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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Saw this on Twitter for the datamined Blink card:

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    That's a huge meme play, but the sort of stuff I live for. I'm trying to imagine the deck, with the biggest Blink caveat being you can't have any cards that cost more than 3. Honestly not that bad of a Surfer deck, but definitely still a huge "retreat for 1 cube losses in hopes of the big 8 cube win" style deck. Too inconsistent to be good (Have Blink + Storm, don't draw Galactus, etc)

    Nova
    Daredevil
    Forge
    Goose
    Brood
    Daken
    Juggernaut
    Killmonger
    Storm
    Surfer
    Blink
    Galactus

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  • akTheraakThera akjak Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Surprise Galactus is my favorite Galactus

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The X-men series I have in my head is Emma and Scott run the scool, and Jean is essentially Dean of Students.she is friends woth the couple, but not in a "let's imply they are together" kind of way. Also it's later enough that Xavier and Magneto are gone.

    Wolverine is missing, but that wouldn't be a focus.

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Can you bloodflame blade an occult washing pole?

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Brody wrote: »
    Can you bloodflame blade an occult washing pole?
    Nope, occult isn't augmentable. Neither are bleed and poison, I think.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Bloodflame Blade notably doesn't apply bleed quite the same way bleed is normally applied, with instant buildup. Instead, it deals 40 bleed over 2 seconds on hit. Though I always assumed it didn't stack and that you could only ever do 40 per 2 seconds (plus whatever is innate to your weapon) with it.

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    I don't trust anything written on Fextralife, though, so I guess I have to go find an enemy that'll bleed at 41-80 buildup and hit them twice with a buffed dagger with no innate bleed to test....

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Peccavi wrote: »
    What if we just let James Marsden breathe a little bit of personality into Scott?

    Why is Cyclops' defining character trait "boring"?

    I thought he was great in the first movie, personally.

    "You're a dick."
    "Okay."

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Honestly, Scott's biggest personality trait is that he's a believer, almost a zealot. If you can convince him of a cause, he will follow that cause devotedly, and be all-in all the time. That's why he always comes off as a hard-ass or rigid and stuffy - because he believes in what he's doing, he gives it 100% and pushes those around him to do the same, expecting them to take it as seriously as he does. Xavier was the first to recognize and use this, but Scott has outgrown Xavier's views. It takes a lot for Scott to change perspectives, but to be fair he's been through a lot too.

    That said, he is actually a pretty effective leader in terms of strategy when not blindsided by his cause.

    You might say he’s got tunnel vision.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    any time i see energy cheat like that i just think that oh good im sure thanos won’t use this 10x better than anyone else

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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Well, just as I finished bellyaching about no card bundles you can buy with gold, they put up a really good card bundle you can buy with gold.

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    Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
  • hushhush Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    cool variant, pretty shit currency

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    This is the future. This is what we built. This is what we wanted. It must have been. Because we all had the fucking choice, didn't we? It is only our money that allows commercial culture to flower. If we didn't want to live like this, we could have changed it at any time, by not fucking paying for it.

    So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    i’m not a big inkpulp fan

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  • SwainwalkerSwainwalker Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    as a kid I didn't like Smartfood popcorn or the orange section of those popcorn barrels, for whatever reason - I just wasn't into the cheese powder flavor. However I've been hearing for years to try cheese powder on my stovetop popcorn, and I finally tried it. Yeah, it's great. Just another reason to always have cheese powder on hand.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Well, just as I finished bellyaching about no card bundles you can buy with gold, they put up a really good card bundle you can buy with gold.

