? Kinda of tips toward the "Not Fun At All" side of the scale. -
Quote:You wouldn't be so eager to get in if you could play it. I think BAF stands for "Basically All Faceplant."Originally Posted by Test_Rat
...Because I cannot GET INTO A TRIAL.
Every time I queue solo or in a preformed league, I get booted and stuck in the queue till I relog.
This is after 6 attempts.
This is freaking ridiculous.
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Quote:Can't be any worse than how Vista handles I20. 100% guaranteed crash every time I leave the hospital in the BAF or Lambda. Good thing there's a "rejoin" button.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
^ This. Very very VERY bad idea. Don't FrankenPatch. That way lies reisntalling Windows.
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Quote:Say... that bodysuit she's wearing... we can make that in-game.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
DC's ultimate savior is Spoiler?
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Quote:Was the giant bus atomic? The Really Big Bus? Something like that. Let me look that up.Originally Posted by Local_Man
I might have another one:
Lucille Ball. She was a pretty big time movie star (and drop-dead beautiful) before she went on TV.
Edit: Ah, I'm conflating two movies: The Long, Long Trailer and The Big Bus. The bus is atomic, so everyone in that is in the club.
Ball was in the terrible musical Mame, which I think counts. She was also in something called The Magic Carpet. That one might be fantasy. -
Quote:Does she? It's been a long time since I've seen the film. ::: counts on fingers and toes ::: Yeah, 22 years.Originally Posted by Local_Man
Also, she doesn't she have the Ruby Slippers at the end, calling into question whether it was all a dream?
At that time the discussion was about the WWW's susceptibility to water. I mean, even supposing there's a substance that can melt you like that, why would you keep a bucket of it just sitting around? It's as if we all had buckets of hydrochloric acid all over the place. -
It's a trick by Mr. Mxyzptlk.
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Really nice arty stuff there. I particularly like the steampunk chibi girl. (Stibipunk?)
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Quote:They also make me tilt my head and after a while I feel a little queasy. The 1960s batman TV series should not be a design inspiration for anyone. Can't wait until these are replaced.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I think I get where they were going with the idea. I somewhat like the uniformed look, but they are completely devoid of personality.
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Quote:That sounds like a false analogy and wasted snark, because this TF is necessary for all that Shardy Thready Incarnatey crap, which those other TFs are not.Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
So on my Fire/Fire tanker with no Psi protection and little Ice protection, if the Devs come out with a single trial that has an abundance of Psi and Ice damage, they made my character completely useless and I should stop playing the game.
Oh wait, there's still several TFs, a different trial, and plenty of arc content to do. My mistake.
Note: I don't know if it's completely necessary, nor do I care. It's hyped as such and I ain't doing research for it because my brain is full of more important ****. Can you tell I'm working on taxes now? -
Quote:I want War Witch as a pet. I hear she bakes.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Keep in mind that we're going to be expanding/diversifying the Lore slot, as confirmed by Mr. Black Scorpion in the UStream dev chat.
It definitely doesn't hurt to at least get started on unlocking it and working your way up. -
Quote:Are there two Step 2s because you're from Texas?Originally Posted by Pie-Ro
Step 1: Download wondercon footage from Apple in 1080p.
Step 2: Turn on large fancy tv.
Step 2: Transfer wondercon footage to ps3.
Step 3: Press Repeat.
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Quote:I'm guessing the ticket-taker has zero knowledge of cinema equipment and was told that it's shown digitally by management who likewise doesn't have any information about what their equipment actually is. And of course all digital movies are high definition by...er...definition, so theatre owners can claim "it's HD!" to charge more for the "enhanced" experience.Originally Posted by Cass_
Uh, what? how do you show a movie in anything else? it's a massive screen it would be a blurry mess if it was shown at standard TV quality, hell, cinema projectors probably show it at better than the proposed "quad HD" standard.
It's really only applies to TV signals since the quality was so low. -
Quote:He wrote an episode or three of the miniseries, too.Originally Posted by Local_Man
George R. R. Martin has worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter in the past, so this is not his first time dealing with TV/Film. And yes, he was very involved and has put his "stamp of approval" on the series.
I'll believe it when I see it. At ComiCon last year his editors said they'd have it by Christmas. A month ago he said he was pretty sure he'd make the due date. Uh-huh.Quote:Book 5, "A Dance with Dragons" is due out this summer, mid July I think.
He also has some prime oceanfront property to sell you. In Montana.Quote:I suspect that Martin has most of Book 6 written already. -
Oh, hey, IMDB list Sean Penn as having a part in Being John Malkovich.
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Quote:I'm with you there!Originally Posted by Smersh
Gone With The Wind is purest fantasy... but not in the way you mean, and a quick perusal looks as though you're right.
Gary Cooper's also light on the fantasy/sci-fi... he does have one credit that fits the bill much as GWTW does... The Fountainhead is pure fantasy as well.
Cooper is in an early version of Alice in Wonderland (with W.C. Fields and Cary Grant!) but I can't tell from the description if it's a Fantasy or just a dream.
