Techwright

That can't possibly be an Arachnos base. You can see more than 2 meters in any direction. 😉

Waiting for New Rockstars' breakdown predicting a Mephisto appearance. 😉 As to some of the names you brought up:

Gorilla my Dreams is a hilarious name! Me, personally, for character screen and other shots, I use a free tool called Greenshot. It's easy to install, and the default usage button is my keyboard's prnt scr button. Greenshot lets me freeze-frame the screen, then do a cutout of any part I'd prefer to save. It then gives me a menu of options where to put the image. My only irritant on Greenshot is that, for reasons I don't fully understand, it sometimes doesn't load, but I just go over to the Windows Start menu and find it under "G".

Does the whale sport a red jacket with big shoulders? 😉 Nice references!

Chicken: Nashville Hot - fire blaster A-Jax Rabbit: sword-and- board brute Also add turkeys, quail, and donkeys to the mix.

Forgot to mention sheep and goats. How could I forget those? Sheep: Ramjet - flying streetfighter brute EDIT: goose - Down-ton Abbess - empathic healer

Too bad one cannot import bases to be used as mission maps. Dacy posted one the owner named "Karma" that would be perfect for Sicily street fighting

Just for kicks, let's have some naming fun. The game has been well-known for bovine supergroups, and with them, the fun pun names. Here's the request: hypothetically speaking, lets assume a game expansion allows for constructing other barnyard animals. Horses, chickens, geese, ducks, pigs, llamas, mules, shoot even rats (there are enough of them on a farm). You may pull up an animal I've not mentioned. What fun names can you come up with for them? (Let's leave the cows and the cats alone for now. They've been used often in-game already.) Starting it off: Horse: Nay-gative Nellie, dark/electrical Rat: Ratty Bumpo, rifle blaster Pig: Fork Pork, trident wielder (although, I'm a bit partial to "Fork Tender") Duck: Duck Call, sonic blaster

All pics, very nice! I'd not even seen the name, just the first pic, and I immediately thought "Royal Flush Gang". The image communicates very well.

Sounds like my kind of fun. I am, though, still waiting for the day when Mender Silos and Ouroboros decide its time to do something about the Midnighters' "incursions" into the past. THAT would be an event.

Having fun with it but, no, no trolling. Genuinely curious what the alternative might be. Is a coffee shop, for example, really better than a bar, if they all just stand around and talk? I don't RP myself, though I've watched it happening for years. Maybe I've just been standing in the wrong spots, but it really seems like some activity should be in order. Hence my half-jesting mini golf, duck pin bowling, and axe-throwing halls.

You're right. I'd forgotten the Ultimate Strange episode came first. If it is that Ultimate Strange, I've got a lot of questions, starting with, how did he end as a good guy guarding possibly the most important McGuffin in the MCU and suddenly show up in live action as what appears to be a bad guy? I know Hayley is probably the biggest fan of of the Captain Carter concept and has clearly expressed an interest in playing such in live action. Here's hoping for at least a cameo.

Just to be clear, is it the color of the first attack, or is it perhaps tied to an aura? I ask because I deliberately set my energy blaster with an activated aura set to the fists. The fists stay the color that I associated to the aura regardless of what color I make the energy blasts. I could even tap brawl, which has no color setting, and it would trigger the fist lighting.

I'd be all for a 1920s/30s/40s Dieselpunk/Pulp reskinning, possibly done as an added "zone" using time travel. Imagine a 1930-ish Steel Canyon with a strong Art Deco reskinning, maybe a zeppelin floating overhead, and period cars driving around. Neon lights illuminate the night, highlighting theaters, diners, and noir-fueling dives. Maybe add to the already present, if somewhat limited, costume elements related to that genre. Reskin zone borders to remove the war walls. Sure, you'll still need to move from zone to zone with a loading pause, but it would be more like crossing zones in Praetoria. So re-skin to a miniature golf course? duck pin alley? Axe throwing hall? laundromat with a Starbucks? Which is weird considering entertainment-wise, superhero movies represent 10 of the top 25 highest grossing movie slots (and #26 is a superhero movie, too). You'd think there'd be a strong interest in them in MMOs.

Yes but does he smell sweet? 😉 (Great musical, btw. Howard Keel always gave an amazing performance.)

True, but if you look closely, you'll find there's a lovely assortment of mixed nuts in this thread.

