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Re: Order of the Stick Has the guy who signed that letter showed up? The name does not ring a bell.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster They doing more construction at spaghetti junction?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Megashark vs. Giant octopus: So bad, so very, very bad. And this from someone who recently watched all the Godzilla movies (including the truly crappy ones) The one beer I had while watching this was not nearly enough. I'm not sure if there are enough beers in the world to make this movie good. Bangkok Dangerous: Meh. A friend told me I needed to watch this and handed it to me, but I don't recall why. Not a terrible movie, but --nothing-- stands out about it. Just a formulaic action movie. Reading the back of the DVD and seeing a trailer is probably all this movie needs.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Reheating is one area where waffles are better then pancakes (They are about the same in other ways IMHO). Make a big batch on the weekend, eat more then you should, then freeze the rest. Straight from the freezer to the toaster oven, and Voila! Instant yummy breakfast on a workday. Pancakes can never recapture that fresh-from-the-griddle aura, while waffles can make a pretty good show of it.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The first 3 Resident Evil movies. I liked the first one. It had a good twist of not knowing who was who with the amnesia thing, and lots of fun zombie killing action. The second had a little too much deus-ex machina going on, and was basically one action sequence poorly stitched to the next. The third was better put together, but was overall mediocre. It wasn't bad, but not great either

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Usual Suspects.

Re: The move to FTP

Re: The move to FTP My understanding is that silver players are choose a class, and then are locked into a path. So they choose "brute" and get smash at first level, tough at 3, haymaker at 5, etc... (names and levels totally made up for this example) Where a full gold member can choose any power he wants, as long as he follows the rules. Now, if they make the standard builds effective, this won't be much or a problem. The main problem I see is if you want to play a brute with say, fire breath (because you are a lava rock monster or the like) if it's not in the standard build, you can't. The flexibility of the character system is lost, and that's one of the main draws in the game. You can look however you want, but will play the same as every other brute out there (as silver). (I am no expert, I just spent and hour or two combing the forums a little after the announcement, might be wrong or they may have changed things)

Re: The move to FTP Depends how they handle it. I have a lifetime subscription, but don't play much these days. In theory, the FTP model raises more revenue then the subscription one. The "free" play is more like an extended trial, and they can nickel and dime you for more then you would normally pay if you buy things ala cart, or just subscribe. I know LotRO went FTP, and I think that went quite well (lifer there as well). Think of it as them offering more options, rather then them screwing paying customers. One thing LotRO has, which CO does not look they are going to have, is a way to earn store points in game. This gives free players the ability to earn things (like more quest packs, character slots, etc.) so given enough time and work, they can be just as good as the paying customers. And by "time and work" I'm talking about grinding till your eyes bleed, but the option is there (particularly if you just want some of the perks, not all) With the CO plan it looks like the world will always be divided into haves and have-nots. Free players are always going to be at a disadvantage. This will make it hard to integrate them into the community. From a business POV, this isn't a "sky is falling/ game is failing" event. Somewhere the bean-counters noticed that this strategy makes more cash. But it is something that needs to be done carefully. There is a lot of bad feelings that can come out of a change like this, so they risk pissing off large chunks of their player base if they flop the implementation.

Re: Political/Religious Space Colonies? Another thing to consider about religious/cultural colonies is that many of them won't want to leave. This planet is where all the holy lands are, where was born, and happened. From a racial standpoint, -THIS- is -OURS-, where we have been since time began, and we don't want to leave. They would be more then happy to see everyone else ship off, and leave the only planet that matters -Earth- to them.

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... Did someone post in this thread after midnight? Just keep that thing away from water.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I eat what the Dice tell me to on my pizza. But given my (non-random) choice, I prefer mushroom and sausage. Pepperoni can sub in for the sausage, depending on the quality/nature of the sausage involved. At my sons's last birthday party we had make-your-own english muffin pizzas, and I made sure all the toppings listed on the dice were available. Quite a few people put their fate in the dice's hands, and none were disappointed!

