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Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

yeah, please no spoilers. I have really enjoyed the show and the growth and maturity of Arthur (and I believe the actor does a great job, as do most in the cast) from spoiled arrogant prince to a King worthy of following is really the central part of the show, and well done. Only problem I have ever had with the show is that Morgana going from ally to enemy seemed a little forced, especially her enmity toward Arthur as opposed to his/her father.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

The Last Airbender. Saw it on tv last night, and somewhat surprisingly, the wife left it on that channel. Only saw the first two hours, however, as we decided to hit the sack rather than watching the second part. Glad we didn't pay for it, but may get the second part on Netflix just to finish the story. 2 stars.

 

No idea how true it is to the original material, but it didn't impress me much. It has kids as the heroes, and they act like kids much of the time. This is good, as I don't expect kids to be experienced and wise, but bad, because I have zero interest in watching kids do just about anything. And some of the big plot points seemed blatantly obvious to me - it took the heroes time to figure it out, yet should have been obvious to anyone there. If the adults are really this clueless, maybe they deserve to be taken over by an enemy nation? Decent action, good sfx, beautiful countryside, but it just didn't grab me.

The original animated series is much better. The movie is basically highlights from the first season, but without the continuity of 20 episodes. The characters are a little to moody for the original series also, as Aang was, for the most part, care free and having fun. Sokka is basically comic relief for the first season and the planner and jokester of the group.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Just finished listening to Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel. Listening to second book now. Very enjoyable. An Emma Peel/John Steed Avengers feel to the main characters set in a steampunk Victorian Era. Enjoyed enough, may pick up the series of short stories set in e format, though most are not written by the 2 primary authors.

Re: Jokes

9 myself. but I remember all 3 Stevezilla mentioned.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Just finished watching the second set of the BBC's Sherlock (set modern) with Cumberbatch and Freeman, 3 "movies" this time, 5 total AFAIK. Have really enjoyed that series and the "modified" stories Moffat and his people have put together. I have really liked that the stories were changed enough so I didn't know from the original how the story would play out. The variation on the Hound of the Baskerville and also the Final Solution was excellent, IMO. Moriarty is truly evil and insane, and Mycroft did turn out to be Sherlock's nemesis (as he stated in the very first episode), even if unintentionally. I also really enjoyed that John Watson was loyal, despite overwhelming evidence, and even a confession by Sherlock, to Holmes.

Well done, looking forward to more in the future.

Re: Jokes

CMOT Dibbler.

100% Animal Products, guaranteed.

Re: Jokes

Where do I put this? Why not here?

 

 

 

From here, via here.

I find it interesting that no one was offended at seeing his erect/non erect penis in any of the apparently 30 slides he showed, but were horrified to see it in person (and that is a straight line that could lead to jokes I will avoid at this time).

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

Matt Hardy posted a "fake" suicide note on his YouTube account last night that caused a lot of turmoil, including several calls to the police from people wanting them to check on him. Turns out, it was just Matt and his desire for attention. It is sad how far this guy has fallen. I watched the WWE OMG DVD and enjoyed the TLC match at Wrestlemania X-7. At this point, Matt was on top of his game. So was Jeff, who is returning to TNA soon. Both Hardys seem to have serious issues that need to be handled. I hope they can straighten themselves out.

 

As for the OMG DVD... it was a fun DVD. The #1 OMG moment was...

 

Hell int he Cell... Mankind thrown off and through the cage by the Undertaker. That is a well deserving OMG moment. ""Good God Almighty, Good God Almighty... they've killed him! As God is my witness, he is broken in half! That never fails to give me chills.

Agreed with your spoiler, and how he ever got up and back to the top was ridiculous.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

That is sad. I had always thought he was someone who had money. Wasn't there a point where he was involved in buying one of the Carolina sports franchises? Never knew he had all these problems, but explains why he still kept wrestling long after he should have stopped.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Finished A Dance with Dragons.

 

Sucked.

Almost done with it. It is like Martin JUST CAN'T HELP HIMSELF. The book finally felt like the story was turning a corner and SMACK!!!.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

Remember, WWE also likes to leave their most over guys without belts and put the belts on people who need them to get the crowd behind them or against them. This way they can have main eventers not have belts, but still headline tours.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

The TLC matches between the Dudleys/Edge and Christian/Hardy Boys. Just the ridiculous spot after spot.

