DougGraves

I highly recommend Relics and Rarities. Same thing as Critical Role but only 12 hours long.

My experience with WoW as totally different. I started with the Ice expansion. You could join LFG from anywhere and everyone used it, so you could just go into LFG and get a team. You could do dungeons from level 15 on. I basically just did dungeons and teamed constantly. I played a tank and could get a team instantly. Later on I tried a dps character and discovered that it took 15+ minutes to get a team. So I switched back to tanker.

But the entire LotR trilogy hinges on Gollum trying to figure out what's in Bilbo's pants in the Hobbit.

It's been out for a long time but finally watching it. Just about to finish season 1. It is a multi-season serial show. It starts with Sara at a subway station seeing a woman who looks just like her commit suicide. Sara steals the woman's purse. Sara is a criminal and wants to take the opportunity to steal the woman's stuff. Sara learns more about the woman and why they look the same. As do other women. The show is sometimes listed as science fiction, but it plays out just as a gritty thriller. There are some science fiction ideas, but that's it. There is a little bit of humor, but it is more desperate and unpleasant - Sara trying to figure out what is going on and survive. Over the season a lot happens. It is definitely serial and feels like it is going somewhere. But little progress is made in the overall plot. So it is never boring, but some parts feel like they are filler rather than advancing the plot. My wife loves it. I enjoy it but don't love it.

It is far more than the Marvel shows that Netflix has canceled. Those were not canceled on cliffhaners, many other shows have been.

Assume you can tell the devs make content like these 3. Ignoring powersets and costumes, just content. What 3 would you choose and why?

that old woman is right

I would like to see them brought back in special missions. I would like to see more things in missions that are not just normal mobs to fight. CoT have crystals that heal, give END, or damage. FF has ice slides. More things that make a map or mission special are great.

Is this the only time Rom has been mentioned in the 21st century? I'll mention poor Torpedo as well so he is not forgotten.

Where Disney can beat Netflix is by creating series that have an ending and so have a backlog of things to watch. Netflix is focused on putting out a lot of new content - something for everyone. And while they put out some good things, they also cancel them without ending them. After 5 years, I don't think Netflix will have a great back catalog of original content that people want to watch. Whereas Disney can have a back catalog that people want to watch again and again.

The Mistborn trilogy has massive world building along with the story. And in the end you find out that almost every detail that has come up as the story went along matters. It all ties into a massive plot that explains everything and depends on everything. Very satisfying in its way. In Marvel comics, things are messy. 60 years of history with lots of different comics, storylines, etc. Things exist that are unrelated to one another - and then they bump into each other. But the MCU rewrites Marvel to fit the Mistborn model. A Stark or alien technology explains almost all advanced technology. Tony built Ultron instead of Henry Pym. Vulture gets his wings from alien technology. While I love Mistborn, I reject the same everything ties together in the MCU. I don't want the entire world of superheroes to have just a few things that drive the whole world. CoH has lots of different villain groups, organizations, etc. It also has Nemesis. And when you play arcs you discover connections between different groups. So how do you want the CoH lore to go? Do you want it all to ultimately make sense? These are the sources of power, the things that changed our world into the CoH world. This is the grand plot behind everything? Or do you want it just chaotic and random. Hellions worship demons and the Banished Pantheon worships evil gods and someone else worships demons and there are no connections between them - there are plenty of demons to go around? There are endless mad scientists creating freakshow, sky raider technology, etc. It is not all a Nemesis plot.

Tell me you guys have a refrigerator somewhere full of severed human thumbs? Ok, let's agree to never discuss this.

I have removed my agreement with Luminara that it has been since 2003, I am sorry I believed her. I have not removed my stance that IO sets are a huge problem with OP characters. I would love to see someone create a character with only SOs and solo +4/x8 content on a blaster. Show me that it is not significantly harder to do so with SOs than with IO sets.

So we agree. It is IO sets, incarnate powers, and PPs that cause the problem.

I must have been confused by all of the threads about soloing +4/x8 content with IOs, incarnate powers, and PPs. I did not realize that it was not those things that made it possible to solo +4/x8, but that the existence of the other ATs was making soloing +4/x8 content possible. Because that is the complaint. Not that teams working together can do +4/x8 content, but that teams are just 8 characters soloing the same mission.

I agree with you almost precisely. My highest level characters are 34. I just don't play above that level because it is boring. I have characters with XP turned off at levels 13, 19, 23, 29, and 34. It is easiest to get a team in the teens (lots of Posi TFs) so I log in with a 19 and then switch if a team of a different level is recruiting. I prioritize lower level teams. If there is a Hollows or KR team I join those first. I do Frostfire on a team once or twice a week and the KR Skull arcs a couple of times a week as well. Lower level teams are better. And mission teams are much better than TF teams. Characters are not OP so tactics matter and teamwork matters. And the players are more interested in having fun. There is more chat and overall it is just a better time.

I don't think so. AE has a no powers room. But there are plenty of unused trainers. Just visit Back Alley Brawler, he's lonely

This is a great video explaining what happened. It is an engineering video, so it has no politics or blame. Just lays out how a grid works and what happened before and during the storm.

Is that an in-game option? I lose my mouse on the screen with alarming frequency.

Anchors don't go away when the enemy dies anymore. In fact you may not realize you still have it running on a dead enemy in the last spawn you defeated.

I first played CoH on a laptop without a dedicated graphics card. It is amazing how good the game can actually look.

Baseball Furies are a different gang with much cooler costumes

I'm not bothered by MS owning something as such. But I also assume that they will ruin it once they buy it.

I've never thought of him as Bond, but he would make a good one.

I don't watch people play computer game. But we started watching Tabletop and watched people playing board games. It's pretty fun to watch. Then I started watching people play RPGs. Relics and Rarities is a great D&D campaign. We've watched several others.