TheLastBaron

I can't really comment about the first part as the comic book store by my house is sorted by publisher, but I don't feel that there is/was a lack of diversity in comics. Just because a there are more comics about superheroes than there are about other things doesn't mean that there aren't tons of books about other things. I read a huge amount of comics and very few are about superheroes, and I also don't feel like I'm in any danger of running out of things to read as there are plenty of books I haven't read yet and more coming out that I want to read. I think he was recommending it so that you could see that there is a very wide gamut of stories told within the "superhero" genre of comics that people don't realize and most of the time they write off the whole lot of them without realizing such. While I agree with everything else, I strongly disagree that superhero comics are universally better suited to other mediums now. Sure other mediums do great things like you mentioned such as games (I haven't played Infamous and I really didn't care for Prototype at all, but the Arkham games are of course great examples) as well as movies (both Hollywood and animated movies like the DC ones), but I don't think they do superheroes better than comics. It's hard to even compare them, especially when you take into account the amount of time, money, and people it takes to make a game/movie/animated film compared to an ongoing series or book. I think other mediums can be just as good, sure, but that doesn't always happen (for every good superhero movie there are a few bad ones) and comics are also very different in the sense that they're ongoing (even the DCAU shows were almost entirely self-contained episodes with a couple two-parters). On top of that the medium allows you to do new/different things with characters much more easily (multiple series' going on concurrently, alternate versions like Marvel's Ultimate line). I feel the comic book medium is still very well suited for the genre. I really hope it doesn't seem like I'm attacking you as I'm really only trying to form a rebuttal to some of your points. I can totally see where you're coming from and wouldn't mind seeing even more books that aren't superhero based as well as fewer books that are (I read the first 2-3 issues of all 52 series' when DC did it's reboot last year and the majority were pretty bad, though there were a couple that I really liked and ended up continuing to read). As someone who reads pretty much maybe 80-90% non-superhero comics I probably take it too personally when people say that there are too few books that aren't about superheroes (which to be fair is most people) as I feel they aren't seeing all the books that I read and love.

It's actually not that hard, you just have to accept that you won't like anything by DC (not counting Vertigo) or Marvel (of course there are exceptions). If you look at other publishers like Image, IDW, Vertigo, ect. you'll find tons of great books that aren't about superheroes (along with ones that are) and if you look at someone like Top Shelf none of their comics are superhero comics.

Do you already have all the DLc for Dungeon Defenders? I have all the games too, but didn't have any of the DLC so I'm getting it for the new heroes and such.

My Greevil has hook and omni slash, im pretty happy though I haven't actually played because the two times I queued for it I ended up getting into regular matches.

So I guess Frostivus is cancelled until next year Edit: but there's still a new game mode

I'm excited

I hate the first cover, Elizabeth looks like she's ~10 years old. The one thing I will say about this is they probably decided they wanted to have her wear a corset, which if you're going for a steam punk aesthetic is not unreasonable. Once you have someone wearing a corset the cleavage is basically going to happen. There isn't really any way to say that without sounding like I'm trying to defend women being sexualized in games, which I'm not, but while I find pretty much every other woman in games/comics/whatever to looks pretty ridiculous, I didn't and don't have a problem with Elizabeth. She might not look like people at your work, but as she looks pretty close to how most people at steam punk conventions dress (I've been to one and it was basically all dudes in top hats with monocles and women in mostly corsets and some huge Victorian dresses, which granted they could have done for her instead.) Again, not trying to sound like I'm defending women being sexualized in games, but I probably will as it's really hard not to.

So I'm not really sure how I feel about mods on Greenlight, what's the point supposed to be? Like is it just that you get Greenlit and then your mod can be downloaded via the store instead of ModDB/whatever? None of the mods that have been Greenlit like Black Mesa or NeoTokyo have been put on Steam yet which seems like it wouldn't take any more time than putting up the other games which are already finished if all they're doing is letting you download the game via the Steam servers and installing it for you. Also when I saw Black Mesa and NeoTokyo on Greenlight and was asked if I would buy them if they were one Steam I think I down-voted them, because I wouldn't buy them if they were on Steam.

Do you mean this in that you just don't enjoy Pixar movies, or that relative to other animated movies you don't think Pixar movies are in the top tier?

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I got into the Sins of a Dark Age beta, did anyone else? I haven't installed it and probably won't for a while, but I'll probably at least check it out at some point.

Honestly the only real problem I had with it (the first one, haven't played the second) is that camera controls are the opposite of what they are in Total War, though that was super annoying. The rest of the game was quite enjoyable, though I got it in the Paradox complete pack so I don't know if I would have thought it worth the money had I purchased it stand alone. That being said it wasn't as good as this will probably/hopefully be.

New Jenkees album just dropped.

People in the SF area should all go to http://dickensfair.com/ which happens every weekend from Thanksgiving to Christmas and is awesome.

It's where the weird lens flare thing is I think.

her feet aren't actually that pointy/bad, but yeah some nub needs to l2forshorten.

Oh yeah I didn't see that. That's weird, I ordered mine maybe a year or so ago and got a Microsoft one so I assumed it was the same. The reviews I see all seem to say that it still works fine, but it's definitely something to keep in mind.

I already had a 360 controller from owning a 360, and it's wireless. I've never ever had issues with drivers, and as far as batteries since it came with the play and charge cable. As far as I can tell Microsoft still makes the reciever as its still on Amazon, though as stated that's an extra $19 you wouldn't have to spend. Then again with this new Steam big picture mode it might be worth it if you plan on ever hooking your PC up to a tv. The point is that the wireless controllers work fine, but costs more and may not matter to you.

I've already mentioned the Top Score podcast in this thread, but thought it was worth mentioning again because the most recent episode from a few days ago had Matt Uelmen. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/11/30/matt-uelmen-top-score-diablo-torchlight/

I have 3 Dota 2 keys, 2copies of Sanctum, and a copy of the Ball if anyone wants.

What happens if you purchase something as a gift and send it to your email?

Been watching Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts which I've been meaning to pick up for a very long time, and they're great. Leonard Bernstein is one of my favorite people ever.

Wait so how does it work, is the SR3 a separate key? I only really want that, so could I gift every other game (which I already own aside tom Red Faction) to someone else?

I think he might mean it's weird because DFA (and The Cave) is still in progress and they're already asking for money for something else that may not happen for a while. He might not mean that, but that's how I interpreted it.

Barkley 2 - $16,344 pledged of $35,000 goal Project GODUS - £170,368 pledged of £450,000 goal wut?