Ironik

Meh... at this point I generally ignore CoH lore for most of my characters, so the Incarnate stuff is just another game mechanic. For three of my four 50s I completely ignore the whole "Well of Souls" nonsense because it doesn't fit their backstories at all. They aren't Fantasy characters, so magical mumbo-jumbo is irrelevant to their concepts. So basically the Incarnate bonus is just them getting better at their jobs.

I loathe that I have to do that, because I'd much rather have the stories be vague enough to let us choose how they apply to our characters.

As Kai pointed out already, nudes can slip through the filters. Everyone else alerts people to NSFW links; it's just common courtesy.

The plot is straight out of the comics, yes, and Jackman has said the first one sucked. So there's hope.

The good news about Wolverine is that stories can be told in any era over the past couple hundred years, since he doesn't age. Whether people will accept him without the claws in a film that takes place before the 1970s is another story. (Provided they stay true to the character. Does anyone recall seeing any claws in the flashbacks in Origins? I don't, but seriously blanked out a lot of that flick.)

Is "boylike" a code word for "sensitive"? I think most of the future American stars along the line of Steve McQueen aren't in films but are acting on TV shows. (Provided all the dang ferriners stop taking those jobs, too.)

As far as movie actors go, I'd say Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Pine are contenders. I think Matt Damon is already there, easily. Zac Efron has the potential to actually *be* the next Gene Kelly, and he's certainly good looking enough. Talk about talent, Elijah Kelley has the goods to be the next Sammy Davis, Jr., but he could be so much more. Ben Foster is an up-and-comer. Armie Hammer (yes, that's his real name: Armand Hammer, after his great-grandpa) is a genetic freak of awesome who could beat the crap out of McQueen. And what about Bradley Cooper?

The trailers for that other superhero game are actually better than the game itself. The new one certainly adds a new wrinkle to the story, and I hope they keep doing them. As to cost, to get a top-notch studio like Blur to do it is upwards of a couple million dollars for a 5- or 6-minute video. You can cheat it a little bit by setting a lot of scenes at night and in the dark (shadows are your friend) and by doing new-fangled versions of old-fashioned tricks like relying on matte paintings instead of rendered backgrounds and tweaking depth of field so those flat backgrounds are even more indistinct, but it's still going to cost a few hundred grand.

That said, a small group doing it as a hobby in their spare time could make a pretty cheap one using things like Blender, but it would take months to complete. Rendering time alone is a huge bottleneck. Even using a powerful G4 at work, it still takes me 20 minutes or so to render a regular 58-minute TV show with minimal titles and non-fancy edits. Creating every single object in the frame? A half-hour per frame, maybe, for simple shots. That means it would take 15 hours to make 1 second of film. A 3-minute film at that rate would take someone more than 2,700 hours just to render. The average 40-hour work week gives you 2,080 hours a year.

As the old saying goes: "You can have the work done cheap, fast or right. Pick any two."

Meh, the snowpocalypse petered out. Instead of the threatened 24 inches, we got maybe 7 or 8. Official total is 16, but the Accuweather Picnic Table isn't showing anything near that.

Ooh, yeah, that would've been good.

Found some pics:

I don't think he looks thuggish enough. Guy has that mashed pugilist nose look about him. he looks more like Jeremy Renner to me.

I was pulling for Jensen as Captain America.

Oh my god. Stay safe you guys.

Your position is rather pointless, because art *is* subjective. Sometimes you just love something or hate it. Music is intensely personal, for instance, and everyone likes something different. Whatever you're in to, I can find 20 million people in America who think it's stupid, and any art you find attractive there is someone else who thinks it's ugly as sin.

Along with comic and representational art I really like modern art, counting among my favorites Jackson Pollock's #31, Mark Rothko's Orange & Yellow and a guy I found on Deviant Art named SkaPunk who did a painting called "Livingston" which most people would probably call "crappy fingerpaints" but I think it looks awesome. Many people dismiss artworks like these, but I think they're amazing.

The local fire department has their Smokey the Bear sign reading "Fire Danger: Low" now, but that's clearly an error. I mean, there's all this oxygen lying around on the ground, with twice as much hydrogen right there with it, and we all saw what happened to the Hindenburg.

The wiki has the release dates, so which day of the week merely requires a perpetual calender.

I love the Oneders!