Lothic

I guess I haven't really paid that much attention to the build-up for this new TRON movie.
Was there an earlier trailer that had some bad CGI for Jeff Bridges in this movie that's been improved at some point?

Sorry to be picky but I think you want your pseudo-BASIC to go more like this:

10 Count=0
20 Print "AMAZING!"
30 Count+1
40 at Count=10 goto 60
50 goto 20
60 Print "...end of line"
RUN

The way you had it is the classic example of an infinite loop. Your "Count" variable would keep getting reinitialized back to 1 forever.
I don't usually correct people for grammar/spelling mistakes in these forums, but since I've been a software engineer for almost 20 years it was too hard to resist this.

I think it stems from this quaint idea the Devs still cling to that individual characters should have an individual "journey" through the content and that it should NOT be our goal to have a single character experience everything.

Now I understand why they keep that view of things because they think it's the main reason why people like to play alts. That could be the case for some people, but in reality all that policy really does is tend to frustrate the "completists" among us who's only real motivation to keep playing is precisely the goal of trying to experience all content on one character. It's the classic disconnect between the game we want to play and the game the Devs -want- us to play.

I doubt the Devs will ever directly pander to your idea of making things generally "un-outlevelable". But thankfully they finally gave us the "no XP" toggle that will allow us to regulate our ability to play however we want, even if the way we want to play doesn't make the Devs happy.

I played my main Fire/Rad for about 2 years with CC then dropped it.
I've since played the last 4 years or so without it.
Let's just say I don't really miss it.

Obviously CC can be very useful if you choose to play/maneuver in a manner that favors its strengths. Ultimately I found the need to have to camp next to MOBs in order to "random-mez" them was far too slow and inefficient, especially if you play on fast moving teams to any degree. What's the point in being able to keep things mezzed for multiple ticks of CC when most critters you face are dead within a couple of ticks? YMMV of course.

Now even though I do have years of experience using the power I will readily admit that I stopped using CC back in a time when the only option you had to "super-slot" it was by using HOs. Basically I gave up on it long before IOs even hit the scene. I'm willing to accept the idea that with proper IO slotting (and the upcoming I19 changes) that CC can be made into a very good power. Regardless of how cool CC can now be made I still doubt I'll ever use it again. My playstyle simply tends to be far more mobile and dynamic than CC will allow for. *shrugs*

Actually the implication that it'll be relatively hard to do is appealing to me. I'm not assuming I'm going to have all the "incarnate toys" the day I19 goes live. But if it introduces a new dynamic that'll keep me interested in playing for an extended period of time it'll be a goal worth the effort.

Besides who wants to be a god in one day anyway.

That's the exact reason why the Hero/Villain alignment powers are basically better than the Rogue/Vigilante ones. The Devs wanted there to be an advantage for staying true to one side that made up for not being able to freely travel back and forth.

Well hopefully the "good/evil switch" on their backs will start off on the "good" setting.

The 7 seconds of that episode (on this clip from timemark 1:01 to 1:08) is probably one of the funniest scenes of that entire series.

IIRC the leak was fairly random in that only males managed to get the Firefly aura.
I really wanted (and am now seriously looking forward to) using the Firefly aura with several female characters.

With the way things are going we could very well be wiped out by Japanese-based killer robots.
I'm just hoping we'll have a few years with the Japanese-based sexbots before that happens.

I've only seen the first two TV episodes (haven't read the comic) but if I had to guess I imagine what we'll see in the future of the TV show is Rick adopting a sort of cold, practical "kill or be killed" mentality which includes Walkers or live people.

As a sheriff's deputy before the zombie thing happened I have to think he at least started from the point that he had never killed an innocent person and morally never thought about killing anyone as a first option. My guess is that when he shot that "half-body" zombie girl in the first episode that was the first person he ever "killed" that he thought was an innocent non-criminal. That was the beginning of a new reality for him that definitely shifted him away from any kind of "idealism" he might have had before the zombies.

But by the same token I don't think he's going to be the type of person who's ever going to be able to kill anyone without feeling remorse for it eventually. I think he's shifted into "soldier mode" which means he'll be able to quickly decide if he needs to kill for his own survival, but I get the feeling there will be moments (at least in the TV show) where they'll show him thinking about what he's done and being upset by it. I just don't see him becoming an inhuman "uber-terminator" killing at will without consequences no matter how bad things get.

So no I don't think Rick's an "idealist" about life and death, but I do think he'll retain at least some level of humanity/empathy for people who deserve it so that we can continue to sympathize with him as a character.

If you want to play the newest versions of some of these games then yes, minis are becoming more important than they used to be. But the interesting fact about rulebooks for games is that they actually last for quite a few years if you treat them well. Nothing is forcing you to play the latest card/mini hybrid games if you don't want to.

If my friends and I want to roleplay we'll roleplay with a system that's geared for it. If one of us wants to play the latest "Magic the Gathering with minis" game WotC wants to foist upon us we'll first just laugh at that person, then play a real roleplaying game.

I think the suggestion to have "personal bases/apartments" is probably one of the all-time top ten suggestions this game has had for years. There are probably more people who want this just in general than anything "secret identity" related.

Like I said in another thread the "wrong Issue number" happens fairly often with these predownloads. I've seen that mistake happen in several other predownloads before. I wouldn't worry about that typo too much - the multiple downloads is the real problem to be concerned about.

Don't know why you've downloaded it more than once but I've seen the predownload mislabeled with the previous Issue number several other times like that. For some reason the Devs always seem to forget to increment the Issue label to the latest number. I wouldn't worry about that too much.

Yeah it seems like it's part of the game for us players to have to "figure out the mystery" of what the emote names are.
Sometimes the Devs list them openly but often times they make us have to figure them out for ourselves.

Just to be clear about it the four GR stance emotes are as follows: stancehero1, stancehero2, stancevillain1 and stancevillain2.

Basically I would take that to mean I19 will be out on Nov. 16th if no major problems pop up between now and then or they'll let it slide until Nov. 30th so they can take Thanksgiving off.

While it might be true that Caprica was originally a non-BSG show they reworked to be a BSG prequel it's hard to get around the fact that the SAME people (David Eick, etc.) were involved in making both shows. I'll grant you that Caprica ended up having some critical problems, but the people who created the BSG you loved had complete and full control over what direction Caprica took. They had complete responsibility and could have made Caprica as good or as bad as they wanted. Apparently they didn't do so well.

So don't be so quick to assume that Caprica WASN'T "done by fans of BSG or at least the plot was specifically designed AROUND what we saw in BSG" because who better to judge what that should have been than the guys who actually made BSG?

Obviously the Cylons had to come from somewhere so the idea that there had to be a "Cylon origin story" out there made perfect sense. The fact that the producers of this show "borrowed" a similar idea to start from wasn't the problem with Caprica. Caprica failed because it lost its focus and never got around to telling the story it was supposed to tell. That was David Eick's fault, not the basic premise of the story itself. Caprica had the POTENTIAL to be a great show even as a "non pow-pow drama" as you seemed to think it was.

In any case based on the relative failure of Caprica I'm not going to automatically assume Blood and Chrome is going to be any better than Caprica until I see it for myself. *shrugs*