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I set my graphics settings all the way to 11 just to see what would happen, and my computer just refused to render anything. However, in the character screen it showed my characters in silhouette with just their chest emblems and a few other bits visible, which I thought looked really comicbook-y.
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I don't recall the stuff in the arc well enough and it's 5;15 am so I'm too sleepy to look it up, but I wonder if the issue of reproducing mediporters has something to do with material rather than computer chips and such. Not enough riktimantium* to go around, maybe.
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Quote:It's only available from the official website.Originally Posted by Dark One
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Quote:I don't think this is a Clark Kent/Superman situation. Someone would have to be really famous to be noticed by most people and Vince Faraday is just that dirty cop who got killed, a news story of interest for a few days. I doubt very many people paid that much attention to his photo. There have been enough cases of criminals' faces being plastered all over TV and newspapers as they make their way from town to town without a single person recognizing them to get me to believe few people would recognize this guy.Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
And also the CGI cape was stupid and obviously-fake-looking. The guy also spends an inordinate amount of time with his hood/mask off, and yet no one seems to notice who he is. I guess the people of Palm City are as stupid as the people in Metropolis.
On that show "Undercover Boss" CEOs grow some stubble, put on baseball caps and work alongside their employees and only two times has any of them been recognized. Heck, Leno does that "Jaywalking" bit where he shows photos of famous people to random folks on the street and plenty have no idea who's in the picture. So I can see a guy like Vince escaping scrutiny. -
I'm surprised you didn't toss a couple lines of exposition in that large panel, or identify where the sub base is.
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Good fun so far.
Martin Klebba who plays Rollo the dwarf would be perfect as Puck from Alpha Flight. -
Is this the one where the trailer made Wolverine look like '80s Gambit with a Billy Ray Cyrus mullet? Because if it is, that's pretty much the main reason no one is watching it. Taking a cool character and Japanimating him into a dork was a bad move. Changing the art direction *after* everyone has looked at your product and said, "Pass," is locking the barn after the horse is gone.
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Quote:Yeah, I don't think that was the case back in beta. I know for a fact that Ironik wasn't my first character -- he was probably fourth or fifth and never lasted long in beta. In his current incarnation I think he was created sometime in the summer of '04 because I kept re-rolling him looking for the right powerset.Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
[color=darkorange][B][size=3][font=Palatino Linotype]I'm a little surprised at people saying they don't remember their first hero... it's the same as your global name.
Yes I know globals can be changed now and that possibly didn't apply to beta (maybe it did I wasn't in until issue 2)
but just think what your global friends knew you as back then... that was your first hero.
I came up with an elaborate and silly backstory for Ironik that everyone liked, so I adopted it as my moniker. But yeah, he wasn't my first guy. -
Quote:Yeah, that bugs the crap out of me. Almost as much as the writers' continual use the imaginary word "alright." God, that freakin' thing is *everywhere*, but is especially abused in GR.Originally Posted by TonyV
Maybe, but in-game, Praetoria is referred to as an alternate dimension. (Repeatedly.) Therefore, alternate dimension is what I go with. Who am I to argue with the people who live in Paragon City, have studied it extensively, and who have personally gone there themselves?
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Starina was either the first or second character I created back in beta. Cuke Nukem was the other, but I don't have screenshots of him handy.
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I'm all for these ideas. My Canadian Mountie needs a hat like they have and my Minuteman needs the classic Tricorn hat.
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I know. It'd still be cool.
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I was bummed to not be able to attend, but I had to do my volunteer thing. Looks like fun.
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Quote:The 4th dimension exists, but you can't visit it. Ergo, "alternate dimension" being used to mean "alternate universe" doesn't work. That's akin to conflating "alternate minute" with "alternate planet." You can't visit a minute, but you can visit a planet. Same thing here: you can't visit a dimension but you can visit a universe.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Alternate Dimension is appropriate since one of the theories about reality is that it is just like a book where each page is a universe. Just because we can't see the 4th dimension doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
There are actually two versions of the 4th dimension: the Euclidean 4th dimension which is the usual 3 dimensions (height, length, width) plus time. Then there's the mathematical 4th dimension which makes my brain hurt just trying to conceptualize it. It's usually shown as the tesseract.
