Lemur Lad

She did watch it. She just didn't register who she was looking at as someone she should have known.

they don't have control over what their pets do, but they have control over raw elemental forces enough to turn them into a semi autonomous creature. MMs get to control pets because they have a basic amount of intelligence to work with.

Funny story, my gf and I just watched it online because she was busy last night. She missed the cameo too, and I had already told her they'd be there (but not when/how). Apparently she'd been expecting Meat to sing so totally missed the guy in the suit talking.

If by watch you mean sit at home with the DVD, don't bother. That's only (barely) worth doing if you're already a fan.

Going to see RHPS at a midnight show with a cast however, that's what makes it interesting and worth it.

I'd be more inclined to believe them if they said he took the pay cut because his career has circled the drain a few more times since then. It's not like we're talking high art here.

As for the rest of the budget cuts, they won't necessarily mean less effects. Effects get cheaper over time, and truly these days live action stunts cost more than CGI when it comes to a movie like this. If they reduce the number of live action vehicle stunts, the cost for shooting and insurance would drop a lot.

Here's hoping that means we get a better story? Nahhhh couldnt be.

How many times do we have to tell you that people playing on other continents doesn't cause any issues? How do we know? We already have more players from other nations playing on US servers than there were on the EU servers at their peak.

We also know because for the first year or two of the game, there were no EU servers, and everyone there played here. They created the EU servers for economic reasons that made sense at the time.

That doesn't mean they still make economic and/or technical sense, and the effort by players to get a merger is a plea to the company to reexamine those economic choices and hopefully realize it may indeed make better sense to merge them again.

Of course you don't have the solution. There can't be real solutions to made up problems.

Strike that, reverse it. Everyone knows all the cool people start in Galaxy.

Actually the most important function of how thick and annoying armors can be is the size of the character model. Armors effects don't scale to the same degree models do, and a Huge, or even full sized male/female displays a lot less of the particle effects than a small body would.

In the case of my namesake, I was overjoyed the day I could turn off the effect for Integration. On my minimum sized body it stood out like a giant mint green crosshairs, whereas for a Huge model all you see are part of the circles and the points of the stars.

If you came into playing a pretendy funtime game thinking it was a long term investment instead of just a temporal form of entertainment, I think we all know who the sucker is.

This bit of ridiculousness deserves it's own reply.

Were you aware there's nothing on the packaging to differentiate the two?
Were you aware most gaming stores don't carry the physical product on the shelves?
Were you aware that means most people have to buy it online?
Were you aware that there's very little obvious on the website to differentiate the two?
Were you aware that if you buy from a gaming retailer in the US or the EU, you're trusting them to list the correct info, ship the correct product, and know the difference between the two regardless of whatever research you may have done?

Do you understand what the correct answers to these questions mean?
That's right. It means if someone gets the wrong version, it's most often through no fault of their own!

Translation: Stop and think or at least stop and ask questions before you make such ignorant comments again. It's offensive.

If you think that playing with people on another continent is going to slow down your play session, I'm not about to trust your judgement when it comes to who should have the fastest connections to more local servers.

Unless you've played exclusively solo or with a select handful of people you know in real life, you've played with people on other continents and not even noticed. Of this I am sure. Not to mention that if you and a friend across the room are playing there in Maryland, both your signals are still travelling from one end of the country and back before you see what they just did on their screen.

People ask for the merger of US and EU servers, for the good of the community, not because of lack of technical knowhow. They know people on the EU servers get the short end of the stick when it comes to number of servers, number of people to team with, and potential for fun.

The people who collate the data and put it on sites are great, but I have more admiration for the people who spend hours upon hours in closed beta
"discovering" the locations and conditions for things the devs don't disclose.

Not downing the people who make the sites, but in most cases the grunt work is done before you see any of them pop their head's up in beta, and the folks who did that are the one's who make it possible for the information to be out there for everyone at release or soon after.

I won't name names because my memory isn't good enough. I'd be leaving too many hard workers out.

The map pack is Beef Cake's now, but even he took it over at one point. I don't remember who started vidiotmaps and the map packs, but it was around long before Badge Hunter started.

Healthy game companies lay off staff after big projects go live all the time.

Whatever you're feeling it's not something that's going to lead to the crash and burn of this game.

Also to note, this game is entertainment, not an investment. Eventually this game will end, and all your "work" and "possessions" will be gone. This is why the user agreement you skip reading every time you play makes it abundantly clear that the "things" you're so attached to aren't really your's.

I like my characters a lot too, but you've got to be pragmatic about this sort of thing. If the thought of you not having your characters is really provoking such an emotional response, you need to consider getting some breathing space.

You can play through linearly, but you will probably have to accept that there's always going to be lines you're not on at the moment.

If you're in Paragon City, I suggest the Hollows, Faultline, Striga Isle, Croatoa, Rikti War Zone (listed in order of level ranges) Those zones are more designed around telling a coherent story set in the zone itself. The contacts are generally a lot less meandering than the average city contacts (though as you level up, the City Contacts will have more coherent and grander stories).

In the Rogue Isles, you can be pretty confident that every contact you do will tell a pretty coherent story that lets you in on one or more aspects of the Isles or the zone you're in. You're never going to run into any one contact that tells you the whole story, and until later levels, you are likely to miss a few contacts as you level up.

My advice is, don't fret over it. Level up, enjoy the stories you're told, then for the next character, make choices that take you on a different path.

Disclaimer: I hate the idea on it's face, I'm just playing devil's advocate.

In my mind, they would have had a more genuine path to a disaffected Superman if they had looked at him from square one and applied his story rules logically. Superman is the ultimate alienation story, and there's nothing wrong with saying that in the 50's he'd come out one way, but if it happened 60 years later there'd be markedly different results.

Superman "fit in" by choosing to create not one but two fake personae (Clark Kent wasn't any more the real person than the guy in tights) and then wholeheartedly defend the best ideals of his adopted nation. They never dwelled on it, but for a long time he was very much a misanthrope, it was just dealt with in a lighthearted fashion.

Flash forward to a modern era Superman, and apply the same premises. Life as an American teen is a lot more complicated than the simple moral existence he got growing up on the Kent farm in the 50s. I could easily see him developing a lot of emotional issues growing up, before being contacted by Jor-El and having his origins explained to him. Further that with adoptive parents not of the greatest generation, but the viet nam era, and an America that doesn't have as solid a moral compass as it did in the 50s, and its far less likely he'd have a solid set of goals to latch onto.

I'm not saying it was a great idea, especially if their focus was on sexy, dark and/or brooding more than it was on staying true to who Superman is, but he doesn't need to be angsty over his lost homeworld to still have issues with essentially living a lie.

While those were popular consoles, I don't recall them having the kind of sales, or the kind of variety of games that the PC markets had. After the death of Atari and the failure of anything to replace it, the PC market had years to build momentum and a headstart before consoles could offer much in the way of competition, much less superior software.

It wasn't until there were multiple consoles putting out games that surpassed PC titles in sales on a regular basis that people began talking about the (premature) death of PC gaming in earnest.

Since when does anyone care what those whippersnappers think?

After the death of Atari, before the rise of Playstation.

No one was disputing that PC gaming isn't as abundant as it once was. That's not the same thing as "dead" though.

When you ToT, you click on a door. Any door in a level appropriate zone that doesn't take you inside a building or into a mission you already have will do. You either get a Trick or a Treat. The Halloween tip is just one of many possible Treats.

I wasn't implying you need to click on the door again after you defeat the mobs in order to get the tip.