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| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Blue Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 11:31:03 PM #31 | As for other match votes: Match 1: Pitch: I like Mega Manas team composition, but that pitch doesn't really tell me anything. I also don't really like the whole traveling through time and space to visit other worlds Exiles style pitches that both books employ. So ultimately this just boils down to which teams character composition I like more, and that goes advantage Future of X Battle: Future of X pretty easily. There's just so much power on that side of the equation wow. Match 2: Is me. Match 3: Pitch: AmazonX is a great name but this is a weak pitch. RetroaXtive pretty much by default but this isn't the strongest pitch by lopen. He really badly needs Cyclops where he has slotted in Beast. Someone with a strong moral compass but also a propensity for being tempted. Someone to play the fulcrum in the Bishop-Magneto duality and I just simply don't think Beast plays that role well. Fight: RetroaXtive pretty easily a lot of strong mutants here and AmazonX really lacks any defense against Magneto in what is a pretty bad mismatch of powers. Match 4: Pitch:X-Mortis is one of the strongest pitches in this game but I think X-trinsic can have something going for it if Iceman can work out a stronger overall story framework for the team he has. May be a team that is a prime trading candidate. Sabretooth might be compelling on Lopens or Johnbobbs teams for instance. Fight: X-trinic lol X-Mortis' battle value is like null. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Blue Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 11:11:42 PM #30 | As for my team's fight potential Husk: Is an all rounder - can have a pretty powerful power of her choosing once she gets a feel for how the fight is going. Havok: Kinda a Cyclops+ style heavy hitter that is going to be very hard for Scares team to do a lot about Leech: Can just completely shut down one mutant at a time which is good because Hollow: Has diamond hard skin and super strong claws and such that put her in the same class as Deadpool in terms of power and once Leech has allowed her to win that vs. Deadpool clash she starts helping us win by tearing through their back lines. Mercury: Kinda the anti-front liner her entire body is poisonous and toxic and her ability to go liquid helps her get the jump on people Banshee: Great crowd control in the form of his big powerful sonic powers and flight to help his powerful front liners and Havok get into position. The big thing I see here is crowd control + Leech + Havok and Hollow means that I can probably tear down Scares team --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Gold Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 11:04:26 PM #35 | Johnbobb posted... Action-wise, Jimmy Hudson fills the role Wolverine would be carrying, and his role in this would be primarily to distinguish himself as a hero independent from Wolverine I'm not talking action-wise. It needs his gravitas. Or someone's. You don't really get that from the manner in which you've used Iceman (who isnt really a vaunted leader type anyway) --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/20/19 10:45:07 PM #435 | |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/20/19 10:44:36 PM #434 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Gold Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 10:41:04 PM #32 | Match 4: Pitch Object Impermutants this is a strong focused title. It veers a little bit into rocket-X territory being too focused on Nightcrawler but the focus on family and the presence of Nocturne and the emphasis on family all really works, though in the face of a real team book I don't think it stands up. I do think it has some juice to it and with the promise of a 12 issue run, I probably buy this in trade paperback format pending the reviews. MLA by contrast is a book that badly badly wants Wolverine but doesn't have him. And I get that that can be problem. I don't think Cloak has the juice to be the center of story's melodrama and you've reduced your two legitimate stars - Iceman and Siryn - to bit roles within your own pitch. This is a story that i also don't really know what it's about after the pitch. It has potential but as it stands I don't see the there there and if as a fan of Iceman if I see him serving a tertiary role in this book, I don't buy issue two. Fight: No-Girl and Chamber are really kind of the keys to this fight. No-Girl in particular is a VERY powerful psychic as long as her teammates can keep her safe and Chamber's own psychic abilities and sonokinesis plays into that very well. Iceman isn't playing to the best of his abilities on a team like this but he and sunspot together is pretty compelling. I can still be swayed here but I think the psychics swing the thing for team Impermutants --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Gold Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 10:27:27 PM #31 | Match 3: Martin has gone through with a crap load of effort to justify his nigh-unjustifiable team and....and it's kinda just fallen flat? I still am not buying it after all of that. Thunderbolts really at its core is a concept that requires FUN villains and heroes who have reasons to go morally gray. Vulcan is really dreary. Cyclops is a good selling point maybe but is again...just so fucking dreary. Phoebe is the dullest of the Cuckoos, X-Man is sort of too all or nothing to be a bit player and he's an anti-draw in terms of sales....there is ultimately no one in this book that leads to a proper Thunderbolts feel. This team BADLY needs Magneto in place of Vulcan because a lot of chips start to fall into place with him but there would still be a lot of answers needed. It also needs just a big dumb fun villain in place of someone that sucks. In the short term, in terms of fixes that can be made right now, Hellion or Warlock for instance would have been a huge improvement on Phoebe Cuckoo and Tempus who provide nothing at all in terms of pitch strength. But even with those changes made, the lynchpin here is still Vulcan and Vulcan is not compelling in this role and that's ultimately the challenge Martin