Shin Godzilla isn't getting a sequel, Toho has decided to start there own shared monster universe for the next Godzilla movies.
Works for me. Whether the next Toho Godzilla was a followup to Shin or not, more monsters would have been added eventually. And a Godzilla that falls asleep for weeks at a time isn't really greatly suited to monster vs monster battles. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Shin Godzilla, and the Godzilla monster itself was awesome...but them making it so lazy was a lot less awesome.
I think I'm possibly the only person in the world to prefer the original movie to the show, so I don't actually give a damn about this. I didn't watch the old one (apart from a few episodes to determine I didn't like it), I won't be watching this.
I liked the show, but I do think that the original movie had a lot more fun. At time TV Buffy seemed intent on wallowing in it's own teen angst b&+!#+$$. I actually found I preferred the odd-numbered seasons a lot more than the even numbered seasons, for whatever reason.
Plus Kristy Swanson was way hotter than Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Pity it only had those four seasons. {Don't try to convince me that there was a fifth season. Like any Highlander movies after the first one, or Aliens movies after the second one, I pretend they don't exist.) :)
Yep, "Sleeping in Light" was a great way to end the fourth season, that's for sure!
Honestly, and I'll probably be branded a B5 heretic for this, but I'm not really a fan of "Sleeping in Light". It's a just a few characters ambling around the station with no real coherent plotline. Of course, that makes it a fitting end for season 5, which essentially shares that same synopsis.
The second half of season 4 might have been rushed, but that was nothing compared to how bad season 5 was due to the last-minute renewal after all the worthy plot threads had been rushed to conclusion.
If there is a DVD release that has all the episodes in the correct order, I am unaware of it. My personal DVDs most certainly are NOT in the order prescribed by The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: Master Episode List, but is in the order in which the episodes originally aired. Again, it's nothing major, but having watched both orderings, the one I linked is better, and JMS has endorsed it.
Although oddly they don't start with the pilot, you have to go to the very bottom of Season 1's listing and find it under "bonus material".
The other TV movies and CRUSADE aren't on there yet, they should follow in a month or so.
Amazon sometimes makes it hard to know what the correct order to watch something is. Their (new) Doctor Who is REALLY messed up...some of the seasons are split into two parts, and the Christmas specials are bundled into several different sections by themselves.
I have all the DVDs (with the exceptions of Crusade). I kind of wish they would do another DVD release, but put all the episodes in the intended order. The airing order isn't too bad, but it does get a bit noticeable when Delenn starts teleporting back and forth between Mimbar and the stations for a few episodes.
Somewhat. Marvel's strongest commonly used character is the Hulk....his strength level is usually measured in hundreds of tons.
DC has Superman, who's strength level I've seen listed as being in quintillions of tons.
Quicksilver vs the Flash is something like Mach 10 vs 2.4 × 10^43 the speed of light.
And of course there's the crowning Mary Sue of Detective Comics...Batgod, who could probably defeat the One Above All.
DC often seems to fall victim to the same trap as the 3.5/Pathfinder wizards...they make their heroes so overpowered that it breaks the ability to tell a coherent story in half unless the writers ignore a lot of what the heroes can do.
Does Lena and the entire DEO really think that reverse engineering a "cure" for Sam is really going to be so easy? Creating a Worldkiller was done with both Kryptonian science AND magic. Lena merely using science seems unlikely to work.
Why did the guy trying to kill Alex use such horribly slow bombs?
I'm curious to see how the Mon-El hate brigade spins his curing the kid as some sort of horrible misogynistic controlling a@%~$+* move.
"Wait for backup, Agent Danvers" You can fly faster than she can run, dumbass. YOU are her backup.
WTF was with Alex randomly being able to fly for a half-second there, from handing off the ledge to standing on it? Don't even try to claim the magnet suit, that was ridiculous.
I'm glad Alex finally seems to be realizing that she might not be the perfect fit for a parent/guardian at the moment. She's acknowledging that someone that seems to have a bit of a death wish isn't appropriate for that role. She's still ignoring the fact that she is 100% an alcoholic, but baby steps are better than none.
There's a lot of boxes left to tick off, even for a show that broke ground with it's bridge crew including a black woman, an Asian man and a Russian who looked like one of the Monkees.
