[Run, Jump, or Fly?]

They're all good. It depends on the character concept. The Flash and The Hulk don't fly.

 

TBH, I think I can make do with just Sprint and Ninja Run.

[How do you keep things interesting?]

Altitis.

[What AT/powerset keeps you playing?]

Well, I don't play Blasters or MMs. All of the others keep me playing.

[How do YOU control your character?]

asdw and arrow keys

[Well, that's unfortunate...]

I just always assume they don't wake up. Problem solved. 😄

[Secret Invasion Trailer]

On 7/5/2023 at 3:59 PM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

Not hugely impressed...

Well, I mean...

Spoiler

We've seen a scene in the trailer of Emilia Clarke and Mrs. Fury back-to-back with guns... so her character isn't dead. yet.

 

  

On 6/21/2023 at 12:31 PM, Mr. Vee said:

"Hey, fans have been waiting a really long time for Secret Invasion. What if we made the first episode feel just as long as the wait?!?!"

 

Maybe it's because the comic version is probably my favorite event ever, but this just seemed to completely lack gravitas to me. 

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'Oh no, Arthur Baggins was a skrull for the purpose of this episode, maybe longer' just doesn't really compare to 'oh shit, elektra, who's connected to tons of supers and has been running the Hand, has been a skrull for who knows how long.' Until/unless someone we care about turns out skrull (and with mimicked super powers) it's gonna feel underwhelming to me.

 

Wasn't a big fan of the comics. This is better because the Skrulls feel like actual people. Plus, infiltrating governments is way bigger than just duplicating superheroes. There just seems to be a lot more on the line for this series.

[Major CoH character design changes?]

On 7/5/2023 at 8:30 PM, Glacier Peak said:

Was Statesman originally a scrawny asthma stricken kid from Brooklyn

No, but States was affected by Mustard Gas in WWI and was quite ill before getting superpowers from the  Well of Furies.

[White Head]

What's really weird is the font on your costume sections.

[Mobs in combat seem different]

In my experience, they seem dumber than usual, as if they're indecisive, and they get stuck on things more.

[Who/What are you???]

Nerd and Dork, yes. I'm no Geek. I don't perform sideshow.

[The Flash (movie) teaser drop]

Saw it. Enjoyed it. Even the Ezra bits (even if he is a pale Barry Allen). It just makes the Ezra reality such a bigger tragedy. But I agree with the separating art from artist. Tons of artists are really disgusting bastards-- Elvis, Chuck Berry, Picasso, and the list is an endless douchebag, but even The Cosby Show is still great entertainment.

 

Not giving them your money is probably a sound idea. Buy tix for another movie and sneak in, maybe. 😜

[Mutants finally explained in Marvel]

Most of the Imperial Guard are not genetic Shi'ar. They're Shi'ar like the people of North Africa were Romans under the empire. The Shi'ar Empire has about 100,000 different races in it.

 

But we've seen mutants of Shi'ar, Skrulls, Brood, Centaurians (Yondu's race), very few Kree (and then some Kree evolved into the Ruul), many others too.

 

And they consider Warlock the Technarch (not Adam Warlock) a mutant because he's not into eating his kids or something.

[How did you find that CoH was back?]

I was in the Paragon Chat crowd and knew immediately. I remember the s-show about there being a secret server and how Homecoming spawned from that.

[How to avoid dying 90% of the time]

Moving around helps my hit percentage.

[Altitus, Altoholic, Alt-o-maniac]

Cool. I'm no altoholic. 80+ characters all but one below 20. But each has about 50 badges.

 

*scratch* *scratch* *twitch* *twitch*

[Question: Quantumania]

Enjoyed Quantumania and really think the dynamic is what an MCU Fantastic Four should be like. The movie seemed more like a Janet Van Dyne story than Scott Lang story, tbh, although he was part of it too. So much of the main plot revolves around her.

[Infinity stones vs Chaos Emeralds?]

Marvel's Infinity Gems all first appeared back in the 1970s, but were finally given a unified origin in 1990 (Thanos Quest).

