Techwright

Truth. They're all great. Standouts to me (may just be my personal taste, admittedly): Captain China - Beam Rifle/Martial Combat Blaster Queen of Diamonds - Earth/Plant Controller Jova - Energy/Psychic Blaster Blackstone - Mercenaries/Pain Mastermind Relay - Martial Arts/Energy Aura Scrapper Nom de Plume - Psionic/Ninjitsu Stalker Mogul - Titan Weapons/Electric Armor Brute Whiz Kid - Arsenal/Traps Controller Gloss - Symphony/Energy Dominator Miss Minute - Time/Radiation Defender Sky Captain - Assault Rifle/Storm Corruptor Astroman - Radiation/Radiation Brute

I'm just having adrenaline-junky fun visiting all the bases. That's the real win, to me at least. So many creative ideas, both big and small. Some bases create environments that never would have occurred to me.

I actually liked "Trial of the Incredible Hulk". It was not everything it could be, but Daredevil and Fisk actually made it to live action, and for having released while still in the campy era of comic book projects, it held itself in check much of the time. Fisk actually fought intelligently against Daredevil. And John Rhys Davies as Fisk...man, the potential they had there! (It was to have been a launch for a Daredevil series that never materialized.) "The Incredible Hulk Returns" is reasonably entertaining. I laughed hysterically at Mr. McGee's confrontation with Thor: "I am a very particular man!" That said, I was not happy with their really weird take on Thor/Donald Blake.

Your character name: Polar Cola Man Your Global handle: @Ray Gun Are you the owner: Yes Are you the builder: Yes Your base’s name: Action Figures Base The shard it is located on: Excelsior The passcode for entry: OpenTheBox-11976 The category your base is entering under: Novice Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: just me (@Ray Gun) Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: Yes... (*inhales*) /visscale 5 recommended The Action Figures SG base began as a one-room-with-every-function base, so I've kept that focus in the main chamber, though that single room is massively expanded. There also may be copies of functions elsewhere. Exteriors are not accessible, but can be viewed from the large windows on second floor. The "Tower of Power" Plant chamber is not accessible, however, you can view it from a large observation window around the corner from its guarded entrance. Just don't bang on the glass. The attending guard doesn't like that. Before I understood that some glass items hide kinetic effects, I put up a lot of that glass. I've replaced some of it since, but please be so kind as to look around the glass to see any hidden effects. Generic statues were made part of the lore of the Action Figures SG as representing (fictional) past members and have had holo effects added to reflect their abilities. (One of these is a two-stage effect, so watch for that) Names of these characters are in gold letters on the walls near them (or a plaque in one case). There is one game lore character also honored as a former ally to the SG. Oh, and there's a tip of the hat to poet Ogden Nash. See if you can find it! The main chamber was deliberately designed for a sweeping vista. Try standing in the bottom corners and look both up and long. It was also deliberately designed to have as many kinetic effects as I could squeeze into it. I felt a base for Action Figures should have, well, action. Several functional items are disguised, and their locations have been labeled with gold lettering: ⦁ Rewards Center - pretty self-explanatory (Mimics a certain big company's delivery destination.) ⦁ Empowerment Chamber - click on the black area (I built this on a whim to mimic some of the outlandish props sold with action figures.) ⦁ Interchangeable Parts - a.k.a. enhancement storage. (Since action figures often have interchangeable parts) The rear workbench is the active area ⦁ Inspirational Corner - The 3 coins not in the fountain form the interactive spot. ⦁ Vaults - Salvage storage is behind the electrified "Clear-steel" walls, in the various safes embedded in white marble. Please note: if searching for the interactive hand cursor, some of these vaults are a bit finicky. You may have to move the cursor around a bit.) ⦁ Oroboros Aspect Pillar - I'll let you find the not-so-secret "secret". It's close to one of the zone teleporters. Bonus - Duck Hunt - (NOT essential, just done for a bit of fun for visitors) A city in my real life region has hidden several bronze mice around Main Street as a popular hunting game for visitors. I've adapted this to what is at hand. Several rubber ducks have been hidden around the base. All are visible from a walking position, though some are easier to spot than others. Color camouflage exists for a few, and a couple of ducks, though visible from a walking level, might also be spotted from a nearby elevated feature. See how many you can find! Clues: 1. A bird in hand... 2. Robber ducky 3. On the shoulders of giants 4. Wood duck likes "mugging" for the visitors 5. "Press"ed duck 6. Sitting duck 7. Lame duck 8. Duck and cover 9. A duck to water 10. Steamed duck 11. Roast duck

Was so busy working on my base I failed to see this for two days. Thanks for the notification. Jazz is definitely one of my interests, though I love older stuff like the Vince Guaraldi Trio or the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

They joined Monday, yes? How goes it?

