Lurker > bobbyrk

He was brought back with a redesign a few years back for the Arkham City: The Order of the World miniseries with Azrael.

https://www.cbr.com/batman-arkham-city-ten-eyed-man-redesign/

Robot2600 posted...

this is nonsense talk

95 voted in agreement. 58 voted against it. 38 voted present, and 22 simply didn't vote (joined by four Republicans).

Not voting in this, or voting present when they could have joined their 58 colleagues in voting against it, is tantamount to voting for it, so yes, if 95 voted yes on this, 58 voted no and another 60 didn't bother actually voting for or against it, those 60 essentially said they're fine with it or otherwise don't have the will or donor support to vote against it.

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll282.xml

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc2b5423.png

dammit, image too small to read

anyway, 310-58 passing, 95 Dems voted with Republicans to pass it, with 38 voting present and 26 not voting.

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Yes. There's been previous mainline games that have had no modern outside-the-Animus gameplay, only cutscenes or not even that, little brief interludes.

AC1, 2, Brotherhood and 3 all had significant story work in present day material.

Revelations was the first one that didn't, but it did feature stuff that wasn't in the historical setting. Ironically, for a game called Revelations, it didn't really have any... except in the DLC.

Black Flag had first person segments that tied into what the previous games were building up to, as well as direct links to characters involved in the in-Animus story. One of the characters you interact with in the present day stuff is one of several reincarnations of a Precursor/First Civilization/Isu named Aita, and there are three other of the reincarnations in the in-Animus story.

Rogue has the same first person gameplay as Black Flag, but with a different player character.

Unity is the first to have no present day gameplay, only cutscenes and video segments. Syndicate is the same way, no present day gameplay.

Origins introduces us to a new present day player character named Layla Hassan, and actually ties into the live action movie that they did with Michael Fassbender. Her story continues in Odyssey and ends in Valhalla, which actually ties her back in with Desmond working to stop the apocalypse from happening again.

There's no present day gameplay in Mirage, but the character you play is one introduced in the in-Animus gameplay in Valhalla.

There's no present day gameplay in Shadows, but there's some in-Animus content with "anomalies" happening and the player is talked to by some entity about the new Animus Hub stuff as well as the "anomalies."

SteveRogers33 posted...

The modern day story is what kept me hooked on the series, until 3. After 3 it was clear they had no idea where to go

A good portion of that is because the "father" of the series left during the development of Brotherhood. Then he went to THQ to start a new historical franchise, THQ went under and Ubi bought his studio... and fired him again. He went on to create the game Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey which is an odd title about our evolutionary ancestors survival.

LightSnake posted...

I mean, did anyone like....love the modern sessions?

I think they have their defenders, but after AC3 they kinda hit a wall to the point they spun their wheels. AC3 seems to lead to something with Desmond, only to kinda shut down and completely forget its plot to the point the big bad villain who's released with Desmond's death is literally killed on in a tie-in comic and the modern sessions just become increasingly less interesting.

I actually liked the ideas of the content in the RPG trilogy more than the execution, to be honest. There's a lot of interesting concepts and while I haven't finished all the DLC for Valhalla, it's probably the most lore-heavy of all of the games up to that point, and does a lot to tie together the existing lore while spot-welding its own new stuff on. Shadows didn't have any modern day outside of stuff about the Animus Hub and some anomalies with it, but with the next title they're supposed to be building more up to something else within the modern day.

thronedfire2 posted...

I had to read this like 3 times before my brain realized what you were saying. Im assuming there was some sort of Star Wars promo in Fortnite?

Charged151 posted...

I didn't know that. Seems like kind of a prick move to be honest.

Yep, to both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0ejXC7kFs

The big issue with removing the Modern Day stuff in Black Flag in the remake is that it actually makes some of the historical lore useless, like a couple of the characters (one of the villains and one who's dead before the events of the game as well) in the Caribbean setting both tie in to a character in the modern day stuff.

There's always been a contingent of people who don't like the sci-fi stuff, and there's certainly been games that have done it... poorly, but my interest in the franchise was initially piqued because of the sci-fi framing.

thronedfire2 posted...

Watching ep 9 now

Definitely better than 8 so far. Somehow I never heard that the emperor makes a return with a ridiculously huge fleet >_>

The speech he made announcing his return was, I kid you not, broadcast in Fortnite. And only in Fortnite. It's not in any books, not even in the movie novelization IIRC.

thronedfire2 posted...

ok, Kylo using the force to teleport the lightsaber and cut Snoke in half was pretty cool

unless this is all some dark side mind trick to confuse Rey

Lightsaber wasn't teleported, it was already sitting next to Snoke. There is teleportation in the film, just not in that scene.

thronedfire2 posted...

