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Quote:It's not uncommon on TV. The Prisoner and Father Dowling Investigates to name just two programs that have done something similar.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
the comparison that jumps to mind for me is an old x-men comic where kitty pryde is telling a bedtime story and works in all the x-men as standard fairy tale tropes. It didnt happen in cannon but its an amusing side story. -
Unless you have an endurance recovery or conserve power which has a recharge time....
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Quote:Kinda like this?Originally Posted by Mad_Scientist_JC
It was a room full of spiders. I call that its own security system. If a room full of spiders doesn't keep someone out than nothing will.
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Terra Volta explodes. Problem solved.
(Make it available through ouroboros.) -
Quote:If you are including Night Ward, Confuse and Fear protection make life a whole lot easier. Which would be WP and SD.Originally Posted by bpphantom
Done it with an MA/Elec scrapper. Night Ward hurt, otherwise it was quite manageable.
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Quote:Way to fail to understand why there is an issue with Bonfire...Originally Posted by Tater Todd
Well once the IO works properly it will make Any PBAOE overpowered really...so nerfing Bonfire is just a start.
The KB in Bonfire is intended to limit the amount of damage the power can do. So KB to KD significantly increases the effective damage of the power.
Simply adding a chance-of-knockdown proc to a generic pbaoe with no inherent KB is insignificant, and can already be achieved with certain powers. -
Quote:"Convicted" being not the same as "guilty".Originally Posted by Venture
To the best of my knowledge, no one convicted of war crimes was given a free pass because of the potential value of their scientific or technical knowledge. Certainly no one convicted at Nuremberg was.
They just made sure that certain people where never put on trial... -
Quote:Indeed. Cole killed Richter, but it may have been self defence, not murder. After all, we know how Richter turned out on Primal Earth. If his best friend's dark side had manifested slightly earlier, it could have sent Cole himself down a more ruthless, bitter and cynical path.Originally Posted by Captain_Aegis
Is there anything in the canon that states the circumstances in which this happened, however? It's never been fleshed out, to my knowledge. Richter's death in the Goatee Universe could easily be written to not be a cold blooded act.
Praetoria is not a mirror universe, where everyone evil is good, and everyone good is evil. It is a divergent timeline, where different decisions made over someone's lifetime can cause them to end up in a very different place. -
Quote:Yes. The confusion comes about because many immobilisation effects are tagged in this way. Which leads some people to think they all are.Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
I know but unless its tagged with (which its not):
+10000% Res(Knockback, Knockup) for 12s
-100 Knockback, Knockup for 12s
I don't believe it should be negatively impacting your chance to KB.
Nother topic:
Are they any powers apart from Bonfire in which this proc becomes overpowered? Because it's just the one power, you could just do a little special case tinkering. For example make Bonfire ineligible for Universal Damage enhancements, or add Repel to the power. -
Yeah, it's not like heroes ever go down sewers City of Heroes...
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Quote:Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Getting to this virulent thread late, but this is the most apt description I've seen of the movie. I've been perplexed by the people that think it's a brilliant satire of government, society, and war (like the movie works on the same level as Wag the Dog or Dr. Strangelove). You nailed a good response.
The subtext is there, but it's so subtle it may as well not be (one thing Strangelove isn't - is subtle). It certainly isn't going to change anyone's opinion.
It's like Total Recall (it's really all a fantasy), or Blade Runner (Deckard is a replicant). It's pretty much an easter egg, for people to find if they look for it.
Fore example, one of the things ST (original movie) did was fill in backstory via propaganda newsreels, thus suggesting an "unreliable narrator" to people who are clued in about such literary techniques. But there was no actual proof the narrator actually was unreliable. It simply plays on people's suspicious nature. -
I'm not sure I entirely agree with your plot summary.
I think it's more a case of "can anyone unite the warring factions in order to face an overwhelming external threat, or is everyone doomed?"
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Quote:It's like comparing a modern assault rifle with a Roman Ballista. The modern weapon is both smaller and more powerful because it is made with more advanced technology.Originally Posted by Ironblade
You're joking, right?
You're saying that weapons large enough that they need to be mounted on tanks or jets would not be more powerful than the weapons built into a GLOVE? Keeping in mind, of course, that Stark designed weapons for the military so their weapons would be better than what they have in 'real life'.
