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Quote:Yeah, you'd think 33 power plays would be enough over 7 games...Originally Posted by Kinrad
I respectfully disagree.
1) I didn't think the officiating was really all that off
2) This was THE MOST penalized Stanley Cup Finals in history
3) The Canucks consistently failed to capitalize on the power play opportunities they did have, scoring exactly 1 goal on PP.
(2 PPGs was it, though? Still just a 6% PP. That'll lose a series, sure enough.) -
Congrats, Vancouver on a great season.
Whoohoo, Boston!!!
(You play better, you win. Even if the other team is supposed to be superior. It is a simple lesson... And you lose this time, you tip your hat to the other guy and hope to take him next time.) -
Quote:Right with you until you cited 1960's research efforts.... I'd like to think we've come a long way since then...Originally Posted by docbuzzard
The U.S. Military worked for a long time on devices along these lines back in the 60s and eventually gave up. They had a lot more money and engineering talent to throw at the problem.
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Quote:There's been more than enough extracurricular activity on both sides - so not sure I'd hang my hat on any of that.Originally Posted by TheJazMan
I hate to say it but the Canucks might be in tough tomorrow. They are ravaged by injury and the refs aren't calling the Bruins on their rough/after whistle crap. I am getting nervous! Game 7, here we come!!!!
The injuries for the Canucks have to be eating at defensive endurance though, so if there is another critically tight game it could factor significantly.
What ultimately matters is that the series has been incredibly entertaining and stretches of it have just been outstanding. Really, which ever team wins will have truly earned the right to hoist the cup. -
Quote:No doubt!Originally Posted by Kinrad
It is now a 1 game series. I will be cheering on my Bruins tomorrow night!
Here's hoping we play more like when we are at home. -
Quote:You get a badge for her already - you have to get her twice.Originally Posted by Hercules
Just ran across this critter in Croatoa the other day, for the first time. I felt a bit guilty when I 1-shot her with a ranged attack.
Suggestion: Upgrade this mob to GM status and create an associated badge.
You can never have too many GMs to fight.
If I remember properly, the lore is you are just scaring her back to the deep to stay safe. -
Quote:Agreed. Just thoughts bouncing around in my head.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Both are things I doubt we'll ever see in the game as we know it. A sequel, maybe. There's just too much to rebuild.
I'm not married to the idea... may just specific items, and switching would make that get ugly.Quote:Originally Posted by DarkGob
Not sure how I feel about costume options being limited to a faction.
More mentioned to prevent the idea that I support always on open zone/faction pvp.Quote:Originally Posted by DarkGob
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So, the commute back and forth to RL employment has given me a lot of time to think over the years. Lately, for some reason, CoX has figured highly in my random musings, so I present to you the following for discussion and food for thought:
What if....
Approach Power Definition
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Power selection comes with a "type" associated with the main classification.
For instance, Blasters may be energy, elemental, device (guns, wands, etc.), etc., then with a flavored
More specifically, a blaster could pick Energy Blast/, then be presented a selection of radiation, light, negative, etc. Default color scheme & animations would follow. Mix of secondary effects, dmg, etc. would then be applied based on the picks (not custom - system defined/balanced - but a broader customization feel). The basic powers would be somewhat uniform, with set defining selections swapped out. Then, as with now you could customize coloration, weapons, and animations (only more so).
So far, I can see this working more easily with attack sets than defense or buff sets... so further contributions to this are more than welcome.
Contact/Arc Flow
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For Primal, instead of being assigned origin specific starter contacts (blue side) or Arachnos related contacts (red), what if your initial contact was a choice that was faction related?
You arrive in AP, and choose to talk to a...PPD contact (or LB - pick from a couple of choices to start), and then using the Praetorian 1-20 arc tech, you work through a series of missions introducing you to PPD and working your way up the ranks. You could be presented choices, that let you continue as "a PPD member" or, as an arc develops leave to join Longbow, Freedom Corps, Wyvern, Vanguard, or... etc.
There could be more depth of options as a villain obviously, working up through the Hellions, Freaks, Council, CoT, or what have you, but there would still be some intriguing lore/story options regardless I would think (revenge, betrayal, greater profit/power, etc..).
As you leave a faction's level range, there could be some nice 'you're tougher, moving on' arc completion stories too.
The main arcs could be spaced and supported by radio/tip missions from faction contacts rather than generically available ones.
Temp powers or costume options could be unlocked according to progress of a given character through a faction.
