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Well I would simply argue that if the Rednames wanted to do anything to STOP people from talking about supposed conspiracies then TheOcho should have probably not used the vaguely loaded word "initiative" (as opposed to "issue") without fully explaining what he meant by that.

Frankly I think the Devs are sometimes their own worst enemies when it comes to things like this...

Back in college I had a roommate who supposedly did an interview with Elvira for a school newspaper back around 1990.
That's it, no real story beyond that - I just like to flaunt my extensive connections to famous people.

Normally I don't like "remade" movies, especially ones that are based on recent originals. So when I heard "Let Me In" was based on a Swedish film made just 2 years ago I initially figured it was going to be a cheesy knock-off.

Fortunately I was pleasantly surprised. This new movie was good enough that I want to see the original now just to compare it for relative goodness. Turns out the guy who wrote the original novel and screenplay for "Let the Right One In" (John Lindqvist) was also involved in the screenplay for this new movie so it make sense that they are very close and true to the source material.


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I loved the simplicity and strength of the characters. The story was straightforward but mysterious enough to make you want to care what was going to happen. I loved how this was technically a story involving a vampire but it more like how two emotionally fragile people would deal with horrors of vampirism as an abstract thing that would stand in the way of a "typical" relationship.

Admittedly the ending itself wasn't too hard to predict, but the film was interesting enough that it was cool to see how it unfolded to reach that ending. I'm sure many people remember the classic scene from Star Wars where Anakin makes the final choice to "fall" to the Dark Side by choosing to help the Emperor instead of Mace Windu. Well let's just say this film's equivalent of that scene blows the Star Wars scene out of the water for overall coolness.

I guess it'll be interesting to see how they frame this new show. Will Wonder Woman just be kind of a loner doing things semi-independently or will they try to build up a "scooby gang" of sorts like Buffy the Vampire Slayer did? Will other characters from the Justice League ever be involved here or will the show effectively assume she's the only superhero in the world (kind of like the 70s era show did)?

I suppose they could do all sorts of things with this...

The real problem here is that the Devs were initially sloppy with what they allowed to be badges in the first place. Strictly speaking it would have been far better if the Devs had limited "badges" to only be things that were earnable by individual characters via actions in the game.

Where this all got fuzzy is with things like anniversary badges and vet badges. These badges denote things that the PLAYER has done or experienced in the real world. These things have absolutely no relation to individual characters. Why does Captain Awesome of Paragon City care that a MMO has been around for X years or that a player has paid for a MMO account for X years? These things have no bearing on the in-game universe so these things should have never been badges to begin with.

That being said I don't really mind if the Devs retconned badges like these to be global account badges because I don't really effectively consider them to be "real" badges anyway. *shrugs*

While it's unfortunate the game forces us to exit a mission in order to start the fame timer I would actually hate to see the Devs waste one second of development time to make this work any differently. At best this was a one time annoyance that the OP experienced. This is not a game-breaking bug that needs to be fixed or even a legitimate "QoL" issue that has no obvious workaround. This is a "lesson learned" that will not likely be repeated now that the OP knows how the game works. Sure it would have been nice if he didn't have to waste some time learning from that, but now that he has it's a moot point for the Devs to "fix" it.

I have never once logged out of the game like this PRECISELY because it's uncertain to me exactly how the game would handle this scenario. I would never expect the game to react to something like this as assumed. Sure it'd be nice if the game held my hand a did everything the way I wanted but I'm willing to accept there are things it'll never be "smart" enough to handle perfectly. This being one of them. *shrugs*

I suspect, with all due respect to theOcho, that all (yes I said ALL) of these auras were being developed for the inclusion into some kind of future booster pack.

When the Devs realized two of them (Snow and Firefly) leaked they made a quick command decision to let them become part of the upcoming Issue as a concession to all the complaints about the emote Party Pack. But once they realized yet a third aura (Storm) also leaked they knew they couldn't just keep letting all of these go for free because that'd leave them nothing left to SELL in a booster pack.

We will probably be getting a future booster pack that'll include the Storm aura as well as maybe other auras we haven't seen (leaked) yet. If that happens then I'll be reasonably suspicious that Snow and Firefly were likely supposed to be part of that pack too.

It's all good either way. It's just an interesting insight as to how the Devs react to ongoing situations like this.

There've been times I've daydreamt fun names for characters out of the blue.
But for this game when I actually go to create a character I usually follow this order of creation:

1) Decide what AT/powerset I want to try.
2) Think of a name for it.
3) Think up a vague background for it (i.e. enough to nail an origin for it).
4) Create a costume and power color scheme for it.
5) Play it for like 10 levels or so to see if I like it or not.
6) If I keep it then write up a real bio for it once a have a "feel" for it.

But I figure whatever works is good. Sometimes I don't even follow my own "rules" for it.
Sometimes I'll think of a vague concept first (normally step 3) then figure out an AT/powerset and name that would fit it.
It's all good.

Actually the "rate" of increase is the irrelevant part. As long as there is ANY increase in world population, even if it's very slow growth, there's going to be an ever increasing pressure on finite resources. We might be able to avert a resource crisis for a long time using fancy technology tricks. But sooner or later we are either going to have to STOP that growth completely or move some people off this planet, period.

Problem is that overall world population is currently NOT growing slowly. Sure the rate in so-called advanced countries may be relatively slow, but when taken together the total world population is currently exploding like never before.

Once again I do hope for a Star Trek like future for us all. But if our collective history is any indication our first steps into the galaxy will far more likely be on-board ships prefixed with "ISS" instead of "USS". You Star Trek nerds out there know what I mean by that.