DougGraves

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I haven't seen the ads for it. We normally buy the lego games a year after they are released so they are cheaper.

I am hoping for Rebels but expect it to be Clone Wars.

We have probably most of the Lego games. Star Wars 1-6, Marvel Superheroes 1 and 2, several Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. The only one we have not really liked was LotR. We did not get far. The early levels were gimmicky rather than the normal sort of open level with puzzles, and we got lost in the between levels and could not figure out how to find the next level. So we gave up.

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I second this. I like AR for the animations and general abilities. The snipe is just much slower than other sets and I hesitate to use it in combat because it takes so long.

so everyone will be on a bio break?

I will have to check it out. The only superhero novel I have read is the Reckoners series - which is people hunting down supervillains, not actually superheroes. Are there other good ones in the genre?

My view on power creep is simple. Taking the top tier builds. Anything that makes them more powerful is power creep. Anything that makes other sets more powerful but not better than the top tier builds is not power creep. I would love to see power decreased dramatically - but that would mean nerfing top tier sets and IOs. Not leaving underpowered sets languishing out of fear that they will become better.

I agree. But those should be the powers you get at higher levels. The ones you get at lower levels should be the core powers you use all of the time. Dark gets Tar Patch at level 1 and Darkest Night at level 2, and Howling Twilight at level 6. If instead they got Shadow Fall, Petrifying Gaze, and Fearsome Stare at first it would make sense. But getting a power at 2nd level that you use for AV fights feels wrong. Rad gets Radiant Infection at level 1 and Enervating Field at level 6. I would think those would be core powers to be used all of the time.

I play mostly controllers. So I am using control powers rather than damage. I can see if you are a defender and debuffing is what you do that you take the time to put in the debuffs.

I love the dark defender set. But I find that I almost never use tar patch or darkest night. They take so long to apply that I just do not find them worth it. Tar patch I can use from around the corner, so I use it on builds that have a rain I can drop around a corner,. Darkest night I use on AVs and that's basically it. My problem is that the start of the fight is usually the most important. If you survive that, the rest is more of a grind. Fearsome stare is great at the start - to hit debuff and fear and it applies quickly. I play almost exclusively in the 10's and 20's, no 40+ game, no IOs. So this is not a question of the enemies being defeated too quickly for debuffs to matter. This is a question of the debuffs taking so long to apply they miss the crucial start of the fight and are not worth activating compared to other powers I can use. Are people using the long activation (over 2 second) debuffs on dark, rad, and other sets in normal gameplay?

<Being among - if indeed not the most herself - the top spellcasters in Middle Earth, she had no real need for sword and armor. > Was Gandalf a weak spellcaster who needed a sword? Or is the argument that she did not need a sword so she should not wield one more to do with opposing equity and equality than anything that can be found in the Tolkien writings?

Gandalf fought with a sword.

I just finished The Vampire Academy first book. It's vampires at school, but more action and intrigue than society although there is that. I am also reading The Twenty Sided Sorceress series - urban fantasy. Similar feel to Kate Daniels series. I am having a hard time finding good sci-fi since I finished The Academy series - nearish future space exploration and pretty hard sci-fi (Priscilla Hutchins) and the Murderbot Diaries (about a security cyborg who goes rogue). If you like magic and mystery, I also just finished the Esther Diamond series. Which is about a stage actress in NYC who discovers that magic and monsters are real. Each book is a mystery with her investigating a different type of monster. They are very funny. for autobiography I just finished The Boys by Ron Howard and his brother. A very entertaining book. It has no big story, just tons of little stories about their lives as child actors through their adult careers.

The more I see of this the less interested I am. It seems like the goal is to make it confusing and tedious rather than a superhero show. Maybe that's just hype and how they think they can sell it. Grimmud is worse than grimdark.

Having seen him in Earth's Mightiest Heroes, my daughter started saying his name that way. Now it is an in-joke.

Because it gets immediate attention and an audience by using a famous name. It is a business.

I am thrilled that I don't have to be. In the 80's I'd watch anything fantasy or sci-fi because there was so little of it. Now I can be choosy. It is nice that the genres I like are finally big enough that I actually have choices.

I am not a Tolkein fan so I am happy with them making any changes to make it a good show. Which is a big change from the MCU where I was bothered by anything that did not match the comics from 40 years ago.

I looks fantastic. They are certainly spending money on this. I should try it. I haven't even tried Wheel of Time yet.

I agree with you on all of these

Mesoamerican Cultures Olmec 1200-300 BCE First major stone cities in the Americas Zapotec 500 BCE - 900 CE Mayan 250 - 950 CE Toltec 900-1100 CE Aztec 1345-1521 CE I never think of Mesoamerican cities being as old as 1200 BCE. No easy way to memorize these with 2 dates for each.