Most of the bridge crew didn't really became "main characters" until the movies, though. During the actual run of the series, most of them were less developed than Nurse Chapel or Yeoman Rand. (Obviously excluding Kirk, Spock, and McCoy...although Scotty also generally got a bit more than the others.)
New Wells Confirmed. Not that I think anyone had any doubts.
I'm probably alone, but the whole "the team doesn't function without some version of Harrison Wells" thing has gotten pretty old and stale, at least for me.
So last night episode was intriguing. Not only for the current climate of racial politics and such, but for the fact we got introduced to ANOTHER relatively unknown Kryptonian God. Weird but interesting.
The whole "they will hate me because I'm black" thing really just killed the momentum of the episode (much like the similar moment where J'onn talks about being a black man a few episodes back). The writers seem to think that there's no need to ever use a scalpel when nuclear bomb is available. I'm not opposed to them having a political agenda, but they could at least make some effort to not make it stick out like a sore thumb.
Has anyone told Oliver Queen that he automatically is a beloved hero instead of a hated vigilante since he's white? Maybe he should have just shown them his skin color during that whole trial thing. (This is based on what I've read, I don't actually watch Arrow.)
I like having a huge shared universe, and Marvel has done an amazing job with it, but I grew up with standalone superhero movies and shows, and recognize that there is more than one way to skin this cat.
Fully agree. I think I'd like the MCU Spider-Man better if both the movie and the character didn't lean so hard on Tony Stark.
I'm going on the theory that Flash interferes in such a way that causes Devoe's stupifying ray to retroactively affect the entire Arrowverse going back at least 6 years, although with less extreme results. It would help explain a large number of decisions that characters across all the shows have made.
Making bad decisions because of feelings is a good narrative device and a very human one which can be easy to relate too, but I strongly dislike the need most (American?) shows have to have these decisions be shown to be the right ones, especially when they lead to worse problems.
The "director" is now Mac. The person on the team who doesn't want to deal with tough decisions, actively avoids them, and then lashes out on those who have to make those decisions. And now he's the one in charge. That will obviously go brilliantly. </sarcasm>
Spoilers for Infinity Wars post-credit scene:
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At least we can take comfort in this scene basically confirming that Fury is still in charge of a much more secretive version of SHIELD.
They were so eager to put Shuri over as being smarter than Banner and Stark combined that they forgot that those guys weren't involved in the creation of Vision.
No on-screen deaths for Valkyrie, Korg and Sif. When it comes to Thanos, "wiped out" seems to always result in 50% fatalities (Asgardian refugees and Xandar). Reasonable to believe that half of the Asgardians (barely) survive ... although the snap-of-the-fingers moment may well have halved that number again ...
Slain by Thanos and/or his minions without use of The Glove:
Loki (crushed throat - no resurrection for YOU!)
Heimdall (stabbed by a minion's spear)
Gammora (flung to her on-screen demise, witnessed by the Red Skull)
Vision was too. However, the earlier dialog bought him an out vis-a-vis Banner's comments that Vision is parts Jarvis, Ultron, Infinity Stone and perhaps more. I'm not *quite* sure Vision counts as permanently deceased just yet. It is possible that what Thanos killed was a not-Vision-with-Infinity-Stone-in-his-Forehead.
Pretty sure I'm forgetting someone being permadeath'd.
Considering a large chunk of his forehead came off with the stone, I'm gonna assume Vision is deader than dead.
Why is Reign fighting an eclipse-weakened Supergirl on an even footing? She rather dominated a fully-powered Supergirl in their first fight.
Having Lena know how to fly the Legion cruiser because...reasons, seemed a bit too far for me. Especially with the condescending look and snarky attitude she threw at Brainiac-5.
I really like Adrienne Palicki and she's had hella bad luck with TV shows, and I particularly liked her as Bobbi. I think now she's involved in other projects so we're probably not going to see her back in the MCU any time soon. :( )
She's on The Orville, but that show for some reason skipping 2018 and season 2 won't begin until early in 2019 (from what I have read). Dunno what else she's involved with.
And hey, we never expected to see Hunter again either...
The article is such a horrible idea. They seem hell-bent on shoehorning Iris into being a main character, despite the fact that she really should be a reoccurring character.
The average person can't do anything to help, and as such this is more likely to cause a panic than do anything even vaguely helpful. They say "Devoe won't be able to hide anymore"....sure he can...he doesn't have to look like Devoe.