This is a tesseract:
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Quote:"Alternate reality" is usually used interchangeably with "alternate universe" (as is the incorrect "alternate dimension"), but "alternate reality" doesn't really mean "alternate universe." It could just as easily refer to a timeline that's been changed by a time traveler, a la movies like Back to the Future or The Butterfly Effect.Originally Posted by alyssa_jones
Wouldn't it technically be an alternate reality? I'm thinking along the lines of Sliders...and SeaLab 2021 with their Bizarro Twins.
"Alternate universe" is the correct terminology. Parallel universes, the many-worlds theory, branching universes -- all of these can be handily covered by the catch-all word "multiverse."
In reality, if there are other universes we probably wouldn't be able to see them, let alone visit them. But that's no fun for superheroes. The really cool -- and somewhat mind-bending -- thing about doppelgangers is that quantum theory says there is finite information... yet the universe we inhabit is infinite. Which means that the information which makes us up eventually gets repeated somewhere out there. In our universe there are exact copies of us doing stuff. Stephen Hawking once said in jest there's probably a singularity out in the universe that's spewing out identical copies of our cars, fridges and iPads. -
There's no good material reason for an interstellar species to conquer Earth, since anything they might want would be more easily mined from asteroids and smaller moons. So that rationale in invasion movies has always made me groan. However, cultural/religious reasons to conquer other planets are perfectly valid. Like the Predators visiting other planets to hunt the dominant life forms. If alien culture decrees that they must prove themselves against all other species, well, let the invasion fun begin.
With 100 billion stars in our galaxy and 100 billion galaxies, there are almost certainly other civilizations out there. Recently some Yale astronomers announced that there may be three times the number of stars previously thought extant since we've not been able to detect most red dwarfs before. (And just when they cancel the show. Go figure.) But those potential civilizations are incredibly far away. Without some way around light speed, they are impossibly far away. Traveling one million or ten million or a hundred million years to get anywhere is a ridiculous endeavor.
Which also brings up the issue of time. Suppose millions of alien civilizations are out there. The odds are that they are billions of years dead. Even missing an alien civilization by a few thousand years could easily mean they're extinct. Or they've "ascended" into pure energy beings or uploaded themselves into machines and are no longer interested in the outside universe.
That's one reason David Brin's Uplift series is so interesting: advanced civilizations tamper with the genes of semi-sentient species to make them fully sentient (uplift), then mentor them as they master their intellect and the resulting society that comes from it. Eventually you have a species ready for interstellar travel, ready to join the galactic book club. Which means civilizations are all pretty much even-steven. Same sort of thing in Larry Niven's Known Space books, where billions of years ago there was a galaxy-wide war that drove every sentient creature extinct. As a result, new civilizations all got their start at more or less the same time from the dregs of those earlier ones. -
Toylets.
Is that the most perfect name ever? -
Quote:I laughed to death.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Conceivable!Quote:Originally Posted by Luminara
Vizzini was explaining that it's impossible to best his dizzying intellect.
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Quote:No no no, Minotaurus is totally 10 heads tall.Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Well either that or your Google search ph41lz @ teh context. lolz0r
*crumples up midgetized Minotaurus sketch just to be on the safe side*
He's the exception to the rullllllle!
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The re-entry panel was cool to start with, but the understatements make it sing.
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One of my very first characters was Starina, a Buck Rogers-inspired toon. She was even in beta. Basically I just modified the costume over the years rather than completely altering it.
These are her current costumes.
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Although to be accurate, it's not different dimensions but rather different universes.
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For bladed weapons -- swords, knives, claws -- a "sharpening the edge" animation would be cool. Maybe a whetstone animation and a small sander animation as an alternate.
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Definitely no new city zones. A revamp of Boomtown as previously discussed in the art threads would be cool, as would a facelift of places like Steel and Sky to make them more closely resemble actual cities. If new zones are added, they ought to be way-cool, like the long-rumored space station and moon zone.
I'd like to see some of the enemy groups mentioned in the original trailer show up, because they sounded intriguing.