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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i watched the prologue and it seemed really bad but then i decided i should give it more of a chance and watched a few more scenes and it still seemed really bad

maybe if i was really into puppets
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i find coleslaw inedible

everything about both it's taste and texture offends my sensibilities
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

guys

antonio brown

hold or sell

he's been stressing me out all week with every new development
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

GenesisSaga posted...

CoolCly posted...

I know I've heard Move Mountains before watching this and I won't rest until I figure out where.

There's a popular song called Move Mountains that exists, but it's a completely different song and by a completely different artist. Are you sure you're not just tricking yourself?

Nope, I found that song Moving Mountains and that's definitely not it. it's specifically the line "No matter what, I will fight to the end, I can move mountains". I've heard this recently somewhere.

This isn't actually a new anime even though it just came out on Netflix or something right? It came out a while ago with the same songs in the original Japanese version.... so maybe I heard a cover or in a youtube video or somebody played it on a Twitch stream or something.

Cultural osmosis must have been in effect here
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

I'm not sure what Reg is mad about at all

Servers were under attack by DDOS all weekend, there's certainly fallout because of it
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

I know I've heard Move Mountains before watching this and I won't rest until I figure out where.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

is angela's song a real song by somebody? or is it charting on the radio somehow?

i'm certain i've heard this before
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

a shaman tanking is pretty funny, not sure if that's usual. warriors definitely just tank in arms spec while healers are shadow spec or some shit though, that's definitely normal

the ddosing this weekend was unbearable, and super frustrating considering i couldnt play much last week while my friends all dashed ahead and wanted to catch up this weekend

...that said i'm still 41 after being 33 six days ago
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

extha taught me a valuable lesson in the last topic about how i shouldnt just believe these stories when they come out so im gonna go ahead and put that into practice and not believe this article debunking the claims
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

so I watched about 5 episodes yesterday,

seems okay, I like Carole and Tuesday and the music

the show is done a real disservice by making the manager an incompetent buffoon though, those dumb antics make the show nigh unwatchable to me
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

sub or dub
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

yesterday there was news he delivered a heartfelt speech and apology to the team and the coach declared he would be playing this week, and i rested easy

today, he's suddenly released from the team

anybody know any good sleepers that wouldnt have been picked up in the draft i should grab
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i liked the master of the house though. haha dumb goon does dumb goon things. that's relateable whether you can hear them or not
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

I don't think I had a problem with the music itself, just that the volume was such that it overshadowed anything the performers were singing. I also thought the actors were especially trying to show off their singing talent by hitting notes and less on being understandable which made it impossible to follow. I can't really comment on the plot or the emotional character arcs or the performances if i just literally can't make out what they are saying.

The worst part was that I brought my mom and brother to it for their first musicals after talking up how much I love going to these things, and now they are convinced it's dumb and also stupid and I'm stupid for liking them.

Thanks a lot, Les Mis.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i almost thought i was gonna get out of there without any hate

it's not my fault the play was literally miserable
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

BTW it was her first musical and she absolutely loved it. It was Rent.

I thought it was okay.

BROADWAY MUSICAL TIER LIST

God Tier

The Book of Mormon
Wicked

Great Tier
Jersey Boys

Okay Tier
Rent

Bad Tier
Les Miserable

I might get a lot of hate for Les Mis but maybe it was just a bad production. I couldn't understand the performers at all over the music and through their accented way of talking, so I only had a basic grasp of the plot just based on visuals. In the other productions I've seen, I could understand everything people were saying or singing perfectly. Rent suffered a bit from this too actually, might be why I didn't like it as much as Jersey Boys.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Corrik7 posted...

Stupidest story ever.

and the scariest part is that it's true whoaoooah

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

When I lived in Toronto I was constantly approached by homeless people, religious nutjobs, "environmentalist petitioners" and all manner of shady drug dealers trying to sell me drugs/phones/whatever. I am a white male.

Hey look, some dumb (probably false) anecdotal story can be made invalid by another compeltely anecdotal story.

