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A lengthy isometric fantasy RPG with a number of well drawn, well written joinable companions, with a strong story and sidequests and a fun and involving combat system. And an emotional/philosophical exploration based narrative like Planescape Torment combined with the stronghold building of Baldur's Gate II and the explorable map areas of Bladur's Gate I doesn't sound much like Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter. I'm not really sure how you can combine these three games and ever get Baldur's Gate unchanged back. So I'm not sure how you can take a concept that promises "Project Eternity will take the central hero, memorable companions and the epic exploration of Baldur’s Gate, add in the fun, intense combat and dungeon diving of Icewind Dale, and tie it all together with the emotional writing and mature thematic exploration of Planescape: Torment" and assume it'll be exactly like Baldur's Gate II. PE to my mind is a game that pulls elements from all of these games; by its nature it can't be BALDUR'S GATE III or ICEWIND DALE III. Really? Because what I read was: and the above quote about how they planned to use elements of all three games, neither of which to my mind promise a continuation of Baldur's Gate replicated ten years on. YMMV of course; but that's not what I got out of the Kickstarter video.

Since when is PE the spritual successor to Baldur's Gate only? Seems to me there is a lot of room in being the spiritual successor to BG, BGII, PST, IWD, IWD2 and expansions than you want to acknowledge to do a variety of things. And really what I take from a line like "I really disliked most of the CNPCs, I really disliked being forced to go find Imoen, I really disliked the style of dialogue, and I really disliked being flooded with a million quests by every shmoe on the streets of Athkatla. Basically, there wasn't a whole lot I did like about it." has more to do with disliking the way the story, joinable NPCs, and quest design was implemented. We already know that the system is different (different engine, no D&D rules). I'd imagine the "impact" of Sawyers "hate" is that he won't tell the story the same way BGII did or implement quests the same way it did or have NPCs built the same way and interact with the party the same way. Which, to be fair, neither did BG1, PST or IWD and IWD2. And I doubt PE is going to be exactly like them either. I'm not sure where the problem is, to be honest because I never expected PE to be slavishly devoted to recreating any of those games, but taking the style of game and making something new.

I have two people who work for me now who started their careers (long ago) as tellers. Looks to be good work - particularly for those putting themselves through college.

I dunno, Dan wasn't looking so good when Isabel "Izzy" Dare visited after becoming Smasher in Hickman's AVENGERS (yeah I know its just a fun wink & nod) I need to look into some of the Dan Dare Frank Hampson reprints from a few years back.

Silver-Age Superman built all kinds of super-science stuff, but it was all very wacky silver-age stuff as compared to the Kirby-Tech of Reed Richards.

I stand corrected then on Hulk in vacuums; I blame my memory. I don't remember the Superman bit in the new 52 - was that in Lobdell's Superman or Morrison's Action (or some other book?)

They haven't announced anything on how reputation would work in P:E. How is this even supposed to work? Like Bingo? Reputation is a broader concept than individual reaction, and the words you've placed tend toward personal perceptions. How can an entire faction feel "affection" for an individual? Unless this entire faction is a hivemind, your idea doesn't make sense. You haven't actually added an additional dimension to the concept of reputation, all you've done is placed a linear reputation scale vertically, repeated it three times and given positive, neutral and negative reputations different names in each column. What the grid is is showing what the parts of the Cartesian graph would be Sympathy (X,-Y) Affection (X, 0) Admiration (X, Y) Indifference (0, -Y) Neutral (0,0) Respect (0, Y) Disgust (-X, -Y) Hatred (-X, 0) Fear (X, -Y) I'd quibble on the naming system (as some of the names are loaded), but really the idea is "quantitative value vs qualitative value" and there maybe better ways to describe it, but it is two dimensional. Now in terms of reputation, I'd argue that having "Liked" as a status per the Fallout example in a large group is pretty silly too. For example I might get my reputation with the NCR to liked without having met more than 10% of the NCR people. How is an entire faction suppose to "like" me when they haven't met me. Being villified by some powder gangers (who attacked me first and who I killed to the man so WHO TELLS THE POWDER GANGERS I DID IT?) is also silly. But that's how game reputations work. If you were trying to be less abstract you could have a "reputation" for factions and a seperate "opinion" for individuals in the factions.

Just like nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition? Only with more duckbills and poison spurs.

As far as I know the Gamma radiation didn't effect Superman, but also as far as I recall Hulk hasn't really been shown to be actively giving off gamma rays. I seem to recall Radiation Roy in pre-Crisis trying his power on Superboy and it not working and he was shown to emit Gamma rays so my thinking is that pre-Crisis Superman at least wouldn't be effected. My expertise in that area is limited.

Again, I'm not pledging money I can't live without. If the company is upfront about the delays - why, how long, etc. - I'm okay with that. If the project dies and I lose my money I won't be happy - but I accepted that risk when I pledged.

