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Quote:You can kind of see the USO suit under the torn fatigues in some pics, and it resembles the typical spandex outfit.Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Remember this is only his WWII preliminary costume (altered a bit for combat from being the mascot of the military). This is not the final cossie he'll be wearing in the Avengers after they thaw him out of the ice as it'll be too badly shredded after..... -
Quote:Yeah, the artist (Bryan Hitch) was just modifying the WWII paratrooper outfit by adding Captain America doodads to it. The boots and gloves are just standard-issue items for GIs. In that respect, I think it's a brilliant design. A couple details are different from real life, such as the fact real paratroopers often had their sidearms located where that "armpit pouch" is in the drawing. But that wasn't a hard-and-fast rule of combat gear, so maybe Cap had something he considered more important in that pouch.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Could be. I don't like the gloves or boots in that pic, either. The straps in it are less intrusive to the design, though, even if the armpit pouch looks ridiculous. I love that style of jacket, though - is it a classic flak jacket?
I think it's not nearly as good as the comics version, but likewise I don't think it's a show-stopper. The Goblin was genuinely terrible, though, and I never bought the notion that Peter whipped up that carbon-fiber suit in his bedroom.Quote:Mind you, I don't think the movie costume is overall movie-ruining terrible (like, say, the Spider-man Green Goblin costume was). As movie superhero costumes go, it's not bad. -
What a weird, wacky and wonderful Easter Egg.
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I'm thankful for the awesomeness of this game in general; it's served as a retreat when times have been bad and I've met some terrific people in the game and on the forums.
As for specific stuff I appreciate about this game, I started a thread about that last month. -
Quote:They're clearly using the Ultimate Captain America design as their jumping-off point. The machine gun guys might also be Nazi wunderwaffe.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I don't like the gloves. The pouches are a bit Liefeld. The straps would be okay if the gray bits were made blue to match the top. I have a feeling I wouldn't like the boots if they were pictured, either.
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Unlike some of the very cool Archangel redesigns, I don't think the Black Cat ones hit the mark. It's hard to equal the simplicity and iconic design of the original. It even looks good in real life.
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Considering that the black suit wasn't Venom-ous when Peter was wearing it, maybe it takes on aspects of the person's subconscious. That'd be a cool take on the character. I'm given to understand that this may not be the classic symbiote but a version weaponized by the government. (Not sure if "weaponized" is the right term when speaking of Venom.)
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High Moon wasn't taken? Inconceivable! Did you name it after the comic or did you independently arrive there? Frankenmime is the scariest monster, ever. You'd never hear him coming. Altitude, another great name. And Haleakala... man, I love Maui. I kid you not, on my desktop I have a weather widget that tells me info about where I live in New Hampshire and Kahului.
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Ina Gadda Da Vida?
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Quote:You can't keep harping on that one time no one was maimed. That was pure luck and you know it. Like Olympic judging, we throw out the high and low scores.Originally Posted by Luminara
Oh come on. Anyone can mix up their booby trap manual with the cookbook. No-one really died... CPR was administered, the longest anyone was "technically dead" was 3:51.
Honestly, I don't know how these rumors get started. It's not like people end up hospitalized and missing limbs every time I decide to throw a little soiree. -
Quote:I still say the way they did it in Ultimate Spider-Man was the best. The web fluid was actually the last thing Peter's dad was working on when he died, so Peter spent years trying to finish it. So he was Spider-Man for a while before he accomplished that feat, then figured out how to turn it into web fluid.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Wait...you think that a highly intelligent teenager making webshooters is implausible, but a bite from a radioactive spider that creates natural webshooting from his wrists (not from his rear, which is where it should be if he's a spider) is plausible?Quote:
But I absolutely disagree with web-shooters If they ever went down that path. Stan's original concept or not... It just doesn't make sense for a teenage schoolboy to be capable of inventing a scientific breakthrough like infinite supply of super-strong webbing and its practicle application through wrist-shooters in his bedroom. Totally dumb idea - just-don't-go-there. >.<
Which handily kills two birds with one stone; it shows Peter being smart and persistent, but not like a complete runaway genius on the order of reed Richards. He was just obsessing about this one thing and finally cracked it, then discovered he could make it work with his new persona.
