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As far as I know nothing happens. Jack Wolfe's had his name since launch and I don't think he's heard a word about it from NCSoft.
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Quote:Pretty much. The problem with WoD rules in CoH isn't the vampires and monsters and stuff, it's the secrecy. Even if it were possible for WoD-style monsters to keep their existence a secret there'd be no point, since there are way more threatening things out there already in plain sight and humanity hasn't managed to exterminate them.Originally Posted by Eisenzahn
And noneAll WoD products proceed from the assumption that the surface world is strictly mundane, but darker and grimmer and generally more two-dimensional and monochrome, and that there's supernatural stuff swimming under the surface with all supernatural societies either dedicated to self-concealment, or suffering from aspects of their supernatural condition that automatically enforce that concealment.
City of Heroes/Villains proceeds from the assumption that the United Nations employs an elite cadre of Wizards to fight Alien Invaders, that the lady hanging out in front of City Hall handing out gold stars to people with laser-beam eyes is carrying the totally real and legitimate Excalibur at her hip, that Nazi Space Monster Cultists stand on street corners handing out pamphlets about how they can turn you into a totally awesome Werewolf if you sign up, and that a large portion of the US Military is currently deployed in a dimension formed from the broken mind of a mad God.
The two versions of reality are irreconcilable.
That said, personally I don't really care if people really want to RP their WoD stuff here, so long as they keep their chocolate out of my peanut butter. -
Quote:YES! *high five* Everyone knows Die Hard, and rightfully so, but it's good to hear the Lethal Weapon flicks getting the credit they deserve. So much fun, definitive '80s action.Originally Posted by Gunstar_Grey
Die Hard in my mind, to this day remains the standard to which all other action movies should be judged. I've watched it a number of times bordering on the obscene, and I swear it never even shows signs of getting old.
Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 are in this category also..I liked 3 and 4 as well but they dont have the classic status of the first two
Rather than repeat suggestions others have already made, I'll suggest some Hong Kong stuff. Check out Once Upon A Time In China 1 and 3; classic Jet Li at the top of his game, with great comedic moments and stories that won't insult your intelligence. The first film is probably the better of the two, but the third is more accessible IMO. Also have a look at the first Drunken Master, with Jackie Chan; the second one got a bit of hype in the States, but the first was far superior. Basically a really, really good Warner Bros cartoon gone live action with insane athletic performances. And Bolo Young. Bolo is never a bad thing for a film.
OK, I'll repeat one suggestion: what Smersh said about Brotherhood of the Wolf. Just see it. It's too weird and perfect to really describe adequately. Just trust us on this one and see it. -
Odd, EW seems to think Warner Bros TV would have to pay a licensing fee to use a character owned by Warner Bros.
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Quote:I don't see anyone yelling. People are expressing an opinion, and having a reasonable discussion about it. I don't think the fact that not everyone agrees constitutes yelling or sticking fingers in ears.Originally Posted by Amour_NA
Because right now this feels, to me, like someone yelling they can't get what they want and finding faults, but when pointed in directions and told it isn't that bad, they keep on yelling with fingers in their ears. But that is how I am seeing this complaint thread as being.
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Quote:I didn't know, and I don't care. The reason they were available isn't important to me, the fact that they were available is. There's no reason to believe that, either for the same reasons or for others, there necessarily couldn't be versions of the non-special editions included. Whether that happens because Wal-Mart throws a fit or because Lucas smartens up and realizes people want them really isn't my concern.Originally Posted by je_saist
Actually that only happened because Wal-Mart threatened with not promoting or stocking Star Wars unless Wal-Mart got to sell DVD editions of the original, pre-special edition trilogy. LucasArts countered with requiring that the DVD prints be sold as bonus discs with the special editions, rather than allowing Wal-Mart to sell the originals without the special editions.
Or did you just forget the whole thing with those DVD editions of the original, pre-special edition trilogy being a Wal-Mart exclusive: http://jediinsider.com/index.php?catid=243&itemid=9773 -
Quote:He's released a DVD edition of the original, pre-special edition original trilogy, so it's not unreasonable to think he'd include it on one or more of the blu-ray sets as well.Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
And George will not care one whit about that. He'll make sure the version he's sending out is great for visuals and sound, but with all the tweaks he needed to keep making to the originals.
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I give you your daily dose of nerdrage.
Also, most of the BND Spider-Man books were better than the JMS ones (Bob Gale's issues excepted). Nyah. :P -
Quote:Exactly. More power to those who want to use more unusual names, but there's no good reason why other great names should remain locked up. It doesn't really benefit anyone.Originally Posted by Kelenar
Something around here is pretty much my viewpoint. Good names aren't particularly hard to get, but I also don't see any good reason to let people who likely will never touch the game again keep names. People who want weirder or more esoteric names can keep using them, and people who just want to be Captain Ice Guy will have a second chance at a lot of them.
