Techwright

Might want to double-check your picture settings. At least for my computer, I'm not seeing anything when clicking the links.

"Riot of color" is a pretty good description, and yes, that'd definitely similar to what I did. My choices were made by seeing which colors seemed to enhance the glow of the partner color. Some of the choices look weird, perhaps even dull or dark, but change when combined with a specific power's look bringing out their luminosity.

I do that constantly. I find it very healthy. Some things I've done when I tire with the leveling grind: 1. Review my characters to see what they're lacking. I'm always surprised when I find out a long-played character hasn't got all the badges for Drowning In Blood, for example, and it's a relatively quick trial to run. 2. Shuffle characters not being played to each of the Day Job locations to be earning badges and benefits while you're elsewhere (including playing another game). 3. Maintain a gold-side character. Don't rush him up the security rank/threat ladder. Instead, be willing to turn off XP for long chunks of time in order to fully complete contact story arcs, getting a fuller feel for the Praetorian story. I don't play my gold-side character constantly, just a mission or two at a time. It's like eating fine-quality chocolate: something to be savored, not rushed. 4. Try an AE arc 5. Look for the lesser done content and invite a team. Examples: the Zig prisoner breakout on the streets of Brickstown, getting your gold badge on the ski slopes, doing the "Who Will Die?" story arc (but perhaps just a contact per session), the gold-side trial (which name I can never remember) which runs very quickly, hourly, but nobody seems to remember. I ran all my first 15 or so characters through this when some kind soul took a few weeks to invite teams to it hourly. 6. Work on getting enhancement sets for your characters, including those under 50. There are folks who spend hours with the Mids Reborn Hero Designer. I personally don't have the time for that, so I research what I can and add enhancements sets in as I can. One day l'll have a completely tricked-out character, but I'm in no rush.

I've always enjoyed tinkering with the light aspects of my character Lumineon (currently a radiation blast/energy sentinel). I've previously brought up both the original game character's look and changes to him (see the linked info), but I've never previously taken his costume development in a radically different direction. For his newest costume, I decided to go a minimalist route. Unfortunately, that required jettisoning the neon and black-light mimicry attempts of his previous two costumes, as these were highly depend on specific costume pieces that didn't work with a minimalist look. However, it did free me to explore a full-spectrum look, and I like what's come together. The new look is as much about the aura glows as the costume itself. I've used 3: the wings in an indigo hue (purple-blue), the beastly aura in a yellow-green, and flight/pathing aura in an orange-red. The overall effect combined with his powers (which each have neon/black-light mimicry choices distinct from every other power) really conveys a "full spectrum of light".

Mine might not be a popular viewpoint, I accept that, but approaching Endgame, I'd always believed it would be the swan song for the Avengers cast, not for the team. Actors age a lot faster than comic characters. The Avengers team has had a huge roster in the comics over the years, not as big as the X-men (when that is a collective term for all things "X"), but still quite sizeable. Characters moved in and out of the roster fairly frequently. At the announcement of the 2012 Avengers movie, I recall people questioning why this character or that character were included in the movie roster when other characters were not. So, all that to say: what I'd anticipated was that the MCU Avengers would go forward re-Assembling the team, possibly adding characters like Wonder-Man to the team, refreshing the dynamic for the next decade, just like the comics team does. I even wondered if Avengers: West Coast or Great Lakes would form. (Okay, so maybe not Great Lakes. Unless they're to be the modern goofball team like the Guardians of the Galaxy.) I realized there might be some disassembly, such as found in WandaVision and the fallout from that, but I was really surprised when I realized Marvel didn't have a plan with immediate action to re-assemble the core team. I think that and the hints at a Young Avengers team as replacement, instead of integration, had me upset.

1st and 3rd images I would actually prefer to the character's in-game model. 2nd image looks to much like the Ice Queen. Let it go. 4th is a bit creepy in look.

That is an ...interesting... list. I've actually seen a couple of them. Highlander 2 was definitely a bizarre part of the franchise. It felt like someone else was writing the story based off of half a page of Cliff Notes from the first film. That said, I'm not sure I'd have scored it a zero, but there it is. Police Academy 4 I saw about 30 years ago. I saw all the films in the franchise, but have trouble remembering which is which. It was just so homogeneous. I'd probably not have scored it as zero either. Lower scores, sure, but that would have been all the films, too. They're popcorn flicks. Bolero is on the list? I never saw it, but I remember there was a lot of hype around it. Sad that John Candy's final film, Wagons East! is on that list. He deserved a better send off. His Cool Runnings still brings a smile to my face.

