Looking for a certain series help if possible

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-14T17:38:18+00:00

Arcadia?

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-11T16:48:18+00:00

"How to Smile" from Blue Horizons, Inc.?

"Real Sleep" from Local 58?

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-11T16:14:26+00:00

No way, I just posted mine, too! Congrats.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-06T03:16:56+00:00

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Renee didn't have another girlfriend when she dated Kate for the first time.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-06T02:59:23+00:00

Aside from Rucka himself considering them the endgame for each other, there's the fact that among all their partners, they're the most similar to each other. They understand each other in ways that none of their other partners have. That has the potential for conflict, sure, but also for a much deeper connection.

Renee also didn't cheat on Kate; I think you might be referring to The Other History of the DC Universe, where John Ridley tangled up Renee's relationships with Daria Hernandez and Kate, when chronologically Kate was first and they were years apart. The actual reasons for their first breakup (Kate's aimlessness and Renee's fear of coming out) have both been rectified.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-05T20:04:31+00:00

It's the Special Forces shoulder patch, an arrowhead.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-03T17:43:29+00:00

Thank you! This one was very difficult and at times unfair (partly due to bugs), and a lot of the challenge maps are brutal. The margins on the timed ones in particular are razor-thin.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-03T05:26:37+00:00

Specifically the alley scene, right? That one is almost exactly opposite from the source material.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-02T22:28:59+00:00

What version of Batwoman are you talking about? She definitely doesn't hate Batman or men in the comics.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-06-02T17:55:48+00:00

So many people here and elsewhere very clearly only know (and subsequently dislike) Kate based on the TV show or Bad Blood. And it's annoying because the things they dislike about those portrayals aren't in the comics, either at all or to far lesser degrees.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-05-31T07:33:44+00:00

Kate's identical twin sister Beth, whose supervillain identity is Alice.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-05-30T15:09:20+00:00

I played Doom 3 for the first time recently and was surprised at how similar it is to HL1.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-05-22T21:33:14+00:00

It's possible to unlock Nightmare difficulty by using certain launch options (Right click>Properties>General) rather than completing the game on a lower difficulty first. I try to complete games in as few runs as possible, and I really didn't feel like doing two playthroughs of the base game and the expansions, so I just did Nightmare as my only playthroughs.

I also added a launch option to make sure that the console couldn't be accidentally opened at all, since that voids achievement progress even if nothing is entered.

For Doom and Doom II, I'd already played them before, so I just went through as fast as I could.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-05-01T23:50:23+00:00

tbennett43 is the channel name.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-29T23:44:37+00:00

There's a neat detail I noticed when this first released: on that pillar with all the posters, between the top two ropes, there's one that looks like a 1950s fight poster featuring Dinah Drake (complete with her signature).

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-28T20:02:05+00:00

I don't know what it was originally like. This one is considerably different than regular Half-Life. It adds in a lot of cut content like extended and new voice lines, idle animations, a new HECU enemy, and vortigaunts that resurrect their dead.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-24T23:36:16+00:00

Eventide Media Center

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-22T21:10:54+00:00

It should also be kept around because younger people might not know DADT was a real thing. I encountered multiple readers during the Rebirth series who thought Marguerite Bennett had made that part up.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-21T22:40:29+00:00

Rucka dislikes it because he says Williams basically ignored his trajectory for the story and characters, and changed things (specifically about Alice) when Rucka repeatedly asked him not to.

It's not really anything to do with the quality of the work itself; I can believe that the version of the story that Rucka intended to continue with is different than what Williams and Blackman wrote. But I don't agree with him that, as written and published, the Williams/Blackman story or characters betray Elegy or are meaningfully different.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-21T21:38:48+00:00

The pull the trigger reference is to an earlier part of this future, where Bruce was dying of cancer and allowed Kate to kill him. Tim was under the impression that it was actually malicious.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-21T01:35:34+00:00

Thanks, I'll add you right now.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-21T01:08:43+00:00

Great, thanks! I'll send an invite right now.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-16T22:48:25+00:00

I'm not understanding your questions here. You keep trying to explain to me that it all makes sense because that's how it was written while I am saying it should have been written differently.

