Wayfarer

Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti. Double win as far as I'm concerned.

Some favorite book titles:

Bimbos of the Death Sun
Bride of the Rat God
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets
The Light That Never Was
A Night in the Lonesome October

My favorite lair doesn't belong to a villain. It's the International Rescue secret island base from Thunderbirds. A tropical paradise that comes complete with some of the sweetest aircraft ever.

If I have to choose a villain lair then I guess I'll go with the Galaxy island base from Our Man Flint.

With this being a mandatory course that students are not allowed to drop and must pass to graduate, any video game required by the course material has to be brain dead easy. They're probably already going to get grief for requiring students to play a video game. Can you imagine what would happen if they actually started failing students for not being good at video games?

One could argue that some superheroes are D&D characters.

This entire movie was basically one long, well done, action scene.

I will not be handing the keys to Hollywood over to teenage girls and G.N.O. You'll find me at The Expendables.

No Captain Sweatpants shirt? Fail.

I decided to get an electric kettle after finding out that water heated in a microwave can explode. You can get a decent one for fairly cheap and they're faster than heating water on the stove. Works for me.

I see Rorschach in the background. That doesn't bode well.

While there are certainly stores around here to buy loose teas from I tend to favor either Stash Tea or the Portsmouth Tea Company.

This summer I've been experimenting with different teas iced. Right now, at 8:30 am, it's 83 degrees out, feels like 90, with a projected high today of 97. Under those conditions I just don't feel like drinking something hot. Currently I have a pitcher of jasmine green tea in the fridge. It's alright but I think with my next pitcher I'll be going back to Earl Grey. And like others I add my sugar when I'm making the tea and the water is nice and hot so the sugar will dissolve. If you wait until the tea is cold then you have to use something like Sweet & Low instead of sugar.

Now when the weather is cold I like a nice cup of lapsang souchong but that's not for everyone. People seem to either love it or hate it with very little middle ground.

I'd love to see a Legion or JSA spin-off but the reality is that, like Smallville, they won't have the budget to do lots of special effects so you'd wind up with a lot of lame stuff like the Doomsday fight. Based on the heroes we've seen on the show so far I think the spinoff that could be done the best would be a Sandman Mystery Theatre series but I'm sure instead we'll get stuck with some show about emo teen angst.

Another good movie worth checking out if you haven't seen it already is Unleashed aka Danny the Dog.

Brick - Film noir conventions applied to a very modern mystery set around a high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is surprisingly effective as the hard-boiled loner looking to the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr. is a petty thief who stumbles into a movie audition and winds up being flown out to Hollywood to star in a movie. Val Kilmer is the private detective hired to give him detective lessons. Naturally they quickly find themselves involved in a murder case and hijinks ensue.

You Kill Me - Ben Kingsley is an alcoholic hitman who screws up a job and gets sent to San Francisco to get his act together by going to AA while working in a funeral home.

Black Snake Moan - I almost didn't link the trailer for this one because I think it's pretty misleading. This film was marketed as a 70's-style blaxsploitation/woman-in-trouble movie but it's actually got a bit more depth. Samuel L. Jackson plays a farmer in the Deep South who finds a beat up, drugged out, half naked Christina Ricci lying in the road in front of his farm. The two have serious issues that they're working through and ultimately they come to help each other.

Yea, though I post in the thread in of trolls, I will fear no flamewar: for Moderator 08 art with me.

I'm here to chew bubblegum and flame n00bs and I'm all out of bubblegum.

No matter where you post, there you are.

I wasn't too terribly impressed with the Mayhem missions. I played thru both the AP and KR missions multiple times with an EM/EA Brute and a Thug/FF MM.

At first I thought the destructible environment was kind of cool but I could see it would get old after a bit and after the first couple of Mayhem missions I found myself completely ignoring the environment. It even got annoying when I constantly had to tell my thugs to stop shooting at red/purple objects that would take too long to destroy and follow me. In the end my strategy head directly to the bank, ignoring everything else, do the job, and then use whatever time I had left to blow stuff up or find the side missions. One of the pluses of doing things that way is that I never summoned my pets until I got inside the bank so I avoided problems that a lot of MMs apparently had.

I did 4 side missions. I kidnapped a senator's daughter twice, though the second time around I almost skipped it because I don't like doing kidnap missions, and I robbed a couple of stores. The store robberies were the best part of the Mayhem missions in my opinion. It meant getting to see some now environments and added a new element to the game in the form of avoiding alarms.

Problems I had...having to use mouse clicks to target mobs because sometimes it took way to long to tab through all the extraneous stuff like parking meters and random civilians...having to constantly tell my pets what to attack because they'd be shooting cars and stuff instead of the mobs that were shooting me...at one point I couldn't get my pets to attack the bank vault door so my low level mastermind had to break it down herself using unslotted Brawl, the minor damage throwing knife temp power that naturals get, and the first minor damage attack that Thug MMs get. To say it took a long time would be an understatement.

My MM also had a problem with the hero always concentrating on her and totally ignoring her pets. Once she gets PFF I suspect it will be less of a problem but right now hoping that her pets can kill a scrapper before the scrapper kills her can get a bit hairy.

The Kings Row bank job was always hairy in the beginning. Without fail there was always a LT along with at least 4, sometimes more, regular mobs situated so that they'd all aggro as soon as I left the entry area. Both the Brute and the MM were hard pressed to survive this initial stage.

If it were up to me I would drop the Mayhem missions and go back to the old types of heists. I would then incorporate some aspects of the Mayhem missions into the rest of the game.

I would incorporate the destructible environment into the rest of the game so that people have something to smash. If they destroy enough stuff in a short time period, perhaps it could spawn ambushes as the authorities come after them. Further, it would be a neat if missed attacks had a chance of hitting destructible objects provided there's something in the correct area. For example, a policeman shoots at me but misses, hitting a parking meter I happen to be standing next to instead.

Incorporate the side missions into the regular game as well. You're running down the street fighting random mobs when one unexpectedly drops a key, giving you a five minute window during which you can enter a nearby door to rob a store or horn in on some type of action. The CoH version could be stopping a robbery in progress or somesuch. It would make for a nice variation from the newspaper missions.

I'd probably add some of the new side missions to the newspaper system as well. Maybe someone is offering a reward for busting them out of jail or maybe some store just obtained some particularly valuable bit of merchandise. That sort of thing.

I would definitely take the destructible objects off the list of things that can be tab targetted, though I think it would be a good idea to implement a new command that only tabs between objects.

Don't make citizens tab targettable at all unless you're going to actually allow me to hurt them. Otherwise its pretty pointless.