Techwright

You probably don't want to get into his reasons either. 😳 Welcome, Home! I've greeted other returning players with a long description of some things they might not immediately realize are different: travel changes, enhancement changes, Fort Trident, P2W vendors. If you care to read one of those descriptions, you can find it here.

Agree. It should be a brown and yellow suit. Well, at least it's not yellow spandex. I wonder if the cowl will have white eyes like Deadpool's.

Things that make you say "hmm...". Apologies to Arsenio Hall. Ever note something in the game that makes you wonder? If two equal Sappers square off against each other, does one win, or do they each negate the other equally?

They're just messing with your mind.

And then you have the annual badges and anything added to the game that brings a badge with it. So it's possibly higher now.

When first seeing the ragdoll physics in Homecoming, it struck me that the weird-pose effects had only gotten worse over the years. I remember when they first instituted ragdoll physics, and though many humorous things happened, I don't recall them being quite so ridiculously pliable as they are now.

In full agreement on that point.

This is why I maintain a second account, and I'm guessing it's true for others, too. Temporarily reassign a second-account character to Torchbearer, pass all goods to him, reassign him to Excelsior. Saves a lot of mailing. Not that I've had to move anything in 2 years now, but it even helps within the server, like when I need to move a lot of recipes at once and don't want to have to keep mailing to myself. Move from account 1 character to account 2 character, then transfer from account 2 character to my main crafter on account 1.

I know what you mean. I had a roommate 30 years back that we called "Tim the Toolman Taylor" because he so typified the Home Improvement character. I'm not sure I could call him "genius", though he was highly knowledgeable in his field and a hard worker, but he was constantly getting into hilarious trouble for his type-A, hit-the-ground-running personality.

FYI...current Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes is not the Charlton Blue Beetle Ted Kord, and therefore not a true retcon. Kord remained a Batman-like character to the end. Jaime premiered in 2005, three years before the Iron Man movie suddenly made its titular character extremely popular. Incidentally, Kord was not the first Blue Beetle. That was Dan Garrett, and he actually had mystic powers from an Egyptian scarab (though initially it was said they were from a unique vitamin). So in essence, Jaime Reyes is the third Blue Beetle and if you will, the third retcon/fourth powerset of the title character (vitamin to mystic scarab to science inventor to alien tech). Retcon/change is nothing new to the title. Jaime's tech beetle is alien technology, so there's something of a mystery level to it (just how much does it actually have and how far can it be pushed?) whereas Iron Man is a human creation with (supposedly) known limitations. The closest comparison in the DC roster to Iron Man that I can think of is Steel. I know a great many Marvel characters (not all) and I cannot really state a good equivalent to Jaime's Blue Beetle. Venom certainly has "alien" and "symbiote" but isn't technology. Maybe the best example would have been "CypherLock" a merger of the mutant Cypher (Doug Ramsey) and the alien technarch Warlock. Like the alien Blue Beetle, there was a risk that the technology that was Warlock's DNA would take over his "host" Cypher, but together they were more powerful than separate, and could do things like create weapons. That relationship didn't last long however, and Cypher was eventually killed.

That's a pretty interesting prediction. I can support that outcome.

Either way, the car looks great!

I hope the trailer has in-production CGI. Some of those shots look like 25-year-old CGI or possibly SyFy on a budget CGI. I'm not one to complain about CGI, like so many do these days, I remember the Harryhausen stop-motion days all to well, after all, and I'm very grateful for the change. But a big production like this shouldn't be slacking in that department.

It's also got Matt Lucas as one of the Chocolate Cartel. "Prodnose" if the name on the window is any indication. Frankly, I'd guessed he'd be an Oompa-Loompa, but perhaps that is typecasting. I'm wondering who is in charge of creating the musical numbers? IMDB lists Joby Talbot as "composer", though that may just mean the title and background music, not the song-and-dance stuff. I consider this a major point. I've seen some productions where the set, acting, and direction are great, but tepid musical numbers bring the whole production down. Of the full trailer I'm most puzzled by the young girl who seems to have become Willy's sidekick/rescue project. I don't remember the original book (though I remember the sequel book. Gave me nightmares). Was a woman in it that was on Wonka's staff? I only recall the man on the staff who pretended to be a competitor. I ask because why have a best friend for Wonka if she doesn't stay with him and the factory? Unless something ends their dynamic by the end of the movie? It leaves a void in the storytelling continuity.

Okay, I may be stretching it a little to include this under the Comics, Heroes, and Villains thread, but I'm posting it anyway. Here's the new trailer for the origin story Wonka. I was a little undecided, but then I saw Rowan Atkinson, and thought it might be good after all. Then I saw Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa, and my fate has been sealed.

"Some new stuff"? There's a lot there. Breaking it down: I've written a lot in the box. Hopefully some if it proves useful to others. I'm impressed with this trailer, It seems to show an attention to detail that Obi-Wan Kenobi was lacking. Hopefully this will be Filoni's masterpiece to date. With The Mandalorian having taken some nasty punches last season, there are only Tales of the Jedi and Andor as current canon series that folks still speak highly of. Ahsoka could be some much needed recovery to the franchise.

Does that say "Freedom Plaza" on the side?

Ah! I'd forgotten about that one. It was a great popcorn flick. Thanks for the reminder!

What's one more century?

Hmm...is this going to be like that scene where Deadpool repeatedly shoots "Deadpool"? Another mocking of an underwhelming property?

Sooo... apparently I was one of many would-be players to discover that Starfield will be a single-player game, and NOT a co-op game like we first believed. A report that I read stated that some earlier Bethesda comments on the game were poorly handled leading to the misunderstanding. Considering it is 1000+ planets to explore (and that they are denser in creation than No Man's Sky planets), as well as other details like creative base building, I'm kind of disappointed there's not some sort of cooperative play.

The very reason why I'm very careful trusting any YouTuber reviews of movies. If I see one vid whose title preaches doom and gloom, but maybe less so than other tripe, I'll first go look at the titles of the channels other vids. Invariably I'll know afterwards whether they present a balanced viewpoint or not. Usually not.

Is that the change between those first two in-game photos of BaB up above? I'm looking them over and not noticing any difference. I thought it might be the musculature, but that could be explained by the angle of the shot creating an illusion of sorts. Skin tone never occurred to me as one shot is in heavy shade for the full shot. Don't forget that Positron, as his story progressed, was given a model that had the helmet removed.

I've noticed a lack of comments since the film came out. Critics have actually given it lower marks than ...and the Crystal Skull. That sounds ominous, but I've learned from other movies to never put much stock in critics' reports. Rotten Tomatoes is reporting audience enjoyment at 20% higher than that of critics. So...is this one to catch in theaters? or better to wait for the home release?