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TopicFrancis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore just collapsed.
scarletspeed7
03/26/24 2:20:11 PM
#69
I spent two years covering Baltimore's news programs as one of their primary caption writers for WBAL, so this definitely struck me deeply. I'm sure not only is the immediate aftermath going to be crippling for Baltimore, its port and transportation in general, but also the longterm environmental effects could be significant. I'm sure the NTSB will launch an investigation immediately.

President Biden vowed to cover the expenses of rebuilding the bridge, but I can't imagine what the price tag would be, nor the timeframe involved. The sheer scope of that project seems pretty mind-boggling. I'm curious if the funds for this will come from the infrastructure act or what.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicBest villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
scarletspeed7
03/19/24 11:43:29 AM
#17
The High Evolutionary and Hela

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TopicOh boy, let's see how that release of Star Wars Battlefront Classic is doing.
scarletspeed7
03/18/24 8:08:56 PM
#11
UshiromiyaEva posted...
It gets worse.

https://twitter.com/KyberServers/status/1769657780816740555?t=XAkiXCIDMNXX6BAp9UP6Kw&s=19
I'm honestly speechless.

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TopicNext time LMS makes a topic
scarletspeed7
03/17/24 12:26:27 AM
#88
Sheesh, what a damning comparison

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TopicNext time LMS makes a topic
scarletspeed7
03/16/24 3:35:42 PM
#15
Leonhart4 posted...
It can't be bullying if it has absolutely zero effect on the target
This aspect in particular made me feel the need to block him. He's one of the rare net negatives on the board predominantly because he doesn't engage in conversation. Even when he quotes a post, the information he dumps underneath it is largely not germane to the post he supposedly chose to reply to. Someone described him in another topic as an AI poster, and that's extremely fair. A message board is supposed to be for the exchange of ideas, but LMS neither has ideas of his own nor exchanges them for anyone else's.

Essentially, he's bloat on any topic. I'm wasting time even glancing at his posts to see who posted them.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
03/01/24 5:40:53 PM
#383
The Morrison GL run was also really good; it was so wildly different from Johns' era but such a breath of fresh air and with such wonderful art.

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TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
03/01/24 4:25:50 PM
#379
Mega_Mana posted...
Wow. Yeah, definitely capturing the zeitgeist! When is that, right after 52 and Civil War? Green Lantern is going strong, too, with Hal, Kyle, and Guy all making top 25. Astonishing must've come out, too, with Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Kitty, Colossus, and Emma all there (with Nightcrawler, Magneto, Madrox, and Jean). Surprised to see Iron Fist so high with Cage down at 33. No John Stewart?
Astonishing is a few years old at this point and Iron Fist just had the Immortal Iron Fist run come out - that thing was a real darling with critics and fans.

John Stewart's popularity has never translated to comics from fans of the DCAU; I couldn't begin to explain why, but he's just not a comic mover and always has been slotted as #5 even behind Alan when it comes to having an actual comic fanbase!

This is coming out during the tail-end of 52, for the DC fans out there, and in the aftermath of Civil War.

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TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
03/01/24 3:08:03 PM
#373
Germane to really nothing, but here's an interesting popularity list from 2007 on one of the comic websites with the most traffic at the time: https://www.cbr.com/top-100-dc-and-marvel-characters-master-list/

While it comes from comic fans alone, it's fascinating to see where Iron Man stacks in terms of popularity for Marvel comic readers as a subset - still at #11 at the time, in the year before Iron Man comes out.

I think the list definitely seems very par-for-the-course by Civil War era standards. Spider-Man and Captain America make sense as the top two, Daredevil as a character for comics readers has always been a real critical darling, and Doctor Doom is easily the most popular perennial villain in the company. The Thing and the Hulk were longtime brand ambassadors, sure. In comics, the X-Men were starting down a real tailspin by this point. After Grant Morrison, a succession of weak runs probably put the highest-rated mutant at #7. Not to mention vote-splitting meaning that X-Men fans would have to divvy up their votes over a large ensemble which hurts each of their chances.