Male privilege was a thing 20-30 years ago, but nowadays the pendulum has swung so far the other way that its jarring and hilarious

I've had tons of homeless people / religious nutjobs/ enviornmentalist petitioners etc come up to me too but unfortunately they never relentlessly followed me around trying to have sex with me
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

so i took my cousins daughter to see a musical last night, she's about 15

we were driving through the real hipster part of town and she was talking about how much she loves it there but she's only been there once, walking around with her aunt (who is my age and a fox), and this drug dealer dude kept following them around asking the aunt to buy from him and also to come hang out at his place, it went on for a while and it made her super uncomfortable

then later on somehow the topic of male privilege came up and she was like "i don't know if that's really a thing though" and I said to her, "you know that story you mentioned a minute ago about how a creep followed you and your aunt around harassing you? I lived on hipsterstreet for 2 years and walked around it a thousand times and that never happened to me once, but it happened to you the one time you went there."

she said "oh wow.... i never thought of it like that... that's really messed up we had to put up with that but you don't..."

another feminist created
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

My team in my work league (with a $60 entry fee)

1.(1)Alvin Kamara (NO - RB)
2.(24)Antonio Brown (Oak - WR)
3.(25)Zach Ertz (Phi - TE)
4.(48)T.Y. Hilton (Ind - WR)
5.(49)Aaron Rodgers (GB - QB)
6.(72)Austin Ekeler (LAC - RB)
7.(73)Curtis Samuel (Car - WR)
8.(96)Geronimo Allison (GB - WR)
9.(97)Lamar Jackson (Bal - QB)
10.(120)Justice Hill (Bal - RB)
11.(121)Golden Tate (NYG - WR)
12.(144)Tony Pollard (Dal - RB)
13.(145)Houston (Hou - DEF)
14.(168)Mason Crosby (GB - K)
15.(169)Ito Smith (Atl - RB)

I just received some very bad news about Antonio Brown.....
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Oh, are we talking about OW2?

personally, i think the "overwatch 2" rumours are probably true in that there is a large overwatch development project happening, but i can't imagine it's a new version of the game. that would add nothing to the table. there's nothing mechanically wrong with Overwatch to warrant this, it would just be the same characters in the same modes on a new engine at best

i think it's probably a large scale addition to the currently existing Overwatch game - like a giant PVE campaign, or a looter shooter mode, or something. Something utilizing the currently existing assets but in a completely different way that the normal Overwatch team isn't quite able to capitalize on beyond the little event modes they do.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

anyone who puts Tsui at the top of their list might like frogs a little bit too much
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

37 is a pretty respectable level

i'm 33 and i spend a lot of time, i'm just super slow
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Incredible Hulk, Thor 2, and Iron Man 2 are pretty universally seen as the worst MCU films, so it's a bit too easy to pick those IMO. Of course they are the most forgettable. Everyone agrees.

For me it's Doctor Strange. I liked Cumberbund but his initial cocky attitude is a bit too annoying and his quirks aren't interested (like knowing when music debuted), and a lot of the plotting is really generic, especially the villain. The special effects are really cool but it's kind of the opposite kind of magic I'd have liked to see from a Doctor Strange movie. Less mysterious and magical and ominous, and more mechanical. It's the sciencey magic the MCU is known for, so it's consistent, but IMO not what the movie could have been.

Maybe the Multiverse of Madness will deliver.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

the dopamine kick i got for making that post was rad
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

People get a dopamine kick from calling people out for going after dopamine kicks, regardless of the facts or the situation - I think that's where we're at now.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

why would it be extortion?
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

they have dynamic respawns which i think needs to be scaled back. if i'm in a tight area like a keep that i'm trying to progress into, the mobs keep respawning on top of me, it's real dumb
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Hows my draft look, boys?

1.(1)Alvin Kamara (NO - RB)
2.(24)Antonio Brown (Oak - WR)
3.(25)Zach Ertz (Phi - TE)
4.(48)T.Y. Hilton (Ind - WR)
5.(49)Aaron Rodgers (GB - QB)
6.(72)Austin Ekeler (LAC - RB)
7.(73)Curtis Samuel (Car - WR)
8.(96)Geronimo Allison (GB - WR)
9.(97)Lamar Jackson (Bal - QB)
10.(120)Justice Hill (Bal - RB)
11.(121)Golden Tate (NYG - WR)
12.(144)Tony Pollard (Dal - RB)
13.(145)Houston (Hou - DEF)
14.(168)Mason Crosby (GB - K)
15.(169)Ito Smith (Atl - RB)