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Quote:That's because I made a breakfast fortress to keep all the haters out.Originally Posted by Catministrator
The whole thing actually received a little discussion. That's more than I expected going into this, and that alone makes the effort worth it.
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Quote:What she said. Personally I'm not really interested or bothered by it, but I think that making a point of it in your bio tends to come off as being tasteless and sending a message you don't want sent. In my RL if I run into an intersexed person I'm probably never going to know it, and I don't see any genuinely good reason it should be otherwise in RP.Originally Posted by BrandX
That said, you could always not mention it in the bio (personally I never understood why someone would, it just doesn't seem relavent to the characters back story...or at least I've never seen a bio yet that made me see it as being relavent) and send a tell to anyone who does try to get into that point of RP with a OOC tell to give them warning.
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I think 2 years may be a bit short, considering; I've been away for over a year at a time and so have some friends of mine, and while I don't think I'd rage out at losing Warp Factor I would be pretty bummed and much less enthused about playing the character. Maybe 3 years would be a better number, and certainly any account without a global attached should lose it's names. Seriously, there were a TON of people I knew back when the game first came out who took great names, then vanished within a year and never came back. It's safe to say they aren't coming back now.
I'd also like to see this apply to SGs; right now SG names don't appear to ever get genericed, and they really should. There's no reason 3 or 4 characters who haven't been logged in in over four years should be able to hold onto some of the great SG names from back in the day. -
Quote:It is, and I think there's additional extras on the blu-ray as well. I'd also recommend Unforgiven, the color is so much more lush than on DVD. Repo - A Genetic Opera looks and sounds amazing on blu-ray too, if it's not too weird or musical for you.Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
And also, even though I haven't seen it yet.... I hear Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is very good on Blu-ray.
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Fine results on the Home Premium edition here, as well.
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I'm not a very hardcore manga reader, but I did really dig Dark Horse's Museum of Horror collections. Great stuff.
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Totally awesome. I wish I could have been there, a friend IMed me right after it happened and I was all "Oh, hell". Congrats to you two.
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Quote:You're right, but a lot of people have pointed out how "killing" Darkseid isn't the same as killing a normal person. Given that Batman presumably eats meat, he's willing to kill some things, not all life is that precious to him. It's not that far a stretch to say that he'd be willing to kill the embodiment of all evil and lack of freedom. I don't buy the idea that Batman would be unwilling to kill something that was so far from human and was inherently unredeemable.Originally Posted by Durakken
whether it killed Turpin or not is not to say it didn't kill Darkseid... whether its through a roundabout method or straight forward he still did it. However when you think about it you could say that you can't "kill" anyone in comics because there is an after life and Darkseid was already dead so Batman didn't see it as killing him.
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Quote:It's not made very clear in the book (one of relatively few criticisms I have about it; I loved Final Crisis), but Morrison has said in interviews that the bullet wound was not fatal to Turpin. The radium poisoning or whatever it was was what destroyed Darkseid, not the wound itself.Originally Posted by Durakken
Fatally wounded is the same thing as killing...that's the whole "fatally" part.
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Congrats guys, those are some great looking costumes. I think I need to step my costume-designing game now.
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Quote:There's also the fact that it's Batman, not The Web, and so more than ten people might actually buy it and give a damn.Originally Posted by Veritech
Though to be honest, the problem i have here isn't so much the idea of a Batman, Inc. But that this idea was tested and then utterly stalled in 'The Web', which ended it's run little more than a year ago. But hey, maybe Morrison can make a better run of it because he's a)more popular than the guy who first wrote the Web, and b)has way more editorial freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.
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Quote:Oh, hell yeah. The power of money... unleashed!Originally Posted by Agonus
Now that I think about it, I hope they bring back Most Excellent Superbat for this. *crosses fingers*
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Took 'em long enough. Onto the pull list it goes.
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Given how awesome this week's issue of Batman and Robin was, I'm pretty psyched for this. I just hope I'll be able to read Batman Inc. and whatever other Bat books I want to rather than having to pick up the entire line to make sense of it all.
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Quote:To be fair, DC has gone back and forth on this a bit in recent years. All-Star Superman has him with a pretty awesome, well-adjusted childhood, and from what I've read the current canon origin story from the Superman: Secret Origin mini has him with as normal a childhood as a kid with heat vision could reasonably have.Originally Posted by Not_Rhino
Being an outcast is in his very nature. He even pretends to be a bit of a loser to throw people off his scent. You might balk at that, but when you relegate yourself to not having many friends or much of a social life, even if you choose to be that way, it can still be hard. Superman having a rough childhood is pretty much hard canon. It's something that's been a part of his continuity for a long time, and has been a part of every modern retelling/retcon I can think of as far back as John Byrne's The Man of Steel post-crisis 1986 retcon (I am sure there were more, as he was depicted this way in the 1978 film as well, but my knowledge that far back is hazy at best).
