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Quote:You mean like this? Or maybe this? I'm tempted to put the NSFW warning on those.Originally Posted by Fista
That's interesting as all of the out of game art material shows her as more "realistically" proportioned. In fact I remember woman praising the game for having gone in that direction at the time her character was introduced. I wonder does any one have screen shots of D from this arc? I wonder why the would change her model for this arc as I don't remember her looking like that in her other in game appearances?
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Quote:No it's not. If that was true, at 20 you would just be shipped off to red-side automatically. As it is now, you're given a choice: Continue to serve the regime (and Marchand) by going to Paragon, or be a selfish jerk and abandon everything you've worked for and head to the Rogue Isles.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The Resistance/loyalist dynamic from GR couldn't be supported past level 20 - the GR stories were written to pace the revelations of the evil of the dictatorship so that by 20 everyone would be against Tyrant.
The GR stories are written so that by 20 everyone should either realize that invasion is a bad idea, but you might still be able to stop the conflict before it escalates, or that you just don't care. Since nothing ever mentions that choice ever again, I don't see why the dynamic couldn't have continued into FW. -
Quote:Personally, I didn't care whether the movie was a prequel that lead into Alien, as long as it was a good movie.Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
I think what the fans would have wanted was a prequal that lead directly into Alien, but shed new light on proceedings, causing us to look at the original film in a new light.
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Quote:Honestly, Prometheus could have been a sequal, a prequel, or something else entirely, for all the difference it makes. It's just a series of unrelated events that just happen to be set in the same continuity as the Alien franchise.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
If they told a tight story using those elements, I wouldn't care.
Considering how much they go out of their way to be not-Alien for the most of the film, the end scene comes across as particular ham-fisted and, to be frank, unnecessary. -
Quote:Okay, this has officially become spoiler territory. Proceed at your own peril!Originally Posted by Fista
all the characters seem to have an I.Q. of 65.
I think what bothered me the most, was that everything we "learn" from this movie, is largely based on Dr. Shaw's theories. And she has notoriously bad theories.
Did the Engineers create humanity? We don't know. The movie doesn't really tell us anything about it. Dr. Shaw is convinced that they did because she "has faith" in what the cave paintings told her (ie. nothing). Maybe they did. Maybe they didn't. Maybe that's what the intro scene is showing. Maybe it isn't. We don't know for certain, and Shaw certainly has no idea.
Did they change their mind and decide to destroy mankind 2,000 years ago? We don't know. Dr. Shaw instantly draws this conclusion, but it's really just a guess. All we know is they plotted a course for Earth. Do we even know why they somehow failed to make the journey 2,000 years ago? It didn't seem like anything penetrated the bridge on the alien ship. Did someone forget to tell the pilot that he wasn't supposed to go into cryosleep with the rest of the crew?
Do we really know that the surviving Engineer decided to rush off to Earth the moment he woke up? We might have some idea (I forget if the star map made it clear he was plotting a course fo Earth). Shaw definitely didn't know, since she ran off long before this, and David didn't contact her 'till much later. She figured that maybe he was taking off to Earth and convinced the Prometheus to go kamikaze. Maybe a fair trade.
And why, exactly, does the Engineers hate humans, not just so much that they are hostile on sight (I kinda get that part. We don't even know what David said, he might have been something intentionally provocative just to see what would happen), but to the point where you crash-land your ship on a planet, drag yourself out of your ship, find the nearest piece of (to him) alien debris and go crazy trying to kill whatever is inside. I think, if it'd been me, I'd just have rolled over, made a half-***** comment ("now, that's what I call a close encounter") and let it fade to commercials. I probably wouldn't even remember that one human that ran off.
Lastly, there's the tweeest. The secret Weyland agenda. That turns out to be... "oh, yeah, so our secret plan is that we want the same thing as the official purpose of the expedition. SURPRISE! Oh, also, fake-old-guy that no one cared about isn't really dead so he's coming along." Maybe that's just to be intentionally different from Alien, but dangit, I miss some good, self-destructive Weyland double crossing. -
Quote:If you thought he was a Grumpy Gus before...Originally Posted by Zombieluvr
He's waiting to see how well his movie does, first.
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Thought for the day:
++ It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself. ++
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Quote:Kaley CuocoOriginally Posted by Electric-Knight
Okay, I'll ask it...
So, who could they cast to play Wonder Woman.........
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I've never done the Shadow Shard all the way through. In eight years I have, in fact, never even been there. Not counting various instanced CoV missions, of course.
I'd say it is, by far, the most obvious (and most necessary) zone revamp in the game. -
Quote:I have no idea what country you live in, either!Originally Posted by Mandu
I have no idea what country you live in but there was in my theater.