I'm personally proud of Geronimo, Justice, and Golden. Their names are very powerful.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

definitely recommend buying a lesser magic wand at 5 and a greater magic wand at lvl 13 for any caster - huge boost over your spells and any other wand you might find.

they are created by enchanters so you can find them in the AH or people spamming to sell them in trade chat. A greater magic wand can be found for under 20 silver.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

The world just feels so large and full of things to look at

Like I got to the Barrens and there was a little orc girl running around in the middle of nowhere picking up rocks and talking to herself. she's just there, there's no quest related to her or her family. it's just a thing happening that you see

then i went up this mountain and suddenly i was in hell, there was this red mist everywhere as i fought orc cultists. for some reason this mountaintop is hell

then you come back down and it's the barrens

plus the music is really good. is this background music even in retail anymore?

i just love walking around this world
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

dunkey is actually good at it

it's just up to you if you agree with his tastes or not

he's only bad if you are tired of his schtick
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

wonderful work. you're a true scribe.

whats your opinion, having listened to the whole thing and written all that out?
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

ugh, i've been in queue 4 hours and still 5k to go

it's worse today somehow - yesterday i went into queue at 7pm at 25k people and got in at 11pm

today i got into queue at 17k people at 430 pm and i'm still at 5k four hours later
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R6_Chr2vro#t=12s
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

there's genuine joy to be had in watching something you know is going to be bad

have you seen the best of the worst series by redlettermedia?
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i paid no attention to this when it was big and didnt know who he was before it happened

but the impression I got was that the accusations against him were pretty accepted as rock solid - like nobody was saying the "innocent until proven guilty" stuff or complaining about cancel culture etc. Everyone was basically like "yeah the evidence is damning, he definitely did it, this guy is donezo, get him outta here"

was the evidence not actually that strong or whatever for some chat logs to easily disprove them?
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

got through a 5 hour queue starting 25k in line.

get to level 5 after like half an hour, then get dc'd and put at the back of the queue again

oh classic wow, i missed you
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

haha i have all of the skills im going to buy planned out to 60 in a spreadsheet

im going to be ignoring A LOT of spells.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

oh sorry dawg

i dont think we actually talked about it here
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Kromcrush had a queue of about a minute... so I got in and made my character and tried to log in.

world server is down

Kurinnaxx, here I come

god forbid i roll on a roleplay server
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

lol my friend is on stalagg and im 25k in queue. estimated time 668 minutes

so.... i'm just supposed to change to a new server that they just suddenly opened? i'll have to restart my progress on stalagg later i guess
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Alright dawg. Peace out.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Sounds like you are putting words in my mouth? It's the same thing vcharon is doing - taking something I said and then adding a conclusion to it that I didn't state.

I'm not saying somebody shouldn't be brought to content because they don't have a brez. I'm saying I don't like that so many people have battle rez. To me, the ideal balance is that somebody is brought because they have something else just as useful as brez.

My ideal vision for balance is the way dota 2 does it - which is perfectly illustrated by this comic. In dota 2, there are no bad heroes. In fact, every single hero is overpowered in it's own way. Every hero is played, every hero is good, they are just all good for their own unique reason.

https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/737

This is not the balance strategy Blizz uses for WoW classes. The vanilla balance IS a lot more like this method (though obviously, not perfected because it's so rough).
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

GildedFool posted...

v_charon posted...

turbopuns3 posted...

Like is there depth to modern retail class selection?

Or are the "classes" just:

Tank
Healer
Melee DPS
Ranged DPS

?

That's my question in a nutshell.

No, there's not, because no one wants to play a "support" class because you feel like a worthless idiot that isn't really doing anything. There's a reason why classes like that don't exist much in MMOs these days. They aren't popular, and the devs know it. No one wants to be the guy who keeps buffs up on other people. Blizzard did away with it because it wasn't popular.

That's not what he means.

And, yes there are. You have multidot ranged, AOE/ST/cleave melee, raid/tank healers.

You need monk/warrior/mage/DH/priest for their unique buff/debuffs but can use any of their specs.

Druids, DKs and Warlocks bring in-combat ressurection.

Some classes have good target swapping, some have on-demand burst, good mobility. Rogues for example are the best melee dps for survivability with Cheat Death, Cloak of Shadows and Feint as excellent defensive options.