I thought admiral hot older lady might end up being a traitor, but she was a true hero.

Her character pissed off a large chunk of the base; and while I'm generally on the "TLJ is a top five Star Wars film" person, her earlier segments are pretty terrible and it's easy to see why people hate her. Smugly refusing to answer if she even had a plan was a bad choice.

elizajanegirl posted...

I didn't see "Surprise! You're Dead!" by FNM on that list.

It's been posted three times there in the past day, highest is #116 on the list (which I just screenshotted the first twenty five hottest posts)

Umbreon posted...

Looking up that song, goodness that's a lot of recent comments.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/83e3b2ab.jpg

edit, in case the picture comes out too small, check out r/music - they've had an absolute field day with this one.

From what I saw, they're supposedly remodeling the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom.

https://bsky.app/profile/anthonyclark.bsky.social/post/3lxscjnpu622l

The user has set it to login required, but here's a couple screengrabs.

https://i.imgur.com/ZqKnTH8.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/IDlUUsI.jpeg

Doesn't mean that just tossing bags of trash out of a window isn't itself sketchy and absolutely trashy as befitting this administration, but it has a (reasonable) explanation this time. Wouldn't be surprised if it's against some law to do this, though.

evilpresident posted...

So, he ded?

Unfortunately not.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-spotted-after-widespread-and-giddy-speculation-he-is-secretly-dead-or-dying/

ssjevot posted...

It's literally not. It's been Defcon 5 all week.

https://www.pizzint.watch/

You guys really should confirm these things before going full conspiracy theory.

It's at Defcon 3 right now. Dominos experiencing a 200% spike, two closed, two quieter than usual, one at normal activity. Dominos was up 222% when I checked about 45 minutes ago.

I will say that, though they're not cheap, that The Mandalorian S1/S2/S3, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor S1 all have gotten blu-ray box sets.

That leaves The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, and Andor S2.

Also, for another couple links:

Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/14-things-we-learned-about-star-wars-the-last-jedi-124729/

JJ says "I had no intention to return,"

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2019/04/guest-editorial-clarifying-j-j-abrams-recent-statements-on-rian-johnsons-direction-with-the-last-jedi.html

The script for VIII is written. Im sure rewrites are going to be endless, like they always are. But what Larry and I did was set up certain key relationships, certain key questions, conflicts. And we knew where certain things were going. We had meetings with Rian and Ram Bergman, the producer of VIII. They were watching dailies when we were shooting our movie. We wanted them to be part of the process, to make the transition to their film as seamless as possible.

Rian has asked for a couple of things here and there that he needs for his story. He is an incredibly accomplished filmmaker and an incredibly strong writer. So the story he told took what we were doing and went in the direction that he felt was best but that is very much in line with what we were thinking as well. But youre rightthat will be his movie; hes going to do it in the way he sees fit. Hes neither asking for nor does he need me to oversee the process.

I suggest reading through that whole SWNN article, there's a lot of quotes in there that show a lot more planning than people think actually happened (and a couple other quotes from Daisy Ridley saying she thought TFA answered all that needed to be said about Rey's parentage)... but no evidence that Abrams had any drafts of VIII or IX. He was an executive director on TLJ, but had no intentions on actually filming it or IX until Disney was in a panic after Book of Henry and Jurassic World bombed.

s0nicfan posted...

Go back and read the link:
https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/03/daisy-ridley-says-j-j-abrams-wrote-story-drafts-for-star-wars-episodes-viii-ix.html

Just because she was told this happened doesn't mean it was actually true.

edit: no staff at LFL has said that JJ wrote drafts for VIII or IX either - at least none that they received.

JJ never actually wrote a 3-movie treatment. He was never planning on/planned on doing another Star Wars movie after TFA. There was no script, no synopsis that JJ made for the other two films.

George left Disney with a three movie treatment, which Disney shredded, yet still kept a few parts of (mostly character roles and archetypes, but stuff like Luke being a hermit was part of it). Pablo Hidalgo even said TLJ is very close to George's VII.

Yeah it's a D+ exclusive, unfortunately. They're put a couple of the shows as physical releases years later, but I doubt this one will for a while.

Sariana21 posted...

Im still waiting for the reveal that the Knights of Ren are somehow evolved from Sabine Wrens clan. Lol.

They're not. They've been detailed pretty significantly in the comics. The TL;DR is that they're a dark side cult, used to be big news but haven't been big in a long time. Vader encountered them, and Luke and a young Ben fought them as well. Their leader is Ren, and they hold in high esteem a lightsaber that is also named Ren.

DrizztLink posted...

In TFA?

Not calling bullshit, I just don't remember where it was mentioned.