But since we're talking world-wide gross, it's a silly assumption to make, that such a preview, in whatever theatre, would be the cause of it. -
Quote:Who, in their right mind, would trust a guy like Joss Whedon to do a superhero movie? Let alone, a superhero movie with a strong female lead. Pff. Preposterous.Originally Posted by Nericus
One must wonder how much DC is kicking themselves over losing Joss Whedon from this movie project
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Quote:Shouldn't that, in typical primal arrogance, be the other way around?Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Twinshot is a Primal. There are hints that she's probably the mirror of Ricochet of the Crusaders
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Quote:Why are you carrying a picture of Master Midnight in your wallet?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Actually, thinking about Loki, we don't really have an effortlessly sexy villain like him in the game - so many of them seem are either lacking in looks or personality - or both
Sleazy ones like Captain Castillo or Praetorian Percy don't count, as they're trying too hard - and failing - the Loki type need to be accidently sexy, and doesn't really acknowledge it, as he's too busy with his evil plans.
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Quote:I can only assume, that Piper Irving in Talos Island is finally getting paid.Originally Posted by St_Angelius
Well, I don't know where you are getting Talos Island from, but the bet is quiet straightforwardly laid out in the OP.
Aha, that's much clearer. Thank you.Quote:Originally Posted by St_Angelius
But basicly, back in the beta for I20.5, when Null the gull was added as a contact in Pocket D for people to turn off the option of having speed buffs applied from such powers Speed Boost, Accelerate Metabolism etc and to automatically accept or refuse buffs such as Mystic Fortune, Lazarillo and Arcanaville had a discussion about weather those options would or would not be added to the UI for ease of use to the player base. Laz was firmly in the camp that this was all the Devs were going to do to add those options where as Arcana believed that it was only a stop gap measure till the Devs figured a way to add it to the UI. -
Quote:I remember having to put "no blind invites, please" in my search notes. That's rather redundant these days.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I wouldn't necessarily complain about it, but I might lament that it has changed from what it used to be. There was a time when the PUG invites - "blind" or preceded by /tell - practically rained from the heavens. For me, that was the golden age of teaming. In my experience, that flow of invites has slowed dramatically. I miss regularly getting those 'silver platter' invites.
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I don't really understand what the bet was about. Or how it involves a Talos Island contact.
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Quote:Fixed that for ya.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I see no reason to remove some members of the Freedom Phalanx from before Penelope Yin from history. The developers tried this with the 5th Column way back when and it backfired on them. Take 'em out of the here and now, sure. They're dead. But leave their history, backstory and impact alone.
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Quote:That was such a stupid death.Originally Posted by Generalissimo
I was also annoyed by the use of that old movie trope of having people trying to escape being crushed by a large toppling object by having them run directly down the path the object is falling down onto.
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Quote:Speaking of that scene, is Danny out of handmaidens by now?Originally Posted by Tocharon
true that,
As she was opening the vault, I couldn't help remembering what Xaro had said in an earlier episode, it was something like, "in Quarth, a man is what he says he is" -
I don't remember how much the end scene of season two deviates from the book, but I didn't really like the scene with Sam just kinda sitting there, surrounded by Wights and Others that were just ignoring him, for no particular reason. It gives the illusion of "plot immunity", which I find a stark (haha, pun!) deviation from the books, where a significant point, to me, is that A) you never know who's gonna get offed (though, to be fair, GRRM doesn't ever really kill off characters just for the heck of it, despite what some people think.) And B) people generally die if they find themselves in a situation where it makes sense for them to die. They don't die randomly 'out of spite', and they don't magically survive 'because the plot wants them to'.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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I... could actually see him pull that off.
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Quote:Especially considering that that there was no Dark Knight preview before The Avengers.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I'm not sure what would amaze me more: the amount of stupid required to believe this, or the amount of stupid required to believe one could convince other people of this.
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I think we need to introduce a new rule though: Every time someone say "this is a scientific expedition. We don't need to bring guns", you should be allowed to punch them in the face.
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Quote:I wouldn't really call it a scary movie, anyway. Certainly not Alien scary. More, I don't know, Alien 3 scary? Even that might be pushing it.Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
I work at night and don't own a car while she does, so going to see the film by myself presents some difficulties. On the other hand, maybe she can go see something else that I'm not interested in while I catch this. If I really wanted to see this, things like this would be worth overcoming; I'm only somewhat interested.
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So! I just got back from watching Prometheus. It was... uhm... a little weird. I'm not quite sure I understood the plot. Maybe I'm having a slow week. It definitely wasn't what I expected.
Anyone has an opinion on this movie?