I also liked the fact that he had to husband the use and if he ran out he would be hosed because it was neither cheap nor easy to make. -
No foolin'. In the back of The Amazing Spider-Man 651 (which has the single most menacing last line of any Spidey comic *ever*) editor Stephen Wacker writes: "One thing both Rick, Dan and Tony have discussed with Venom is giving him more tricks than just being a bloodthirsty, tongue wagging blob of ultra strong alien goo. The new Venom is relying on new gadgets and tricks that rival Spidey's... though they're much deadlier." You can tell it was written by an editor and not a writer because he refers to *three* people by using the word "both." Clearly the guy's never heard of Strunk, Funk, White or Wagnall.
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Quote:They don't need gangsta rap in Canada. They have "Seasons in the Sun."Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex
I'm sure this move will end all hatred and bigotry in the world. On a side note don't anyone tell Canada about gangsta rap.
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Quote:What the hell were you doing getting born in a bar? Did they name you "Rummy"?Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
The position of the midwife at delivery exerts more (gravitational) influence on a baby than the position of any celestial body, bar the earth moon and sun.
...relax people, it's a joke. See, I'm playing with the definitions of "bar." -
Quote:Moon Zone with moonbase, complete with 1/6th gravity. But you have to be able to go outside and fight on the nearly-airless face of the moon.Originally Posted by Hazzard_County
So, if you could create your own zone, what would it be?
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Quote:"Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words can really hurt."Originally Posted by Silver Gale
I like how something as simple as using a different pronoun is apparently a "naked plea for attention". Which has apparently caused people to jump out from all sides to let us know their preferences for grammatical particles. It's almost like the words we use to refer to other human beings are important, or something.
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Quote:At first I thought "hir" and "sie" were typos of "her" and "she." New words that are more confusing than the words they try to replace are bad words. Whoever came up with those two things ought to be punished by being forced to transcribe the Iliad and Odyssey into Esperanto... and make it rhyme. Those who use them in a non-smirking fashion should be punished by being forced to sing the resultant epic. And then listen to it. On a loop. Forever.Originally Posted by Zikar
Wow, I started a bit of a snowball there.
Gender neutral eh? That's kind of odd... especially (as other have pointed out) "they" and "their" are already accepted.
Also, "hir" is probably the worst possible concept for being gender neutral since when spoken it would be identical to "her"... *baffled*
Personally, I've always used "they" and "their" when referring to posters I don't know the genders to and I've always gone with toon gender in game (unless, again, I know their actual gender).
Just goes to show that some people will make a big deal out of anything.
Most linguists agree that "they" and "their" are fine stand-ins for true gender-neutral pronouns and from a practical standpoint you might as well, since most people are using them in that fashion anyway. -
Quote:I have a vocabulary larger than 99% of most people's (tested and approved to be so!) and I had never heard of "hir" and "sie." Those sound so ridiculously pretentious and politically correct, I can only imagine how PoisonPen must've come across in-game correcting someone's bio out of the blue.Originally Posted by UberGuy
Define "real life".
They aren't formally accepted parts of the language, if that's what you're asking.
Anyway, Virtue is where you want to be and hanging out in both the Comic Culture and Roleplaying forums to get a feel for where comic book fans hang out. -
Quote:...or talking to them.Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
That's cool and all, so long as Joe Q isn't among those writers.....
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Quote:You're so cynical! The universe is so big and we don't have all the answers! So maybe this --Originally Posted by Cass_
So some irrelevant rubbish has been replaced with some slightly different irrelevant rubbish?
What sane person would care?
Bwa-hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!
* schnerk *
Ah, sorry, couldn't get through that with a straight face.
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Quote:Context is everything. You can't just eliminate words because you find them offensive; that's retarded. (See what I did there?) Besides, the story is in the song itself, and it's clear that the character "singing" the song is a total b-hole who is stupid and offensive. Much like the person who complained.Originally Posted by sleestack
The story I heard was that Mark Knopfler was in a TV/Appliance store, and overheard one of the workers watching Prince on MTV, and the line in question was actually said by the worker. Knopfler paraphrased it for the song, but the word in question was part of what the worker said.
Some years ago I saw some non-MTV veejay introducing the video by proclaiming, "Here's Dire Straits biting the hand that feeds them." Way to actually listen to the song, you moron.
Amen, brother.Quote:I once knew a woman who, when Dire Straits' "Walk of Life" came on the radio, started going off about how demeaning to women the song is. I asked what she meant, and she said, "He talks about having a woman down in the dark, trying to make her pay." Her are the actual lyrics for that part of the song:
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies,
Be bop a loo la baby what I say.
Here comes Johnny singing 'I Got A Woman'
down in the dark, trying to make it pay.
