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Gaming / Re: RPM's Nintendo Wi-Fi lists (now with 3DS)

« on: November 20, 2011, 04:48:27 PM »

My 3DS code: 3480-2858-6729

Don't forget to add me.

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Off The Wall / Re: Latest Buys

« on: November 19, 2011, 07:25:38 AM »

Bought a Nintendo 3DS for $129.99 plus tax. I are lucky.

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: November 08, 2011, 07:36:39 PM »

As a university student, I must say that "sleep+good grades=no social life" describes my existence.  

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: November 07, 2011, 03:56:11 AM »

Platypus!

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: November 02, 2011, 06:45:58 PM »

...ANNNNNNND it looks like Carlie Cooper dumped Peter Parker and there was much rejoicing! (If I'm reading the reactions from the fanbase right.) I didn't know much about the character but she did feel so forced after the marriage retcon. This a good or a bad thing?

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 27, 2011, 06:13:25 AM »

Then I should be glad I don't collect ASM. I wonder if I should pick up the Scarlet Spider ongoing even though I know it's not Ben Reilly in the costume. *Really wants to punch someone at Marvel for teasing the fanbase with his return, again*

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 26, 2011, 05:39:57 AM »

Ye gads, you know it's a bad thing when Marvel's feeling nostalgic about the Clone Saga. Granted it started out decently and I thought Ben Reilly was a compelling enough character.

As for Marvel's crossovers, even Onsalught was a much better effort than Fear Itself and Spider Island... and that should say something.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 26, 2011, 05:24:01 AM »

Mind if I ask what makes "Spider-Island" so horrible? (Ben Reilly teases aside.) I only glanced through it in the comic shop because I don't want to sink $4 in it.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 26, 2011, 04:25:49 AM »

So I read on Wikipedia that Kaine is now the new Scarlet Spider-- if that's the case I find myself quite annoyed that Marvel keeps teasing the return of Ben Reilly to the land of the living.

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Entertainment / Re: Doctor Who

« on: October 26, 2011, 03:02:48 AM »

Always good to go when the audience claps the loudest. Matt Smith's Doctor was always quirky, fun, alien, and a badass when he needed to be; I hope his last series will rock my spacetime continuum.

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Entertainment / Re: Doctor Who

« on: October 25, 2011, 10:57:51 PM »

Breaking news! Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who. Something tells me that the "fall of the Eleventh" mentioned in The Wedding of River Song was foreshadowing on Steve Moffat's part.

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Gaming / Re: Talk about Sonic

« on: October 25, 2011, 05:56:26 AM »

I'm just saying here that it's not needed. Not required by far. Sure, stick'em in. But they don't deserve to be a gigantic deal. Massive amounts of friends are what's normally recognized as the main factor that killed the Sonic franchise (it's actually bad game design, but people can be dumb). We may see Tails and Knuckles in the future, but in the direction Sega's headed, they're most probably gonna try and keep Sonic as the role rider for awhile. And I got no problem with that.

Indeed, you can stuff those extra characters in a medium that's better suited to a cast of hundreds-- notably the comic but that's a whole other can o' worms.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 24, 2011, 06:06:01 AM »

And Thor dying-- why bother? We know he's coming back for the next movie.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 24, 2011, 03:11:55 AM »

Most people say start with Annihilation and proceed from there. I can't say with any authority myself because I didn't pick it up.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 24, 2011, 03:02:52 AM »

Fear Itself just ended. It was pretty terrible.

Ye gads, why did I sit through seven issues of this?

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 23, 2011, 10:47:14 PM »

Oh dear lord, this quote I found on Top Ten Creative Team Shake-Ups worried me.

Danny: Bendis has been the Dungeon Master of Marvel for SIX YEARS now, making his Avengers run this mega-epic that will surely overshadow all subsequent Avengers runs for years to come.

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I deeply dislike his run on the Avengers. Nothing about it felt Avenger-y to me--especially Secret Invasion.

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Entertainment / Re: DC Animated Universe Thread

« on: October 19, 2011, 03:14:20 PM »

Agreed. That was worst Joker I seen though the rest of the episode was top-notch. I wasn't expecting cameos from Blue Devil, Plastic Man and those other two whose names escape me.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 06, 2011, 03:46:47 AM »

Oh yeah, I decided to pick up Aquaman #1 on a lark, and actually liked it but I'm still on the fence it comes to picking up #2. Aquaman's never really appealed to me that much and I'm not Geoff Johns can fix that.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 06, 2011, 02:40:13 AM »

Supes is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SMUG!

That a reference to Action Comics #2? I only peeked at it.

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Off The Wall / Re: Ex-Head of Apple Co Steve Jobs is deceased..

