Lycanus
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I tried for a long time, just everything seemed boring.
everything out of Marvel has a distinct flavor of "I've been here before" and I doubt they'll get me back as an interested party, perhaps it just isn't my style of story
it isn't small minded to decide you don't like something, or don't like the way it's gone, but every new big marvel storyline recently just makes me roll my eyes
Civil War irked me for all sorts of reasons
Planet Hulk and the following Hulk stuff is just bleh
vampire invasion, again, bleh
nothing Marvel has put an effort into advertising has struck me as anything spectacular or interesting -
Quote:forgoing the fact that I wasn't trying to convince anybody I was right or wrong, given that the whole thing is opinion and thus differs from person to person.Originally Posted by Cowman
*YAWN*
Yeah, yeah; mainstream comics, bad. Timelines make no sense. Stupid storylines. Plot by commitee. Yadda yadda yadda.
Why don't ya throw in something about Wolverine being overexposed next? That's original. Don't mind me over here readin' X-Men comics; I'm listening. Honest.
Does nobody teach rhetoric in school any longer?
when an argument's reasons are used by multiple people, that makes it stronger.
originality implies that they're the only one using that argument and, ergo, they're the only one that cares about that and, ergo, that that argument is weak.
an argument that comes from multiple people is stronger
so, in essence, unless you're arguing against Marvel and DC, you just made your position weaker.... -
Quote:actually, confuse powers are supposed to be simulating what you want...Originally Posted by Dog_Wylder
I don't think you get it at all "buddy"... but thanks for the comment..
It has nothing to do with power that are available.
note the words "supposed to be simulating"
you're basically asking for "confuse but where I can control the target"
personally, don't feel the need for that, because confuse already pretty well handles the mind control aspect
and confusing an embalmed vahz is about the most enjoyable thing you can do... -
Quote:I liked Daredevil, most of these others I don't care enough about to think they were horrible, not sure which Punisher you mean....haven't seen the rest...Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Of course we each can rank the following as we see fit and some may not be on this list for certain individuals but I don't think any super hero movie wants to be in this company:
Spider-Man 3
Batman and Robin
Elektra
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman III
Daredevil
Ghost Rider
X-Men 3: X-Men United
Catwoman
Jonah Hex
Hulk (Ang Lee one)
The Spirit
Superman Returns
Punisher
Supergirl
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Quote:I gave up on both. I prefer comics that have a single author and artist and have a coherent beginning, middle and end to the story. And then I go on to the next story.Originally Posted by Ape_of_wrath
You know, I see people say this about one of the big two or the other. (Playing a bit of devils advocate here). DC does this too. They very firmly established that recent retcons or continuity errors are from Superboy Prime punching reality. Which one is worsse?
(And just for the record I do feel that Joephisto needss to be beaten witin an inch of his life, taken to a hospital to get better, then beaten again)
I think I gave up upon realizing that Peter Parker had been born sometime in the 50s but was still just into his late twenties. -
Quote:Indeed, part of why I gave up on Marvel was the fact that they not only built, but use a dues ex machina character and use her to explain any changes to the way the world works on their whimOriginally Posted by Hyperstrike
Oh, it probably hasn't escaped them.
They're just holding it in reserve for the next time they need a piece of massive retcon-fodder.
Granted, I enjoyed the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but at least there you halfway know what you're getting into -
I wonder why anybody assumed that was a permanent change when we are talking about a time traveling home base as well as the meta-fact that we already have 3 to 5 versions of a destroyed Atlas Park as it is, and yet the original Atlas is still available to reach
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The Coming Storm has always been referenced as an in-universe alien threat...
the Shiva metorite that hit Bloody Bay is supposed to be a forerunner of the Coming Storm
we also know that the aliens of the Coming Storm use the Kheldians as an energy source and will eventually drive them to extinction if things are not changed
the Coming Storm does not seem to have anything to do with Praetoria....and also seems to be set about to destroy the world, Hamidon included
also, not sure Romulus is an incarnate...know that Imperius is, but not sure about the baddy.... -
Haruhi Suzumiya reads a comic showing Marvel's Scarlet Witch watching Serial Experiments Lain as Lain is watching Bleach on hulu.com and watching a scene where Orihime is drawing a picture of Haruhi Suzumiya.
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Quote:why notOriginally Posted by ChaosExMachina
Haruhi?
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humanity is part of nature
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grr, wrong section
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The Marvel multiverse is a figment of the Scarlet Witch's imagination. She's in a psyche ward somewhere go catatonic.
It makes more sense than almost anything else Marvel is coming up with these days. -
Quote:TVTropes.orgOriginally Posted by Tidbit Jr.
I've watched Endless Eight and, if memory serves, nothing like that happens.
The only one doing the hair-pulling was me, because it was essentially the same episode eight times in a row. >_>
And I Must Scream: "Endless Eight". Yuki, who is supposed to be an Emotionless Girl (or at least really, really bad at expressing herself), is shown to be visually bored and possibly sad from having to re-live the same two weeks over and over again for over 595 years worth of time. (This reaction from her is comparable to a screaming hair-tearing fit from anyone else.) She's the only one who realizes that they're looping and she can't do a thing about it because her job is to "observe." -
Quote:no idea, that's why I'm looking for a clipOriginally Posted by BackFire
What? Does she smile?
