Tenzhi

Only if you assume the game is going to go on forever. Ultimately, given the more realistic view that the game will inevitably end, it is unfair to anyone who wasn't able to get on the bandwagon from the start. And the longer the game goes on and the more vet rewards that are added the more unfair it becomes to latecomers. So not only is the system unfair, it becomes more unfair as time goes on.

They do get to experience the nasty side effect of the servers getting taken down in an unscheduled manner to resolve it, though.

Maybe the picture implies that the Emo in it belongs to the person targetted by the post.

This would only be viable if character names were game-wide rather than server-specific.

I wholeheartedly agree. Being unable to make a Praetorian character on my preferred server, upon which I have lavished numerous extra slots, is quite a problem.

According to Spelljammer.org Toril is a Size E planet, which means it has a diameter of 4,000 to 10,000 miles. I believe this makes it similar in size to the Earth.

As noted, however, the Batman is crazy. Commissioner Gordon had the Joker in his sights and he wanted to kill him. They were surrounded by cops who wouldn't have lifted a finger to stop him, and most importantly even the Batman was prepared to stand by and let it happen for a change.

I'd go for Captain Anti-disestablishmentarianism Man, myself. It's a bit simpler, sure, but that Welsh name looks too much like the random jumbles of letters so many RMT farmers use.

...but he gets better.

At the time I didn't feel like trying to get this work computer to churn up an image from the internet abyss. But now that I have: the page in the link was pretty abysmal to look at, and didn't contain much in the way of humour. The writing might prove good in larger samples, but I wouldn't be able to read it for the horrible art.

I'm pretty sure I indicated as much. "It's a movie starring that guy I want to punch. I doubt there's anything about the movie you could tell me which would influence me more than that."

But I'll probably give it a chance eventually. Just not in theatres, and not before I've seen The Expendables.

Because, aside from the action bits, the trailers have given me the same sense of stilted anti-humour that I got from Napolean Dynamite.

He just really irritates me. But he had nothing to do with my avoidance of Arrested Development - the episode or two I saw of it which completely failed to capture my interest caused that.

Putting aside that I've been told that the comic/graphic novel is filled with horrible art, even if I read and liked the graphic novel casting a loathsome person in a "loveable" role is Epic Failure.

Potentially cheesy fun ruined by the bizarre cloning experiment that combined the DNA of Owen Wilson and Tobey Maguire into one despicable being.

I didn't see Hot Fuzz since the trailers didn't make it seem appealing. Shaun of the Dead was okay, but action or a lack thereof isn't necessarily important to me. Entertainment is my goal.

I haven't seen anything particularly humorous in the trailers. However, if you're one of those people who thought Napolean Dynamite was hilarious then we're not on the same humour wavelength.

I didn't watch much of the show because what I did see of it left me completely uninterested in seeing more. I couldn't even have told you Michael Cera was in it.

Interesting. I read the book afterwards and was surprised by how similar the anime remained. It wasn't as wild a departure as I might have expected.

Let's not cloud the issue with race. From a pragmatic standpoint, any human beings of substandard technological advancement could be said to NOT be a valuable resource to the collective planet. Certainly nowhere near as valuable as greatly advanced technologies would be. Indeed, from a historical viewpoint I believe more often than not that a more advanced civilisation would be prone to push aside/kill/exploit the less advanced people and take their land, which would be the real valuable resource.

The point, I'd say, is that the aliens had a valuable resource that could start wars and thus realistically the greater world powers would almost certainly have stepped in and handled the situation to keep it from getting out of hand. I guess the movie was trying so hard to be a thought-provoking metaphor that such considerations fell to the wayside.

Or it might have been thought-provoking if it was worth caring about. But given how irredeemably monstrous humanity is presented, who cares if they are wiped off the face of the planet. Hell, at that point everything in the universe could have died and I would have been downright apathetic about it.

If that were the case then the problem wouldn't exist solely when faced with PToD, would it?

If the Blaster is dealing more damage than the Dominator such that the Dominator needs the mitigation of its controls to make up the difference to survive an encounter, then PToD will ruin its day where it wouldn't ruin a Blaster's.