Thoughts on Troupe Leads.. And Will She-Hulk Become a Defender and NOT an Avenger?.. (TL:DR)

 Hi

Firstly, a little background..

Background

I really have enjoyed She-Hulk.. a couple of times I got worked up and impatient waiting for Daredevil, but once that anticipation was met, I loved that episode. Looking back.. it is what it set out to be.. a comedy.

Acting troupe's have 'leads/captains'.. people who lead and set the tone for the other actors; for the larger MCU it was Iron Man/RJD, for AOS it was/is Coulson/Clark Gregg, for the Defenders it's Matt Murdock/Charlie Cox.

Think of them like a captains of a sports team.

I enjoyed seeing Daredevil/Matt in She Hulk's episodes.. it REALLY felt like a 'Defender's Blessing' on the show and Disney+ in general. But more than that..

The show also draws themes in to view for the audience.. and while I am very far from being a feminist.. 

(I believe in gender equality and third generation feminism is merely female supremacy, unlike second generation feminism which was women righteously fighting for the rights they deserve.. third generation feminism is about women having MORE than men. If people believe in gender equality they fight for men's rights also, which these feminists do not.)

I started to think about how few woman troupe leads the MCU has.

Right now, Marvel has two divisions that can have troupe leads.. I would argue Charlie Cox is the troupe lead for the TV side of things.. but if you wanted to point to someone else.. (cough Clark Gregg cough) I probably wouldn't disagree with you too hotly.. but there is however an open position for the lead troupe actor for the MCU movies..

While Tony and Steve shared this, both are now gone.

I think after watching She Hulk this should go to a woman.. 

Do I have any suggestions?.. many who would fit the bill either have left or have character conflicts..

My first choice would be Gweneth Paltrow as 'Rescue' / Pepper Potts.. it makes a lot of sense to me, equally she was there at the beginning, she is very intelligent and has a suit just like Iron Man, also when a family are grieving they often turn to another family member to fill the role of the one they lost. She has access to both Stark money and Stark tech.

But then again.. Pepper is SO very Anti-Super Suit.. how could that make sense for her character..? 
Even despite this, without a doubt she is my first choice to become troupe lead for the MCU, as the rest lines up to perfectly.

Could this be a character arc for her? She is torn between 'doing the right thing and suiting up' and 'resisting what the power makes her become'? And what of her grieving for Tony.. how could she ever don a suit again?

Questions I don't have the answers for..

Black Widow is gone.

Scarlett Witch.. while still alive is MIA. Elizabeth Olsen has earned the right to be troupe lead.. I don't question that at all, but her story arc is a mess right now, with her being half hero half villain. Perhaps if Ms. Paltrow took the lead for now they could have a joint lead in the future? I don't know.

You could say Brie Larson.. but the fact that she's new and the rumors surrounding her that she hates men.. adopting a brand of 'militant feminism' .. and on top of that she seems unpopular with the rest of the wider MCU cast.. no, I wouldn't put her in the forefront.

I do enjoy the idea that Monica/Spectrum (may) be the opposing voice to Captain Marvel.. and in a small way oppose the views of Brie Larson while giving others who oppose Ms. Larsons views a voice. But again Ms. Parris is too new. Excellent actress though! great in Wandavision and can't wait to see her again.

In conclusion for this section.. I don't have an answer.. not a perfect one anyways.. 

but after all the male captains it should rightly next go to a female.

I didn't want to go too deep in to gender politics.. and besides I'm from Scotland, we have ALWAYS had strong women and it's not a big deal here.. we are also the descendants of the Gaulish Picts who had gender equality (Gauls in Scotland 7000 BC to around 600 AD).. but She Hulk had many of these themes and so kindly, I felt pretty justified.

The Defenders

Is She Hulk really going to join the Defenders??.. I can't help but sqee like a valley gurl.. but really could she?

The Defenders are much darker in tone than She Hulk was.. MUCH darker! I don't see it all fitting together, at least not smoothly. Fourth wall break during a Daredevil episode? erm.. no, that doesn't work for me.

We already have Luke Cage doing the heavy lifting.. wouldn't She Hulk joining the team make him redundant?

I love all the Defenders series.. my favorite being Jessica Jones.. I recently watched it again for the fourth time from start to finish. The Punisher first series and the JJ first series being masterpieces in the art of not just television storytelling; but any storytelling.

I would enjoy She Hulk becoming a Defender instead of an Avenger.. striking out in her own way and not just following her cousin's path.. but I am short on answers on how that would work.

