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I'd participate, but I know of exactly one anime/games sword and zero Eastern historical ones, so that cuts me out.

Controllers. Ugh. Slow to level, often visually uninteresting, lacking in direct damage, often hard to solo. Worse, a high-level, min-maxed controller played by a player who enjoys that AT renders the rest of the team useless.

The only controller I've ever managed to play to any significant extent is the blaster-like Illusion/Kinetics.

Dominators, on the other hand, are probably my favorite AT.

Ah, more "now you can communicate more instantly!" technology ... meaning more ways for your job, or those Evil Marketing People everyone's always complaining about, or just those annoying people on the internet, to follow you everywhere! Futurama's EyePhone indeed.

Regardless of how rocky the start of something like this is, by the time they manage to display an image reliably, you can bet that you'll be expect to own and use one or get left behind by work and friends. Even if, like me, contacts in general give you a huge "ick" sensation just thinking about them.

I felt that Inception was pulled from "horrible" to "okay, though not that great" by the strength of the fantastic cast, but I don't think that's the kind of answer you're looking for. If I understand the question right, you're looking for a movie someone thinks is (1) has a good cast but (2) is still bad in spite of that. Honestly, I can't think of any that fit those criteria, even being extremely subjective about what constitutes "good" and "bad."

I'd make it so that people don't split up and race all over the place, making it impossible for anyone to get healed by characters with healing powers (not that I ever see more than one character with healing powers per Keyes, anyway). Like too many other "challenging" things in the game, it's something where a few characters essentially do all the work and get all the fun and glory, while the rest die over and over and over again.

Now, if you carry a full tray of green inspirations, can solo a War Walker And Friends, and have full invisibility, it's fairly enjoyable. It also has a great Maniacal Villain Rant. On that note, it's one of the few points in the game where I actually feel like the antagonist is really a "supervillain."

Someone who knows the mechanics of things better than me would have to tell you about those other fights, but I do know that the Jack and Eochai never finish their fight by "winning" without player help. Their GM-level regeneration outpaces their ability to damage each other.

This is why you can occasionally miss out on the badge if they've been wailing upon each other for a long time before you jump in to take them down; they'll have done so much damage to each other, without last effect, that their entire health bars represent less than 10% of the damage done to them since they spawned. Unless that has been changed.

The author of the unfortunately-perished-from-the-boards "Ask the Newbie" thread, which I always found hilarious, claimed he had a character named "Loser," leading to such citizen spewings as, "We still love you, Loser!"

I hate, hate, hate Batman-the-character, but I love this series. I'd rate it among my top five favorite TV shows of all time. It's that good. The art direction and building design is particularly impressive. I love Art Deco, partly because of this series. I particularly enjoyed episodes featuring unusual locations, like the zoo in "On Leather Wings," or rarely-seen characters, like Maxie Zeus, just to see how they would be interpreted for the look of the series.

I didn't much care for the less streamlined, angular "new look" episodes, for the most part, even if they did feature some strong or entertaining stories, notably the demon Etrigan and his magic rhyme. I felt the character designs in particular lost a lot of what made them special when they were no longer "revised" to be all deco-y. Exception: "new look" Scarecrow, who has one of the most impressive villain costumes of all time. (Art team, take note, if you are reading this.) The shadowed, skull-like face, the jimswinger coat, and the noose are all great, but that mysterious stick he carries all the time is the thing that really makes you feel like this guy might not be a man in a scarecrow costume at all, but something much scarier.

If you are a fan of this series, you owe it to yourself to find a copy of Chip Kidd's Batman Animated, which will tell you all kinds of interesting things. (Kidd came to the project in an interesting way, too. He's primarily a book design guy and is very, very prominent in his industry, but he was always a big fan of Batman, so he basically got into doing the book for fun.) Now I'm annoyed that my copy is sitting at my parents' house several states away ...

Some of my favorite episodes, for a variety of reasons:

1) "Heart of Ice," a.k.a. the one that introduced Mr. Freeze. I've always found Freeze a much more sympathetic character than Batman himself, and this episode is the reason why. It's hard to generate pathos in a twenty-minute story, but they did for this one.

2) "Deep Freeze," a.k.a. the other one with Mr. Freeze. This one, on the other hand, is entertaining because it shows that you can turn one writer saying to another, "Hey, Walt Disney had his corpse frozen" into an entertaining and action-packed story.

3) "On Leather Wings," featuring the Man-Bat, also the first episode to be completed. This one has everything- a visually arresting villain, Batman sneaking around and analyzing things, neat building designs, an impressive finale, a cameo by Harvey Dent (my favorite supporting character), and an airship. I have a cel from this episode, I like it so much.