It's the one where, strangely, Red Skull was an Italian piano prodigy who was forcibly given flawed super-soldier serum by the Italian Nazis and turned into Red Skull, who then proceeds to carry on their work after WW2. I think Cap wore a motorcycle helmet for part of the film. Curiously, the clearly low-budget film had some pretty recognizable names in it, like Darren McGavin of "A Christmas Story" fame, and "Deliverance" veterans Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty. Bill Mumy ("Lost In Space") was in there, too. It was an odd show, but its all we had at the time, so I watched it a few times. Might be fun if you are in the mood for cheesy popcorn flicks sometime.

He was in it? So yet another MCU actor taking a different role in the spider-spinoff universe.

Wait, wait, wait! The score has now climbed to ...15%. Yes! I'd wondered if I'd ever heard of a lower score. Then I checked. Yes, yes I had. Morbius (2022) 15% Batman & Robin (1997) 12% Jonas Hex (2010) 12% Madame Web (2024) 11% Fantastic Four (2015) 9% Captain America (1990) 6% Even the extremely low-budget, never released (sort of), intentionally pathetic Fantastic Four of 1994 scored a 27%. That's just humbling to the modern stuff.

That title is confusing (or bait 😉). It's the Spider spinoffs universe that's stopping production. The "Spiderverse" films, those with the name "Spider-verse" in them, are a hot button item, and will continue to be made. This is a good thing. Other than bleeding money profusely, the spinoffs were not really "family" films, and Spider-man is very much a family-film kind of property. Even the darker moments of some of the best Spider-man films do not reach the level of violence seen in the Kraven red-band trailers. So basically Sony created niche films. The other thing is: these characters were intended to be seen in connection with Spider-Man. Isolating them from him, therefore, is a turn-off to many.

Well, in the Endgame lore:

Talos Island [-5077.6 32.0 5831.7] (cave door with close shrubbery up against the eastern war wall) - The shrubbery up close to the cave door caused multiple snares to our team, once when using a team transport to reach the cave, and once upon exiting the cave. Each time the game funneled all the team into the same spot to a viewer's left as they face the cave. Some characters were able to escape, a couple had to be teleported out. EDIT: Not sure if it matters, but this was associated with a Citadel TF final mission.

If I could get them to make an alternate in black and, uh ...less...black... might that work?

#64 - I will see a competent psychiatrist and get cured of all extremely unusual phobias and bizarre compulsive habits which could prove to be a disadvantage. 😈See?

Textually critique teammates actions by citing appropriate numbers from the Evil Overlord's List.

Any chance we could get the two-color holiday sparkle from the holiday jetpack as an aura option, perhaps as a earnable costume component reward? I was creating a couple of holiday costumes for my characters and realized the green/red sparkle would be a great effect to go with them. The current aura Sparkle only has a single color choice.

Normally I'm not one for cel shading, but it definitely is the icing on the cake with this one.

A selection of shots from the Kronos Titan invasion on Excelsior this evening:

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I'm trying to recall, it's been several years since I last read the books, but isn't there a Yule event in the books? It may just have been a banquet mentioned in passing. I know I've heard that Tolkien wrote of Yule in at least one other work unrelated to Middle Earth.

If they're still doing the multi-verse stuff, there's always the possibility that Evans is Johnny Storm...again. Perhaps Evan's Storm is the last survivor of his universe's Fantastic Four and is set in opposition to Downey's Doom. Sort of the resistance leader. It has the advantage that those who never saw the previous Fantastic Four will at least be familiar with the character of Johnny Storm due to the July 2025 release of Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Well, it's first name is O-S-C-A-R.

Very nice! The map was a clever touch, as was the portal room, and the innovative toy shop windows. There's several entertaining things to find. How was the surface of the sidewalk surrounding the ice rink created?

Unlike holiday presents, coal distribution is now a year-round business. No rest this year for the bringer. Some folks are just begging for their lumps...a great many lumps. The Coal Bringer Seismic Blast/Earth Manipulation Blaster (You've got a little smudge on your cheek.)