Honorable mention, Shane McMahon vs Kane when he went off the jumbo-tron scaffolding.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

Not one match, but a series: Flair vs. Steamboat for Heavyweight Championship back in NWA days. The progression of move countermove was awesome. Also, first time I ever saw Steamboat do the hold onto the top rope and pull himself back in.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

The Rock is even more of the point. He was brought in to be a face as a 3rd generation wrestler and the fans hated him and booed him. So then he came out and said if that was the way they wanted it, to hell with them and started a lot of his sticks. The fans then came to love him.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

I haven't been watching, but one thing that sounds like it is missing is the heel afraid of the face thing. I used to love when you would see HHH look up and, for instance, going into hell in the cell Foley became Cactus Jack. The sheer terror on HHH's face was worth it. Sounds like none of the current heels have that ability, but they should. Miz should be one of those.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

The Midnight Express/Road Warriors/Rock and Roll Express trio used to put on some amazing tag team matches. Only really matched by the Edge and Christian/Hardy Boys/Team 3-D group. Different types of matches but all great. Would be incredible to actually see all 6 of those teams in their heyday all in the same group.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

I don'r follow wrasslin' much these days' date=' but I got to see the Rock's return. I don't think you can hold it against today's generation that they can't compete against that type of charisma. He's one of a kind.[/quote']

 

I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact that, although the Rock was a standout and may have been head of the pack, during that same time and slightly before you had Stone Cold Steve Austin, Michaels in his heydey, Flair, Hogan, Sting, Hitman amongst others. None of the current stars can match any of them.

Re: WWE Snark-Free Zone

Taker winning at one more Wrestlemania is a given. That puts his record at 20-0 and I think he'll retire after that. If Sting does come to the WWE' date=' they need to really figure out how to use him right and build it up well. I have no idea who victim number 20 will be, unless they use Kane again. Or Wade Barrett (sp?). They both had a hand in Taker losing that Buried Alive match. Let's wait and see what happens Monday and who it happens to.[/quote']

 

Maybe will be both. Maybe the GM or someone will be trying to set up Taker to finally lose and he will use all his badassness and dark powers and beat them both. I would have him pin Kane, as then Barrett won't get burned by losing and Kane has lost to Taker many times.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos

Most illegal move in wrestling. Shades of one of Henry Winkler's characters in The One and Only.

Re: Best of the Best

That's Ego Storm, it has a maximum of 5 targets per pulse. Like all maintained attacks, if there are more than 5 targets and one target dies partway through the maintain, the AoE will retarget whatever's in its area to keep hitting 5 live enemies rather than continuing to kill the dead one; this is part of what makes high DPS maintained AoEs and summoned damage effects so quick to bring down packs of enemies, as compared to charged attacks which generally waste the extra damage.

 

Ego Storm a very effective PBAoE, but you do have to be mobile and get close to use it. It can put out some pretty impressive damage numbers to go with the hold too, especially if stacking some +Ego damage buffs such as TK Eruption and Shadow Form.

My friend who has it is a T-Porter, so he can get into a group and start it before they ever have a chance to notice him there.

Re: Best of the Best

Most effective power I have seen used is if you have a high recovery/endurance character, Psychic Storm (iirc the name). It is a maintained PBAOE with a hold for the duration and no maximum number of characters (apparently). One of my friends I run around with uses it and will jump into a group of 5+ hench/villain level mobs and throw that up.

Re: MA/Claws... is there any Hope?

Supposedly, HTH attacks do 20% more damage (or maybe if STR is high enough can do 20% more damage), but I never find it and worse, it seems like most the AE attacks from other attacks do at least as much as my unarmed MA single target ones.

Re: Takofanes, where is he?

They've definitely shortened the timers, thankfully. I just logged in to check one, found that it was about to pop, and got to tackle Amazing Grace. I moved on to the next one, found that Radion was up, and got him too.

 

After each one you get a mission, but I haven't tried them yet. Presumably I can solo 'em (they're marked as 3s) since I'm well above the level range for the villains that are spawning, but I won't know more 'til lunch hour.

 

It's a lot of fun to see a bunch of hero names I made up off the top of my head get turned into something cool like this.

Don't know how far along in the Nemesis stuff you have gotten Steve, but if you haven't gotten to Bunker Buster yet, just wait. It was a blast to see some of the heroes/villains that turn up there. Not to mention Green Dragon in the Nemesis jailbreak.

For the person who asked about what to do once you have fought the undead villains, you can now enter the portal that spawned them so you can free their soul being used by Tako's minions. That is what the quest really is.

Re: Escapist reviews CO.

Just so you know, I read Shamus on his D-Twenty Blog. Although he has some sarcastic things to say about CO, he also makes sure that people realize he has 6+ characters already, half of which are in their 20s-30s. He is an excellent source of gaming suggestions and video reviews. He does like Champions Online and has played it quite a bit. On the site you linked to, he makes his living there by being sarcastic about games.

Edit: teach me not to read the whole thread as Amadan beat me to it.

Re: Teleport

yeah, the other problem is that the person with TP who is a Regen usually also is regenerating while teleporting. TP lasts for about 4-5 seconds, most regen chars can regain their full health in that time.