Techwright

*Summons electrical controller* ⚡ZOT! ⚡ Okay, so I've resurrected the thread. I did so because on a Synapse TF today, one of our teammates mentioned that the lore indicated the Clockwork King's inner court of Barons, Princes, and the like, were supposed to look almost human. I did not know that. I'm assuming that the developers just never got around to creating a unique look for these, but that would have been so cool to have as a final mission look. Perhaps what was intended ended up as a prototype for the gold-side robots.

I've noticed the occasional posting of a .gif of a character in the costume thread. How is this accomplished, especially those framed close to the character, rather than the full screen? I've dabbled with many technologies, but never really looked into .gif work before. Some of my characters pictures don't really have an impact without their auras taken into account, and that will require recording, I think.

I've a beloved cornmeal & sage dressing recipe we use every year during the holidays. It is one of the three ingredients in a dynamite turkey-rice-dressing soup we make. Sadly no cornbread dressing to pass on. Doubly sad, because I'm a born Southerner, descended from Midwestern farmers. You'd think that'd be a staple in our home. And yeah, no sugar. If you want it sweet, a drizzle of honey at serving time would be the way to go.

Heard an interesting (to me anyway) theory yesterday at the office watercooler... My coworkers and I were discussing the explosion of paid internet channel services just the other day. We'd concluded that although it's a pain in the neck to deal with, the only good financial solution right now is to monthly hop: binge watch one service, cancel, jump to another service. Rinse and repeat.

Trying to figure out which 8 of mine would be my challenge. I'm guessing those with 250+ alts would have it worse. Probably: Tank: Shield/Street Justice (gaining the team-related advantages of Phalanx Fighting and Grant Cover) Corruptor: Radiation/Empathy (Primary healer with rez) Controller: Illusion/Storm (my Swiss Army Knife with something for any scenario, including being a minor teammate healer) Corrupter: Dark Blast/Dark Miasma (including good personal and minor teammate healer with battle rez) Controller: Fire/Kinetics (with leadership pool and fire mastery) Controller: Electric/Storm (end drain, ice mastery, minor healing) Controller: Ice/Cold (with ice mastery) Blaster: Energy/Energy (with knockdown slotted) -- alternate: Blaster: Fire/Ice We may not drop them right away, but we'd lock them down so hard they'd have time to let the horror of their end sink it, and be unable to do anything about it.

oh, yeah. I tend to forget the Cosmic Portal is technically a base.

While I'm not sure of the Netflix guys reasons for cancelling, all TV MCU efforts prior to Disney Plus were orphaned by Kevin Feige at some point after the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Up to that point, they'd been given advanced information to aid their writing, and keep it canon to the movie MCU. The writers for Agents of SHIELD, for example were told Thanos was coming to Earth, but big whoop, so was everyone else. They were NOT, however, told of the outcome of the Infinity War movie, and as a result had an entirely different outcome in their show, effectively creating an alternate universe. All that to say this, Feige and Co. for some reason abandoned the TV shows and wouldn't even use their characters in movie big fight sequences. So unfortunately, they're unlikely to return. That said, Disney Plus gave us the much needed 7th season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, so miracles can happen.

I'm guessing it has something to do with the game's door mechanism. I have logged out before at one zone and ended up at another, but it usually is when I log out at the Cosmic Platform, which I gather we're not permitted to reside in.

Not one, no. Three, maybe four. Energy/energy blapper (with all powers set to knockdown) Dark/dark corruptor Illusion/storm controller Martial arts/Super Reflexes scrapper

How would a GW2 dynamic event play out? I have never played it and have no reference point. Some of your description reminded me of the Fifth Column / Council war which played out in the streets for a short while, before the Council dominated.

It may seem terribly obvious, but since you're going the route stated here, you're going to want something that plays best at the very edge of the fight, so you can see all possibilities. If you create a character that performs anywhere within the outer ring of the fight, even just halfway in, and you'll likely not see all the potentials for accomplishing your goals.

Except for the boots, the pants, the belt, the shirt, the gloves, the chest emblem, the mask/glasses, the two-prong/three-prong hat, the mallet, and the color scheme...you're right! He does look a lot like your character.

I suspect what Ghost was say was to add a level cap to the zone, so any higher level characters are reduced in rank as we enter. Then the suggested badge becomes more challenging for all.

This thread is created for a discussion of possible future Marvel Cinematic Universe stories, themes, content, characters, etc. This is the MCU as a whole. Other threads will, of course, drill down to specific works, like the current WandaVision thread. Please remember to use the spoiler feature (eyeball in the toolbar) to hide any text related to recent Marvel releases, including news reports. I'd personally define "recent" as anything after July 2019, when Spiderman: Far From Home was released, ending Phase 3 of the MCU. If you've not seen content before August 2019, here is your warning that you may be spoiled by open discussion of earlier works. Please feel free to contribute new topics as well as answer posted ones. A question to start things off: The end of Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2 strongly implied that we're going to get Adam Warlock in the MCU. But the gem to which he's famously connected is no more (supposedly). How do you think they'll deal with this apparent discrepancy?

I am not familiar with that terminology, though I gather you either cannot watch it, or are having trouble watching it?

But I like my frying pans. Top of the line cast iron. Seasoned often. With lard even! Maybe Goodwill has some I can buy on the cheap. Any move? That's more than a little cheat. That's a whole lotta cheat. I could see its moves being ranked in class and a set of the lowest powered moves being available to it at 1 tick of the endurance. That's a little cheat. But if any move is available, why even bother to have an endurance meter?

How's this? Stop me if you've heard it: we get a mission to rescue a pair of plumber brothers, Marinara and Linguini. They've been attacked by giant mushrooms from the Banished Panthenon, and... oh. really? how old?

Clever

Thoughts:

A giant cephalopod threatening a cargo ship, a helicopter, and their related crews...it's the simple things in life that make it special. *props feet up* Pass the popcorn please.

It's my 30-year-old everything that I miss. 😏 Thank you for that! I'll dig into it. An excellent point, and I'd forgotten to take into account that I'd recently replaced my 12-year-old monitor. So this new one may already have some protection.

The original development team put an extensive sewer network in place, connecting it to many of the city zones, intended as something of a challenge path between zones, but I rarely, if ever hear of sweeper teams moving through the area, like we used to have in the early years. Similar to the discussion we're having regarding the Hazard Zones, what might your ideas be for invigorating interest in traveling the sewer network? As before, I'm hoping for brainstorming ideas, which means we're looking for reasonable creativity, rather than 100% feasibility right now.

That's the one! Thanks! Guess the fault was mine. I was sure it had been labeled "boom".

I was chuckling again this morning over the old CoH "bomp bomp" video posted 14 years ago by oODarkAphroditeOo and decided to go looking for the CoH "Boom" video of a similar age. That's Boom by POD. I found one uploaded by Christopher Taylor 7 years ago, but that one focuses on two characters of similar appearance, and the one I am thinking of showed several characters, and highlighted their colorful and hard-hitting powers. Does anyone else remember that video and know where to find it? A couple of search engines failed to dig it up, but they were heavily geared to YouTube. It might be tied to another video service.

Point to you. 🤣 And I did say I didn't want amber, so that takes care of gold side.lol