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Oh snap! The British have been giving Disney tax incentives to film there!

If you're going to be popping inspirations like tic-tacs, you could build however you want. Same thing if you're expecting to be on a team that will be buffing your dmg and/or defenses. I build for survivability in a solo +4/+8 so I typically invest in def. The damage I leave on the table doesn't matter in the team content I do. Occasionally it's helpful if an AV gets pissed off at my squishy and part of the team is dead or distracted. Generally speaking if you're teamed with people that have invested in their builds one way or another, it doesn't matter at all.

Lol yes the specifics of how Disney can manage to turn out crap films and not suffer a horrible fate is approaching the level of a deep state conspiracy theory. Also the corrective can typically be summed up as "just do the things that I like and you will make a ton of money!" hahahaha. I would not have even remembered this movie was a thing except for this thread.

Wikipedia on Toys R US: While originally considered a category killer,[1] the rise of mass merchants and online retailers cost Toys "R" Us its share of the toy market. The company was further hampered by a significant debt load, the result of a leveraged buyout organized by private equity firms, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital and real estate firm Vornado.[2] The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and 2018, closing all of its stores in the US, UK, and Australia, with the last US stores closing in 2021. Operations in other international markets such as Asia and Africa were less affected, but chains in Canada, parts of Europe and Asia were eventually sold to third parties. In August 2021, WHP Global announced that Toys "R" Us would be opening over 400 stores within Macy's starting in 2022.[3] The flagship store is located in New Jersey at the American Dream shopping and entertainment complex.[4][5][6] A second flagship store was opened inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in November 2023.[7]

The spectacle of this film not flopping hard enough to satisfy some people is amusing.

I would never want to be the same as you, and I think you're perpetuating this and steering it towards me personally, probably to get the thread locked. If your characterization of me above were true--I post a tiny fraction of what you do. Just in terms of volume of posts it doesn't matter. If what I am describing as a dynamic here is true, then people with that attitude have turned a lot of people off to this section, and probably the forums in general.

Yeah you've lost the thread here. Maybe reread from the beginning and try to reflect.

Lol you're back! That was quick. All you're doing is popping in and misrepresenting my posts and missing the point. Again. It's almost like there's a pattern. Also, still waiting on your answer for the question I asked earlier homie.

I'd be into this. A warshade is pretty much the last thing remaining for me to make and the visuals are offputting. I'd prefer to have an option for less glare.

It probably doesn't matter. I doubt this subforum matters, it could probably go away and not really affect anything. But if you take the notion of this section seriously, then the goal is to elicit feedback from the playerbase. Not from a miniscule subset of players that habitually weigh in on suggestions. I think that subset presents a kind of orthodoxy of what they want and they discourage people from posting ideas, particularly people new to the forums.

I know right? Which is why it's so weird when people complain about threads that are beating a dead horse, or asking for something that the devs don't seem to want to do. It's like some people only want to hear their dissenting opinion. Crazy Town! Structurally there's always been a problem with the forums in general and this subforum in particular. People who actively participate on the forums has always been a small percentage of the population. Of this population of forum goers, there is a smaller subset that routinely weigh in on suggestions and feedback. I would love to see a graph of say the top six posters here--who they are and how much are they posting comments in comparison to the people that are starting threads.

Sayonara!

You're asking a lot of questions without answering anything. Who is the "us" you mentioned earlier. You said please enlighten "us". Who is that? That would be interesting to know. As for your question... I think you're just bickering. If you're just looking to perpetuate the exchange for no good reason, I think you should stop.

Yup. You have people that weigh in constantly and predictably. And obviously. But if they get called out for it, they throw up their hands "woah I'm not allowed to have an opinion here!" Lol it's too funny.

