Avengers Assemble!

[justdrew]

I don't know about Prometheus. Isn't it really just going to be 2+ hours of monsters killing would-be explorers for no reason?

[semper occultus]

...if this isn't a decent addition to the true Alien canon then I abandon any hope there'll ever be one...

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I am anxious to see Prometheus as well. I just get pumped up for a movie once in a while, like The Avengers, Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises. I do have high hopes for Prometheus, as Ridley Scott said once he wished he could do another sci-fi film. I almost decided to sit down and write a screenplay for him and send it to him. A sci-fi film, not a Alien film.

[DrEvil]

Definitely looking forward to Prometheus. Just hope it doesn't turn into a bad episode of Ancient Aliens. It looks great in the trailers, but all that talk about "origin of man" has me a bit worried. I just can't see Hollywood doing such a concept without involving quasi-religious bullshit and calling it science. Just hope Ridley Scott has more sense than your average Hollywood exec, but the rumors of him being involved in the Blade Runner sequel (yes, seriously, it's in development ) does not bode well.

Edit: @Hammer of Los: Superhero comics never really got popular in Norway. A crapload of publishers tried over the years, but they all got canceled after a year or two, so the selection was somewhat spotty. For some reason two monthly magazines called Magnum and "Agent X9" kept going for years, and they both published pretty much everything except superhero stuff, so I grew up on Dark Horse comics, 2000AD and various other American and European scifi series (basically a monthly "best of", so I only got the good stuff. Yay!).
And then there was (and still is) the monthly "Conan the Barbarian" and "The Phantom", both extremely popular.

[Simulist]

I'm sure this question has been asked around here but if you could be granted a superpower what would it be and how would you use it?

Hmm. I'll have to think on that.

But I can tell you immediately which superpower I wouldn't want granted to me: "The ability to transform into any substance touched." Because... Well, since it's my job to clean out the cat litter box, um... enough said.

P.S. Yes, I do use a scoop. Sometimes accidents can happen.

[justdrew]

I'm sure this question has been asked around here but if you could be granted a superpower what would it be and how would you use it?

Hmm. I'll have to think on that.

But I can tell you immediately which superpower I wouldn't want granted to me: "The ability to transform into any substance touched." Because... Well, since it's my job to clean out the cat litter box, um... enough said.

P.S. Yes, I do use a scoop. Sometimes accidents can happen.

assuming this is some sort of widely available wish:
part1. I'd wish for the ability to remove people's superpowers and return them to normal
part2. setup appointments... and profit

[JackRiddler]

Two-way and multiparty thought-and-image telepathy that you can turn on and off would be spectacular. You can read minds, or talk to them and have them answer, or send messages to a whole bunch of people at a time, set up links between them so that they can talk to each other, etc. Sort of like Prof. X from the X-Men, but without the mind control. If you could approach the right people you could find out everything about the kinds of questions we ask here while pretending to make an inoccuous contract pitch. You could also coordinate a hell of a street uprising. If everyone had this, everything in the world would become radically different. You can think of some pretty hair-raising scenarios, but also utopian ones. But it only works if you can turn it off, otherwise this power would soon drive you crazy. Or you'd have to live far away from cities. If you want to speculate, telephathy is something that might actually somewhere exist - at any rate, it's more plausible than human flight by hidden jet-like propulsion, a routine one granted to many of the superhoeroes, let alone the kinds of things that Superman and Thor and Hulk and Spidey and even Cyclops can do. The brain does actually broadcast.

[crikkett]

Telekinesis, definitely. To fly, and use high shelves without screwing up my rotator cuffs.

[Allegro]

…If you want to speculate, telephathy is something that might actually somewhere exist… The brain does actually broadcast.

I wouldn’t make light of your words, yet these vids were the easiest way I could think for putting together an agreement with the gist of your ideas.

^ broadcasting


^ receiving = on & off message switch

And, yes, I think telepathy or an involuntarily fostered intuitive capacity has been too easily trained out of (most) humans. Maybe the best way of observing it in its finest form these days would be by watching a mom together with her infant, or any infant, really. There’s something there in an intuitive sense that men can only marvel at, if we are even present during those few moments.
Well, that’s my eight bits variety on telepathy!

[sunny]

Weekend Box Office: 'The Avengers' Assemble The Biggest Opening Weekend In History With $200 Million

[Laodicean]

^ Tops $640 Million Worldwide

[Nordic]

^ Tops $640 Million Worldwide

Meh. Thats only because it now costs $200 a ticket to see a movie nowadays. Thats not that many people.

I am amazed by this. Not in a good way.

I am also amazed at how many people also seemed to have listened to, and enjoyed, the junk-noise and aural torture produced by these fools known as the Beastie Boys. I am also baffled at something that only facebook has led me to fully grasp -- the deep and pervasive fascination with those obnoxious and smelly creatures known as house cats.

In short i do not understand my fellow americans. At all.

[Nordic]

^ Tops $640 Million Worldwide

Meh. Thats only because it now costs $200 a ticket to see a movie nowadays. Thats not that many people.

I am amazed by this. Not in a good way.

I am also amazed at how many people also seemed to have listened to, and enjoyed, the junk-noise and aural torture produced by these fools known as the Beastie Boys. I am also baffled at something that only facebook has led me to fully grasp -- the deep and pervasive fascination with those obnoxious and smelly creatures known as house cats.

In short i do not understand my fellow americans. At all.

[JackRiddler]

I am also amazed at how many people also seemed to have listened to, and enjoyed, the junk-noise and aural torture produced by these fools known as the Beastie Boys. I am also baffled at something that only facebook has led me to fully grasp -- the deep and pervasive fascination with those obnoxious and smelly creatures known as house cats.

You gotta fight... for your right... to paaaaaaaaaarty!!!



No! Sleep! Till Brooklyn! Da-da-dum! No! Sleep! Till Brooklyn!!!

(this will have to do as a gift to you Nordic since "cats avengers beastie boys" did not produce the hoped-for graphic trifecta)

[Laodicean]

^ Tops $640 Million Worldwide

Meh. Thats only because it now costs $200 a ticket to see a movie nowadays. Thats not that many people.

I am amazed by this. Not in a good way.

I am also amazed at how many people also seemed to have listened to, and enjoyed, the junk-noise and aural torture produced by these fools known as the Beastie Boys. I am also baffled at something that only facebook has led me to fully grasp -- the deep and pervasive fascination with those obnoxious and smelly creatures known as house cats.

In short i do not understand my fellow americans. At all.

Two eggs in the slingshot (nord and jack).

Come one, go with above average $10 a ticket. That's a lot of dimes.

Sunny side up.

Pulled out the jammy
He thought it was a joke
The trigger
I pulled
His face
The yoke

Reached in his pocket
Took all his cash
Left my man standing
With an egg moustache
Suckers they come
A dime a dozen

And when I say dozen
You know what I'm talking about
Boyee!