DougGraves

What is the /thumbtack command?

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?

I can't find Waldo

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.

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.

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

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

One thing the MCU does really, really, really well is planning ahead and putting in connections between planned series. Really making it a connected universe instead of just characters that sometimes run into one another. Much better than the comics did. So it is quite possible that analyzing Hawkeye without factoring in all of the upcoming stuff, possibly a decade of upcoming stuff, won't come to the right conclusions.

1. Less than 10% of the player base reads the forums, probably more like 1%. And of that 1% that reads the forums, 10% post on the forums. 2. The game is easy at standard difficulty at all levels unless you actively make it hard. The game level can be adjusted to make the game challenging on a full team up to level 40 if you choose regular content and do not choose the easiest content. Once incarnate powers are being used the game becomes trivially easy even at +4. 3. If they keep players interested they are good for the game. The only way to make the game more challenging is to eliminate IO sets and to dramatically increase the difficulty of enemies. But that may just drive a lot of the players away, it may not be good for the game.

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I actually know someone working on it at Amazon, but I haven't played it. I only play CoH and Toypocalypse in GW2.

I have no main and 47 alts. So putting a character in a SG does not really work for me. But maybe I could create an SG for my characters and join the coalition.

I'll have to check for McCaffrey from the library then. She has a lot of books to read if I still like them. Worth putting the effort in.

Burn is not overpowered on tankers. Fire armor basically makes a tanker an aoe scrapper. Light defenses but lots of aoe damage. FA tankers can be built to be as tough as other tankers. That's because IO's are overpowered. Almost any build that has ridiculous power gets it from IOs.

Boy Piers Anthony - yeah, Xanth is fun stories as a kid. On a Pale Horse was fantastic. But the pedophilia was strong in so much of his works. I have avoided them. I loved Anne McCaffrey but have avoided re-reading them, worried they would not hold up. I should try them though. The D&D novels I read as a young adult. There were a few I enjoyed a lot. Rather than seeing them as poorly written, they clearly spelled out how overpowered D&D spellcasters were as the fighters became useless and the spellcasters became like gods. I read the first Dune book and did not like it. I've never been a fan of chosen ones born with great powers and abilities. I also can't stand Ender's Game.

I got a gift certificate to Amazon and am using it to buy ebooks that I can't get from the library. Mostly books I read when I was a teenager and loved but have not read since. And the results have been mixed. Conan - I still love. Fast paced, lots of action. Endings are dramatic. The attitudes are certainly from 100 years ago, but the stories hold up. Fafhrd and the Grey Mousesr - Very mixed. Lots more telling than showing. Some stories I just found too boring, a few were still good. After one book I did not feel the need to read more. Thieve's World - I can't stand these stories now. They are supposed to be gritty, but they feel like the authors are just substituting grit for story and character. I am so disappointed, because loved the books as a teenager but could not even finish one book now. Conclusion - teenagers and old men have very different tastes.

I am not a fan of AoS and did not finish it. Moment by moment it was good, but it was too dark and dragged out too long. It felt like they did not resolve their storylines but just added in filler to pad it out. It ended up feeling like a soap opera, more so than the CW shows.

Daredevil was the only Netflix show I really liked, and just the first 2 seasons. Iron Fist had such good secondary characters, I watched it inspite of Iron Fist himself but gave up on season 2. Luke Cage I ended up just having on in the background to run through the series. I gave up on Jessica Jones halfway through the first episode, same with the Guardians and Punisher. The Netflix shows to me were "prestige tv". Boring, dreary, tedious, and dull. Only Daredevil even wore a superhero costume. The others seemed to go out of their way to not be superhero shows. Even Nolan's Batman for as boring and tedious as those movies are had Batman in costume facing villains in costume. I read and loved Powerman and Iron Fist in the 70's. And read and loved Daredevil in the 70's and 80's. I was so disappointed in those shows. And now Disney+ is making fun, adventurous superhero tv shows. The feel like Marvel superheroes. I have to wonder who decided to make the Netflix shows that way. They all have the same style and feel, so I can't believe it was an accident.

Because these forums (and most online game forums) are generally an echo chamber of min/max powergamers that do raids or pvp and who consequently think that everyone plays the game the way they do. And the big concern is that the developers will think that everyone plays the game that way and change the game to suit that playstyle. There are multiple subforums dedicated to people trying to be as powerful as possible. A thread every few days about not wanting to be as powerful as possible seems a minor counterbalance to trigger such a reaction.

I think it was fine but not great. I mostly enjoyed it but have no reason to watch it again. And it did not feel like an epic climax to her movie career. It felt like a by the numbers action movie made to pad out a series.

You are right. That should have been obvious. I just like El Aguila so I was blinded.

I have liked Hawkeye. They have done a great job as mentioned of portraying him as very competent but not flashy. He has more skills than just archery. She is interesting. I don't know her from the comics so I have no investment in her - but she is more fun and interesting than the new black widow whom I didn't care about at all. I am just hoping that Jack turns out to be El Aguila.

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I've never seen so many people playing stone

I just switched to playing rad/dark tankers instead of dark/dark and my END problems went away. So much more fun to level.