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15 days after, and I just ran a test. Bing, Duck Duck Go, and Yahoo still have the same results. I realize that Microsoft might be moving at a snails pace for whatever reason.

Kind of like when a terrifying, nigh-impossible to kill hive-mind pseudo-race, having no clear central command or heart to kill, suddenly has a queen that can be targeted and killed, destroying significant portions of the hive in the process. Of course, that's just speculation. I'm sure Trek would never water down potent groups twice, right?

Glad folks caught the reference. 😁 As to details, @MidnightCry stated the preference for female forms to randomize with the current male forms...so, we already have a randomization process in place. It sounds to me like the big issue would be art and animation. Possibly reserved slots for that set to go in as well. (I'm really, really guessing at that last bit. With an old engine I don't know if there's a limit to a list to pull from.)

Okay, so say you get the men and the women, but what about the real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri?? No love for them?

I just started my first Bio defense, a savage brute, therefore, this is naturally intriguing to me. So it has a nemesis. Good. What tactic(s) to use in that case? Looks like the wiki article needs to be updated with Bio in the "prone to CDF" list.

It's been a while since I've seen DS9, but I seem to recall that even several of the alien counterpart organizations were not aware of S31, or at least considered it a boogeyman myth. Which, if accurate, just goes to show how successful S31 should be considered to be. The Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order may have been extremely arrogant, but they were not depicted as slouches in their field of information gathering.

I was not aware. Thank you for pointing this out. While I probably should have said I was looking for something with a melee focus (sword) and a ranged alternate (pistol... combined as sort of the reverse of an Energy/Energy blaster), after reviewing these options I think I shall try at least one of them...after I finish off the 6 others I've already started juggling. 😆 Again, thanks!

Someone dropped a comment about this elsewhere (I forget where I was hearing it as I was reading and hearing a lot right then) that spoke like there's a drive in the upcoming movies to put both the Thunderbolts and the New Avengers ... As for the CGI, it was already getting worse with Avengers: Infinity War. Watch it keeping an eye on Banner in the Hulkbuster armor to see what I mean. It came out that certain Powers That Be had been taskmastering a couple of CGI houses to produce too much in too little time. It wasn't that the CGI artists weren't capable, but that they were forced to over-perform with too little of a deadline.

Added a wiki link to explain the WW reference. Not everyone knows red side, after all.

I think the idea of a mayoral TF is interesting. The Family, 5th Column, and Council are all in the level 20s range. I consider that entry-level middle range, but you're viewpoint may vary. I'm a little torn as to younger heroes getting a TF. That range (blue side) already has the Death From Below Trial, Synapse TF, Drowning in Blood Trial, Both halves of the Positron TF, and caps off with the Penny Yin TF. This is just mainstream, and not counting the Oroboros version of the Positron TF as well as the old Sister Psyche TF. Mid levels have many task forces as well. If I were to start another, I'd look towards putting one in the 35+ range, so players running those last 15 levels don't feel they have to repeat the Numina and Imperious Task Forces indefinitely. Just personal opinion. I'd suggest a mayoral task force start not in City Hall but across the street in Fort Trident. It's a good place for the mayor to get intel, and has a lot of what a player needs. Such an arrangement would also help the players grow more familiar with the fort as well. If there were a strike force involving the mayor, a low level would be acceptable. Actually, any additional strike force would be appreciated.

Sounds like this needs a shout out in the Suggestions forum. I can't remember if I've ever even done a MLTF, but it does sound like it needs a review.

It's more of an us thing. I find it ridiculous that one person is credited because they were the lucky one to get the last point in, especially when the point of impact looks like NYC on July 4, 1986 (if you don't know, look it up 😉). Who on Haumea cares? Unless they killed it solo, it was a team effort, and its an insult to the guys who possibly did a significant portion of the damage on their own.

Right, I hear ya, but though its been years, I seem to recall the moon-to-sun mechanics were set to the character, not the game world environment. As a result, it moved much, much faster on the gauge.

In WoW, at one point during their saga of constantly changing powers of archetypes, I was very fond of druids and their abilities waxing and waning with sun and moon powers. Perhaps some feature like that might set an epic set apart from the Kheldians. That said, the description as found in the OP would feel hard to place in any other origin other than magic. While origins are not really an end-all (and lets face it, the Kheldians get to pick from all 5 origins...why exactly?) it could be problematic for the Roll Player population.

squishies, squishy, squished, squishies...um, are we suppose to have our shot glasses ready before reading this?

Ooo...ouch! LoL 🤣 But its true! I was frustrated with Voyager. It had such huge potential it kept squandering. I didn't like everything about it, and I got along with Enterprise better than many, but that last episode should never have happened. I had not heard this. Did he actually say he wanted to do that? If so, I'll now consider anything tied to Discovery to be the third universe, the Discovery Universe. Sometimes a multiverse is a good thing, if it distances garbage from good.

YouTube channel The Nerd of the Rings has an excellent breakdown of the trailer using his almost encyclopedic knowledge of all things Middle Earth. It contains a few minor spoilers to the Tolkien writings on Middle Earth in this in-story time period, nothing dramatic. The breakdown reinforces a thought I've had: that the creators largely have a remarkable attention to detail, yet suddenly veer off from it at a few certain points that don't seem to make a lot of sense. It's a curious weave.

Huh. I did not pick up on the "slide show". I'll double back to focus on that. I, too, am usually not a fan of anime (though I do like a few), but I'm cutting it much slack because it is supposed to be Tolkien. (The 1977 The Hobbit animation was quite odd at times, but I still cut it slack because for decades, it was the only version of the story on screen.) Personal preference would have been to see Tolkien animation in the style of season 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, or the recent Star Wars: The Bad Batch. I don't know if that style has a name yet, but I find it very effective for storytelling. I chuckled at the hair color comment. I'm a natural auburn, or at least was until I aged. We reds are portrayed all over the color spectrum in animation, and there are certainly worse ones out there. This one looks a bit like they were attempting mahogany but seriously amped up. Had I advised them, it would have been to darken it with a brown. But I chalk it up entirely to the limited color pallet they've chosen for the entire picture.

You bring back one of my earliest memories of this MMO. It was my first MMO, and I initially played it like I would play an arcade game back in my 1980s arcade rat days: 3 lives and my quarter are precious. Play it very, very safe, and I'll make it to that goal level. I didn't understand until later, that embracing the knock-out unleashed me to truly enjoy the game. I could take risks and learn from them.

New trailer released: This one...set me back in my opinion. Until now, I'd been of the understanding that the central character was Helm Hammerhand. Although he's present in this trailer, it's clearly all about Hera, a character not even named by Tolkien. Her name was picked for this film (and it is Greco-Roman, too, not Anglo-Saxon). Her portrayal here doesn't come off like strong-of-heart Eowyn, a character I greatly admire, but more like Wonder Woman. Not ruling it out. A trailer can be skewed in perspective as opposed to the whole, after all, but my hopes for a proper Tolkien tale will be dashed if the character he wrote most about takes a back seat to yet another largely concocted character.

Thank goodness I'm no longer random. Is that a lower case "g" or a lower case "q"?

No threat. Dude's got to learn how to properly apply sun-tan oil, is all.

For the very reason that Snarky needs something at hand to help him feel young. I suppose he could print it out and post it next to his mirror so that every time he looks into it... ...oh, wait.

😭 Oh, wait...

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