If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Nah. When it comes to creating a story "it had to be this way or there'd be no movie" is a bad defence because it didn't have to be any way - it is that way because it was written that way. In the case of the MCU it's a problem of competing motivations - telling a bunch of compelling what if stories - and corporate concerns - making bank by mashing them together. Plus the nature of the source material.
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
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In general on the MCU though, I'd say Cap 2 is written such that there's no point where'd you'd think "They could just call X here and solve this shit". (also I kinda assumed Stark was dealing with IM3 at this point)
This will get alot more difficult as they add more heroes to the roster though.
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On the other hand I think this week will get me to ba bronze. Which is the level that does cock all but is one step towards silver- the one that gives lounge access
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
in ChatFortress, a forgotten beast had crawled up into the fort from the caverns below.
@STATE OF THE ART ROBOT, equipped in steel plate armor and a short sword tried to hold the entrance hall that connects the fort to the underdark. The forgotten beast knocked him into the wall stunning him and damaging his stomach, kidney and left upper arm. But before the beast could finish the job the archer @LoserForHireX arrived and got a few crossbow bolts into it. This gave SOTAR time to get back on his feet and slay the beast in melee.
wish for like, a great sandwich. like, one of those crazy ones with bacon and avocado and like artisan bread and shit. yeah man. probably have some like kind of crazy mayo you can't even pronounce oh and there's potato chips on the sandwich already
I was once served a gyro with french fries in the gyro, instead of as a side.
It opened a whole new world for me.
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God, I read X-Force. That was such a blah book. Strong Guy? Feral.
Oh, and Generation X. All of those.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
Pockets and pouches and ginormous pistols for miles . . . .
Man I now kinda wish he influenced women's fashion.
I literally picked my jacket today because it was the only thing I owned that I could wear with the other stuff and yet had a pocket.
Yeah, I have a hoodie that I wear all the time now because my wardrobe has no ability to store anything larger than a Zippo.
Did you see my wallet?
. . . Should I look in my hoodie?
I'm gonna be freaked out if it's in there. That's some David Blaine shit.
If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Nah. When it comes to creating a story "it had to be this way or there'd be no movie" is a bad defence because it didn't have to be any way - it is that way because it was written that way. In the case of the MCU it's a problem of competing motivations - telling a bunch of compelling what if stories - and corporate concerns - making bank by mashing them together. Plus the nature of the source material.
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
I disagree entirely.
In the case of the MCU I think that it needs to be realised that the scenario is not one size fits all, it lends itself to particular kinds of stories and not others. As you do rightly point out in your follow up post this is a relatively minor issue at present for the MCU but becomes much more intense as the roster expands.
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If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Nah. When it comes to creating a story "it had to be this way or there'd be no movie" is a bad defence because it didn't have to be any way - it is that way because it was written that way. In the case of the MCU it's a problem of competing motivations - telling a bunch of compelling what if stories - and corporate concerns - making bank by mashing them together. Plus the nature of the source material.
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
I disagree entirely.
In the case of the MCU I think that it needs to be realised that the scenario is not one size fits all, it lends itself to particular kinds of stories and not others. As you do rightly point out in your follow up post this is a relatively minor issue at present for the MCU but becomes much more intense as the roster expands.
If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Nah. When it comes to creating a story "it had to be this way or there'd be no movie" is a bad defence because it didn't have to be any way - it is that way because it was written that way. In the case of the MCU it's a problem of competing motivations - telling a bunch of compelling what if stories - and corporate concerns - making bank by mashing them together. Plus the nature of the source material.
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
I disagree entirely.
In the case of the MCU I think that it needs to be realised that the scenario is not one size fits all, it lends itself to particular kinds of stories and not others. As you do rightly point out in your follow up post this is a relatively minor issue at present for the MCU but becomes much more intense as the roster expands.
It lends itself to every story. It's just that not all stories are the same so what is relevant to the purpose of the work changes.
It's not like we go around complaining about the physics of Iron Man's suit or anything.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
Ugh the China team at work is so helpless it is endlessly frustrating. They are supposed to be programmers. I can't debug every single syntax error they get, they need to be at least the tiniest bit self sufficient! But they figured out that if they blame my work for their problems, my boss will eventually get desperate and call me in to fix everything and there is no penalty for them, so it looks like self sufficiency is not in the cards.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
If there is one thing to be said about EU4, it is that the colonisation mechanics still need to be tweaked
Every game you end up with Russia failing to hit the edge of the continent and have Portuguese Siberia sitting at the end
Spanish Hokkaido is equally annoying
on the other hand I like that Brittany managed to stay independent for so long that they became a colonial power
I wonder what the Breton term for Australia would be in this timeline
Australia is Latin, so it might still be Australia!
Or it might be like New South Arvor or something boring.
