TTRPGWhiz

Then create an actual Block button. I know y'all are volunteers, but god damn, are you terrible at forum moderation. This thread has been a trainwreck for weeks, and the people who post the most are doing nothing but sniping at each other. Do better or let someone who knows what they're doing take over.

So lock it.

Oh, if it's been that long, you might be interested in Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman. Hickman essentially had the keys to the overarching Marvel storylines for a bit. Secret Wars was the payoff and it looks like it is, at the very least, one of the influences on upcoming MCU projects.

I tend to follow writers rather than characters/teams. Marvel has a guy who’s been all over lately; Jed MacKay. He’s currently writing both Avengers and X-Men, and previously had runs on Moon Knight, Dr. Strange, some Spidey books, etc. Jason Aaron’s Thor, Ryan North’s FF are both super fun, too.

It’s almost like Tony Stark’s tragic flaw is hubris. Like he has good intentions but makes troubling choices. Did you just fast forward to the fight scenes or what’s the story. I’m all set with this thread. See ya the next time one of you come running to the forums with a negative take about a movie that comes out a year later.

EDIT: never mind, there’s no point in continuing this conversation. Guns for home defense are definitely the same as defense contractors who sell warplanes. Well done, you win.

Did he make these before or after witnessing a vast alien army that eventually succeeded in wiping out half the life in the universe? Did he sell them to governments or were there a half dozen movies worth of story where he specifically and explicitly didn’t turn those weapons over? This is literally the point of the Tony Stark character arc in the MCU. He went from being blaise about who his company sold weapons to and who they hurt to trying to build a suit of armor for the entire planet.

Yes.

Yep. It was OK. I’ve seen better and I’ve seen worse. But I *have* seen it, which used to be the bare minimum for having an informed opinion. Halcyon times.

What is the point, then? Do you believe arms manufacturers and companies that make hammers are producing equally dangerous items? Does my local hardware store have as much to answer for as Lockheed Martin? No one in the history of the world ever built a house with a gun. A gun being used for what it’s designed to do is a deadly weapon. A hammer being used for its purpose is not. This might seem tangential, but it’s the crux of what the Iron Man movies—and to some extent, Ironheart—are about.

It’s not specifically about Ironheart, it’s about critics and credibility (or the lack thereof, which is exactly where “Tim Pool watched it and said it was bad” belongs, if not in a dumpster). It starts with a post of a rage bait tweet with a made up quote being used as “evidence” of why preconceived notions about “who this movie is for” are justified (and ends with me debunking it). I watched it. It’s fine. I didn’t feel compelled to come to the City of Heroes forums and add my take on it. If “the other side” is “people who don’t ‘automagically’ crap on movies and shows before watching them”, then guilty as charged.

And not even IRL history but MCU history. One of the throughlines has always been “you cannot trust the government”. They are the bad guys in like half these movies.

He wasn’t a criminal because his biggest customer was the United States government. The Maximoffs certainly felt differently, and rightfully so.

EDIT: never mind lol

Doing that thing where you “parodically” misquote someone specifically to make what they wrote just that much seedier is some chef’s kiss tomfoolery.

Yeah folks should go over there and read just the first and last post. 😂

Nobody should be giving any trailer any rating! lol. They are commercials. When the hell did we start "reviewing" trailers? And who is talking about reviewing trailers anyway? And review bombing isn't the explicit province of YouTubers. Even if that was a 'normal' practice: trailers aren't the same thing as the thing they're an advertisement for. Is it fair to say "yeah I saw the trailer and it didn't make me want to watch the thing"? Sure. Is it then also fair to say "yeah I saw the trailer and didn't like it, therefore the thing it's a commercial for is bad"? No, that's not fair. Have you never in your life seen a movie that had a misleading or badly produced trailer? This is a line of reasoning that I'm unable to really interact with, so I'll go ahead and stop before The Mods decide for me.

If someone wants to post a review of 3 hours of content based on the 10-15 minutes they've seen in trailers, that's certainly their prerogative. I'm not sure how much credibility that lends their review, but a lot of folks don't seem to care about credibility when it comes to reviews. They're much more focused on finding and sticking with the 'critics' who reinforce their preconceived notions. So just to be clear: it might not be toxic, but it sure is worthless.

No. People posting negative reviews *before even seeing the product* are toxic.

Oh please yourself. Posts like PF's are how we go down the rabbit hole. "Here's Critical Drinker doing his Critical Drinker thing, I bet most people agree with him". Another show that got review bombed before it was even released because there's a contingent of 'fandom' that just can't help itself. To avoid the binary assumption: pointing out that a show was review bombed isn't a statement about the show's merits; it's a statement about toxic 'fans'.

How much would you like to bet?

That is a wild character name.

Every Other Distributor: we won't touch it, it's too gross and umarketable The Dudes Who Distributed Terrifier 3: lol, bet

It never made any sense for Batman to be in the JLA, and not just for 'power scaling' reasons. About the only good excuse for him being there is to study the metas up close and learn their weaknesses.

Not that it could possibly matter less, but: 129 minutes including credits & stingers.