Daredevil/Matt Murdock is the closest we have to Spider-Man..  that Marvel can use without rights woes.. within the MCU, I hope Marvel expands this, but I do worry about them turning him in to a clown version in his upcoming series.

Those are my thoughts.. I hope it made you think also :)

Dava

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I'll take a guess.. stab in the dark..

Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be the lead for the Thunderbolts. The first time the MCU has make a female lead for an ensemble cast of supers.

Kristen Ritter is an excellent actress.. can't wait to see her for a fourth series! Ohw.. I hope Hellcat/Trica does a Dark Defenders.. :D (I mentioned this before in another post)

New To NMS This Month.. a Few Thoughts

 Hi

I'm new to NMS.. so please keep that in mind and be gentle.

Firstly.. NMS has taken over my gaming life over the last 3 weeks with 175h of play, I'm about half-way through the main story.. I think.

NMS is a new favorite of mine and I have much high praise for the game in general. With that thought.. I also have some passionate criticism; in the hope that the Dev's listen to my voice.. which is equally as valid any other in a sea of voices a successful game with passionate players brings.

To be clear.. I think the game is *excellent*. I have my moments of malaise.. but that is true of many epic games.

I'm a generational gamer.. I left consoles in 2011 with the death of the 360 with my 30 games, moved to PC and had over a hundred games in the first year.. and never looked back. Being a generational gamer also means I play exclusively on PC with a gamepad.. playing with keyboard and mouse feels 'unnatural' to me.

So enough praise.. as a new player I also have some criticisms..

Exocraft

On PC with a pad.. the crafts don't operate in a way I would expect. I edited the buttons with Steam but still it is *very* weird.. I expected GTA but got a throwback to the early 2000s PC gaming. The controls for gamepad on PC don't make sense. And the Exosuit.. I expect it to work like Power Armor in Fallout.. but no. It controls like I'm riding a toaster with arms.

The Nautilus was better as we have full directional control underwater.. but still could use improvement.

Customization of Starships

As yet we have no 'mechanic's garage'.. to respray, redesign interiors, redesign exteriors..

We spend half (?) our time inside our ships.. it should rightly be a comfortable space for us to explore the universe.. with panels in the correct position.. correct being a matter of taste and so we should have the ability to visit a mechanic and have them installed where we want them.

Even internal cabins and being able to walk about inside your ship I think would be cool.

External features to our tastes.

Respray is apparently a long time coming.. as I gather the community desires this badly.. and as a new player I noticed it after 20h as the sore thumb it was.

The community is correct; repraying needs addressed. And the other ideas here are simple additions of my own desire.

Story

A few days ago I had the ending of the game revealed to me.. to be honest it didn't bother me. In the topic of spoilers.. I say 5 years minor and major 'spoiler lock' and a decade on major spoilers locked down. But this (and I won't spoil it for others) didn't bother me as I said.

I would like to see 'in universe'.. the 'Boundary Failure' machines leading to common galaxies.. such as the home galaxies of Korvax, Gek and Vy'keen.. each Traveller home galaxy.. as well as Human.

The 'quest' to find Earth fascinates me..

Imagine it like.. Post-Game Plus.. any sight of a traveller in say.. the Gek or Vy'keen home galaxy would be treated with upmost prejudice.. ultra hard combat mode. Freighters and frigates trying to kill you and stop you getting to their homeworld.

If you are one of those races... then you would be fine. But trying to reach Earth would be much much harder.

Each 'Boundary Failure' Machine leading to a specific galaxy.. and only *that* galaxy. Meaning you would have to go in to other peoples systems .. and once the ones to the Milky Way/Andromeda/Triangulum the person who's world that is.. can charge limited tax on usage*.. which leads me nicely to the next part..

While I'm not 100% finished the main storyline.. I have thoughts on an in-game backstory.. if yous will kindly indulge me..

Our 'races' have negotiated licences for Travellers.. each type of licence entitles races to do certain things.. but that doesn't matter to us, as we have the top licence.. I was asked in game if I was 'Baron' of this system.. which I was, so I said 'yes'.

A 'Baron Licence' meaning we own Star systems and planets... the other NPCs we meet have mining and exploration licences.. this is why they are there already. A Trading Licence for NPCs on the space station.

This explains why there are other lifeforms there.. but we are the first to 'discover' the system.

The NPCs don't have a 'Baron Licence'.. they have lesser licences.