Re: Template List for Space Opera Noir: what to include? What is uncommon in one group is everyday in another. One of the players in my group almost always gravitates towards the dilettante template, regardless of the system. And the other players will give it a go from time to time. If you are just building this for your group and know none of -your- players are going to make one, you can probably skip it. Of course, having templates for everything lets people know how the universe is built, so they can fit their builds in better and know what to expect from people they meet.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore When they realized they could charge for 2 more toppings? I've also had black olives on a ham/pineapple pizza before, which worked out well.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Wanted Not a bad action flick. Pushed the edge of what I could take for suspension of disbelief. Bending bullets, slowing personal time, those I can take. Sniper shots across the city, not so much. It was the "through the window, between the train, through the doughnut hole, nothing but net" bit that stretched it.

Re: Music to Kill Zombies By Weapon: The Bluesmobile Music: Can't Turn you loose Partner: Elwood Blues "Lots of room in this mall"

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Special agent Frodo Destroying artifacts of fell power in 3 simple steps: Step one: Get the ring from your uncle; Step two: Walk to Mordor Step three: Toss the ring into Mt. Doom! (was watching LoTR:RtK last night, the wife commented that it was a bit dark. This started a conversation about what the saturday morning light-and-fluffy version would be like)

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Two Towers (the extended cut) Of the 3 LoTR movies this is by far my least favorite. I understand that movies pace differently then books, and a lot of things need to be changed in order to make a good movie, rather then a good book. But this movie has two of the most glaring changes of the trilogy. Elves at Helm's Deep? I can understand the need to show that the elves hadn't just up and left for the west, but this was not the right time to show it. From a Hollywood perspective I can see why it was done here, it just rubs me the wrong way. The near-total butchering of Faramir's character. I might be a little biased (he is one of my favorite characters) but he is supposed to represent all the was good in humanity, hearkening back to the nobility of the men of numenor. Not be Boromir's whiny little brother who just wants a hug from daddy. From a movie standpoint, I understand the need to segue "meanwhile, back in Gondor..." but I wish there was a better way to do it. Overall the movies are stunning visually, and do an excellent job bringing LoTR to life, but as with any book-to-movie translations there are going to be bits that make the fanatics twitch. We see the same thing every comic movie translation as well. Also watched Kick Ass this weekend. Overall a fun movie. Only minimal teen angst/awkwardness (which I generally find painful to watch) and a whole lot of action.

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Godzilla: Final Wars This finishes my tour of watching all the Godzilla movies Netflix has in order of release. While I had some thematic problems with the movie, it does make a nice capstone to the tour; Godzilla puts the atomic smackdown on pretty much every monster he fought in the past ~50 years.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Re: Ok I'm confused.... With Hero there is usually a few different ways of doing the same thing. Were-things are often done with multiform, where you basically make 2 characters, one for the human, and one for the beast form. This is good for when your two forms have vastly different powers/skills/stats/etc. Only in Heroic Identity (OIHID) is another way to build it. You put the 1/4 lim on all your beast-form powers, and can only use them when in that form. Animal forms generally don't need multipowers, as they have a set of fixed abilities. Multipower (the framework) is good for when you want to be able to a bunch of things, but not all (at full strength) at once. Think of it like the starship Enterprise, you can have power going to the shields, movement, phasers, or some combination; but the engines can only put out so much juice. This would be done with a 3 slot multipower (Force Field, Flight, Energy Blast). While you could put things like life support in the framework (which one would assume you always have points allocated to) things like the armor on the hull would be bought separately. As for the math, there are some programs out there to help build characters so you don't have to deal with the math. The numbers might look funny, but the formulas work, so just trust them and run with it.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Godzilla against Mechagodzilla

Re: Template List for Space Opera Noir: what to include? As a varient of politician or lawyer, you might want to think about a bureaucrat. Either in government or a mega-corperation.