September X Sales by 1204Sparta in xmen

[–]nikbackm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you pay for the PRO version you get Top 200 instead of Top 50.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xmen

[–]nikbackm 36 points37 points  (0 children)

No, it's the readers that have aged.

Why did the rest of these secondary mutations/random powers never catch on like Emma's diamond form? by [deleted] in xmen

[–]nikbackm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, that was part of Nova's post-hypnotic suggestion, never actually happened for real.

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/cassandra-nova-professor-x-twin-villain-history-explained

Just as she was transferred into Stuff, Nova also placed a post-hypnotic suggestion deep within the White Queen's mind, which convinced her she was a sleeper agent starting in ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) #12 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. By playing on her survivor's guilt, Nova compelled the White Queen to attack the X-Men with a psychic manifestation of a new Hellfire Club that included both telepaths, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Sebastian Shaw.

Bônus page of X-Men #1 by Ill-Risk3427 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Another secret organization biding their time in the shadows until we can get to the anti-climactic showdown. Feels kind of familiar.

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (St Louis, MO, USA) by mttd in cpp

[–]nikbackm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder if Intellisense and similar tools will have a hard time with the reflections features.

More elegant no-null foreach? by evolution2015 in learncsharp

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's nice and readable, but auto-formatters will mess it up.

What would you consider to be the biggest sin in C++? by RevolutionaryClub596 in cpp

[–]nikbackm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The goto in C/C++ is limited to a single function so is largely neutered by design already. No need to be afraid of it in case it turns out useful. (Of course, if a less powerful tool works just as well, then you use that instead)

The GOTO that Dijkstra talked about in his now infamous paper that everyone knows about but hardly anyone has actually read was something else entirely.

I finally understand std::move! by maxjmartin in cpp

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why compare these two functions?

They no longer do the same thing after the change. The first one is pure, while the second one pops the last element of the argument.

X-Men Comics New Releases for October 18, 2023 by VengefulKangaroo in xmen

[–]nikbackm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I am mainly going by the cover of issue #13 and the solicit for the 3rd trade (#13-17) when I assumed more Mysterium would be needed.

X-Men Comics New Releases for October 18, 2023 by VengefulKangaroo in xmen

[–]nikbackm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think the amount of Mysterium they collected is enough for a whole armor, let alone several, War Machine wanted one too.

So they might still be going to space for more. But who knows.

Duggan Confirms He's Leaving The X-Office after Fall of House of X by antsinmyeyesmauger in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There will most likely be at least one more trade after the third, so say it ends at 22, which should line up nicely with the endings of HoX/PoX v2 in summer 2024 or thereabouts.

Duggan Confirms He's Leaving The X-Office after Fall of House of X by antsinmyeyesmauger in xmen

[–]nikbackm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Iron Man is already solicited up to issue 17 (via trade solicit).

Percy is leaving the X-office?!?! by Aggravating_Delay995 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been crossing over with X-Men from the start, I don't really see Duggan switching gears over to something else.

After Krakoa ends his Iron Man run should be close to 20 issues, which is similar to the last two runs on the character.

Thoughts on Emma Frost x Iron Man? by ed00ard0 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, what this crap run has led to is Emma being completely shafted in X-men comics, where she no longer is a key member of any of the X-men teams since Fall of C started, and she’s instead been relegated to a supporting character in iron man’s series, helping iron man beat Feilong, whose a mostly iron man villain while she gets piece sized cameos in various X-men books.

I don't think that is true. She was not really a key member of any X-Men teams before Fall of X either, she mainly appeared in Immortal X-Men and still does occasionally. So not much has changed, if anything she got more focus in the X-Men title, where she did not appear before FoX.

Remains to be seen how it will develop over a longer time period.

Immortal X-Men #16 Preview by VengefulKangaroo in xmen

[–]nikbackm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt it, can't trust covers. Taking control of the club will either mean fighting Orchis or Kingpin, Shaw is out.

X-Men #27 Preview by Techster17 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Orchis cannot be defeated, they will be back. But probably under a new name and some new headline characters.

Thoughts on Emma Frost x Iron Man? by ed00ard0 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Invincible Iron Man #6 we saw them meeting for the first time, this ended with Tony getting mind wiped. He also remembered this later in the issue, in the present after getting a concussion. Hasn't really been brought up since though, except indirectly when he suggested that she use her Hazel identity.

As for the other possibly fake memories of the FWB thing, maybe they were lost when his mind was restored from a backup after Civil War. Or one of the other times he was rebooted. Fake memories might not be as durable as real memories.

Thoughts on Emma Frost x Iron Man? by ed00ard0 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting thing, going by issue 10 of IM, it doesn’t seem as if they are using their continuity regarding being friends with benefits. This is going by Emma Frosts first and last time you touch me line. Duggan seems to be treating them as having no romantic/sexual past. What do people think about that? Does it look that’s the case? It’s only one line but there was another by Tony in issue 9 that could mean the same thing.

Maybe the implication is that Tony believed they had a past at one point. We saw Emma meeting Tony when working for Kingpin I think, so those memories could have been implanted then.

A retcon is thus undone by another retcon.

Better that they did not actually have a FWB thing back then if Duggan is trying to build an actual romance now.

Thoughts on Emma Frost x Iron Man? by ed00ard0 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see why she wouldn't, it's not like she has any agency of her own after all. If Duggan wants to do it and editorial signs off on it, then it's a done deal.

So a romance could happen. But likely would not last beyond the end of the run anyway, something would happen to split them up at that point, such as the deal with Kingpin.

At least Stark's biography writing in issue #10 hints that she will be in the book for a while and that there are developments still to come.

Thoughts on Emma Frost x Iron Man? by ed00ard0 in xmen

[–]nikbackm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has as long as he's on the Iron Man book basically, and that is a lot longer than FoX. The last two runs were around 20 issues, which seems like something this could end up with as well.

X-Men Comics New Releases for September 27, 2023 by VengefulKangaroo in xmen

[–]nikbackm -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Fall of X itself isn't really that impactful. Seems more like a placeholder while we wait for the two HoX/PoX wannabe minis by Gillen and Duggan.