To be clear.. I'm not suggesting we can have lesser licences or a system of licences.. only NPCs have them for the purpose of story.

When you are 'Baron' of a system.. you get taxes.. of which the Space Station takes 95% for 'operational costs'. The 'Stock Market' scanner could fill this purpose of paying you your dues.

Sentinels respect the Baron of a system.. and so after 24 hours all debits and crimes done within your own systems are wiped. But if you commit crimes in another Baron's system.. you either need forgiveness from the Baron of that system or you will be forever hounded by the sentinels in all that Baron's systems.

I see 'in universe' the sentinels .. as the police.. and I am happy for them to police my systems for me. (I know I know spoilers etc but even despite that.. )

The ability to build up trust with the sentinels (which I have been doing with the AI already and I think it's starting to work)..

The ability to create my own sentinels with my own colours would be cool too .. a workshop that I feed with components and it manufactures them, but instead of Atlas ones, our own with directives that WE give them.

We gather the all the things we need to create their ships etc..

I have more thoughts.. but that's enough for now :) Thanks for reading this rather long post, I hope you enjoyed.

Lost in space

Dava-naut

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Ohw this feels SO GOOD! glad to get this off my chest been thinking about it for weeks!

I also keep thinking what would The Outer Worlds meets No Man's Sky look like? :D

taxation: like the user gets 5% so say the cost to enter the boundary failure is 100,000 units then for each person who pays this the Baron of the system gets 5000 and the rest goes to upgrading the system.. meaning better and better classes of ships locally.. and better and better goods.

Can charge in multiples of 10,000 units up to a max of 100,000.

But also for resources.. 5% of everything another user takes from your system is converted in to units and given to you. copper gold tritium any resource.

5% of everything another user spends in your system you get back.

Planet Nirn (Skyrim fanfic) 'Pangella' Period.. like Pangea was for Earth.

The Mundas System & Planet Nirn

1. Location and System Elements.
2. History and Geography
3. Strange Happenings

Location and System Elements.

Planet Nirn is a dwarf planet with a highly dense Magma-Iron core. The planet itself is highly magnetic and has many strange magnetic properties. It has two moons, Masser and Secunda.  

Nirn is in the Mundas system near the center of the Triangulum Galaxy.This galaxy is between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, but much closer to Andromeda.

The Mundas system has several satellites; Akatosh, Arkay, Dibella, Julianos, Kynareth, Mara, Stendarr, and Zenithar. Their sun gives off many strange magnetic resonances and is called Magnus. Nirn is 1.2 AU away from Magnus and is the closest of Magnus satellites.

Zenithar is a cyan Gas Giant, with it's own Moon Giant/Dwarf Planet called 'Mara' which has its own satellite called 'Dibella'.

Nirn's moons, mentioned above, Masser is a dessert moon, with a thin atmosphere and is the larger of the two moons. Secunda is a rocky moon and has no atmosphere. Nirn seems to have captured Secunda from Arkay. 

Arkay is a rocky planet with a normal magnetic core, however the other planets are so highly changed it makes Arkay have comparatively weak gravity/magnetism. Julianos and Akatosh are on the same plane and orbit, but are near opposite and have such strong fields they move Arkay in to strange orbits. Julianos is a Red Dwarf sun and has a micro dying star called 'Stendarr' orbiting it. Akatosh is a Yellow Dwarf sun. Kynareth is a Ice Giant.

The order of the system goes thusly; Magnus: Nirn, Arkay, then both Julianos & Stendarr and Akatosh, Kynareth, Zenithar,

Zenithar's Mara is a the Moon Giant/Dwarf Planet whose 'Dibella' is another micro dying star, like 'Stendarr'. Mara is a water world approximately twice the size of Nirn. It has a rich oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere and has many plants floating on the surface. Zenithar is around 25 AU away from Magnus, however 'Dibella' provides enough heat and light that 'Mara' is not a frozen world.

History and Geography

The Mundas system was formed from the collision of two massive stars, the remnants of which are Stendarr, Dibella and Magnus. One of the two cores fragmented becoming Stendarr and Dibella. The other core lost much mass, but as 'Magnus' the second core managed to collect enough mass and re-ignite again, albeit smaller.

The collision is what most likely what has caused the resonant magnetism throughout the Mundas system. However, it would also be easy to suppose that Arkay is a captured planet as it does not share the rest of the system's strange magnetism. 

