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I will again point out the existence of the VEATs as a counter example. A crab spider, in particular, has very solid status protection, good ranged defense, some melee and AOE defense, and a fair bit of resistance. They also have a damage scalar of 1.0 and a wealth of ranged attacks. By your analysis they are the ranged scrapper.

If their appeal is so undeniable, then why doesn't everyone play one? The visual cost and being tied to villain side simply can't be enough if it's like you say. You can also pull off ranged widow builds, though as their best attacks are melee by far, people are less inclined to do so (I tried, but reverted to melee since it was so much better).

I dunno, I think these merit mention:

Professor X
Mad Thinker
Leader

Funny I recall you saying:

Which doesn't happen to square with the ability to make crab spiders.

You provided a history lesson from more than seven years ago and derived a conclusion about the present state of the game. I don't agree. Hence I argued with the point you made.

Maybe you forgot the paste tense or something.

While I appreciate you typing up the history lesson (though I was aware of all that), there is nothing saying that ranged damage set cannot be coupled with defenses without breaking the game. You just need to balance the numbers appropriately.

There could be an AT made to suit Iron Man, without making a broken AT.

Most characters in comics are too powerful (at times) to be suitable for this game. However that doesn't stop us from being able to make reasonably balanced facsimiles.

As I cited, we do have ATs which can be used to build ranged/mitigation builds. They just have too much in the way of trappings to resemble Iron Man. Personally I think it is a substantial failing that such an AT doesn't exist.

Disagree with these two. Iron Man is too durable to be a blaster. He took a hit from a tank's main gun in the first movie. That's pretty tough stuff. He's not really doable in COH. They would need a ranged/mitigation AT, which doesn't exist beyond the VEATs and EATs (which have baggage).

As for Cap, well he doesn't really have super strength. He'd be more in the realm of StJ/Shield or MA/Shield.

And you skipped Hulk.
SS/Regen brute. However he's an i2 regen model.

I agree. Casino Royale was one of the best Bond flicks to date IMO. Quantum was not up to par, and this was pretty clearly a result of the writers strike hitting in the middle of production.

In any case, whoever came up with the evil scheme that the plot was based on was an imbecile. Trying to extort money out of one of the poorest countries in South America has to be about as dumb as it gets.

Of course having read the actual Fleming story it was based on, well I understand they didn't have much to work with(movie has nothing whatsoever to do with the story, and to be honest there is no way a Bond movie could).

Yeah, comparing those shows to the Spectre is like comparing Chucky from Child's Play to Howdy Doody.

Basically this comes down to your set of assumptions vs. my set of assumptions. Mine is that the computer is basically a guide to the hospital. It's not a universal library. I don't recall it being described so broadly. The show was a psychological exercise, and I didn't even much care for that aspect. I felt Amy was out of character.

However one certainly we do face is that neither side can really prove their case. It's all about what the author wanted, and that's it. I didn't care for it, and it's about equally likely that you will convince me to like strawberry ice cream (which I don't).

I don't recall it being stated that the robots were made on the spot. I could well have missed that.

Fabricating a sword and making a sonic screwdriver are about as comparable as knapping flint tools vs. making a sportscar.

I am capable of listening, so I do grasp the time.

With nobody to train you except a computer which doesn't necessarily have the information, and you need to hack first, it's not a cake walk.

Fabrication and parts are not as simple as one might imagine. Amy has all the technical expertise of your average strip O gram. I greatly like Amy, but suddenly showing amazing aptitude for making a basically omni device capable of whatever is needed at the time was over the top for me.

No tools, no analysis equipment, no prior expertise, and yet she throws together a plot magic device. Sorry, I don't buy that one.

Heck, I'm wondering how the supposed hospital would leave her alone for 36 years, but that's just me.

But yes, I suppose older Amy was crazy, and that's why she was bitter as all get out. Of course then one might ask oneself why would that bitter Amy not want a reset if, as she said, he life for those 36 years was pure hell.

Nonetheless I didn't care for the episode.

I think you overstate the cost of delays markedly.

More legions are only a concern if ammo is a concern. The amount of grass a lawnmower can take down is limited by the dulling of the blade. Marines are not morons, so water-borne diseases is not a valid concern. People have posted on the nature of Marine procedures in this regard.

I really doubt suicides are likely to be as big an issue as you claim.

Logistics is really the only concern, and if sitting on the emperor's throne is it, then I don't really see an issue. As long as they don't fret away their fuel and ammo, they are golden.

This is actually complicated by the fact that the 40s Superman is not the same individual as the 60s Superman. Those are respectively from Earth 2 and Earth 1. The Earth 1 Superman, also known as the Silver Age Superman, was as powerful as he got. he could shove planets around without much trouble, and do all manner of other silly stuff(lots of time travel, etc). He got dialed back by John Byrne in Man of Steel after Crisis, but some of the depowering has been eroded since then.

Eventually the Earth 2 Superman got ramped up as well, and it's actually rather a fuzzy thing when the transition to the Silver Age Superman really occurred.

Superman originally is likely based on the character from Gladiator. I've read the book and the individual in it pretty much has identical powers to Superman from Action Comics 1. Superman as we know him is not recognizable as the character from the book.

DC did later introduce the son of the main character from Gladiator (Hugo Danner) in Young All Stars. The hero Arn Munro had identical powers as his dad. These powers 'coincidentally' map almost perfectly to original Superman. He did not, however, wear a cape or costume.

Sure you don't mean late 80s? That sounds like the Man of Steel downgrade by Byrne. The 70s supes was pretty cosmic. They did cut him down a bit once, but it wasn't by as much as Byrne (there was a story arc featuring The Sand Superman in which his power was siphoned off some and never returned).

Think this one is very writer dependent. I've seen issues where Fate duked it out with The Spectre, and that takes some major chops.

I don't remember if anyone mentioned the Spectre. He'd sit at ground zero of an H bomb and comment afterwards "was that a lady finger?"

Yeah, his force field is strong enough for that.

If you could actually fit yourself completely behind the shield, I suppose you would be shielded from the immediate first blast. However as the air (plasma) flows around it, the eddies will reach around and incinerate you pretty quickly. Even barring that, the ground you are standing on would quickly enough become a lava bath for you.

So, no, the shield won't cut the mustard in a nuke blast.

While the originals shows do lack in the parts that required a budget (costumes, sets, special effects), they generally quite made up for them in writing and acting. As long as one can avoid being put off by what they couldn't afford to do right, they are enjoyable.

I've been catching up on old ones via Netflix for a while now.