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Zeus
05/21/19 2:19:41 AM
#256:


Went on nerd/geek buying spree today. Picked up the following:

-Season 5 of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (from a thrift store which had other seasons. Can barely remember the show, but will likely buy the other seasons if I enjoy it)

-Transformers Devastation for $10 new (still don't have a ps4, but likely getting one Black Friday)

-Farcry 4 for $2 used and without case

-Pop! Shere Khan from Gamestop for $2.50

-Bad Dudes (vs Dragon Ninja) Micro Player from Wal-Mart for $5. (Hadn't owned one of these mini-arcade cabinets. Been forever since I played the game, had forgotten how lousy it is.)

-MGS: Snake Eater 3D for $4. (I have the ps2 version which I never played, but couldn't resist at that price)

-Full Auto 2: Battle Lines for $4. (Intrigued by the weird combat racing game, despite not being a racing fan.)

-Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu bundle with the Pokeball+ for $70. (Had wanted to get one of the P:LG! games eventually, but was holding off for a decent price. This just kinda made sense, since I'm guessing at most I might only save like an additional $10 on the bundle if I waited for a sale and I kinda have wanted either the PG Plus or the Pokeball Plus for PoGo. Effectively I'm paid $40 for the game and $30 for the device.)
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The Wave Master
05/21/19 6:38:10 AM
#257:


I have not bought a game in a long while. I was in Gamestop last Wednesday because my wife was getting her hair done right next door at Ulta. I spent a good 30 minutes just growing the Swiitch and PS4 sections, but I didn't feel like paying full retail price for a lot of the games, and the cheaper ones for 20 bucks I felt could wait.

Unless Resident Evil , MK 11, or Devil May Cry 5 all drop two 2 bucks before Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 drops, that trend may still co tune for the summer.
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I_Abibde
05/21/19 12:25:28 PM
#258:


Entity13 posted...
And of course the last chapter and epilogue ended up being insanely long. The first draft of ES came out to 165k words.


And now, the torture that is editing.

Zeus posted...
-Season 5 of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (from a thrift store which had other seasons. Can barely remember the show, but will likely buy the other seasons if I enjoy it)


Dean Cain as Clark and Teri Hatcher as Lois. Not considered one of the best Superman properties, but is at least slightly above the old Superboy show from several years prior, IMO.
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Zeus
05/21/19 4:41:20 PM
#259:


The Wave Master posted...
I have not bought a game in a long while. I was in Gamestop last Wednesday because my wife was getting her hair done right next door at Ulta. I spent a good 30 minutes just growing the Swiitch and PS4 sections, but I didn't feel like paying full retail price for a lot of the games, and the cheaper ones for 20 bucks I felt could wait.


I tend to not buy games all that often, mostly because they just join the backlog.

I_Abibde posted...
Zeus posted...
-Season 5 of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (from a thrift store which had other seasons. Can barely remember the show, but will likely buy the other seasons if I enjoy it)


Dean Cain as Clark and Teri Hatcher as Lois. Not considered one of the best Superman properties, but is at least slightly above the old Superboy show from several years prior, IMO.


tbh, I always remember him more for hosting Ripley's Believe It or Not... and just for being a celebrity.
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Entity13
05/21/19 5:00:56 PM
#260:


I_Abibde posted...
Entity13 posted...
And of course the last chapter and epilogue ended up being insanely long. The first draft of ES came out to 165k words.


And now, the torture that is editing.

Zeus posted...
-Season 5 of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (from a thrift store which had other seasons. Can barely remember the show, but will likely buy the other seasons if I enjoy it)


Dean Cain as Clark and Teri Hatcher as Lois. Not considered one of the best Superman properties, but is at least slightly above the old Superboy show from several years prior, IMO.


I'm an eternal oddball and don't mind editing. I mentioned before that I have a buddy beta/peer reading the first draft, and I can use another pair of eyes on the matter. That makes the polish go quicker and easier.

As for the Lois and Clark show, I remember watching it when I was young. It was... fine when I was little, though I did have questions. For instance, would it hurt for her to slap Clark after the first time she learned his identity?
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Zeus
05/21/19 7:50:21 PM
#261:


Entity13 posted...
As for the Lois and Clark show, I remember watching it when I was young. It was... fine when I was little, though I did have questions. For instance, would it hurt for her to slap Clark after the first time she learned his identity?