 

The Chaos Emeralds seem more limited.

[Mutants finally explained in Marvel]

On 5/18/2023 at 7:21 PM, LegionAlpha said:

So this is a thing I discovered, and I will try not to spoil it. But it has been out since 2018 and I just found out myself. Marvel finally explained mutants on Earth and why such mutations are not a galaxy wide thing. Summary, an event happened millions of years ago that messed with the planet and thus mutants have moved to the science category. My only question is if it becomes public knowledge, will it just be like the end of the Ultimate's universe? Because right now, mutants powers and how random it is makes a whole lot of sense now. 

This isn't really new. We've known this for decades.

But mutations really are a universe-wide thing. It's not just Earth.

[Great Soundtrack, Terrible Movie]

Without ELO and Olivia, Xanadu would be completely worthless.

 

And to mention Prince, again, Graffiti Bridge.

[What forum(s) do you never read/post to?]

Everything except:

• General
• ATs: Brute  Scrapper  Sentinel  Stalker  Tanker
• Base Construction
• Art
• Comic, Hero & Villain Culture
• Off-Topic

[Homecoming player count: a year in review]

1 hour ago, macskull said:

Mercury was in tardigrade

Kinky.

[80's themed character costumes]

The Elemental and Corsair robe pieces always remind me of Adam Ant.

[I wonder if he knows about US....]

On 3/31/2023 at 6:55 PM, Shadeknight said:

Well, they can't keep (feasibly/realistically) doing "A/B List" characters for movies. That'd get boring.

Phase 4/5 are getting rocky cause of fatigue and other factors (directors, stories, etc) - though, who knows, maybe they'll slam it out of the park in Phase 6 xd

Nah. It doesn't get boring. And the current record is the C/D list characters start at boring, and work their way down.

 

It's absolutely not fatigue. The characters and plots are simply not delivering. Even the people that want to be in the theatres are not being entertained because these characters and their plots have a n inferior design. There is a reason these characters are C/D list.

 

I'm almost kind of fine with this fact, but Marvel Entertainment needs to be willing to accept this as an innate loss. Or recast the A list characters.

[I wonder if he knows about US....]

3 hours ago, Techwright said:

The same could, and has been said about The Guardians of the Galaxy.  And yet, they came from seemingly nowhere (pun intended) to rise to extreme popularity.  Before the MCU, many didn't know who Iron Man was.  Captain America was more well-known, probably due to his WWII ties, Thor was well-known but due to the Scandanavian stories more than anything within Marvel works.  Hulk was probably the best known of the bunch, due to the pre-MCU Ang Lee movie and the success of the 1980s TV show.  (I'm focused on the first Avengers movie.  Obviously Spider-Man tops them all in recognition.)

 

Also, Loki, Spider-Man, and Black Panther aren't money makers? They're all Phase 4.  I will agree that Phase 4 had an overall weaker lineup, and Phase 5 is even riskier, though it has the the next chapter of Loki, plus the trilogy finale of GotG in the mix as well as the reboots of Blade and Daredevil, both of which appear to be highly anticipated.  Incidentally, Blade is considered Marvel's first movie success, though modestly so by today's standards. (International gross, scaled for 2023: a bit more than  US$ 242 million.)

 

I'm speaking about historically, not really about movies, and yes, in general. Spidey, Thor, and Panther are the exceptions.

 

Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Doctor Strange are Marvel's D-list characters. Loki might be a C-lister, as are Falcon, Captain/Ms. Marvel, Winter Soldier, Moon Knight, Wanda, Vizh, Hawkeye, and Shulkie.

 

Phase 5 seems a lot worse.

[I wonder if he knows about US....]

23 hours ago, Techwright said:

We're now seeing with MCU phase 4 and 5 such a problem.  Whether it is due to bad design/handling or just audience fatigue, there's a chink in the armor, and that's going to likely keep game houses hesitant at development.

I'm not sure why people are so surprised, tbh. The phase 4 and 5 characters have never been the money-makers.