And rather than separate eblue/red zones, you could have a unified zone availability ach working contacts/missions (I'd keep PvP restricted to certain zones, maybe with some nice zone event options like used in Praet to spice/purpose things up).
Again using the Praetorian branching tech, you could use arc choices to drive (supported by tips) movement from hero to villain... -
Quote:Agreed. The key was Vancouver crowding their defensive net and clearing the rebounds... I hope they forget to do that next time.Originally Posted by Kinrad
It was a great game. Dissapointed my boys didn't win, and not overly optimistic about our chances of winning 2 in a row, especially with the 2nd one having to be in Vancouver.
I am keeping my fingers crossed though! The last time the B's won the cup I was about 6 months old... -
Quote:Very much yes on this interpretation of that era... and it was possible because of what you note with the New Mutants. They had moved the X-Men to adult roles and let the kids take over in the other book and 'relive' the youthful exuberance of the early X-Men. Sadly, the Beyonder brought that to a crashing halt....Originally Posted by Arcanaville
In any case, my recollection is from the late seventies up to the early nineties the X-Men bounced from one soul-crushing adventure to the next, always wondering what was going to jump up and bite them next. The fun moments were interlude more than the norm. In fact, the 80s went from Dark Phoenix to Days of Future Past to the Brood, the Morlocks, the Mutant Massacre - I'm trying to remember a time in the 80s when the X-Men were allowed to be a bunch of kids playing around for more than a minute. In fact, at one time Xavier kicked Kitty Pryde off the team and relegated her to the New Mutants specifically because he claimed the X-Men was not a place for "children." That was before being brainwashed into being a ninja assassin, of course.
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Quote:You are absolutely right, however, I think Erik was not in control of the actions, it was random & wild. I am sure there was some time before Erik was able to willfully direct his power.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
1. Sorry but Shaw had no clue as to the scope of Erics powers. So having that much metal so close to Eric was foohardy at best. Many of the items Eric was manipulating while larger than a coin were much smaller than the gates he crushed outside. Common sense dictates that if Eric could crush the gates he could manipulate the metal knives, guns, and other instruments. Edit: For all Shaw knew Eric could violently rip the very iron from his body which probably would have killed him either from having the iron ripeed out of his body or from bleeding because without iron you can't stop bleeding. And the iron in our bodies is much smaller than a coin.
2. Eric wasn't just crushing metal at that point. He tore the drawers of the filing cabinets open before crushing the cabinet itself and he was hurling metal tables and other objects around the room.
Nothing was stopping him from trying to attack the nazi <bleep> that just murdered his mother. He was thinking clearly enough when he turned and killed the guards by crushing their helmets but ignored Shaw who actually pulled the trigger. Pure bull.
Now if he had attacked Shaw and Shaw used his mutant ability to absorb the attack that would have been completely different. Then we could believe/understand if Eric in shock stopped realizing Shaw was just like him.
However, again, that should have made Shaw even more cautious and worried at being threatened from the chaos... but then again his own power probably made him not care in the least and that is the wild card that ultimately lets me accept the scene in hindsight. At the time, I was also scratching my head. -
The Canadian v. US thing with this is hilarious, given it pretty much Canadians and Europeans playing on both teams....
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Quote:So very, very this.Originally Posted by Navy Spider
No we aren't.
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Quote:A range of contributions off the top of my head:Originally Posted by Acemace
Box office update: 'X-Men: First Class' opens to an underwhelming $21 mil on Friday
-copy paste forgive the bold- Strongest positive reviews since X1 and yet the worst opening of the franchise, lower even then the hulk, speculations as to why.....?
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- A heavy ad campaign during playoff basketball games, but I really didn't see it much elsewhere?
- No really recognizable actors to generate buzz?
- No 'wow' moments in any of the trailers to drive 'big budget effects on a big screen' attendees.
- A huge weekend before for Hangover 2 eating a lot of younger movie going dollars? For that matter, rash of 3D movies also eating at younger viewer disposable income?
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Quote:* post supporting <insert favorite activity here>, noting a rambling remembrance related to <insert favorite activity here> meaningful to likely no one beyond myselfOriginally Posted by Gaming_Glen
*post about all the time wasted reading this thread when could have <insert favorite activity here> instead
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Quote:* firm support of loud agreement, but with minor change highlighted within the quote and reference to correction made to make it yet better stillOriginally Posted by Chaos Creator
* Loud agreement with previous poster FIXED
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Quote:No, really, this:Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
This is still an awesome idea, and needs to be implemented. Get on it, devs.