Clark probably sold the slap. iirc, in the past he's used his super-senses to judge when something was going to hit him and moved his body to make it look like he was hurt. If he moved his face as she struck it, she wouldn't have felt much
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Nade Duck
05/21/19 8:08:33 PM
#262:


hi guys how r u
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Entity13
05/21/19 8:11:07 PM
#263:


Nade Duck posted...
hi guys how r u


I'm out of money, no one has hired me despite the time and energy put into looking for work, my phone is dying on me, a ton of nice clothes are torn and no longer nice for interviews, and I have the oh-so-fun process ahead of me of revising my novel (then formatting) so I can publish it.

How are you?
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Nade Duck
05/21/19 8:19:57 PM
#264:


ouch

i am okay. i am looking for a new place so i don't have to give up my cat, as well as a new job. also went to sonic temple over the weekend and got to see a great cover of under pressure by foo fighters and the guy from the struts.

also i think i almost got shot in the head on the way home but i'm alive so whatever. sake is good.
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ParanoidObsessive
05/21/19 11:52:02 PM
#265:


I'm finally getting around to watching Endgame tomorrow. I've successfully managed to avoid literally all spoilers so far. I am awesome at Internetting.



I_Abibde posted...
Dean Cain as Clark and Teri Hatcher as Lois. Not considered one of the best Superman properties, but is at least slightly above the old Superboy show from several years prior, IMO.

I remember, at the time, not being entirely sure about him as Superman. By the end, I still wasn't entirely sure about him as Superman, but I did like him as an actor, and he seemed like a nice guy. So I always felt bad for him that he never really managed to do anything more significant afterward.

As for Teri Hatcher as Lois, she always came across as a bit too bitchy. I was mostly like, "Why would Clark ever be interested in her?"

The show did give us the Death of Superman storyline, which in turn basically gave us Knightfall and Emerald Twilight, so I'm cool with it.



Zeus posted...
tbh, I always remember him more for hosting Ripley's Believe It or Not... and just for being a celebrity.

I will never remember him from Ripley's Believe It or Not... because there is only One True Host for Ripley's Believe It or Not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EZBmwlkq2E" data-time="&start=165



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Zeus
05/22/19 12:28:01 AM
#266:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
So I always felt bad for him that he never really managed to do anything more significant afterward.


Playing Superman is always a hard act to follow.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
The show did give us the Death of Superman storyline, which in turn basically gave us Knightfall and Emerald Twilight, so I'm cool with it.


Oo

Well, that was... unexpected.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I will never remember him from Ripley's Believe It or Not... because there is only One True Host for Ripley's Believe It or Not:


Oh yeah, forgot that guy because Dean Cain is just that much more charismatic =p
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ParanoidObsessive
05/22/19 12:52:03 AM
#267:


Zeus posted...
Playing Superman is always a hard act to follow.

Yes.

BECAUSE OF THE CURSE!




Zeus posted...
Well, that was... unexpected.

It's been mentioned before that DC was trying to sync up the comics to the TV show, but the timing of the show was different from the timing of writing a comic, so while Superman had already proposed to Lois in the comics, in the show they weren't really at that point yet, so they felt like they needed to come up with a way to stall the wedding in the comics.

They were basically at a lunch meeting (Superman had like four different comics at the time, each with a different writer, so they used to have regular meetings to discuss storylines so they didn't step on each other's toes), and were getting frustrated because none of them had any good ideas, and one of the writers basically just blurted out "Ahh, screw it, we should just kill him."

They meant it as a joke, but some of the others got really excited about the idea, and they basically whipped up the entire Death of Superman/Reign of the Supermen storyline outline from that.

So without Lois and Clark the TV show, that literally would never have happened.

And then the Death of Superman was so incredibly successful DC was like "WE NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN!", which is what led to the Batman writers going off the next year and brainstorming up the entire Knightfall storyline, which led to the creation of Bane and Azrael, and then Dick Grayson getting to be Batman for the first prolonged period of time.

