Kyasubaru

I would loooove to have the city turn snowy and icy for a month or so. That would be awesome to the max. To the x-treem maximum. Devs, make it happen(again).

It's really too bad they don't do this anymore. I'd love to see PC frozen over during winter. I wonder why they stopped?

Overreacting much?

While the most reasonable and truthful reason why people in movies use accents is because it draws the viewer in more and makes it seem more "authentic"(whether it really is or not), there are other ways to explain it. For instance, you seemed to simply dismiss the "dialects" aspect completely, but that could be a real reason.

If I'm talking to someone from the country, or the northeast or the southwest, they could certainly be speaking my language down to the same slang, but they usually have an accent. (Of course it works the other way around, too - when I speak to them, they think I'm the one with the accent.) So in a movie where everyone's speaking French, perhaps they're speaking with an accent to denote other dialects or being from another part of the country. Whatever dialect the movie is projecting onto its viewers as English is not the same dialect being used by the majority of the cast.

Or perhaps as others have said, it's the result of a magical(or technological) translation device that isn't perfect. In this case the non-existant device is somewhere between the cast's mouths and the viewer's ears. In other cases it is - on-screen - an actual device, as is the case in many sci-fi and fantasy films. Or for a more vague, abstract version of this, it could be that for the duration of the movie, the characters are actually speaking English for the benefit of the audience, and thus have the accents.

As to the Rikti, indeed they cannot talk as they don't have mouths or vocal chords(anymore). The colon-separated talking most people associate with the Rikti is the result of a translation device that picks up their psychic forms of communication. My guess is it only aurally emits thoughts that the Rikti user is actively projecting, IE wanting to communicate to other people/Rikti. However - and this has been stated somewhere in-game, in one of the RWZ arcs I think - there have been multiple versions of these devices, each one better at translating to English than the last. And that includes approximating English slang.

Your complaint about the "Nette: Sup" line assumes that the Rikti don't have any slang greetings. How do you know that what the Rikti projected wasn't exactly that in Rikti-ese? How do you know that the Rikti don't have a form of "sup" and aren't able to shorten names? Every language has its own slang, and to assume the Rikti don't strikes me as a bit foolish.

Of course the stuff with the Rikti also brings up the question of why it seems like every single soldier, general to grunt, has the translators in the first place. But that's a different discussion.

Oh, and I know it's already been said, but in AC2, the accents and lapses into Italian and Latin were indeed explained by a "laggy translator" in the animus device. There's a short, optional scene where Rebecca(the computer chick) mentions it to Desmond, and he tells her that yeah, he noticed it, but he's really liking the subtitles. I liked that scene.

Even though I didn't have the subtitles turned on.

I don't know what game that references, but I can't help but notice the abbreviation for that is SPANC.

Not sure where you're getting Positron being a Mutant from. From the official website, Positron was a normal human being who developed a super-suit that used anti-matter as its power source. It wasn't until later that he suffered a lab accident(I'm pretty sure "lab accident" falls under Science, not Mutant) that gave him the ability to generate his own anti-matter from his body.

This argument doesn't really make much sense against making it suppress toggles instead of detoggling. You can still be attacked while walking, can't you? And assuming Walk could be made so that toggles only suppress but click powers(including all attacks) are still unusable, you'd still need to detoggle Walk to fight back.

Making Walk "Only affecting self" or some variant would make it much more convenient for people who want to use the power whenever they want, like waiting around for a teammate or walking around in a dangerous area. As it is now, when a teammate comes back or if a mob starts attacking you not only have to detoggle Walk but also re-toggle all your other powers. If Walk only suppressed the toggles, you'd only need to detoggle Walk and you'd be instantly ready.

I think the main thing you seem to be missing here is that in either case, you'd have to detoggle Walk. I think most of us aren't talking about fighting with Walk on, we understand that something like that will take a lot more animations and time to implement. What we're really asking for is the ability to fight immediately after turning Walk off. We're talking about not having to retoggle all our powers every single time we turn Walk off.

In other words, with Walk toggled on, all toggles would be suppressed instead of turned off, and all click powers including all attacks would be unavailable. This sounds like the "Only affecting self" flag to me, but I guess I could be wrong. Even if it's not, I really think this kind of implementation is what most of us are wanting short-term, and it would certainly make Walk a much more convenient power to use whenever.

So, who do I have to bribe to get those stretched out a bit?

And what kind of meat do they like?

Any chance we could get a little more parity for Katana users in this area? Like, for instance, the Longsword, Flamberge, and Scimitar options? Kat's weapon choices are pretty limited right now compared to BS and DB.

You may only need to do any amount of damage to get the merits and reward table, but you still need to do the 10%(or whatever) damage to get the associated badge. Earlier, I participated in an apocalypse event solo and helped fight the GM. I indeed got the merits and reward table, but did not receive the badge. Later when I fought him as part of a team, I got the merits, the reward table, and the badge.

And this isn't a case of not being able to get the GM badge without first getting all four banner badges -- on another character I teamed up and got only 3 of the four banner badges, then fought the GM and got his badge. I then later got the last banner badge in another round along with the accolade.