    For that bundle to be good, it needs way more Tokens or Credits. This latest bundle has far to few resources.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited April 14
    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    i think they’ve shown that good gold bundles are going to be extremely rare. i’ve mostly come to terms that my gold is going to be just be going toward buying variants i like

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean, the problem here is that most of the people who write comics, especially X-Men comics, are incredibly bad at it.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean, the problem is that Ninja and Atomika are not wrong about who Cyclops can be, and neither is Texiken. Is Wolverine someone who has built himself back up from being an animal to being a great teacher, or is he a misogynist jackass who cannot deal with the fact that the girl he likes might not like him? Is Hope an absolutely abusive parasite, or does she maybe have a good quality somewhere? Is Storm as badass as all that, or is she just there to say "oh we have a black woman as a leader somewhere", but not actually allowed to lead or say or do anything but grind on Wolverine? (I don't like Aaron's run, and the one good thing that the Krakoa storyline did is show how completely full of shit he was).

    I mean, I honestly think that X-Men works best when it's focusing on the kids, and maybe a senior staff book while they are at the school, instead of focusing on overarching plot and whatever the fuck, and I can show you the exact panel they stopped doing that in 2007.(Coincidentally, the majority of the class focused on were women and many of them weren't white)

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Atomika wrote: »
    Shadowen wrote: »
    Scott is a stick-up-his-ass square because that's literally who he has to be. This is someone who, if he lets his glasses fall off, will turn everything in front of his face into paste with energy punches from another dimension. He's a rigid buttoned-down control freak because if he isn't people fucking die--and not even in the way it's true for most heroic characters who lead people into battle, this is just him walking down the fucking street!

    Sorry if that means he has high expectations for others' behavior or whatever.

    That’s a guy who shouldn’t be in charge of a ham sandwich, let alone a team of young powerful weirdos

    To be fair, who else in the X-Men is capable of being a stable leader? Jubilee?

    Come to think of it... that'd be pretty great.


    But seriously, like with anything: he can be a good character and/or leader, depending on the writer.

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    I read a little more closely, and apparently Arcane only affects bleed build up on weapons with Arcane scaling, so I think I might have been putting way too many points into arcane…

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Brody wrote: »
    I read a little more closely, and apparently Arcane only affects bleed build up on weapons with Arcane scaling, so I think I might have been putting way too many points into arcane…

    Just to make sure you're parsing correctly, Arcane won't increase bleed build up on a weapon that doesn't have Arcane scaling, but it will increase damage and bleed/poison buildup on a weapon with Arcane scaling and a status.

    So you can take a weapon with innate bleed and no Arcane scaling, make it Occult, and scale both with pure Arcane.

    Or you can make a non-bleed weapon Bleed infused and it will scale damage and bleed with Arcane (but the damage will scale weaker than Occult and the default scaling will be more intact, so you tend to go for less arcane and more of whatever other of dex/strength if you're using Bleed infusion instead of occult).

    I thought you were using Reduvia? It has intrinsic bleed and arcane damage scaling, so the damage and bleed both scale with Arcane. If you increase dex the damage and weapon art will both increase in damage but the bleed buildup won't go up.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Like if I were planning a Reduvia build, I'd go like 80 arcane and whatever I had left after other stats into Dex, but I could also run like 80 dex but I'd want at least 40 arcane to get the bleed up. Similar for other (somber) Bleed weapons with innate arcane scaling, like Rivers of Blood or Bloody Helice.

    If you're looking at innate bleed weapons you can infuse, you might do something like a Keen Uchigatana with high dex and decent faith, then bloodflame blade for flat 40 over 2 seconds bleed per hit and scaling fire damage (and maybe seppuku if I wanted to use my ash of war on it for more bleed and damage) and only the minimum arcane. Or you can run that same Uchigatana as Occult with 80+ arcane, enough faith to hit the minimum for whatever spells I want to use with the Arc/Faith casting implement Dragon-Communion Seal, and have the bleed innate to the weapon scaled via all that Arcane+Occult without needing (or being able to) use the faith weapon buffs (can't buff Occult or Bleed or Somber weapons and Arcane doesn't scale Faith weapon buffs even with Dragon-Communion Seal, same way Strength won't scale Faith weapon buffs with Clawmark Seal).

    If you're looking at non-bleed weapons you can infuse and want to run Bleed with, you'd run like 40-50 arcane to get the bleed to a respectable height, plus then heavy investment into strenght/dex/both depending on the weapon's natural scaling (since Bleed, like Cold and Poison, doesn't take as much away from the base scaling as some other infusions).

