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The reason I watched this show is because my wife wanted to watch Andor season 2, so we subbed Disney+ (which we now no longer have). Saw some ads, so I thought I'd give Ironheart a shot. So this "my precious Disney" stuff--I have no clue what you're going on about. I watched Loki, Agatha, and Ironheart. That's it. And I thought the point of this thread was Ironheart. I strongly suspect that you've consumed more Disney product than I have. I labelled it bitching because it is. This show didn't appeal to you so you think maybe it should've been scrapped and started over. I don't think you were really the intended audience for this show. Eventually, I think you will get over it. God speed.

If it was the most streamed thing on Disney plus, then obviously people were tuning in. And this was, by your account, with no build up or promotion until about 1 week before. Did it make your top ten list? No. Did any other superhero series? Lol no. I thought people were done bitching about this show weeks ago. With all this enduring hatred, they must've done something right.

And yet it was the most streamed thing on Disney+ the week it debuted. Letting it sit on a shelf until there was substantial superhero fatigue was most likely the real mistake.

The last big discussion on this topic revealed that, not only did maybe 1% of suggestions see any action, the ones that did took years for that to happen. The first example that Googly found for me took 5 years to be implemented. And this is assuming that the change that happened was actually related to the suggestion made years earlier and didn't have some parallel development. Regardless of what the devs can do or should do--the defense of the status quo here is exactly like a cult mentality. The god on the hill doesn't communicate with us directly. But he lets us know that he hears our prayers. Our roles as the chosen ones is to weed out heretics (ie people with bad ideas, people that don't do research, people that just need to be told to fuck off, etc.). We--the miniscule subset of forumgoers that camp the suggestions forum (mostly Rudra)--are the weathervane. We hold ourselves to represent what everyone wants. Our piety is rewarded when, some day, a change happens that vaguely resembles something we asked for and we feel that warm glow of affirmation that comes from assuming that we were the reason for it.

So, episode 4.... The cutest depiction of a chestburster ever?

A failed boomer mentality referenced in a 40+ year old ad used to justify why we can't change the rules for a TF in an old video game. It just doesn't get any worse/better than that.

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The third episode ended on a gruesome note.

Every class that has some sort of intelligent pet summons should have that sort of control. The idea of excluding doms from this as some sort of balance tactic is ridiculous. Do something more to help controllers if necessary, but don't consign doms to having stupid pets as if this is somehow helping. It's especially irritating in light of everyone having powerful incarnate pets available that have this control scheme, but doms still can't direct imps or whatever.

It seems to me that anti-knockback bias goes back to the days when teams would be relying on toggle powers with anchors, like radiation infection. You'd be fighting a tough group and then someone would knock your anchor away from it--sometimes sending it into another group. Maybe it's not as big a deal anymore since those anchor powers aren't as popular?

This is actually the most horrific aspect of the show for me. The conceit is that the hybrid synths have been mind swapped--as if the mind were something akin to a soul that could be moved from one housing to another. The kids were sacrificed in order to create synthetic replica minds with immortal bodies. This suggests a scenario where the deluded, vulnerable, or talented, if not the whole human race, could be enticed to commit suicide in favor of the creation of synthetic dopplegangers.

Anyone watching this? I'm actually not a big fan of the franchise, but the primary creative behind this is Noah Hawley who did Legion, among other things. I watched the first episode, which was promising. The main points of interest for me were: 1. The Earth is under the control of a handful of large corporations. A Weyland-Yutani ship bringing back alien specimens crash lands on a city controlled by another corporation that is developing technology for mind-swapped synthetic people. It's unclear how much of the narrative will involve conflict between the two corporations but it has already led to some deaths in the first episode. 2. A bunch of specimens were brought back, not just some face-huggers and a xenomorph.

It fell prey to toxic bullshit. It was a pretty good show with likable characters and it was a short season--only 6 episodes. I think the elements introduced in that season would've gelled in a second. When I first heard about Mephisto being the big bad, it really seemed like a random choice of villain. Having seen the whole thing, I think Ironheart as a series is the MCU doing a variation of Faust.

