Rodoan

Thank you for linking the pics.

I was upset at tinkering with the book at first, but then I heard they would be incorporating bits from a lot of other writings Tolkien made regarding Middle Earth. Since I've only read the trilogy and the Hobbit, I'm interested to see how Peter fleshes out Middle Earth with these extensions.

The tower sequence. Ya, I'd forgotten that. Wasn't the ferry boat segment filmed in Hong Kong harbor though? Or was that Lake Michigan? I wasn't really watching to see if it was an inland lake or not.

Actually, I'm hoping for an emote, showing arms outstretched, head back, sheer thrill. /YATTA!

Are you describing Trapdoor's ability? Biferocation or whatever that is called? The one where Trapdoor occupies 2 points in the same time and space creating a weaker version for fighting and healing for the main version? That would be an interesting ability. Particularly if you could grant it to a single other player. I wonder what would happen if such a thing was dropped on a Illusion Controller or a thug mastermind. Twice the pet army for a time?

I understand what you are saying, and looking back I see that I did not explain my viewpoint well. I should have said something like: actors in roles other than those for which they are famous. By example, The TV mom, June Lockhart, from Lost In Space playing a school principal in the movie version of Lost In Space. Not a version of the original character. Sorry if I was confusing.

reminds me of signature boots Quinch puts on a lot of his characters, just more fuzzy.

You may now notice in the latest trailer that Fozzie has a full body shot necessary for showing off his um, shall I say "air fozzie" shoes?


Hey, fill me in. I thought I knew all the Muppets. Who is the little noseless pipsqueak they throw onto the electric fence? Other than that fence scene, he seems a bland character hogging the screen.

hated the queen, but sighed and accepted it because there was no other way. Having a relentless, faceless enemy that could force you to be a part of it is a terrifying concept. Having a corporate head ...well, heads roll, and pretty easily too.

So Shatner's out. Too bad, he might have made a good paternal grandfather Tiberius. That would have been a hoot.

Seriously, though, they ought to stack the movie with cameos from the original series. Have the remaining actors, even the second stringers and popular guest stars show up in crowd scenes, planetside merchant booths, and such. It'd be like The Gambler III, the one where several of the famous TV cowboys had their swan songs.

One thought that's been rolling around in my noggin - do they intend that Spock Prime should die in the alternate universe, or find a way back to his reality? (I think I remember reading they'd decided the events in the last film drew the Prime folks to an alternate, not altered, reality, so there's a way back?) If Nimoy is done and Spock Prime dies in this timeline, then could they not have a special scene where Spock Prime's katra, lacking Mt. Seleya as a resting ground, is given to young Spock? He'd be the ideal vessel and it would be a nice wrap-up.

I think they also filmed in Hong Kong previously. I'm guessing the goal is to make fictional Gotham not look like any one city.

Yeah, it matches mine too. I can practically guarantee a swift crash by playing my illusion/storm controller in the Lambda Trial's "indoor" content. It did not have the same results with my 5 other 50's, but has happened all but 1 time on my troller.

I laughed a lot, because it is so true to his nature.

And then I laughed some more, because...well, it is so true to his nature.

Regarding the tactile response, Hyperstrike, could that not be easily incorporated in the next gen of monitors designed for Windows 8? I've already got a tactile feedback, of sorts, on the Droid phone they have me carry at work. You make a good point, though, regarding the tapping on a hard surface. I'd be seeing constant work on a touchscreen as a problem because of the natural finger oils left to smudge the screen. I'd have to clean the screen far too often for my finicky nature.

Ooo...fascinating! Thank you for pointing that out. I don't know why I've not heard this term before. I'm pretty sure it has not crossed the desk of my boss. Fuel for next week's discussions! I'm not a fan of dropping the keyboard, at all. I even went so far as to mention to the boss about some research I'd seen into a laser-projected keyboard.

I think in the back of my mind the ergonomics, or biomechanics has always been the niggling worry, both for work and for gaming. Touchscreen is fine for kiosk devices and other short-usage interactive computers, (such as the warehouse tablets used by forklift operators on a previous job) but moving my wrists into that position for long-term typing seems to be begging for carpel tunnel or any number of other problems.


Thank you all for the other comments to this point. I've found it a very interesting read. Please don't feel this is a close to discussion. I'd love to hear additional feedback.

One thing that came to mind while reading the thread: what of the potential to move CoH to "the Cloud". (I'm not a big fan of the Cloud, yet, mostly due to the headaches with work email it gives me. Headaches that were supposed to have been resolved by migrating to the Cloud.) Back to CoH though. Might the game be migrated to Cloud technology at some point?

Tin whistles are cool. (just like bow ties and fezzes).

Actually, I was thinking a ground ride for Terry McGinnis, aka Batman Beyond. Except for the lack of hover, it looks like it might work in his time.

I also think it would fit a retro-future Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon flick. It feels like an update to that 1930s serial sci-fi look that I love.

spot on. One of the comments I made when Matt Smith was first announced, was that I hoped he'd be able to pull off an old soul in a young body. I think he's handled that pretty well, particularly in the more pensive moments.

I've actually seen bits of several previous doctors in his version. Zikar mentioned the Second Doctor. Eleven has outbursts that remind me of the Fourth Doctor, such as that time his companions were under the control platform and he leaned over irritably and complained that he was doing something spectacular and there were none to watch.

And then there's the Seventh Doctor, the chess master, the dark master strategist. Did not "A Good Man Goes To War" just scream that 11 is the new 7?