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Yeah it's an outlier. Japan has produced a ton of Godzilla movies, how many were hits here? If it's that simple, we should see a bunch of smash hits coming down from that studio right?

So what are you proposing? Why does it matter how a movie studio spends its money? If you're coming at this issue as a capitalist, its pretty straightforward. If you don't like some company's product don't buy it. Invest your money in products and studios that produce the things you like. The thing is, if other people like the things you don't and are willing to pay money for it--them's the breaks. All the complaining about what the studios are putting out is just that...complaining. That's the system, it doesn't center around what any particular fan wants. It also keeps a lot of people employed, even if they are working on a colossal bomb of a movie. If you're coming at this from another political perspective, that the entire structure of the industry is corrupt in the sense that a political system isa corrupt--sweet baby Jesus, stupid Marvel movies are near the bottom of the list of things you should be concerned with.

It's very common for tv series, especially shows like Angel or Buffy, to have a musical episode. Usually there is some plot contrivance that explains why everyone is singing their lines. I've seen it on a lot of different shows and this, I think, is the vibe they were going for with that segment. I'm not particularly into it, but that segment was not that long and honestly in a universe with superheroes, gods, monsters and powers--that's exactly where you would find this sort of thing. Comic books are not hard scifi and the genre is a catchall for anything the writers think is cool. The goofy fun parts of that movie were not the problem. The problem was when it took itself seriously as a Marvel we-have-to-save-the-world narrative.

Bringing back the old gang makes sense though. That's part of what makes Hollywood what it is--the star system. Throwing bags of money at RJD to get him to come back for some role that makes absolutely no sense will still probably bring in an audience. That is probably going to work at least for one movie. As for them being all over the place--look at the source material. The comics are all over the place. These characters exist in a fragmented, heavily retconned nerdscape where significant features of the narrative can change whenever a new writer comes on board to put their spin on something. So the comics love multiverse narratives because it allows them throw crap against the wall and see what works, while dismissing the stuff that doesn't as some alternate version of the character. I think that is deeply ingrained in Marvel comics and the film studios buy into it in order to appeal to comics geeks and offer a rationale for why they bring Loki back from the dead or have RDJ play Doom or whatever.

Iron Man 1 was good because it introduced us to RDJ as Stark, but otherwise was pretty unmemorable. Iron Man 3 was actually bad. Thor 1 was ok. Thor 2 was almost completely forgettable. Captain America 1 was decent. Winter Soldier was good. Guardians of the Galaxy and Antman were good. Age of Ultron was forgettable. I'm not saying that the ones that were forgettable were bad movies, but I suspect that they were new and novel--so people remember them as being better than they actually were.

I remember some being good, but there was quite a bit of crap as well. I think I've seen most of them, and with a few exceptions it's hard to remember what even happened in several of them. So I don't personally see some big falling off in quality. I think people in general are just tired of superhero flicks and different fandoms tend to get pissy when they don't like what the studios are focusing on.

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.

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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.