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  1. Wait, you guys mean to tell me that the character creator allows villains to select something *other* than red and black?

    Huh, learn something new every day!
  2. Enriche, it's a hell of a drug.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
    The thing is, he doesn't "attack" people, he tries to get them to leave. He doesn't just attack someone unannounced. Additionally, he DOES call Police, he doesn't just leave people tied up then clear off.
    It's all fine and well saying "call the police and take pictures" but if you're watching someone get beaten up, the 5-20 minutes it takes between the call and the police arriving could literally mean life or death.
    When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Although to my mind, the best character actors are the B-listers who seem to show up in movie after movie always playing different interesting parts. The late J.T. Walsh, for example. Chris Cooper. J.K. Simmons. Gary Oldman. Those guys. Everyone knows them, even if not everyone can remember their names. Hardly a bad performance among the lot of them.
    Agreed. I would add to this list Barry Pepper. He played the sniper in Saving Private Ryan, and most recently played Lucky Ned Pepper in the remake of True Grit. He was awesome in both roles, and in everything else I've seen him in.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    My favorite Brin novel: Kiln People. YMMV as to whether the story leaps off a cliff at the end, but its one of the best science fiction novels of all time in my opinion up to that point. The narrative is very thought-provoking and creative.
    Yeah, very interesting premise in that book. Brin does a great job exploring the ramifications of the kiln tech.

    Another book of his that I really like is Glory Season. Very thought-provoking work, IMHO.
  6. Article in the Wall Street Journal

    So, one costumed do-gooder is taking a more "hands-on" approach and actually intervening in criminal activity. A different group disagrees with this, thinking it will eventually lead to bad things for all of them.

    Thoughts?
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    Having never read the book, I can base my judgement solely on the movie, and I found it entertaining.

    But if you want to enlighten me. Did he change it more or less than HP: The Half Blood Prince, which the movie really never got into why the movie was even titled the Half Blood Prince! :/
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by docbuzzard View Post
    If you think HBP was only loosely related to the book, then you will be amazed that The Postman movie and book even share the same name.

    About the only thing that book and movie have in common is the protagonist wears a postal uniform (and the setting).
    Yeah, pretty much what docbuzzard said.

    I want to be clear, I'm not "attacking" you or anything for liking the movie. We all have different tastes, after all.

    Let me put it this way. When I read the book, I could not put it down. This book has the distinction of being the only novel I have read that I finished in one sitting. I just HAD to know what happened next!

    The movie, well, it has the distinction of being the only movie I have ever left before it was over. I could not stand to watch it for more than 30 minutes, then I walked out. I contemplated asking for my money back, but didn't because it wasn't the theater's fault that I thought the movie was terrible. I finally saw the entire movie several years later, when I was up sick and watching late-night TV. I watched it to see if it redeemed itself later in the movie. Sadly, it didn't.

    I know several people who also saw the movie and haven't read the book, and they all thought the movie was rubbish. A few of them I got to read the book - they were all resistant because of how bad they thought movie was - and all of them who read the book responded with something along the lines of, "Wow, this book is *awesome*! If the movie had actually told the story in this book, it would have kicked *** and now be among my favorite movies!"

    So, YMMV, but I do highly recommend reading the book. (I highly recommend anything by David Brin, for that matter.) If you like post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories, then you should love the novel.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Attercap View Post
    But the original novel didn't have Tom Petty!
    Tom Petty is an awesome musician and songwriter. I love his music.

    That said, after seeing his performance in "The Postman" I will gladly give up my life if it ensures that he NEVER acts again. EVER.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    I liked Waterworld and The Postman >_>
    Read the novel that The Postman was *very* loosely based on - David Brin's "The Postman" - to see exactly how bad that movie really is. Costner took one of my favorite sci-fi novels and dumped huge, steaming loads of "director's vision" all over the original story.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tormentoso View Post
    they were supposed to be on my pull, but issue 2 was marked as sent but never made it to the comic store. . . They said they'd give me a call when it got here.

    Sad Panda.
    Oh, then let me catch you up on the story.


    Twilight Guardian dies.


    You're welcome.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Is this real life?
    Is this just fantasy?
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thyristor View Post
    Revert to original game type and try to see if I can find a rpg group willing to play Traveller.
    Do you mean the original Traveler, where your character could die during creation before you even got to play, or the newer Traveler that removed this "feature"?
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Commander View Post

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    Lauren Order

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    Ah, the perfect nemesis for my Stalker, Miranda Reitz.
  14. It can be both. I hope it's both!
  15. No, I'm not talking about the 12/21/12 idiocy, but...

    The Chronicles of Rick Roll

    Starring:
    Antoine Dodson (The "Bed Intruder" guy)
    Double Rainbow guy
    Leeroy Jenkins
    Boom Goes the Dynamite guy
    Freakout Kid
    Numa Numa

    I...feel...I must see this! Even if it's lame and poorly done. ESPECIALLY if it's lame and poorly done!
  16. I have a weekly gaming get together with my buddies - we're gaming tonight in fact.

