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A lot of people didn’t like Iron Man 3 - but I did. Seemed like they were trying to do too much in Pt 2 - intro Black Widow. Push towards The Avengers plus the drunk Tony Stark storyline. Civil War was great imo - up there with Winter Soldier as one of the best non-Avengers movies of the first 3 phases.

Seriously? These forums consist of maybe 10% (if even that) of the player base. Even if everyone voted the way you want them too, that doesn’t take into account how the vast majority would vote.

Glad you enjoyed it. I tried watching it on streaming. The first 30 minutes or so, I was like “this isn’t horrible. Not great, but not Thor L&T levels of trash”. Then they visited the musical planet and I turned it off. THAT was an odd decision, and one that immediately sent the movie into a category worse than L@T. For the record - I really like Quantumania. I did think they dropped the ball by jobbing out Kang, and thought some of the effects were a little iffy, but still enjoyed it enough to buy it on Blu-ray to add to my collection. The issue with Marvel now vs Marvel then for me is just how bad the bad movies are. Not all during phase 1-3 were great. For me, Iron Man 2 and Antman 2 were the worst. Yet they still weren’t unbearable. Compare that to Eternals, Thor L&T and Marvels (sorry, I know you liked it). They hit new levels of bad. But hey, every movie ever made appeals to someone.

Maybe he was one of the AFK MMs

Nah If they are good, I want them to go on forever

I would have replied to their email with “Damn, I was about to ask you for some influence!”

No offense @Ridiculous Girl bur when I’m dropping everything I get for farming into the AH for 10inf - the last thing I care about is whether someone is able to make millions off another player, who may not know better.

Now if I could just have someone else pay my bills for me….

1386 entrants. Forced to spend 15sec looking at each one, would be almost 6 hours lolol

In a different thread, he was asking about how to play and not run into or interact with other players. I had suggested just installing the game himself and not playing on a public server. Unfortunately I know it was possible since the code is out in the wild, but have no clue how to do it myself- which is why he is asking.

All I ever run on is PUG TFs. On Posi’s and Synapse, I half expect… Mobs to be locked down all over the place. Toons to run around with hurricane on, throwing enemies every direction. KB everywhere. Especially if there’s a PB on the team. In my little mind, I just assume the AT/powers are new to the players and they are still learning to use them (remember those days?).

Yes Install it on computer and stop playing on a public server

Northstar came out as gay in Alpha Flight #106 (a first) and went on to get married in the first same-sex marriage in comics. Is it defining? That’s subjective. He was around for a few years before ever coming out. However it is established lore and therefore important imo. Just like the race/ethnicity of every MAJOR character is an established part of lore, and therefore important imo. Will I avoid a comic movie because the race was changed? If it was done solely based on the actor/actress being the best suited or best available - no, of course not. I would be mad though if it was done based purely on checking a box or filling some type of quota. Matching what’s previously been established may not be important to you, but it is to a lot of other people. If it’s that important to your customers - shouldn’t they come first? I get trying to make changes to draw in more customers, but if it results in that not happening, wouldn’t it make sense to reverse course rather than purposely sink your ship just to prove a point?

Why? It’s all about inclusion and acceptance, isn’t it? I would think studios would line up to make a Black Panther movie starring Tom Cruise. The critics would write how it’s the greatest thing they’d ever seen! Tim Burton

Saying an established trait is unimportant has me wondering if you’d apply that to all aspects of a comic book movie adaption. For example.. Northstar being a straight male - thus ignoring his roots as the first gay superhero. Or White Tiger being Asian, rather than the first Hispanic superhero Or Completely ignoring the fact that Dr Mid-Nite was the first disabled superhero

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Think that was the point. No big uproar when Sam was cast. Not like the stink cause when Tilda or Scarlett were cast to play predominantly Asian characters. Even though they were not playing Asians.

Horrible analogy based on what my gripe is. It would be more like going to the 5-star restaurant and ordering a steak. Only to be served chicken and preached to about the dangers of cholesterol.

What are you even talking about

Times were much different back then. You shouldn’t be able to get away with it now.

I remember “BNY Day” Took that annoying day off from the game.

I think the difference is that in the past when casting - they casted what was written. Need a straight white female? Find one. Need a gay Asian? Find one. Now it “seems” to be the other way around. ”I need to figure out how to fit the following into my script” with little or no regard how it affects the script or final product. For me, it doesn’t matter if it fits the story. When it doesn’t fit or make sense, I have an issue with it. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t think every movie is like this. From everything I’ve read about Madame Web - that doesn’t appear to be the reason for its failure. It just sounds like a badly written script, which makes no sense and features no action (which can overcome a nonsensical script) But, there are studios (Disney) that seem to be creating this way - and then screaming racism or homophobia when the movie fails.

Changing an establish story to drive home the point that “men are not needed because women are better” is preaching - Ala the Cinderella and Snow White live action remakes. The all-female Ghostbuster. The newly announced Pirate of The Caribbean movie. Making an original story with a strong female character is not preaching. Movies like Alien, Hunger Games, The Princess (a movie I absolutely love btw). Great movies with great female leads. Changing the race of established characters to show us they can be great too - Cleopatra, Little Mermaid, Snow White is not giving them work also. It’s preaching. Want to give work to actors of a certain race? Great! There are plenty of stories that haven’t been told of great things done by people of color/different ethnicities. On a side note - funny you mentioned “giving actors more opportunities” when 7 are not being given opportunities in the Snow White remake because seeing them on screen may “offend” people. You can’t make this stuff up! Shoehorning has nothing to do with opportunities. It has to do with checking off boxes. Need a person of color. Need a non-binary character. Need a trans character. Need a gay/lesbian character. Need a non-white character (pref female). All of that is fine, if that’s the story you want to tell. It’s not fine when you try to figure out a way to cram them all into everything - including pre-established stories/characters. At the end of the day, you can believe the continued drop in ticket sales comes down to covid, streaming, homophobia, whatever you like. Just as I can can think it comes down to writers being more concerned with checking boxes, than telling a good story.

last part first - you’ve taken the time to go back and forth with everyone in this thread. Refuting everything. That’s arguing. As for overboard… Snow White not incorporating dwarfs in their live action remake because it may offend someone. Changing the race of the Little Mermaid instead of, you know telling a new story with new characters. Making sure every last demographic is represented in the final seasons of Sex Education - when they weren’t present at the start. Kevin Smith He-Man show was about……a woman. The recent L&O controversy. Do we need to talk about the current gaming situation too? Look, as I said before. I don’t care if a show is about straight, white, black, Asian, LGBTQ+ characters. If it looks interesting, I’ll watch it. Stop trying to shoehorn them in. Stop using the time I watch a movie as a way to preach to me - If I want to be preached to, I’ll go to church.