[Book Of Boba Fett]

3 hours ago, Techwright said:

I'm not sure "compelling" is the right word.  "Consistent" would be more like it.  Boba's first ground fight after recovering his armor in The Mandalorian was absolutely glorious, and everything the fans had hoped for.  Somehow in TBoBF, the writers have strayed from that path.  Not entirely, the Nikto slaughter proves that, but there's definitely a difference in what they give Tem to work with.  Here's hoping for a return to form for the final episodes of what is likely season 1.

 

By compelling I mean I want to watch and see what Mando does next.  I don't care what Boba does next.

[Book Of Boba Fett]

I will not complain that we got an episode of the Mandalorian instead of Boba Fett.  It was a good episode.

 

But basically every complaint I make about the Boba Fett show I could make about the Mandalorian - except the massive use of flashbacks in Boba.

 

So that makes me wonder if it is really the flashbacks that annoy me so much, or if Mando is just more compelling a character than Boba.

[We are a game of old people. And it is our duty to make sure the old tongue does not die.]

We should be using our leet powers to pwn mobs.  

 

What gamer lingo has been forgotten that deserves to be restored?

[Book Of Boba Fett]

The episode was pretty good but the show seems to cover about 1/4 of what is going on or supposed to be understood.  They just seem to expect the audience to know the extended universe so a lot of things are not explained.  

 

[It actually happened - I thought it was just a legend]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

Isn't that type of comment supposed to be followed by a "Profession X hates it"?

 

There's a secret trick to making sure another leader takes over a team.

 

Professor X hates it

[Moon Knight D+]

I am also an old school Moon Knight fan and am excited that they seem to be doing old Moon Knight.  I was worried it would be Fist of Khonshu era.

 

I am hoping they finally do street level gritty in the fun MCU style.

[It actually happened - I thought it was just a legend]

The leader of my team had to go - and someone else took the star!

 

I didn't get a screenshot, but you can trust me.  It happened.

[Is defeat just an inconvenience?]

The only place I can think of where defeat really matters is the end of the Posi 1 TF.

 

If you  team wipe on the door ambushes you have to go in and face 4 ambushes all at once.  It turns a challenge into a slog that can turn into multiple defeats.

[Eternals - now "free" on Disney+]

I was reading the Avengers back in the 80's when black knight and Starfox were members, so I am hoping this is leading up to the next membership drive of the Avengers.

[Eternals - now "free" on Disney+]

Was there a thread on this?

 

This is a movie for everyone who said that what the MCU needed was

• more epic characters out of touch with regular humans
• movies with lots of heroes in them so none of them get very fleshed out
• heroes fighting other heroes

 

I really don't know what the thought was behind this movie.  The story is not bad, but the structure is slow and semi-confusing.  

 

The only things I liked were the post credit scenes.

[RPG ish team]

As a tanker could I use my attacks that have taunt built in?

[What if - you only got to use two replies on every thread for CoX? What would your two replies be?]

Obviously one would be /jranger.  So let's skip that and choose two other replies.

 

My two choices are:

• That's because IO's are overpowered.
• I never knew that.

 

 

[What If?! We only got one character..]

rad/dark tanker

 

electric/thermal controller

 

But I turn off xp long before 47.

[A player simped on my girl toon yesterday.]

I started playing MMOs with Asheron's Call 25 or so years ago.  I played a male, but my wife and a female friend played females.  Both of them frequently had other players come up and hand them stuff.

 

I haven't noticed that in COH.

[How would you rank the MCU works?]

My top movies are Captain America: Winter Soldier, Iron Man 2, Thor Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

My bottom movies are Captain America; Civil War, Thor the Dark World, Iron Man, the Spiderman movies

[Book Of Boba Fett]

I continue to find the Ming Na Wen show of the "present" to be interesting and the Boba Fett show set in the past to be boring.

 

Spoiler

Mandalorean did not seem to be forced into being a western.  The white guy living among the natives and helping stop a train just feels forced in this. 

[Shang-Chi]

I liked it.  It was better than I expected.  I probably would have liked it better without the dragons.

[What is your favorite update, bugfix, or change Homecoming has made to CoX?]

1 hour ago, macskull said:

I cannot believe no one has said /powexeclocation. That is the single biggest gameplay QoL improvement implemented post-shutdown.

 

I have no idea what that is

[What is your favorite update, bugfix, or change Homecoming has made to CoX?]

24 minutes ago, AboveTheChemist said:

One that jumps readily to mind for me is the addition of the /thumbtack command,

 

What is the /thumbtack command?

[What is your favorite update, bugfix, or change Homecoming has made to CoX?]

They've been doing this awhile.  We have power proliferation, powerset revamps, new costume pieces, new arcs.  So out of all of that, what is your favorite change Homecoming has made to CoX?

 

 

[The view in my valley this morning]

I can't find Waldo

[Book Of Boba Fett]

13 hours ago, Greycat said:

Eh, given the multiple things they were trying to juggle for a first episode, it worked, at least for me. Not the *most* exciting, but it's laying groundwork while answering some "ok, what happened between ROTJ and Mando?"

 

And I don't like that but accept that.  

 

When I want to try a new show, I normally skip the pilot.  The pilot is rarely good, even if the show is good.  It just tries to do too much instead of just being entertaining.

[Book Of Boba Fett]

I was not impressed with the premiere. A few bits looked good, but I agree that it felt phoned in.  

 

I always have a problem with flashbacks when we know the outcome.  To me they are just filler.

 

I will watch to see where this i s going, but I don't want to watch to see where it has been.

[Hawkeye]

I was satisfied with the wrap up.  It was a bit disjointed in parts but that fit the series.  And they fit everything and everybody in.

 

 

I especially like

Spoiler

They wrapped up Echo separately from Hawkeye.  She was part of the bigger story, but they didn't make her confront Hawkeye at the end.

 

[Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Homecoming!]

although it's been said many times, many ways - Merry Christmas