has ahead of him. Fortunately for Martin he drew a lazy team concept to face here so this was still a somewhat difficult decision. Doop's X-Angels is so uninspired and should probably at least involved either Angel or Archangel. That said the team itself has oodles of charisma and lots of interesting ways they interact. If DC can rework the title so that Doop isn't at the center of everything this has great potential. Hire yourself Amanda Conner and go off to the races. That said this teams was practically DESIGNED to sell books and even as a cheesecake book it has more potential that Vulcans team of blagh. Advantage: X-Angels Fight vote: Any team that brings both Vulcan and X-Man to bear has a lot of firepower at its disposal. But any fight with X-Man has to contend with the fact that currently in canon he has to be on his own little world to have any real power without you know, dying.And Vulcan really does not play well with others to the point where I dont see this working. Joseph and Tempus are both very willful and X-Man isn't exactly just gonna go with anyones flow here. Meanwhile, casting Omega Sentinel on a team that is mostly just wetworks operatives is a good idea because that gives her a reason to play along with shadowcat and the like and ultimately I just can't see Martin's team co-existing long enough to beat a team of 6 pretty competent assassin types like this. X Angels --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/20/19 7:29:09 PM #309 | ninkendo posted... I think for the first time since the first week I'm gonna have to have both shows on simultaneously. Need to see what happens with HHH's open door policy tonight WILD CARD RULE --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 249: Phase 1 of a scheduled topic series |
| Eddv 11/20/19 6:50:04 PM #128 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Gold Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 4:33:06 PM #18 | Match 2: Pitch: Can I just vote Spy Caliber X in every match combination for this group? This is the only title from this group I would spend money on. The book lacks a true drawing card but that's really the only knock on it. The whole group fits together like a swiss watch and I like that. X-treme feels meh. This squad was clearly assembled for the battle strategy and the pitch was forced around that strategy. The actual pitch feels uninspired and none of the character dynamics interest me. And when your top drawing cards are professor X and Monet St Croix you done fucked up. Fight: I hate X-Treme with a passion but their battle strat is obvious and top notch: Use Gateway to travel, use the psychics to lock people down and let Crusader X and wild child mop up. Spy-Calibur actually matches up surprisingly well here though to the point where this match to some extent boils down to M and Crusader X vs Morph and captain Britain and M really feels like she tips the scales here. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Gold Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 4:19:42 PM #16 | Match 1: Pitch is an easy easy win for Mutant Intent. That Rocket X team is a great team but none of them matter because this is an X-23 solo book and X-23 like all the wolverine clones is sort of meh for me on her own. Just a criminal waste of your colorful supporting cast. Not in love with Mutant Intent by the way just the book is far less flawed and Emma Frost os doing Emma Frost things but the rest of the team has a lot of ?s about their roles too. Fight feels like it goes to Rocket X . Mutant Intent has a metric buttload of offensive power but Darkstars ability to manipulate terrain is going to force things to get a little more close quarters where Bling! and Boom Boom start to turn into heavy carries. Jean Greys presence also prevents Emma from going all front liner because she's gonna be needed to fight off Marvel Girl. Ultimately Mutant Intent needs some more utility powers to set up their implosive fiery core. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 1: Blue Division |
| Eddv 11/20/19 2:28:25 PM #19 | I do want to elaborate on some of my pitch thought processes. Mercury is like a one liner dropping more talkative girl. And shes angry and has a bad home life and just wants a place to belong and that's really why I envision her as one of the breakout stars here. I think Hollow does make a great foil for her as Hollow really doesn't speak at all but can sort of communicate and Hollows problems are really far more basic. I also see the Nicole-Hollow-Mercury relationship as really having potential. Obviously in an ideal world I'd have Monet and Synch in place of the M Twins but I am sort of pleased by what I was able to do with them. Leech + Nicole struck me as a good idea because I think Nicole having an autistic twin is one of the few who would give someone with the sorts of inborn problems leech has a chance and I think it places Nicole into an oddly central role where shes playing big sister to Claudette and Hollow while still trying to carve out time for herself. As Snake said this is for better or worse a VERY X Men title. Generation X is a book all about teenage angst and the assertion of a cynical worldview emerging in place of childhood innocence BUT this is still a team who's major stars are Archangel and Jubilee. They symbolize that Havoks way of doom and gloom really isn't the only way. You can be idealistic and care about things once you emerge on the other side of your teenage years. I also think positioning Husk as the character most caught up in that particular dynamic does her a lot of good especially since her powers allow her to physically manifest her emotional state which I think in the hands of a good artist would be hella memorable. For what it's worth I would definitely want Kenneth Rocafort for this book --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/20/19 6:51:00 AM #285 | ExThaNemesis posted... literally everything punk does is incredible how bout you shut up https://youtu.be/AsKGLg7Yusg --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/19/19 7:26:25 PM #280 | |
| Topic | Top 35 Stories in Fiction |
