The Human Torch

Archer

Sealab 2021

Venture Bros.

In my head they all get to coexist in a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen like thing. The Drunken Avengers or something. lol Love them all lots. Maybe throw in the X-Presidents and the Ambiguously Gay Duo as well.

Oh, you guys were literally talking about cigars. See what I was picturing...

I don't get the outrage that I guess is out there about this. So many other problems in this world to fret over these days. For starters Sony doesn't insist Peter has brown hair. The ****?!

Yay! And yeah, the different feel in gameplay between 1 and 2 is like the difference between a kid making laser noises, pew pew pew, and Lucasfilm making laser noises.

Hey, Spam. Anchorage reached 90 degrees yesterday. Apparently my life is a lie. ;-)

What if this fleet was sent out into the dark beyond the stars as a safety measure against the Reapers? Basically more people took ME1 Shepard seriously than Shepard knew, and so a super hush hush "Ark" mission was launched. Meanwhile we continued on with Shepard, now [insert time later] the Ark has arrived at Andromeda. This lets the franchise proceed with total exclusion from Shepard's resolution.

Side Note: The Dark Beyond the Stars is a cool book by Frank M. Robinson. It should be a movie in this new age of realism sci-fi and could be a neat premise for this Mass Effect sequel to borrow from.

I wonder if she got the idea from Soul Man. ;-)

I wanted to be OMG!sploosh! But I almost felt meh. I'm somewhere in between, I guess. Mild excitement. Neat to hear Cash over that visual however, made me think of Firefly.

I have a very simple test when it comes to names. Would British royalty use it to name their kid?

 

If the answer is yes, then the name is acceptable. If the answer is no, then with few exceptions, the name is either a) too trendy; b) for poor people; or some combination of both.

 

You can tell a lot about a person's upbringing and class based on their name. Why some parents would be willing to put their kid at an immediate disadvantage is puzzling to me, but then again, most parents aren't fit to have children so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising after all.

So if a person's heritage is Chinese they should name their children using names suitable for the British Monarchy?

Okay, maybe I was being silly. Of course an Asian-American or whatever can lean on their ancestry. My bad.

So if a person's heritage is Irish, as in the Republic of, they should name their children using names suitable for the British Monarchy?

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Sometimes I wonder why people want to associate with people that shun/dislike them? I mean sure I visited Lando a lot, but... Hatred blows. Hatyellow blows too. Actually lots of stuff blows, not my wife apparently, but still. People should stop blowing. Leave cranky bastards alone and go create our brand of goodness wherever. If somewhere refuses to host, look elsewhere. McDonald's won't grill me a T-Bone, so I don't go to McDonald's demanding that someone cook my preferred meat eats. When nowhere lets you be you then let's go Mayflower. Mr. Wilson is an anchor weighing you down, let him go and set sail, God speed. Everyone is dying when they are born or everyone should live until they die. Rainbows.

Surely exciting. Truly yay! Getting closer.

However I am a little worn of hollow holodeck possibilities. Someone should stop only trying to put me in the world and figure out how to give the world depth... like a diaroma in a shoebox. A 3D set top box that makes it feel like you could go into the screen, rather than it smacking you in the face like a wang seems like it should be closer to reality and more comfortable fun than wearing an iMac on your head.

Totally valid, I mean anything said otherwise flies in the face of and probably should be seen as disrepectful to decades of successful storytelling. :-) Hopefully I wasn't coming across as THIS IS ONLY HOW IT SHOULD BE. lol

I was just speaking from how I think the character works best for my sensibilities. Also in that light, I don't think wanting to make things better and enjoying killing need to be mutally exclusive for Frank. I think Frank being motivated to make the world better should always be present, I think that's super duper important. I just feel what Frank thinks is better is what makes him a villain, rather than an anti-hero. Frank feels like Kingpin, just without the need to command an empire... or even talk to others really. lol

That is likely the path they take, also in keeping with a positive spin on Frank, I guess I am just hoping Frank and Matt don't end up fist bumping or having a Yo, Joe! moment even if their target ends up the same person. I think Frank has more to say being an actual villain... being the villain I can understand, rather than the hero that is a badass. I think that is a distinction which, for me at least, makes Frank's appearances with other heroes (anti or not) end up feeling false and forced. Frank posing in Captain America duds is barf. Frank working alongside Spidey is barf. Even Frank working with Wolverine feels muddled and Wolverine is a man, the anti-hero, that kills enemies whenever he feels like it. There is a very core thing about Frank than should effectively alienate him from every other hero. I'm almost convinced that Frank is deeply deeply broken even prior to his family being gunned down, that he's just a villain that happens to be killing villains.

