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I got FO:BoS for cheap some time ago; I wanted to see whether it lived up to the (negative) hype or not. And I do like "Gauntlet" style games having liked the last Guantlet series (prior to Seven Sorrows) and Hunter: The Reckoning and so forth. But to be completely honest FO:BoS didn't work for me; it felt like it was slapped together - either the production didn't have the time they needed or the project was hopelessly compromised from the begining but I found it very difficult to play through; I stuck it out just to say I'd done it and promptly sold the game back to the store.

^There was no 60s Wolvie...

I can't say I'm surprised; while I liked parts of 3e I'd slowly stopped getting the products as I got to a point where I'd grown to feel that they were really obviously milking the product and I also began to feel that 4e was definately a great likelyhood of coming to fruition. I'm spending my RPG $$ elsewhere these days, either tracking down 2e stuff I want, or looking to other RPG systems entirely.

Howdy and stuff. I'm trying to post here more often myself.

Hey gfted1, so this is where you got to eh? Good to see you too. Lets see I saw the direct to DVD movie Seven Mummies a couple of weeks back. It sucks, but its the best kung-fu Jesuit priest mummies film you'll probably ever see.

IIRC, they originally planed on Gambit being revealed as the third brother...but yeah I think the idea of a third brother conceptually has been kicking around since the early 90s.

I thought they were all dead. The Jeep and the bike both crash in the beginning. Their spirits all get cought in this "special Hell" and there ya go. ? I liked the movie but I was confused as well. Basically its one of those "open to interpretation" endings, but I think the idea that they're all dead is one of the most common ideas. I'm not 100% certain its the absolute right one but it certainly covers what the movie presents pretty well and is kind of a nice down beat ending. The original games carry an idea IIRC that reality has "three levels": the human level, the abyss and a bridge world. If you take that idea then the end is simply that the girl pulled them into the bridge world where the heroine ends up allowing the abyss world to claim the cult who burned Alyessa, but left the heroine and the good portion of the Alyessa that had been incarnated as a new being in the bridge world (thus setting up a sequel where they have to be rescued?).

Yeah...I like the characters but to be honest for the most part I've not like what they've done by and large for years. In fact I spent probably about 15 years not following any of the X-books, excepting some odd ball titles like Peter David's X-Factor or Milligan/Alred's X-Static X-Static led me to notice Weir/Defilippis on New Mutants/New X-Men: Academy X titles which I liked until they left (so I dropped the title). And I like Joss Whedon and John Cassaday on Astonishing X-Men since he pretty much can do what he wants with the title. I did try Milligan's run on "Adjectiveless" X-Men. It was okay, but not Milligan's best work. They've changed up the creative teams on the main titles and none of them looked interesting to me...so I'm back down to the new X-Factor and Astonishing. And I'll probably drop Astonishing once the Whedon/Cassaday stories are over.

The Ultimate titles all have "Ultimate" in their title. So Ultimate X-Men would be the Ultimate version... SPOILERS FOR VULCAN:

Wow...that particular hoary question keeps cropping up? I used to see it all the time on USENET and if you ever suggest that a US Superhero can beat any DBZ character it was always flametime for the DBZ fans. There are actually several characters who could - reasonably - beat the DBZ crew from Marvel/DC. Scarlet Witch changing reality would work. The Spectre killing them all would work. Heck, Kid Eternity summoning all of the DBZ characters who'd died (which is, like, all of them) back to fight themselves could work (of course some would argue that's stretching the Kid's ability somewhat, but still... ). Wolverine and Rip Hunter/Kang/Chronos/(insert your favorite time traveler owned by DC or Marvel) teaming up would work as suggested too... There are probably a long line of scenarios one could create that would see the DBZ crew defeated...just don't tell their fans that...

It'll definately be interesting. SEGA kind of floundered (IMO) after they left the console market and hasn't totally righted itself with its first party games (or at least *I* have been dissapointed with how they've handled the SHINING franchise). But it seems like they've really been trying to refocus things since the SAMMY merger, so this could be very promising news.