And Devoe's not even in charge of Team Bad Guy anymore (although Flash and company have no way to know that).
Did the writers test Devoe's stupifying ray on themselves?
I'm occasionally surprised that I've enjoyed Agents of SHIELD as much as I have, considering that I can't stand Coulson.
I didn't even like his death in the first Avengers movie, since I was all like, 'Really? They called themselves the Avengers to avenge some schmuck that some of them had adversarial relationships with (Thor, Iron Man), openly mocked (Iron Man, Black Widow) or found vaguely off-putting in a creepy stalker alert sort of way (Cap)?' Ugh. Plus he was super-smarmy. Now that he's less so, I find him more tolerable.
Sometimes my rings of contrariness go into overdrive. I hate Coulson, who seems to be the heart and soul of the show. I liked Ward (and am amused whenever they find a way to bring him back, like in the framework), who's generally loathed to a degree shared only by the 'funny' intern lady (Darcy?) from the first two Thor movies.
Spoiler:
I view the end credit scene of Infinity War as basically confirming that Nick Fury is still running the real SHIELD, which has stayed super-secret, while he's letting Coulson play at running the (at times) public face of SHIELD.
And indeed, how they got their supplies and funding and were doing what they were doing HAS to have more of a story behind it, but they seemed to have lost sight of the potential there. (Unless that does get brought up later elsewhere in the Defendersverse.)
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the Defendersverse is living on borrowed time. As far as I know, Disney is still planning to do their own streaming service. And I don't really see them continuing to support Netflix after it goes live. Worse, they can't even move the Defenders shows to that service, because Netflix has partial ownership of them.
I should have pointed this out earlier... like before the first set sold out...
But for anyone who enjoys Agent Carter AND quality makeup, Besame Cosmetics released an Agent Carter makeup line last month.
They've already sold out of the triple-lipstick set in the case with the secret compartment, but I think the compact and the eyeshadow palette disguised as a passport (yes I am saying things in complete seriousness) are still in stock, and they are going to be restocking the Sweet Dreams lipstick later (which is their 1946 Red Velvet color repackaged). I only wear makeup about twice a year but I picked up the eye shadow as I needed new eye shadow and loved the packaging and seems like good stuff.
I realize this is a rather niche sort of bit of merchandising but hey, you never know.
Be careful with the lipstick. I hear it's a real knockout!
how and where are you going to find common MC when you are in an uncommon place? the sub artic wont have a supply of bats, maybe spiders but not really bats.
That's when those spellcasters need to be prepared, or they will have to get creative with those spells they CAN cast.
I think part of the reason for the initial glut of Drizzt clones was more for the mechanical advantages of being a drow, which IIRC were pretty hefty in 2nd edition.
Sure, if the GM is a manipulative bastard who violates wealth by level.
You can't violate WBL for an pre-existing character. WBL was created to give a guideline for DMs on how much wealth to give to a newly created character that was starting out above 1st level. It was never intended as a shackle for both players and GMs to chain them to a specific level of wealth for the entire existence of a given character. That's rather moronic. Why bother defeating the dragon sitting on a mountain of gold if it's a pre-determined fact that the mountain will collapse and 99% of that mountain of gold will never be accessible? People who thing that WBL should be strictly followed for existing characters have a dearth of imagination, and should probably look into other hobbies.
Supergirl...I honestly barely remember where we left off on that show. Two pretty sizeable hiatuses in one season is too many. I'm wondering how many viewers it loses due to the obvious lack of giving a damn. It's sad because even with the at times cloying and ham-fisted SWJ stuff, it still squeaks by Legends of Tomorrow as my favorite of the CW DC-verse.
Removed a post. The thread is about "What makes the game pathfinder for you?". It is not the place to criticize, insult or to argue with other people about what they feel makes the game "Pathfinder" for them.
So what I'm getting is that it's perfectly OK for someone to say that WotC's game is worthless and isn't "real D&D", but it's frowned upon to point out the fact that pathfinder is NOT "real D&D", and is in fact it's own separate game.
Maybe they are waiting for us to have the books in our hands (and had a week to read them) before they completely revise the entire 2nd edition to our varied whims?
They might also just wait until Pathfinder 2nd edition has been in print for a while, and start up again with stealth rule changes via errata. Like they continually did with PF1
Honestly, MCU Talbot is WAY more interesting to me than comic book Talbot. Though I keep waiting for him to cross paths with either Betty and/or Bruce.
