X-Men First Class is getting weirder...

[ps238principal]

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Magicka

[kevinbunny]

Ah yes. Good game that, if a bit fustrating. Still, I find that casting Haste as a beam ends to fry most opponents. If you can get lightning, steam, and arcane in one beam, it really ruins their day.

Re: Magicka

[samson_of_5]

At least until you reach undead mobs, which arcane would heal. It is still good to vary. Faster creatures it is good to use cold on to slow them down. So Arcane-Cold-Lightning is a good spell, too.

Re: Magicka

[ps238principal]

My biggest frustration is that I foolishly referred to it as a pick-up game. I can't devote enough time to finish a level most often (I'm stuck in chapter 5 or 6, whichever one throws a bunch of armored dudes, some acolytes and a big armored dude at you inside a goblin fortress).

I also tend to have my left hand drift and get water when I wanted healing and vice-versa. It does tend to clean the blood from my robes, but it's hard pretending I was healing my foes to give them a sporting chance. :)

Firefly/Robocop widget

[kevinbunny]

My guess is that it's NOT a studio prop but an actual object that looked sufficently tech, that got used completely independantly in both movies. Maybe if we could read the panels, we'd see what it was for? My best guess is it's a front panel for a server rack, with the readouts showing temperatures or network traffic.. they're about the right width for rack-mount hardware.

Wait... Hang on.. I think I recognize that. That may be a network router or a modem.. Yeah, I think our high school had a very similar bit of hardware, back in the day.

Re: Firefly/Robocop widget

[sergei_mosin]

I've seen that panel, or one very similar, used in a LOT of tech-ish movies. There are a few websites on how certain prop items were reused over and over for various, often REALLY different movies.

Cat Ears

[kevinbunny]

WANT!!

Though I think they might be a bit better if they just swivelled to the sides the way regular cat ears do. The droopy position makes the wearer look depressed.

Re: Cat Ears

[cjthomas]

I'd like to see ones that react to sound, rather than the wearer's EEG. They'd look more realistic, and be pretty easy to build, too.

Re: Cat Ears

[silverox]

I think these are a great idea, and every female should be wearing a pair. This way, guys could at least have some clue to what women are thinking - and have a better response to those "No Win" questions like, "Does this make me look fat?", "Does this make my but look too big?", "Do you think she looks pretty?", "Do you think she looks better than me?"

Re: Cat Ears

[kevinbunny]

"No, you're not fat so why would it?"

"your butt is just fine honey, always has been."

"not as pretty as you are."

there, no need for robocat ears.

[word_geek]

My attitude toward X-Men: First Class has been "fool me once, etc." I paid good money for X-Men 3, and that's the only shot they get. (Hint about my attitude toward X-Men 3: I've always been a Cyclops fan.) So I wised up and waited for video with Wolverine, and that's my plan with First Class. I mean, c'mon...bad enough they're introducing Havok long before he could possibly be there, but Darwin? Angel Salvador? If it weren't for Banshee, I'd say the writers think the X-Men didn't exist before 2002. And I'm devoting all of my considerable powers of denial to pretend I don't even see Azazel anywhere in this movie. So why are the recent promotional materials making it look halfway decent, after I'd already written it off? Look, folks, I'm a long-time comic-book fan. You can't just shovel any old garbage my way and expect me to pay for...oh, wait. That's exactly what comic-book fans do. Never mind; carry on, then.

[midnightvoyager]

All I can say is... what with Azazel being there, if I see any nurses named Annie whatsoever, I will combust every theater screen showing this movie with the fires of pure hatred.

[samson_of_5]

That's the one thing that diminishes X3 for me as well, is that it takes Cyclops out of the equation early. I know they are going for shock factor and 'this isn't the universe you grew up with' thing, but that was just a crap move. And anyone complaining about spoilers now....where have you been?
I don't plan on spending a cent on First Class except for rental. The action alone justifies one night's showing at home, but nothing else is holding me up for it. I am getting real tired of Hollywood's attitude that established foreign characters need to be americanized. If anything James McAvoy should be Banshee(It's a hell of a lot closer, especially since Scots are descended from the Irish), and then grab Zachary Quinto for Xavier. I bet Zach wouldn't be above shaving his head and he would be perfect.

[bearfoot]

and I try to reserve judgment of a film until ti's actually out.

who knows? It might be good.

[samson_of_5]

Anyone else see the backtracking on Superman as nothing else than DC wimping out because a bunch of overconstipated conservatives had their cry?
Seriously, this is crap from the getgo. They could just have easily just made a decent length storyline that would have ended with Superman changing his mind, and then dragged it out further for issue sales by having some overpowered overconstipated conservative making him earn it back.
Then again Superman is known for his what if issues. But this farce isn't going to help sales.