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I'm willing to accept the idea that the TV version of Lori was portrayed a little more "erratically" since Shane played a more significant role on the TV show.

Still she was somewhat annoying in the comic book because she suffered from the same "queen bee" complex that Andrea ripped her on a few TV episodes ago. Her narrowly-defined purpose in the comic was much the same as the TV show - neurotically worry when Rick left the group, neurotically worry when Carl was in any kind of danger and organize the rest of the women during any "domestic duty" details.

Basically apart from the increased interaction with Shane I think TV Lori has been one of the most direct translations from the comic book of any of the characters we've seen.

Hopefully they'll come up with a reasonable explaination of how they hook back up with the rest of the group. I hope there'll be at least a few episodes of Andrea and Michonne wandering around on their own before that happens because otherwise if they just "magically" find the group too quick it'll just seem a bit cheesy somehow.

Actually it'll be interesting to see Andrea and Michonne together like that because I can foresee Michonne becoming a sort of "jedi master" to Andrea to finish her off her jedi training. We've already seen how Andrea has become more kick-butt as the TV show has progressed so it'd be the perfect pairing for Andrea to learn more "badassery" from Michonne.

There was a rumor floating around a few weeks ago that Rutina Wesley (Tara from True Blood) was going to play Michonne.
She might have been OK for the part but I'm sure Danai Gurira will do well with it.

There's no argument that the Devs would probably need at least one dedicated full-time staff person whose sole responsibility would be to accept player submissions and analyze them for possible inclusion into the game.

On the other hand there was, at least in the early years of the game, a fairly active community of modders that created a large number of costume mods. Admittedly most of those underground mods were either attempts to create things like Superman chest logos or nude female piece-parts.

Still I think if the Devs formalized a submission process and made it clear that any submission would be fully owned by Paragon Studios then they would probably motivate the community to produce and submit viable costume item candidates that they could eventually sell in the Paragon Market. Seems like the Devs could eventually make enough money from it to make it worthwhile.

Well at least he was honest about it. Most of the time when Hollywood tries to make movies out of books they do their best to try to convince us that they are "being true" to the source material so that they can trick people into thinking we are getting perfect translations. Obviously translating books to movies is never going to be 100% perfect.

I'm not sure if this was a Freudian Slip or if you were intentionally making a play off his name but it was funny either way.

Well IIRC Lori was kind of "one-dimensionally annoying" in the comic book as well.

I realize as a mother she's worried about Carl and she probably has a right to be shocked by some things like learning that Carl put zombie-Shane down. But seriously she does need to get over this idea that he's -just- a little kid or that he can still somehow be kept "innocent" in this post-ZA world. Her inability to accept that Carl seems to be reasonably mature enough to handle most of what's going on has gotten incredible old and almost borderline insane at this point. I'm not suggesting that Carl should be considered a "man" now, but he's certainly not a baby anymore either.

If this movie turns out to be even remotely analogous to a "reimagined Alien with 2012 era CGI" it will be more than worth going to see.

Yeah I let out a YESSSS! when I saw her appear on screen.
I did it again when they showed the Prison in the distance in the last few seconds of the episode.

Well if you've been following my ongoing theory that this show has been dissecting the nature of leadership between Rick and Shane in a similar way the classic Star Trek epsiode The Enemy Within did then you can better understand what's happened here.

Based on that working theory Rick has been demonstrating the "thoughtful, big picture" thinking a leader should have while Shane has represented the "gritty, implusively uncompromising" form of leadership. Basically the two of them each brought different leadership elements to the table but they were fighting each other because each of those forms of leadership tend to oppose/contradict each other. The moment Rick killed Shane the two competing "halves" of leadership were finally merged into Rick. I suspect Rick will now be more "Shane-like" able to do the brutal things that need to be done but will be tempered by his original innate sense of control and morality. The two forms of leadership are now in the one man better able to face the post-ZA world.

I've long ago learned to give up any sense of realism when it comes to ammunition and -anything- produced by Hollywood. Nearly every movie or TV show you can name (the overwhelming majority at any rate) pretty much always allows any major character to shoot about 20x the amount of bullets that any gun could ever hold without reloading. It's pretty much the classic "magical hero gun" trope.

Yes at least this show has tried to show a few people (like Hershel and Andrea) dealing with checking/reloading their guns, but most shows don't even bother to do that much. They'll just let people shoot 1000 rounds or more without even pretending to reload. At this point it now almost shocks me when a show actually -tries- to get it right like Hell on Wheels did recently.