Then that was super-successful, and DC was like "WE NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN AGAIN!", so they spun the whole "Green Lantern goes crazy and kills everybody" storyline from Emerald Twilight based on the fallout from the end of the Reign of the Supermen storyline where Coast City gets blown up. Which in itself wasn't THAT good... but it did give us Kyle Rayner, and the later retcons to fix all the things Emerald Twilight broke gave us the Geoff Johns reboot years later, which gave us all the other Lantern Corps and the War of Light/Blackest Night storyline, so that's A++ as well.

And it essentially all happened because of Lois and Clark.



Zeus posted...
Oh yeah, forgot that guy because Dean Cain is just that much more charismatic =p

-_-

I'm going to find you, and I'm going to bite you.


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Zeus
05/22/19 1:31:00 AM
#268:


Just realized how many open tabs I have on my other laptop's Firefox, so I'll probably go through that this weekend >_< Granted, it's probably going to be a hectic weekend so by "this weekend" I might actually mean "the weekend after the weekend after this one" because, well, I don't think I'll get to it next weekend either. But I definitely want to trim it down a bit.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's been mentioned before that DC was trying to sync up the comics to the TV show, but the timing of the show was different from the timing of writing a comic, so while Superman had already proposed to Lois in the comics, in the show they weren't really at that point yet, so they felt like they needed to come up with a way to stall the wedding in the comics.


Yeah, I read the wikipedia page after you mentioned it because I wasn't sure if you were referring to an incident on the show or what. It was an interesting development, to say the least, although it seemingly set a terrible precedent considering how many comics nowadays seem to adjust themselves to fit the films, etc.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I'm going to find you, and I'm going to bite you.


It's a good thing that you lack a very particular set of skills!
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WhiskeyDisk
05/22/19 1:45:13 AM
#269:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
I will never remember him from Ripley's Believe It or Not... because there is only One True Host for Ripley's Believe It or Not:



So much this.

But bitchy or not, Teri Hatcher in her prime was a total smokeshow.
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Zeus
05/22/19 1:48:17 AM
#270:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
I will never remember him from Ripley's Believe It or Not... because there is only One True Host for Ripley's Believe It or Not:



So much this.

But bitchy or not, Teri Hatcher in her prime was a total smokeshow.


C'mon guys, this isn't like when Riker took over on Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction! (Although he did do a pretty decent job.)
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WhiskeyDisk
05/22/19 1:50:10 AM
#271:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
which led to the creation of Bane and Azrael,


Maybe this is a 50/50 nostalgia, and late 90s grimdark me speaking, but I loved Azrael as the Bat and wish he hadn't been punted for the admittedly more deserving and actually-acting-like-batman Dick Grayson.

Then again, I also have soft spots for Gambit and Speedball/Penance so take from that what you will.
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WhiskeyDisk
05/22/19 1:52:24 AM
#272:


Zeus posted...
C'mon guys, this isn't like when Riker took over on Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction! (Although he did do a pretty decent job.)


I can only ever hear the phrase "Believe it, or Not" in Jack Palance's raspy voice in my head...and I've even been to the Ripley museum in Niagara back when he was still the voiceover for the exhibits.
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I_Abibde
05/22/19 9:18:54 AM
#273:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
But bitchy or not, Teri Hatcher in her prime was a total smokeshow.


*muttering something about her being in Tango & Cash*
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ParanoidObsessive
05/22/19 10:12:19 AM
#274:


Zeus posted...
although it seemingly set a terrible precedent considering how many comics nowadays seem to adjust themselves to fit the films, etc.

I don't know if that specifically set the precedent, but I definitely agree that comics have kind of been ruined by spending the last decade and a half or so bending over backward to retcon tons of their own stuff to better conform to the movies.

Sadly, Marvel's gotten a lot worse at doing that than DC has. What's that? The X-Men movies changed their costumes into black leather suits because that looks better on camera than yellow spandex? We'd better change it in the comics as well, no matter how shitty it looks in print! What's that? Pepper Potts hasn't actually been in Iron Man for almost 40 years, and she hasn't been a love interest for Tony for longer than most comic readers have been alive? Fuck it, she's in the film (because it was based on the early 60s storyline), so we'd better shitcan her marriage and bring her back to date Tony again.

It does make sense from their perspective, though. Is it better to cater to the 100k readers or so you already have, or to try and pander to get the millions of people who are watching the movies to start buying comics? Unfortunately, apart from an occasional minor bump, it almost never works to increase sales at all, and usually just winds up driving more of the regular readers away, so in the long-term it decreases sales.

