English is my first and only language I was born and live in England so why is it so difficult to use
Because working out what you think into a string of words that not only makes sense but translates intent, belief, opinion, etc. is not easy. It’s a rare thing to be able to get out everything that you want to say in a short blurb because something is usually lost either in the writing or the reading.
How people read what you have to say is just as important as how you write what you have to say, and there’s no real way to control that.
I all ways want to join in on these conversations that you start but I can never get my thoughts properly into words to voice my thoughts and opinions in a way that I am satisfied
That tends to be a common problem, with most people myself included.
You can’t compare mods in games to re-colouring someone’s art, they are two very different things. One is illegal should the owner place a copyright license over it strictly forbidding it, the other is not and is encouraged. :/
The two are comparable, but not identical. I don’t care for mods in general, but it’s the attitude that it’s the mods that make a game good and not the game itself that bugs me the most.
ruuqo said: If they didn’t want people to mod games, they wouldn’t allow modifications compatibility. Enough said.
That doesn’t really stop things. If people want to mod a game, they’ll do it, just look at the issues with mods in GTAV.
Even then, that argument sounds a lot like one that is rather hated in many art communities involving people editing or reposting other people’s work. Something along the lines of “if you didn’t want it reposted/colored/changed/etc. you wouldn’t have put it up.”
If developers released a game with well written and scripted content suitable for the game, great visuals, a decent amount of good content and completely bug free, then people like me looking to improve/enhance it via mods, wouldn’t need them.
That’s largely the attitude that makes me dislike the concept of mods in the first place. It’s saying that what was put out in the original package isn’t worthy of your time, or isn’t fun unless it’s added to by others. To me that attitude comes off as telling the developers that what they did isn’t good enough and needs more for often arbitrary reasons.
That does not fly in any other medium. If you were to put out a piece of art and find that others liked it, but only after they recolored it, added in their own details, and effectively changed the thing that you put yourself in to, how would you feel?
That’s why I consider mods different from fanart/fanfiction. The latter are made because someone enjoys something enough to expand upon it in something new that does not effect the original. Mods are made to change the experience of the original for better or worse, and that concept has never sat well with me in any medium.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t much care for the concept of mods in games, and depending on the circumstance think the heavy use of mods by a single person to be an insult to the developer.
Cowpony milk does not make one become a cowpony, unless it is consumed directly from the source. Cowponies are not a normal race and, though they can breed and have natural born calf-foals, the most common way for cowponies to reproduce is for another to become a cowpony, becoming milkborn.
Making an update is like taking a poop. When it comes out well and the time is right it’s very satisfying. When the time is not right and things are forced out it messes up your insides.
how is your recovery going from that illness you mentioned a bit ago
I’m doing much better than i was, anon, thank you for asking. I had bronchitis that kept me from speaking, and thereby working, for a week. Though I still have a cough that has limited my vocal range and keeps me from singing, I can enunciate enough to work again.
Never tell a DC fan that Quicksilver is faster than the Flash only when the Flash is outside of the DC universe and doesn’t have access to the Speed Force. Even if it’s canon, you’re wrong apparently.
It always bugs me when people harp on Marvel movies as being sexist because there aren’t nearly as many female characters, and those that are there are usually foils or romantic interests for the male lead. That being said, there are still a fair few women in Marvel movies, and while they are often romantically engaged with the male hero, they are also depicted with their own lives, passions, jobs, and goals outside of being the girlfriend of a superhero. They are their own characters who force the male superhero to grow and change, while doing the same themselves.
DC is every bit as bad about including women in their movies, and fair bit worse at making them characters outside of romance. In part this is due to there being fewer modern DC movies, but there’s also the issue that the characters themselves aren’t really there outside of being a romantic lead. The best example against this is Lois Lane in Man of Steel, who’s actually somewhat active for a little bit before being relegated to the typical damsel-in-distress role and chasing after Superman for the bulk of the film.
Both companies need to work on incorporating dynamic female characters into their respective movies. At the moment though I think Marvel’s got a hell of a lead and has been doing it a lot better for quite some time.