    My personal recommendation would be very heavy on arcane with just enough in Faith/Strength/Dex to use whatever you like. But you might want to wait on that build until mid-game when you can get the Occult infusion at will if you don't like any of the earlier Arcane weapons: Reduvia (dagger, bleed), Regalia of Eochaid (straight sword, magic), Ripple Blade (axe, physical), or the Ripple Crescent Halberd (halberd, physical). You can also rush Bloody Helice fairly early but I wouldn't on a first run.

    Ah, notable thing I forgot: the Ripple Blade and Ripple Crescent Halberd are weirdo weapons, in that they can't be infused and scale their pure physical damage with Arcane like the various other Arcane somber weapons, but they can be buffed, which makes them work really well with the Bleed/Poison/Rot greases (which scale with Arcane, unlike the flat Bleed that comes from Bloodflame blade).

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  • RidleySariaRidleySaria AnaheimRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Sometimes I don’t want to be bothered playing mini games to get the rewards. Mini games give me flashbacks to those miserable years of Wii waggle and app store trash games. So I appreciate something minimal effort that requires a mere few minutes to get the reward. Gimme the primos so I can get back to the real game. In this case I’m actually enjoying the effort I have to put in to making those potions. It’s a little more involved and takes some thought. Doesn’t seem like it will overstay its welcome either.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Cyclops is a dumb name because he’s only got one eye when he wears his visor.

    He’s named after some equipment made for him rather than his power set.

    I mean, Wolverine got his name because he was originally a hyperevolved wolverine. The names were always stupid.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Elendil wrote: »
    from futzing with build calculators, it seems like split scaling weapons tend to be better off with a split than maxing the highest one, like a 60/30 split over an 80/10

    Yeah, that'll usually get you higher damage from anything that's not a weapon infused to a pure stat infusion, so Somber weapons and the various status effect infusions.

    That said, I tend to favor going hard on the stronger stat if it's a casting stat I'd like to use or if I'd also like to be able to use infusions that favor single stat pumping

    60/40/16 Arc/Dex/Str looks like this

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    while 80/19/16 looks like this

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    Barely worse, and your spells with Dragon-Communion will be stronger, and you can use Occult whatever.

    Of course, it's not universal. Any weapon where the split is closer will suck like that but be exceptional with split stats (though in some cases, ranged weapon arts might scale only with the caster stat, making the hits worse on a pure build but the WA stronger).

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  • hushhush Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    this was such a self inflicted wound on them with their 'double gold' on every gold bundle - actually probably got people to spend - and their numbers prob see some insane gold reserves. now everybody gets to pay for there being a shitload of gold in the system right now.

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    So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    I thought it would be fun to grab a couple of different bleed setups, not realizing that other weapons don’t benefit from the arcane scaling that Reduvia. So I kept dumping into Arcane trying to get the bleed to proc faster, but since I kept trying to do it with the katana and bloodflame, it wasn’t scaling nearly at all. It would work better if I could use occult infusion and skip bloodflame, but I don’t have that unlocked, so I should probably respec and drop some Str, or drop some arcane.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Again, that's mostly because a whooooole lot of writers have a massive boner for Wolverine, and so they need to show how much betterer and awesomer he is than stupid ol' Cyclops. When Cyclops is actually written as a leader, it works incredibly well.

    As an example "Plan A assumes I only have 26" (Godsdamn, moving to San Fran was such a good idea that got cut short way to soon due to plot idiocy bullshit and also having Greg Land draw the thing)

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Brody wrote: »
    I thought it would be fun to grab a couple of different bleed setups, not realizing that other weapons don’t benefit from the arcane scaling that Reduvia. So I kept dumping into Arcane trying to get the bleed to proc faster, but since I kept trying to do it with the katana and bloodflame, it wasn’t scaling nearly at all. It would work better if I could use occult infusion and skip bloodflame, but I don’t have that unlocked, so I should probably respec and drop some Str, or drop some arcane.