That seems to be the trend these days in general - comics will desperately pander to pretty much ANYONE in the hopes of creating new long-term fans, but it almost never works, and they ultimately wind up alienating the fans they already have. Whether it's trying to pander to film audiences, SJWs, hipster teens on Tumblr, or whatever. Those people may bitch about/praise whatever you're doing on the Internet, but none of them are actually going to buy the book.


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ParanoidObsessive
05/22/19 10:21:40 AM
#275:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
Maybe this is a 50/50 nostalgia, and late 90s grimdark me speaking, but I loved Azrael as the Bat and wish he hadn't been punted for the admittedly more deserving and actually-acting-like-batman Dick Grayson.

You walked away from that storyline with exactly the wrong reaction, then.

They've mentioned in the past that the entire point of Azbats was that people were complaining that Batman wasn't dark enough, that he should be willing to kill, that he should be more like the Punisher, etc. They basically wanted to show you exactly what a more violent, pro-active, willing-to-kill Batman would be like... and why you didn't really want that at all. Then they followed it up with Nightwing becoming Batman to sort of show you an even lighter, less broody/angsty Batman before reverting back to the status quo.

That being said, I actually like Azrael as a concept, and the idea of Bat-armor of some kind makes too much sense for Batman to never use it (except in stories like The Dark Knight Returns where he NEEDS it). But Azbats was a bit too Punisher/Judge Dredd in flavor for me to really go "Yes, this is exactly what Batman needs to be!"

Ironically, though, I wasn't even really a Batman fan before that. Death of Superman and Knightfall were some of the first DC comics I actually read. I was always a Marvel guy back in the 80s.

(And shortly after both Marvel and DC went Grimderp in the 90s, I started reading Valiant instead. At least until they tanked themselves via internal politics BS and venture capitalism ridiculousness.)



WhiskeyDisk posted...
Then again, I also have soft spots for Gambit and Speedball/Penance so take from that what you will.

You have no excuse for Penance - he wasn't even 90s Grimdark as much as he showed up a decade too late to that party. You should have been an adult by then, and known better.

As for Gambit... bleh. I get why angsty teens of the era latched on to him so hard, but I never liked him. Part of that was almost certainly because I was very much a fan of the 80s X-Men and the tone of the book started to change as we rolled into the 90s (and then it changed even more once they kicked Claremont out), and part of it was probably because his early appearances were basically set up to have him constantly one-up Wolverine as if Marvel was literally saying "DO YOU SEE HOW COOL HE IS? PLEASE LOVE HIM!" But if I'm going to be honest, at least part of it was also that he was constantly flirting with Rogue, who was basically my comic book crush for years at that point.

I just sort of wish that Claremont had gotten to stick around and finish his intended storyline where it turned out that Gambit was secretly working for Mr. Sinister and was a bad guy the whole time. I feel like it would have made his character somewhat more interesting than what we eventually got, and there wouldn't be as many annoying fanboys ranting about how kewl he is all the time to irritate me.

Of course, I just wish Claremont had gotten to stick around in general, because I went through about 15 years of not reading the comics at all because they were terrible without him. They got interesting again for the last half of the 00s or so, but then Marvel went and ruined them again, and they still kind of suck now.

Same for DC, sadly. The later 00s in general were a major renaissance for DC, with the entire Green Lantern side of the universe becoming awesome, Batman really picking up, and even Superman getting some interesting stories. Then they flushed it all down the toilet via the New 52 in an attempt to become 1990s Image and be hip and cool for the kids in the desperate hope that they'd start reading again. Which didn't work.


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WhiskeyDisk
05/22/19 10:47:02 AM
#276:


I don't think AzBat should have kept the Bat-mantle, but I wish they didn't have him slink off like Quazimodo into obscurity just as fast as he came either.

As for Speedball/Penance I have the excuse of him literally being from and consequently destroying a large portion of my hometown.

Gambit well HEY WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE?
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ParanoidObsessive
05/22/19 10:58:54 AM
#277:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
I don't think AzBat should have kept the Bat-mantle, but I wish they didn't have him slink off like Quazimodo into obscurity just as fast as he came either.

That's fair. But also sort of a consequence of being created mostly for that storyline, and having him go crazy kind of made him a bit unsalvageable after.

