Techwright

There's something akin to that with a belt buckle over on Champions Online. Would love to see what you suggest brought to the game. That said, I was hoping either the removal of a cape or making it invisible would be a fairly simple task for the coding team. I suspect a belt would be a lot more work. To be fair, my alternate suggestion of a neck chain might be much more work as well, though the brooch would already be there and in position.

Might want to do the BINGO stuff a bit quieter next time. That old lady behind you had her hearing aid turned up to catch the next one, and, well, let's just say I'm glad she has a pacemaker.

"a DPS increase": First I've heard of this. I'm not a numbers guy, by far, but I'm surprised because my main since Live has been an ENG/ENG blaster, inherent KB. I'd have thought I'd have heard of it by now. I love ENG/ENG, but get highly annoyed at having to sacrifice a slot per power for KB>KD just to play with a team. My first inclination, therefore, is to welcome the Null suggestion, but I'll be open-minded and would like to know more about this DPS increase. How much, and what causes it? Just putting the Sudden Acceleration: KB to KD enhancement in? As I stated, I lean towards this, but wonder what would happen to Sudden Acceleration: KB to KD? Modified to something new or sent the way of the Dodo and the Strength of Will Inspiration?

Good call! I'd been thinking along similar lines. Apparently there are two others: Matthew and Tom. Nothing says "cannon fodder" in the Council quite like lacking a title.

Game-wise, I've always thought that if it involves a test tube, medical fluid pack, needle & bottle, etc., it's science. If it involves gears & steam, vacuum tubes, transistors, microprocessors, batteries, etc. it's likely tech. Yeah, that'd be me. I find the stun effects of the tech taser and the mutation powder to be more effective (to my style of play, at least) than the other origin items. And each of those is a non-lethal tool, should you be in a Batman-like mood, whereas poor Natural Origin players wanting to "bring 'em back alive" are given a knife. 🙄

How much technology does it take before a Natural Origin should be considered a Technological Origin? Iron-Man is pretty obvious. He's got the brilliant mind, and may have learned a few natural moves along the way, but he's almost entirely reliant on the power suit or components of it. What of Batman or Green Hornet, though? Both use tricked-out cars, and Batman has other tricked out rides as well. Batman heavily uses his utility belt and costume elements incorporating technology (which varies in the re-tellings). Green Hornet, though the number of his gizmos is fewer, uses both a special gas pellet gun and a custom "Sting", basically a heavy duty taser in either gun or rod form. Yet both are skilled hand-to-hand fighters with no modifications to their bodies (like cybernetics). Where do these considerations land them?

Considering Squirrel Girl has defeated 3 of the cosmic-level villains in Marvel: Thanos, Galactus, and Ego the Living Planet, I'm not surprised that she's "ludicrously overpowered".

Ah, sorry. I was looking at the primary pool Rock Armor and had made assumptions that all were the same when it came to customization.

not sure about completely hiding it. There's options for "minimal" in the appearance customization section of the costume generator, but that's the best available of which I know.

Not certain how practical those claws are, especially when needing to use keyboards to hack computers, but overall it is a good look. I'd love to see those kneepads added to the costume options. What character is this?

Good luck with that. I had a nice conversation years back with a printer salesman who admitted the printer companies had bought heavily into the "planned obsolescence" concept. Therefore, they actually design printers to wear out at some point after 3 years. They market them cheaper, however, because the gold is in the ink sales. He advised me (a low-level IT tech) to not buy the $400+ printers, as the same planned obsolescence applied to them. When I asked why they were even sold, then, he said they were marketed for the small office crowd, who printed more pages and from multiple desks. I hear ya about HP. From my experience, both home and as an IT tech, HP has a problem with their rollers wearing out too fast. That leaves the printer either with a very annoying squeak, possibly with sticking pages, or in need of a roller replacement, which for the home crowd often means "chuck it and buy another". I've not had a need to look at the home printers for a while, but Epson used to stand out to me because, unlike HP, you could buy individual colors for those times you use colored inks. With HP and several others, you waste ink because their tri-color packs wear out of one color faster than the other two. Epson's system allows you to fully use a color before replacement. Last I knew, they also had premium cartridges that delivered ink preventing running in case the papers got wet. Brothers were fine printers, but I've only worked with them in an office setting. I recall them having a higher up-front cost, but being more durable in the long run. I've not encountered an office one, however, in a few years, so things might have changed. PC Magazine just updated their home printers list for 2025. Because of their research and reviews, I often use them as a starting point for my own equipment research.

