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Post by Anders on Aug 27, 2011 7:32:31 GMT -8
Yeah, I'm all for it.
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Post by Anders on Aug 27, 2011 0:51:57 GMT -8
From the lead designer:
"Pretty sure Howard [the Duck] will be in the 50-States Initiative supplement for Civil War."
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Post by Anders on Aug 22, 2011 21:10:58 GMT -8
In V Evey is about to be raped when V shows up.
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Post by Anders on Aug 20, 2011 5:08:47 GMT -8
We played that a lot when I was younger. I think it was my first RPG in English.
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Post by Anders on Aug 17, 2011 21:39:34 GMT -8
Margaret Weis Productions, the company that has made RPGs for Leverage, Smallville, Supernatural, Firefly and other fairly well-known genre (I hate that word used like this) properties have landed the Marvel license. Their plan is to make a fairly slim core rulebook and then publish adventure/campaign books based on various Marvel "events" and storylines, all in two versions - one including the basic rules and one without them.
The first one they're doing?
Civil War.
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Post by Anders on Aug 16, 2011 21:58:00 GMT -8
Sounds like a great idea to have "looser building codes" on a floating island. Nothing could go wrong there.
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Post by Anders on Aug 13, 2011 1:17:52 GMT -8
Yeah, you'd have rotating leaders or compromise candidates from smaller countries.
Another aspect is which supers a nation would send to a group like this. A smaller nation might send their most powerful hero to gain publicity, while a bigger one probably wouldn't want their A-listers under UN command. That's assuming the governments would have any say in the matter, of course - it could be run on a volunteer basis, like many other UN missions.
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Post by Anders on Aug 12, 2011 22:01:45 GMT -8
After Serenity I'm not worried about the action scenes. I'm more concerned about whether the characters will carry over well enough and be able to play together when they're not the stars of their respective movies.
My main worry is that this will become Iron-Man and His Super-Friends much like X-Men became Wolverine and Some Other Mutants.
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Post by Anders on Aug 12, 2011 7:45:11 GMT -8
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Post by Anders on Aug 12, 2011 6:24:02 GMT -8
Only if every single person involved with the project is an idiot. And the comparison to the Aliens/Predator crossovers is kinda silly, since these characters have lived in the same universe for decades and the movie is made while the franchise is still on its way up (movie-wise) as opposed to dead two times over. I make it a point to never underestimate idiocy. Which is generally a good policy, but I also think there's such a thing as pointless willful negativity. And while you have a point regarding Predators/Aliens, remember that this is still a creature of major movie studios...which goes back to the "don't underestimate stupid". The larger point being - you actually have to CARE about these characters enough to want to watch them interact for a couple hours with each other, and I'm not so sure it's going to pan out. Or, y'know, interact with bad guys by kicking them in the face.
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Post by Anders on Aug 11, 2011 22:31:51 GMT -8
The problem: The Audience, whom are not comic people, have to A) remember, and B) Give a damn about what happened in the following movies at minimum: 2008's Iron Man 2011's Thor 2011's Captain America: the First Avenger Only if every single person involved with the project is an idiot. And the comparison to the Aliens/Predator crossovers is kinda silly, since these characters have lived in the same universe for decades and the movie is made while the franchise is still on its way up (movie-wise) as opposed to dead two times over.
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Post by Anders on Jul 18, 2011 12:30:10 GMT -8
I don't go to a lot of concerts; I've been to maybe a dozen or two in my lifetime, not counting free performances by choirs and such. Usually I just feel it's too expensive, with one concert ticket costing as much as four or five CD albums, and it's inconvenient what with having to be at a specific place at a specific time when I prefer my entertainment to be there when I want it.
However, the past couple of years I've started going more frequently (which is to say, more than a couple of times per decade). I don't know if it's because I have a decent combination of money and spare time, or if I'm just getting over the parts I don't like much but I've gotten to the point where I'm enjoying it enough for the cost to seem worth it. Mostly I've been to see bands or artists I really like when they've happened to play here in Uppsala (Laurie Anderson, Laibach, Diamanda Gálás, Freddie Wadling), but I also got some people together and went to an eighties mini-festival (Alphaville, Human League and a bunch of Swedish acts you wouldn't know). I still haven't gotten to the point where I'll keep track of which artists are coming to Sweden and going to see them - though I wish I had, because Bob Dyland and Leonard Cohen have both been here recently, and I'm sorry I missed them.
So a couple of days ago I found out that Public Enemy is playing in Uppsala. I'm not a huge fan of rap, partly because I haven't put in the time to find the stuff I like, but seeing Public Enemy live in a small club... yeah, I'm doing that.
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Post by Anders on Jul 15, 2011 13:35:51 GMT -8
Just watched part of the trailer (I didn't want to spoil too much and it was extremely spoileriffic) and it does indeed look awesome.
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Post by Anders on Jul 12, 2011 7:18:03 GMT -8
I've had that reaction too. Usually it hits me too early to get more than a few pages. (That's how it was with Robin Hobb's Assassin series.)
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Post by Anders on Jul 10, 2011 14:31:35 GMT -8
For me, that's no way to read fiction. Emotional distance from the characters means I don't care what happens to them, and if I don't care what happens to them, then reading a novel is pointless for me. (Unless the prose is so extremely well written that I feel I can use the novel as a textbook for how to pull certain things off.) I don't mean that warning literally. I'm saddened when a character I like gets killed off, but that sadness is... well, real, or as real as emotions provoked by fiction can be. I much prefer that to the at best fake comfort and more common bored annoyance when the writer pretends to puts a main character in peril but you know they'll make it - like in the Xth book in a series built on that character.
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