That being said, the Azrael costume design was pretty cool. And the character has sort of cropped up (as either the original Jean-Paul Valley version or one of his successors) from time-to-time.


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Zeus
05/22/19 11:37:07 PM
#278:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
Maybe this is a 50/50 nostalgia, and late 90s grimdark me speaking, but I loved Azrael as the Bat and wish he hadn't been punted for the admittedly more deserving and actually-acting-like-batman Dick Grayson.


Bazrael never made much sense from a logical standpoint given that the mantle was handed off to a guy who Batman had barely just met and who had a troubled history. That said, he had a totally badass costume and he was cool enough to win even Bullock over.

WhiskeyDisk posted...
Then again, I also have soft spots for Gambit and Speedball/Penance so take from that what you will.


Gambit had a really cool design and neat power.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
It does make sense from their perspective, though. Is it better to cater to the 100k readers or so you already have, or to try and pander to get the millions of people who are watching the movies to start buying comics? Unfortunately, apart from an occasional minor bump, it almost never works to increase sales at all, and usually just winds up driving more of the regular readers away, so in the long-term it decreases sales.

That seems to be the trend these days in general - comics will desperately pander to pretty much ANYONE in the hopes of creating new long-term fans, but it almost never works, and they ultimately wind up alienating the fans they already have. Whether it's trying to pander to film audiences, SJWs, hipster teens on Tumblr, or whatever. Those people may bitch about/praise whatever you're doing on the Internet, but none of them are actually going to buy the book.


Yeah, you'd think they'd learn their lesson by now.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I just sort of wish that Claremont had gotten to stick around and finish his intended storyline where it turned out that Gambit was secretly working for Mr. Sinister and was a bad guy the whole time. I feel like it would have made his character somewhat more interesting than what we eventually got, and there wouldn't be as many annoying fanboys ranting about how kewl he is all the time to irritate me.


That would just make him cooler!
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ParanoidObsessive
05/22/19 11:52:20 PM
#279:


Zeus posted...
Bazrael never made much sense from a logical standpoint given that the mantle was handed off to a guy who Batman had barely just met and who had a troubled history. That said, he had a totally badass costume and he was cool enough to win even Bullock over.

Well, the entire point of that storyline is that Bruce wasn't necessarily thinking straight, because Bane had deliberately run him into the ground before breaking him, so Bruce wasn't really making the best decisions (he didn't really recover until about halfway through Knightquest).

Dick actually called him out on it afterward, though - he basically echoed the same "Why did you make him Batman when I was literally right here, and I'm the closest thing to a son and heir you've ever had?", and Batman's answer was basically that Dick had left, and was forging his own identity and making his own life, and that was more important to Bruce than effectively punishing Dick (in Bruce's eyes) by pulling him back and forcing him to take on Bruce's burdens. Basically, exactly the sort of mindset a father WOULD have towards his son.

His only other alternative at the time was Tim (who was still way too young), whereas Jean-Paul was literally right there, AND had extensive combat training, AND was looking for a chance at redemption.

It's also kind of implied that Jean-Paul probably would have made a worthwhile Batman replacement for a temporary period of time if he didn't still have almost an entire lifetime of assassin brainwashing training hardwired directly into his brain. That's what pushed him over the edge. Jean-Paul himself wasn't necessarily a bad person.

(Not that Bruce learned his lesson from that, considering the next time he met someone who had spent almost their entire life being brainwashed and conditioned to be the perfect assassin by a cult, he made her Batgirl almost immediately.)


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WhiskeyDisk
05/23/19 12:24:37 AM
#280:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
(Not that Bruce learned his lesson from that, considering the next time he met someone who had spent almost their entire life being brainwashed and conditioned to be the perfect assassin by a cult, he made her Batgirl almost immediately.)


To be fair, Bats has always walked an impossible tightrope between sanity and insanity and the standard he holds himself to is sort of absurd to expect anyone else to hold themselves to if they take up the Mantle.

There's a good reason the JLA built the life force sucking penalty into the Hellbat armor, and the Lantern corps would be fools to give Bruce a ring despite his intentions.
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Zeus
05/23/19 12:28:54 AM
#281:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
(Not that Bruce learned his lesson from that, considering the next time he met someone who had spent almost their entire life being brainwashed and conditioned to be the perfect assassin by a cult, he made her Batgirl almost immediately.)


