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Invasion is City of Heroes with the serial numbers filed off.
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Quote:What does it look like? And stop using red, please.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
You know those vanity vet-reward pets; yeah, the ugly ones, the stupid-looking ones. [Not all of them for either category or both, but many of them qualify as far as i am concerned.] If you love them great, if you're like me you're doing stuff like looking at the Clockwork pet we have now and going, "....ugh." And just not bothering.
I would like to suggest a new vanity pet: I would like an MK-VI Victoria Clockwork pet, please. She doesn't even have to do anything, just follow me around looking cool! In fact I would prefer for her not to draw aggro.
In fact now that I think about it, an ACU or BCU Clockwork pet would also rule. Or any of the new Clockwork!
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Quote:The movie is as much about fear of nuclear bombs and cancer as anything else. Look at what Akira turns into and tell me that's not an analog to a tumor. Plus the imagery of the nuclear explosion, the burns and bandages... it's pretty much all right there.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Which boils down to say that there's a lot more to Akira than futuristic motor bikes, psychic powers, body horror, and orbital lazzors, which is probably all that this Americanized version will get, assuming it ever makes its way out of development hell.
That video linked earlier is right: the American version will be about Nikes and Doritos.
Decent adaptations of Japanese films have been made (Seven Samurai -> Magnificent Seven, Hidden Fortress -> Star Wars, Ringu -> The Ring, Yojimbo -> A Fistful of Dollars), but this won't be one of them.Quote:Honestly, I'm exasperated with Hollywood constantly treating adaptations as the excuse to stick a familiar title on whatever hackwork they can commission on the cheap as long as they can attach marquee-friendly names to it. -
Quote:In the Ultimate line, Fury was just that: an early test subject of the SS formula. SS, hmm....Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I'm still curious about whether or not they're going to include Samuel L Jackson in this movie. I mean, they could say that he was part of the Super Soldier program as well and just took a version of it that granted longevity instead of heightened physical abilities. Thoughts?
In the regular Marvel continuity where Fury is still Clint Eastwood rather than Samuel L. Jackson, the original Captain America is a different black guy who was a test subject. The Young Avenger named Patriot is his grandson. (I highly recommend the two Young Avengers graphic novels, easily some of the best superhero writing out there, complete with cool teenage versions of classic Avengers which tie in to established Marvel lore, excellent pacing, cool twists and proper cliffhangers at the end of each chapter.)
Anyway, the movies seem to be doing a mash-up between the regular universe and the Ultimate universe, taking the most interesting bits from each, which is as it should be. Personally, I'd bet that Samuel L. Jackson is in it, but whether he's in it during WW II or in a present day stinger is up in the air. -
Trailer.
Lots of good action, some humorous bits (alley fight) and Stanley Tucci has a ton of great lines, from philosophical to funny. -
Some of them tried CO. Did you ask on Infinity? That was the home server. My toon Manila Gorilla was in one of the sub-SGs before it fizzled and I deleted him.
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Akira is a girl robot in this one, made by Honda and Apple. iKira.
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Cool-looking.
Although we kind of get both in the Fire Blaster snipe Blazing Bolt. It also sounds cool. Oh, also Lightning Rod on my Brute is pretty awesome looking and fries up bad guy butt pretty nicely. -
Dinosaur survival tips I've learned from Primeval:
To escape a pteranodon: duck.
To escape a velociraptor: stand still.
To escape a small carnivorous pterosaur: duck.
To escape a mosasaur in shallow water: stand still.
To escape a future man-bat: stand still (main cast only; otherwise it can hear your heartbeat) or duck and wait for larger dino to eat it (this happens a lot).
To escape a mosasaur in deep water: float still and wait for a larger dino to eat it (see, there it is again).
To escape a dodo: no escape. -
Quote:Let's look it up; here's all I can find readily:Originally Posted by Innovator
Usually, she works as an operative for some military or government agency. However, she was originally an Army nurse and then an Army secretary. She was also a UN translator and once owned a boutique in New York, and I seem to remember one cartoon had her as a librarian.
Amazon princess -- not sure what that job entailed
1960s comics -- boutique owner
1974 TV movie -- secretary to Steve Trevor
1975 TV series -- First Class Petty Officer Yeoman in the Navy
1976 TV series -- an agent with the Inter-Agency Defense Command (IADC), a CIA-like organization
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Quote:...and the only other job Darth Vader held other than Dark Lord was navigator on a Klingon battlecruiser.Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
I realize I'm stepping in the middle of a heated conversation, but this is a serious question, born from an ignorance of the character. What job WOULD she hold? For that matter, what jobs has she held? I'm not the most read on the character, but the only job I can remember off the top of my head was when she worked for S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Quote:I was just about to post that as I just finished episode 6 and saw the ITV card. 6 was much better than 5, with a nice twist. Although I don't get the "we're in the future" stuff they kept rambling on about. Why does the future have creatures which match the prehistoric monsters? Are the anomalies hooking up with more than just 2007? All right, I admit that I'm intrigued enough to go on to Season 2.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
It's ITV, not BBC. Adjust expectations accordingly.