I could see that approach working. I'd be more in favor of a "Call me Ishmael" narration however, making Frank into Ahab. Maybe a version of the Microchip character could be Ishmael. Perhaps play on the War Journal "star trek captains log" thing that Frank does in the comic, but have Microchip either doing it here or adding to it. Hmm. Maybe that could work modernly as a blog. Microchip could work as a retro-reference by Ben Urich when he says people say anything on the internet.

I have seen a lot of people say the format could allow for exploration of the Punisher character, but to me he is the most shallow one-note comic character of all time... and I like that for him. Exploration of him could feel empty and forced. He is the most basic revenge fantasy. He is not really a character that grows, heals, mentors or even struggles with his methods. He's blunt force justice, cruel and unsual. In a way he should be treated as serial as Bond, he's the same man when the story ends as when it starts and every story is him just strolling thru something delivering hurt to the wicked in every way a victim has imagined during their stages of recovery. He's a walking slasher flick were Jason is the "good guy". In otherwords Frank probably shouldn't be the story as he's the weapon someone else gets to wield... regardless if they realize they're knowingly using him, need him or not.

Except "Eve". She's fabtastic.

Yeah this feels all sorts of good. Very excited.

Here's hoping he doesn't sport a crew cut however, car door ears. ;-)

Of course you'd absolutely know best, especially in regards to your Ma. However Ericka with a CK is an accepted and older (than modern times) variation. It seems to be derived from a combination of the English (Erica) and mixed European versions (Erika).

It doesn't seem to be as modernly silly as something like Roben for Robin, which I've seen and I hoped was a combination of Reuben and Robin but turned out the guy's parents truly intended to name their son Robin. It was a humorous moment when he told me, I was like uhh wow umm and he was just like yeah sigh.

Yeah, Wrex being alive allows Shep to accomplish certain things that they can't otherwise by the time 3 comes around, but it's not "you're doin' it wrong" either way just different. That said I like Wrex and having played 2 first I knew he could have his back against a wall in 1, so during my playthru of 1 I really looked for the cues so I could get him to listen to Shep.

Yeah the only crew that has to die in ME1 is between Ash and Kaiden. Not being able to talk Wrex down I think means he didn't trust you so something you did along the way irked him. You are not screwed for the sequels, but Wrex is neat.

The controls become smooth in the sequels, but in ME3 the devs trolled people by flipping the buttons for Paragon and Renegade interrupts. lol

ME2 is a much more streamlined adventure, with a tremendous opening and a high octane final mission. Hopefully no one spoiled you for either, I think trailers might actually, I went in blind so the opening is one of my favorite moments in the series.

I'm always up for quality space drama.

 

 

Driver, I think it's universally accepted the prequels were bad. I think how bad and why is the reason the discussion continually lives. It's like being a Monday Morning Quarterback after watching your team perform horribly the day before, win or loss. Nothing you say really matters, it just allows you to fold that suck into your fandom and move on to Cincinnati.

Universally accepted? I didn't get THAT memo.

 

A disappointment compared to OT? Sure. Bad? Not so much.

Relative to the OT. Disappointment. Bad. Basically a semantic argument. We could debate the terms forever. :-)

Assuming you refer to legal trouble and blacklisting. Otherwise a child abuser being shunned is not the same as a con loving, vice indulging, obscene wordsmith asserting his free speech rights and then being persecuted for that.

re: Boobs

Even being happy and secure in a relationship for 23 years I have found myself, well not ogling, but definitely noticing a great set (size not necessarily the thing) regardless of what the woman is wearing. In these occassions even my wife notices them. We just give each other a smirk and a yeah wow at those expression. lol Most times the more noticably great boobs and figure isn't even on display with low cut collars or whatever.

Given that mature experience then I believe the issue for hormonal kids has to be crushing. My experience as a teen was a bit different as when I finally took my head out of books and got off the sports field I immediately noticed my wife. Single kids though, must be crazy, can't imagine dress codes change that.

I heard because of climate changes you guys have had some 90s in Alaska. My mom taught in Juneau a long time ago. I keep forgetting Regina is closer down than say Edmonton (I dated a guy from Edmonton). Because of my experiences in Edmonton it colors my perception of Canada. My Dad used to work in Calgary too.

I don't recall anything above the mid 80s and even then that is so rare I could count it on my hands, lived in Anchorage for 28 years. HOWEVER, Alaska is a big state and some places are more south than one would expect. Juneau is more like Washington state climate for instance. Also against what one may expect the interior of Alaska, more north, by Fairbanks can register higher average summer temps. I would assume the near constant sunlight and surrounding mountain ranges create a bowl of warmer climate.

As for Climate Change being the issue... I dunno, I don't collect data (noting in case Carrie reads this lol). I do know that in my 28 years living in Anchorage but traveling as high as Tok and as low as Juneau, that the differences in each year feel little. There are summers that are more warm, others not. Reverse for winter. If I had to peg a term I'd use cyclical over change.