    You could grab Bloody Slash if you haven't already and use it to get Bleed infusion on anything that counts as a sword other than colossal swords (katanas+straight/great/curved/curved great/thrusting/heavy thrusting swords). The weapon art itself also scales damage purely with Arcane and inflicts 60 points of Bleed (it looks like it might be melee and has a short range, but functions like a ranged WA).

    It's in Limgrave, down here

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Atomika wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    As an example "Plan A assumes I only have 26"

    🙄 oh my god

    I knew you would hate that :p

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Kamar wrote: »
    Brody wrote: »
    I thought it would be fun to grab a couple of different bleed setups, not realizing that other weapons don’t benefit from the arcane scaling that Reduvia. So I kept dumping into Arcane trying to get the bleed to proc faster, but since I kept trying to do it with the katana and bloodflame, it wasn’t scaling nearly at all. It would work better if I could use occult infusion and skip bloodflame, but I don’t have that unlocked, so I should probably respec and drop some Str, or drop some arcane.

    You could grab Bloody Slash if you haven't already and use it to get Bleed infusion on anything that counts as a sword other than colossal swords (katanas+straight/great/curved/curved great/thrusting/heavy thrusting swords). The weapon art itself also scales damage purely with Arcane and inflicts 60 points of Bleed (it looks like it might be melee and has a short range, but functions like a ranged WA).

    It's in Limgrave, down here

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    Does the Blood Infusion scale off arcane? I guess maybe that’s what I was missing with my plan. I already have a couple of Blood Arts, I just thought Bloodflame would be better. I’ll switch to one of those and see how it feels.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Brody wrote: »
    Kamar wrote: »
    Brody wrote: »
    I thought it would be fun to grab a couple of different bleed setups, not realizing that other weapons don’t benefit from the arcane scaling that Reduvia. So I kept dumping into Arcane trying to get the bleed to proc faster, but since I kept trying to do it with the katana and bloodflame, it wasn’t scaling nearly at all. It would work better if I could use occult infusion and skip bloodflame, but I don’t have that unlocked, so I should probably respec and drop some Str, or drop some arcane.

    You could grab Bloody Slash if you haven't already and use it to get Bleed infusion on anything that counts as a sword other than colossal swords (katanas+straight/great/curved/curved great/thrusting/heavy thrusting swords). The weapon art itself also scales damage purely with Arcane and inflicts 60 points of Bleed (it looks like it might be melee and has a short range, but functions like a ranged WA).

    It's in Limgrave, down here

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    Does the Blood Infusion scale off arcane? I guess maybe that’s what I was missing with my plan. I already have a couple of Blood Arts, I just thought Bloodflame would be better. I’ll switch to one of those and see how it feels.

    Blood infusion does scale with arcane, but it takes a decent amount of base damage and base scaling away, and doesn't scale AR as strongly with arcane as Occult does. Meaning that even with base stats and a decent chunk of Arcane, something like the Uchigatana will probably have a higher AR with standard or keen infusion.

    Until you have a decent chunk of Arcane and/or upgrade the uchigatana enough, bloodflame blade's flat 40 on a standard or keen will be better even if you're all in on arcane, unfortunately. I might still go with Blood infusion on the uchigatana, the main benefit would be to not have to buff (I personally hate keeping up with weapon buffs) and Bloody Slash being really strong even after it was nerfed.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Oh wait I forgot something that might matter a little early on is more a curiosity than really relevant to anything. Certain innate bleed weapons, notably Reduvia early on, along with any innate bleed weapon which has also been infused with bleed, has the flat damage portion of the formula doubled.

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Yeah. I guess part of my thought process is that when I noticed Washing Pole wasn’t doing much damage with Bloodflame, my solution was to go up to 37 arcane, so I think I’m getting close to a point where I should be scaling arcane instead, and a blood infusion might be what I need to finish getting to the Giants area.