Not directly in TFA, no. There's a brief card with the planet's name on it before it's destroyed IIRC. All the stuff about it being the current capital comes from material before and after the film, and I think in a couple interviews as well.

doshindude posted...

It bugs me that they decanonized certain things that WERE confirmed canon before. Clone Wars 2003 (ok, technically de-canon'd pre-Disney, but it still pisses me off) and The Force Unleashed come to mind.

Neither of those were "confirmed" Canon at any point. Prior to Disney wiping the slate, the old Expanded Universe had a five-level tier system of what was canon, top level of which was always just the movies. The second tier was made just for TCW08, the CGI series. The third tier was what encompassed most of what was left, with the fourth tier being stuff that was old and not really referenced any more, and the bottom tier being stuff that was non-canon, either deliberately designed as such like What-If projects and gag stories, or retconned away by newer material.

CW03 and TFU were both in the third tier level.

DavidZ2844 posted...

Its been a long time since Ive seen Solo or Rogue One (since they came out in theaters), but does Solo have any actual story threads that are mentioned or followed up in Rogue One or Andor?

It doesn't. Solo is entirely separate from Rogue One and Andor. There is content that spins out from Solo into other media, however.

The Aspyr remake was canceled, and shifted to Saber Interactive instead. That was in 2022, not sure there's been any updates since.

From what I recall, while it was still under Aspyr, they showed off an internal demo to execs, and later that week the UX and UI leads were fired.

Sundercles posted...

But IIRC he got demoted because he destroyed a drednaught.

He didn't get demoted because he destroyed a dreadnought, he got demoted because he defied orders to do so and lost a lot of invaluable people and materiel in the process - a pyrrhic victory that didn't need to happen in the first place.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

people almost never mention the inane casino planet that looked like worse cgi garbage

Funny you mention this because pretty much all of that that wasn't like the casino interior itself was actually shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia, like right down one of the main streets of the city and a few of the side streets as well.

I think the issue with Holdo is that rather than saying "yes, I do have a plan, you need to trust me, but I can't trust you with this because of your actions earlier," she instead just... smugly smirks and refuses to answer, to the point where multiple crew members attempt mutiny and others are fleeing while they can.

TLJ is a film that is broken into two parts that don't really match up with each other, if it was just the Luke/Rey/Kylo storyline it'd be much better, probably would be the third or fourth best film in the franchise, but everything else about it drags it way down. The random aside to "yeah well it's the war profiteers who are really the bad guys here" is stupid.

The Holdo maneuver itself in TLJ isn't gamebreaking, it's that they do it again in TROS that's bad. Hell, the scene in TLJ isn't even the first time in extended media we see ships used as an attack like that. TCW S2 even has a story arc end with a ship being navigated into a planet when its hyperdrive is activated (we never see the outcome), and there's a story from one of the encyclopedias where a planet was devastated because of a similar action.

TFA and TROS both have much more egregious hyperspace issues than TLJ.

My job is mostly weekends, and my dad's birthday is Saturday so my boss actually aligned things after he hired a new guy so I have this weekend off, which is nice.

Was going to go to a new cigar and whiskey lounge that recently opened in my town (small town... starting to try to go bougie even though most people here are factory workers or support for factory workers) but that ended up not being open today. So we went to our local bar to get my birthday drink since I'm a mug club member there, then we were going to go to another restaurant that recently opened... also closed on Wednesdays. Ended up just going to another restaurant we frequent and there turned out to be a band playing tonight, which was a nice surprise.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Thanks for all the well wishes friends! Really appreciate it

Alright dude, what'd you do for your birthday today? Had a few setbacks in plans today with some places closed, but ending it with some decent live music isn't too bad for a weekday birthday.

Hey, we share a birthday. I'm 38 today.

I pay my landlady in cash, but she's my friend's mom and I live with her and help her with things she's not able to physically handle due to health issues. Little seasonal burger joint around the corner from us used to be cash-only, only upgrading to having POS machines with card readers this year. Probably 95% of my other transactions are card, though.

WingsOfGood posted...

The Death Star is so big if it existed in our galaxy we would see it on the horizon

The first Death Star is 160km wide, or about 7% of the radius of our moon.

HudGard posted...

Im curious. Does the franchise ever detail about how long it takes to get from a more central system to somewhere on the outer rim?

Depends on source material. The oldest RPG books and a couple of the 90s novels pegged it as days to weeks to cross the galaxy. Those were always... secondary at best to the films, which largely run travel time as speed of plot, but still rather short. So like in the original film, we see them travel from Tatooine to Alderaan. Tatooine is in the Outer Rim, while Alderaan is in the core. Taking what we see in the film as is, without handwaving a bunch of extra time that isn't really implied elsewhere (except in the aforementioned RPG material) it doesn't seem like maybe more than an hour or so passes. In Empire Strikes Back, if we take a comment literally, when the Imperials are searching for the heroes while they're hiding, one says they "could be halfway across the galaxy by now," in yet again a very brief period that couldn't be more than a couple hours.