I dunno...I don't think it was really a filler episode; certainly it didn't push the overarching story to a turning point, but I think its drawn out several things that will play out interestingly later. I guess more of a "set up" episode to me than "filler".

bigot?

It sounds pretty ugly IMO. The words "backwood", "rural" or "country" springs to mind. No offense to citizens of the state Georgia. The main character will be trained in dueling banjoes... ... Seriously though, is it wrong that this news made me hope for an Eternal Champions RPG?

Wow a lot of stuff I likes already been mentioned (Hammet, Melville, PKD, Gaiman, Poe and such) I've always been fond of H. P. Lovecraft's work. I'm a huge fan of Barry Hughart's Master Li novels (Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, Eight Skilled Gentlemen). Shirley Jackson is another author I'm pretty fond of (loved both The Haunting and We Have Always Lived in the Castle). I'm also pretty fond of the novels and short stories of Joe R. Lansdale, which all tend to be horror and crime type stuff, but well done with a twisted sense of humour. "Comic book" wise, the works of Alan Moore, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Leiji Matsumoto are all highly recommended by me; I think those three are probably the best 'current' comic book writers out there.

Rodriguez suggested Rourke, but Miller wasn't sure. So Rodriguez arranged a meeting between the three, and apparently after the meeting and Rourke had left, Miller said "He's Marv." Or something to that effect, I'm paraphrasing from what Rodriguez said from memory about Mickey Rourke's involvment...

I don't - I haven't seen it yet myself...

I'd like to see a SW game with a turnbased system, something akin to Tactics Ogre. But I know that's a game I'll never see...

I've been looking forward to this for some time...I think it has the potiential to be a fantastic film!

Funnily enough, you're the first person I know of - and I know a lot of die hard Doctor Who Fans - who don't like the look of the new program. The first episode was "leaked" on the internet a couple of weeks back, and I haven't heard anyone say anything too negative about it.

Hmmm, very interesting. I'm hoping its an original project. That'd be cool. But I confess I wouldn't be too torn up with something that's somehow connected to an existing franchise if it was well done.

What really bugged me was the censorship of the Humanoids books. They released them in normal comic book format, but drew clothes on them because they were "comic books" but later released unedited versions of them in the Trade paperback. It made no sense, and they really shouldn't have edited the originals...

You can pretty much do a good website simply by using tables and have some half decent skills in photoshop. I can make a website using notepad, as I know html okay. In fact most of the time I just type the code in myself rather than use the programs I do have at my disposal. And for most webpages, IMO, a lot of bells and whistles and javascript and flash movies and junk is too much.

Mebbe when Banner hulks out, his...you know...doesn't grow correspondingly so Hulk is mortally embarrassed by it and makes sure to have pants on at all time... The truth is less direct religious dogma, and actually the House Unamerican Activities Committee from the 50s. Fredrick Wertham, a psychologist, had published a novel, Seduction of the Innocent claiming that comics were causing children to become deviant criminals. As a result, the House began an investigation of the industry. The companies that had made their mark with superheros and kids comics took the opportunity to for the "Comics Code Authority" with two reasons. One was to quiet the HUAC people, the other was they saw a way to put out of business the companies that was killing them in sales. Companies like EC, the people behind Tales from the Crypt (and other horror/crime titles) and Lev Gleason, who published Crime Does Not Pay and other violent crime comics. Whereas the comics of this period had been pushing into adult territory, and might have led to the US comics scene being a more versatile and diverse medium, it instead put a stranglehold on the comics scene, out of which only superhero comics (like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman) and humour books (like Archie or Richie Rich) survived...

I really like the htmlgoodies website (I use it all the time). Although not wild about the recent redesign... EDIT: Guess I should be a bit more helpful...so here it is. I still think for most webpages, basic HTML is good enough for what you need. So if you have a good enough memory of the html basics, you should be okay. Of course, if you're expected to create something fancier...