    Iirc, I have the stats to 1 hand the washing pole, 28 faith for Greyroll Roar, and 37 arcane. So I’m just kind of everywhere.

    Edit: tried blood slash, it’s so much better. I really need to find that occult whetstone.

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  • SethTheHumanSethTheHuman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    discrider wrote: »
    Wordle 1,001 5/6*

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    And it looks like they've put the stats behind a login, so I guess I stop playing :/

    It worked for me yesterday, but not today. I'll still probably play, but I guess I won't have to pay attention to streaks anymore.

    Honestly, the timing is pretty good, since I got a new phone last week anyway.

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    You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wordle 1 003 3/6

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    Does the NYT really think I'll create an account on their website and give them my personal information just for the privilege of "stats" (read: seven individual integer counters) about my Wordle game? They really don't think much of people, do they? What's next, they'll ask me for my banking information so they can transfer the fabled NYT fortune stuck in Nigeria after the beloved NYT King was deposed by the evil Fox News military dictator?

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User Mod Emeritus
    edited April 18
    Resubbed for the year and am catching up on Gamechanger. That was a great Sam Says. The desolation on everyone's faces after they got back was amazing.

    Also I think Tommy Shriggly is a sure bet for best VIP episode. Dunno who else is coming but that was great.

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  • SethTheHumanSethTheHuman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Are they ever going to fix Gambit? My favorite character always seems to get shafted. It should be quite easy to make a good ass movie around Remy, damn idiots.

    It's because Gambit kind of sucks imo.
    There's just nothing about him I find that interesting. He's just 90s comics aesthetics in character form.
    That said, with the new X-Men team featuring Gambit being based in New Orleans I'm sure he'll be getting some featured time. I've just always found the whole Thiefs Guild/Belladonna stuff to be mega boring.

    Gambit's not so bad. He had a cool power concept, a fun accent, and a whole "ambiguous rogue" archetype in conflict with a sweet romance with Rogue. You want peak 90s comics aesthetics, you need a guy with a name like "Bloodscythe" who squints all the time and has no feet.

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    You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Are they ever going to fix Gambit? My favorite character always seems to get shafted. It should be quite easy to make a good ass movie around Remy, damn idiots.

    It's because Gambit kind of sucks imo.
    There's just nothing about him I find that interesting. He's just 90s comics aesthetics in character form.
    That said, with the new X-Men team featuring Gambit being based in New Orleans I'm sure he'll be getting some featured time. I've just always found the whole Thiefs Guild/Belladonna stuff to be mega boring.

    Gambit's not so bad. He had a cool power concept, a fun accent, and a whole "ambiguous rogue" archetype in conflict with a sweet romance with Rogue. You want peak 90s comics aesthetics, you need a guy with a name like "Bloodscythe" who squints all the time and has no feet.

    Which just makes me appreciate Shatterstar's role in Deadpool 2 all the more.

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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cursedking wrote: »
    I read kind of a summary of the krakoa stuff and I understand that reading a summary is such a different experience than reading the comics, but I am honestly befuddled at where anything was going with this or what Hickman's kind of like...what his idea was here. It seems so vastly different from his Avengers run which had (imo) a clear through-line and end game.

    I think his idea was about showing what mutants working together could actually mean and the impacts that would have on things like culture, technology, art, and religion. I actually think he did a really good job with what he was doing but was hemmed in by virtue of the X-Men needing to exist in a wider Marvel universe.

    In a perfect world there's a "What If?" universe that just continues the Krakoan age but absent all the other Marvel bullshit.

    Only the whole thing was announced at the very start (via a future that was basically Days of Future Past yet again, and another future that was some utterly pretentious wankery) that it was always doomed to fail. And even without that, I couldn't get into Krakoa's society working because every character except Magneto and Sinister had their personalities wiped, and the whole thing turned into an off-putting racist death cult.

    Edit: And then Nightcrawler turned from kinda fun to HI I'M THE RELIGIOUS ONE, constantly.

    I'm learning I'm not the biggest fan of Hickman's writing.

    Anzekay on
    Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
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