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JoshTheStampede posted:Why is Jubilee racist? Is it because the Chinese invented fireworks? That's kinda a stretch, she makes flashy sparks, she's not throwing flaming dragons or whatever. It's not like, super laundry abilities or anything, but fireworks is still on most people's "top five things you associate with China". Colossus is a Man of Steel and that's hilarious to me. (Because that's what Stalin's name means, you see) WickedHate fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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So she's got the power to control minds, what's her codename? Uuuuuh, Karma? Good enough!
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Aug 7, 2016 04:23
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More X-Men should have dumb names, since they choose that themselves. I liked Hellion naming himself after the team to suck up. We need more Negasonic Teenage Warheads.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:32
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Aphrodite posted:More X-Men should have dumb names, since they choose that themselves. I liked Hellion naming himself after the team to suck up. When I was thirteen, I came up with a character called Wickidy Weird, or, alternatively, Wykydy Wyrd. I stand by it.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:39
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WickedHate posted:When I was thirteen, I came up with a character called Wickidy Weird, or, alternatively, Wykydy Wyrd. I stand by it. With all the power of Southern rock.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:41
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Wicked Hate confirmed to be the edgy 90s anti-hero version of Wickidy Weird.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:46
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Man, now I wish I thought to use it for my username. drat.
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Lurdiak posted:For whatever reason, non-white X-men getting racist powers is something that only very recently went away. Even Astonishing X-men had loving Armor or whatever she's called. Yeah Armor was great until we found out her mutation was powered by her dead ancestors or some poo poo. Let's all just agree to forget that.
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It did lead to a kind of clever moment in a stupidly funny way where alternate universe Prof. X had people on stand by to slaughter the rest of her living family if she ever needed a power boost on the fly.
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WickedHate posted:It did lead to a kind of clever moment in a stupidly funny way where alternate universe Prof. X had people on stand by to slaughter the rest of her living family if she ever needed a power boost on the fly. Cyclops was right.
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Aphrodite posted:More X-Men should have dumb names, since they choose that themselves. I liked Hellion naming himself after the team to suck up. 
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Aug 7, 2016 14:15
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Should have gone with "Armoire" imo, because she has a metaphorical closet of ancestor-energies that can dress her up in fancy psychic power clothes.
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Aug 7, 2016 18:24
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Squizzle posted:Should have gone with "Armoire" imo, because she has a metaphorical closet of ancestor-energies that can dress her up in fancy psychic power clothes. See, that would be a cool power. Something like Vic Alvarez's history-channeling thing but it gives you like cool psychic clothes over your normal outfit and you get the skills of whoever you're channeling. Like you get a psyhcic labcoat if you're summoning Marie Curie or something.
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Gaz-L posted:See, that would be a cool power. Something like Vic Alvarez's history-channeling thing but it gives you like cool psychic clothes over your normal outfit and you get the skills of whoever you're channeling. Like you get a psyhcic labcoat if you're summoning Marie Curie or something. Kid Eternity rules and I keep wanting him to come back in a new book.
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WickedHate posted:Kid Eternity rules and I keep wanting him to come back in a new book. The problem is they use him in stupid ways. He always brings back like King Arthur or some poo poo. He owuld be great right now. A Superman is dead.
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Mr Hootington posted:The problem is they use him in stupid ways. He always brings back like King Arthur or some poo poo. He owuld be great right now. A Superman is dead. Sometimes he brings back Walt Whitman.
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joehonkie posted:Sometimes he brings back Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, my rear end! 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Feels like Telltale have scaled back the puzzles in their most recent games, so that doesn't surprise me. I got this for the xbone and really liked it. The aesthetic reminds me of the mix of modern and like, 20's look that the animated series had. I don't much like QTEs but I think the story has potential to be good, and like that you can control how Bruce/Batman go about things. Batman can be brutal or just scary.
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I liked that one of the Runaways just uses her AIM screen name as her superhero name.
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Codependent Poster posted:I got this for the xbone and really liked it. The aesthetic reminds me of the mix of modern and like, 20's look that the animated series had. You can also decide if Bruce is playboy douche or upstanding pillar of the community.
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Gaz-L posted:You can also decide if Bruce is playboy douche or upstanding pillar of the community. Yep. This game is refreshing in that you can play Batman like a real hero instead of murdering nutcase. So I'm pretty much playing him like from TAS.
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Troy Baker and Laura Bailey are also great as Batman and Catwoman. The whole cast is solid, but those two stand out for me.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I liked that one of the Runaways just uses her AIM screen name as her superhero name. And one of the other picks a name that a kid actually would pick: 
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Speaking of, I hate how Sister Grimm has apparently become Nico's official name in games and stuff. It feels like someone Googled her, saw "Also known as Sister Grimm" and went with it.
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Aphrodite posted:Speaking of, I hate how Sister Grimm has apparently become Nico's official name in games and stuff. The original series fortold they'd be in the Avengers and poo poo eventually, so they had to get serious about code names eventually.
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https://twitter.com/axelalonsomarv/status/763360076778336256 I'm probably gonna end up buying this, I never saw the Tyler the Creator/Squirrel Girl one and that's loving genius.
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Toxxupation posted:I'm probably gonna end up buying this, I never saw the Tyler the Creator/Squirrel Girl one and that's loving genius. Here, I just saved you a bunch of cash money.
