Frost Warden

Agreed on both. I kind of disliked how Marvel tried to hammer in both the Sentry and Jessica Jones into prior continuity; it's the Star Wars prequels all over again. You have to wonder, does everybody know everybody in this world? According to the writers, yes, yes they do.

You do have a right to vent. However, posting a vent in a place where others can read is allowing others to make comments on your post, whether good or bad. It's the Internet; don't expect everyone to agree with you, and post glowing commentary.

In addition, being 60 years old, you should know that the world doesn't revolve around your schedule. I would have loved to play this morning, but c'est la vie. As I work in the afternoons and evenings, this day is a wash for me playing. At least you can log in later to play, if you desire.

As long as the devs are working to resolve issues and bring us new content, I'm content. Try exercising a little more patience; the world needs more patient people, not less.

Funny thing about this: Most of Leslie Nielsen's fans at the time hated him in Airplane and the other comedic movies he ended up doing. Leslie, however, felt that comedy was his true calling, and was glad that he did Airplane.

Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to break out of his action guy roles, with comedy movies like Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Junior and Jingle All the Way. None were very commercially successful, so he went back to sci-fi/action, with Eraser, the 6th Day, and End of Days.

Especially one as cute as Maggie? Glenn just doesn't strike me as the ladies' man prior to the ZA; we already know he was a pizza delivery guy, and they aren't generally rolling in the dough, so to speak.

You gotta give him props though; he was making solo trips into Atlanta. That takes some courage, to keep going back to a zombie wasteland.

"Hey Glenn, you just survived a zombie apocalypse; what are you going to do now?"

"I'm going back in!"

There's a lot we don't know about the Merle/Daryl dynamic. Did they get along at all? Was Daryl just incensed about Merle being left behind because that's who Daryl is vs. actually caring about Merle? Is there something more, like Lothic pointed out in that double entendre? (One word: Ewwww!)

Just based on what we've seen, I've pictured Merle as the dominant, overbearing older brother, essentially making Daryl's life miserable. Daryl felt some responsibility towards Merle; hence the anger when he was told Merle was left behind. Afterwards, he doesn't seem too concerned that Merle is gone. Maybe he is realizing that he is better off without Merle?

If this is what's occurring, it'd be a real shock to Daryl if it is actually Merle that he sees vs. a hallucination, ZombMerle, etc.

You're right; I didn't read it. Couldn't bring myself to do so, after I saw that they removed her paralysis.

I'm not saying that her paralysis defined her character; it's just that Barbara fought hard to be defined by what she could still do. To just nullify that seems pretty poor judgement to me.

Yeah, it's a little weird that his survival/evolution ability somehow didn't help him survive? Even in the comics, his ability has kicked in and teleported him away, when there was no chance of survival otherwise.

Agreed. It'd be pretty anticlimactic for Lori to go to Rick and say "I'm pregnant", and for him to say, "Yeah, I've known for weeks..." Plus, Lori would be pretty ticked, I'm guessing.

Agreed again. Daryl is, at the same time, a rather complicated/simple person. Not implying a bad kind of simple, just more of a down-to-earth, no frills kind of person. You pretty much know where you stand with him.

I agree that the pacing is really slow. I can understand some need to stretch out the story, but this Sophia thing has gone on long enough. When I saw the bedding, I thought for sure that the lost Sophia story was ending, but unfortunately not.

Glen is the man. Rick and Shane have all this training to fall back on, but Glen just gets out there and gets it done, despite no real prior survival skills. Gotta love that.

I am not understanding the vitriol here. It's not like they started giving lower amounts of Inf when Freedom launched; new players are having the exact same rate of Inf both pre- and post-Freedom. What did you do when you first started this game?

I got a bit lucky, and had a friend gift me some influence. (This was I3, so you had to earn influence first before handing it out.) Others, then and now, could get lucky, or they could try to make smart decisions about what to put SOs in, and what to put DOs in. Or, I suppose, they could complain about being poor.

Honestly, I think that we've all gotten a bit spoiled in having massive amounts of money available to us at lower levels; maybe being poor and under-enhanced would give us a better perspective on things?

Had to laugh at this, thanks!

Guess it really depends on what kind of zombies we are talking. For example, in the Walking Dead, they are attracted by sound, so silent methods of killing would be best. In this case, I'd choose:

1. A ranged weapon, probably a crossbow. I've little experience with handling a regular bow, and a crossbow is more forgiving with aim. Also, crossbows/bows have little chance of jamming.

2. A melee weapon of some sort. I'd go with a lightweight sword of some kind; you may need to wield it for a long stretch, so you wouldn't want anything that would tire you out. However, you also want something with some length, to keep them from getting too close.

I've heard a similar joke:

We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here, said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.

Same concept.

With a little Indiana Jones thrown in there...

But it's exactly my point. You can see elements of other stories in newer stories; it doesn't invalidate whether the newer story is good or not. Obviously Warehouse 13 has its fans, or otherwise it would have been cancelled by now. (Something SciFi is notorious for doing; killing off shows. And yes, I refuse to spell it the other way.)

Ouch.

I did a Posi recently, where 3 of the people were Time. The clones were remarkably good at locking us down; we also had to pull individuals to get them cleared out.

I'm still waiting for Snakes on a Plane 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Kirkman has already said that the comics will be no indicator on what happens on the TV series. Just for example, Otis lived longer in the comics, as he was around for the next leg of the survivor's journey. In addition, Shane had already died before the survivors left the Atlanta area.

I, for one, am glad that the TV series is going to veer away from the comics. It gives the series a nice sense of mystery; I can still be surprised. Shane's action, while not terribly surprising, was enough to give me a jolt; I'm hoping that the surprises keep coming.

One last point: We still don't know why the zombies selectively will only eat still living flesh. I'm sure that Otis died during the buffet, as it were, but they kept feeding. Is it warmth? A reminder of what they were like once? Hard to say, as the zombies aren't talking.

I thought about this before, with the truck being taken in season 1. My guess is, that they decide beforehand to leave the keys in the car/truck, so that the loss of one person does not doom them all.

Of course, it'd be funny to see Shane jump in the car at the last minute, just ahead of zombies, only to get that incredulous look on his face.

Slither is indeed awesome, just because Nathan Fillion is in it. However, it does have an amusing/creepy dark humor to it as well.

I'd have to somewhat agree with this, but also somewhat disagree. Perception is a key ingredient to originality; how we perceive something can define whether we see it as tired and old vs. fresh and new.

A quick example of this is the television series Fringe. It gets frequently compared to X-Files, in terms of a governmental agency investigating paranormal occurrences. If that is your whole exposure to it, then your perception of the series would be that of a copy of an original series. Of course, going from there, we can say that X-Files was a copy of Kolchak, and Kolchak was based on the novels, etc.

We can trace certain elements of any story back several hundred years, so it's naturally going to be harder to put new spins on old storylines. Vampires can be traced back to Bram Stoker's Dracula (the novel, not the Keanu Reeves vehicle), which was based on folktales and legends. Was Bram Stoker unoriginal? To a certain extent, yes. It was his storytelling that changed his audiences' perception of the vampire folktale, which made his story unique.

I guess what I am trying to say is that, while there may be nothing new under the sun, it's how it is presented and how we perceive it that can make it seem new to us.

Scientists have run studies on people placed in sensory deprivation rooms; they've seen that a part of the brain activates after a couple of minutes of deprivation, which coincided with the subject feeling a presence in the room. So, it's not just you. (And yes, I get those feelings as well.)

I'm really uncomfortable around heights, but it's more from a fear of falling. Not sure why I am, but I've been that way since I was a kid.