Hawkeye had just died, so this was a huge anti-Bendis vote, I would imagine.

Anyways, it's really kind of cool to see what the popularity of these characters was within the community. Not a particularly penetrating insight for the wider popularity of the characters, but it's pretty cool to look back and see just where the readership base was in 2007, right before the MCU is about to explode on the scene.

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TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
02/29/24 2:28:23 PM
#326
Ragdoll is a featured part of my DCURPG campaign and I believe he's quite beloved by my players.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 5:10:34 PM
#277
There was an ad back during Flash: Rebirth that read, "Barry Allen is back, and it's the worst thing that could have happened to him."

Except someone arranged the typography so that if you cut off the last line it just read, "Barry Allen is back, and it's the worst thing that could have happened" which I always loved and agreed with.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 5:06:52 PM
#275
It's the comic that ended up putting Bendis on the map. For good or for ill.

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TopicGamespot's Official Ranking of Single Player Mainline Final Fantasy Games
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 5:03:35 PM
#41
This list is fine


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TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 4:56:48 PM
#272
Leonhart4 posted...
I'd say Wolverine is the #2 Marvel superhero
The barometer for the time period (at least in 2004) would be New Avengers #1, which threw away all of the dreck and rebooted with Spider-Man and Wolverine alongside Captain America and Iron Man. Those were probably the four biggest solo title movers at that point outside of Hulk (and Daredevil, who had really been more of a critical darling than a commercial success). They were the merchandise movers at the time, and not comics. I mean regular merchandise - t-shirts, etc.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicEA laying off almost 700 employees, ceasing development of licensed games.
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 4:52:20 PM
#5
Ubisoft seems like the next big pillar to fall at the insane rate they seem to be crumbling. Of course, all it really takes is one decent forward-thinking CEO to step in and turn these companies around, but those upper-level managers are just so out-of-touch.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicEA laying off almost 700 employees, ceasing development of licensed games.
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 4:48:41 PM
#3
AAA gaming is not going to die; the institutions in AAA gaming absolutely could fall apart, sure, but big-budget games have a place in the industry and it's only mismanagement that will ultimately kill these companies (if it's possible).

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TopicMadame Web reviews: "It is the Cats: The Movie of superhero movies"
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 4:46:15 PM
#267
KingButz posted...
I do agree that nobody knew who Iron Man was, but that doesn't make him a "nobody" when it comes to Marvel. Pre-MCU, the average person would struggle to name even 5 Marvel superheroes.
Fantastic Four + Spider-Man gosh that was so hard.

Any combination of five X-Men who were all in movies.

This constant refrain that "nobody could name, you know, the stars of comics that sold millions of copies over the years" and had animated shows and films prior to the MCU is really asinine.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicRichard Lewis dies
scarletspeed7
02/28/24 4:41:08 PM
#3
What a fantastic comedian and such a beloved part of one of my all-time favorite shows with Curb. He had just come back from a battle with cancer, too, I believe. RIP.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAnyone watching Bad Batch?
scarletspeed7
02/22/24 9:59:13 PM
#3
Watched the first, and it was bleak, riveting and just really impressive all around.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicTrdl rates anything Magic the Gathering related
scarletspeed7
02/22/24 2:55:11 PM
#91
The Lore

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TopicBorderlands movie trailer
scarletspeed7
02/21/24 1:01:40 PM
#9
I do think that Tannis could probably be reinvented pretty well by Curtis, and it's tough not to think that Cate Blanchett could turn any role into her own. And if you aren't doing 1-for-1s, those are a pair of actresses that at least give me hope they can cook up something interesting. Jack Black and Kevin Hart definitely feel out-of-place, but there was at least one delivery in there by Hart that felt somewhat Rolandesque.

Greenblatt is going to have a tough time trying to match the manic energy of Ashly Burch though.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicBorderlands movie trailer
scarletspeed7
02/21/24 12:22:40 PM
#3
Hey, Moxxi showed up for a frame!

