Scarlet Shocker

He almost made it with Space 1999 ... and it gave Martin Landau and Barbara Bain a very good payday. They were reportedly the highest paid couple appearing in the same on TV at the time But yeah Thunderbirds still stands up amazingly well, not just because of the sets but many of the stories are excellent and still stack up today. Captain Scarlet also broke new territory (and which came first, Cloudbase or the Helicarrier?) in that humans initiated the war and remained on the back foot forever. In my opinion some of his finest work

Gerry Anderson was a genuine visionary. There's not much he didn't imagine that the likes of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs brought to fruition when the technology became available. I also have a serious soft spot for that movie because it was one of the very first I was able to watch at the movies, and in fairness, was one of Sir Roger's better outings as 007

Wight Nights are when you wake up having inexplicably lost a level

I believe from memory that at level 50 badges give 1000xp You could (if you don't already have it) grab some badges from other zones and then for the last badge get Top Dog on the top of the Atlas Globe allowing your ding to shower down on Ms Liberty from a great height

Everyone is free to play the game the way they choose. But some ways are blatantly less efficient and can in fact impair ones enjoyment. Is it wrong to point that out?

April is Jazz Appreciation Month - which is a very cool concept because sometimes we need a different vibe (at least, that's what my ex-wife told me) This years featured artist is the legend that is Miles Davis, a man so cool he literally rebirthed it. In the cool stakes, Steve McQueen comes a hollow second and is glad to do so. So in the spirit of JAM and Miles I bring you his opus Enjoy

Do you need to look any more of a tit? 😄

late to the party old son

I feel like I should somehow work in a reference to the Moody Blues here, but I'm trying to refrain

It needn't. This is entirely a choice. You can start a character for zero inf. If you choose to do this, it's on you and you alone. Thus any consequences of that choice belong to you alone also.

If you'd seen Emily splay you'd be proud too

Thanks for inputs good folks. My takeaway from a lot of this is that messing with alternative dimensions leaves... a mess. So many twisted and unfinished plot lines that could do well to be completed. @tidge I am totally with you re Positron. I never liked him from the day I first encountered him. In a city full of meta-humans and strange powerful events, going into battle knowing that if your survival suit is punctured you will not only die but take at least one city zone of innocents with you struck me as being reckless and foolhardy to say the least but in late game Positron seems to be a reflection of extreme developer narcissism: Positron appears everywhere and presumes a leadership role but if you actually look at his stories in this period he fails continually - Flames of Prometheus are stolen from him, he gets captured by Tyrant, and as I've written previously I see no earthly reason why Daedalus should ever exist except the above. Also Hero 1 as the Honoree is in the (awful awful) Mender arc where we first encounter the Well of the Furies - I had always presumed that this was some alt alt, a simulacrum of the corrupted Hero 1, but I'm not so sure now. Do we know where he actually is now? @FupDup makes a point - I vaguely recall something about that and it jarred then - Malta; an organization dedicated to destroying metahumans, hires an alien extra-dimensional metahuman to destroy people from their own dimension and planet. That just... in any sane universe, that act alone would unite Freedom Phalanx, Vanguard & Arachnos (not to mention Hero Corpse and all the extra-governmental agencies) plus Governments themselves into the dedicated defeat and imprisonment of anyone remotely connected with the Malta Group - who IMNSHO are one of the better villain groups in the game. Did GyreFalcon get out of the beatdown with Reichsmann? That said we are where we are and it would be great to see some of the multitude of loose ends put to bed in some way shape or form. Let's face it, there is no shortage of content here.

One final question: Why hasn't Praetor Duncan been gainfully employed at Drenched Donuts in Faultline? She might go for a takeover bid 🤑 /em getcoat

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS - read at your own risk So I'm kind of confused - I've never been one to delve deep into the Lore but I lose track of who is who and where they all are in game at the present time. I'm talking in particular of the Freedom Phalanx, Arachnos and of course those who remain of the leadership of Praetoria, but I'm also including others such as Reichsman & Hero 1 etc. I know Statesman, Sister Psyche and Raymond Keyes are all dead. I'm presuming Emperor Cole is dead, having nuked his own city - but I'm confused about the others. I believe that Stephan Richter, Lord Recluse is alive and well proving in a game about heroes that crime actually does pay - and that Positron is one of the biggest signature dicks in game and still hale and hearty unfortunately. Please no smartarse comments about Ghost Widow being dead! 🤣 Obviously we know she is, and has been for a considerable time but I am uncertain of her current whereabouts - as I am with Scirocco - but I've got it in mind that he's still alive in some kind of limbo twixt good and evil but his sidekick/protege (who is so unmemorable as to be entirely forgettable, is it silver mantis?) got swallowed by Mot in an uncharacteristically stupid act of contrite bravado. But I am largely confused as to the status of most of the other signature characters. In part because there are so many loose ends in this game due to a policy of chasing the newest shiny rather than following stories to completion but also because we rarely ever play the game sequentially these days so it becomes a jumbled mess in my own mind as I run through another Tina Mac arc or Unai Kemen. So who's alive, who's dead, and perhaps even more importantly, who's at liberty [sic] and who is incarcerated? If Hero 1 is alive why does he have a tomb? What about War Witch who seems to be alive and dead simultaneously? It's a mess and I'd love to understand better what's going on in our beloved city.

I've always thought that having Kheldians as members of the PPD very odd - doubly so when we have posters warning us to keep alert for strange beings in the city and the city itself is populated by registered heroes. Aside from the obvious question: Where the bloody hell do they all come from? (My understanding is they are meant to be somewhat rare as a species) it strikes me that a far better solution would be to hand the super-power policing element to Hero Corps - since their current role in game seems to be Hero Corpse - and keeping the policing of Paragon to humans. I see no way that the city council, beset by alien attacks from all sides would entrust the safety of the entire city financial system to another bunch of aliens. Except and unless Kheldians are used by PPD in a similar way to how conventional police use dogs.

having a friend for dinner?

I'm guessing there is a fairly solid argument for suggesting that the underrated power set is the guy that you expected to faceplant but kept going, while you're lying there wishing somebody would give you a wakie.

now I'm disappoint. I quite like the idea of an undead vampire conversant in Dalek

it only bothers you if it bothers you

probably a typo http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/gallery/dwm-447-every-dalek-ever.jpg

This thread actually is three years old

Ouroboros looks very different in your world @Snarky