You need one of the classes bringing the Lust effect.

You probably want at least a couple of people who have good execute damage for when the boss gets low.

You can't just grab 2 tanks, 4 heals and 14 dps without regard for what class they are and expect to do ok in a raid. Can you beat a normal raid like that? Sure. But once you move into Heroic and *definitely* for Mythic, it's just not realistic.

Additionally, I didn't pay attention to when you said you stopped, but you can swap between any of your classes specs incredibly easily now if you want to move from heal to dps, or from one dps spec to another for different fights. I know there's one dungeon which priests almost always prefer to heal as Holy instead of Discipline because of the structure of one of the fights and the different playstyles they have.

I feel like you opened this post trying to explain why classes are so varied, but all your examples showed that they aren't.

Like true not every single class can battle rez but at this point it's not a unique trait. If you make a raid of random classes you are gonna end up with some battle rezzes.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

in an off topic note, Heroes of the Storm failing compared to League and Dota is primarily due to them trying to apply this homogenization approach to a genre that thrives on strengths and differences between characters.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

v_charon posted...

It's a downside because if it doesn't work, it shouldn't exist in the game. Blizzard wanted that many classes because even though a lot of them play the same type of way sure, there's flavor and subtle differences in how they play and look. Retribution paladin is a DPS spec, and it features attacks dealing Holy damage and it gives you the look and feel as if you're battling as this holy swordsman with light based attacks. Meanwhile there's something like Arms warrior, which is another two-handed dps spec but they play pretty differently. The abilities play into more hard hitting combat, weapon swinging and if you're looking to play a character that's going to fight with a two-handed sword but you don't want to be this righteous knight as you do it, then this spec works for you. I mean, if you don't inherently see what downside there is to forcing people to all play the same character, one which they may not be as interested in aesthetically, then yeah I just don't know what else to say. Again, Blizzard created the classes. They ought to work, and explaining it away as "it isn't that big of a deal" was why it took years for Blizzard to make a game where everything they put in actually functions.

v_charon posted...

No, there's not, because no one wants to play a "support" class because you feel like a worthless idiot that isn't really doing anything. There's a reason why classes like that don't exist much in MMOs these days. They aren't popular, and the devs know it. No one wants to be the guy who keeps buffs up on other people. Blizzard did away with it because it wasn't popular.

You make a lot of logical leaps here though.

You've complained a lot about the class balance in vanilla and it's clear that's something that bothers you. That every spec ought to work and such. I don't disagree there - it does suck that some specs in vanilla basically dont' do anything. It's just incomplete, there's no doubt about it. And that sucks.

But when Blizz went about trying to fix this - they went with a method called "homogenization." What this means is that most classes play similarly to eachother and have similar abilities. Every class has Kick. Every class does good burst damage, every class does good aoe damage, every class does good sustained damage. Every class brings a buff. Every buff is brought by like 6 different specs. There's no uniqueness.

This accomplishes a goal - everyone can be brought to a raid or dungeon regardless of what class they are. This is a good thing.

However, just like every other change I've discussed - it has a potential bad thing. Your class loses it's uniqueness. You aren't known to your group as the guy who brings X value to the guild. That feels bad.

Is making everything viable worth losing that uniqueness? Maybe.

but your point of "because no one wants to play a "support" class because you feel like a worthless idiot that isn't really doing anything." is a stretch. Nobody wants to feel useless, but there's definite evidence that people want to have their own strengths.

Personally, I think it would have been better for Blizz to aim for diversification - giving different classes and specs more uniqueness. Balance can still be strived for in a world of different roles. Vanilla is most certianly not balanced, but it's a completely different class structure with it's own pros and cons compared to Retail's homogenized role structure.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

v_charon posted...

I'm just wondering what we're arguing about at all.

You said you cannot understand why anyone would want to play classic when it's objectively worse than Retail.

I've attempted to lay out to you why all of the improvements they've made to Retail, while improving the game for many people and in many ways, have changed the games in unintended ways that have turned other people off, and Classic might be able to give what those people are looking for.

You are just unwilling to accept that the "good changes" may have also caused "bad changes". So I guess you'll never understand why anyone would want to play Classic over Retail.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

its fate
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG