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I'm not quite sure how many months I have, but I think it's more than 66. I probably haven't done all the TFs, and I know I haven't done very many SFs. The TFs I've done have put me off doing them very often.
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Quote:I was apparently under the mistaken impression that Posi was giving us a condensed look at things they put forth at the panel which he specifically arranged for us to see using this Prezi site. The remark about voiceovers probably should have tipped me off.Originally Posted by Liquid
Good presentations tend to have as little text as possible-- the information is supposed to be conveyed by the speaker. If there is a lot of text on the screen, people read the screen instead of listening to the speaker, and they miss information. This presentation obviously doesn't do much for someone not present for the actual presentation. -
Quote:Do you have sound hardware enabled? For some reason, the technical bits of which are a mystery to me, some Flash things will not run if there is no sound device. I used to run into the problem of various Flash things mysteriously not running on one of the computers at work where I had the sound hardware disabled, and much research into the issue led me to that answer (along with the technical reasons, which I have largely forgotten).Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Is there some kind of prezi player I can download and watch this in? Still doesn't work in any browser. I've made sure I have the latest versions of Flash and etc. Still nothing. Most of the time it's just a beige screen.
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Odd thought: In a town of geniuses, no one was smart enough to put a *manual* release near the ladder that would likely be the only way to have manual access to said lever? Or to at lest have put a catwalk around the chamber so one did not have to dangle over certain doom?
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Quote:PowerPoint must really, really suck. Personally, I would have preferred pictures (that you could click for full size) laid out with short paragraphs in a straightforward fashion. Which also sounds like it may have been less work.Originally Posted by Liquid
Thanks for posting this, Positron. We didn't get to San Diego until late Thursday night, so we missed the panel.
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Thanks for the presentation, even if it involves a lot of annoying bouncing around chaotically in a smallish window.
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A wizard did it.
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Quote:If by "that one guy" you mean the black guy who knew German and French, that was Gabe Jones.Originally Posted by Lycantropus
(even though I don't recall his name being specifically mentioned I have no doubt that's who that one guy was).
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Quote:I believe I said as much regarding the technical aspect. Though a layman can come to recognize such things in due course.Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Does take a painter to express why a painting is poor, on a technical level
One doesn't need to be a professional cook to recognize tastes such as salt or garlic, or even whether something is over/under cooked. And if one is just planning on eating the food in question, "bad" may be all the infomation one needs in any case.Quote:Though he still can't tell my why, exactly, it tastes good or bad. Too much salt? Not enough garlic? Oh... "bad"... very informative, thanks. 
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Quote:Which one doesn't need to do in order to recognize good/bad tasting food.Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
No, it's like asking a food critic to cook.
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Quote:Indeed. You don't necessarily have to be a painter to recognize a bad painting, or a carpenter to recognize a crooked wall. All such experience does is give you a foundation upon which to build technical complaints.Originally Posted by Venture
Which is like asking a restaurant critic to lay an egg before criticizing an omelette.
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I normally don't care for blondes, but I thought Myka was pretty hot as a blonde.
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Quote:She's always struck me as slightly-off-hot. Her forehead looks overly large, there's something slightly strange about her eyes, and her mouth looks like it might randomly bite your face off. All traits that made her perfect for the role of River...Originally Posted by Knight_Marshal
This is the only Summer I don't mind being hot!
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Quote:Hear! Hear! It's bloody annoying!Originally Posted by Flarstux
In answer the question posed in the thread's title, no. I am, however, altogether tired of being auto-logged off the forums. Five times yesterday. Once today. So far. If I could get 10 Paragon Points for every time I get auto-logged off the forums - why, I could (hyperbolically speaking) buy the COMPANY within a year!
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Quote:Uwe Boll? M. Night Shyamalan?Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Now there's something to strive for... to be the "Kurosawa of COH videos." I could definitely live with that. (As long as I'm not... oh, what the hell is his name? There's this one director that people are ALWAYS like, 'OMG why is he still making movies?'... total blank on the name.)
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Quote:Yeah, I was trying not to be *too* critical. Saying 'not D_R's best work' is like saying 'not Kurosawa's best work' - it implies that it's still good and worth one's time to watch. At least, that's what I was thinking when I wrote it.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
With only about 1:20 to work in, it's really hard to give the music time to develop, and I was more after subtlety and suspense. When the full trailer hits, I intend to go as HUGE as I can manage. (And if I had $1500 to license the cue I want for the trailer, I'd do it, but well - the Ko has no budget for these things.)
Still, the feedback is noted and appreciated!
