Tenzhi

None of the Superman images in those links that I saw matched the proportions in some of the trailer (the art was a bit inconsistent). In the first link there's an image mixed in that appears to be Bibbo mugging like Popeye, and if you merged that bulbous chin with the bulldozer face of Animated Series Superman you'd have a chin more like the one in the trailer which spawned my comment.

I know that Superman and Batman (and numerous other heroes) tend to have prominent chins and jawlines. I've even drawn it pretty large myself albeit cartoonishly. It was just remarkably larger than I'm used to seeing it in the trailer, and so I remarked.

Everything or nothing depending on your POV. From mine "proc" in the context of IOs is shorthand for "any IO that does something individually other than enhance". In much the same way as some people will refer to a plethora of over-the-counter pain relievers as Aspirin.

Last time I checked (which is admittedly not something I do very often), they were either out of my price range or else lacking in supply. As I recall, the Kinetic Crash recipes I picked up the first time were 10,000 or less apiece. Thus they became my goto.

Because I'm always so pathetically broke relative to the Market that I've found it affordable to use up four slots rather than try to get an over-priced proc?

When I notice an error it bemuses me without distracting me. I also never have to remind myself that I'm watching a movie because that fact never left my head. I grew up watching and enjoying movies where silver or grey knitted cloth was passed off as real chain mail, and where the person who's supposed to be dead was clearly still breathing and might happen to blink. Those are mere details that aren't part of the story and not worth fixating on.

I've long since accepted that events don't transpire the way I might prefer, and that people don't always do things the way I would like. Why should such instances in fiction drive me to distraction? And even if the question arises, it certainly takes up less of my thoughts than ponderous foresight of what's to come in the story.

Perhaps I give people in general more intellectual credit than they deserve, but I wouldn't think them simple minded enough to be jarred from a story by such fleeting qualms. Aren't most people capable of considering multiple ideas at once?

Nope. What we're talking about are things that don't directly impact the experience. This isn't an ice cold spot in a ravioli, it's not liking the colour of the bowl it's served in. It's not a hair in the food, but rather being put off by the waiter's toupee. Someone with a peculiar fixation might be vexed to distraction by these things, but most people aren't Adrian Monk.

And in a few years I might have acquired one or two of the costume pieces.

It's like when you realise that you're eating meatloaf with a salad fork and it completely ruins the experience of eating the meatloaf.

A layperson need not completely lack knowledge. But they are not part of the profession and thus lack a vested interest. Professions create pet peeves that a layperson may lack. For instance, the angle someone is holding their arm at while drawing a bow.

Some may be a bit more self-aware and acknowledge that they're picking nits.

::does anime faceplant of shock::

I have equal amounts of luck waiting for an invite to come in with my flag set to Looking for Any as I do joining the LFG queue.

The answer to that, I'd say, lay in whether or not the discrepancies are such that laypersons are likely to notice and/or be bothered by them without a professional pointing them out.

There's a gunslinger and a barbarian front and centre every issue as well. And that staff-twirling guy that shows up every issue doesn't seem to mind sharing the spotlight.

Yes, but I'd say I'm pedaling myself into exhaustion. Building a character around set bonuses, and thus being able to coast along on purely mechanical power, is out of my reach.

I was going to go with a Harley or a Spazfrag 666, but that was stepping too far away from the pedal-driven cycle metaphor.

It requires a great deal of tedious set up in order to be ordered about for several minutes dealing with annoying "gimmicks" and objectives. The tedious set up portion is the part that puts me off the most. I'd do them with a bit more frequency if I could just enter the LFG queue and get into them reliably.

No, electrum. As in electrum pieces (abbreviated "ep", like some vinyl records that were EPs), a D&D coin made out of electrum, which is an alloy of silver and gold.

Indeed. He nailed the change of character completely. I'm impressed by it every time I see it. The 'you'll believe a man can fly' tag line was a smokescreen. It's really: you'll believe a man can conceal his identity with a pair of glasses.

And some music releases have momentarily made me think of electrum, too.

The pre-teen levels are the tricycle. Up to the early 20s are the training wheels. After that you get a normal bike and start adding gears, allowing you to travel faster with ease and cope with varying terrain with more versatility. And IOs can make you a moped.

I've never had a ton of fun in this game. There's been fun, mind you, just not in the ton range. And level 16 is certainly not where the bulk of that fun has been.

Which is worth 80 points, a pitying glance, and a shake of the head.

I deem those errors acceptable. If they were narration rather than dialog I might feel differently.