White Hot Flash

The fact that you expect something from a science fiction world to be 100% realistic means you fail to grasp the meaning of fiction.

It's ok to accept FTL, sentient robots, etc, but it's not ok to accept that in the vast emptiness of space there's a possibility a group of planets might be out there in the fashion the BG universe says there is?

You must be a hoot at parties.

But the thing is, see, this CAN be obtained by everyone. It's not reliant on someone having to grind the crafting badges, or hunting for 4 different enemy groups, or completing X,Y, and Z TFs. Vet rewards are the easiest things in the game to get. All you have to do is keep paying and you're guaranteed to get them if the game is still running. And if you quit the game or the game quits you before you get it, you're not missing out on anything but getting to be extra lazy.

There is zero wrong with Devs putting in something that will be obtainable instantly by some, and then obtained at a later date by the rest. It doesn't matter how desirable that thing is.

They could do that.....

or people could just get more creative with names. This game is almost 7 years old and people haven't scratched the surface on all the good names.

They made it pretty clear from the first episode that the cape was special. I'm not sure what the problem is here.

Your "real issues" are someone elses "bells and whistles", and vice versa. I guess it only works one way with you, though, right?

You forgot to mention PvP, AE, and end game content, btw. Slipping on your DOOM posting.

Send a direct PM to Synapse. If you're waiting for someone to sift through emails that went to developers that are no longer employed, you're gonna wait a while.

Castle didn't really deal with IO sets as much as the powers themselves anyway.

*strikes a heroic pose*

Then our work here is done. Go forth and stop evil.

*flies off into the sunset* *cue outro and credit roll*

What you're describing is the Sean Connery version, however, we also got the Roger Moore version, which I hope never gets imitated again. Maybe it was a product of the times those movies were made in, but I always thought Moore's movies were the worst of the bunch. He always seemed to succeed by happy accident more than actual skill or cunning. I'd rather have a competent guy that actually looks and acts like he's been trained to do what he's doing.

I agree with your general point, but there is something to be said for having a social life where you interact fully with another human being (see them, hear them, touch them, etc) rather than interaction through the internet, or the phone. Are you truly interacting with people when you're hiding behind an online persona? I know a lot of RL things about several people in this game, but I've never actually seen any of them in person. They could have been lying to me about everything and I'd never know (and I could do the same).

Interacting "in the real world" involves a lot more vulnerability on your own part than having internet friends does. You might send each other Christmas cards, you might even see each other at Meet and Greets or conventions once or twice a year, but your daily interactions with them aren't the same as being in the same room as them. On the internet, you only know what I allow you to know, and you have to take it on faith that I'm being truthful. When you're in a club sitting across from the person you're talking to, you can't hide certain facts, like your height/weight/sex/race. There's a big difference in the two.

I think the point of the study is more about how much interacting "gamers" (and by extension other people that spend a lot of time in front of a computer) miss out on, and that long-term periods of isolation could be harmful (like the analogy of eating sugar all the time. It fills you up for a while, but the long term effects aren't good.). I disagree with the premise that there's a large, harmful effect, but I think there is a difference in the type of social interactions, and balance is needed.

Sometimes the simplest answers are the best.

Pop Lucks before a fight, and BFs if you get hit. As many have said, inspirations are there for a reason. Using them frequently doesn't mean you're a bad player.

If you've got a base with Empowerment stations, you can also craft buffs that can help you with trickier missions.

It was decent because it didn't try to be great...

Setting the bar lower might get a few more bucks, but it sure doesn't win much respect.

It's a reboot in the same sense that a comic gets "rebooted" when a different writer picks up the title and does something different with it, ignoring things that previous writers did because it doesn't fit in to the new story.

Wait...you think that a highly intelligent teenager making webshooters is implausible, but a bite from a radioactive spider that creates natural webshooting from his wrists (not from his rear, which is where it should be if he's a spider) is plausible?

"Hey Moe, what's that?"

"It's an industrial-sized deep fryer. I got it from a decommissioned naval ship. It can flash-fry a buffalo in 45 seconds."

"Awww...45 seconds? But I want it now!"