Lothic

We'll probably go see it this weekend when the "kiddie-crowd" dies down a bit. We'll also probably avoid seeing it in 3-D. The recent stab at 3-D barely worked for Avatar and I've read they think they'll finally have "glasses-less" 3-D in about 10 years. I'm willing to wait for it until then.

Well given what I saw in the first episode (got the second one TiVoed for tonight) I'd have to say he couldn't have been in a coma much more than a week (10 days tops) AFTER the zombie thing started. Without anyone to change out his IV's or anything I doubt he would've been able to hop out of bed as well as he did due to starvation/dehydration otherwise.

Now of course it's not clear how long he might have been in a coma BEFORE the zombies broke out. For all we know he could've been in a coma for many months so there might have been plenty of time for another relationship to start. Just based on the first episode alone it seems like that relationship had to have started sometime before the zombies.

But in a simulated game world it ought to be easier to draw a few random pixels than it apparently is to defy gravity in real life with carbon fiber "surfboard" strapped to your back.
Thus the irony.

This has probably been one of the top ten animation suggestions for this game for years. A close second I've heard quite often is the dislike for the "flaming feet" of Super Speed.

I'm quite sure the Devs would like to give us options for these. It's just a matter of when they can do it.
Remember it took them years to add what power customization we do have so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.
There's always hope of course...

I think between using the Walk power, Day Jobs and the costume slots we have most of what you propose can be handled by simply RPing it. Instead of the Devs giving us a full-blown dedicated secret identity system all we really need is the ability to have more than 5 costume slots per character. If the Devs allowed us the option to buy more slots that would solve most lingering RP limitations like this.

About a week ago on another "I19 prediction" thread I predicted that it seemed reasonable we'd get I19 on either Nov. 9th or 16th. While the 9th now seems a bit unlikely this pre-download today makes the 16th seem very likely given that Issues usually go live within roughly 1-2 weeks of the pre-download.

I simply find it ironic that a fixed wing jet pack of sorts exists in reality before it existed here as a costume item.

Yeah to qualify what I said earlier the Beatles in a movie like this would've made it a campy cult thing. But if Kubrick had made a serious LotR movie that would've been interesting. Imagine a 2001-styled Starchild sequence but made geared towards some kind of Sauron/Mordor sequence.

Oh I'm sure plenty people have made it past 750 badges in the last 4 months.
It's just that most of the top badgers who usually post in these forums have been getting close to 1,000 since then.

When I19 hits there will be many people well past the 1,100 mark...

I think it'd be funny if Mint Berry Crunch turns out to be the one to somehow banish Cthulhu from our world. I mean they've spent the last two episodes building up the joke that no one really knows what his superpower/purpose is so it'd only make sense if he comes out of no where and does something pivotal to save everyone.

As others have mentioned the Devs originally geared the Prestige earning potential against the possibility that there would be SGs out there with 50-75 active members all grinding away at it. If they allowed the game to drop more Prestige per kill than it does now those huge SGs would be able to afford the largest bases possible almost instantly with all the PvP toys you could have. Remember they had to balance everything around all of the PvP base raiding that was supposed to happen. Obviously PvP base raiding never became the big deal the Devs were planning on.

Frankly the entire SG base system has needed an overhaul for years now. Part of that would likely involve resetting the whole intrinsic purpose of Prestige and redoing all the values. Sadly the chances of that happening now seems relatively remote.

Ultimately I think we're going to have to live with the Prestige situation as is. As Fulmens suggested it's probably easier for all those "one-man SGs" out there to rely on generating large amounts of INF (with farming or the markets) to convert to Prestige rather than worrying about earning it directly. YMMV.

I honestly think their ability to quickly toss very current events into their episodes has been one of the key reasons why South Park stays strong as a show after all these years.

Yeah I heard about this "What if?" idea some years ago. I doubt it would have been a "good" movie, especially if you could compare it to what Peter Jackson has since created. But I bet it would have been a cult-classic sort of like what the Rocky Horror Picture Show has become today.

This is one of the reasons I hope they keep this show tight and well focused.
I don't think this kind of show could really stand to have too many "filler" type episodes.

That doesn't really surprise me. IIRC the third book was one of the weaker ones of the series.

Like I said before I actually do like the True Blood TV show for the "new spin" it gives the story established in the books. I'm just kind of worried that the third season tried to cover too much too fast. It touched on bits and pieces of many of the later books in a disjointed "let's throw it out there before we get canceled" kind of way that makes me wonder what they'll try to focus on next season.

According to IMDB it looks like the main plot of Sucker Punch revolves around the following:
Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, Baby Doll envisions a plan which will help her escape.

That basic premise sounds a lot like a famous short story by Ambrose Bierce called "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

In Bierce's story a Confederate sympathizer (named Peyton Farquhar) is caught trying to sabotage the Owl Creek Bridge by Union soldiers during the Civil War. They decide to execute him immediately but when they hang him on the bridge, the rope breaks. Peyton falls into the water, escapes his executioners through hails of gun and cannon fire and makes it to dry land where he thinks the stones look like diamonds, emeralds and rubies. He travels through an uninhabited and seemingly-unending forest, attempting to reach his home 30 miles away. During his journey through the day and night, he is fatigued, footsore and famished, urged on by the thought of his wife and children. He starts to experience strange physiological events, hears unusual noises from the wood and believes he's fallen asleep while walking. He wakes up to see his home with his beautiful wife outside it. After traveling the entire night, he runs forward to reach her when he suddenly feels a searing pain in his neck, a white light flashes, and everything goes black. It is revealed that Peyton never escaped at all; he imagined the entire escape during the time between being pushed off the bridge and the noose finally breaking his neck.

It might be pretty cool to learn that all the "fantasy" stuff that Baby Doll dreams up actually happens in the few moments just before they lobotomize her.

Oh yeah, that is the same actress isn't it. It's amazing what a few years and dye job can do.

Speaking of the stars this idea of yours about what "drives" Mankind reminds me of a quote from Futurama's Zapp Brannigan:

"We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?"

Captain Hindsight is a spoof of that kind of "24 hour news media arm-chair quarterbacking punditry" that goes on. The "magic" of his power is how everyone loves him for it because they themselves are so stupid they actually think what he's saying is insightfully cutting-edge and brilliant.

It reminded me of those scenes in Idiocracy when Not Sure used the phrase "lead, follow or get out of the way" and all the future idiot people were blown away by that like it was the most intelligent thing anyone's ever said.

Baby steps towards the Technological Singularity my friend.
Every baby step gets them that much closer.

The machines really are going to have an easy time controlling us as long as we keep thinking these little "pointless" advances are meaningless or silly...