Tenzhi

It's an abridged version of DBZ Abridged, Kai is an abridged version of DBZ. Ergo the abridged version of DBZ Abridged is a DBZ Abridged parody of Kai.

In other words:

Hilariously derailing one-liner.

One kind of loony has been done well. This does not preclude other kinds of loonies. Bane is a loony - the crazy-smart kind with an obsessive vendetta, similar to Batman yet different.

I don't particularly prefer either of those options, but I'll accept either if they end up done well. Nolan's Batman has been *okay* so far. But each time stuff gets released beforehand it leaves me rather leery. His vision sucks, but he seems to present it well and get decent enough performances to at least make it watchable.

I'm somewhat of a rhetorical person.

For my part, I quit CO because I found it too difficult overall. Which may speak to the 'people like easy games' discussion.

To me they're a rushed mass of chaos with annoying goals and people shouting orders that seems to end in failure as often as not. When I don't want to do them while I'm playing my 50s, I constantly get random invites to them. When I do want to do them I don't seem to get the invites, and I don't want to spend a lot of time milling around the Vanguard base (or Pocket D, though I've not seen anyone putting iTFs together there the few times I've checked) while a team gets "organized" (and I use the term loosely). So I use the LFG feature, which would be a completely awesome feature if it worked better (it seems to work pretty well for the new sewer trial in beta, which is actually a fun quick mission that I don't mind repeating).

Yeah, I've always hated TFs, too. They require too much investment of time and effort (and for too little reward). Which makes it seem like even more of a waste when one of those ends in failure.

Some Columbo episodes had a similar format. Matlock as well, I think. They'd start out showing you the crime then the character would have to discover the evidence to build a case. The format emphasizes the importance of the journey over the destination.

It may or may not be gimped, but it certainly isn't very Regeneration-like IMO. Indeed, Regeneration's methodology of constantly actively willing yourself to survive seems more fitting of the name Willpower, whereas Willpower's passive regen is more like what I'd expect from a Regeneration set.

Because everything I want for one character is usually not everything I want for a different character. Hence why they are different characters.

Only one of my level 50 characters was able to do those "regular" missions. The rest of them couldn't beat that guy who creates duplicates of himself.

I don't really have a main. I just have characters and I play them (or make new ones) as my mood dictates. On the one character who had an Alpha slot open, at the time I didn't see a way to craft an Alpha that didn't require shards so I converted to iXP towards other slots. On the others it all had to be converted to open the Alpha slot. After which I no longer wanted to do those trials because getting into them was often a time-consuming process and playing them was not very fun to begin with.

I've yet to receive any shards doing regular missions (kind of like all the time I've spent not getting purples that seem to rain from the sky for other people judging from some posts). The 4-6 Incarnate Trials I did (between 3 characters) unlocked a couple of slots but I didn't get near enough salvage to craft anything on any of those characters and I was left with an anti-desire to do any more of the Incarnate Trials as I found the whole experience to be rather tiresome (or "tedious", as it were). I wish I had kept the Emp/Ast merits instead of converting them for iXP, though (this was before the iXP smoothing and such).

Absolutely. Star Trek IV was like watching a preachy Save the Whales romantic comedy. Crazy vulcan seeking trapped, god-like being at the center of the galaxy (as I vaguely recall the plot) was like watching a fantasy B-movie through a sci-fi lens. I'll take the latter any day of the week.

Slogging through the incarnate system seems like an awful lot of rather tedious effort to me. Hence why none of my 50s have done so enough to even have a Tier 1 crafted.

I can live with that, especially if the character is portrayed well. Judging from the past two movies, I don't expect to be completely happy with the aesthetics anyway.

I didn't really notice them when I saw the movie in the theatre. But there was a special about the making of the movie either on TV or on the DVD extras that went into the lighting effects. In it they deconstructed some shots in multiple layers and they looked a million times better *with* the lens flares and other lighting effects layered in.

I hope not. I hate that movie more than any of the Star Trek movies.

For you, maybe. There was only the EULA for me. Perhaps you were invited into the closed beta already?

I didn't notice any NDA going into the Open-ish VIP Beta.

Hopefully they'll release some massive prepatch download(s) a week or so in advance.

They could be steampunk Borg. Which also might make them more interesting.