This idea has been around since the beginning. and Posi hates clowns, so no go so far.Quote:Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
Positron absolutely hates Clowns, for realz. -
Quote:* note about how no it doesn'tOriginally Posted by TonyV
* Note about how although you were joking, it actually raises a relevant point that should be addressed.
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Son/Rad Corr can be very effective. I've never pushed mine to be a gamebreaker... I imagine it could.
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Quote:Fair enough, and essentially the counter I offered in the car. But I couldn't dispute the point that in a visual medium through real life social filters of the audience - the bad guys at the end were not "white anglo-saxon" and the good guys were.Originally Posted by Dark One
Is that really a valid observation though? I mean, in the context of the movie, ALL the mutants are a "minority". Subdividing based on skin color is no more valid in that situation than subdividing based upon powers.
I just thought was interesting and worth sharing. I probably agree with your general interpretation, though. -
* redundant re-affirmation of the rich regard for this ribbon of remarks
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Had a conversation about the movie on the carpool home...
An observation I had missed was pointed out to me - other than Darwin, none of those that stayed with the 'good guys' were minorities. In the context of the acceptance theme, I thought that was interesting. -
* obligatory exclamation unrelated to anything other than sequential position of this post related to red name addition to thread
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Quote:His scheme? to blow up the world? It is a simple classic, and I thought it was an interesting twist on an actual historical event.Originally Posted by Durakken
The villain was just dumb as it was a replacement for magneto rather than a well thought out character and his scheme is idiotic at best.
I was never a fan of Shaw either...
Oddly, I thought Xavier was too optimistic if anything. I'd be interested to hear a deeper explanation of this.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Xavier was to pessimistic
Not sure what you mean by this... unless you mean too horrifically scarred from being in the concentration camps and the subject of medical/scientific experiments. With that in mind, I thought he was remarkably lucid.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Magneto was too brain dead
I have no trouble imagining the issues/teasing he would have gotten growing up. Was he maybe too angsty about it? Sure, but it wasn't that big a stretch. (I would have worked a little on my experimental/development procedure before shoving unusual green substances into my bloodstream myself....)Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Beast was too focused on appearance... they're his feet people... noone looks at his feet and why would you want to look like a dork? I mean if you can give yourself a normal foot you can certainly change the rest of your features a lot more simply so why go that way?
No argument there.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Angel doesn't have enough exposition to justify her going evil
Not sure I understand this, either. How is Banshee lame? And what payoff?Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Banshee is lame. Why would you use him? And it never really pays off.
Oddly, I always remembered Havok as Cylcops' older brother, so it made sense to me. Just looked it up, though, and he is the younger. Yeah, Scott would have made more sense, but using him let them keep more distance from the other movies' characters, so I can accept it as it.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Havoc is stupid to use... he's Scott's YOUNGER brother... why not use scott? Any reason you can use for Scott works better than it does for Havoc.
I have no idea who Darwin is at all from the perspective of a classic X-Men fan, so I thought he was a lame inclusion that could have been replaced with someone else of greater interest to me.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Darwin... the one character that seems interesting of the lame cast of characters
But I think her issue was not being accepted as she was - not what she could look like. Picturing her as a vulnerable teenager, her issues were not such a stretch to my mind. And I thought the conversation between McCoy and Raven when he brings her the serum was actually somewhat poignant and tragic in pointing out that lack of acceptance of her as herself - and completed a "rejection" of her as a "woman" by the two men in which she had shown interest.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Mystique... She wasn't really a character imo, she was a sounding board and a plot device...and the people that sounded off her all did so insultingly and out of character... She's a freakin woman that can look any way she wants. They could developed her so much better by having her react to people being d-bags about her appearance not being what they want.
Now, did they over play that card some? Perhaps. But clearly her personality as such a young lady was not meant to be the sure of herself Mystique that we would all recognize as an adult.
An here I thought her inclusion was far more flat than it deserved to be.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
The only character they got right and the only scenes that were better than mediocre to crap were the Emma Frost scenes. Every other scene was just mediocre or bad... -
Quote:A reasonable interpretation.Originally Posted by Residentx10
My point in mentioning this was that in this movie, they showed the clear line she walked. She would never support Charles because she is being paid by the Gov't. She could NEVER be a "Trusted" advisor to Mutants.
Still seemed abrupt (in terms of film story, not judging the action) - as altering memories was a previously unrevealed or discussed ability and really clashed with Xavier's portrayal to that point.