Not having played EU4, is it the fault of the colonization mechanics, or because Russia sucks at fighting off the eastern empires like Sibir (or just has different priorities)? If it's the latter, it might be a good idea to modify Russian missions. That's something you can mess around with on your own if you think it's worth the effort. Maybe even look up mods... Paradox has a really active mod community, which is where they get most of their strength from.
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If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Nah. When it comes to creating a story "it had to be this way or there'd be no movie" is a bad defence because it didn't have to be any way - it is that way because it was written that way. In the case of the MCU it's a problem of competing motivations - telling a bunch of compelling what if stories - and corporate concerns - making bank by mashing them together. Plus the nature of the source material.
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
I disagree entirely.
In the case of the MCU I think that it needs to be realised that the scenario is not one size fits all, it lends itself to particular kinds of stories and not others. As you do rightly point out in your follow up post this is a relatively minor issue at present for the MCU but becomes much more intense as the roster expands.
God, I read X-Force. That was such a blah book. Strong Guy? Feral.
Oh, and Generation X. All of those.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
Pockets and pouches and ginormous pistols for miles . . . .
Man I now kinda wish he influenced women's fashion.
I literally picked my jacket today because it was the only thing I owned that I could wear with the other stuff and yet had a pocket.
Yeah, I have a hoodie that I wear all the time now because my wardrobe has no ability to store anything larger than a Zippo.
Did you see my wallet?
. . . Should I look in my hoodie?
I'm gonna be freaked out if it's in there. That's some David Blaine shit.
Too drunk to link
Oh, whisky mouse, is it?
Be good, hon
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Ugh the China team at work is so helpless it is endlessly frustrating. They are supposed to be programmers. I can't debug every single syntax error they get, they need to be at least the tiniest bit self sufficient! But they figured out that if they blame my work for their problems, my boss will eventually get desperate and call me in to fix everything and there is no penalty for them, so it looks like self sufficiency is not in the cards.
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Groo went through a few publishers. When I started collecting it Groo was with Image.
recommend me a few
this feels like a night where i sleep 3 hours before work
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Every game you end up with Russia failing to hit the edge of the continent and have Portuguese Siberia sitting at the end
Spanish Hokkaido is equally annoying
on the other hand I like that Brittany managed to stay independent for so long that they became a colonial power
I wonder what the Breton term for Australia would be in this timeline
That it could be any way is the point. It's why it's the only defence that actually matters. Every conflict in fiction is artificial by it's very nature. Is the purpose of the work in question served by explaining why every single possible other way this could have gone down didn't happen? No. So you cover the bases that are most needful and you move on.
http://www.stubhub.com/tune-yards-tickets/tune-yards-new-york-webster-hall-6-23-2014-9012462/
@Eddy
@""Casual Eddy"
FYI
HTH
So maybe something derived from that?
This will get alot more difficult as they add more heroes to the roster though.
I'm nowhere close to the point of being able to wear mens clothes in an ironic, coquettish way.
Probably never will be, honestly. Which kinda sucks.
i will bear this cross...
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Im loading garbage and tonight we left 5 lubs worth of spent citrus* halves.
*lemons and limes
she and her promoters will bear it more since they used dumb pricing.
@STATE OF THE ART ROBOT, equipped in steel plate armor and a short sword tried to hold the entrance hall that connects the fort to the underdark. The forgotten beast knocked him into the wall stunning him and damaging his stomach, kidney and left upper arm. But before the beast could finish the job the archer @LoserForHireX arrived and got a few crossbow bolts into it. This gave SOTAR time to get back on his feet and slay the beast in melee.
I was once served a gyro with french fries in the gyro, instead of as a side.
It opened a whole new world for me.
All new characters. Nice
Too drunk to link
urbandictionary has an entry for "bookoo" and that's all I need
asking for a friend
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I disagree entirely.
In the case of the MCU I think that it needs to be realised that the scenario is not one size fits all, it lends itself to particular kinds of stories and not others. As you do rightly point out in your follow up post this is a relatively minor issue at present for the MCU but becomes much more intense as the roster expands.
That's the price for a shared universe.
It lends itself to every story. It's just that not all stories are the same so what is relevant to the purpose of the work changes.
It's not like we go around complaining about the physics of Iron Man's suit or anything.
Australia is Latin, so it might still be Australia!
Or it might be like New South Arvor or something boring.
Not having played EU4, is it the fault of the colonization mechanics, or because Russia sucks at fighting off the eastern empires like Sibir (or just has different priorities)? If it's the latter, it might be a good idea to modify Russian missions. That's something you can mess around with on your own if you think it's worth the effort. Maybe even look up mods... Paradox has a really active mod community, which is where they get most of their strength from.
Oh, whisky mouse, is it?
Be good, hon
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It's ok, I will singlehandedly supply all the ironic coquette the world can handle.
You guys are alright.
G'night you crazy diamond.
Aw, but I wanted just a little
I don't think you can be a coquette at 6'2”. That's in a rulebook somewhere.
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