anthology of (vague) interest
1.) I am remiss in that I forgot to mention from the weekend that Black Queen did me a great service over the weekend. She figured out how to reset the buttons on my radio. No, seriously, I had it figured out at least twice before, but then forgot, and I mentioned this in the car when I was scanning stations, and rather than trying some crazy button combo like I was doing (I blame a misspent youth of Mortal Kombat) she, uh, just held the button down. No, really. So, while I will now have fewer crazy finds while flipping stations, I won't have to spend so much time flipping stations, and that's a good thing. I formally owe her one.
2.) Gave Jersey Girl a shot last night. Stopped paying attention about a half hour in. God, it was awful, if I didn't know it was a Kevin Smith movie I never would believe it. Just, painfully, dull and predictable, with little to no charm. So instead I logged into City of Heroes, which leads us to:
3.) Got into a quick team to run through some missions. And let me note how much I love when you have one of each archetype on a team of five. Seriously, it's a well-oiled machine.
But the meat of the issue: our tank, StoneBeast, was a herding *master*. Seriously, I've seen it done before, and I've done it before myself, but nothing like this. He gathered the warehouse full of Warriors into, honestly, three groups. I'm sorry I didn't get a screenshot of the first herd, but here's one of the second:
Now, the first herd? Entirely not joking, was easily four times this big. It was *ridiculous.* My Shadow Maul was hitting five or six gangers, my Dark Consumption, I guess around ten. The blaster's Energy Torrent was *plowing* through hordes at a time. Just about the funniest thing I'd seen.
There's no point in me being a part-time tank in a world like this, I just won't be that cool ever. Might as well not even try, focus on scrappin' and blastin'.
4.) Courtesy ComicsContinuum.com: "Doctor Strange will be the fourth direct-to-DVD animated movie in Marvel's deal with Lion's Gate films, following two Avengers films and Iron Man."
They've got my attention. I think if they worked out a deal with, oh, Cartoon Network or HBO or someone similar to get the movies aired once, it'll help get the word out. But maybe that's just me.
2.) Gave Jersey Girl a shot last night. Stopped paying attention about a half hour in. God, it was awful, if I didn't know it was a Kevin Smith movie I never would believe it. Just, painfully, dull and predictable, with little to no charm. So instead I logged into City of Heroes, which leads us to:
3.) Got into a quick team to run through some missions. And let me note how much I love when you have one of each archetype on a team of five. Seriously, it's a well-oiled machine.
But the meat of the issue: our tank, StoneBeast, was a herding *master*. Seriously, I've seen it done before, and I've done it before myself, but nothing like this. He gathered the warehouse full of Warriors into, honestly, three groups. I'm sorry I didn't get a screenshot of the first herd, but here's one of the second:
Now, the first herd? Entirely not joking, was easily four times this big. It was *ridiculous.* My Shadow Maul was hitting five or six gangers, my Dark Consumption, I guess around ten. The blaster's Energy Torrent was *plowing* through hordes at a time. Just about the funniest thing I'd seen.
There's no point in me being a part-time tank in a world like this, I just won't be that cool ever. Might as well not even try, focus on scrappin' and blastin'.
4.) Courtesy ComicsContinuum.com: "Doctor Strange will be the fourth direct-to-DVD animated movie in Marvel's deal with Lion's Gate films, following two Avengers films and Iron Man."
They've got my attention. I think if they worked out a deal with, oh, Cartoon Network or HBO or someone similar to get the movies aired once, it'll help get the word out. But maybe that's just me.