Techwright

I mentioned it a while back in another thread, but I presented an idea to the art director back in the OG game, to remodel parts of some zones to be ethnic communities, such as big cities have. I suggested a Little Asia in Skyway for the Tsoo, and maybe remodel the largely-unused westside of Independence Point to have a Little Italy for the Family. Brickstown might make a good location for a few Irish pubs, and the side areas of Steel might have room for a German community. Likely there are other good group fits.

We're about to get a whole lot more of Vision, with the MCU's streaming "WandaVision". I've a fair guess as to story plot. What I can't figure out is how much of the actual character of Vision will be on display. I assume you're referring to the DC/Marvel fight over the Captain Marvel name. Not hating but I'd point out that Marvel Comics, in their effort pound the dead horse that is their company name, have also created a Ms. Marvel that isn't Carol: Kamala Khan. Agreed regarding the Mandarin. Fortunately, the Marvel One-Shot "All Hail The King" made it clear that neither character who claimed to be the Mandarin was in fact the real thing. We'll get to see him, hopefully soon in the upcoming "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"

I'm pretty sure the allotments are due to Barclay's position in Starfleet. Whether that is due to power rationing, such as was necessary on Voyager, or just Starfleet's way of making sure their crews stay mentally healthy, I'm not sure. As to Quark's holosuites...well, he's Ferengi. Of course he charges. That said, it's been noted that DS9 is on the edge of Federation space, and money is still very much a thing anywhere but in the heart of the Federation. In there, you have this nebulously explained concept of no money. People just willingly work, and take in proper proportion. Roddenberry had a lot of faith in humanity, and in wrinkled-foreheaded human-like beings everywhere. I rather think if there's a limitation to holodeck usage, it's not currency, it'd be social pressure. If you weren't in Starfleet, they'd simply monitor your usage and apply increasing pressure to get you to go outside. Post-Dominion War sounds good, so long as you're nowhere galactically near the Hobus Supernova. Replicator technology is so good, you can create just about anything. I was going to say integrate me on the planet of artists that is now a protectorate, so I can train in art, but I think now I'd rather be dropped off to live with the Ba'Ku on their adopted, life-extending homeworld. Little to no tech, to be sure, but an honest, rewarding living, with time to heal from age and disease, and then spend several lifetimes learning skill after skill in-depth. Since many of those skills are arts & crafts based, I get my art training in the end.

Considering the timeline Director Shaw is in, that would be crazy fun. Wait, does this mean he gets to recruit and train that timeline's Nick Fury? The result would be bizarre.

I'm not terribly surprised. I've been saying for some time now that it is an unsustainable model for every Tom, Dick, and Harry to have their own paid-access streaming service. Just how many of these do they think the average subscriber can sustain? What needs to happen is something like the old cable service model, where all these highly-specialized streaming services become "channels" in a few single-pay collective streaming services. So we get the equivalent of a Time-Warner, Comcast, Spectrum, etc., but unlike their continued market monopoly, You'd have a choice, and might be able to handle two a month. Netflix, Disney-Hulu, and Amazon seem the best positioned to become the foundations for these collective services. That said, I'm not sure the pubic is ready to go back to a whopping cable bill-equivalent every month. They might have to create something like a smaller package deal: pick x number of channels with option to rotate per quarter, or some such.

Looks quite relaxing.

What power sets, or even archetypes, are not in the game, for whatever reasons, but are represented by at least 2 different comic book characters? (not necessarily just Marvel and DC) I can think of two, so far: 1.) chain fighting - Ghost Rider, Spawn (maybe others. Lobo, perhaps?) 2.) water melee, for lack of a better term - water empowering physical strength- Aquaman, Namor

That is rather eerie. I'd been thinking about that very area as my next target in world-building. I'll defer to you, if you have something. The world's a big place after all.

I realize I might be alone in my opinion, but I always saw zany Fusionette as what Harley Quinn might have been had she never been corrupted and instead been a heroic energy blaster. Maybe a tad less aggressive, though the Ritki currently carpeting that street over there might disagree. That's the original, animated Harley Quinn mind you.

That would be the Seal of Approval? Pretty sure my OP is toast. This thread has gotten on the rabbit trail of the off-beaten path.

