Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.8a] [Ron Chon]
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I disagree. I was friends once with a chick who won a Miss Curvy thing, so I imagine she was on the upper end of attractive fat girls, and I didn't like her one bit. Of course, it's purely a matter of taste.
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*finally notices the thread reviews for off-topic/book club*
So I guess you'll quit this game is the team decides to include Squirrel Girl with ray tracing?
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I wonder what the devs think of the news about the upcoming X-Men retcon in the Giant Sized X-Men anniversary edition then? Saw a Clownfish video yesterday about Marvel sending Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) back in time to take a big part in the Dark Phoenix Saga and House of M storylines that Marvel says will change the future of mutants forever and be made canon. They've even unveiled the cover which is a play on the original Giant Sized X-Man 1 cover with the new X-Men tearing through the cover but with Ms Marvel leading the new X-Men front and center. I fail to see why they keep trying to make such a boring character relevant somehow.
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It'll be as canon for me as anything after Star Wars Episode 7. I'm sorry. We've had decades of work that stands on its own.
Anything Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan touch recently come back saltine dry. I'm a She-Ra fan - I like my empowered superwomen as much as the next person. There's good character writing and then there's whatever Marvel has been up to recently. It's telling that a mini-series comic starring Peni "Konichiha" Parker and her spider friend had me more invested than a decade of supposedly legendary marvel comics.
I would kill and die for this little guy.
Back to X-Men. I think that it would be exceptionally safe to assume that the devs can ignore this most recent run of Kamala Khan. It'll drum up some hate from Comic book oldies, contrarian antiquarians will buy it on purpose to artificially pump up numbers to show support for Kamala being Khan. Marvel will think they have something on their hands and give 250 million to EA to make a live service flop, which will make Marvel wonder what Iron Heart is up to and why she isn't working with Hulk.
The timeline will change and the X-Men franchise will begin healing... again. In the mean time, we should enjoy what we have. I genuinely appreciate what the team here is doing rather than whatever is going on in-house at the comic book factory.
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It's rather telling that a story based porn game will probably be better received by fans then whatever the hell the "official" writers are smoking.Cut to save space
I personally haven't watched anything Marvel since Endgame + Spiderman:NWH, and by the sounds of things, I should be glad for that (might tune in to watch RDJ as Dr. Doom, but even that is kinda... eh).
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Damn, and there I was thinking my review was so bad it gave you a stroke.
Fine by me. Caught up and no one really said anything needing my response.
I mean if you take the phrase in the loosest way, around chapter 4 is during the time she lost her powers and basically hunger gamed her way for survival.
She's time traveling on Earth-616. That doesn't change the timeline of Earth-69.
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The issue here isn't a question of whether they can do it, but that the companies want to keep these characters going for as long as possible and letting them age gets in the way of that. Imagine if Marvel explicitly stated that an issue of Amazing Spider-Man takes place in, say, 1963 and that Spider-Man was 17 years old in this issue. If they held true to that and let the character age with each month it took for an issue to come out, then, by now, Peter Parker would be 79 years old. Anchoring a story in a specific year would eventually raise awkward questions if you're planning on having your hero still be around 20 years later in more or less the same state of being.
It's not that the application of real time is impossible in a comic book; it's just that this isn't necessarily creatively desirable. The only examples I can think of where a comic's storyline ran from month to month both IRL and in-universe is The 'Nam and Marvel's currently ongoing reboot of their Ultimate universe.
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Marvel has also tried to not tie their timelines to real world events as it gets harder and harder to keep them coherent. Simply put, the Sliding Timescale Marvel has been using isn't working anymore.
Prime example, Tony Stark (616) created the Iron Man armour when he was kidnapped during the Vietnam War. (1962, when he made his first appearance). Except, Tony Stark is supposed to be in his early 40s, meaning the Vietnam War had ended before he was born.
Likewise, the Punisher is a Vietnam veteran with multiple tours under his belt. Meaning Frank Castle should be in his 70s at least.
So to try and maintain a little coherency, Marvel brought back Sin-Cong (or Siancong), a minor Communist puppet state in Central Asia, effectively making it a stand-in for North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and any number of conflicts in the latter half of the 20th and 21st century, making it a location for their military based character to have their retconned origins.
Prime example, Tony Stark (616) created the Iron Man armour when he was kidnapped during the Vietnam War. (1962, when he made his first appearance). Except, Tony Stark is supposed to be in his early 40s, meaning the Vietnam War had ended before he was born.
Likewise, the Punisher is a Vietnam veteran with multiple tours under his belt. Meaning Frank Castle should be in his 70s at least.
So to try and maintain a little coherency, Marvel brought back Sin-Cong (or Siancong), a minor Communist puppet state in Central Asia, effectively making it a stand-in for North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and any number of conflicts in the latter half of the 20th and 21st century, making it a location for their military based character to have their retconned origins.
Have they come up with an alternative to Magneto being a survivor of the actual holocaust or are they saying that at minimum Magneto is in his 90s?
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Magneto being a survivor of the Holocaust is key to his characterisation. He is a man who has vowed "Never Again", both as a Jewish man and a Mutant. You can't really change that to a fictional genocide.
By the same token, Captain America would most likely remain a character who is also tied to World War 2. Within a sliding timeline, he's one of the few characters they can get away with that. Instead of him being found 20 years after the war, him being found later strengthens his man-out-of-time nature.
They'll just say he found out a way to be immortal and sexy with magnets... somehow. His magnet powers can do anything. And so can he.
there was an episode in X-Men Evolution where he used a machine to help heal himself similar to the one that made Steve Rogers Captain America but no idea how they'll do it this time