Because they have only got one movie, they are making a Wonder Woman film…. And have a super girl show and potentially The robin in Batman v superman will be Stephanie brown
DC only has one film in their current universe, but they’ve been making films for a while. How good were the female characters in the Nolan Batman trilogy? The past Superman films? The films that we dare not speak of?
The Supergirl show has potential, and would be a good change of pace, but there’s a fair bit riding against in, not the least of which is that DC is splitting their stuff up heavily instead of working to make an overall universe. That won’t be helped by Wonderwoman either. It’s great that she’s FINALLY getting a movie, but guess how else is? Captain Marvel who is a woman and will be a woman in the film.
As for the Stephanie Brown as Robin, it is possible and would be great but given the tone and placement of BvS I doubt it. The only hints towards it right now are that Snyder is taking inspiration from Dark Knight Returns and that in the trailer there was a fraction of a yellow cape shown out of focus over the shoulder in one second of the trailer.
2. Explaining why the Avengers are now working together.
3. Explaining why Steve isn’t still looking for Bucky.
4. Giving Falcon more than a minute of screen time.
5. Developing the father-daughter thing they had going with Fury and Nat.
6. Showing Steve and Tony actually building up a friendship so Civil War will at least have a smidgen of emotional impact.
7. Spending more than a minute on why Tony and Bruce thought Ultron was a good idea (and why they have apparently never seen a sci-fi movie)
8. Having Tony get to talk to the Vision about Jarvis.
9. Vision/Scarlet Witch
10. A Natasha backstory going into her being forced to kill as a child/losing her identity, anything but “I can’t have babies so I’m a monster!”
11. Explaining the media reaction to all this. (We hear they want Bruce arrested, but how do the people feel about the Avengers working without Shield? How is the world responding without Shield?
12. Natasha picking up Mjolnir (don’t tease it and not carry through, Joss).
13. Basically, any scene showing any continuity with Phase 2.
14. Who am I kidding? Basically any other scene. A training sequence. 20 minutes of Falcon baking cookies. An explanation of how Hulk’s pants work. An hour of all of them playing with Clint’s kids. Anything would have been better.
I’m down for the 20 minutes of Falcon baking cookies suggestion, personally.
You know Sam doesn’t stint on the chocolate chips.
an explanation of how Hulk’s pants work yes
So, 1. Tony’s need to set things right overriding the promises he’s made that moved him to make one suit and Jarvis controlled robots?
2. Routing the remains of HYDRA and wrapping up the hunt for Loki’s scepter?
3. Fair point, but Cap rarely has a one track mind.
4. Fair, though he didn’t have much to add in and explicitly said as much.
5. Not blatant, but still present
6. A relationship is about compromise and struggle, not just hugs and kisses. Tony and Steve butt heads a lot in AoU, and ended up being closer than at the beginning. Just look at their interactions at the end.
7. Iron Man 3 + Banner’s preference for calm
8. Again, this happened. Not as much as it could have, but it happened.
9. Fair.
10. Nat doesn’t call herself a monster because she can’t have children. She calls herself a monster for the very reason listed; she was made to kill without remorse or care. Sterilization was a graduation, but that’s not what made her a monster, her acceptance of the nature of her work is.
11. SHIELD was not public knowledge. If you want reactions to the Avengers watch Agents of SHIELD, Daredevil, Avengers, AoU, it’s all there but not at the forefront. Those that are directly helped are grateful, those on the sidelines are generally pissed.
12. Would have been a nice gag, but not necessary. It wouldn’t have added anything to her character and given her history both shown and implied would not have made sense.
13. Were we watching the same movie? There are connections to Cap 2, Thor 2, Ironman 3, Guardians, Agents of SHIELD, as well as hints towards Black Panther and other upcoming films.
14. Blooper reel please.
The romance between Bruce and Nat wasn’t necessary, I’ll agree with that. It wasn’t without purpose though. It gave both characters room to grow and experience something that has traditionally been denied to them. It could have been done better, or avoided entirely, but it shouldn’t just be tossed aside because it’s a romance.
Pros of cowpones: Greater natural strength and endurance than earth ponies, ability to use magic with a channeling source.