Okay, 1. Wider, taller blue caves. Most everyone hates them. I get that they create choke points and inhibit travel powers, but it makes navigating them a mess, particularly for our tall characters, especially if one has pulled the 3rd party camera view back a little. Even with the camera closer in, it's virtually impossible to see the fight with characters stuffed in so tight and power light show effects going everywhere. 2. I'd consider something to facilitate moving to the west side of Independence Point. Either a tram station in the center, or possibly a hydrofoil ferry from the east side. Currently it's generally ignored if you don't have a specific mission or Lusca fight to that side. I'd even be willing to consider moving the south tram from east to west, and perhaps a bit more north. Those needing a tram on the southeast are not terribly far from the Bricks tram. 3. Find something interactive to balance out the northeast sea corner (past the islands) and the south-southwest broken land corner of Talos Island. These feel like vastly wasted space and out of balance with the other parts of Talos from an interactive interest standpoint. (Yeah, I know there's a few NPCs hanging around on the broken land, but those, and a single badge marker are the only things over there.) These might be locations for field boss fights, not unlike WoW's Hogger and company, or perhaps Scrapyard in our own game would be more comparative. We could use another water giant monster besides Lusca (I'm not counting Sally). Maybe the spawn of Chimera? I'd likewise be all for a water event that starts with a hole being blown into the side of the war wall, and a swarm of gunboats fight their way through towards a designated target, let's say modern pirates trying to attack the transport ship sitting dead in the water (the one with the badge marker on it). Hey, I can dream! And just one in the visual category: destroyed skyscrapers do not generally look like tilted, toppled, broken Jenga tower blocks. Boomtown needs to visually look a bit more realistic to our post 9/11 understandings.

And then there's that oft-referenced NPC gang member holding an opponent down and repeatedly punching him below the belt line. I think they corrected that one, however. Anyone remember the glitch that allowed giant, bizarrely distorted figures? I used to see player avatars hanging around Atlas that way.

You were 29. I'm guessing most reasonable folk realize the cost for a 29 to gear out with KB-to-KD enhancements, at least without a level 50 sugar daddy, and were happy to accommodate. That or you're really great at targeting your KB attacks towards close, hard surfaces. Glad to hear there's still great PUG teammates out there.

Premiers of "The Six Million Dollar Man" (after 3 TV movies), "Little House On The Prairie", "Happy Days", "Barney Miller" (referenced in game), "The Rockford Files", "Good Times" (Dyn-o-MITE!), "Police Woman", "Shazam!", "Land of the Lost", and "Space Battleship Yamato". Likely a few others, too. Yeah, I'd say 1974 was a magnificent year if you were a kid. Not so much if you were old enough that you were still in Vietnam...or your name was "Richard Milhous Nixon". I'll settle for my red down vest jacket, double shirts, and first edition Air Jordans, thank you. "Series." Brits don't use the term "season".

I've never seen my user's guide, but I'm a guy so unless it was written in sanskrit, how hard could it have been? Probably a single page that read: Meat and potatoes. No salad until 45. Sports until 25. Video games forever.

Real World location: Cairo, Illinois, USA, site of the merger of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers Fictional Paragon City Universe (PCU) location: Future City, Illinois, USA Brief summation: Size: roughly that of Manhattan Island, New York Population: (Metro stat area) 750,000+, and increasing Notable business: shipping/logistics, communications, network technologies, software design Notable persons: Defiance (hero supergroup) headed by Mound Builder & Rushing Water New Madrid (presumed vigilante) Evergreen (rogue supergroup) headed by Doria N. Jung and Willis Evermoore The Finks (villain supergroup) headed by Big Mike Extended history and description: Map zone details:

For fun, I'd like to issue a challenge to all forumites: build the greater Paragon City world. What might your choice (or choices) of game expansions to other parts of the fictional world look like? The level of detail is for you to decide. I'll post the first one, which I've been working on for a while, so don't feel you have to create sometime so massive, but it might be nice. Guidelines (not requirements): 1. Pick a spot anywhere in the real world. It does not have to be a city. It could be a national park, a wilderness, desert, mythical landmass or even the deep ocean (Rogue Islands, for example, are a mythical landmass that occupy a space that's pure ocean in the real world.) IMPORTANT: When you've picked a location, you may want to put a placeholder in the thread with the real world location, and fictional location name so that others don't duplicate your effort. 2. Imagine what would occupy that spot in the Paragon City universe. Try to see it organically. That is, try to imagine how it came to be; why people would be there, and most especially, how it diverged from the real world location. Is it located in a spot that might have been found and settled by explorers, but wasn't, or perhaps failed? Is it an island that never developed? Or possibly an area that no one ever tried? Is it a national park that doesn't exist in our real world? Etc, etc. 3. Try to imagine its growth and history. Paragon City has a fairly deep historical mythology as example. What might your choice of place look like, and how did it change as time progressed? 4. Try to create a fictional map of the area. Think of it in terms of what it might look like if the game created it as a new expansion. You'll probably wish to have zones with their own descriptions, though nothing here is a requirement. 5. Add some real details. To add a feel of authenticity, whenever possible, do a little reading on your choice of real-world area, and try to incorporate real bits of the area's history into your story. This will make it feel more like a divergent timeline or parallel universe rather than something created whole cloth. 6. Try to use parts of the real world map, whenever possible, in your map creation. Like in the previous point, this will give the feel of a parallel universe or divergent timeline, rather than made from nothing. Of course, something made from nothing can work. The Rogue Islands are again the poster example of this. It may be that you'll want to create a peninsula or rechart a river, etc. 7. Populate your area. Who might your game characters meet if they were to visit this part of the world? Note that it might be sparsely populated (like a ranger in a forest), or populated by something other than human. OF SPECIAL NOTE: Please keep in mind these creations are all a work of fiction. Some of these might actually coincide with home locations of players, or places they have a past connection to. Please do not take insult with the fictional creations should your area come up. It also stands to reason that no one should create deliberate insults to a target area, either.