On a similar note, that last bit is one of the things that makes me think that The Wizard of Oz is technically neither a Fantasy nor a true Musical in the sense that musicals exist in their own little world. One can argue that both the Oz parts of the film and the song before the tornado are just part of Dorothy's imagination. That's just splitting semantic hairs, though, since WoO has all the aspects of both musicals and fantasy films. The "it was a dream" thing just means you get to have your cake and eat it, too, when it comes to genres. -
Quote:And he's currently in Limitless, at theatres now.Originally Posted by Cass_
Brazil.
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Quote:And the sequel to American Tail.Originally Posted by Cass_
Plus Harvey.
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They actually said that water is frozen everywhere else in the universe? Wow, super retarded. Collecting comets and mining Europa may be a little more difficult than sticking a big tube in the Pacific, but there aren't any natives killing the guys with the giant straw.
If an alien species is looking for a new place to live and is inherently violent, then I can see killing the local populace in a way that leaves the place "move-in ready" rather than throwing an asteroid and obliterating the existing face of the planet. That said, it's just dumb to opt for hand-to-hand combat when they can just drop neutron bombs. At 10 times the amount of radiation released compared to regular atomic bombs, you kill off a lot more people, animals and plants with far less general blast damage. Wait a few months then take over. Or heck, just be a little patient and decode our language and figure out that 99% of the entire global civilization is completely dependent on oil and destroy the refineries. Civilization collapses, people turn on each other as food becomes scarce and then starve to death. Go off to mine the asteroids for whatever minerals you want then come back a few years later and set up camp.
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Quote:I read this exact line in a review the other day.Originally Posted by Night_Fyre
The only Sucker Punch was the one to my wallet.
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Quote:I think each trilogy has a different amount of time between books. The first 3 had 2 years between novels, while so far the second trilogy has about three times that amount between entries.Originally Posted by Sagitaur17
Unfortunayely, Martin usually takes 3-4 years (at least) between books. Hopefully HBO is patient. I know the fans of the series have to be...
1st book -> 2 years -> 2nd book -> 2 years -> 3rd book -> 5 years -> 4th book -> 6 years -> 5th book.
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Quote:By the time the books are finished. LOL. Aren't you the cockeyed optimist! The series will have to write a new ending if it's a hit. Either that or hold off on new installments longer than BSG did.Originally Posted by Local_Man
The books are fantastic, and I think that they can translate to a mini-series quite well . . . heck by the time all the books are done, it would be longer than a lot of regular TV series.
Plus kids can only work 4 hours a day. Not good for a miniseries.Quote:Robb Stark and Jon Snow are older than in the books . . . they are supposed to be 14-15 rather than the 17-20 look they have there. I understand why they were aged for HBO . . . they have some rather adult things to do, which would have been very tough to show with underage actors. Same with Sansa, who is supposed to be 12-13. So I'm expecting some changes from the source material, but overall, I was impressed.
"Throwns"? Is that a combo of "throne" and "crown"? If so, I applaud your efficiency!Quote:Lothic, this beginning doesn't even come close to showing the level of complex intregue and great characters that show up in A Game of Throwns. The good guys are all flawed, the bad guys mostly have reasons for being bad, and the plot has unexpected twists and turns. I'm really looking forward to seeing Peter Dinklage as Tyrion, who has become one of my favorite literary characters. He's a guy who you can both love and hate -- a dwarf who turns his curse into a kind of weapon by being more clever than others. His character really shines more in later books, but you get to see a lot about him in A Game of Throwns. 
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Quote:Maybe not a trilogy, but the set-up was good. The problem with the cobbled-together X-Men 3 (well, one of the problems) was that it was hamstrung by Singer enticing Marsden into playing a second banana in Superman Returns, so the resurrection story was hamstrung from the get-go. If the 3rd film had been about Phoenix's return and the 4th about the mutant cure, that would've been an epic series of films.Originally Posted by Furio
Of course you don't. Remember what happened with the "X-Men" (in quotes because they're not really the X-Men) movies? They tried to shoehorn the Dark Phoenix saga (arguably one of the biggest impacts on the team in it's history) in as a friggin side-plot in *one* movie. It's easily a trilogy on it's own.
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Quote:Does Comixology (or the Marvel or DC apps) have cheaper versions in virtual graphic novels? I'd buy a lot more online comics if they were 99 cents, or even better at 49 cents. Last time I did that, though, my hard drive crashed and they wouldn't give me back the ones I'd bought.Originally Posted by Furio
I've got the Comixology app, and they've got all of the Blackest Night books (the main series, dunno about the legions of tie-ins) , and are up to issue 13, I think, of Brightest Day. Only problem, is that you have to buy them individually at 2 bucks a pop...although I think Blackest Night #0 was free. But, once purchased, your account on the site on your PC and any devices you may have the app on will sync up, so you can read em where ever. Only downside (YMMV) is that they don't have anything from Marvel.
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Quote:She got him back, I hear. You get everything in her will. Haw haw.Originally Posted by Winterminal
The Green Lantern thing had me for a minute, kudos over there.
The credit for the best April Fool's joke I know goes to my younger brother. We have a kitchen sink that has a spray nozzle attached to a hose, separate from the main faucet. A few years back, he scotch-taped the button on the nozzle, so when the water was turned on (instead of exiting the faucet straight into the sink) the sprayer would soak whomever turned on the water. Boy was Mom pissed. But what makes this the best one I know?... He got her two years in a row.