If those robots would actually put up a solid fight, I'd be greatly impressed. Some of the most fun I've had in other MMOs was taking on a GM-equivalent that was truly capable of dismantling a league's worth of player characters, and actively proving it. I realize 31 of those would make it either impossible or lasting hours as the players chipped away from the outer edge, but I'd still be intrigued.

Are you sure it wasn't just part of a college fraternity initiation stunt? They used to pack phone booths, but as those are a thing of the past...

Well, with the Freaks there's "Lotus.xls". The poor bloke apparently couldn't decide which office suite to bet on, and ended up with a name mostly reflecting the losing suite.

The Family are known for nicknaming their guys: Big Toe Fred, 'Spats' Malone, Johnny No-Nose (ouch), Joey 'The Shirt', Mickey 'The Magic Man' Maloney...so how "vanilla" does a poor sap have to be that the only nickname The Family can think of is Johnny 'No-Nickname'?

The Hollywood Reporter cites the same source as proof: Momoa's comment "They called." It doesn't say "They gave it to me". The wording could have meant only that dialog has been opened. Though I almost always see IMDB as a good source, it is not always accurate. I cannot cite a specific movie, as I never thought I'd have to reference this, and it has been a while at that, but I have seen movies before where someone rushes to post cast information in IMDB.com that has proven incorrect, and sometimes deliberately misleading. I'm not saying this is the case here, just that the best sources are the official studio mouthpiece, or James Gunn. Which leads to the discovery that James Gunn apparently confirmed Momoa as Lobo via X. I do not use X (or Instagram, Momoa's choice, for that matter) I've only been able to see a Lobo drawing posted to Gunn's X account. I assume this is part of that confirmation, especially with the date/time stamp. Looking forward to Momoa in action again. It's been interesting watching him develop over the years. I first encountered him in Stargate: Atlantis, where he played the strong, mostly quiet type. Aquaman had him much more vocal and animated. Lobo is going to push that over the top.

So, I shouldn't bring up the super-ventriloquism, then?

He does. Depending on how he's handled, Krypto would be equal to Ma & Pa Kent or Lois Lane: important, possibly vital to the story, but not the focus. There's a number of Krytonian elements that might be included, Krypto, Supergirl, bottled Kandor, survivors in the Phantom Zone, etc. (I believe there was even a Kryptonian monkey at one point), but I suspect @Ghost is basically saying "keep the main thing, the main thing". Be laser-focused on the one character, since his name carries the title. If enough of the Justice League and Kryptonian stuff is brought in, the movie then becomes an ensemble work, more or less, which makes having a single-character title a bit absurd. That said, I'm personally intrigued to see Krypto in live action, and wonder how they'd carve out a character that's more than just a character clone of Lassie or Rin-Tin-Tin with powers.

I agree, though consider, it's likely a matter of perspective. To the TV viewer, and a lot of folks in the 'Verse, Mal's a vigilante: prefers the peaceful route (shoot, even his ship name does double-duty as a memorial and a desire), willing, if pressed to it, to do the dirty work. To the Alliance, he's a rogue: annoying thorn in their side, but usually not worth the trouble, and after events in the movie Serenity, might even be perceived as a villain to them.

Superherohype.com lives up to its name at times, making huge hype over less-than-solid facts, but I find this one intriguing. I still think it's hype. There's no true official confirmation from Gunn or the studio actually mentioned in the article, just Jason Momoa's slightly cryptic comment, but I can definitely see him in the role. Jason Momoa "is" DCU's Lobo

I like Nicholas Hoult, or at least what works of his I've seen, so I'll give him a good chance. That said, casting for Luthor has not always been the greatest. Just putting a good actor into that role doesn't guarantee a good fit. It's too bad Jeff Bridges is too old for the role. After seeing his Obadiah Stane in Iron-Man, I think he'd have made a great Lex Luthor.

Might we get a costume option where the cape does not exist (or is completely invisible) but the brooches are available? I'm not sure about the double-shoulder brooch arrangement, but I could see several good uses for the single brooch, both centered and off-centered (shoulder). Several of the brooches have a recognizable look, such as the lightning bolt, rocket, crown, and crescent, and would provide another decorative option on their own without forcing the player to take a cape. Three other options with the suggestion: 1. Have a left-shoulder option as well as a right shoulder. 2. Have an optional neck chain for the centered brooch, so that it appears to be hanging from the neck chain. 3. If the concept is adapted, add additional recognizable shapes to the brooch list (Eagle or Eagle's head, hammer & sickle, snake, leaf(s), heraldry lion, etc.)

And combined, the costume jetpacks give a flame animation, which I've found completely sufficient to the need. That said, I'd always be open for additional costume jetpacks to reflect a variety of sci-fi styles.