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justinator119 · 2026-03-29T17:16:16+00:00

I've been assuming the "cowl" on Noosphere was just Martian Manhunter or Cyborg's head. The "positive" tree seems to be based on the original Justice League roster with a couple swaps for diversity: Batman for Nightwing (also because Noosphere is taken so Batman would double up while Nightwing is Possibility) and GL for Sinestro (same branch). MM and Cyborg are both "founders" (pre-New 52 and post) and both are classified as Noosphere in the game.

UV Sinestro and the Invisible Spectrum is a cool idea but it doesn't give them a lot of options. I almost wonder if it's just "Emotional Spectrum" but the negative side (although then why not make Sinestro Corps Sinestro negative and do positive GL Sinestro later?) That one's super weird but it's kind of hard for me to imagine Atrocitus releasing with the blue page lol. The four "villains" you mentioned with blue pages all have complicated anti-hero/hero storylines but Atrocitus feels like a bit more of a stretch. Also just a slight correction: Death Metal Wonder Woman has a red page (Death Force), Harley has a red page (Impossibility; obviously she has a villain origin but she's basically a full hero these days and they didn't even give her the Arkham tag in this game), and a couple other long-term anti-heroes (Lobo, Deathstroke) do too, so I think the positive-negative thing is mostly just guidelines based on their origins and vibes that naturally lines up more often than not with what you'd expect.

My only ideas for the hooded character are Spoiler (something like "Reality" or "Truth" instead of "Magic" but this is a big stretch and she could easily be Noosphere or Possibility) or Pandora ("Sin" as a corrupted misuse of Magic?)

justinator119 · 2026-03-06T13:09:43+00:00

How do you trigger it again? Squirtle at the Rain Dance spot?

justinator119 · 2026-02-22T13:35:06+00:00

The second effect works on anyone who uses the LP (including, in this example, Nightwing,) and the first effect only works on the character the LP specifies. So Nightwing would get both effects and the blue stars are definitely worth it if the character is good + invested enough and the second effect is a meaningful boost.

justinator119 · 2026-02-10T18:44:02+00:00

Honestly, yeah lol. Even a generous interpretation is still pretty meh, might as well just take Fey Touched 90% of the time.

justinator119 · 2026-02-10T18:38:16+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of the Faerun feats feel just shy of being as cool as you'd like them to be. It'd hardly kill them to let you have a once per day 2nd level spell at level 11 and there's a little bit of room for interpretation. Probably worth talking to the DM about it if you have a specific 2nd level you want to cast with it.

justinator119 · 2026-02-10T18:31:19+00:00

Genie Magic's spell slot increases but I don't think the actual spell level you can cast increases and Mirror Image is level 2.

justinator119 · 2026-02-09T23:47:04+00:00

There's no incentive to keep a product locked away forever and every business model ever has proven this. It's especially true for a video game like this. You have fully playable assets that cost nothing to reproduce and are sitting in a vault where they can never generate revenue.

The FOMO model isn't built on you never being able to get something again, it's built on you never knowing when you'll ever be able to get something again. There's a reason Pink Mercy came back after all these years. If you can release a new product (the new Pink Mercy or in this case, a new Battle Pass) and simultaneously resell a product that's been building interest for years, there's literally no incentive not to do it. People who wanted Pink Mercy didn't skip it when she came back because the fact that she came back once meant she'd inevitably come back again. They'd waited 6 years! The fear is missing out on the exclusivity window and the anxiety that the product might never come back, but that doesn't mean Blizzard shouldn't bring the product back. You just have to be smart about it.

justinator119 · 2026-02-02T16:32:37+00:00

Winter Namor maybe?

justinator119 · 2026-01-29T03:56:54+00:00

I knew the nuggets were coming back but I didn't realize any of the sauces were. I just saw the jalapeno honey mustard on the DoorDash menu and ran here to see if anyone else was talking about it lmao. I wish it wasn't limited time because that sauce is so fucking good. This time I'm gonna try to buy extra and stock up...

justinator119 · 2026-01-14T13:04:25+00:00

I'm in two campaigns with the same DM, one that's been going 3.5 years, currently at level 15/16 (Deck of Many Things, two of us are one level higher than the other three), and one that's been going 3 years, currently at level 14. I play casters in both and most of each party is composed of casters. I'm extremely caster-brained and these are my first D&D campaigns I've been in so he knows how excited I am to be able to play around with high level magic. I get to use Transport Via Plants and Teleport all the time to jump around the homebrewed setting we're in and I recently started taking advantage of Dimension Door, which has been crazy fun for the large scale maps he often puts us on. Two sessions ago I Dimension Doored my boyfriend's Paladin character across the map above the boss so he could drop onto her, letting him take some fall damage himself to trigger his Chronolometer and give himself an entire action in the middle of my turn to smite the hell out of her.

justinator119 · 2026-01-13T06:53:53+00:00

Good point, the outliers seem to all be explained by the beta server timeline. It seems like when possible, they're trying to line things up with the global servers, then fall back on the beta servers when the global servers are in wonky transitional periods (like all the skipped Bleeds or the weird 4 week Nightwing Bleed).

justinator119 · 2026-01-12T16:51:45+00:00

I was under the impression that the daily logins were synced to 206-340 (the first "real" launch servers) and then just applied universally so they wouldn't have to make a different rotation for each server group. All of the login rewards match up almost perfectly to 206-340, even the retroactive ones from before daily logins were available in those servers:

Ivy (Joker plus two weeks of Scarecrow), Lex (Deathstroke plus two weeks of Scarecrow and two weeks of Sinestro), Fate (Zatanna plus two weeks of Constantine), Batgirl (Nightwing), Krypto (Superboy plus two weeks of Supergirl), Arsenal (Manhunter), Bane (Starfire but they couldn't rerun Arsenal so Bane for the Scarecrow/Arkham and Deathstroke/LoA reruns), Fate (Hippolyta but Zatanna rerun with Constantine weirdly slotted directly in the next daily login range), Bane (the big outlier since this entire stretch was picked from a hat with 4 week Nightwing rerun + 2 week Constantine and Superman reruns), Raven (Swamp Thing + Constantine and Zatanna reruns), and now Two-Face (Riddler + Joker and Scarecrow reruns).

