Durakken

#1. The difference between Batman's motivation and Punishers's is Punisher wants Revenge. Once he takes down who did what happened his motivation is gone. Batman doesn't want what happened to him to happen to anyone else. His motivation is never gone but merely questionable. So where Batman makes sense to keep going, but Punishr does not from what I know.

#2. There are a few else worlds where various things happen at that moment. Like in the Zero hour tie in it's not Thomas and Martha Wayne that get killed, but Bruce. I think any continuity showing Bruce as anything but a good guy or Batman is somewhat bad conceptually, because it's established that Bruce is a good kid and the Waynes are good parents that no matter what happened he'd go down the path of goodness. We also know enough about the Wayne family that they are more or less destined to be heroes, lawmen, and/or sometimes masked. Viking Batman, the founder of Gotham, the underground railroad wayne, the judge wayne, His grandfather, his father, and himself have all been one or more of the three. However, the founder of Gotham may have been a criminal and his grandfather was mildly associated organized crime at best, but never a criminal and its been shown that when his resources was used criminally he was outraged and reversed course so... yeah... It's highly unlikely that Bruce would ever grow up a villain or a bad guy of any sort.

Why not just let him die... is he really that popular? It's a guy in a black t-shirt with a large cross on it and he's carrying huge guns out to deliver vengeance on the guys that killed his family which he did already.

I've never understood why they keep going with him. He's done his thing and that should be that.

As far as saying Batman is like Punisher >.> Punisher is more or less a common thug. He's a well trained thug (as much as any american military person), but still a thug... a thug that does his thing in a t-shirt often without a plan and without motivation. Batman may have an "odd" costume but he and his crew are equipped and trained appropriately. They wear protection, have various equipment for recon and such and have training beyond that of the government. In the end Punisher is an idiot with a gun while Batman is a high tech military operative. Comparatively they don't stack up. If anything Batman is like a Green Lantern from a low tech planet.

It's interesting that noone brings up that it only took him five years to reach a galaxy on the other side of the universe according to the superman movies... Good thing there are some theories that pretty much say that superman's flight is warp ^.^ and that in DC there is the speed force.

Dark One... that's not exactly true, but true enough. A lot of people dismiss or make fun of the gut feeling because they don't understand what it is. Basically what it is is that it is your brain taking all the knowns and linking them along your neural paths to find the most likely one to connect. Incorrect information or bad neural pathways lead to bad gut reaction... It's never good to rely solely on gut reactions and this level of thinking, but it is a good place to start. In net terms it's more or less like wikipedia in terms of use and google in terms of operation.



The last part I think bares further investigation and would be of great benefit to students as it explains why studying all at once is bad and some other things that students have a problem with. It also lends credibility to the ideas that you can fry your brain if you take in too much information and try to process it.

It depends on what superman we are talking about, but...

Some of Superman's powers come from the sun...some aren't... and it's not the sun. It's the Yellow spectrum bombardment or something like that that is stored up over time.

Now depending on various sources he just stores the energy and uses it and Red suns doesn't charge it so once he's out of power he'd done...in other sources the red light drains his powers...

As far as breathing...again depends... some sources say he doesn't need to breath or eat while some sources say he needs suits and such.

If a developer were to make say 3 or 4 MMO games, using the same engine, they could create a great business model because often in MMOs various parts of the teams are not being utilized because they are either ahead or other teams are behind, so you have those teams working on other projects and way you get everyone being used efficiently to produce more with the same amount of people and cost. You then link the games together and allow a monthly sub for 1 to allow access to all the others for as much content as you have bought.

This allows a single team produce the work of several teams and with a engine upgrade you upgrade all titles... you also pool the subs so if the niches don't overlap you tap into a pool of subs that have minor interests in the other niches and spend a bit of money on them >.>

This is a great model and Cryptic is one of the only companies to be shown to have the potential to do it right now but the problem... Cryptic has a bad rep and with that rep it can't do it and there in lies its failure.

Just armor him up and give him bigger and badder weaponry and call it a day >.>

When you're game is fully explorable with a character pretty much in a month you're not going to get re-uping of subs from a vast number of people.

I think if CoH went to a free to play with yearly or bi-monthly expansions/booster packs it and or an expanded store... they'd probably make more money overall but meh.

Chucky vs Freddy vs Jason vs saw vs Ring girl vs twilight vampires vs Ash

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Batman win!

Also you know... kinda funny thing... that is not how game companies work and NCsoft is a publisher with subsidiary (is that the right word) developing companies. Cryptic was never part of NCsoft and would have had no way to "cut funding" as NCsoft would be contractually obligated to only give Cryptic x amount of money when Cryptic reached x goal and obviously they split the profits from the game according to contractual agreements.

When NCsoft found out about MUO NCsoft bought out the trademark which gave them full right to the CoH game, code, characters, and obviously all the profit. Cryptic needing their engine for their next game obviously held onto that which is why Cryptic's logo is still on here and the deal was either "forever" or for a limited time, perhaps 5-10 years. Now if it's the former doesn't really matter, but if it's the latter it explains the CoH2 thing as I doubt that NCsoft wants Cryptic's logo on there if they don't have to.

NCsoft also hired and set up a new subsidiary company/studio which is now called Paragon Studios which is directly funded by NCsoft which is quite a bit more convenient for a developer probably because they have access to more resources and it's a lot easier to go to a company that your profit is directly related to and ask for more money for something.

As far as the suit goes, Marvel sued both companies. And after words realized that hey we could get a game out of these guys. Marvel probably cut NCsoft from this idea because #1 Korean company, #2 likely had a deal with MS already in place and/or #3 MS might have asked for less of the profit margin than NCsoft would have (this would have been easily figured out because this type of thing would have had to have been brought up in court to figure out what and who owes what if anything). NCsoft had at least 1 good reason to do what they did to Cryptic (Cryptic was bad business) and like 3-4 others. I would even go so far as to say that Marvel/Microsoft likely pulled out for that exact reason, they saw Cryptic's practices with CoH, probably discussed with them their future plans after CoH was sold, and they realized that it was just really stupid to be in bed with Cryptic. CO they had to buy to get to make that game and STO they got out of luck and the fact it was already dragged through the mud...and let's not go into Atari v.v

I would love to see someone with no skill pull off parrying Chun-Li's full Senretsu Kyaku >.> Just saying.

Gotta love Manofmanychars, He agrees with my conclusion based on the opposite of what I said >.>

Kubo Tite is a Mangaka and nowhere close to Joe Q. To be like Joe Q one would have to be a chief editor in charge of Shonen Jump or something like that and have direct influence on long running stories and cause them to ret-con. Yeah...so there is no such thing in Manga.

The closest to that is the people in charge during Dragon Ball Z's later run, after the Furiza Saga that forced Akira Toriyama to continue the story and eventually when Toriyama quit, forced the production of GT.

Arcanaville, I think you're right but I also think that I am justified in doing so as we have to look at the dominants of that medium. Marvel, DC, Image and a few others are the dominants and besides that... when we say comics we are talking about DC, Marvel, and Image and not other no-name companies.