Human beings are social animals. Some people are just looking to have a conversation. The consensus seems to be that KM sucks, so this seems like a good topic to have a chat about and not encounter hostility. But alas, twas not to be.

You berated the guy for no real reason and you're defending it by pointing out that you could be even more of a jerk. BETEO

Okay just looking up the lore on the wiki, Hequat at full power raised all of the nation of mu from the bottom of the ocean. So some additional island zone doesn't seem like a big deal. Yes, she's defeated in a mission. So what? Ever read a comic book? Enemies are defeated and come back, often more powerful than the first time. It even says in the mission text that it is likely she will come back. There is no reason why Hequat couldn't have an expanded presence in the game, garbage speculation about which gods we can stomp and why notwithstanding.

When you die, it locks that character out for a period of time and randomly selects another character from your roster, who appears doing a grieving emote.

I can sympathize with what I take to be the OPs complaint--that almost everything in the game revolves around damage spam and that emphasis leads to absurd outcomes (eg players relying on insps for def) and a general devaluing of roles for different ATs. Personally, I see this as the outcome of too much balance. The game is structured so that pretty much any AT or team composition can do perfectly well in the majority of the content. Early on in the development, there may have been a time when the devs could've really embraced the notion that different ATs were necessary for something. Maybe there would've been content where controls were necessary for the successful completion of a mission, for example. I would've even liked to see a scenario where your character origin actually mattered. Maybe your science based character actually needs a magic-based support character to empower them to deal with certain threats. That ship has long since sailed. What we got was an emphasis on convenience and accessibility--if your character has a limitation it's trivial to find a way to patch it over. Ultimately, I don't think tweaks to the current state of affairs would really do much to address that issue. It would just aggravate people who are used to the way things are now.

I finally got around to seeing this and found it pretty enjoyable. I think it's pretty clear that clear that they were following this theme of trauma and people leaning on some talent or ambition as a way of coping with it. Riri makes bad decisions from start to end and I get why people might not relate to her, but the show spent a lot of time explaining why she is the way she is and makes these bad decisions. I enjoyed the fact that, despite all the Tony Stark references, she is not that universally brilliant. She's good at some engineering related things but fails completely at things outside that range of competence. I think the point of this (short) season was to have her fail pretty badly but to make connections and have her establish a cohort that would help her become more of a hero. I suspect that the deal with Mephisto would fall through either because 1) her motivations for the bargain were good, unlike his other bargains 2) he doesn't actually have the ability to bring back the friend, so he doesn't actually hold up his end of the bargain. Regardless, I doubt they will do anything more with this character so it's basically a tragedy.

Maybe they can adopt cooking terminology. This attack has a medium impact with a sprinkle of -regen and a pinch of toxic damage. Then we can all have "fun" testing what that means.

Psychological components to being coh rich: 1. You have far more in the way of resources than you will need at any time. 2. You deliberately play in a way that preserves or increases this sum of excess resources that you will never spend down--when the game ends, vaults full of unused resources will simply blink out of existence. 3. You posit this state of affairs as somehow normal or not-noteworthy--despite the vast majority of players not being like this. 4. You vitriolically oppose changes in game incentives or "free stuff" because if such ideas took root, you would likely become less rich.

All you really need is a sharpie.

How dare you.

He's not wondering about controversy (disagreement over ideas). Troo likes to think outside the box. This sets him at odds with people who want the box as snug as possible and get pissed off when people think about it.

Key words are no regard. Humans that just kill plants and animals for funsies are seen as bad, if not outright evil. If an ant is in my house, I kill it because I know that it's a drone with no consciousness and it doesn't make much difference to the colony. Furthermore, I don't leave food out so that ants won't be attracted and I won't have to kill a bunch. If I went to step on an ant and it said "please don't kill me, I want to live." That would present a moral dilemma. I would at least try to communicate with the ants to get them to stay out of the house. Galactus in this situation, not only kills the ant communicating with him. He kills all the ants on the planet as well as every other living thing.