rian_frostdrake

promdibscuous.

more accurately, the joker survives and keeps killing because the fans love him, so they can have increasingly strained rationalizations for why he escapes, but ultimately you can only impart so much logic to the situation, joker lives and goes free because hes cooler than killer croc, the riddler and the penguin. But again, the batman is a detective, he is not the entirety of the Gotham criminal justice system, and really so long as the people of gotham value their self-determination, that is how it is, if they decide to go the "kingdom come" route and abdicate responsibility to a "hero" as the entirety of their justice system, its when they admit they are unfit to govern themselves, so maybe the plot armor excuse is a bit more polite to the continuing fiction.

I do recall that in both "hush" and "killing joke", commissioner gordon specifically requested that bats does it by the book, maybe he realizes the implications of abdication of civil responsibility to a un-elected official.

not calling you on this, but since i have seen wow's chinese numbers being quoted as in 5 mill plus, could you link anything on that? I'd like for that to be true, but i'd just like some support on that please. thanks for your time.

ok, so chase, lisar and gg all thought the same as me. quite a cross section. as for me..well, i have all the packs outside of the party pack, and on principle i would not take that one for free.(UPDATE)of the list, i have every one of those. the jetpacks are neat, but with ninja run, im good. so its good that it will get people up to speed, my little brother will be coming on soon, might get him set up now for a more economical cost.

from my cold dead hands. I suspect that title may well have the most competition of them all, really.

well, it isnt new, but we still like hearing it, so point it out all you want the good neews seems to be that so far the population gains from gr have not died off after the free month. now, i suspect an event will happen soon that will hurt most mmo's population, at least for a bit. but a shoring up of resources and the beginning of the "endgame" will hopefully give some protection.

ditto

eh, i could never get excited about it.


try the roast beef.

that would be true, but with ironik, his rules are this so any small use of magic (and presumably technology that enhances his crime fighting or any form of scientific enhancement) changes his origin and is some kind of major crime against his character. taken to its logical conclusion it is absurd, but honestly, i dont feel like fighting it with ironik, i appreciate that he likes having freedom in the game, and with my costume obsession, i can relate, but where i just think he is applying unreasonable expectations is in him complaining about any conflicting text with his back-stories. feel free to disregard canon, i have in the past myself, but dont expect canon to accommodate all the whacked out origins we can possibly come up with. we were never promised that, and we sure as heck aint going to get it.

nor is it as grim as it is portrayed in some of the fairly major theatrical, tv movie and even video game releases. nobody is calling for Pollyanna, but reality is a combination of both happiness and sadness, to play up grimness certainly seems to align with attmepts to target angsty, disaffected(and financially desirable, as advertisers go) young males. dude, i love jay o'barr's crow, but that was because it was a well written and unflinchingly well staged dive into darker subjects, most angsty cynical works dont manage that level of artistry and, much like genuine positive sentimentality, when it fails, it fails badly.

if you work late nights/early mornings, they still exist, just be awake at 4 am and you are good.

disagree with your disagreement.

darth maul used a martial arts style based on manipulating a underlying force in conjunction with physical skills. he did so no through ritual, alchemy or contact with higher planar entities , but instead through mental and physical training. had he not had access to that underlying force, his discipline and training would still have allowed him to act as something comparable to a scrapper, but as he gained mastery of the force as well as his own physical capacities, he became to normal people like what an incarnate is seemingly to a normal superhero, simply above their capacity. his origin of power is still discipline and training, so he still is "natural" through our definitions, even if his capacities are well above what someone natural could do.
similarly, in marvel zombies, reed richard's zombie used his super science to simulate the silver surfer's power cosmic and injure galacticus. he was not a cosmic entity, but through technology he still wielded a force beyond what his technology had previously been capable of. in theory if , as in your example, iron man had gained access to the underlying source of the power cosmic by some element of his power armor, then it still would be the technology that gives him his power, not his own command of the power cosmic.

As for war witch's comments on the origin of power arc..honestly i have only done that as a villain, but from how he and others discussed powers, it really seemed more their interpretations of where the power came from, rather than the hard truth. so i viewed that particular arc as a nice in character bit of how those who wield the powers viewed them, but canon contradicts elements of the mutant thing already with the priest who was a mutant but lived well before the atomic bomb, so i saw it more as an exposition of npc motivations (the vil magic guy is a power mad Nietzscheian, marshall brass has a chip on his shoulder) as a hard and unchangeable bit of canon . several robots, but ya know, back from issue 1 i somehow got the vahzilok wasting disease, despite being a robot or angel. maybe im just more relaxed about things, but i understand where they are going with it and appreciate the attempts to add color to the text, even if it misses some times, because frankly i found a lot of early coh story content amazingly bland because of that very lack of specificity. i even felt that the ancillaries were poorly handled because of that, seemed silly that i just went from kicking and dodging really well to suddenly shooting lazers from my eyes. ultimatly there will always be situations where they hold too tight, and some where they seem bland for lack of detail, and there really isnt a right answer to how much of each to give or take.

not at all, the smarts give you the capacity to manipulate the metaphysical power that underlies powers that eclipse even superhuman powers. if you are using your smarts to devise some electrical ultratech device, your power is not the electricity or whatever tech drives the device, but rather your capacity to know how to create and apply that device.

I mean,we all have our own justifications for how our characters do as they do, but i would really raise an eyebrow at anyone who tried to pass off a character who fought the kronos titan as a totally unpowered human and won and wanted to claim any sort of plausibility to it. on any film it would be derided as ludicrous, even with anime sensibilities it would be glossed over by some mcguffin energy or something.It just seems that you(and ironik) can overlook some gaping implausibilities and not others in a largely arbitrary fashion, but you both still want those stretches accommodated, and that really isnt the story writers job. i deal with having several characters directly related to catholic angelic cosmology, knowing full well that we have all kinds of weird gods and entities that wouldn't fit, but knowing that i initiated the step out of canon, i certainly dont complain that the devs invalidated my concepts, i just take a socket wench to it as best i can and set things to my own preferences,and gloss over what i cant reconcile.

well, the way i view it is more in line with the well being a representation of a mataphysical underlying power(similar to chi, the force, the "truth" from full metal alchemist or whatever), your incarnate power is simply your character getting a clearer connection to that power that enhances your already powerful character and becoming a kind of a direct conduit of that metaphysical power. whether you encounter that power through ritual, technology, academic knowledge, intense training or biological variation is immaterial, you are simply being brought more strongly in line with the underlying primal creative force, and that makes you super powerful and a reality altering way. This isnt inherently magical unless you apply a very rigid and canon inappropriate definition of magic.