There's another game where brewing/distilling is about half the game, the other piloting an airplane to gather resources for brewing/upgrading. Pretty solid little indie title, art is very Ghibli/Porco Rosso inspired. Only major downside is that they added some AI voice lines at some point after launch, but I dont remember when as it wasn't mentioned when I bought it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1636710/The_Brew_Barons/

Kalk posted...

WTF? I thought Disney owns FOX now? Wouldn't all Fox stuff be on D+?

Disney owns 20th Century Fox, which is unrelated to Fox News. And because they already had sports through ESPN, they had to get rid of Fox Sports.

https://www.latintimes.com/flooded-texas-county-opposed-siren-alert-system-that-could-have-warned-residents-because-cost-586255

As the death toll from flash floods in Central Texas climbs past 80, scrutiny is mounting over Kerr County's past decisions to reject an outdoor siren alert system due to cost concerns.

Kerr County, located in a flood-prone region of the Texas Hill Country, has previously dismissed proposals for siren-based warning systems, citing financial burden on local taxpayers.

A recent effort at the state level to bolster emergency communication infrastructure, House Bill 13, failed in the Texas Senate earlier this year. The bill would have funded improved disaster alert systems and provided grants for counties to build infrastructure like sirens and radio towers, according to the Texas Tribune.

Some lawmakers, including state Rep. Wes Virdell, voted against it due to its projected $500 million cost, though several now admit they're reconsidering in the wake of recent events.

Original Gears of War, gave me bad motion sickness when doing that dash, run, whatever it was called. To this date the only game that has given me motion sickness.

Reminder that SCOTUS were unanimously against greater ethical oversight.

Act 3 is the point of no return. If you see the mission Nocturne Op551, that's one of the endings. You can go to Rogue or Panam for a couple variations on the ending, but that's it.

Narratively PL should have been done when it first opens up after you do the Voodoo Boys quest chain, but there's stuff in there that doesn't entirely make sense at that point in the story, so now is the second best option.

There's a couple of them in my area. One has been wrapped in matte black, which almost makes it look better than standard. Still ugly as shit, though.

LonelyStoner posted...

So then what is it?

It is the Force.

LonelyStoner posted...

And why did Lucas use the term lightning?

He doesn't. Force lightning is more of a general fandom term, because the attack resembles lightning. In the Mace v Palpatine fight commentary track, he just calls them rays.

It is the Force, twisted by hatred and unleashed in a form the resembles electricity but does not behave like electricity.

It doesn't behave like electricity, because it isn't electricity.

LonelyStoner posted...

One good lightning rod and it wouldve been over with.

Force lightning is not, and basically outside of TFU, has never been depicted as, actual electricity.

LonelyStoner posted...

That may be true, but I still think Palpatine is a pretty weak bitch that Mace Windu couldve Forced through that window if it werent for Anakin.

He's not weak, though. Like, Snake and I have both pointed out quotes saying literally the opposite.

He really wasn't, though. Again, maybe at the beginning, but by the time Palpatine is ready to kill him, there's literally nothing saying he was still much faster.

You're using AI that's hallucinating.

LonelyStoner posted...

Plagueis was a master of all seven lightsaber forms, being able to move at light speed, and would have easily outclassed Sidious in a one on one lightsaber duel, through Palpatines own admission.

Literally no Force user is able to move at light speed.

Palpatine was also a master of all lightsaber forms.

LonelyStoner posted...

My problem comes from which one had the most raw power and mastery of death and the force. A lot of Palpatines power is political.

Again, not true. Yes, Palpatine holds a lot of political power, but I literally posted multiple quotes saying he has enormous power in the Force. Even Lucas said he's stupidly powerful, though I don't have that quote on hand, and in 2005 Vanity Fair interview said that Anakin would have had the potential to be twice as powerful as Palpatine.

LonelyStoner posted...

Although I do have to wonder how much of Palpatines reputation was due to his political power over his actual raw strength.

My dude, of those sources I posted, literally only one isn't an out-of-universe material literally stating directly he's the most powerful Sith to have ever existed. There's nothing there saying that Plagueis was stronger, or a better duelist, literally in anything except the beginning when he's first training Palpatine.

Plagueis lost, and is dead. He died to trickery and cunning, like so many other Sith before him. It's kind of what they do.

gikos posted...

the hell why did the others join the right wing shit faces ugh

Reminder that they ruled unanimously to reject ethical oversight.