Slaunyeh
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The three last episodes were great. It'd been stalling a little bit for a couple of episodes, IMHO, but the last three really picked up the pace.
Too bad it's over, though I guess the final episode really does wrap up things nicely. -
Quote:Bruce Willis as an action hero?? Don't be silly, he could never pull that off.Originally Posted by Mandu
But remember this. "Michael Keaton is a light weight comedic actor who can never possibly play Batman. If Burton is stupid enough to use him then the Batman movie will tank. It will be a disaster. This is the stupidest decision ever." etc... -
Sheesh. I don't know! I've read comic books for much longer than I can remember (but then, I barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday). A first? Well, a good guess would probably be Lucky Luke or Asterix. Or maybe Tintin.
Or possibly something like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. My hippie parents began their indoctrination early.
"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." -
Quote:I'd do what I've done for the past eight years: Roll a new character.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Imagine you cannot gain any XP, get no new powers, no influence, etc. Maybe you are max level, everything is slottted with purples. You have every badge. There is nothing left to buy.
With no rewards to influence what you do in game, what would you do? -
Quote:On that note, I was watching that 'new' X-Files movie ('I Want to Belive'?) a couple of years ago, and I remember thinking: "Damn, Scully aged well."Originally Posted by GATE-keeper
I was sorta half way watching Johnny English Reborn. Having missed the opening credits, i kept asking myself "who's the hawt milf playing Pegasus [the head of MI-7]?" The fake English accent kept throwing me, I kept thinking I must have seen her on Doctor Who or something.
But then she got "that look" that Scully was famous for (about a minute thirty in)...Damn, that's Scully!
She is much hawter now than she was 20 years ago. -
Quote:This weather am great!Originally Posted by Lothic
So how's the weather in Bizarro World these days?
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Quote:Every Star Wars movie (yes, all of them, even the Ewok Adventures once or twice) have been shown on local tv networks many times. I don't remember even a single Star Trek episode ever running here, nor any of the movies.Originally Posted by Lothic
While there's no arguing that Star Wars has made its impact in the hearts and minds of countless millions I would have to wholeheartedly agree that Star Trek's impact will always stand head-n-shoulders above it.
In my maind there will never be a question about it.
Star Trek > Star Wars... period.
Heck, I've had more exposure to Space Above And Beyond than I have to anything Star Trek. -
It always amuses me to no end that Hilary Swank was the Karate Kid.
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Quote:I should like to see your statistical data, sir!Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Well every time it gets suggested/discussed more people show up stating they want to keep their unique names than not, so I think that's an indication more people like having unique names.
Honestly, I don't really have much of an opinion either way (which might be why you won't see me arguing for or against anything in any of those threads), but I think the idea has merit. That other game, the one that made such a point of not being CoH, did have a trend for taking good ideas and implementing them terribly.
I'd like to see what our team could come up with.
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I... uh, got an entirely different picture in my head from "variable names."
Do we really know that players are generally opposed to non-unique character names? I did not get that memo. -
I'm sad. I will miss Community.
That said, it's the kind of show that I'd hoped wouldn't be continued endlessly. More shows need a planned beginning and end before they launch. -
Quote:In the universe where everyone knows what Star Wars is, yet only people with a particular inclination towards American comic-books could name a marvel character?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
In what universe does Star Wars have vastly more cultural impact than all of classic Marvel Comicdom? They are both so pervasive that I don't see how you can make that case.
I mean, sure, if all you ever do is hang around American comic-book fans, I can see how you'd think this was even a competition.
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Quote:Why is it signed, anyway. You can have Inf debt?Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Yes, and inf isn't account wide. If the devs went through the effort of making it account wide, it's very likely raising the cap (i.e. changing the datatype from a signed 32bit int to a signed 64bit int) could largely be done in the process.
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Quote:Imagine if every Dimension had its own set of sister dimensions. Every variety of Earth has its own set of independent Earth varieties. Welcome to Praetorian Praetorian Earth!Originally Posted by Rapthorn
I don't understand why. Primal Demon Dimension where Primal Infernal comes from. Why not have an alternate Praetorian Demon Dimension where Praetorian Infernal comes from? After all, there's three (now two) versions of Statesman.
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Quote:Let us all be thankful that you're not a "good editor", then.Originally Posted by Venture
The problem is it's not fantastic. It's cliche-ridden fan porn. It takes something that's at best a one-off gag and tries to make a whole meal out of it. It's one gigantic darling any good editor would have shot down.
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Quote:You must be new around here.Originally Posted by Xzero45
Fixed.
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Quote:That's also true, it was oddly anti-teaming. Which I suppose worked out well with the current state of Praetoria.Originally Posted by Diggis
The other thing was that if you teamed you blew past the story levels and missed out on the arcs, plus the having to unteam to do the solo missions at the end of each arc. While I very much enjoyed the stories there I found I had to be very careful of my leveling speed.
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Quote:I agree, but I also think the intention was actually to unite the player population in one environment, where people could pick between blue and red-side at level 20. That, however, was not how it worked out in the end.Originally Posted by Plug_Nickel
I personally think that adding another starting area, completely separate from Paragon, was a lousy idea. People already complain that red side is a ghost town - we didn't need yet another world to further disperse player population.
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I think GR introduced some of the best story material this game has ever seen. I also think GR was a monumental failure. Which makes me sad.
It is my pet theory that Praetoria was designed to be the way to bring 'heroic' archetypes to red-side, and vice-versa (beyond late-game side-switching, of course). As such, Praetoria would be a new hub for everyone, uniting red- and blue-side players from 1-20, rather than a third way to split the playerbase any further.
Of course, that's not how it turned out, and I think the launch of Freedom, and the free AT-pick that game with it, was directly related to the fact that Praetoria was lying largely unused.
Why did it fail? I'm sure there's been a lot of analysis about this, but I think that ultimately Praetoria failed for the same reason that red-side is inherently less populous than blue-side: The majority of players are not fond of moral ambiguity. And those that are, are probably perfectly happy starting in Mercy. There's also the perceived difficulty of the enemy groups in Praetoria, though I don't think that was a significant factor (though the 'issue' was probably magnified by the need to solo everything with fewer and fewer people starting in Praetoria).
The storytelling in Praetoria is really fantastic, though, so I was sad that GR didn't do better. Still am! -
Quote:<3Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Kate getting sniped by Ari
Jenny Shepard dying in the shootout with the Russian
Mike Franks being killed fighting the port to port killer -
Quote:It's not like she's handing those villains the keys to her time travelling phone booth, anyway. Now that would be stupid.Originally Posted by G_Savior
I seriously doubt any villain would be stupid enough to tell the head of Vanguard, the organization tasked with protecting the planet against such high level threats, that they were indeed only helping to become a much bigger problem further down the road.
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Quote:I havn't seen it.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
No comments on last week's episode? For shame!
I liked it.
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Quote:All of them.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
What spells did Gandalf cast?
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Quote:Someone has to stand up for the little guy.Originally Posted by Reppu
Don't argue with Slaunyeh about the status of Cole right now. He's pseudo in-character, with a stance Emperor Cole and Praetoria are righteous, and 'Primitive Earth' is evil. At this point, if he doesn't accept the game lore for what it is, he's roleplaying a terribly brainwashed individual.
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Quote:What secret? That he turned Praetoria into a blissful utopia to save mankind from the devouring earth? What a fiend!Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
Besides for us revealing the secrets of Praetoria in TPN.
Even then, he's not technically a hero.