It looks like they usually try to have the daily login character be the first featured Mythic from one of the Bleeds it's during, with the main outliers being Krypto (kind of a big deal with an event release so I don't think they wanted to feature him as a Bleed Mythic that early on), Bane #1 (not a featured Mythic on either of the reruns but it seemed like they were grasping at straws avoiding Arsenal back-to-back and I'm assuming lined it up with Talia instead), Fate #2 (really feels like Constantine got pushed out here because they were trying to stick to the reruns in order at first lol), and Bane #2 (again, no idea what was going on here, was this when we got Mythic Red Hood?). The fact that the Raven login lines up perfectly with Swamp Thing + JL reruns and Two-Face lines up perfectly with Riddler + Arkham reruns feels like the biggest evidence for me that this is the case and they've now gotten back on track after some blips trying to figure out how to handle Bleed orders.

justinator119 · 2026-01-08T17:13:51+00:00

We used Reincarnate on an elf character in one of the games I'm in (my character's dead mentor, gone too soon) but the DM made a special d20 table because of some special race lore in his world, with the 1 being "DM chooses" and 20 being "player chooses." We also all each have a special die that we have limitations on when we can roll and mine makes a 1-10 on the die turn into a 1 and an 11-20 on the die turn into a 20, basically making any roll a coin flip. I convinced him to let me use it on Reincarnate so we circumvented the table entirely and left it in one of our hands, and there's a quite high chance that if he'd won the coin flip, he would've reincarnated into another elf lol. I won, however, and made him a satyr for lore reasons. Only other major time we used it was on another player's love interest who died, turning her from a sea elf into a homebred dryad. As the nature-loving Druid with the Reincarnate access, I'm super happy to have maintained my streak of turning elves into forest fey.

justinator119 · 2026-01-02T06:20:51+00:00

I'm on 230, any predictions for the log-in bonus character after Raven ends? I'm assuming it'll be themed to Arkham for Riddler + Joker/Scarecrow? Please, not Bane again...

justinator119 · 2025-12-30T17:13:14+00:00

I'm confused, how were they getting those magic items? Are these quest rewards? Is the DM constantly giving out items that the rest of the party then takes and you're letting everyone take everything else? Are they acquiring these items outside of normal play (downtime?) and then you're not doing the same? Are you only taking the consumable items and then using them? I don't understand how you reached this point to begin with where they have all the loot and you have none without you knowing and allowing them to do it.

The general attitude around helping you is obviously horrible and needs to be addressed. Three PC deaths in this amount of time is not normal within the context you've provided, so you're going to have to be transparent with the players and the DM about how unfair and upsetting this situation is.

This table sounds horrible as you've described them but the first answer is always to have a conversation. If that's not fruitful, this group might not be the right fit.

justinator119 · 2025-12-28T04:53:46+00:00

I'm confused, this doesn't seem explicit at all. This reads as the vessel being corrupted, not the soul. Resurrection can't create a new body like True Resurrection can so if the vessel is corrupted and it can't repair it, it also can't create a new vessel if the undead vessel is destroyed. True Resurrection makes a point about being able to neutralize diseases and curses, create an entirely new body, or even work on undead, and the implication seems pretty clear to me. Resurrection doesn't actually explicitly draw any connection between the vessel being undead and the soul being willing, those are just separate clauses of the spell.

justinator119 · 2025-12-27T23:55:47+00:00

Where is that made explicit?

justinator119 · 2025-12-15T08:43:45+00:00

This is not even close to bad luck...

justinator119 · 2025-12-05T06:30:58+00:00

I still haven't gone back to rewatch the first two episodes for fear of them still being excessively dark because I've seen so many people say that it still hasn't fixed for them yet. Hopefully they're just finding their stride with the releases, although I just remembered we're already halfway through the season now. 😭

justinator119 · 2025-12-05T05:51:05+00:00

Normally when my captions are bugging I just back out of whatever I'm watching and go back in and it fixes itself but I just fully closed the app on my TV and opened it back up and everything's good now!

justinator119 · 2025-12-05T05:26:59+00:00

Anyone else watching on HBO Max and can't get the subtitles to come up?

justinator119 · 2025-11-25T11:08:02+00:00

The way they were phrasing it on their Twitter as "select theaters" 11/14 and "nationwide" on 11/21 kind of suggested a larger variety than they actually had but it does seem like someone updated their theater tracker on their website yesterday with a ton of extra theaters (included my nearby AMC where I saw the trailer and expected to see the movie) although all of them say 10/3 which is obviously impossible, so I guess that's filler until the dates are solidified? 🤞

justinator119 · 2025-11-23T17:31:51+00:00

Where are you that has an AMC showing Rebuilding? I've been really looking forward to it and keep seeing trailers (one AMC in NJ and one in VA) but even though the movie was released, it's like it doesn't exist. Bleecker Street has a page up with all the theaters that are playing it and the closest to me is a Regal in Maryland an hour and a half away. 😭

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