I'd always assumed that, along with the yodeling, the chalet audio was merely a reference to Switzerland.

I sat up and took note in the last film that May was working at FEAST. It's where they first encountered Osborne. To me, it practically screamed that they were setting the groundwork for Mr. Negative, or at least Martin Li. I don't know Stephen Oyoung's physical presence onscreen, unless he did mo-cap on that Playstation game, but I very much liked his voice performance. Seems to me he really gave a good resume for doing the live-action version.

Not to get into the minefield of politics, but the current political/economical climate might very well play a large role in the bombing of this film in China.

Gwen Stacy, MJ, Felicia Hardy...sounds like Spidey is in for a love quadrangle. Gwen and Felicia are interesting characters to me. MCU MJ...meh. Not so much Zendaya, its the character I've never warmed up to, possibly because they deliberately chose to make MJ as "Michelle Jones" and not "Mary Jane Watson". I realize it is a multi-verse, but I still feel that was an underhanded move. Martin Li/Mr. Negative would be fantastic. I've only known the character from the excellent Spider-man video game, but I think he's one of the best villains for Spidey in years. Too bad Randall Park is already playing a popular MCU character. I realize he's good at comedy, but something about him makes me think he'd be great in this role. Hmm...at first I was a little put out by the idea of Harry being in yet another movie when the Spider-verse is so rich in characters. But then it occurred to me that there are two avenues to explore: 1. Harry meets Peter on the street, forms a friendship, and acts as patron to Peter's training and paying for an apartment. 2. This Peter may have a natural curiosity of who his universe's Norman Osborne is, since the other Norman was responsible for May's death. If he goes looking, he might meet Harry as a side effect. He might also find his universe's Norman beginning down the path that will lead to the Green Goblin, something he would intend to disrupt. 3. Simmons has been doing JJJ for almost a quarter-century now. The man's a trooper, but this cannot last. 4. I'll go out on a limb to say that this is not a handover movie. There's been plenty of chatter that this is the first in a new trilogy of movies (one speculation is that they'll all have "Day" in the title, like the first trilogy has "Home" in the title. It might, however, be the first in a trilogy of mentoring movies if Miles and possibly Spider-Gwen are onboard. That would dovetail nicely with Stark mentoring Spidey in his appearances through Endgame.

We get some text to the idea. I don't recall specifics, but Paragon City is a hotspot for a reason: there's some sort of supernatural force acting on it. Something like an attractant for power. It's why the CoT built their underground city in P.C. I point this out because, by implication, even other large cities will not have incredible numbers of super-powered types, more like 1 team or even 1 person as the protecting hero. Side note: This info was partial fuel for a challenge I issued back during COVID, to have players create the lore for the large Prime world. (It was a largely ignored challenge, but that's okay.) My own submission stuck with this concept of large, fictional city but only supported by one small team. I believe we also have lore suggesting the world at large was hit by the Rikti invasion, but that it was the various countries militaries that fought back, and the lion's share of the onslaught and destruction was focused on Paragon City. Lastly, I think we have some missions implying we're working with a foreign hero or villain on foreign soil, but we still use the same instance maps.

Or...it could just deal with the problem itself.

Your description sounds a lot like my experiences with the paid version of Bitdefender 15 years ago. At the time I was paying for it, the review sites were touting it as the top dog. When I finally started seeing reports that freeware anti-malware was worth having, I tried to drop the paid version at time of renewal, to switch to the free version. The mess of fighting over removal, and the cleanup of residuals where its "roots" weren't removed with it, was extensive and soured my opinion on Bitdefender. I switched, first to free AVG, then later to free Avast, and have been satisfied every since. (Though admittedly, recently, free Avast has become a bit annoying flagging "major problems" that actually are irrelevant to the anti-malware core, then pitching paid solutions to fix these.) I can't speak for elsewhere, but in my region for many years, IT departments and individuals touted Malwarebytes as the backup anti-malware. Anytime a malware question came up, they'd run the main anti-malware program, then, just to be certain it wasn't compromised and giving false readings, they'd pop in Malwarebytes and run it as well. Contracting in several of those IT departments, I followed suit, and although I've not heard this tactic in many years now, probably due to changes in corporate A/V design, I personally still maintain a free copy of MB ready to audit Avast's results, should I feel it necessary.

That and the "I want to stop and heal every scratch" witch that we have to rescue on the Katie Hannon TF.