MichaelPoe

@SCShipyards Phasers are *boring* now since they're just an undodgeable hit scan beam while torpedoes are slow projectiles they can have a ship nimbly dodge like it's a bloody star fighter instead of frigate.

You've got small, maneuverable, aggressive targets heading towards your ridiculously huge ship. Your Captain tells you, "Take them out." And you reach for... quantum torpedoes? Where the hell are your phasers?

Bringing back the evergreen for no particular reason

RIP Peter David. I grew up loving his Hulk, X-Factor, and Spider-Man 2099 comics, and also read his Star Trek novels. He was an enormously talented writer with a wicked sense of humor that always made me laugh no matter what he was writing. I’m sorry to hear that he’s passed. 😞

@DAKKADAKKA1 I miss the Microsoft executives that kicked Roberts off Freelancer for missing deadlines and mishandling the budget.

I miss Free Lancer. 😔

@MoonageDaydre4m @ReviewsPossum Actually seems to have a surprisingly good track record when the source material is a short story, but is almost always a cluster fuck when done to a full novel or series.

"We got the movie rights to this popular novel." "Let's change everything about it that made it popular to begin with, and change the title so no one will even know it's based on the book unless they Google it." "Brilliant!"

@TheBaconOvrlord It's Dragon's Dogma, so presumably they're annoyed they can't make a really hot female Pawn to accompany their player character. Making your own npc waifu companion was pretty much the series' main gimmick over every other fantasy open world game.

Why does Capcom only let you make ham-beast women but make it so you can create an Adonis in their games? Do they hate women?

@Exalted_Speed Mine was the English version of the dragon quest anime that a tv station decided to randomly air way too early in the morning.

Anyway to celebrate Akira Toriyama life, I’m going to share my first exposure to his work, it was this episode of Dragonball z on upn. I was very confused but I kept up when I could. Feel free to post yours.

@DAKKADAKKA1 Saints Row 2. At least that's the first one that comes to mind where you attack a court room in the middle a trial.

Games with this feel?

@DaddyWarpig This is what happens when both major adaptions of a series decided to skip out on the "fall" part of what was supposed to be a rise and fall story so everyone assumes it really is unironically a story about the chosen one defeating the evil empire and living happily ever after.

@RobertsSpaceInd Wow, that's some huge damn balls to drag that bloody sandworm bullshot back out after eight years, even when it's since become a symbol of your broken promises and empty hype.

Fear is the mind-killer. Download the Mobile Wallpaper: play.sc/49U2Bmx

@MalRoadkill Yeah, at least those changes were usually done out of laziness or just actual poor translation (or that bizarre thing where they'd try to combine multiple shows into one story to fill a episode number count quota) now it's done for weird self delusion and even active malice.

@MichaelPoe You and I are old enough to remember those old times. The bad Nausicaa dub was my intro into anime when I was a little kid back in the 80s. My old VHS collection had a pile of Streamline pictures stuff too. In some ways, I think those might be more faithful than these new hacks.

@Exalted_Speed Aww, but Maggott would make such thematically appropriate Famine that I'm shocked some X writer hasn't already done it yet. His back story is even literally being a poor starving African child.

I kind of love the concept because it’s often just Abin getting what he has one day he’s just going to have the ultimate X-men jobbers and be like “…..look I tried to find so many other people then maggot but…sigh”

@Exalted_Speed I liked HoM's affect on the Ms Marvel series that launched afterwards. The whole "life long fuck up gets a brief taste of respectable and now wants to actually become better hero for real" concept was a solid idea for a book. Shame how that would go on to turn out though.

The question is who did House of M did favors for, that just a story to a bunch of character on ice and to cut down on mutants character joe q didn't like

@DAKKADAKKA1 From a modern perspective it is wild that someone once thought it was reasonable and practical to have the *every* game cartridge include basically half a computer worth of components inside them instead of just making them be glorified floppy disks in a plastic case

I want to go back.

@AMTTactical Because the pod racing plot needed to happen to sell toys and video games so we're going to pretend the biggest trading port on the planet wouldn't have anywhere to convert a form of currency that existed for centuries and is used by like 70% of known space.

Watto was in the right. I’d do the same if some fancy city slicker came to my house and demanded my property.

@ShitpostRock They already had a template for the exact game people wanted (next gen Black Flag but with some sort of pvp mode thrown in) and over a decade to work on it, and yet they still managed to fail spectacularly.

@hentaikid well, I'm glad they thought the random army girl was cute. I had been worried that I should have used some Nikke or Girls Frontline gacha thot instead.

@MichaelPoe boards.4chan.org/k/thread/60896… your comic got posted on /k

oh god it's a Chris is Horny for Storm episode.

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@doxyonta I'd disagree simply because I think a major component of a cyberpunk world IS that it should seem cool and shiny on the surface then horrify you once you look under the chromed exterior. It's the glossed up supermarket apple you take a bite of then only to find the inside rotting

Children of Men is a better cyberpunk movie then most cyberpunk movies because it understood the point of the genre. You're not supposed to like the world. It's not supposed to be a theme park. There is so much of it now though, its fruitless to argue its original intent.