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I guess that makes sense, although there have been actors who put in the time and effort to practice enough to make their performance believable in a short time. Viggo Mortenson comes to mind when he got the part of Aragorn. I think he only had a couple of days before he had to start shooting the sword battles at Weathertop.

If I remember right, Finn Jones didn't want to put the time in to do any sort of training. And it showed. ☹️

The AFK MMs are annoying. There's not much anyone can do outside of reporting them and hoping a GM will take action. As for me, if I'm leading a team or league during ToT and I see someone is AFK, I boot them and fill with someone who isn't AFK. If there's too many MMs AFKing at the motel in PI, I move to a different location. Let them AFK with nothing for their pets to shoot at.

Thanks for the compliments and for adding my Masters of Olympus base! I'm very proud of it and I'm glad you enjoyed visiting. Please do use it anytime and share the code. Your list looks to have completely snubbed Shard Warrior's Paragon Corps Watchtower. It is the 2025 Sci-Fi Base Building Contest champ and it's listed in the Excel Base Tour base. It's also part of a collection of bases across servers. There's links in there to the bases on Torchbearer and Indom. They're worth a visit if you've never seen them.

Link to the article https://www.superherohype.com/news/632208-daredevil-born-again-season-3-gets-major-update Looks like it performed well enough to get a third season greenlit. I liked the series so far. I think it will be cool to see Jessica Jones and Luke Cage return for this. I didn't care for Finn Jones as Iron Fist.

Pity system is I think the best way to describe this and I totally agree, we don't need one at all. New players have all kinds of methods to generate all the influence they'll ever need. I think it's sort of hilarious to see some of the more vocal opponents of people getting PL'ed in AE and "not knowing how to play the game" defending a pity system for "new" players to get influence. This would just make new players have tons of inf without knowing what to do with it. They won't know what to buy, how to slot it or how to play with their new character that they just wasted all that free inf on. Hard no from me.

Superman, like other superheroes are meant to inspire others to do good things. Their actions promote empathy toward others, provides hope, motivates others to be more altruistic and motivating us toward making ourselves better. They show us how we can overcome challenges and help others. Suggesting that Superman and other heroes aren't meant to be inspiring and to encourage others to be empathetic and do good through their actions is completely and utterly wrong. Heroes inspire us through their acts, which are qualities to admire. They show us how we can overcome all types of challenges and help others. The idea of a superhero and their actions is to inspire us to create a better world. One doesn't need to have god like super powers to be a hero. The falafel vendor is a great example. The dialogue says it all. "Once I gave you free falafel, when you saved a woman from being hit by a taxi. Are you all right, Superman? ... You saved us so many times. Now it’s our turn." He's an ordinary guy that didn't need to do anything to help, but he stepped up. He could have stood by and watched. He didn't. He put himself in harms way to act and did what he could to help Superman. He did so because Superman inspired him to do good things. That's what superheroes do - inspire others. Those aren't the only examples. Batman Begins - "In the depression, your father nearly bankrupted Wayne Enterprises combating poverty. He believed his example could inspire the wealthy of Gotham to save their city." "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy." The Dark Knight - "That wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I said I wanted to inspire people." Man of Steel - "You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you. They will stumble. They will fall. But in time they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." I'm sure others can add more as there are a literal shit ton more examples. Suggesting that Superman and other heroes aren't meant to be inspiring figures and to encourage others to be empathetic and do good through their actions is completely and utterly wrong.

If I can provide some feedback, this isn't helpful. There are people who deliberately come into these threads looking to start arguments with the intent to get threads locked.

Exactly! Leading by example.

^ Exactly that.

That doesn't make sense. Telling Superman that he should rule over the people of Earth, have a harem and spread his Kryptonian seed isn't the same thing as telling him to lead by example. "Go and get a harem and rule over the people of Earth" vs. "They only lack the light to show the way" "You will give the people of Earth and ideal to strive toward." They're completely separate messages. One is "be a conqueror and rule" and the other is more "be an inspiration and lead by example". I didn't like the "new and improved" message either. It was the dumbest part of the whole movie IMO.

Do you two think you can take your squabbling to private messages before a mod shuts the thread down again? It would be great if this thread could be left open for people actually discuss Ironheart the series. Thank you.

I seem to remember someone once saying something about casting stones....

This isn't anything new. They've got quite a few members who behave really badly and try to intentionally ruin regularly scheduled events. It's a shame because the folks that run their Hami raids are really cool. Just seems like there's some bad apples in the group and that's unfortunate. Gives everyone a bad name.

Had a chance to see this yesterday. Very enjoyable movie and best MCU film since Endgame IMO. I really liked how they didn't spend a lot of time covering the origin of the FF. They followed a similar pattern to The Incredible Hulk where the origin is covered in flashback/news footage which is enough to set the characters up. I really loved the retro-60s Kirby look to the world. The CGI was well done. With exception of Pedro Pascal, I thought the casting was excellent. Pedro Pascal does ok as Reed Richards, but I think his portrayal was off. He's the weakest of the cast IMO. I'm indifferent to Shalla Bal as the Silver Surfer. I don't know why they went with her instead of the much more established Norin Radd, but whatever. She's not bad in this movie. Galactus was spot on and nice to see him properly done. The story does get a bit clunky in the end and it does seem like it suffered a bit due to re-shoots and editing. Overall this is a very fun movie! I liked it more than Superman if I'm being honest, although that was good too. I'm glad some of the rumours turned out to be false.