In his defense, Cassie Cain is hot.

WhiskeyDisk posted...
There's a good reason the JLA built the life force sucking penalty into the Hellbat armor, and the Lantern corps would be fools to give Bruce a ring despite his intentions.


That and Batman isn't exactly known for following orders or respecting authority.
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ParanoidObsessive
05/23/19 1:07:29 AM
#282:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
and the Lantern corps would be fools to give Bruce a ring despite his intentions.

He'd never be able to use one - as has been pointed out in more recent books, one of the core principles of the green ring is that you need to have immense willpower, and that you need to be able to use it to overcome great fear. Whereas Batman has been entirely defined by his own fear for almost his entire life, to the point where he's turned it into a weapon he wields against others.

In essence, he'd make a perfect Sinestro Corps recruit. Which is why one of the yellow rings actually sought him out, and only rejected him because he HAD previously worn a green ring (Hal's), even if only for a very short time (when Hal was trying to make a point that Bruce would never be able to use a green ring).


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The Wave Master
05/23/19 3:29:34 PM
#283:


Buying a second house is turning out to be more difficult than buying a first house.

My Wife's credit is jacked up from a divorce from her first husband. He agreed to pay the credit card bills in the divorce decree, bought a motorcycle once they broke up, a Harley no less, then he filed for bankruptcy, and ignored paying the bills, which double md tripled, and my wife got hosed.

Now because of that on her credit report we can't buy our new house. I am upset, aadn and disappointed. We have a lawyer, but I know how this is going to titietitien out. Since he filed for bankruptcy and she dosnt rhe moneybjad to be paid by somone, so unless she pays or files for bankruptcy then no dice.

It's been a terrible year thus far.
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Zeus
05/24/19 12:19:38 AM
#284:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
He'd never be able to use one - as has been pointed out in more recent books, one of the core principles of the green ring is that you need to have immense willpower, and that you need to be able to use it to overcome great fear. Whereas Batman has been entirely defined by his own fear for almost his entire life, to the point where he's turned it into a weapon he wields against others.


Pretty sure you've confused Batman with Scarecrow. Easy mistake.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
In essence, he'd make a perfect Sinestro Corps recruit. Which is why one of the yellow rings actually sought him out, and only rejected him because he HAD previously worn a green ring (Hal's), even if only for a very short time (when Hal was trying to make a point that Bruce would never be able to use a green ring).


You mean he wouldn't be able to use a GL ring despite having used a GL ring?

The Wave Master posted...
Buying a second house is turning out to be more difficult than buying a first house.

My Wife's credit is jacked up from a divorce from her first husband. He agreed to pay the credit card bills in the divorce decree, bought a motorcycle once they broke up, a Harley no less, then he filed for bankruptcy, and ignored paying the bills, which double md tripled, and my wife got hosed.

Now because of that on her credit report we can't buy our new house. I am upset, aadn and disappointed. We have a lawyer, but I know how this is going to titietitien out. Since he filed for bankruptcy and she dosnt rhe moneybjad to be paid by somone, so unless she pays or files for bankruptcy then no dice.

It's been a terrible year thus far.


Geez... Also, remind me what Scarlet does for a living? Was she a nurse or something?
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The Wave Master
05/24/19 12:39:51 AM
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Scarlet is a Host Supervisor at a casino here on the Mississippi Coast. Basically she is the lady that males sure all the high rollers and Entertainment that comes to the casino gets what they want. It's a cool job, and she tells me that it is a surprising less stressful job than when she worked with me in tech support.

She gets all sorts of tickets to free shows which we go to, and at the Christmas show a few years ago I lost my original wedding ring. In fact, we have tickets to a show in a few weeks, and I do not plan on wearing my replacement ring.
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ParanoidObsessive
05/24/19 2:31:13 AM
#286:


Zeus posted...
Pretty sure you've confused Batman with Scarecrow.

Pretty sure you've never read Blackest Night.