For those of you who don't know, 'I Got A Woman' was recorded by Ray Charles in 1954. It was it his first hit, and has been covered by literally dozens of other artists including Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, The Monkees, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty and Kanye West. In other words, it's a "standard".
So I explained this to the woman, that the song is about a musician playing cover songs and trying to make "it" (i.e., his music) pay, "down in the dark" (i.e., in dark basement clubs and such). It is NOT about a pimp trying to make money off of a woman.
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Yeah, back in '97 we had that exact situation in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, with entire towns being washed away. I don't recall how high the Ohio River peaked, but it was insanely high. It swamped everything anywhere near the river bank, like the outdoor music venue Riverbend and the amusement park next door in its relentless rise. It rained for 69 days straight, with 3 months of cloudy days and intermittent rain throughout. Half our roads were impassable for months afterward. And this was after the flash floods of winter '95, when record rainfall combined with rapid snowmelt.
A river starts rising, just head for high ground, because it's going to crush everything in its way. People who are killed in rising rivers aren't drowned, they're beaten and crushed to death. So stay as far away from the water as possible. You never know how fast it's going or if there are live power lines in it. Definitely never attempt to drive through it. -
Quote:I agree that even in a sexist art form, she's completely over the top. However, I suppose one might argue that she's often portrayed as using sex as a weapon because she knows exactly what dressing like that will do to others. It means men will be at the least distracted and at the most underestimate her.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I don't know if it's sexism, but one character who annoys me greatly is Emma Frost. There's something very Pamela Anderson about her that makes me just twitch. It seems she can only do her scheming while spilling from a white leather cup suit.
One review of Twilight mentioned that the author goes into exacting detail with OCD-like minutia about Edward and the other men, but does not once describe the heroine. It's a brilliant idea because it allows women to fantasize that *they* are the ones Edward's in love with. Whether she did that intentionally or accidentally is a moot point, for it allowed her books to become the phenomena that they are.Quote:But I'm also annoyed by Edward Cullen, the 100 year old vampire madly in love with a teenager. That's a character from "girl's literature." I don't think of it as sexism so much as a characterization that's not meant for me.
That last sentence confuses me. You are gay? You were?Quote:So the question is, are (straight) men allowed to have their own literature? Or is the issue that what is essentially literature for straight males is promoted by culture as having mass appeal that it actually lacks? Loaded questions for sure. I was gay, read these comics, eventually stopped reading them, but not because I felt unwelcome.
Anyway, I think the thriller genre in both literature and comics is for adult males. The comic 100 bullets is very adult, not in the porn industry sense, but in dealing with grow-up issues and complex storytelling. It stands it stark contrast to a lot of the immature big boobs and partially-clad tights of some mainstream superhero comics.
I think there are plenty of writers out there who aren't hypocrites in this sense. Bendis certainly isn't in his mainstream comics, and I get the feeling that since Kirkman's Invincible is playing with the stereotypes of comics, the designs of those characters reflect that. Ellis also seems interested in subverting that sexism vibe in the things he's created, notably The Authority where no one is overtly sexualized and he even has two openly gay characters.Quote:Comparing it to something like the WWF professional wrestling, it just was what it was. Perhaps the only semi-insulting thing about it--and this isn't a comics thing exclusively--is that these books frequently preach about diversity and overcoming personal trauma, while presenting heroes who dodge the social categories that would put them in that exact situation. -
Quote:I'm not looking forward to either of those. Trans3 might fail badly due to the bad blood Trans2 garnered.Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
So I was poking around over at apple.com for new trailers, and I don't know if these are knew but I hadn't seen anyone link them here yet.
Green Lantern
And
TF3
Honestly I didn't even realize TF3 was going to be out this year. I know a lot of people didn't like the second one, but given that the writers strike messed up the script and all, I'm hoping the third one is better. Though to be honest I didn't think the second one was that bad.
However, there are a ton of genre movies that I *am* anticipating:
March - The Adjustment Bureau, Battle: Los Angeles (wait for DVD: Sucker Punch, Paul, Rango)
April - Source Code, Fast Five (DVD: Hanna, Hop, Rio)
May - Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (DVD: Kung Fu Panda 2, Priest)
June - X-Men: First Class (DVD: Green Lantern, Super 8, Rise of the Apes)
July - Captain America, Cowboys & Aliens (DVD: Zookeeper, Harry Potter)
August - all DVD
September - Now -
Yeah, it usually snows into May here, as well.