Techwright

I didn't know I needed to hear this Vincent Price bit on the aftermath of Thriller:

That's practically a job ad tailored for player Samuraiko from the OG game. And, yes, with editing, it can be done. Some of the music videos done in the original game definitely captured the energy of the game.

The local Asian food restaurant scene certainly has the same thought. In the absence of 98% of all other restaurants, they've been doing a booming business on Christmas Day for years.

Your description reminds me of that scene in Back to the Future III where Marty eats rabbit at his ancestors' table and keeps biting down on buckshot pellets.

So, by now everyone knows that this show is a show-in-a show, and the real life actors are playing fictional actors remaking a Wonder Man movie. Apparently, the real-life cast has been having fun making promotionals in-character as the fictional actors. Here's a couple of these from the Marvel Entertainment YouTube channel. I about lost it when I realized they were doing a send-up of all the crazy, irrelevant things interviewers put actors through.

To be fair, the set's very existence screams "fireworks" which, of course, are bright colors, but yes, some self-restraint on the part of the creators would be good. Would that there were some sort of warning pop-up in the costume creator that would caution against making extreme color choices for those powers. like bubbles. that can blind other players. Even better (but probably a pain to code), empower the other players with a shut-off button specific to each person on the team/league. Hey, one can wish.

Not yet, but he got 3 in tight succession just by following orders to investigate a tunnel and accidentally stumbling into the Malta Group's birthday party for Gyrfalcon. Those guys have no chill.

Do you have this delay on any other character you play (not necessarily a dominator)? I'm only asking to eliminate the possibility of ISP and transmittal speeds. I had an issue not unlike that in years past, and it was related to some sort mess-up by my cable company that another technician discovered. Probably not it, but figured I'd at least point it out for consideration.

I have to ask: has anyone here actually eaten goose for the holidays? Maybe it is a European thing still, but I've never seen it in any grocery around here in the American South, or in Indiana when I lived there for 3 winters. Perhaps it is only sold in high-end, boutique butcher shops, and thus I've never seen one. I've wondered a few times why it is no longer a readily available meat and an alternate to turkey during the holidays.

I'll second that. Here's my character "The Walking Red". Notice on Power Shield I'm using some pretty dark colors, and I could have gone darker had I wanted to. For the character, it's reached the level of appearance I desired: enough to see the shield, not so much as to block the character's visuals. I suspect your real challenge, fxds, will be Overload. I deliberately chose a medium and brighter color to make it sparkle, but even with experimenting with very dark colors, it's many-circle spectrum glow will still show through.

I suppose it depends on what origin you may be focused on. A great many of the magic users, for example, could probably do the kinetic drain-and-buff allies shtick if they chose to focus on it. From a technology standpoint, there's probably some version of Marvel's The Mandarin that could do it, although absorption would probably be done by one ring and buffing via another. As there's been different rings at different times, I'm not sure of an exact arrangement. In the TV show, The Flash, speedsters have been shown to temporarily grant a bit of their power to enhance others, and at least on one occasion, a speedster siphoned off power from another, but I usually saw this as a physical contact scenario, and I don't recall if it was ever shown at range. And also, in that lore, two speedsters occupying an identical time, essentially siphon Speed Force off of each other at distance, but that's not quite the same thing. Stone Armor: It's a minor character in a single movie, but in Sky High, there's a student with the ability to cover himself in rock armor. He's seen briefly going into armor mode to protect himself from a dropped car. In the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2, Star-Lord and Ego both cover their forms in rock armor to attack one another. Quill's was adapted to look like a giant Pac-Man. I have a suspicion that Terra, from DC Comics and associated with the Titans (Teen Titans), with her manipulation of earth and rock, might have used it as armor at some point, though I've not seen enough of her appearances to say that definitively.

@arcane is probably correct. The team that put Homecoming on the map had to go through a lengthy negotiation with NCSoft, and the settled arrangement that gave Homecoming the official nod of acceptance included some details which are apparently not for the eyes of the general public. There's also the matter of how the advertising would be paid for. They're allowed to raise voluntary funds to pay for the servers and such, but I doubt that includes funds for promotional materials. That said, we do get publicity from time to time as game sites still like to talk about Homecoming, and players are now permitted to stream gaming and publish videos. I think one of the tricky challenges is trying to reach the fans of the original game. We still have fans trickling in stating that they'd no idea the game was back. I was lucky enough to have a coworker inform me back in 2019 soon after the news broke. I'd be deeply saddened if the information circles I ran in didn't clue me in for 6 years. But it is what it is.

Great reference! But they're about to get a public library. (Obscure reference)

Oh, man, I used to play the MMO a lot, but it burned me out on all the ridiculous running here and there. That, and there was a perpetual bug that kept one of the Jedi story arcs from receiving its full rewards for completion. I was very annoyed when I completed said arc and...nothing... only to read up and discover the bug had been active for years at that point. It just struck me as very sloppy management. Yes, the stories were great. I loved playing the Sith sorc as an "impure" alien grudgingly admitted to the bigoted ranks, and then choosing all the answers that basically said he was allowing the order to train him but it would be a frozen day in Mustafar before he would willingly embrace their brainwash. As to the trailer posted in this thread: what was the point? I was impressed with the graphics, sure, but as one who only dabbled in the opening chapters of KOTOR 1, I've no idea what's going on. I can't even tell what the big bad Eldritch horror is in the orange pea soup. Bor Gullet? Or is that something that would be instantly recognized by those who fully played the first two KOTOR, despite being sketchy in detail at best?

