ThaOGDreamWeaver

Regenerating this thread for the new Anniversary Specials trailer:

I've always thought of The Tower in storytelling terms. It's an ending card - like the World (100% victory), 10s of Coins or Cups (Disney happy ending), Death (neutral and punctual) or 10 of Swords (...nasty). But instead, it's the Michael Bay ending - where not only is something in your life going to end at the right time, it's also going to violently explode for no valid plot reason. Sure, you'll be able to build something better and more stable. That's not really a comfort during the whole running away bit. Unless you were the one who chose to light the fuse... interested to know what you thought on that one. GURPS? Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time... a looong time. I think I might still have a copy of the infamous Cyberpunk sourcebook kicking around somewhere, which I only bought to find out why the FBI wanted it stopped. Then went straight round to the bookshop and bought a whole bunch of Gibsons. Smash the system, choombatta! And my favourite RPG back in the day was... MERP. As a stylish Rohirrim Ranger most of the time.

On m'learned coll's points..

Currently... tarot reading. (Bet you didn't see that coming.) Beyond that I'm working and studying a lot - just finishing up an advanced business course, and starting basic Italian - and have a house to run on top'o'that. But one of these days I'd love to try learning guitar again. Screwed my left hand badly falling off a wave on a dodgy foam surfboard when I was younger, but maybe with some training it'd at least let me crank out a lazy G-A-D strum cameo.

On to this week's adventure, and...

SG was already present in animated form in the short-lived Marvel Rising series, which also added an animated Kamala Khan and Ironheart before their live action debuts... plus one Chloe Bennet as yer actual in-universe Quake. There was also a New Warriors live-action series developed and piloted for Freeform. Unfortunately it was canned before release by - quoting the showrunner - a rich, straight, homophobic Brentwood turd at Marvel. Who has since himself been thoroughly canned from Marvel for being... well, see above. Here's Milana Veyntraub (This Is Us) in the pre-CGI costume...

I'm sure there'll be a veritable Who's Hugh - sorry, Hugh's Who - gah, Who's Who of improbable variant Wolvies for the TVA to sort out. Though some of them are fairly unlikely to start with: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/15-alternate-reality-versions-of-wolverine If we start getting into the eXiles-verse, then that means we could see more Peggy (yay!) teamed up with X-Babies Wolvie (yes, that is a thing), and also a gender-switched Bucky Barnes.

finally back from holiday and doing some short commentings:

That was a happy memory: one of my godsons got into an argument with a Dalek in our local bookshop, completely failing to notice the bookshop manager with a throat mic who was trying his best not to break character or laugh...

I don't think The Boys has run out of steam just yet, though after S3... ...S4 might be a good place to put draw a veil over things, tie up loose ends and 'ave a well-earned brew. And to be honest, I'm not sure anything they could do is going to top the "Herogasm" episode. As for GV, it looks more 20% teen angst, 80% teen survival horror. Or as some of us called it, "high school". 😛

Final trailer for The Boys' college-era spinoff is out, and while there are a few plot similarities - like a competition to wind up as the top-ranked hero and all the glory that brings - Sky High it ain't... So, two obviously hypercompetitive superjocks with their own issues and agendas, some second tiers who are probably the heroes/leads/Final Girls, something called The Woods that shall not be discussed, a whole new range of fun powers (shrinking, blood magick, and... puppetry...?), and a bloody disgusting murder mystery. Cast: Golden Boy is Terminal List's Patrick Schwarzenegger (yes, one of Ahnold's kids), CAOSabrina's Roz (Jaz Sinclair) and Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) reuniting as very different students, guest shots from A-Train and other Boys regulars, and the ever-wonderful Clancy Brown as a suitably avuncular and probably mildly evil chancellor. Jensen Ackles is also rumoured to show up, though listed only as "Ben", not Soldier Boy, and that ref is not on IMDB. Drops on Prime September 29. Do we think it's gonna make the grade?

It's probably best explained through the medium of song.

I for one am looking forward to having a powered exo-suit instead of a mobility scooter when I get old (or possibly a combination of the two. I'd need it in red and gold though - I am Iron Gran...) https://hackaday.com/2020/10/21/exoskeleton-muscles-powered-by-hydrogen/ There's also a full size actual Gundam animatronic, though thankfully it can't move around yet... https://thegaijinghost.com/blog/japan-life-sized-gundam-through-years And it's nice to know that the Terminators will flee when confronted with the average New Yorker. https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-spot-boston-dynamics-robot-dog/

Thoughts...

Jimmy Buffett feat. Paul McCartney - Bubbles Up (Radio Margaritaville preview play, September 2nd 2023)

Quick thread rez spell:

Thought on your thought:

Alan Cumming - Trouble

Regarding the guy in the helmet:

And Thrawn would have got away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Rebels kids...

Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett 🦜😿

So, in the absence of m'learned coll (and having finally chewed through sixty pages of due diligence research in the real world), time to catch up with our new favourite Jedi... One other thing: has any Deep Nerd tried to translate any of the notes and directions of the credit maps?

*starts checking costume options for platypus-related facial features*

It depends on the build. I do have one 50 that still uses temp jetpacks to get around, but I've lately fallen in love a lot with Spring Attack for melee toons. (My latest Brute Barbierienne had that, plus Shield Charge, plus all the Axe attacks, so a lot of crowd-control options. And looked great.) For non-melee toons, it's worth remembering most enemies don't think or fight 3 dimensionally... so going up is one way out of embarrassing one-shot melee kills.