I was unemployed most of 2014. I downloaded a copy of Civ II and played to ridiculous amounts. Graphics weren't great but I loved everything else except the AI when making political decisions. VI is somewhat better at that, though still not great. I got annoyed with the religion elements for an entirely different reason. I'd get a nation with no religion to completely accept my religion, then bam, religious culture bomb, in one turn, the capital completely converts to a new religion, and converts 50%, sometimes more, of all the closest cities in the nation. Wiping out all the hard work on a whim is more than a little off-putting. There should at least be a build-up period before a culture bomb. If you're going to ignore the religion aspect, it sounds like a perfect time to play the Kongo. They're not permitted to have their own religion and have to work with whatever comes their way. Yeah, too many city-states. I'd rather have an option to fully absorb one or two of them once I've completely won them over. For now, I set the start bar lower. Speaking of "absorb", I'm greatly annoyed that I cannot merge settlers into other cities. It was a key tactic in Civ II and III for bleeding off overcrowding, and rapidly growing a new city. Besides, it is completely normal in the real world. I also despise that I cannot obliterate the starting capitals of the other empires. That is unnatural.

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Rule of Acquisition #82: The flimsier the product, the higher the price. (Or in this case, the more money it moves.) Sounds like someone studied the Ferengi. Rule of Acquisition #219: Possession is eleven-tenths of the law! (Sorry, couldn't disengage from the list fast enough. 😁)

So based on a smattering of chatterings around the web, is this production introducing the Marvel version of the Olympians? I've been wondering for a while if they'd ever introduce Marvel's Hercules to the MCU. Strong like Thor, less control and common sense. I was also wondering because a certain chain exercise looked like a very old Titan was an unwilling participant. Made me think of Prometheus with a bad outcome. (Or perhaps a good outcome. Sure beats getting your ever-growing liver ripped out by carrion birds every day.)

Well, they did put out a warning some time back that this would be MCU's first true horror movie. (Though the What If...? zombie episode was probably the first horror production in the MCU.) That said, it doesn't feel like zombie Baba Yaga. The clothes are in great shape other than what's smeared on them, and Wanda looks mostly intact. That's not to say we're not witnessing yet another terrifying version of Wanda, something worse for not having the quantum plague.

Currently playing the snot out of Civilization VI, which is weird because I find the game, except for graphics and slightly better AI, to be inferior to Civ III, which I dearly loved. Unfortunately, Civ III is not compatible with Windows 10, and I'd have to virtualize a copy of Windows XP to get the game running again.

Those that have been commenting about their love of Monopoly might want to check out the predecessor game The Landlord's Game. Rumor is that there's a crowdsourcing going on to revive and publish the game. I learned of this when I took my elderly Mom back to her hometown of Macomb, IL a few weeks ago. The city limits sign said it was the hometown of the creator of Monopoly, Elizabeth J. Magie (later Phillips). This puzzled me, and I launched into a search that revealed that "Lizzie" did indeed create The Landlord's Game, with a testing model in 1903 and a patent in 1904 (A second patent for a revision came in 1924.), three decades before Monopoly. The game ended up selling in both Britain and England for years before Charles Darrow showed up at Parker Brothers to hawk a game he "invented". It's been demonstrated that his version was so similar that it had to have been a theft of her intellectual property. Regardless, Parker Brothers bought the rights to both Monopoly and The Landlord's Game, so legalities became a moot point. The Landlord's Game was originally created to explain through playing the basic concepts of Georgism, an economic ideology.

Just when it was getting good, too. There's an old 1980s show, Otherworld...only lasted 6 episodes or so. Probably the highlight was Mark Lenard (original Sarek on Star Trek) playing a villainous military commander one episode. The premise was that a family got "off the rails" on a tour of Eqypt in their Earth and stumbled upon a chamber hiding a portal to a parallel universe. Entrance to the chamber triggered the portal. Arriving, they found a parallel Earth ruled by a fascist-like government, about 75 to 100 years more advanced than their Earth. They also heard rumors of ancient markers showing a path that men from another world used find another portal to return to their homeworld, richer and with knowledge that they used to conquer and rule. The family realizes this must be how a certain ruling dynasties came to be in their own world, and that the path is probably their way home, too. They set out to discover the path then follow it crossing zones (the government isolated people to zones, requiring special passes to travel between them) and realizing they'll have to learn an advanced technology and different cultural concepts in order to blend in and survive. Pretty cool concept, just never given the chance to build an audience. In light of cancellation, it's pretty easy to assume the family was eventually captured or destroyed. (I do hope someone will reboot the concept someday.)