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  1. On 10/17/2023 at 5:41 PM, Laucianna said:

    Heads up all: This Fridays Fashion Contest theme will be "Creepy Dolls"! It will be in Atlas park under the statue on Homecoming - Excelsior

    So all cabbage patch kids and Bratz.  Got it. 🙂

     

    Yes I know no copyright infringement.

  2. There is a fairly solid gap of missing most TV and a lot of movies between 1989 and 1997 then again from 2000-2004 due to being deployed in the Navy to places where consistent viewing of shows except the very most popular ones that made the AFRTS packages wasn't happening, certainly not Doctor Who.  This is why most of my viewing from 04 to around 12 was catching up on the good stuff.  On the plus side I dodges a butt ton of dreck.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Techwright said:

    I assume you mean Tom Baker as there's also Colin Baker.  While I have a definite soft spot for the 6th Doctor (especially given the rubbish Colin had to put up with), the 4th Doctor is the more popular of the two.  The definitive Baker, you might say.

    Yeah I meant Tom.  See I grew up watching it on PBS and when Tom regenerated into Davidson, I moved and the Doctor kind of fell off the radar.  I would catch the ones later in spurts but never consistent like I did T Baker.  I honestly didn't even realize the show had been resurrected until one night I was called into troubleshoot a system and the watch stander were watching BBC America and there was Ecc, being told he would make a good Dalek and was in.

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  4. For me the modern Doctor Who runs are good but after Capaldi it has not been as good (Jodie tried but the stories were not good). Granted my top three (1 to 3) are Baker, Eccleston and Capaldi.  I keep giving it my eye time thought becuase its different so once Tennent is gone again, I look forward to the Fifteenth.

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  5. My Head Canon for CoH encompasses 6 completed books each between 680-730 pages in length plus an 80% complete book 7 and story plotting out to a finale with the tenth.  While I stay close to the acknowledged canon I get into deep dives of certain groups magic, incarnates, the Crey, Hero Corps, tying realistic sensibilities to a lot of superhero shtick, fleshing out the second Rikti War, deep work in the Shadow shard and a bunch of other stuff (including the Coming Storm).  All of it is built around the Munitions Mistress and her evolution/redemption.  Seriously, just the aspect of Federal Law regulating specific power sets that comprise true threats to national security resulting in automatic incarceration and execution on discovery is like a whole chapter.

     

    Want a little taste.  Rebecca Foss (founder of Hero Corps) is the brains behind a plot to create a utopian world ruled by metahumans, at the expense of normal human beings .  She partnered with a specific woman who took over a specific corporation who developed artificial metahuman cloning.  This explains why the Freedom Phalanx was so vehemently opposed to their establishment.  There are further ramifications down the line relating to the Battalion.

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  6. On 10/5/2023 at 6:33 AM, Snarky said:

    okay.  Nostalgia is great, ...but....

     

    On Redside we needed the location badge from each bank for the accolade power.  There were some clunky workarounds, a lot of begging, and luck involved.  (if you missed one or more)  They put in a workaround.  That we begged for, for many years.  I do not want them to take that away...so we can be "creative"

    Villains don't get to have nice things 🙂

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  7. 6 hours ago, Snarky said:

    It’s a dead mans party.  Who could ask for more? I caught the last live performance by the band in LA on Halloween 1995.  Was invited by members of my “family” and I had no awareness of who they were. Blown away.  I listened to their recordings for years afterwards

    Yeah I am a big fan . . . love when a non-jazz band does a big horn sound.  The bands sound was a key factor in my broadening of my music listening tastes.

     

    Only a Lad

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