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Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 21, 2014, 12:18:08 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

But those brief moments of Spider-Man crying in the Sony movies are no more representative of the overall mood of the film(s) or of the character than those moments in Thor! I mean, it's not for nothing that the Spider-Man movies are always listed among the more joyous/bright/happy superhero movies (well, 4 out of the 5 movies, I've seen some complaints about Amazing 1 being too dreary)
    

Re: Ask POTS

 December 21, 2014, 12:09:47 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Ask Erroratu (Started by Bastard Walt March 13, 2013, 05:40:48 pm
 Board: All That's Left

How does it feel to have your name be synonomous with one of the most popular styles of gameplay in creations being made right now?
Any plans to do anything with your unfinished WIPs?
Which creation of yours is the one you like the most?
Salty Bet has attracted a lot of people to MUGEN, what do you think of the big explosion in popularity of MUGEN?
Was it weird to see the big explosion in popularity of Rare Akuma because of Salty Bet?
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 20, 2014, 09:20:10 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

Spider-Man is built on suffering, but also on overcoming suffering. I think is helpful to think of the Lee/Ditko run for this; the very first issue is of course the famous origin, ending with Spider-Man wandering off, sobbing; and one of the final Ditko issues, the famous FINAL CHAPTER, has Spidey trapped under a ton of machinery in Doc Ock's flooding lab, giving up and languishing off to oblivion, before deciding not to give in to pain and suffering, and straining every muscle in his body to lift up the wreckage that is trapping him. That's the essence of Spider-Man right there.
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 20, 2014, 08:54:06 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

Exactly what I was thinking.
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 20, 2014, 08:47:26 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

I assume it's a reference to this?


But uh yeah don't you dare say shit about Batroc the Leaper >:[

I swear to God, whoever thought that Spider-man should be crying all the time and be very emotionally compromised needs to be taken behind the shed.
five Spider-man movies in and he is a constant emotional wreck sobbing for his mum.
You're right, why can't they follow the comics where he never ever cries, it's almost as if they thought his first appearance ended with him in tears or something
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Spider-Man is a hero who is fundamentally shaped by tragedy. There is a very real sadness about him, whether it's the tragedies of his life or his woes that plague his every day life. That's his whole deal; there is of course a simultaneous bright happiness about him, of soaring through the skies of Manhattan on a webline and beating up bad guys, but it is the blending of the two that makes Spider-Man, Spider-Man. The two moods are an absolutely essential part of the way Spidey works, and to discard one is to discard the whole. And none of the movies, even the two I hate, ever go so far as to discard either of these.

Even in the rumors (or leaks? I don't remember what's a leak or rumor at this point) for Marvel's plans for another Spider-Man reboot movie, it's mentioned that the thing they want to move away from in the Sony movies is not "Spider-man crying all the time", or whatever, it's the romance. The Sony movies have all been about the romance aspect in some way, and while I would never say that's a wrong choice, it would be good to explore some other areas in future movies.

Evangeline Lilly mentioned her Ant-Man character being the daughter of "the founders of the Avengers", and mentioned Wasp by name. Now, some sites are saying maybe she's just referring to the comics version, but heck, in Iron Man 1, Nick Fury already had some plan called the "Avengers Initiative". Is it really a stretch to assume there was an earlier team in the 1960s? It certainly wouldn't be out of the ordinary for the Marvel Universe, which had a couple of superhero teams in between the Golden Age of superheroes in WWII and whenever on the floating timeline superheroes reemerged onto the scene in the modern day.
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 19, 2014, 05:28:35 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

What are you talking about, all those movies starring Johnny Depp in pancake makeup as a crazy weirdo with strange tics who wears a fancy hat are like, the opposite of formulaic! (actually, though, his new movie Big Eyes is supposed to be pretty good and a return to form for him, and it doesn't even have Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter in it)

also seems weird to call out Marvel for dark depressing superhero movies when DC's right there, fresh off from the Dark Knight trilogy and is currently making movies about sad depressed Superman who doesn't save people.