Scarecrow actually falls into an interesting conundrum when it comes to the yellow ring. One seeks him out during the Sinestro Corps War storyline (and he's almost orgasmically overjoyed when he realizes what it is and what it represents), but the heroes manage to stop it from getting to him. But around that same time it's mentioned that he's become completely incapable of feeling fear because he's been dosed by his own fear gases so many times that he's effectively rendered himself immune. And he hates the idea - he's almost like an adrenaline junkie who has pushed himself to the limit so hard that he's no longer capable of generating adrenaline. Which, in theory, should make him worthless to the Sinestro Corps, because it's established that in order to use a yellow ring, you have to be able to tap into your own fear to fuel it (and they actually have a test where they lock you in a box and force you to do that in order to escape), so if he cannot feel fear, he shouldn't be able to use the ring.

But then he does get one for a short time in Blackest Night, and it seems to work fine. And in fact seems to make him able to feel fear again. Which he absolutely loves.



Zeus posted...
You mean he wouldn't be able to use a GL ring despite having used a GL ring?

Wearing a ring is not the same as using a ring. And for that matter, being able to use a ring in short bursts of desperation or in alternate universe continuities is not the same as being able to use the ring long-term in the manner to which it was designed to be used.

Hal was basically telling Bruce "You shit on me and disrespect me, but you literally cannot do what I do on a daily basis", and by the end of that particular scene, Bruce essentially agreed with him. Just wearing the ring for like a minute left Bruce looking like he'd had the shit kicked out of him for an hour.


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Zeus
05/24/19 2:41:40 AM
#287:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Pretty sure you've never read Blackest Night.


I read the TPB, which was at least somewhat abridged.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
Wearing a ring is not the same as using a ring. And for that matter, being able to use a ring in short bursts of desperation or in alternate universe continuities is not the same as being able to use the ring long-term in the manner to which it was designed to be used.

Hal was basically telling Bruce "You shit on me and disrespect me, but you literally cannot do what I do on a daily basis", and by the end of that particular scene, Bruce essentially agreed with him. Just wearing the ring for like a minute left Bruce looking like he'd had the shit kicked out of him for an hour.


And, depending on the writer, Batman's experience with the ring will vary tremendously. As a general rule, Batman is known for his exceedingly incredible willpower and mental preparation which, among other things, includes contingencies for when his mind is being tampered with such as the backup personality that emerged when Simon Hurt tried to brainwash him.
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The Wave Master
05/24/19 11:19:27 PM
#288:


Still working with the loan officer, the real estate agent, and our lawyer to get this house. I'm confident that it will not work out, but I am doing everything in my power to make it happen.

Vacation time for my wife starts tomorrow and we are doing a double feature of John Wick and Avengers, hopefully my body will allow us to finish both films without an issue.

We will find out on Sunday!
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WhiskeyDisk
05/25/19 1:14:20 AM
#289:


The Wave Master posted...
hopefully my body will allow us to finish both films without an issue.

We will find out on Sunday!


Remember to stay hydrated Wave!

Seriously though, that movie is a bladder buster. Save the refreshments for John Wick. You're going to want to be nice and borderline dehydrated for Endgame, lol.
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ParanoidObsessive
05/25/19 1:47:19 PM
#290:


I feel like at least a couple people here will probably appreciate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k" data-time="



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CyborgSage00x0
05/25/19 3:34:25 PM
#291:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
I feel like at least a couple people here will probably appreciate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k" data-time="



I've been following PMJ for a while now.
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Metalsonic66
05/25/19 4:32:43 PM
#292:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
I feel like at least a couple people here will probably appreciate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k" data-time="



I saw that a while back and loved it. I noticed Rob and Maurice in the background and figured they were just doing cameos, and then they started talking in their characters' voices and I lol'd
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I_Abibde
05/25/19 7:26:47 PM
#293:


One is a genius, the other's insane.

Which is which? Depends on who you ask.

WhiskeyDisk posted...
You're going to want to be nice and borderline dehydrated for Endgame, lol.


True story, this. That was a genuinely painful experience, much as I enjoyed the movie.

Meanwhile, I've actually been geeking out in a musical way. Been on a synthwave kick, so I looked into what was available on CD and picked up kind of a grab bag of different artists in the genre (e.g. Dynatron, Gunship, Perturbator, Scandroid, etc.) to really get the most from these new headphones.

There's just something soothing about deep synth and heavy bass, I guess.
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The Wave Master
05/28/19 9:04:45 AM
#294:


I don't urinate any longer. It wasn't bad to make it through Avengers. The movie was freaking great, and went by really fast the second time.

