Niklarus
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I started from scratch 8 years ago and, by gum, I can do it again. As long as Paragon City survives, ring the bell to start Round 2, baby!
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Just got home from work and saw this news. I am absolutely, utterly heartsick at this. I have been a subscriber without breaks since just two weeks after launch. No other game has kept my attention this long and I've been playing MMOs since the launch of Ultima Online.
Devs, you have been consistently amazing over the past 8 years. Your high level of communication and friendly nature has set the bar so high that I don't think any other company will be able to reach it.
In tears and sadness, I remain loyal to this bitterest of ends.
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City of Jason Voorhees, anyone?
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Depends on what kind of power you're talking about, I suspect. In some respects, up until the time he got shot, Don Vito Corleone was among the most powerful fictional characters ever.
So, yeah, we'd have to decide just what level and kind of power we're talking about first. -
Option C: Hell no! to either one.
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Just heard about the passing on April 13 of Jonathan Frid, who played TV's most interesting vampire, Barnabas Collins, on the original Dark Shadows from 1966 to 1971. He was 87 years old.
Obituary #1
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Thanks, Zwill.
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Considering Zwill's picture is of "Dos Equis," which translates into "2X," I'm guessing it's the Double XP booster.
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Quote:I caught it on PBS during the mid-80s when my best friend's mother asked me to audiotape the theme for their Halloween display. I got hooked by one scene in the middle of the episode where Barnabas, in an act of pure will and conscience, resisted the urge to bite the object of his desire as she slept and faded away from her room leaving her unharmed. Jonathan Frid was freaking awesome. When I heard that Tim Burton had been brought on board for this movie, I got worried. This news just tells me that I was right to be worried.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I watched it in the 60s and 70s (when I was 7-9) because I didn't like Mom's General Hospital or One Life to Live. I mean this show had monsters which were cool.
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And yes, camp is intentional. I know that the cynical dark nature attitudes of today, when shined on the TV shows of past eras makes their concepts seemingly incredulous. You had Police who cared about the general public and treated everyone fairly, you had Doctors who cared about all their patients as individuals and you had lawyers who were willing to put their reputations on the line for their clients. It's obvious that the shows creators must be trying for under the radar satire so lets bring it above board 30 years later when we make the movie.
We all know that really doesn't happen.
Back then, TV show budgets were tiny. Do you know why we have so many damn "reality" shows today? Because compared to scripted dramas, they are relatively cheap to make. Why? Because we want our scripted dramas to be nearly the same quality as movies, same quality sets, effects, general production values, etc. We want car chases and aliens and grandiose outdoor sets. And with the advent of HDTV, they need to be even higher quality than what could be passed off in the days of 704x480 interlaced. You can't build it out of rough plywood with a few coats of paint.
So yes we declare old or foreign TV as "campy" since we can tell the sets are cardboard and we can see the wires holding up the cape. It wasn't intentional, it's just what they could do with the budget.
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Look, camp can be fun when it's done right. Cases in point, Buckaroo Banzai and the Adam West Batman. Dark Shadows? No, dude. Whatever Burton has managed to throw up on the screen (pun absolutely intended) it can't honestly call itself Dark Shadows.
Your rant? I agree so very, VERY much. I find cynicism to be a repugnant, ethically-and-morally bankrupt attitude that I loathe utterly. The sad thing is that it seems to be the prevalent attitude of our current age. Bah! Disgusting! -
Preach on. Preach on.
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Quote:To put it in comic book terms, what some of us (myself included) were hoping for was epic like Crisis on Infinite Earths. What we got was "epic" like One More Day.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
I think the whole series of linked arcs just doesn't really work
the first arc is basically unrelated to the others and built up zero momentum
while the other ones are interesting, they are a series of dramatic failures for the heroes that make me not want do the others and see how stupid and inept the Phalanx is and be dragged into their miserable lives.
I know I haven't done SSA6, I am not sure if I did 5.
They really strike me as having the Wheel of Time problem - instead of being a coherent story they are just an excuse for putting out a lot of content. I read the first book of Game of Thrones and gave up on the series for the same reason.
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Quote:It'll be a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff.Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
As long as they aren't overly long and/or silly looking. /glares at dual pistols.
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59. Have the entire Phalanx stand around his casket during a thunderstorm while holding lightning rods aloft. The one who gets hit and sacrifices their life to bring him back will turn out to be the sentient shapeshifter pet of one of the others who knocked out and took the place of the person that had planned to sacrifice herself by switching out everyone else's lightning rod with a nonconductive version. (Long Live the Legion!)
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Quote:At that point, Bobby Ewing walks out of your shower in only a towel. The horrified screaming commences.Originally Posted by Steelclaw
* You wake up to discover it was all just a dream... unfortunately so were the 174 Hero/Villain Merits you earned on all your characters farming the SSA...
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Quote:Originally Posted by KnightofKhonsu
Contrary to popular opinion on Miss Black's song, I like it.
Agreed. Like they used to say on American Bandstand, it's got a beat and you can dance to it. Also, I just like light-hearted, fun tunes that take me away from the drudgery of Real Life (TM)(Pat. Pending)
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*spit-take*
Duuuuuuuuude. I'm not supposed to be laughing like this (or reading forums for that matter
) at work!
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There's been so many replies in here that I can't remember them all, so I don't know if this has been suggested or not. What I would like to see in missions, from a mostly-solo perspective, are fights along the lines of Lord Winter encounter. At certain damage levels, the EB would become unattackable by either turning on a force field device or ducking into another room or something along those lines. He could then call for help that, upon its defeat, would either unlock the next room or drop the force field and allow you to resume the fight.
Having the EB call for help at those points would also give us the opportunity to replenish our Inspiration supplies by defeating the help and leave us in a good position to take the fight to him when they're all gone. -
Quote:-Those- -aren't- -awkward- -conversation skills.- -She's just a- -graduate of- -the William Shatner- -School of Acting.-Originally Posted by tanstaafl
-you- -forgot- -her- -awkard- -converstation- -skills-
also, very funny
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Quote:Originally Posted by houtex
This is my style:
Be excellent to each other.
Party on.
Pretty much covers everything.
Hell, that's not just how I play the game, that's how I live my life.
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Because this belongs here, if it belongs anywhere.
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Quote:Dead Again - Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.Originally Posted by Stormbird
In a who episode?
OK, see if someone recognizes this one:
They're reincarnated, but have "switched" bodies. *And*
The therapist is actually the stuttering child, who killed her and framed him for it.
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Quote:I still have no idea exactly what or where the choke points are after all these times running it.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Here's my advice to leaders of the BAF: When you get to the prisoner phase, don't just say 'Cover the choke points.' and then when someone says 'need some more north pls' respond with 'more north please', because unless you've got a team of telepaths playing, nobody knows who you're talking to, so either everyone goes north or nobody does.
"Team 1 and 2 south, team 3 north' is all it takes, for the most part.
Eco
I just follow my team and start setting people on fire.
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Quote:I just flashed back to when I was 10 or so and used to watch that artist guy on PBS (whose name I just blanked on) talking about foreshortening.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Lots of online discussions have perspective. Its just that most of them have this perspective:
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Goddammit.