I don't have pets currently, but when I did my cats would come when I called him/her too. The two cats socialized with each other and the dog. The big difference is that the dog seemed more protective than the cats when strangers came around (mind you one of our cats did jump over a fence onto the back of a loose doberman that was barking at it and rode it like a bronco through the front yard, so I'm not sure I'd have tested the theory. )

Superman has been vastly depowered. Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Kryptonians could move planets (and in some cases, suns) around if they really wanted to. This they did with their hands. Post-Crisis Kryptonians are just, very, very strong but can't really move a planet on their own. Officially in DC vs Marvel Superman beats the Hulk (very controversial though). My guess would be Hulk wins in a physical fight on the ground, Superman wins if he can get Hulk into outer space (Hulk still needs to breathe, IIRC, Superman doesn't*). (*or holds his breath a really long time, depending on which version of Superman we're talking about although a few versions have had him using a breather in space).

They said "Semiaquatic" so think beaver, otter, platypus, yapok, etc.

Hmm, maybe I should go back and reread the fifth comic in the series because I thought he did unleash his full power on the Hulk. Even going so far as to say (paraphrasing); "so this is what it feels like to finally let go". I think he did - but I don't think he did at the beginning of the fight (as I recall - I might be wrong). The going theory on the Hulk at the moment is the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets. As Gorgon said there's no upper bound on this. So unless, at the beginning of the fight (Act I, Scene I) Sentry uses all of his power, he's going to only at best be able to tie the Hulk (which he did as they both ended up exhausted and out of their powered up forms). The longer the fight goes, the stronger the Hulk will be.

Sentry always defeated himself. Usually by non-action - The Avengers got their assess handed to them by Black Bolt which wouldn't have happened had the Sentry not decided that to act and fight BB would risk unleashing the Void IIRC. Given that he'd never unleash the full brunt of his powers on Hulk at the start of the fight - which is the only way he'd win - I think the fight (really fought to a tie) is reasonable.

Ehhh... the difference, though, is that that's really kind of just "Good" vs "bad," blending together in the middle. It's like a single quadrant of the Cartesian plane. Midnite Rule's proposal would extend that to the entire plane. Sort of. It's got a good bit more complexity, even in its base form. Actually its two quadrants - the green is quadrant 1, the red quadrant 4 and the black the horizontal origin line. Essentially you have one variable that can be either positive or negative; something in a single quadrant is either positive or doesn't exist (0). The only way to do a 4 quadrant plane is to have two independent variables (emotion-practical or trust-like as suggested) where both variables can be positive or negative.

I think you have to approach it this way. Kickstarter is not a store; its the equivalent of having some inventor pitch you - the wealthy investor - about their new plan. Maybe it'll be the new light bulb. Maybe it'd be the new Radithor. You won't know unless it gets backed and you either win big or lose what you invested. I try to hedge my bets by supporting people who've delivered something before (even if they were work-for-hire chaps) but I understand crap happens and even the safe bets have risk. I have no problem with delays so long as the project is upfront with them and not trying to hide them until the last minute.

Change the third panel to finding out your heroic fix to the problem was wrong and didn't work the way you thought it would and you'd have my 2 semester programing course in college. Never got one of my programs to work - passed the class because I always aced the theory (and the third class I had to take I got an "A" because it was all theory). I'm playing Bioshock Infinite - will have some thoughts to share when I finish.

I still like Superman; I don't think his powers or really an issue if the writer thinks about the story. The best Superman stories are when he uses his brains to out-think a villain. (I'd also argue the Hulk works best when he isn't smart so that becomes his challenge to overcome).

While I think this is a parody of the Brittaney Spears video, however... ...I thought I'd read that she wasn't bondable for a picture at this point? Certainly I imagine her various legal issues and pull-outs on roles she'd accepted would cause a guarantor company to debate heavily before agreeing to a completion bond.

I watched Moon last night. Thought it was a good film and a throwback to films like 2001 and Silent Running. Sam Rockwell does a good job in the main character role. Has anyone seen Moon's director Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE?

^It'd have been cooler if it'd been the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) I kid, I kid. CVN-65 was the first of the nuclear powered aircraft carriers, IIRC, so that's a bit of history serving on her. Just got decommissioned if I remember correctly again. I remember getting a chance to go to one of the ships set up as a museum and being impressed with how big it was (and, funnily enough, getting lost in it because someone left a barrier down and I got into the part of the ship you weren't supposed to be able to get to and couldn't figure out where I'd gone wrong). EDIT: It may have been the USS Barry (DD-933), a Sherman-class destroyer from the 1950s and about a third of the size of the Enterprise.

Wasn't former regular poster Slowtrain from Boston? I seem to remember him talking about the Boston sewer system and train system at one point. I know he doesn't post regularly (last in march), but anyone heard from him?

I really enjoyed Graces f. Thought it was a lot of fun and really enjoyed the characters and story - which for me had been some time since I've enjoyed a fantasy jRPGs character and story.

Lets go for Thylacines as a dog substitute and Thylacoleo carnifexes for cats! Sorry for your loss.