It was the "Devil in the Dark" episode that did it for me.

Apologies, I'm not familiar with this term. I know the standard mule in an MMO, I've even had a few, but what's the "gambler" adjective bring to it?

I didn't encounter the original Star Trek game until my best friend got his Commodore 64. 5 minutes for the tape drive to load it up. Was it an Atari 400 or 800? I used to be a mall rat/arcade rat, and once I used up all my quarters at Aladdin's Castle, I'd head over to VideoConcepts in hopes some friendly store attendant would let me play the demo games on 400's and 800's when customers weren't shopping for them. Bad cat allergies, here too, but yeah, dog-like cats sound wonderful. We raised many dogs, and SC soil is clay. I never could seem to dig deep enough to satisfy Dad, even though I exhausted and trying to break through a lower layer of clay as hard as bedrock. We eventually switched to cremating our dogs and burying the ashes. Much easier on the back, and surprisingly, less grief since we were not struggling with the body. Depends. And by that I mean we may need to pack some if we're on a long task force. Now name all the Three Stooges. 1) Those were a bit late in my sugar cereal-overloaded Saturday mornings. I'm remembering the premier of Scooby Doo, Where Are You!...the FIRST Scooby Doo (as I'm sure many others are). Saturday mornings were something like 50% Hanna-Barbera, 40% Krofft, and 10% Filmation. Want a trivia question? What was the secret of "Big John, Little John"? 2) Wendy, Marvin, and Wonderdog. I didn't really care for either trio, but at least the Wonder Twins made a certain sense as to why they were hanging out at the Hall of Justice. I really just wanted them to make The Flash a permanent character, rather than just a guest star. I've never figured out why they never had Martian Manhunter, since he's considered critical to the team roster ever since (except the Joss Whedon movie) 3) For us, it was the dragon. My school had bought a Gimix mainframe to teach the first computer classes, and after we finished homework, 20 of the guys and I would all be playing Adventure. We were stumped for 2 weeks on the trick of removing the sleeping dragon from on top of the Persian rug. After so long, one of the guys cracked, and in rage typed, yelling "Kill Dragon!" The game got snippy with him, and when he retorted, it congratulated him on killing the dragon. Everyone was in shock, and laughed about it for a very long time. 4) Dad had a very large 8-track, cassette, and record collection, maybe around 1200 pieces. He even had reel-to-reel from the 60's, though I wasn't allowed to touch that. I remember The Phoenix. Considering the show lasted 1 month, I'm kinda surprised I do. Even Manimal the next year lasted longer. When I saw Wrath of Khan, I remember thinking about Joaquim, "Hey, that's Phoenix!" There have also been references to the early Superfriends in the animated show Young Justice. The gang have friendly classmates named Marvin and Wendy. I think they had a dog, too, though I don't recall for sure.

I feel your pain. Hopefully your cat is not of the Maine Coon breed. I should have been much slimmer and more athletic at 53 (my brother, at 50, is an Iron Man competitor), but after 24 years and 5 back injuries (3 hits to my cars, 2 work injuries) the doctors are just trying to keep me going. I've had major back and headaches ever since, leading to a more sedentary lifestyle due to pain.

Really sorry to hear the artist didn't deliver on the quality of the statue. I always hate hearing that after a community invests so much into its creation. I recall a story where a Lucille Ball statue was considered hideous and not representative of the actress at all. Shame. If this Chadwick Boseman statue becomes a reality, though we have a lot of great statues by various artists in the region, I'm kind of hoping they pick local artist, Doug Young, with whom I am acquainted. You can see some of his regional sculptures on his web homepage linked below. When Doug created the very popular Shoeless Joe Jackson statue for Joe's hometown, Doug invited the public to join him in physically carving the clay model that would be used, creating a very real connection for the public. I think it would be great for the citizen of Anderson to have a similar participation in any statue of Boseman. https://dougyoungstudios.com/

1st gen video gamer. (unless you count mainframe games like Bertie the Brain, Spacewar! or the first Star Trek game) Played the Pong coin-op cocktail table game in Spring 1974, and the Magnavox Odyssey console at a kid's club I attended. 1st kid on the block to own an Atari 2600, which I still have with about 40 games, and it still works (though not currently hooked up). mid-range of y'all at 53. AARP thinks I'm old, though.

Only if they'll promise us that we'll someday have an option to swap our our MM ninjas with sushi-eating penguin ninjas...with attitude.

Maybe a bit too geeky. Like Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as the Lone Ranger & Tonto, Chad may forever be associated with the Black Panther, true. But though it may be his biggest box office and splashiest part, he's also known for other inspirational roles, like playing the role of real-life inspiration Jackie Robinson in "42". Perhaps a skilled sculptor can find the way to capture his acting wardrobes placed around his likeness.