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I've been on a classic superhero kick lately. Here's Quantumax.

I like how Double Bubble came out.

I've been getting some praise in game for Wonder Storm. The back of the cape is gray.

I can barely even get started. I can string together some sad-looking little dungeon rooms and stick random crap in them, but I find the editor utterly unintuitive. It took me 20 minutes just to figure out how to get the Rough Water Fill and I have no idea how I finally managed it. I accidentally deleted the room that had everything in it, too. 🙄 It’s super fun to feel this dumb.

Those colors look amazing.

First, I just want to say I'm loving the new stuff added. I immediately modified the costumes of a dozen of my characters using the new bits - including the 3D glasses! - so that's great. However, when making my latest Cinco de Mayo-themed toon, I discovered that the cool Renegade hat isn't available for females. At least, I didn't see it. Maybe I was being inattentive, but if not, can we get that ported over to women? My sugar skull Blaster femme needs it! Thanks. 🙂

I read the 5-issue run. it's very disjointed, dropping us in the middle of multiple conflicts constantly, but there's a reason for it -- setting up the Big Bad for the next bunch of issues. My real complaint is that the writer leans too heavily on good lines from other franchises. It comes across less as "we're all nerds here" and more like he's playing greatest hits to borrow some glory. Other than that it's fine.

Looks like I broke imgbb. Guess I’ll have to migrate my pics over to Flickr, which I actually pay for.

Couple more...

Did I say "a couple"? I meant a couple dozen. 😛 I'm kind of tickled by Rhett Khan.

I've got a couple of those punny ones.

I've been in a superhero mood lately, for the most part. Like 90% of the part. Here are some of my latest. (Currently have 444 alts.) (deleted blanks)

Awesome & hilarious! Excellent work. 😎

New book, this time the All-Out Avengers. (I don’t think it’s a gay reference.) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B3SCMWWD?ref_=dbs_m_cmx_wit_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks This is page one of issue one, so it’s not a spoiler. No idea what’s going on here, as we start deep in media res. it’s pretty amusing, though. https://ibb.co/sVj5zp9 https://ibb.co/H2BKM9p

It’s already 3/4 awesome. I have faith in you! 😎 Many years ago when I worked at a plaque-making company I would ask the designer for all kinds of stuff and he would go, “I can’t do that,” and I would say it should be doable, to which he would respond, “Yes, but *I* can’t do it!” 😆 …and then he’d figure out how to do the thing. So all these decades later, I’m still consistent.

Sounds good, as long as the regular progression is still there. I like the fact that Spider-Man progressed from fighting robbers to the Vulture to alien invaders to Thanos. Street to World to Cosmic. But I get wanting to start out as Silver Surfer or Green Lantern, and it’s definitely something I’d do with my undoubted hundreds of alts. (It better keep the ability to make dozens of alts. That’s a must-have for and CoH sequel.)

Can you animate mine? Roll in, fire off lasers or missiles, roll out? Or the low-key version: just roll in, pause, roll out. Doing a wheelie! 😎

I was watching a video about mods added to Cyberpunk 2077 (https://youtu.be/p9wykaic6IU) and it reminded me that I’ve always wanted to use the vending machines or go into the various restaurants in order to eat and/or drink. This would grant you a small stat bonus, akin to inspirations, except tiny. Like 1% or something, but longer-lasting, like 30 minutes. In some superhero comics like The Flash or Spider-Man, the characters often talk about needing to consume copious quantities of comestibles to fuel their increased metabolism. Perhaps higher calorie content or better quality food could give a longer-lasting boost? (Sneakily reinforcing that eating veggies is better for you than eating fast food.) Of course, that only applies to human characters. Robots could go to a car parts store and drink oil or eat rocks or whatever. Or maybe they’re just given the 1% bonus for being robots. Aliens eat weird stuff. Demons eat… I don’t know, fire maybe? Souls? Souls on fire? I have several characters that are animated statues/rocks or ghosts or zombies or vampires, so it might get unwieldy to account for them all. Just a random thought.

I am a bit baffled by PUG leaders trying to be all macho with the +4 nonsense after they’ve opened up the team to any level. That level 16 whatever and my level 22 fill-in-the-blank aren’t going to even have enhancements in most powers, nevermind purpled up. So don’t get all ranty that we’re whiffing against mobs that are five levels above us and protected by overlapping force fields. Or that we’re faceplanting every other encounter. And stop being surprised when people quit because it’s not fun. It’s gotten to the point where I mostly join teams and TFs only if I’m significantly higher level than they are.

I’m not proposing anything, I just thought the artwork resembled Bio Armor. Torch is generally considered a Fire Blaster, so I thought it was interesting to contemplate a Fire Blaster using Bio Armor. In other words, effectively a Tank Mage.

Just straight up Bio powers for a Fire Blaster. Basically a supernova tank. It’s the only way to rule the Negative Zone.

I play the match-3 game Marvel Puzzle Quest (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marvel-puzzle-quest-hero-rpg/id618349779) as a pleasant diversion (no ads other than their constant pop-ups peddling stuff, but no biggie), and today they added a Human Torch variant. https://ibb.co/tHB0dcc It looks like he’s wielding Bio Armor, which is pretty cool. I did a brief search and it apparently this is part of a Negative Zone story arc from 10 years ago when Johnny gets cut off from the FF and has to take on Annihilus, and gets killed. (He gets better. Like they do.) A Fire/Bio Blaster sounds fun. Probably over-powered… which also sounds fun. 😛 Anyway, I thought it was interesting. https://ibb.co/cQN8q2f https://ibb.co/YhGpHR1

Six of one, half-dozen of the other.

I got bugs too! https://ibb.co/nz06X8B https://ibb.co/6WVyPgy https://ibb.co/mSzXBFT

I can attest to Scutt’s gameography - his captures are so high-end that when I tried to emulate them by mimicking his settings my PC sounded like it was preparing to launch into orbit. He also knows all the best spots to take photos!