« on: October 06, 2011, 02:37:58 AM »

That was unexpected. Seriously, I heard his health wasn't that great but I didn't think he was going to pass away this soon.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 03, 2011, 04:25:44 AM »

I think this guy said it even better than I did... and in a Boston accent no less: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4132-Continanity-Rebooted

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Entertainment / Re: DC Animated Universe Thread

« on: October 03, 2011, 03:40:48 AM »

I'm just curious of what the consensus is on "Young Justice" since it started back up. Everything from characterization to continuity is always tight whenever Greg Weisman is involved. Personally, I like the cameos (like Bette Kane and Barbera Gordon in "Home Front") they manage to sneak into most episodes... and Aquaman has a beard in this one too. Take note DC.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: October 03, 2011, 01:32:20 AM »

It's been a while since I read the rules but I'm going to x-post from my blog and hope I'm not breaking them. It sums up my feeling on the imminent cluster-[tornado fang] I see DC getting itself into with the New 52.

Looks like the first month of the much-hyped “New 52” relaunch has come and passed and the results look promising with Justice League going through four printings but only time will tell if DC comics can maintain this momentum. For my part, I’m not very pleased with how it turned out for a number of reasons; the foremost of them being how abrupt the news arrived. I started May 31, 2011 believing that Flashpoint—the event series that preceded the New 52—was going to be an “Age of Apocalypse” scenario where everything would go revert back to the previous continuity upon it conclusion. I was mistaken in that belief; on the pages of USA Today I read that DC would reboot their characters and I felt betrayed as a loyal fan and customer.

Long-running titles like Action Comics, Detective Comics, and recently renumbered Wonder Woman and Adventure Comics were going to be going back to number one or canceled in the case of Adventure. A tactic Marvel made famous to boost the sales of their titles of their more iconic characters because everyone knows how collectors love new number ones. Then “all” their characters would undergo a “complete” reboot, note the quotation marks because I quickly learned that would not be the case. Over the interim three months I learned that the Batman and Green Lantern would have their respective histories intact, albeit highly condensed, because the former is a cash cow for DC Comics and the latter is Geoff Johns’ baby and to hell with consistency if it interferes with his plans. As if things couldn’t get more confusing, events like “Blackest Night”, and “Brightest Day” still happened as shown despite DC rebooting several many key characters (like Hawkman and Firestorm.)

This is what I like to call the “cherry-picking” method of retconning where the author “reboots” their universe but picks certain storylines to integrate into their “rebooted” universe. Trouble is that a reboot means you start from scratch to avoid all the baggage from the previous continuity and to explain it only opens more plot contrivances. Take the reboots of Superman and Wonder Woman after Crisis on Infinite Earths; though both characters got a complete reboot two other titles, Legion of Super-Heroes and New Teen Titans continued business as usual except Superman was never a number of the Legion and Donna Troy/Wonder Girl appeared before Wonder Woman. To make things even more confusing, Wonder Woman’s membership in Justice League of America became null and void yet all their adventures still happened, except Black Canary took her place as a founding member. (Since when did BC bench press girders and tie her enemies in a lariat again?) That’s not even delving into the absolute messes that Legion of Super-Heroes and Hawkman became after the post-CoIE universe became once it turned into a rampant retcon fest,

How does this tie into the “New 52?” you may ask. My point is this: either ALL the stories before Flashpoint happened or they did NOT, there is no “SOME.” It simply jars me to read that nothing happened in Green Lantern post-Flashpoint and we get an “all-new, all-different” history for Fury of Firestorm that begins in present time when the character played a key role in Brightest Day. Is Dan Didio going to try to pull a fast one on me and replace him with another character as DC Comics’ editorial tried with Wonder Woman and Black Canary twenty years ago?

Ugh. The very thought of it gives me a headache.

Something tells me that DC Comics wants to do a complete reboot but their no editorial will to rein in the big dogs (I’m looking at Geoff Johns) and the coordination need is well beyond their means. Hence the audience is stuck with another half-hearted attempt and a major migraine that a life preserver-sized aspirin cannot fix. There is nothing wrong with the core concept of their characters but they cannot decide on what direction they want to take with their characters. After so many false starts with Infinite Crisis, Countdown, Blackest Night, among so many others, it feels like Dan Didio is jerking the fandom’s chains for short-term and negligible gains and I—as a longtime fan—had enough of it.

Please be gentle on me. 

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: September 30, 2011, 07:44:43 PM »

Kinda meh. I dunno what is up with Gail Simone lately. She's usually awesome.
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I was too busy looking at the art, but maybe we can (partly) blame Ethan Van Sciver for the writing deficiencies because he plotted it from what I understand.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: September 30, 2011, 07:28:48 AM »

Can't. Unsee. 

Does anyone have any opinions on the Fury of Firestorm? Ye gads Yildray Cinar is really improving his art.