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They're still making those stupid things.
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Some of those are pretty bad but I really like the Spider-Gwen/Slick Rick one. I like the Daredevil/2Pac one too, but I'm a big sucker for both that album and Alex Maleev (the "strictly 4 the kitchen" down the side is very stupid though)
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I mentioned to my uncle last week that I had started to look into comics again, and he said that I should come pick up his old stuff. Cue me going over to his place tonight and picking up seven long boxes and a stack of TPBs. The only cost was a promise not to sell the books, and not to return them. I'm still going through everything (the comics were 4 to a bag mostly and not boarded), but early indications are that this is going to knock out most of my collecting for the foreseeable future. And certainly my reading. I've boarded just over 450 books: Suicide squad, Doom Patrol, the Giffin 1987 JLE / JLI / JLA runs, Hellblazer from about 25 to whenever Ennis stopped, and a bunch of assorted Moore and Morrison stuff, and there are four more long boxes that are pretty jammed still to go. There are also roughly 100 trade paperbacks, mostly focused on Vertigo stuff. The cool thing is that he mostly collected DC and Vertigo from the late 80s / early 90s. I don't care about sale value, just what it would have cost me to acquire it, and with no DC unlimited I haven't read most of this stuff. There will end up being both a cost and a time commitment to bag and board everything and store it in new and cleaner long boxes, but it still beats the hell out of buying the comics even on the resale market. I'm pretty stoked about this.
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Your uncle sounds like a cool dude. Only comics I got from family are old Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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WickedHate posted:I didn't get Jubes until someone pointed it out to me, but Armor is just ridiculous. Ancestor powered anime robots? And she has a storyline where she dishonors her family or whatever and they fight a giant monster? Ugh. Sunfire is the most balls out extreme, having an entire Japanese flag costume(beat that Katana!) and having powers because his mom was pregnant with him at Hiroshima. Katana is a funny character. On paper she should be one dimensional and awful. But while her power set isn't anything amazing there is a decent character there which even the Suicide Squad movie taped into. (Ideally she should be a housewive who turned herself into a living weapon against crime to get vengeance on the people who killed her family. Basically Batman who is even closer to the edge of the Abyss.) And while her costume is a bit nationalistic (or stereotypical depending on your point of view.) it does let her stand out. That being said, I did crack up at the comment made by Japanese/America Porn Star Asa Akira when she played Katana in the porn parody of Suicide Squad. https://twitter.com/AsaAkira/status/755549484772319232
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I like the Daredevil/2Pac one too, but I'm a big sucker for both that album and Alex Maleev (the "strictly 4 the kitchen" down the side is very stupid though)
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I'm debating seeing Sausage Party tonight. It's reviewing really well and I always thought the concept was pretty neat, but I'm still split. What do you guys think?
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Toxxupation posted:I'm debating seeing Sausage Party tonight. It's reviewing really well and I always thought the concept was pretty neat, but I'm still split. What do you guys think? The script has been floating around for a while now and it's shiiiiiit, but I'm also not gonna pretend you've got the same tastes I do. I just felt you deserved that warning. (total dogshit)
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Just looking up what you could watch instead, there's a new Mel Gibson action movie I hadn't heard of that's at 93%. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_father/ I'd see that. e: I'd see Sausage Party too. If I was in America I'd make a weekend with those and Hell or High Water and Pete's Dragon. Here in NZ we've got none of that, but Green Room is finally out 
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I mean, fair point, but currently it's reviewing really, really well, like we're talkin' 86% fresh on RT after 70 reviews counted. 88% if you just count Top Critics. Dunno, still split but it's hard to argue against reviews that solid.
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Toxxupation posted:I'm debating seeing Sausage Party tonight. It's reviewing really well and I always thought the concept was pretty neat, but I'm still split. What do you guys think? I think there's plenty of material to mine in the movie's gimmick in general, but I wouldn't go without some reassurance from trusted reviewers (see: similar tastes) that the premise doesn't wear paper-thin after the first few minutes. The whole "I'm a DICK" "and I'm a VAGINA" schtick was old to me by the end of the trailer.
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Toxxupation posted:I mean, fair point, but currently it's reviewing really, really well, like we're talkin' 86% fresh on RT after 70 reviews counted. 88% if you just count Top Critics. Dunno, still split but it's hard to argue against reviews that solid. Be careful - I have it on good authority that Rotten Tomatoes is a bought and paid for Disney shill. 
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Space Fish posted:I think there's plenty of material to mine in the movie's gimmick in general, but I wouldn't go without some reassurance from trusted reviewers (see: similar tastes) that the premise doesn't wear paper-thin after the first few minutes. The whole "I'm a DICK" "and I'm a VAGINA" schtick was old to me by the end of the trailer. Most of the reviews I've read implied that the film actually dovetails into a weird examination on faith and the destruction of faith during crisis, because yeah I thought the whole dick/pussy duality of the two mains got super old super quick in the trailers too. Teenage Fansub posted:Just looking up what you could watch instead, there's a new Mel Gibson action movie I hadn't heard of that's at 93%. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_father/ The closest location I've found that plays that movie is some indie theatre I've never heard of two hours away from me. Considering it's a Gibson star vehicle I'm not surprised, but it looks like this movie is getting a pretty narrow release.
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