4) "Appointment in Crime Alley." Aside from being a pretty good "street crime" story, the pacing of this adventure is fantastic. It's one of the best examples of pulp "obstacle piling" that I've seen. At the same time, it maintains a simple, straightforward emotional core.

5) "The Laughing Fish." For those who aren't aware, this is actually based on a fairly early story from the comics. It was an excellent choice. The Joker is both threatening and hilarious in this episode. To this day, I can't see a yellow rain slicker without thinking of his commercial.

6) "Almost Got 'im." For all the reasons that have already been mentioned. I consider this the best "anthology" episode of a TV series of all time.

7) I can't remember the name, but the episode in which Batman is committed to Arkham after being sprayed with the Scarecrow's fear toxin. As implied above, the Scarecrow is another of my favorite villains, striking right at the heart of what the Batman character is. This episode has the added bonuses of cameos by plenty of other villains, some interesting locations, and glimpses of just how paranoid the Batman really is.

8) "Mudslide." I almost put "Feat of Clay" instead, but I feel "Mudslide" is a tighter story. Anything with Clayface, really. He's just a fun character, visually, incident-wise (with such an array of powers), and even personality-wise. I'd even include "Growing Pains" here, though the focus is less on Clayface; it does have one of the more powerful endings I've seen, one that perfectly sums up the gloominess of the Batman world-view.

9) "Harley's Day Out." I find it interesting that so many people like this one. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Harley Quinn, but this episode will always have a special place in my heart because it was the first one I ever saw. This series ran while I was in high school and college. I'd loathed the "everything is black" design of the Tim Burton Batman movies, so I'd studiously ignored this series. Then, one Saturday morning, I happened to turn this on, and said to myself, stunned, "Batman takes place in the '30's?" From then on, I was hooked. My favorite visual thing of all in this episode is Veronica Vreeland's hair. A few years later, my first girlfriend turned out to have hair just like that.

10) "His Silicon Soul." This features two interesting supporting characters, Carl Rossum and the (otherwise forgotten '50's imp) Bat-Mite. It's got the beautifully done location of It's got one of those semi-sympathetic antagonists this series did so well. But the thing I like best about it is what it suggests about the depth of Batman's terror of death.

11) Mask of the Phantasm. Okay, I consider it cheating a bit to include a movie among "episodes," but it is one of the high points of the original series. I consider it the most entertaining screen rendering of Batman that we've seen. The plot has some depth without being overly complex, the characters are interesting, the humor is pretty amusing ("It ain't the Bat. This guy looks more like the Ghost of Christmas Future."), and the set-pieces are truly spectacular. Its use of what is essentially the 1939 World's Fair is one of the best sequences in superhero fiction, bar none. (By the way, to learn more about what this was based on, go out and find a copy of David Gelernter's 1939: the Lost World of the Fair, which is not only one of the best books ever written about the 1930's, but also, in my opinion, the best book ever written about American culture. And I wouldn't have thought to read it ... if not for Batman: the Animated Series.)

Columbia, MD, here, on the second floor of an apartment building. My first thought was, "Boy, those kids upstairs are really shaking the floor!" My second was, "Hmm, with that rumbling, I guess it's a truck idling outside." When it didn't stop after a few seconds and things started falling off the shelves, I realized what it was. Ultimately, it was just a curiosity for me, for which I am thankful.

It did make me happy I didn't get that job in Santa Clara, CA, though.

Costume piece? Possibly the Jewel or Tech Tactical belts.

I notice myself duplicating colors a lot more than duplicating costume elements, even though I try to avoid it. I seem to use some shade of gold as an accent color on about 80% of my designs.

The repost of the list is missing the Dalek, number 94.

Some additions:

14- ED 209 (I believe that's the number), Robocop movies
32- Wheelie, Transformers cartoon series/movie (holding 31, Wheelie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie)
34- Scooter, Gobots cartoon series
70- Calculon, Futurama cartoon series
72- the robotic dog from the K.O.P.S. cartoon series. Did this have a name?
98- the Humping Robot, Robot Chicken television show
101- Jenny, My Life as a Teenage Robot cartoon series
115- Tick-Tock of Oz, specifically as portrayed in the Return to Oz movie
124- B.E.N., the Bio-Electronic Navigator, Treasure Planet movie
131- I don't remember its name, but it's the robot from The Eliminators movie
140- Another whose name I don't know. It's the pet-thing from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, though.
153- Robot Man, Robot Man cartoon series
156- Twiggy, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century television show (sorry, can't remember the name of the thing in his chest)
168- Tee-bob, M.A.S.K. cartoon series
176- Goddard, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius cartoon series
179- Rover, Planet 51 movie

I spotted a number of others, but I think they've all been listed already (at least, those numbered below 100).