    We exclusively play GURPS 3rd Edition. We didn't upgrade to 4th Edition because, as one of our group put it, "We already have a 3-foot tall stack of books that we get wrong all the time. Why do we want to get ANOTHER 3-foot tall stack of books - at a pretty high cost - just to get THEM wrong too?"

    However, what we can do with GURPS is pretty wide-ranging. In the years we've been playing, we have run:

    -Fantasy (swords and sorcery, elves, etc.)
    -Old West
    -Horror
    -Old West/Horror (this is REALLY fun!)
    -Futuristic/Space
    -Spies/Secret Ops
    -Supers (I'm currently running this one)
    -Medieval (i.e., swords but no sorcery)

    That's what I love about GURPS, and why I've stuck with it for all my gaming for the past 15+ years: its flexibility. I don't need to have a separate system (and stack of books) for each of the above genres. They are all covered by one system. It also makes crossovers simple. Want to do the old standby of having the swords and sorcery fantasy characters transported to the modern world (or vice versa)? Well, you don't have to try to reconcile two different gaming systems to do that. GURPS can handle both easily.

    GURPS: it's what's for gaming!
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence View Post
    Delete a character? I hear the words coming out of your mouth but they aren't making sense?!? Surely you must be mad.

    I fill up a server then move to a new server and fill that one up. So far I have filled like 3 or 4 plus used up all my free character slots. I have a solo SG on pretty much all of them too except for Virtue I think which I filled up before they had SGs (or multiple pages of characters). My characters there still haven't been respeced for Power Diversification when I move on I move on LOL.
    I take it you don't know about Steelclaw's meta-game he plays with his CoX characters. It involves dozens of spreadsheets, a highly complex score keeping system, self-flagellation and a hair shirt. All the cool kids are doing it!
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence View Post
    There was a plan to take down the war walls ages ago. No idea why it fell down probably because they had better things to do.
    You might be thinking of the introduction of the Rikti War Zone and Rikti Invasion Events. IIRC, there were Dev comments/teasers about the War Walls coming down and lots of people thought that meant we were getting an open world. Turned out they were just hinting at the blue force fields dropping during a Rikti Invasion.
  19. I have several characters that have Hasten, and several that don't. It really depends on the powersets. For example, my MA/SR scrapper does not have Hasten, because she already has Quickness (which provides a recharge boost) and a long attack chain. No need for Hasten because I always have an attack ready to go. Additionally, she has Practiced Brawler on autofire, and I won't take Hasten on a character unless I can set as the autofire power. On the other hand, my Rad/Sonic defender does have Hasten, because of the synergy with Accelerate Metabolism. My Energy/Energy blaster also has Hasten, because after I took all the powers he "needed" I had a few power picks left, and I said "eh, why not".

    So yeah, Hasten is a great power, but by no means necessary.
  20. Oh I'm not saying killer her off or anything, just make a movie that doesn't have the love interest as a central plotline.
  21. You mean kind of like this?



    Seriously though, I would prefer to see a Superman movie where Lois is a peripheral character, if she's even in the movie at all. I want to see a SUPERMAN movie, not a SUPERMAN & LOIS movie. For a change.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    I rather doubt that nanotechnology as it's been envisioned in sci-fi for the past 20+ years is an actual possibility. There are too many physicists looking at it and saying that the laws of physics don't allow for machines that small to actually work. Some sort of genetically engineered critter, on the other hand.... Although I must admit, the idea of billions of eensy-weensy spiders inside my blood freaks me right the hell out. (Although I suppose technically they'd be crabs... still, yuck.)
    For decades it was believed that bumblebees "defied" the laws of aerodynamics. Then after much study, it was found that bumblebees are just fine, it was our understanding of aerodynamics that needed updating.

    I think a better way to put it is "our current understanding of physics indicates that nanomachines can't work." Now, our future understanding of physics may also say that nanomachines can't work, but then again the field may get it's "Einstein" who in effect says "just add 12 and it works!"

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    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Being old like synthozoic, I am truly ready for my self-repairing android body. Annny day now. I'll totally take fixing the telomere problem, too.
    The thing about telomeres is...there already are cells that have "fixed" that "problem." They are called cancer cells.
  23. Thanks for the shout-out in your author's letter at the end of #2 Troy. Oh, and we don't support you in spite of your pantslessness, we support you because of it.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    Yeah but does a cosmetic upgrade to his HUD and rewording of his central programming really necessitate a whole new movie? I mean, what's the point if they already hit the themes and emotional tones they were shooting for?
    I'm just guessing here, but I think the point is to make money. Large amounts of money.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    This could work. All they have to do is kill off Wolverine in a different title he shows up in every quarter.
    Now THAT I would pay for!