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Ah, it could have been glorious. Scene: Tom, Andrew, and Tobey swing into battle. The camera pans down to show three older gentlemen sitting on a park bench, watching them. Nicholas Hammond: Huh. Three Spider-Men. That's something you don't see every day. Shinji Tōdō (fiddling with his bracelet): Should we...? Danny Seagren: Nah, the kids got it covered. Hey, anyone up for schwarma...?

Arguable. Tony's "privatized national defense" (e.g., going after the Ten Rings in Gulmira) probably violated a lot of laws. I think a case could be made that involving Peter Parker in Civil War constitutes child endangerment. Regardless, even if he didn't do anything illegal, he did many things that were very dumb and/or very immoral. And hey, if breaking the law is your deal-breaker, around half of the Avengers were guilty of violating international law by defying the Sokovia Accords. A bunch of them even went to prison for it. They appear to have been quietly pardoned sometime during the five-year blip, but they knew they were breaking the law when they did it. So you keep saying, but I think you severely underestimate the money and resources it would take to create something like this. There's a reason why even really rich guys don't have the equivalent of an F-16 fighter jet parked in their backyard. We're talking billions here. An internship at Microsoft ain't gonna cover it. (Sure, Tony made a suit out of "a box of scraps" -- but it completely fell apart within minutes, similar to the difficulties we see RiRi having with her suit in episode 1). Not strictly true. RiRi's suit is very different from Tony's, since it runs on wind/solar power instead of an ARC reactor. There's also the Vibranium detector she came up with in "Wakanda Forever".

Paragon Studios tacitly admitted that Endurance was an issue when they made the Fitness pool inherent. I don't think Endurance should be eliminated entirely, but maybe some steps to make it a little less punishing for newbies/lowbies wouldn't be out of line.

Pop down to your local Veterans' Administration office, and ask the people you meet there if they are assassins. You should get some interesting responses.

I'm coming from the opposite side: I dunno how to "softcap" anything. But I should probably figure it out, because good lord, getting mezzed is super annoying...

Peter clearly thinks differently. "When you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you." Natasha was not a soldier for the Russians, she was an assassin. She's not "doing the same thing" for SHIELD. She says, "I've got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out", not "I moved from Russia to the U.S. so I could kill people in a warmer climate". Ok, I'll say it: "Everyone involved in the making of such weapons are guilty." All of these characters changed their behavior because they came to realize that their old behavior was morally wrong.

So any action that is sanctioned by a government (ANY government) is automatically moral? That's an... interesting view of history.

The MCU is largely built on redemption arcs: Peter Parker deliberately let a crook get away. Tony Stark gleefully built weapons of mass destruction. Scott Lang went to prison, got out, and immediately fell back into crime. Natasha Romanov was a literal assassin. How much death and property damage has Bruce Banner's alter ego caused? Even Loki (as in, "He Killed 80 People in 2 Days" Loki) gets a chance to be a hero. But RiRi Williams is irredeemable. Got it.

They might hire her, but no corporation is going to write her a blank check and let her run wild. She'd be subject to all kinds of scrutiny, have to submit plans and outlines and budgets and cost/benefit analysis, and take notes from the higher-ups ("The focus groups didn't respond well to the 'rescue suit' concept. Can we make it a VR game controller instead?"). It would most likely end the same way her stint at MIT did. If she wants to do her pet project her way, that pretty much means self-funding.

Well, she IS still a teenager. Arrogance and short-sightedness kind of come with the territory. Riri's obsession with building her suit reminds me a lot of Tony creating Ultron. Tony wanted a "suit of armor around the world" that would prevent another Chitauri-style invasion. And Riri wants the kind of "first responder suit" that might've saved her loved ones. And both of them do some really stupid things in the pursuit of their goals. When you think about it, heroes who FAFO are kind of Marvel's whole brand...

"A genius who makes poor life choices" sounds like Tony Stark in a nutshell. 😆 I thought the first two episodes were kind of meh, but things pick up considerably in episode 3, and I'm interested enough to check out the rest. It's no WandaVision, but it looks like it's going to some interesting places.

This happened to me as well.

Agreed, the arc doesn't really play fair when it comes to the badge criteria. The choices you need to make at the press conference are pretty counter-intuitive (logic would indicate that the best way to please West would be to play it straight, but the opposite is true). Tavish Bell's and Kelly Uqua's connection to Crey is fairly obvious (they're both literally parked in front of Crey facilities, and their story arcs involve Crey), but Number Six's is much less so (you'd have to have read, and remember, a minor detail in his bio). There's nothing wrong with making a badge difficult to get, but this seems obscure for the sake of being obscure.

This was my experience as well.

"Gee, the people who don't like hard games don't seem to know many hard games." You noticed that, huh? I also would not be able to name very many brands of coleslaw, professional soccer teams, or klezmer bands. I wonder why that is.

Somebody got a gun to your head? If you're this vehemently opposed to the core gameplay, it's probably time to look elsewhere. Things can always be adjusted, but hoping for a top-to-bottom rewrite of the code to be more like [insert name of cool modern game here] is unlikely, to put it mildly. Believe it or don't, some of us like the way this game plays. This is the only MMO I've spent any significant amount of time in, and that's precisely because it's so chill and casual. You couldn't pay me to play a "Souls-like" game. Who needs that level of aggravation in their leisure time? But if that's your jam, go for it. There's plenty of it out there without trying to force a round peg into a square hole. Imagine me going onto a Dark Souls forum and posting that it should be more like CoH. 😂

About the only ones that get used consistently are the ones that summon helpers (Wolf Whistle, et. al.). Those are always useful, if only to pull some aggro off me. The offensive powers can be useful at low levels, when you don't have a full attack chain yet; after that, they're kind of meh. The defensive ones likewise seem underwhelming. I'll be in a situation where I'm getting clobbered, and pop on Wedding Ring or Cryonic Armor or whatever, and they never make a noticeable difference. So I'm not consciously hanging on to them, but they tend to accumulate.

Praetoria was so poorly-received that the Devs ended up nuking the place. So I would maybe avoid any more multiverses.

1) Nope, it's a total pain. 2) I wish you could just do simple replacements, i.e. "Pick Power X instead of Power Y and leave everything else the same". That's 99% of my respecs -- a power doesn't do what I thought it did, or just ends up not working out, and I want to get rid of it. 3) Unlikely. If my current character gets fudged up so badly that I don't think they're viable (it would have to be pretty bad, since I'm not exactly a Mega-Optimized Power Gamer to start with), I'll probably just trash them and roll up something new.

Yeah, but if you're looking for glowies or hostages, it can take forever.

Interesting...I use this all the time and I've never had a problem. Is it taking you to some other mission on your list, or just to random locations? Do Team Teleporter and Long-Range Teleporter work correctly for you?

I don't mind the parody threads, as my inner 12-year-old finds them quite amusing. But I sure wouldn't mind being able to hide those AI "art" threads. So 👍 to OP's suggestion.

Is that a widespread sentiment? I think they both look better with the trunks.

From Superman #1, 1939: The Kents were both dead until the Byrne reboot in 1986.

As I see it, one problem with the MCU is that Infinity War/Endgame did almost too good a job tying everything up. All at once, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Vision were gone (not to mention Loki and Thanos and, for different reasons, Black Panther). Hulk and Thor resolved their biggest personal conflicts. Most of the other characters achieved, if not a happy ending, at least a place of closure. It made for a powerful conclusion, but it left the franchise in a position where they essentially had to start over from scratch. Marvel's initial movie success was really "catching lightning in a bottle", and that's extremely hard to do twice (as DC found out when they tried to duplicate Marvel's success).