We had some spring cleaning to do so we didn't see John Wick 3, but we are going on Wednesday.
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Entity13
05/30/19 5:01:21 PM
#295:


I, like so many people, wish I had money. I'm about to lose so much because I have none. It sucks.
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CyborgSage00x0
05/30/19 11:36:20 PM
#296:


I plan on seeing Godzilla this weekend. Saw JW3 and Aladdin the previous weekends. One crazy line-up in a row.
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The Wave Master
06/01/19 2:24:57 PM
#297:


Hadto leave dialysis early today. They pinched a nerve in my chest while sticking me, and it made my neck and arm hurt like hell.

The year of bad fortunes continues.
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Entity13
06/01/19 6:20:23 PM
#298:


In brighter news, I'm done with my first and major revision of "Elysium Shining."

"Only," "just," and "enough" are cut back to a reasonable degree; with the second one being reduced to characters' speech, and words such as "adjust" and "justice." The story details and other details have been ironed out for consistency. The format looks nice and clean on my main document and Google Doc, whereas I have the last quarter of chapters copied to another doc with html code so I can continue to test the story with that one site's audience. Said audience is growing steadily in regards to people there making it a "favorite" of theirs.

Note: That site will not see all of the tweaks and changes before a certain point.

Once I had completed the revised draft last night the word count--discounting the title page, chapter headers, and scene breaks--is in the ballpark of 177.8k words instead of the 166.7k of the first draft. Yay for fixing little errors, such as typos or missed words I'd meant to include originally, and adding a few descriptions of places or things, toward the beginning.
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I_Abibde
06/01/19 8:12:56 PM
#299:


CyborgSage00x0 posted...
I plan on seeing Godzilla this weekend.


Watched it yesterday. Loved it. My inner five-year-old was bouncing off the walls of my head. Hoping to see it at least once again before it leaves theaters. ... If you're a long-time Godzilla fan, there are all kinds of little references in there to catch, and I'm sure I missed some.
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Action53
06/01/19 10:04:02 PM
#300:


Robocop was one of the best, if not the best thing to come out of the 80's
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Broken_Zeus
06/03/19 2:44:11 AM
#301:


Good god, Lois & Clark is so goofy. Decided to watch s4's Toyman episode first ("Toy Story") and some of the dialogue -- along with the delivery -- is worse than the stuff I've seen in amateur indie films. Granted, the Toyman's brief villain speech right after it ("No, suing them would be the adult way to handle it") was pure, joyous, unadulterated camp. (Pun intended.)
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Metalsonic66
06/04/19 6:39:26 PM
#302:


Gojira was awesome. I'm glad I saw it in theaters, because the sound was incredible. I felt like my ears were being assaulted
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ParanoidObsessive
06/05/19 12:29:17 AM
#303:


Broken_Zeus posted...
Good god, Lois & Clark is so goofy. Decided to watch s4's Toyman episode first ("Toy Story") and some of the dialogue -- along with the delivery -- is worse than the stuff I've seen in amateur indie films. Granted, the Toyman's brief villain speech right after it ("No, suing them would be the adult way to handle it") was pure, joyous, unadulterated camp. (Pun intended.)

Who was the Toyman in that one? I can't remember.

I really liked the animated series Toyman. It was interesting characterization and actor casting. But the DCAU was pretty spot-on when it came to villain casting in general.


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Zeus
06/05/19 12:52:01 AM
#304:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Who was the Toyman in that one? I can't remember.


Some original character, played by an actor who looks familiar but I doubt I've seen him in anything (except Murder, She Wrote)

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Harold_Kripstly_(Lois_%26_Clark)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shaud

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I really liked the animated series Toyman. It was interesting characterization and actor casting. But the DCAU was pretty spot-on when it came to villain casting in general.


Yeah, his origin story and character design was really neat. And the DCAU has some of my preferred villain origin stories, including the decision to tie Brainiac into Superman's origin story.

Granted, part of my like for the origin stories in the DCAU is that it covered a lot of villains I knew relatively little about in the first place. Prior to Superman TAS, my only experience with Toyman was probably the Superfriends version (which also had a great character design)
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06/05/19 2:24:20 AM
#305:


Zeus posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shaud

He played Miles on Murphy Brown.
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