Cons of cowpones: Less dexterity than other ponies, less access to magic than unicorns, lesser earth affinity magic (harder to encourage crops to grow)
Everyone seems to want Raricow to return to notmal, and I’m just over here asking why?
I asked cause I want AJ to go back to normal. It’s just so… weird.
How’s Cattlejack weird if Raricow isn’t? The idea that AJ would let herself be changed to help Rarity feel more comfortable, and to be closer to someone who is more than a friend is a sweet gesture, and one that I can see AJ doing. It is a little strange, I’ll grant you, but it’s fitting with the character, and it’s fun to draw.
What I mean is that the entire blog up to now has been pony AJ. The transition is just a little hard to get used to.
That’s understandable, but change is a necessity in any blog, and in any relationship. If AJ were to have remained the same way that she was at the outset of the blog then it wouldn’t be as interesting to follow, or create. Rarity’s changed since the blog started too.
Everyone seems to want Raricow to return to notmal, and I’m just over here asking why?
I asked cause I want AJ to go back to normal. It’s just so… weird.
How’s Cattlejack weird if Raricow isn’t? The idea that AJ would let herself be changed to help Rarity feel more comfortable, and to be closer to someone who is more than a friend is a sweet gesture, and one that I can see AJ doing. It is a little strange, I’ll grant you, but it’s fitting with the character, and it’s fun to draw.
I really hope that Death Battle pits the two against each other at some point. Samus squashed Boba Fett, and Chief held his own against Doom Guy, but I won’t be satisfied until they go against each other.
Because of a bout of bronchitis I can’t work for at least the next few days, so let the commissions be opened! Taking sketch commissions right now starting at $5 per character.
Other commissions are available at request and prices negotiable.
I dunno, the old animated universe for DC was pretty solid. Not perfect, but solid.
The old stuff was great. Batman the animated series, and Justice League were amazing. As was Teen Titans, and more recently Young Justice.
Let me rephrase, I like DC’s characters, but I HATE what they’ve done with their characters in the past few years.
I can agree with that. I also gotta give props to Static Shock. He was just straight up one of the coolest heroes they had back in the day.
The animated DC movies that are released straight to video are pretty solid. I recommend some such as Dark Knight Returns, Under the Red Hood, and Superman vs the Elite.
I’ve seen a fair few of the DC animated movies, but they’re rather hit or miss. Red Hood was great, and Assault on Arkham was good, but Justice League War and King of Atlantis were mediocre at best. They can be good, but they’re usually pretty middling and like most of DC they’re 70% Batman.
I find it odd that while DC is putting together a team of 10 villains that have never been introduced, spoken of, or even hinted towards for the third entrant in their cinematic universe, Marvel has already introduced the villains for both Captain America: Civil War, and Black Panther.
It always bugs me when people harp on Marvel movies as being sexist because there aren’t nearly as many female characters, and those that are there are usually foils or romantic interests for the male lead. That being said, there are still a fair few women in Marvel movies, and while they are often romantically engaged with the male hero, they are also depicted with their own lives, passions, jobs, and goals outside of being the girlfriend of a superhero. They are their own characters who force the male superhero to grow and change, while doing the same themselves.
DC is every bit as bad about including women in their movies, and fair bit worse at making them characters outside of romance. In part this is due to there being fewer modern DC movies, but there’s also the issue that the characters themselves aren’t really there outside of being a romantic lead. The best example against this is Lois Lane in Man of Steel, who’s actually somewhat active for a little bit before being relegated to the typical damsel-in-distress role and chasing after Superman for the bulk of the film.
Both companies need to work on incorporating dynamic female characters into their respective movies. At the moment though I think Marvel’s got a hell of a lead and has been doing it a lot better for quite some time.
Because of a bout of bronchitis I can’t work for at least the next few days, so let the commissions be opened! Taking sketch commissions right now starting at $5 per character.
Other commissions are available at request and prices negotiable.
Because of a bout of bronchitis I can’t work for at least the next few days, so let the commissions be opened! Taking sketch commissions right now starting at $5 per character.
Other commissions are available at request and prices negotiable.