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I keep hearing about a moment in which Yuki does something that for her is the equivalent of hair-pulling, screaming insanity and I've been trying to find a clip, can anybody point out one to me?
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Here's a costume I did for a theorized NaruHina kid, it's a bit more sci-fi-ish than I would normally choose for said character due to being in the Praetorian universe -
Quote:Sorry I haven't been around to comment until now.Originally Posted by Tartyrsause
But, WOW!
That is coming out awesome! -
further on the Naruto stuff, I like this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKSNEu6TrQ
partly because it reminds me of something one of my Champions RPG characters did that resulted in one of the three people she'd killed the whole campaign (as compared to the other players)
Two of her kills were accidents (one got resurrected)
The third involved "killing" someone that won't stay dead while he is in his home dimension by tossing him out through the side of space ship (he was desolid at the time, but vulnerable to dimensional attacks, which was the base of the character's strength)
In this case, I was operating as a fast-brick (45 Str) with a boost in strength from one of my teammates (to about 55 or 60) using strength that did double KB when it hit and I haymakered (x 1.5 damage) into a minion type that was known to use two force fields and were thus annoying to take out...
I haymakered straight down.
so, the first bit of damage stunned the minion and shut off all his shields...the KB straight into the ground....well...
the Presence (fear) attack afterwards consisted of the words "Ummm....ooops?"
I seriously didn't realize they were that squishy
then I got the "you can't complain about us killing any more" lecture -
Quote:Originally Posted by beyeajus
Gotta disagree on that one, I've followed the episodes and manga since the early times and I like Shippuuden more actually. Naruto doesn't act like a clown as much and it has a more serious feel to it. I don't know if you've kept up on the manga or are the type that doesn't want to ruin it for yourself, but it just keeps getting more and more intense to me. the only problem I can see with it is the same as DBZ, in the later on episodes previously cool characters like Shikamaru and Gaara/Piccolo and Tien, etc. all take a backseat to the 2 or 3 most powerful caracters.
I tend to think that a person can be forgiven for making the main characters the most powerful characters in the story.
Though I personally like for all of my characters to have something awesome to do in any story they show up in...that is rather unusual.
One or two main characters is the standard.
Equal time on a large number of characters is unusual... -
Quote:personally, I loved Hinata's stand against PainOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
One of the primary things I've found is required to enjoying any genre of any field of entertainment is to basically ignore its fan base. Never take fan excesses as an objective measure of quality, and only ever take reviews with a pinch of salt. Ideally, stick to video reviews where available and try to pick out what goes on from the background footage.
There are far too many phenomena where either the fans are idiots who spoil it for you, or otherwise people have developed a fictitious idea of what that is and proceed to hate that straw man, suppressing legitimately good ideas. Or both, as the case may be.
Naruto is a good example, especially the earlier series, back when the show had a budget worth a damn and an author not suffering from writer's block. It's just a fun and, yes, badass show. I still love one particular attack from the Shippuuden movie, and hot damn is that cool!
I just wish that we'd get to see Hinata get her dander up against an enemy that wasn't two leagues above her current status more often. -
Quote:Body Horror, Nightmare Fuel, Squick, Rocket-Powered Slug-men....Originally Posted by beyeajus
what's wrong with Basliisk, Lycanus? I mean it does get a little too "Romeo and Juliette-ish" at the end, but the fights were great and the techniques were really interesting.
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Quote:I have the feeling that Naruto suffers from the idiocy of its fanbase. I must say that when I finally decided to watch it (after a roommate who would watch it regularly...and after reading Team 8) that it wasn't at all what I expected from the rumors I'd heard.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I'd say you have a very strange world view if, putting shonen trips and tropes aside, techniques that range from city-destroying brute force to the finesse of killing someone a thousand times in their own mind don't count as "badassery". Or possibly a world view that simply eschews the fantastic (like those sticks that hang around in mud
). A non-fantastic Ninja mastermind would basically be a guy followed around by a group of poorly-dressed Batmans. In such a powerset, I would want the third tier pet to get a filament-noose DoT hold (since insta-kills are out of the question).
And it definitely sounds like Ninjas are getting gypped on defense.
Aside from the hand signs, it's not much like ninja as we define them...more like super-martial arts spec ops, and I get the feeling that the author plays a lot of pun games to get different meanings out of ninja
if we were talking about a normal fantasy setting, they'd be getting called warriors, sorcerers and the only ninja would be the Anbu
in fact...Naruto has more in common with Chinese Wu Xia knight errants
more Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh or Journey to the West than Hattori Hanzo and the like. -
I either solo or do static teams so I don't run into this problem...
as to the static teams I'm part of (players the same, characters different), we play at a set time for 2 - 4 hours, get about two to six missions done, depending on size of mission, and then quit for the night.
We don't run continuous charge very often the way a lot of PuGs do, we don't go while someone is afk unless they say to, we tend to plan out each room's assault, and we generally don't mind if it takes us two to three weeks to finish a TF