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TopicWhat would you rate Metal Gear Solid 4 out of 10?
scarletspeed7
02/18/24 11:05:00 PM
#2
Rated it 4, just like you asked.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSomething I don't get about the fan reception to the Star Wars sequel trilogy
scarletspeed7
02/16/24 6:39:36 PM
#9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60MnDJklnM

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TopicWho's the most real-world famous B8er?
scarletspeed7
02/16/24 5:09:13 PM
#32
It's actually 100% Timothee Chalamet.

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TopicWho's the most real-world famous B8er?
scarletspeed7
02/16/24 11:42:56 AM
#6
Alex Shelley

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
scarletspeed7
02/15/24 5:58:39 PM
#41
You're burying the lede there, failing to mention my gal Dust!

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicRIP Art - full AI videos from OpenAI now
scarletspeed7
02/15/24 2:30:14 PM
#7
I'm sure there are a lot of caveats involved in this, given these were probably exactly what was used to make that 7 trillion dollar bid.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicCreator of the Suikoden series, Yoshitaka Murayama, has passed away
scarletspeed7
02/14/24 8:43:57 AM
#8
Terrible news; Eiyuden Chronicles has been something I've looked forward to for quite some time now, and even moreso now that I know it will be the last legacy of Murayama.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicDead Island Riptide Definitive Edition is free on Steam
scarletspeed7
02/13/24 2:54:28 PM
#2
Thanks for the heads up on this; it's never looked worth the price of admission, but now I can't say that any longer!

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TopicDo you like this character? Day 1528: Moana (Moana)
scarletspeed7
02/12/24 7:47:02 PM
#11
no

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TopicWhat four quarterbacks are on the NFL Quarterback Mount Rushmore? (+TIEBREAKER)
scarletspeed7
02/11/24 12:18:19 AM
#13
junk_funk posted...
Tom Brady
Peyton Manning
Joe Montana
John Elway


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TopicWhat four villains are on the Spider-Man Rogues Mount Rushmore?
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 10:07:20 PM
#85
Mega_Mana posted...
Who would be on Kingpin's Mt. Rushmore of antagonists?
Vanessa Fisk
Vanessa Fisk
Vanessa Fisk
Vanessa Fisk

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAttn: Snake55555
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 9:48:41 PM
#5
Editorial at Marvel seems just so lost. The new Ultimate Marvel universe feels pretty directionless and not really worthy of being a reboot to Ultimate Marvel at all, though at least the Spider-Man presentation is nice for people who were desperate for this in the main universe. For the last twenty years.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAttn: Snake55555
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 9:15:03 PM
#3
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this poser who has taken on the role! I'm desperate for Frank Castle to return at this point.

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TopicAttn: Snake55555
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 7:58:54 PM
#1
@Snake5555555555

We haven't talked comics for a while, but I wanted to hype you up on something that's coming soon.

https://www.gamesradar.com/garth-ennis-returns-to-punisher-to-send-frank-castle-on-the-hunt-for-nick-fury

I didn't know how much I needed this.

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TopicWhat four villains are on the Spider-Man Rogues Mount Rushmore?
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 12:56:01 PM
#47
Johnbobb posted...
Ah yes legendary Marvel Villain "The Burglar"
Dude. Please. You're embarrassing yourself now.

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TopicWhat four villains are on the Spider-Man Rogues Mount Rushmore?
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 10:21:28 AM
#22
The Burglar is definitely the more famous one in the Ben-Death department.

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TopicWhat four villains are on the Spider-Man Rogues Mount Rushmore?
scarletspeed7
02/08/24 9:17:09 AM
#2
This one is pretty cut-and-dry.

Green Goblin
Doctor Octopus
Venom
Ultimate Shocker

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TopicAmazon delivery situation
scarletspeed7
02/02/24 9:13:52 PM
#3
Leonhart4 posted...
I would contact Amazon customer service and try to talk to somebody about it. They'll probably send you another one.
This is what I had to do with a kitchen scale I got in October. Interestingly, I ended up getting BOTH scales - the first ended up arriving in January - and when I tried to contact them about it, they essentially just said, "Not our problem!"

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