mousedroid

Another one I just remembered - a couple years ago I was watching a movie, I think it was "Go," and was shocked to see perennial bad*** Timothy "Marshall Givens/Sherrif Bullock" Oliphant in the character of a goofy drug dealer/user. Pretty sure that was the movie, but like I said, it's been a couple years.

I think one of my all-time biggest "Bwah???" moments was when I caught a rerun of Adventures in Babysitting (yes, I like that movie) and, when watching the end credits, I realized that...

"Thor"




was played by...


Vincent D'onofrio

Since there's typically only three of us these days, here's my plan based on Bull's post - I'll log in at 7 PM as usual and start on Merc's long needed respec. By the time I'm done we can see if Bull's in game and if not, decide whether to play or just wait until next week.

OK, Superman can move the moon, so if Mjolnir was sitting on the moon and Superman started pushing it from the other side, would the hammer begin to bury itself?

From wikipedia...

Finally saw this last night. It was a 6:40 PM showing, and there were maybe 20-25 other people in the theater - not packed, but not bad for a mid-size town on a rainy Monday night.

Loved the movie, and pretty much the great lines and scenes have all been hashed out in this thread, but the one thing I got a chuckle out of that I didn't see anyone else mention was mark Ruffalo in the end-of-credits sceen. Watch his face - everyone is sitting there looking dead tired, not saying a word, and he just subtly starts cracking up. I don't know if it was an acting choice, or just a natural reaction to the absurdity of them sitting around a little cafe in their super suits eating sandwiches. I tend to think it was the later.

Other thoughts...

- I will be saddened if they bring Coulson back. I liked his character, but bringing him back would cheapen his death, not just for the characters, but for the audience as well. It will also make any other death suspect and less impactful.

- Much like... Forbin, I think it was(?), my dad was born in 1917, and served in the US Navy in the south Pacific during WWII. He married and had kids late in life - he was 49 when I was born in 1967. Robert Downey Jr. was born two years before me, so it's completely reasonable that Howard Stark was a young adult in the 1940s and had Tony at a similar later point in his life.

- If they feature new superheroes in Avengers 2, I certainly hope they will go with Wasp and Ant-Man, or better yet, Giant Man. I have nothing against Ms. Marvel, or Captain Marvel, or She-Hulk, but as founding members of the Avengers, I think Hank and Janet need to be included next time around.

- Regarding a storyline, I never read the Infinity Gauntlet storyline, so I don't know what it was really about or how difficult it would be to bring to the screen, but as Thanos loves(?) worships(?) Death, I could see him coming to Earth, not to enslave humans, but to kill them all. And unless they make the Hulk intelligent next time, I really think there needs to be a sequence where he goes out of control and it takes the combined might of all the remaining Avengers to take him down.

- Joss mentioning that he may finally be recognized at Comic-Con is pretty funny and very true. I first met him at Comic-Con in... 2006 I think. He was sitting at a side table in the DC booth chatting with someone - an editor, or writer maybe, I don't know, but he was completely anonymous - no one passing by was paying him any attention. I had my Firefly cast photo with me and so I stood off to the side until he was finished talking and then politely asked for his autograph. He signed my photo, and afterward agreed to let me take a picture with him. He seemed completely taken aback that I wanted either of these things, but I guess a few other fans recognized him and began asking for autographs after me. Although one person did ask me who he was, and when I told him, the guy merely shrugged and walked off.

I will definitely be going to see Avengers again, perhaps this weekend with friends, because I'm sure there were things I missed that I will pick up on durning a second viewing. For one thing - I didn't see Amadeus Cho in the TV interview segment, and I'm guessing there were a few other easter eggs on those screens as well. Also, I didn't realize that Alexis Denisof was the head Chitari! (But I did recognize Evan, Evar, whats-his-name from Dollhouse as a cop)

At the Player Summit they announced a new thing they were going to try called Freebie Fridays on the Paragon Market. I was out of town last Friday with no access to my computer, so I was curious whether this happened. I think I recall them saying they'd be trying it out during the month of May to see how players liked it, but I could be mistaken.

Didn't notice any announcements or other threads related to this topic either.

Off topic, but something that always bothered me about WoK - Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and messed up the environment on Ceti Alpha V, right? But why would the Reliant think CA5 was CA6? It was still the fifth rock from Ceti Alpha, right?

Already thinking about which villain groups fit my play style.

And I certainly agree with the need to bring in fresh blood. You guys are great, but the journey from 1-50 would be painful with just us three.

Merc is going to be running (pun also intended) late tonight guys. I'm just getting ready to leave work and need to pcik something up to eat on the way home. I'll try to be in game no more than half an hour late.

The summit was fun, but the highlight of the weekend for me, as dumb as it sounds, was oepning my goody bag and finding issue #10 of the Blue King comicbook series - it is the one issue of that series I have never been able to track down singularly, and now my CoH comics collection is complete!

Not sure if I'll make it to the fall summit, assuming there is one, but if I do, I'll make a weekend out of it instead of a 36 hour, 5,200 mile round trip.

Speaking of which, I had a few ideas for future summits...

Have a forum, or e-mail, poll a month before the next summit to allow those who cannot attend to make suggestions regarding new power sets or costume packs. Have someone from P.S. sort, categorize and tally all the pre-summit responses, then, at the summit, the attendees could receive cards in their goody bags that list the top three or top five vote-getters in each category.

Instead of pitching their own ideas on the cards, each attendee would then vote for which of the three or five ideas they like best, and turn in their cards. At the individual panels, the top vote-getter in each category would be revealed and worked on like it was at this summit. That would give non-attendees a voice, but also give attendees more input into design of the set. It would also free up the time during the panel that was dedicated to pitches to work on design ideas instead.

I didn't include the Zone Revamps in the above idea because they were handled differently with the focus on the pitch and little audience participation. The Z.R. panelists also seemed to have more input/ideas/restictions on zone revamps regarding what could and couldn't be done. In the future zone revamps could be included in the pre-summit poll, but instead of being open-ended, they could be presented as 4-6 ideas from the Devs for players to vote on. Then, at the Zone Revamp panel at the summit, the winning idea could be presented, and the hour could be dedicated to an audience "brainstorming" session as to what the players would like to see in that zone in the future.

Just some thoughts to give non-attendees a voice, while still giving attendees a greater voice, and perhaps maximizing the potential of each panel.

I am there. Here. Whatever. I am very tired.

Please tell me this isn't a one-day event that will be taking place on the one day that I'm 3000 miles away from my computer attending another one-day event.

Or at least tell me there's not a badge I'm going to miss out on by not logging in tomorrow.

Just checked in for my 6 AM flight tomorrow morning and was able to get an upgrade to first class for $150! I normally pass on those, but for a six hour flight, that is more than worth it.