Lothic

Congrats! At least you guys did this in the right order. I'm sure there going to be people out there who got the Black Wolf after the 4th pack on Beta but are going to have to buy hundreds of packs for real to get it for real.

Eh, I don't really hate that the Black Wolf is super rare or that it might take the average person a few hundred packs to get it. I just don't like that there's no ultimate guarantee of EVER getting it.

It'd be nice to know if there was something in the code that said "if you've bought say 500 packs and still haven't gotten the Black Wolf, then your 501st pack will automatically give it to you". I wouldn't even mind if the Devs decided to keep that threshold number a secret just as long as they could tell us that something like that exists.

The uncertainty of possibly -never- getting it is what bothers me about it. *shrugs*

Sure I understood that. My point is that not only is there still that 10% chance (after 100,000) that you won't get it but there's also technically a chance that you could get it after the first pack.

Obviously there's a way you can improve your odds, but there are -no- guarantees either way. Ultimately I was sort of making a little joke about it because even though I want the Black Wolf I don't really want to spend hundreds of dollars for it and -still- not get it.

At least I could go to eBay and directly buy that Black Lotus if I wanted to...

Right and I'm not counting on being as lucky as that guy I mentioned in beta either. I guess if you have to roll like 1 in an 1000 to get it it may always still be possible to get it sooner than later anyway. *shrugs*

Again I just don't like the uncertainty...

Yeah well my quip about 10,000 points was just that - a comment on the sheer randomness of this. I talked to a guy on beta a few weeks ago who claimed he got the Black Wolf after only 37 packs. While it's true he may have gotten extremely lucky with that there's no real point in automatically assuming anything about it.

Still, it is annoying to have no real certainty about it regardless.

Yeah the preview doesn't really make that much sense if we are to assume the two guys Rick blew away were scouts for a larger group. It almost seems like Rick, Glen and Hershel just decided to wait a few hours for the rest of their group to show up. Hopefully there will be a good reason for why they waited so long in the bar.

Despite that I do agree that what we may be seeing is the TV show's introduction to the Governor's group in some form or fashion.

Well he did play Rene the Serial Killer on True Blood so even if he had become a regular character it was a reasonable bet he would be a bad guy and get killed eventually.

The fact that he only got like 10 minutes of screen time was pretty cool from the point of view that we can no longer passively assume anyone we ever see on the show will automatically become a new "regular" cast member. The next new person might be around for the next 5 minutes or the next 5 seasons. It drives home the point just how random life has become after the ZA.

Sadly we know history is becoming distorted and misunderstood by much of today's youth. I suppose I'd almost rather have people thinking Lincoln was a heroic vampire hunter than not know him at all. *shrugs*

Anyway watching this trailer I couldn't help myself get a big cheesy grin on my face. Like Iron Sky the "re-imagining" of history in this case looks to be totally ridiculous. But somehow despite the silliness they both seem jump into full bore into their premises and aspire to some kind of transcendent "Army of Darkness" type coolness that few genre movies manage to obtain. I hope they both live up to their twisted takes on history.

I figured the moment the one guy said "I got this gun off a cop" that Rick's spider-sense started tingling that these guys were not good guys. You have to figure that after the Zombie Apocalypse happened it probably wouldn't really matter where anyone would've gotten any gun. But for this guy to stress the point that he "got it from a cop" meant that he probably thought it was cool to have found (or even made) that cop dead.

Let's just say as soon as he said that and Rick responded with "I'm a cop" I knew this encounter was not going to end well. I didn't quite think that Rick was going to shoot them dead a few minutes later but still.

It does seem rather odd they're all acting like her sudden illness is a "mystery" that they think Hershel will be able to fix.

For that matter it always seemed odd how causally they all treat touching the zombies in general. All I know is that if I found myself in a Zombie Apocalypse and I wasn't 100% sure I knew exactly what made normal people turn into zombies the last thing I'd do is touch them with my bare hands if I could avoid it.