I won't even bother to worry about their unearthly accuracy. Again like the ammo thing most shows just let any main character basically never miss when the story needs them to kill everything.

After mentioning it the other day I actually tried it last night and it worked reasonably well. I just left him sort of in the middle of that "courtyard" area on the west side of that tall building where those timed MOBs show up.

As soon as the timer started I just hopped back over to him and I noticed that he was starting to attack the guys who had appeared around him. He probably defeated at least a few of the guys on his own and maybe saved me 10-15 seconds worth of fighting so it was better than nothing.

Yeah that little update slipped into the game so time ago.
Pretty sure it was there at least before Issue 22 went live.

No, your car analogy is completely wrong here. The dealership in this case is not charging you extra for anything the car actually NEEDS to operate as a fully functional car. A more accurate analogy here is that you're buying a car and the dealership is offering to sell you OPTIONAL racing strips, tinted windows and satellite radio. You don't NEED any of those things to drive the car.

I absolutely understand that as players we generally don't want to have to pay anything extra for anything that we could otherwise get for free - I get that. But trying to express this position in terms of how it would "ruin the game" or make it "impossible to play" are laughably ridiculous.

If the Devs offer something us something OPTIONAL to buy then we always have the CHOICE to decide if we want to pay for it or not. Even if you choose not to buy something like this that can't possibly ruin your -current- gaming experience in the least. I've been playing this game for almost 8 years now and if the Devs magically offered us new Power Customizations tomorrow that we'd have to pay for in the Paragon Market I could very easily continue to play the same game I've enjoyed for years even if I refused to buy them.

I just wish people would get over their misguided entitlement mindset and either just pay or don't pay for things without trying to paint the company as some kind of axis of evil just because they want to earn extra money. *shrugs*

Yeah... well the S.W.A.T. captain calling the ATV a "car" is a little weird all things considered. But you do realize that when the bad guy says "the police have themselves an RV!" that he's saying it in a mockingly sarcastic way right? He's not literally saying the police are driving a civilian Recreational Vehicle - he's making fun of the fact that the police are using an "overblown massive vehicle" to assault the building. It was pretty obvious that he was using the term "RV" in a derisively joking manner and frankly that made it one of the more memorable quotes from the movie.

I don't recall seeing scheduled "daily checks" during any other 2XP weekend. That's probably why they're doing something this morning to minimize the chance they'll have to do anything else during the rest of the "prime time" of the weekend.

I have no real doubt about that - this is the Internet after all.

Still, criticizing something in a movie that also exists in real life is always going to be a little more reasonable than arguing about which version of "make-believe" is better than the rest.

Not really. I still suspect they might release it around the end of next month to match up with the 8th anniversary of the game, but that pretty much more of a "reasonable guess" as much as anything else.

The unexpected server problems we saw a few days ago happens very, very rarely with this game. I've played here fairly regularly for almost 8 years now and I think I've seen "unexpected" downtime like that only happen like maybe 3 or 4 times tops.

I wouldn't read too much into what's happening today. *shrugs*

Three quick comments:
1) Wouldn't it be interesting if CoH gave us this as an option for archery power customization?
2) Do I even have to ask where this woman keeps her quiver of arrows?
3) That tall white building behind her is the Burj Al Arab so we know this happened in Dubai, for whatever that's worth.

Espeically considering Kheldarn just reported that there's a new patch on beta right now.

While I agree it's a bit silly to be nitpicking an archer's form in a movie that has a whole bunch of IMPOSSIBLE things in it it's also worthwhile to point out that at least we can compare Hawkeye's archery technique to real life because archery actually EXISTS in real life. Ultimately there really is no excuse for a supposed expert archer to 'arch' stupidly in any context comic-booky or not.

If there was someone out there who was nitpicking that the Hulk's skin color is not the right shade of green then I think you'd have cause to call that kind of criticism ridiculous.

I think it's realtively safe to say that as the Devs actively phase out shards they'll make threads become earnable via the same actions/locations that shards are earnable now. It's also very likely that the last 5 Incarnate slots will require a huge number of threads.

Based on this I suspect that threads will become much more common than they are now. It'll likely be easy to rack up hundreds (or even thousands) of threads becuase you'll actually need that many to buy the top tiers of the new powers. In that environment using threads to craft Alpha powers will become almost trivial.

I pretty much always assume that Hollywood will always mess up something when it comes to showing martial arts and/or weapons usage. Sometimes I can sort of ignore it if they don't make a big deal out of it to begin with.

I figure as long as they don't focus on Hawkeye doing something stupid with the bow every 30 seconds I'll be able to give it a pass.