But uh yeah, I mean, he is kinda right; the MCU movies are somewhat formulaic, most of them follow a pretty rigid three act structure with three major action scenes (a beginning, establishing scene; a second scene where the heroes lose; and a third scene withan ultra mega aerial battle usually over a city as the heroes have a final battle to stop the villains from unleashing their MacGuffin that will kill everyone). The good ones disguise this well, but it's still there, and it feels somewhat limiting, and hopefully the comments Marvel has made about Dr. Strange about not doing an origin movie is a signal that they're moving away from it.
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 18, 2014, 11:34:21 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

Not a ton, no. It does seem fairly plausible and fits with the other rumors from more reliable sources (Latino Review, pretty much), but I just recently saw a purported email sent to one of the Sony execs with basically the same information and that seemed obviously fake, which is not a great sign.

But I wanna believe, dammit.

Urgh... Lerman? really?
Wasn't he supposed to be great in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, though?
    

Re: QOTD

 December 18, 2014, 08:49:02 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in QOTD (Started by Valodim August 26, 2007, 08:25:30 pm
 Board: All That's Left

U Talkin' U2 To Me? said:
Scott Aukerman: By my count, there are about four Star Wars films that already exist, and they're gonna make a few more
Adam Scott: There are six Star Wars films
Scott Aukerman: No, I don't think that's correct
Adam Scott: You're right.
Scott Aukerman: There's four. There's Return of the Ewoks
Adam Scott: There's The Empire Strikes 'em
Scott Aukerman: Uh huh, there's Grandma Tarkin
Adam Scott: And there's Chikki-Chikki Chewbacca Town
Scott Aukerman: Uh huh. That's my favorite. Chikki-Chikki Chewbacca Town
A new, holiday episode just came out and I'm it's simply heavenly.
    

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!!

 December 18, 2014, 08:15:13 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Strange is Benedict Cumberpatch!! (Started by Iced July 15, 2012, 03:54:44 am
 Board: Entertainment

more Spidey-Sony stuff: a dude on Reddit is claiming that Marvel and Sony have already worked out a deal, and just met to knock out the last remaining kinks. If it works out, Spidey could/will be added to Civil War and Age of Ultron in cameo roles (as it's too late to do anything else), with a solo film later on down the line. Logan Lerman is supposed to be the favorite to play the role, but it hasn't been cast yet. An offical announcment is supposed to come after January's Spidey-summit.

also Gunn posted this last night:
    

Re: Marvel Universe discussion (no filthy muties allowed)

 December 18, 2014, 07:22:59 pm View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Marvel Universe discussion (no filthy muties allowed) (Started by Gate June 16, 2011, 04:33:46 pm
 Board: Entertainment

    

Re: Can't seem to detect an enemy variable correctly for a special intro

 December 18, 2014, 05:34:45 pm View in topic context

I ran into the same problem (I think); you're reading Ryu/P2's variables and then selecting the intro state in state 5900/5901, right? If you have Ryu be P1, and your character be P2, you'll notice it works properly (and as you've mentioned, the intro will behave properly if you restart the match).

The reason for all this is because P2 hasn't entered its own state 5900 (which is where Ryu's mode selection variable is set), so when your character checks that variable, it will always read it as 0. Unless of course you restart the round (because the variable will have been set then), or you make Ryu P1 (in which case by the time your character is doing the checking, Ryu's will have entered 5900 and had the variable set).

My solution to this was pretty messy and inelegant (but it's MUGEN so I didn't really care that much lol god I'm terrible) and basically consisted of inserting changestates to all relevant into states in order to redirect to the correct intro. So, for this character, in the intro you would put one change state in the vs. normal/master Ryu intro state, changing to the other intro states if Ryu's mode was set to evil. I'm probably explaining things badly so I would recommend you check my Ken if you want to use my shitty solution.