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I was disappointed in it at first. Mainly because I read the title as being a trailer rather than a teaser. When I came to grips with it being a teaser I was mostly okay with it except for the music. The music started out okay, but then it just kinda stayed there when it felt like it should've gone somewhere.
Still decent enough - on par with some of the official stuff, I'd say - but not D_R's best work, in my opinion. -
Saw it today. I have to say that it is my favourite of the four founding Avengers' movies. Followed by Thor, Iron Man, and Incredible Hulk.
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Quote:I would be perfectly happy with such a solution, myself. Heck, I'd be happy just to have a bald option added to most hats.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The only realistic solution is to give each hat several hairstyles unique to that hat, say one bald, one short an one long. Just separating hats from hair won't work on its face.
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Quote:Indeed! While I like classic superheroes a lot, I also like to branch out design-wise as the mood strikes me. This is one of the areas in which CoH/V far outstrips their competition (such as it is), in my experience. And while my comment did seem directed at you, I'm afraid I was just using you to make the point that the referenced list can apply to a wider range of aesthetics than just classic superheroes. I promise that I put you back where I got you when I was through.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What I mean is I enjoy City of Heroes because in this game, really any thematic is appropriate. Comic Books aside, heroes can fight crime in tailored suits, casual street clothes, anime armour, alien carapace, their underwear, pirate getups, ninja costumes, robot forms, animal forms, monster forms and more. That no one aesthetic reigns supreme over all others is something I consider to be a huge perk of the game. For this reason, whenever I see allusions that "classic" super heroes are somehow "better" and the game suffers for not having most be like this, it just bugs me.
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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Quote:Actually, that list goes beyond 60s men-in-tights and most superheroes/villains in the game could probably be said to exhibit the features on it. As could most of the fodder, for that matter.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
If most of my enemies dressed up like 1960s costumed villains, this game wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
And indeed, thinking back on it, with Soldiers of Arachnos, the one feature from the list I thought was missing from the character creator isn't completely absent.
Personally, I'd click on the person's name I wanted to ignore and select "View Public Profile" from the drop down menu. Then I'd click the little arrow next to "User Lists" and select "Add To Ignore List".Quote:The forums DO lack an ignore button, but not an ignore function. To ignore someone, got to your User CP then choose "Edit Ignore List" under Settings and Options. Once there, add the name of the person you wish to ignore to the "Add a Member to Your List..." field. For ease of use, it's usually best to copy the person's name right out of the forums and paste it in that field. Enter the name there, hit OK and you will never see this person's posts ever again. Until someone quotes them, which for people deserving of ignore is usually all too common. -
Quote:All but one of the costume features on that limited list are in the game. Masks, helmets, form-fitting clothing, symbols on the chest, capes, the costumes of various professions/sub-cultures, civilan/military garb, and 'underpants worn on the outside' are all there.Originally Posted by Xanatos
I am annoyed City of Heroes is not this, will never be this, and has no intention of ever being this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhe...stume_features
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Quote:In particular, it looks like something that could be seen in Marvel's Fear Itself. Oh, wait, you were trying for sarcasm, weren't you?Originally Posted by Xanatos
Looks like something straight out of a comic book!
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Quote:I haven't had IE crash on me in a long time (disregarding IE at work, which was running some proprietary Java/Opera program through IE), and I don't let anything install toolbars. Last time I used Firefox it crashed incessantly, kept soaking up memory like a sponge (at one point it was using over 300K while it was apparently closed), and wasn't any faster than using IE, while it failed to load some (but not all) Flash games. This is typical of my experience trying other browsers in general. With varying amounts of compatibility issues along the way.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
What I want from a browser personally is something that works fast and doesn't crash. What I want from a browser professionally is one that people aren't constantly calling me up to ask me why its not doing what they want. IE scores a zero on the first one, and a negative five on the second one. Its actually average normal people who give me more IE8 headaches than my own usage. Given that I don't, in general, use it personally.
So when most human beings on Earth fire up IE8, they wonder why Adobe's installers for Acrobat and Flash silently fail without warning or error, they wonder why FTP links sometimes mysteriously fail, they wonder why they need content ratings on intranet sites, they wonder where the hell all their memory went, why it doesn't always restore page tabs after crashing, where all these stupid toolbars suddenly came from, and what is this Antivirus 2011 thing that keeps telling them they have to buy something to use their own damn computer again. And I load Firefox on their system and call it a day. -
Quote:Not to mention the attacks with fire, ice, and energy shields not doing the respective damage.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Until Shield Defence came about and gave us fire, ice and energy shields without them simultaneously guarding more from fire, ice or energy attacks.