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Quote:Mmm, can you smell the burnt eggs the Devs are cookin'?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The next 2 Incarnate Trials are an attack on Anti-Matter's reactors, and a fight with the Praetorian Hamidon in the Underground.
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Nemesis being Hamidon wouldn't be nearly as cool as Nemesis manipulating Hamidon into becoming the giant Mr. Slugworth intent on taking all of our Everlasting Gobstoppers.
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Quote:Plus, if you do the two low-level bank missions in Kings Row, you get the Raptor Pack (flight) and a Zero-G Pack (superjump) for free and they each last for two hours of use. If you don't use them constantly and remember to turn them off when you land, you can make them last until you get to the high-30s or even mid-40s. On my Brute, after getting the 3 free travel backpacks, I didn't have to invest in a travel power until he was 47. And you really need flight in CoV.Originally Posted by slainsteel
No, really?? OMG, I am such a n00b
So I really like having it as an inherent, that way it still works on Mo runs; second, it works on every toon I have, from level 1 onwards - and no worrying about recharging it and all.
Raptor Pack is available levels 6-10 in the Protect Atlas Park Bank mission.
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WW has a glass airplane so she can fly over the glass ceiling.
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So I'm watching the BBC show Primeval on Netflix and I'm wondering: does it get better or worse?
For every episode that's good, every other show is just retarded. I just watched episode 5 and it really makes me want to kick everyone involved squarely in the royal jewels. The pteranodon menacing people for no other reason than as a plot device to make you think it's the killer of golfers. People running from the pteranodon straight down a golf club's fairway instead of running sideways into the trees. Shooting both high-velocity bullets and giant tranquilizer darts over the city, disregarding where they might come down. A tranquilizer dart that hits the pteranodon and *instantly* brings it down. One guy tasting dinosaur crap to see if it's eaten people, which, let me just say, WTF?!
Episode 1: not bad, good enough to intrigue me
Ep. 2: dumb but okay, very much a B- monster movie
Ep. 3: really good
Ep. 4: one sub-plot quite good, other sub-plot really idiotic
Ep. 5: as above, flat-out execrable
If it continues on like this, I'm not interested in wasting my time. I don't care how hot the chicks are. Does it get any better, or is the equivalent of Mansquito? -
Quote:You know, after Miller's disastrous and equally insanely-comical spin a couple years ago, I have to wonder if someone at DC just totally hates Batman. I mean, how could any reasonable editor let any of this crap get past the script stage?Originally Posted by SuperOz
I spoke to my local comic book store guy today about it....let's just say it's not flying off shelves....
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Quote:Fixed that for you.Originally Posted by Durakken
Also... I saw some of the previews for this series and laughed at how bad it looked, not visually, but in actually capturing any character that is human.
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Quote:I can hear them, they're in walls! They're in the goldanged walls!!Originally Posted by Cowman
Just remember that for every woman you see, there's a hundred more that you don't.
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Quote:I don't believe in the no-win scenario.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
The devs have written themselves into a corner and handed us a no-win situation.
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Quote:Oh lord yes. I want to change my answer to:Originally Posted by Stealth_Bomber
1. Go buy the code from that Richard Garriott's sci fi game, the one with the initials TR. Nobody's using it anymore; it should be cheap. Strip out the code that let you move and shoot at the same time. Insert it into CoX.
1) Remove Suppression. PvP is dead, time to haul off the carcass that's stinking up PvE.
2) Remove Rooting. Shoot and Scoot! Run and Gun! Smash and Dash! Crush and Rush! Slam and Scram! Do a stab and call a cab! -
Wonder Woman as originally presented was something of a proto-feminist, so her selling her own image is merely an outgrowth of that attitude. If someone is going to sell it anyway, why shouldn't she own it herself and do some good with the profits?
I wonder if they'll go back to her roots and have her get into the predicaments she did then. Looking at the original stories, WW really manages to get herself tied up and spanked with amazing frequency. -
"It's one thing to question the official bio. It's another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate, that I'm some sort of gelatinous supervillain. The truth is... I am Hamidon." -- Marcus Cole
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I couldn't get into the comic. Perhaps as some wacky British Superman knock-off, but it felt to me like he missed the character by a mile.