There was another way around this that DivineWolf used that I thought involved doing all the intro decision stuff be determined in state 190 (but introduced a minor, barely noticeable animation change, or something) but you've already said that it didn't work, so I dunno. It might've been 191 instead of 190 that made the difference, but I don't remember.
    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 18, 2014, 03:41:57 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

sometimes it's hard to remember who the hell is who with all the damn name changes going on. Maybe I should change my name to Mr clean potato jack samurai, but now everyone will know it's me because I just gave it away.

* Neocide plots
I usually try and keep some part of my normal username in there when I'm doing a special alternate one to try and avoid this very problem, but I dunno Bizarro Santamorphman? That sounds kinda lame.

... wait shit didn't I do "Bizarro Santamorphman" last year? fuck I can't remember
    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 18, 2014, 03:23:57 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 18, 2014, 03:09:18 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 18, 2014, 03:01:38 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

Don't make me pull out that Oxe/CAN fanart, buster.
    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 18, 2014, 02:56:24 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

    

Re: QOTD

 December 17, 2014, 04:46:08 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in QOTD (Started by Valodim August 26, 2007, 08:25:30 pm
 Board: All That's Left

from the intro to a Salon interview of Grant Morrison said:
It doesn’t take more than a cursory look at overwrought television series like “Arrow” and “The Flash,” or jingoistic blockbusters like “Man of Steel” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” to find the supergods of DC Comics on their last, wobbly legs. Even the forthcoming, painfully titled blockbuster “Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice” is coded more like a marketing bonanza than a transformative narrative with anything important to say about the globally warmed Earth our children are inheriting.
holy shit is this the Salon-iest sentence ever written or what, "the globally warmed Earth our children are inheriting", Jesus fucking Christ

that said the actual interview in question is pretty damn great, although that's entirely due to Morrison (though it is pretty amusing to see the interviewer basically flip out like a fanboy and praise Morrison's work to a crazy degree and Morrison himself is all chill and downplaying things)

Grant Morrison said:
And you’re correct: the “crisis” is now the default superhero storytelling mode. Every comic book hero — TV heroes too, like “Doctor Who” — must inevitably, relentlessly, repeatedly face a dedicated threat to his or her very essence and core. It’s no longer sufficient to commit a weird sort of crime in Gotham City; any given baddie has to gnaw at the very roots of Batman’s being, fuck up the private lives of his friends and relatives, make him doubt his raison d’etre, set his postal district on fire and blow up his cave. Poor old Batman seems to lurch from one apocalyptic life-ruin epic to another these days with barely a pause for breath, making me long for the days when he jumped around at night helping people or solving mysteries that didn’t lead to some aeons-spanning plot by the ultimate villain to do the ultimate Bad Thing. And the Caped Crusader’s not the only perma-victim of the Ebola-like “crisis” epidemic. For a while it was genuinely thrilling to watch our heroes facing such directly focused threats to their meaning and relevance, but now the “crisis” approach, where every day is “The Day Evil Won,” is beginning to feel like another grim, played-out sales strategy with diminishing creative returns.
    

Re: Fergurson-missouri

 December 17, 2014, 03:43:50 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Fergurson-missouri (Started by Iced August 14, 2014, 12:53:22 pm
 Board: All That's Left

    

Re: Work Shop

 December 17, 2014, 03:39:07 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Work Shop (Started by Koop November 17, 2014, 09:51:03 pm
 Board: SNK Gals Fighters

now I feel even stupider I've played LAST BLADE a shitton of times ffs.....

* Neocide is embarrassed 
You are now sentenced to 10 hours of either Last Blade 1 or 2. This is non-negotiable and failure to comply will result in immediate disintegration.
    

Re: Random Topic V9

 December 17, 2014, 03:29:28 am View in topic context
 Posted by Bizarro Santamorphman  in Random Topic V9 (Started by c001357 May 25, 2014, 07:28:05 pm
 Board: All That's Left

Well hopefully George Lucas allows his name to be used so they don't have to replace his name in the credits with "the original filmmaker", or something.


oh brother