I wouldn't hold my breath. While the TV shows sometimes make oblique references to the movies, not a single movie has yet to acknowledge the existence of any of the TV shows in even a minor way.
Nope, the only thing you can use is the information covered by WotC Open Gaming License (which is what PF1 was based on) and the Community Use Guidelines. Community Use is for non-commercial publishing.
If you want to sell things as a commercial publisher, you have to have explicit permission from Paizo to use their intellectual property by using the Pathfinder Compatibility License. They even have a dedicated email address for licensing requests
licensing@paizo.com
The OGL is controlled by Wizards of the Coast, not Paizo
Everything on the PRD is also open. As such, a 3PP could make spell cards for any of the spells from the PRD. The only spells that count as Paizo's IP are those that are NOT included in the PRD...ie some of the spells from various Adventure Path, Module, Player Companion, or Campaign Setting supplements, that haven't been reprinted in a PRD rulebook.
There is a slight grey area with those books from the rule book like that Paizo hasn't bothered to add the PRD as of yet (and probably never will). However, I believe the actual books themselves have the language necessary in them to make their contents open.
3PP should be able to do this too, right? With the exception of spells like "Abadar's Truthtelling", I think any publisher would be allowed to sell cards with all the content of the PF spells.
No. You can’t sell reprinted Paizo material as 3P, just reference it.
The entire basis of Pathfinder as a system is Paizo reprinting the v3.5 rules with some integrated house rules.
And given he IS a Time Agent, which seems to have fairly rigorous standards, I have to wonder why he was recruited--either there's something he's good at we haven't seen yet, or his comedic levels of incompetence are a ruse.
We've only seen him in an action capacity, where he obviously doesn't really shine. He might be a bureaucratic wizard, for all we know. He might have a talent for spotting anachronisms. There's probably a lot more to being a good Time Agent than just punchin' stuff good.
I just don't get the wait. We could all have alpha rules now while the real playtest is still getting changed.
Paizo could have thousands of people pouring over their current rules and pointing out unexpected combos or expressing confusion about wording.
Right now it feels like I'm being marketed too not that I'm being invited for feedback and it doesn't make me feel good about 2e.
KingOfAnything wrote:
Feedback will be welcome in about four months.
For now, the healthiest mindset is to compile questions you want to explore when the final document becomes available. It's going to be big, so knowing what we care about will help us focus on the parts that matter to us.
Let's be honest. The window between the release of the playtest and the scheduled release of Pathfinder 2.0 is pretty short. They aren't looking for any feedback that suggest any major changes. They're looking for minor tweaks to what they already have essentially set in stone.
Skills don’t require int. Please don’t make wizard/alchemist accidental skill experts again just because of their primary stat.
I know skills are being reworked into proficiencies but remove int from the equation.
An interesting idea would be to only give bonus skill points at 1st level. However, EVERY stat gives bonus skill points, but those bonus skill points have to be applied to skill that use that stat.
That would mean that every character gets a lot of the bonus skill points at first level, but they would mostly go into the types of skill that are archtypical for their class (assuming that the player chooses to put their highest stats into their classes "prime requisite").
See, this touches on the REAL reason that caster/martial disparity is a thing. Someone, somewhere, decided that having a class that was awful 90% of the time but that got to do stupendously awesome things the other 10% of the time was a good idea. The reason there will always be a disparity between casters and martials is that the martial gets to do his cool things at - will, and the caster gets 3 cool things per day (or whatever number you want to put there). By necessity, a cool thing you can only do once or twice per day is going to be much cooler than a cool thing you can do all the time.
See, this was fine when the caster only could do that cool thing 3 times. THe problem is that the caster is given options to do that cool thing a LOT more often. And that went into overdrive with 3.0, 3.5, and Pathfinder. By the mid-point of Pathfinder, it was pretty easy for the caster to be doing that cool thing as much as he wanted.
Notice those rules for replacing a lost familiar? Or a lost spellbook? Or the cost of an extra spellbook? That means those are meant to be attacked, sundered, burnt, lost. No magic user should be traveling around with their entire library.
One of the problems is that if you mention doing any of these things on this forum, people basically think that your players should take turns punching you in the face before blackballing you from the RPG community at large.
