Lothic

I've always thought it was funny that people who don't bother with costumes too much can never understand that there are some people who play this game with the primary interest of making as many costumes as possible. It's simply another subset of player just like the people who like to build bases, who like to run Hami raids every day, who like to PvP, who like to collect badges, who like to PL level 50 characters, who like to RP in Pocket D and so on.

I can understand your points and I realize some people really dislike the Day Job badge system. I don't absolutely "love" it myself. But I think the key difference between us is that I never let the Day Job badges dictate my enjoyment of playing with my main badging characters.

The net effect of that means that while you're now done with them I still have about roughly 3 weeks to go before I'm done. I guess it'll be crummy for me for those 3 weeks. On the other hand a month from now we'll BOTH be done with them and while you strictly avoided playing your badgers to get done ASAP I enjoyed playing my characters for as long as I wanted any day I wanted.

Frankly I valued my ability to play any character I wanted for as long as I wanted for all those past months far more than a short 3 week period that won't make any difference in the long run. Enjoy your hard work on that.

I think the "hate" comes when the desire to earn all the Day Job badges morphs into the desire to earn all the Day Job badges AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. It's the ASAP part that irks some people and instead of blaming themselves for imposing that self-determined goal they choose to blame the Devs for it. Go figure.

It takes 504 hours (21 days worth) of logged off time to earn a Day Job badge. Even if you played a character 3 hours a day (thus only earning 21 hours a day towards Day Job badges) it would only take 24 days (21 hours x 24 days) days to earn a Day Job badge. Merely three extra days per badge. Even if you did the same for all 28 Day Job badges possible you'd only be talking about an extra 84 days. Less than 3 total months. Since Day Jobs have now been in the game for 24 months (as per December 2, 2008 with Issue 13) I really can't be convinced that the difference between 588 total days (28 badges x 21 days) and 672 total days (28 badges x 24 days) is worth crying about. Would 84 extra days of having to park in the right spot before logging off really be THAT horrible when you had to do it for the bare minimum of 588 days to begin with? I don't think so, but of course YMMV. *shrugs*

While I enjoyed the mannequin idea I think movies like Avatar point towards the eventual path the Star Wars trilogy will follow.

We all know the Original Trilogy will likely get the "3D treatment" in the next few years. I believe that's only a baby step towards the final fate of those movies. I suspect that by 2020 (whether Lucas is around for it or not) the original Star Wars trilogy will get completely remade as a 100% CGI'd affair that'll use the likenesses of the original actors digitized for brand new "live" action scenes.

Consider the following fact: We recently watched Carrie Fisher's HBO special Wishful Drinking. In it she specifically mentioned that Lucas owns the LIKENESS of her as Princess Leia as she appeared in those movies. That means if he gets the tech to use that likeness as a CGI animation he could basically use her (as she appeared in 1977) at ANY point in the future. It's likely that Lucas owns the likeness of all the other actors in these movies as well.

Mark my words people - it's almost guaranteed to happen at some point, for better or worse.

Bananas are a type of food grown from plants.
Tomatoes are a type of food grown from plants.

Scientifically speaking Bananas are classified as fruits.
Scientifically speaking Tomatoes are classified as fruits.

Bananas have peels that while edible are often removed before eating.
Tomatoes have peels that while edible are often removed before eating.

Banana peels tend to change color as they ripen.
Tomatoes peels tend to change color as they ripen.

Now with all those similarities would you actually say that bananas and tomatoes TASTE exactly the same?

Yes, I'd have to say your comparisons between Synder and Bay are GROSSLY oversimplified.
I don't really care if you don't like either one, but at least don't like them both for the reasonably obvious reasons...

While I'd give the Devs a few points for attempting (many years ago) to come up with a clever scheme to provide "before and after" badge text for when you used or didn't use a respec token I'd submit that all that scheme did was completely convolute this situation.

I'd suggest the Devs use the classic "Keep It Simple Stupid" mindset and simply get rid of any related extra "before and/or after" badges. Basically regardless of whether you currently have the "before" version or the "after" version of a badge the game should reassign it to a single generic version. If they simplified it down to just 3 hero respec badges and 3 villain respec badges (without regards to the original "before or after" concept) I suspect much of the problem with just allowing anyone to earn all 6 badges in a straightforward way would be eliminated.

I didn't say (or care) whether or not I thought Day Job badges made "sense" or not. I was simply trying to drive home the point that because which badger gets done with Day Jobs a week or two before someone else won't matter 6 months from now I've never let them dictate how or when I played my characters. You've got to take the reeeaaaallly long view with this.