I've always been willing to let the TV characters evolve within their own setting. The guys making the TV show have always said that they don't consider the comic book to be "strict canon" for what they are doing anyway.

Sure it's nice that TV Rick has been moving towards understanding what he needs to do to be the "leader" of the group, but I saw that same parallel growth of the comic version of him too. Obviously both media have the characters moving at their own pace, but frankly I always thought in many cases the comic moved too fast and glossed over the most important points in just a few panels that lacked the detail the TV show can provide.

Ultimately I'm not saying I like either the TV show or the comic book absolutely better than the other. But I'm accepting of their collective strengths and overlook their unique weaknesses. *shrugs*

I've been saying all along that the main TV show plot will continue to diverge from the comic. That's why I'm not too worried about "catching up" to the latest issue until the next compendium comes out. The chances that the later episodes of the TV show will be exactly like the latest issues of the comic are pretty remote. I think elements and side-stories of the comic might eventually make it to the TV, but not the core line of the story.

For what that's worth they've been pretty much dropping hints that Carl isn't going to have a "normal childhood" since the first season. What we saw of that in last night's episode was just the latest bit of that development.

Not really sure what TV Rick might have had to be "redeemed" for, but it seems fairly clear (especially with what happened during the last couple of minutes of tonight's episode) that both versions of the character are following parallel development as far as what they are willing to do to protect the group.

Let's just say we can only hope that 20 years from now they won't re-edit this episode the same way Lucas re-edited the Solo-Greedo encounter.

I don't think I can actually recall precisely what Lucas' "explanation" for this Han Solo edit ever was. But that's OK - had Leonardo da Vinci ever decided to go back and put a mustache on the Mona Lisa I probably wouldn't have bothered to listen to his revisionist "explanation" for doing that either. *shrugs*

No... in the greater scheme of things this quibble doesn't really matter all that much in real life. But that "tiny section of a completely fictional story" establishes the fundamental nature of a core character of one of the most beloved trilogy of movies ever made. That in and of itself makes it worthy of at least some critical discussion even years later.

Those few seconds reveal to us exactly the kind of character Han Solo is. Han shooting first told us that he was a savvy and street-smart rogue who was cool under pressure and able to take care of himself in a dangerous galaxy. Letting Greedo shoot first only leads us to think that Han is weak-willed and unprepared to deal with serious stuff.

Sure even after Lucas's ill-conceived change we can eventually see in the rest of the movies that Han is a badass. But in terms of establishing the character the idea of letting Greedo shoot first completely dilutes and confuses that for absolutely no useful purpose.

Yeah I've always thought it was very sad that Lucas may have been retroactively worried that Han shooting first would make people think he was a "cold-blooded killer".

Clearly Greedo was the bad guy in the encounter who was getting ready to kill Han. Han being cold-blooded? Hardly. It couldn't have been a more straightforward case of SELF DEFENSE if it tried to be. Han's preemptive action established that he was quick-witted and cool under pressure - exactly what he was SUPPOSED to be for the story. Had Greedo actually shot first in the original version it would have left me thinking Han was a weak-willed idiot.

It's not a question of Han -wanting- to kill Greedo - he had to in order to save his own life. There's nothing "morally" wrong with that at all.

I've never really understood why any of the Kryptonians would have to have good muscle definition at all. They have superpowers based on solar radiation not sheer human-oriented muscle mass. Frankly I wouldn't really have a problem with Power Girl or even Superman looking as "not-built" as Supergirl does. Sure it might not be as appealing from some kind of abstract Herculean ideal, but I don't need these folks to be ripped/toned to have "believable" super powers.

My top two badging characters settled into being Vigilantes like a year ago for situations just like this.
I consider this one more minor concession for not being able to get Alignment merits.

Pretty sure a Snaptooth by itself is not enough. You have to run a Ganymede or Scratch in order to make either of them trigger a dialogue response that leads you to DJ Zero to make him specifically talk about the V-Tips.