| Eddv 11/19/19 3:31:28 PM #383 | I think the storyline would be fine if shortened but yeah it is straight up the most uncomfortable Jordan made me. I understand why he included it but I will never abandon my position that Rolan and his ilk who traded (or tried to trade in Roland specific case) protection for sex or the promise of maybe one day sex is basically just as despicable as the actual rapists there. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Top 35 Stories in Fiction |
| Eddv 11/19/19 2:58:21 PM #380 | I just think she never advances beyond her annoying "You don't understand me" noble savage archetype and in general yhe series wouldn't miss her. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Top 35 Stories in Fiction |
| Eddv 11/19/19 2:12:25 PM #371 | |
| Topic | Moving to San Francisco |
| Eddv 11/19/19 2:08:09 AM #196 | This giant argument over a commute that is really not that bad --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Moving to San Francisco |
| Eddv 11/19/19 1:06:09 AM #192 | PrivateBiscuit1 posted... Not yet! I'm waiting until I actually get a paycheck to explore first. Yeah and like granted - we could have driven. But that public transit took THAT long and still represented an enormous savings over driving/parking before you even factored in the inevitable care repairs that the shitroads forced on you --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Moving to San Francisco |
| Eddv 11/19/19 12:51:40 AM #185 | PrivateBiscuit1 posted... My commute in Pittsburgh was worse, tbh. Brother people simply do not understand how ridiculous commutes in the burg are unless theyve lived there. The commute from Reed Smith to McKeesport was hell. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/18/19 10:09:07 PM #272 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/18/19 5:07:55 AM #241 | Imagine AEW doing it beyond the jobber/dark level though. (where we got CIMA/SCU and Kip/TH2 with limited reasoning given but for that level that's probably fine) Sammy/Jericho? They have a reason to be tagging. Every other tag team came into the company as a pretty well established tag team and even in the case of SCU, the reason Sky/Kazarian were the pairing instead of Daniels/Kazarian had a reason and even prior to that the INTENDED pairing of Daniels/Kazarian had a reason. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/17/19 1:24:29 AM #442 | Generation X: The Xth Generation Jubilee (Jubiliation Lee) Archangel (Warren Worthington III) <Team Leader> Husk (Paige Guthrie) Havok (Alex Summers) <Mentor> Leech Banshee (Sean Cassidy) <Mentor> Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) Hollow (Yvette) Nicole St. Croix Claudette St. Croix --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/16/19 2:50:50 PM #373 | Ah shit you're right. Fuck it give me Nicole St Croix --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/16/19 2:43:19 PM #368 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/16/19 2:38:35 PM #366 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/16/19 2:35:50 PM #365 | |
| Topic | post something and i will talk about it for as long as i feel like talking |
| Eddv 11/16/19 7:18:54 AM #4 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/16/19 4:56:24 AM #340 | @ChichiriMuyo You have until an hour after start tomorrow to make your selection --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/16/19 4:16:12 AM #423 | Giants are the point where we kinda need to run the table... --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/16/19 3:41:05 AM #195 | voltch posted... Are they unhappy or underpaid with WWE? Would you be happy working for WWE as a racist charicature? --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/16/19 12:42:19 AM #186 | I think most of them make enough sense other than Hangman and the Lucha Bros. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 8:20:57 PM #317 | not only does he hate this CPU....he hates Shad --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | The Pokerap but only those that survived the Snap |
| Eddv 11/15/19 3:59:38 PM #10 | KCF0107 posted... I assumed this was about Pokemon Snap, but apparently it isn't, so I don't understand the topic title. I think its reusing the fan terminology for when all the heroes died in the avenger. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 3:51:24 PM #274 | Mega Mana posted... Yes. So I'd assume Johnbobb has an hour for his first pick, then ten more minutes for his second, so 3:28c? Thats technically right but I say screw it he'll have had an hour. The 10 minutes was meant as a courtesy for the wrap around --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 3:35:21 PM #267 | |
| Topic | The Pokerap but only those that survived the Snap |
| Eddv 11/15/19 2:49:17 PM #6 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 1:05:01 PM #224 | IhatethisCPU posted... Were ya having trouble decidin' who to go for with Chamber still on the board, then? o-o' Chamber vs Havok was a hard choice! --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 1:00:50 PM #218 | I say if they've missed via idle out that theyre done til they show. I think 2 in a row is exceedingly generous --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/15/19 1:00:08 PM #217 | |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/15/19 5:38:41 AM #412 | |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/15/19 4:49:10 AM #405 | |
| Topic | Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) Season 12: The Regular Season |
| Eddv 11/15/19 4:26:39 AM #397 | Wow the Dolphins really got back on that horse. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 9:57:41 PM #207 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 9:38:27 PM #196 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Eddv 11/14/19 6:37:08 PM #177 | TheRock1525 posted... I feel like this is where we're gonna settle in for a while. the real war comes once Raw is averaging the low 1.1-1.5s and AEW is hitting like 900k-1.1 --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 6:35:52 PM #164 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 6:13:29 PM #144 | |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 6:05:37 PM #134 | Well time to show my hand a little Archangel Husk --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 1 |
| Eddv 11/14/19 5:52:13 PM #123 | |
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