Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

No capybara's this week, but a rare tapir has been born at Point Defiance Zoo.

The Superbowl happened, but I leave discussions and conversations about it to those who follow such things, though I will say that the half time show was quite something!

We note the passing of former DC Editor KC Carlson, who helped steer the Zero Hour event, and the subsequent relaunch of the Legion or Super-Heroes titles, which remain favourites of mine, among many, many others

Megacon confirmed the released of four Transformers toys from the "Hearts of Steel" comic miniseries of MANY years ago. Basically, 19th century steampunk alt modes for Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and Starscream.

Comments

[tripodeca113]

Decided to buy Locke and Key. Found the cheapest option on Ebay but the seller was away, and then I found a store which was selling it for $16.
Yay for me!
(maybe next I could try and round out my Hellboy collection)

Well I watched the seven hour retrospective on the Dragon Age games. Thankfully the video was by someone actually competent who knows how to analyse things.

You know I expected Veilguard to have horrible scars from all it's years in development hell, but some of these creative choices are just confusing:
It's a direct follow-up to Inquisition but sidelines that plot to do it's own thing ( I suppose it's only fair since Inquisition did the same with II's ending....)
Why is their a pop-up saying "Character X will remember this" explaining the obvious implication of each dialogue choice?
Oh it's set in the previously unseen Tevinter (in the games anyway) but the nice part that isn't a slaver state ruled by waring factions of wizards.
All the originations we work with have had all their rough edges sanded-off so their all moral upstanding and good. (Yes even the assassins who buy child slaves, make them fight to the death and indoctrinate the survivors).
The companions don't really have political ideologies or views, and they all sort of get along.
If you get all the secret items there's an extra part in the epilogue where a mysterious organisation talks about how they were secretly manipulating the previous villains and how everything is going according to plan.
I really don't like Isabela's new outfit.

So Star Wars Rebels rewatch.
Tarkin showed up and was about how talking the Lothal rebels are more principled than other groups. That makes sense. But then he said that their unwilling to use violence, which is laughable since they've killed a lot of people throughout the show (later in this very episode Sabine will shoot some stormtroopers).
He also says that chase they were in earlier didn't have any casualties, even though one guy rode his bike into a wall and there was a big explosion. Maybe he meant civilian casualties?

Well looks like The Sandman show's been cancelled. Season two will be the end.
I don't know if they'll reshoot it so it has a proper ending, or they'll just kick it out the door.
I'm not going to watch it so I guess it doesn't really matter.

[cyberghostface]

Locke & Key is great.

People noticed they were filming scenes from the end of the Sandman series prior to the news about Gaiman. Apparently it was barely renewed as it was so they decided to end the story ahead of time by just focusing on the Morpheus stuff.

[cainofdreaming]

Pity. Even after... everything... I'd have liked to see Prez Rickard.

[deh_tommy]

I don’t consider myself to be a Dragon Age fan because I’ve only ever tried Inquisition, but I rather liked Inquisition so seeing where they decided to take the story is a little weird. It doesn’t even feel like the same setting, the lingo and language is way too modern and the organisations are all wrong.

And I swear to gosh, whenever mass retcons or subverting expectations by destroying or upending a major element occurs, the excuse/cope is always the same, whether from the writers or the changes’ defenders — that being the idea of “Now they’re free from the shackles of the past, they can go anywhere!”, even when they could have been done just fine before and those “shackles” and trappings are what drew people to the thing in the first place.

[super_fly]

For anyone wondering the seven hour video is by Noah Caldwell Gervais and all his videos are good. Some are even a breezy sub 2 hours!

Isabella's hat is silly. I might have an opinion on the rest of her outfit if I wasn't distracted by the hat.