It was YOUR choice to not play your own badge characters. If it was important enough to you to be done with them ASAP then that was your choice, not the fault of the Devs.

Frankly the fact that it's going to take me a few more weeks to be finished doesn't really bother me because I've continued to have fun playing my characters regularly for all these months leading up to this point. Six months from now it won't really matter that you had the all the Day Jobs badges a few weeks longer than I have. Beyond yourself who'll know the difference?

I'm a few weeks from being done with the crossover Day Job badges on my main badgers and while it'll be nice to be done with them (again) I've never really considered them an extreme "frustration". Heck when you compare them to many of the things badgers have had to do to collect other badges Day Jobs are hardly the worst of the lot.

Let's just say I've never let Day Jobs keep me from playing my badging toons or doing anything extraordinarily frustrating. I'm going to "pay" for that by simply being a few weeks behind other supposedly "top" badgers in getting a couple of badges. As Patteroast implied after playing this game for almost 7 years I can deal with being a few weeks behind a few other people as far as getting them done.

Day Job badges aren't (and never were) that big a deal...

I won't ever reflexively say that "if Director X (like Bay for instance) made it I'll automatically avoid it no matter what".
Well maybe I'd say that for Uwe Boll, but there's always an exception to any rule...

On the other hand Bay (in particular) has laid a long enough track record of generally accepted cringe-worthy movies that chances are extremely high any of his future movies will be equally horrid. It's not like he's had a misstep or two - he has an established record of artistic awfulness. Basically Bay is at the point where he'd have to come up with something truly extraordinary to overturn all the bad marks against him so far. Frankly I don't see that happening.

Synder in contrast is no where near Bay's level of awfulness.

I agree with most of what you said but I just wanted to comment on the latest 3D initiative. We chose to watch the new Tron in 2D not only as a tribute to the original but because (except for maybe Avatar) I've yet to see a truly good example of a 3D movie in the last year or so that really needed to be in or made good use of 3D. *shrugs*

I have no doubt that eventually most if not all movies will be in 3D and it'll become as accepted and perfect as color in movies has been for many decades now. I also think that the latest wave of 3D is indeed a big improvement over previous attempts at it. But with all that said I still think 3D in movies, as of 2010, is still annoyingly experimental and far from what it should and/or could be.

Basically 3D in movies today is not -quite- worth it. Avatar shows us what it could be like, but until movies of that quality can be made for far, far less than like $500+ million I'm not really going to consider the technology "ready for prime time" yet. I figure we have at least another 5 or 10 years before it's really worthwhile.

From a post in this thread a few days ago...

Yep, wished I had thought of the idea that there are probably a few good arcades still around.

I'll just point out that comparing Synder directly to Bay does nothing but call into question your standards for movies "high" or otherwise.

I'm no raving Snyder fan-grrl or anything of the like, but even if Snyder is currently "stuck" or "stunted" as a director I still think he's many levels above Bay at this point in the "at least I'm still willing to see another movie that he makes" category. I've pretty much given up any hope for Bay at this point. *shrugs*

Actually if you go back a rewatch the original Tron (something we did about a month ago in prep for watching the new one) you'll realize that The Dude was actually sort of there from the beginning. A younger version at any rate.

Beggers can't be choosers.
If you want "real" 80s styled arcades you'd probably need a time machine at this point.
All I was offering is the most obvious alternatives that exist today. *shrugs*

[EDIT] Either that or go to other countries (like Singapore) where they have generic game arcades with specific games which I will not (and never did) name or mention here.

For what it's worth I noticed that the image above was a CG/photoshop job pretty much instantly.
I didn't bother to address that because I figured it was more or less obvious.
A good job, but still obvious. *shrugs*

The fact that it's not "real" doesn't really detract from its (or the other images from this artist) ability to serve as an example of what a WW outfit for a possible future movie could be like.

Chances are you'd have to be radically altered to be able to comprehend "all the knowledge in the Universe" as well.

While Durakken poses an interesting "either/or" choice for contemplation basically BOTH choices have us become something far greater than merely human. As a being which has transcended mere human existence on this unimaginable scale I doubt the simple dimensions of time and space would really be important to you any longer. Having an eternity to twiddle your thumbs wouldn't really be any better or worse than having all knowledge at the "last" hour at that point.

Might as well contemplate how many angels can dance on the head of a pin...