Lol again, who is "us"? Who is the we I'm supposed to enlighten? I don't drop in on people's suggestions if I disagree them and argue against the proposal. It isn't necessary. Even good ideas will drop off the page in due time. Occasionally I'll see something that I agree with and post to support it. If the idea is unpopular with the "us" that you and other people keep mentioning, then there will be the backlash that happens whenever this group feels the need to weigh in with their consensus. This is a routine part of this subsection--the same group of people that you always see. In comparison, some of the people making suggestions will not be seen here again. Wonder why. Gatekeeping doesn't require any power, just a group of people committed to doing it.

Anyone can shoot down a request. It's an expression.

Actually it doesn't mean that. It's not about excluding people, it has more to do with controlling allocations of resources, opportunities, what is seen as worthy (as in cultural gatekeeping, etc.) You say the devs have ruled on knockback. I believe you. What you don't understand is that I don't care. Anymore than any other business, government agency, etc. that solicits feedback but doesn't want to deliver on requests. I'm not expecting them to cater the game to what I want, but if there's an opportunity for me (and people like me) to express what I want, I'll take it. The bizarre thing to me is that you have a cadre of players who take it upon themselves to try to bat away or discourage people from making these suggestions--and they complain about people beating a dead horse in threads that they could easily just ignore, as if they are doing a public service or something. They're not. Not everyone is the same, different people have different motivations for how they waste their time, but there have certainly been posters shooting down requests out of self interest--they want the devs to focus on the things that they want. So gatekeeping may not be a perfect fit, but it seems a reasonable one. If we're circling back a little.

Why don't you just make it so that when you apply clear mind on a target, it applies to the emp as well. I think that would provide justification and utility for the emp to take it and not be gamebreaking with all of the other mez rez options available. As someone who plays a bubbler, there are downsides to having a toggle that provides mez res over an area. End drain, players that don't stay in proximity anyways, the fact that it quickly becomes redundant if you have a halfway decent party, etc.

As someone who never watched that series to begin with, I don't have any bad taste in my mouth. I would much rather see She Hulk on a new Marvel team than characters like Hawkeye or pretty much the entire roster of Thunderbolts. Any of these characters can be made to suck with a bad script and vice versa. I enjoyed She Hulk's stint as part of FF when John Byrne was doing the art.

Did you look it up? It's even in the dictionary now so that means it's real.

So you don't think they should do She Hulk ever again because that series failed? There have been a lot of failures--FF, Superman, Venom, etc. I don't blame the characters for it.

There's a single tear rolling down my cheek right now.

This is your politics of aggrievement. You're mad because things change and you don't like it. And it's like arguing with someone who has ghosts in their brain. I did not define misogyny that way and I never said I can change words on a whim. In fact I just talked about how words change. It's not controversial, it's just an observation about the world. I think you should talk about unicorns more. Add some much needed whimsy Mr. Grumpy Downvoter.

Yeah, I think the films have gotten worse of the years precisely because they try to sugarcoat Bond. In addition, the whole notion of a British spy saving the world for Queen and Country is just laughably out of date. I'd like to see them do it as a period piece where Q giving Bond a tracking device hidden in a cigarette lighter is still high tech and not like a default feature on an Iphone or something.

No you seemingly can't follow the logic. If the definition includes x and y, or z --it doesn't mean that x, y, and z are all being expressed when someone says a word. Often the meaning of a word is contingent on the rest of what's being said. You're basically cherry picking the meanings of the word to object to it being used in relation to Bond. No, because presumably you're some random individual and aren't actually trying to express anything in this hypothetical. However, individuals (politicians, writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, etc.) may start a usage that catches on with a community and spreads. If it reaches a certain mass and displays staying power--it will eventually end up in a dictionary. There might be a million people routinely using a word in a certain way that is not reflected in a dictionary. Look at something like the word "bear". It originally comes from a word that meant "the brown one" even though many bears are not brown. The word now can refer to the type of animal, a type of man, a general problem, a trend or type of investor in the stock market, and so on. Obviously the further back in time you go, the less these more current usages are going to be reflected in a dictionary.