Of course, Stark sonic tanks are more powerful than regular tanks - we see them almost stop the Hulk.
The situation here is simply a matter of suitability (wrong damage type, if you like). The alien assault dragons are vulnerable to melee smashing damage, not ranged lethal or energy damage. -
Quote:Based on my observations, these seem to be the prime requisites for any woman who wants to pursue a media career. (see: Fern Cotton)Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Leave out statements that are basic equivalents to calling someone a trashy, brainless bimbo.
The person in question may be the exception - as I said, I have no idea who she is. -
Quote:If the order where itself illegal, or it didn't follow the correct chain of command, Nick Fury's actions where correct and legal.Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
lol, had to reread the question:
So, the issue is actually (according the OP's wording) if Nick Fury performed an illegal action by violating a direct order from his superiors to nuke NY.
I believe only the President can authorise the use of nuclear weapons. The UN certainly has no such mandate. Which makes Fury right on both counts.
Nick Fury's shadowy superiors - they broke the law. -
Quote:David Beckham: Person of low intelligence who used to be quite good at kicking a pig's bladder. Married to a sour faced self-publicist who can't sing.Originally Posted by Forevermore
I'm not big on football, but who is David Beckham? Wasn't he a Spice Girl husband?
Not kidding.
I have no idea who Felicia Day is. -
Quote:I certainly see where you are coming from. The uniform (for example) looks like something that could work in the real world. But is that appropriate for this franchise?Originally Posted by Mandu
I don't know about this. Dredd needs to be over the top. In fact I don't think you can get more over the top than the Dredd comics. But it looks like they are trying for a Dark Knight tone.
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Quote:Nope.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
Does killing military personnel that were no threat to him count?
Only Kittens and Orphans. -
Both films where weak because they focused too much on Banner/Hulk's plight.
The second film, in particular, didn't have a proper villainous antagonist.
General Ross? He is misguided rather than evil, and is just a victim by the end.
Blonsky? He is really just a thug to whack on. He isn't even portrayed as particularly evil. If he had massacred a few civilians down the line, his defeat might have been more satisfying. And he doesn't have any sort of plan apart from become powerful and smash stuff.
Sterns? He is the only proper villain, but he really doesn't get to do much.
Avengers worked because the Hulk had a proper antagonist with a proper evil plan. Hulk 3 will need to do the same to succeed, with pursued-by-the-military and looking-for-a-cure relegated to minor sub-plots if included at all. -
It's a substantial bust to BURST damage, that won't have a huge impact on sustained damage, which is the intention, since the devs have said repeatedly that they don't want balster damage to go much higher.
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Kismet incorrectly describes itself as +Acc. It is To Hit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
All we know is, he's called The Stig
Sorry, I didn't get the other reference
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Quote:It's a time/resource thing.Originally Posted by Garent
So I've decided that I have two big problems with the buff to secondaries. The first is that I feel this is just continuing the trend of "fixing" blasters by standardizing them and is leading to more homogenization. The second is that they've chosen to improve the secondaries by giving them one overpowered power. I was just talking to Diellan about it, and I think he put it best with "It's like deciding that every armor set should be like stone armor". The secondaries will still be full of a lot of useless powers and this is putting the design team in a corner because they won't be able to address that without doing something about the overpowered thing they did before. And you know how allergic the design team is to nerfing things.
What was really needed was for every power in every secondary to be re-evaluated. But they didn't have the time for that to they just looked at one power in each set.
I'm beginning to think the kindest thing would have been to let Blasters die through neglect and introduce a new AT with Blast/Defense sets. -
Quote:Yes. You need two level 50 IOs, or equivalent. Watch those SOs, because if you only have two slotted you need to keep them green.Originally Posted by Fireclad
The quote means that if my enhancement info tells me that I've put Targeting Drone at 20% or higher I have reached the target amount?
Yes.Quote:Second question, a bit greedy with the opportunity, will cloaking device retain the cloak now that it's named 'Field Operative'? -
Quote:I would think it would have to work like that, or you make def+absorb much better than res+absorb, and hence mess with the balance between def and res sets.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
If I understand Arbiter Hawk's explanation of Absorb correctly (he himself has mentioned to me the special synergy with +res), yes.