I've not been to the local cinemas in quite a while. I drove by one of them this weekend, and was surprised to see the ticket box deserted and a sign in the window saying to go to the snacks counter to buy your tickets. That was the way they handled survival during the COVID years, but now, 3 years out...that's not looking so good. I've been wondering if maybe a split in the cinema experience might preserve at least some of the classic version of it. A rise in "small town" cinemas, 1 or 2 screens, and only showing low-budget movies. Not necessarily all indies, but a deliberate move away from the blockbuster budgets and back towards well-crafted fare on a tight budget. Something like the sleeper hit from 23 years ago, My Big Fat Greek Wedding: US$5million to make, with a "worldwide box office [of] 75.0 times production budget." Admittedly "sleeper" defines the unexpected, but make a studied effort to go that route. Eh...it's just a thought.

I do, too. With Odo showing the Founders a new direction, and with Sisko among the Wormhole Aliens, a deeper exploration of the Delta Quadrant is an obvious choice for the Federation. I've stated in other posts an interest in seeing a deeper exploration of all four quadrants, or even a nearby/intersecting dwarf galaxy. They could team with Romulan survivors to find new habitable worlds for the Romulans, trace the scope of the Progenitors' society, or delve into the secrets of the galactic empires that preceded the Progenitors, I think the point my subconscious is making to me is that we need to get back to the wonder of deep space exploration, rather than create the next soap opera, the next great war, or Trek: 90210. On this point we agree, but I would point out that sometimes the only way to jettison the rubbish that degrades canon in a sci-fi or fantasy show, is to have an event that creates a wipe or reset. So I'm not entirely opposed to an alternate timeline, though I think I'd rather it happen due to meddling with the Guardian of Forever, than to add anything not seen in the canon of the original 4 series.

Not real keen on the merger, but setting that aside, why would they axe Gunn, and thereby essentially topple the whole revitalization attempt from the DC movie dept.? That would be akin to dismissing the new coach of a previously-struggling major league sports team, after he's had the first victories in rebuilding the team.

Very surprised to read this. I was thinking about him this weekend. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa passed away Friday, Dec. 5 of complications from a stroke. He was 75. Best known for his villainous role in the Mortal Combat movie and related productions, Tagawa was actually in several other productions that had comic culture ties. These include additional villains in the live-action The Phantom of the 1990s, and the animated Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. He voiced the heroic father character of Mandalorian Sabine Wren in Star Wars: Rebels and another animated villain in Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo. Back on the live action and heroic side, I enjoyed his performances as a detective in the mid-1990s series Nash Bridges, and as one of the colonists struggling to survive in the Netflix version of Lost In Space. His list of guest roles is quite long, so there's bound to be something people like that I failed to report. EDIT: Oh, yes! He was one of the gorillas in the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes. Say what you will of that movie, but the training the actors went through to deliver a credible simian performance was remarkable.

I am assuming you are referring to Marvel Cosmic Invasion and not just Cosmic Invasion? There are two distinct games on Steam. I'm also assume a PC platform?

I'd watch him in a romantic lead, or in any Shakespearean role, for that matter. I'm certain the man has range. Now that the Bond franchise is being rebooted, I think Isaacs would make a fine M, or...if it is a young Bond, Isaacs might be interesting as that exceptionally rare entity: a 00 that made it to retirement, and could serve, for at least one movie, as something of a mentor to the younger Bond.

Hear, hear! Perhaps Isaacs was unavailable, but I was mightily miffed at the recasting, and the retooling of the character. and redesigning the cranium of the character to look squat and more like an American Football helmet than the elongated skull of every character ever shown of that species was just a lazy dialed-it-in job from the prosthetics department. And I'm insanely jealous that you've run into Mr. Isaacs.

Hmm...I've not done this for a while, but I put my answers in orange and placed them in the hidden box.

Tony Stark built that in a cave! With a box of scraps!

*Waves fingers* This is not the confidence I am looking for. I'm very much of the opinion that OWK was a mixed bag. It broke canon at times, it broke logic at others, had a very annoying, 1-dimensional secondary villain, and it destroyed a very cool character that Rebels had forged well. But it redeemed Hayden in fandom's eyes, gave Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse a chance to shine, and introduced us to Vivien Blair, a little girl with great acting potential. I would give it a 50%, but I'm fine with the 61% that Rotten Tomatoes records from the fans.

That's 7 minutes of dialog that should have been pared down to 1.5 minutes. I'm thrilled to hear there's another Stargate coming. I'm thrilled to learn that it will NOT be a reboot, but its own story, its own continuation of the overall story. There's so many things it could move forward or tie up from the other three series, such as: how does Atlantis play into the Stargate of today? Has it been moved back to its galaxy, or is it still being studied and kept in reserve here on Earth for defense? And have the SG scientists finally cracked how to recharge the batteries? I've said it before, but I'll say it again. When people complained that the Ori stories were a step down from Goa'uld stories, and the gift of the Asgardian technology basically eliminated all remaining threat to Earth from the galaxy, I suggested that a new show be focused on a rogue faction of Goa'uld be returning to the Milky Way in power. Everything about them should be a ramp-up on the Ra gang, as the rogues reason for leaving was to find and steal technologies in distant areas that would allow them to overthrow Ra, challenge the Asgardians, and make the rogues the ultimate power in the Milky Way. Instead, with the tech they needed in hand, they find Ra's gang wiped out, their slaves freed, the Asgardians gone, and their technology in the hands of Earth, Tok'Ra, and their allies. This levels the playing field, if not tipping the balance towards the Goa'uld again, and gives us the classic fight that so many loved. I'd be interested to see just what threat or threats they create for this new series that can measure up to Earth's resilience and inventiveness with both Ancient and Asgardian technologies to empower Earth. My big concern is that this is an Amazon Prime project. Amazon does not have a good track record with appropriately and accurately handling the canon of established works in their own interpretations.