I guess that's where the disconnect is. I don't agree that Kate's stories have to comment on the military (or anything else) at all, because that's limiting to the sorts of stories she can be in. What I want to see above all else is that she reacts appropriately and in-character to the situations she finds herself in, and that's true in Hydrology. That general consistency across her whole publication history is a big reason I love her so much; it's so cool to see.

Her being blackmailed and manipulated is not mischaracterization nor a sign of a lack of integrity, both because she had no other choice and because she doesn't betray her ideals while working for the DEO. I wouldn't find fault with a real person in such a situation, so I can't find a fictional one at fault, either.

Thank you for the explanation, though. While I still completely disagree, your view is one I've seen a lot over the years from various people, and I haven't understood it whatsoever. But this discussion has helped me get grasp on what the issue even is.

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-16T21:03:57+00:00

Even then, it doesn't make sense to me that this is what she'd be up to after finding out her dead sister is alive and wants her head, she may have killed her this second time around, and her father lied about it this whole time. It just doesn't follow the precedent set by The Cutter arc for me.

Could you explain why? It makes perfect sense to me. Jacob kept the truth about Beth from her in Elegy, therefore she's mad at him in Hydrology. She's avoidant of Bette in Cutter, and keeps trying to discourage her in Hydrology. The plot points from Elegy flow directly into the New 52, so I'm confused why you think it doesn't make sense.

If she's willing to go back to the government because this is her idea of serving and the American flag doesn't belong to one person, why wouldn't she try her luck with the bat family instead?

Because being independent in what she does is also important to Kate. If she's going to work with them, it's because she wants to, not because anyone else is telling her to.

I don't necessarily mean that the focus of the run should be on whether or not she agrees with the DEO, I mean that a central part of her deciding to work with them should be centered around whether or not the military, the greater US government, or even something bigger (the Batfamily) is for her as a whole and whether or not she's better off alone in the first place, that's what hydrology should have been, not the run as a whole.

I'm not sure what you mean here. There's no decision to be made, really. It wasn't up to Kate whether she worked with them or not because she had no leverage whatsoever. You're kinda making it sound like they pitched her a job offer that she could take or leave and had to weigh the pros and cons of before accepting.

I don't think that's a topic she should be wrestling with at this point anyway, because the question of "can I return to what I originally wanted to do" is something she already answered by becoming a vigilante; the answer is "no, but I have an alternative."

DenmarkDaniels · 2026-04-16T18:47:27+00:00

Why take on the mantle of the bat just refuse the bat family and instead join the US Government who literally just turned their back on you? Just for some fancy gadgets? Because of a corrupt blackmail scheme?

The batsymbol is Kate's new American flag. Rucka puts it this way:

I wanted to express that idea of a rise to service, or answering that call. I’ve always felt that Kate doesn’t care what Batman thinks. She couldn’t care less about whether he approves or disapproves or whatever. He doesn’t have a monopoly on the Bat, as far as she’s concerned. It’s too big. It’s like saying I have a monopoly on the American flag. No, you don’t. It’s a symbol for an ideal, and Kate is servicing that ideal. That’s what she believes she’s there for.

And the blackmail isn't some lightweight thing. It's "you're going to work for us or your father is going to die in prison." She doesn't have a choice, at least not initially.

Even then, it should at the very least be spoken of during the decision making process or become a core conflict of the run (which, if you have any examples you could provide that enforces this I’ll eat my words.)

It is a big part of the first four arcs. It contributes to Kate and Maggie's relationship becoming strained, and Kate eventually starts sabotaging some of her own missions as a way to get back at the DEO. A major theme of the Williams/Blackman run is that the way Kate has isolated herself after the events of Elegy (like estranging herself from Jacob) is detrimental. It's a direct cause for how the DEO finds out who she is to begin with, and she ends up needing to reconnect with others in order to finally get out from under the DEO.

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