Venture

Sorry, they're a joke in bad taste. I have a very nicely slotted one (all inventions, working on purples, T4 alpha) and it's easily outperformed by pretty much any of my Scrappers or Brutes. The AT is mathematically overly penalized for being a "hybrid" despite, say, my Kinetic Melee or Claws characters being just as much "hybrids" and having no such penalty. As with any other MMO there is simply no room here for a character type that does many things badly and nothing well, and that's Peacebringers summed up.

You don't know that, and before you declare ten million civilians to be "acceptable losses" you better be certain you have exhausted all other options.

Saying it doesn't make it so.

Evidently because he knew, or at least suspected, their alternative to the Avengers was limited to "nuke it".

I wouldn't call the Avengers "conventional forces". If six people, no matter how powerful, can't contain an army it's reasonable to believe an actual army might have better results.

The UN has no legal authority to nuke anyone for any reason.

All that's been said is that you will no longer be able to get Super Packs from series 1 by redeeming Reward Tokens. No one from PS has even implied the series is being retired entirely, so why is this even an issue?

They are not being made "not available".

Even if they were, you'd still be wrong. If the EO set and/or wolf were made available separately after SP1 was (for the sake of argument) retired, that would almost certainly have a negative effect on the sales of SP2. People would wait for that set's brass ring(s) to become available when it was retired.

So are you, except you're speculating in a direction that defies the status quo.

And the point is that this statement is simply not true. It's entirely possible, and given the continuation of the program into another series, probable that doing what you want would cause the company to lose money.

The Star Wars material was written by a lot of different people (even the movies), meaning just how much authority Lucas has over it is up for grabs.

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It's an old argument. I've heard it all before. I'm not going to grovel through it all again, any more than I would bother giving serious consideration to a 9/11 "truther" or Holocaust revisionist's arguments. Been there, done that. I'm not going to sift through a pile of manure on the off-chance that this time there's a diamond in it. The simple bottom line here is that I still hang out in the philosophy department and I know deconstructionism when I step in it. With sufficient diligence you can read Starship Troopers as being a commentary on minority discrimination, gender equality or the political structure of the Ottoman empire. No amount of nitpicking over the text can escape the fact that the book isn't a complete treatise on its background, that it's focused on military life and told from the perspective of a soldier. Or that it was written to convey a particular theme or set of themes and that material that didn't suit that purpose would probably have been edited out even if Heinlein had included it.

A great example would be a guy named, oh, what was it...right, Paul Verhoeven, whose "intent" regarding Total Recall (i.e. whether or not the events of the movie were "real" or just a "psychotic embolism") depended on whether or not he thought he was going to get to make a sequel at the time he was asked.

The author cannot be wrong in matters of bare fact by definition. "Death of the Author" can kiss my grits in this case. I glanced at the paper long enough to see that it's made the same arguments I've heard over and over in the forty years since I read the book. I simply don't care. The book focuses on military federal service because the book focuses on the military. The book is a small slice of what life is like in the world it is set in. If the author says it does not present the whole picture then that is it. It is his world and in statements of fact regarding it, such as "95% of federal service is non-military", he cannot be contradicted. The complainants are not just playing blind man and the elephant, they're insisting the only guy who can actually see the whole thing is more blind than they are.

No. You're still not getting it. The men in the movie weren't sent out with weapons that were even comparable to the weapons soldiers today are sent out with. They didn't have grenades, or LAWs, or heavy gun units or even, it seemed, armor piercing rounds. They were armed perhaps slightly better than a typical street gang. (Probably worse than a Newark one. ) They simply weren't armed to fight a real war. It doesn't matter if (e.g.) tanks would have done them any good or not.

"Federal service" in the book was not just the military. It was the entire apparatus of the federal government. The characters in the book went into the military because while Heinlein probably could have written Starship Mailman as a thought-provoking novel it wouldn't have played with the audience he was trying to reach.

Sorry, there's no "obviously". The only people who can make an educated estimate as to how (e.g.) selling the costume parts separately would affect pack sales are the ones who can see the data, and they're not talking. My take on that is that if the numbers supported the separate-sale model you'd be getting it; you're not so they don't.

No, it doesn't need to be an exact clone. But it should share at least enough DNA as to be a member of the same gorram species. Two of my favorite movies, L. A. Confidential and Road to Perdition, are both adaptations and neither one is anything even close to a clone of the original. (L. A. Confidential in particular just shares some names and events with the original -- the book is unfilmable. The author actually appears on the DVD extras saying his agent (sarcastically) congratulated him on finally writing a book that was impossible to adapt.) Some of the worst adaptations have been ones that followed the original too closely. (The second Harry Potter movie comes to mind.)

Here is a review of The Movie That Does Not Exist by someone who actually knows what he's talking about.

Oh, and Snyder's problem with Watchmen is that like most people, he just fundamentally doesn't get it.

Easy: they want you to pay for the packs to get what you want, not wait X months so you can cherry-pick the few pieces you're interested in. If you don't think that's an equitable way of doing business then don't buy it. But don't argue that there's some imperative to make the items you want available outside of the chosen format, because there just isn't.

Why?

Some things should be rare and/or hard to obtain. Or even expensive.

And yes, I already have the wolf. Got it fairly early actually. I hardly ever use it.

Likewise. Played these arcs on test, h8 them, won't bother with them on live.

None of them are "true heroes with good hearts". They may not all be Complete Monsters but none of them are good people. The best of them are still guilty of the "banality of evil", silent complicity with unspeakable acts at the least.

Of course, this is just as true for the Resistance. The Wardens may have had good intentions but they were joined at the hip with terrorists who would blow up a hospital full of babies if they thought it would help the cause -- or, in some cases, for a good laugh.

If you want to find a hero in Praetoria you're going to need a shovel.

He had Praetoria entirely under his thumb until offworld meddlers showed up. The resistance could not have even begun to undermine his rule without outside help.