Techwright

I'm surprised at your choice of CA:CW on the bottom of the list. I normally see it fairly high on people's lists. What drove it down on yours, if I may ask? By "Hulk 1", I assume you mean the Angst Ang Lee film? Did they even admit that one into the MCU? The storyline and tone don't seem to fit the MCU, at least not like the Ed Norton one.

Ha! Nah, it's Gurney Halleck. 😁

I've not read the Simarillion, but I stayed in a Holiday In...ah, have spent a good amount of time reading others' websites and watching videos documenting Tolkien's writings. I must agree, I don't recall ever hearing of Galadriel "decked out in full armor". That said, I've also never seen anything that says she can't be. While she was still in the Undying Lands, I'm told she was consider the second-most powerful elf, and what I do know of her Second Age experiences says she was the one elf that immediately cottoned to the idea that the Maia Annatar was not whom he claimed to be. Her warning was to prove vital to the elves carrying the rings of power. I think the point is that she had no need of armor and sword: she was among the most powerful spellcasters in Middle Earth. It would be reasonable, however, given all that she lived through in the First Age, that age when armies and dragons made the events of the Hobbit and LotR look like child's play, it would seem practical that she would be trained and skilled in warrior-style fighting. The possibility of the elves being overwhelmed was just too great. But she seems more content to move around every few hundred years and take over ruling seats vacated rather than train for war.

Ha! I accidentally posted another thread, somehow missing this one. I deleted it. The video in the OP is pretty much pretty pictures at this point but it did raise a couple of questions. To better understand Tolkien timings, I tried to put together a pretty large timeline last year, and I just referenced it to aid me in my questions: 1. When is the series set? I know it is the Second Age, but that was 3441 years (ending in Sauron having the ring cut from his hand in battle). The rings of power were forged circa S.A. 1500, but Sauron came to the elves in disguise around S.A. 1200 and began to teach them the craft that would lead to making the rings of power. So that's 3 potential time periods to select from, or perhaps span, but if so, that's 2241 years. True the elves and Sauron are pretty much immortal, but you'd have to be replacing dwarf and human characters regularly if doing the span story. 2. What is that port city in the early shot? It's clear from the statue that it is either Numenorian or that of their descendants. Numenor was settled in S.A. 0032, and settlers from Numenor began settling the coastline in S.A. 600. Numenor was sunk in S.A. 3319, so it could very well be a port city on the island. I also wondered if it might be Dol-Amroth which was settled in the Second Age, but as there's a single tall mountain in the background, I suspect the port city might be Romenna. Other possibilities? Other than that, I must say the elf who grabbed an arrow mid-flight seems just like I'd imagine an elf to be who'd had a thousand years or more to practice his craft. I'm guessing by his appearance that he's a wood elf.

I used to love hearing this theme song as a young kid. The parent units loved McCloud, and liked Columbo and McMillan & Wife. I don't remember ever hearing of Hec Ramsey, but as it was played by Richard Boone (of Paladin fame) it probably was good, though I suspect short-lived. Maybe two years ago I watched an episode of McMillan & Wife and was stunned to realize the episode was a solid 90-minutes. I'm guessing 30 minutes of commercials to accompany it. Pacing was a bit slower back then, it seems, though I didn't remember that. I suspect a good, modern editor could get a solid 60-minute cut that would keep things moving and not have to lose anything important. (Actually, I've wished this for classic Doctor Who as well. Cut out a lot of that dead space, and leave a pithy, snappy episode.)

I miss the days of seeing bovine superherds running around the City. There was always something lighthearted to see and enjoy.

I hardly consider my illusion/storm controller to be "support". More like "You poor goons are locked in in this instance with me. And me. And me. And me, me, me. STORM!" Oh, and here's my team as well. That said, I also love my ice controller, and while he IS support, and isn't so much chaos and destruction, it's terribly satisfying to freeze virtually every enemy, even the big ones, if slotted right, then let the team carve on the ice sculptures.

I've long said they need to do something to help badgers get Sally. Something like...I dunno, maybe doubling her hit points.

I thought it was a great episode and the best one with Boba in it. (Oh dear, is that a spoiler?) 😉

You surprised me, and that was a good laugh.

Would that be an Idaho spud or a good ol' Southern sweet potato? I'm pretty sure the red-skinned potatoes are too small for the job, unless you're planning on daisy-chaining them, which is tricky. It's too easy to make a hash of it.

Getting Cat Woman vibes from this, and I love it! I assume the name is a play on the well-known full-alphabet sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?

I just had a thought regarding the big reveal of episode 6. This will tap into the first season of The Bad Batch as well, so consider yourself warned:

Responding and adding additional comments:

Lee VanCleef? Interesting. I'd not considered that before. You might be seeing too much but only because there's a long history behind this episode. Okay, I didn't expect to ever have an episode get me as excited as "The Rescue" in The Mandalorian, but someone pulled out all the stop for this one. Amazing episode. I kept babbling at the screen (which I never do) to the point where a relative near me became concerned. (She's not a Star Wars fan, and as I chatted with her she asked if it was the TV show with "Baby Gouda" 🤣) Episode 6 thoughts and there's going to be big, big spoilers here: EDIT: Thought of two other small, but perhaps important details:

We do have horseshoes in the chest emblem lists. Oh, and if his biography includes the phrase "they're always after me lucky charms", I'm going to spew milk.

Who says that I don't? 😉

I found this new YouTube chat covering super powers to be hilarious.

"Does it just come out of your wrists or does it...come out of anywhere else?" - MCU Peter Parker

If there isn't, there should be. I'd probably call it "Committed". If you finish it, you probably should be... 😉 @Snarky, fantastic work, dude! A question regarding "every contact": Are you referring to only one side of Gold, or did you somehow manage to run both Resistance and Loyalist?

Has there ever been, either in the original game, or Homecoming, a "Danger Room" scenario, for lack of a better phrase? (I think there's a specific name for it in gaming, but I've forgotten it, so I'm using a comic book reference.) That is, a room or instance where players enter and the goal is not survival to an end, but survival increasingly difficult waves for as long as possible. Start with a simple level one, gradually move towards levels where the sheer number of opponents, combined with their ranking will eventually overwhelm even the best players. I'm guessing if it existed, it was probably an AE creation. I realize culling hordes is what farming is, but I gather that has been tuned for quickly dispatching scores of opponents, not a survival scenario.

I was reading old posts of mine back in the original game forums, and found a thread I'd started that, curiously, I'd been thinking about just this week, well over a decade after posting it. Weird. Anyway, I found it an interesting discussion back then so I thought I'd bring my OG post forward into the Homecoming forums just to see what people came up with this time. In-game, as well as superhero portrayals in many venues, ice powers seem to be displayed as being "pushed" from the caster to the target. Its been decades since high school science, but I seem to recall that cold was an absence of heat, that is, that heat had been drawn away. Is this correct? If so, would it not be more accurate for a ice power to create cold or ice by "pulling", parasitically drawing heat from the intended target? In essence a ice blaster would be a living, overpowered heat sink. Of course, this could cause issues if there was no easy way to dispel the received heat. An ice/fire blaster would be one solution. This is not to say that a technological solution could not push a stored, frozen mixture out. My fall in front of a snow-blower on the ski slopes taught me that much. Thoughts?

Thanks! Found it! I went under a different nom de plume back then. I'd complete forgotten about that alias. Looks like I've got a ways to go to catch up to my past self on postings.