NinjaPirate
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Fascinating.
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I know that Cryptic when developing CoH used a number of royalty-free stock sound effects and other items.
Heck, the main typeface used in the game is Red Circle, which at the time the game came out was a royalty-free font.
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I wonder if they're going to incorporate the storylines from The Matrix Online.
Considering the Wachowskis were involved directly with that.
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I don't suppose they'll do the storyline where Rhodey becomes a cyborg with the ability to absorb and incorporate any weapons and technology that's around him into the War Machine armor.
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Yeah, it's certainly POSSIBLE, but it's going to feel pretty damn cramped.
The absolute minimum height that's usable is 8 feet high (the max height of a base is 48 feet), but that means only smaller characters are going to be able to enter the space. Even then the small people are going to get a crick in their neck. You ideally want about 12 feet high to accommodate the largest characters.
My main base building character has costume slots with the smallest and largest possible size models specifically so I can test out the clearances of things I build.
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Quote:I've said it before, but thank the gods for the Earth's spinning iron core.Originally Posted by Luminara
they're mostly deflected by the magnetic field.
It makes life so much easier.
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Quote:I dunno, back before the whole Alpha Lantern thing Boodikka had a sizable fan following.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
A female Lobo would not be popular (at least not for long). So blame society, they can take it.
She was a heck of a lot like a female Lobo.
They even got it on once.
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Depending on how your graphics are set, the Slow Fields can look pretty ugly these days.
On lower settings they look better, if Ultra Mode is all the way on they look awful in my opinion.
Note that you have to "float" them into the air a bit to get the best water effect.
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I have found that about the most you can reasonably fit into bases is three levels. Any more and the floors don't have enough height to be comfortable.
About the only thinner pieces that I can think of you might use for floors are the green Tech long crate thingys, and some of the fluorescent ceiling lights. Both would require a lot more pieces, though, and in the case of the lights potentially a lot more Prestige as some of them are 500 a pop.
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Quote:Eh. The Liefeld "aesthetic" was silly because he was drawing pouches all over superheroes.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Indeed. And the costume isn't as overpouched as the military pic, but rather closer to the Liefeld "aesthetic".
Pouches on a soldier is pretty normal. They look more prominent because they're colored red, but that's more due to them trying to approach the classic Cap color scheme.
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My bio says I'm Awesome.
I didn't write it, it was like that when I logged in.
What does that say about me?
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Yes, strictly legalese speaking, Copyright Infringement is not "theft".
Theft has it's own distinct definition.
Copyright Infringement is Copyright Infringement.
That said, it's stlll illegal. And for a lot of folks immoral and unethical.
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Quote:Go look up the covers of most publications from Chaos! or Broadsword Comics.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
...I'm pretty sure even with comic sexpots it's pretty rare that they're featured ***-first on the cover, and when they are they're called out on it by pretty much everyone.
They quite frankly sometimes make be embarrassed to be male.
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Quote:That word you use. I do not think it means what you think it means.Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid
The thing is that I totally do, and I actually get a kick from it. There's nothing akin to the thrill of staring death in the face and winning. It's emasculating... BRING ME A WENCH!
Seriously. Go look in a dictionary to understand why your statement makes me giggle.
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Quote:They could even get Lance Guest to reprise his character! Although he, um, looks a little different these days.Originally Posted by Morbid Star
I'd like to see a remake of "The Last Starfighter" , I think it's well deserveing and due for a remake for the newer generations
Seeing as they're re-making The Mechanic with Jason Statham, I'll agree this is a safe bet.Quote:Originally Posted by Morbid Star
I'm pretty sure a safe prediction for a remake is "Death Wish" though, it pretty much fits all the criteria
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Which "New Mandalorians" do you mean?
The Boba Fett era Mandalorians?
The Karen Traviss Mandalorians?
Or the Clone Wars Mandalorians?
Which really only serves to show how many times even just that aspect of Star Wars has been retconned and altered.
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The show felt so fantastically 80s.
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IN THE GRIM DARK OF THE FUTURE, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
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Quote:Even he's got a somewhat pretty boy face.Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
Aside from Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star).
I mean, seriously. Think Clint Eastwood. John Wayne. Hell, the entire male cast of the Expendables, well aside from Jet Li.
Most of them have that "fighter" look, bent nose from getting it broken, square jaw, thick neck, strong cheekbones.
In traditional Eastern media, usually the only time you see that look is either if a) it's a villain, b) a monstrous character, or c) if it's a buffoon/comedic character, usually representing a westerner. It's a look often assigned to ogres or demons.
So I'm not especially surprised that Anime Wolverine is a pretty boy.
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The Japanese idea of what a manly man should look like is not generally what the western world tends to think they should look like.
Most western depictions of super-tough guys tend to look like they spend their formative years getting their faces repeatedly bashed into concrete walls.
That look seems not to go over as well in the East.
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Quote:I kept thinking, "how are those knives making the 60 degree turn in the metal tube feeding the knife thrower?"Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Part of me doubts his intellect with the home built Mythbuster's knife thrower by loading it with the bucket of knives the first time. How was that a good idea for a test run?
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Quote:Eh. They could retcon the Jedi in the movies to be Ahsoka.Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween
I'm pretty sure that the Jedi in the movie is supposed to be Shaak Ti. Ahsoka didn't exist until they started the new series.
After all, Lucas personally declared the first Force Unleashed game to be the canon linking story between Episode 3 and Episode 4, at the time it was released. And Shaak-ti appears in that game.
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Quote:Indeed!Originally Posted by Scythus
Gliese 581 G would suggest that that is an incorrect assumption.
However, seeing as that planet was only discovered last September, I think we can forgive the movie and book writers from previous years their "invasion Earth" stories.
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Bigger devices and structures require additional components JUST to deal with their bigness, ON TOP OF replicating the functionality of the smaller devices.
Additional structural reinforcement is required. More control system components are required. Additional utility systems are required.
You CANNOT just scale up a spaceship and expect it to work. Nor can you just pull apart a bunch of smaller spaceships and assemble the parts together and have it work.
A city size spaceship that does the same job as a flotilla of smaller spaceships will ALWAYS be more complex than the flotilla. Because it has to deal with issues of scale.
And I am speaking as someone that actually HAS the words "Construction Engineer" in his job title.
And there was another good point brought up. It costs geometrically MORE money to build bigger than building a bunch of smaller things. Money the Quarian fleet does not have. They barely get by scavenging stuff.
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Given the FIRST WORD IN THE THREAD TITLE is the word "Legality", the onus is NOT on me to assume you don't mean legality in your statements.
It is on YOU to explain if you are not talking about the stated subject.
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