Early Nirn 'Pangella' Period:

Currently

Currently the inhabitants of Nirn are, many mammals, piscine, flora and sentient humanoids. They are a Class Zero civilization, worshiping once living humanoid deities.

Only one 'race' the Dwarves had any technological prowess but these creatures seem to have died out.

'Seemed' as s spaceship based on their technology was found on Mara, but when further investigated by probes, no non-Mara life was found inside or in the vicinity. 

Mara has strange fish creatures, the probes could not ascertain if they are fully sentient, although the probes are not advanced enough to be sure. The fish creatures are 5 meters long and 3 meters wide and eat the plants on the surface. The creatures seem very peaceful and did not attack the probe, or were observed to attack each other.

We did not make contact, but the probes were spotted by a few Nirn local humanoids.

Strange Happenings

The probes observed strange ghost like apparitions, which the inhabitants  could see also. The data was checked then verified. We are putting this down to radio-magnetic imprinting, a sort of weak time-travel like event.

This also has happened on-masse with the whole planet, Nirn bringing its former self forward in time, which they called 'Planes of Daedra'. A harmonic resonance in the magnetic fields lead to an.. event. where the strength of the radio-magnetic imprinting jumped. 

They also have large lizard like creature like our mythical 'dragons', its a very odd.. coincidence .. these creature even breathe fire, ice and other elements.

The Nirn humanoids posses the strangest properties.. they repel most types of radiation including cosmic radiation, making it very save from them to travel outside their system, they also live much much longer, if it wasn't for their dangerous environment and fighting they may live on average to 110 years old.

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Thanks to TheMapleMatador over on Reddit. they are the Cartographer :)
The modified version 'Pangella' was done by myself, Dava.

In Fallout.. the Zetan's are the Aliens invading Earth.. in Elder Scrolls, I fanfic's that WE humans, were the invaders to Nirn :D .., well not invaders, but Alien investigators. .. invasion comes later :D

Separated at Birth and Long Lost Cousins.. (people I think look the same.. look a-like)

Hi www

I tend to see this in female actresses and not at all or seldom males. So you get what you get here..

Aubrey Plaza & Olivia Munn

Keira Knightley & Natalie Portman 

Rosamund Pike (I Care a Lot) & Jenna Elfman (Dharma and Greg)

Mckenna Grace (Young Sheldon) & Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina) 

Carrie Anne Moss & Elizabeth Mitchell

Alison Pill & Ellen (Elliot) Paige 

Maria Bakalova (Borat 2 movie) & Suki Waterhouse (in bad batch film, not star wars) 

Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) & Annie Murphy (Kevin can F Himself)

Years apart or long lost cousins OR.. wait did they clone that person?? :

Helen Hunt & Leelee Sobieski

Frances O'Connor (Bedazzled) & Sally Fields (Forrest Gump)

Wendie Malik (Dream On) & Kate Walsh (The Umbrella Academy)

*Some credit should go to the folks over at WorldWideInterweb.com.. for Natalie Portman & Keira Knightley.. I already knew Jenna Elfman and Rosamund Pike, but had forgotten Rosamund's name.

Credit to J-14.com over on Pintrest for the McKenna/Kiernan photo.

Credit to Jul Epicétou over on Pintrest for Helen Hunt & Leelee Sobieski photo.

Credit to 'PAL Awesomeness!!!' over on fanforum.com for the Wendie Malik & Kate Walsh photo.

Emilie Cocquerel.. 

WHO does she remind me of??

I'm SURE she has a twin or cousin but I can't remember who..

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a male one

Travis Friesen looks like Chris Pine

Hit Monkey Season 2..

 Wow what a show! Accidently found it back in January.. like no press for it.

Tried it out expecting a filler show while waiting for the next Disney+ show, but Hit Monkey wow, so good! . I recommend you all stop what you are doing unless vital to your continued existence and go watch that show! 5/5 stars

Hit Monkey was stated as 'non-MCU'..

Now I hear there's no season 2 coming.. whoa!

I was thinking as its 'non-MCU' and set around Tokyo.. it could be set in the Supaidāman universe (which Marvel has the rights to via animation.. and did a special on Japanese Spider-Man recently before Stan Lee's sad passing.)

Expanding on Japanese heroes would be cool.. I know I would love that for Scotland, but we only have one and a half, both too OP (Over Powered) to be in anything that's not end game level.. Proteus/Kevin MacTaggart and Legion/David Haller (maternally half Scottish).

A kind of 'Tokyo-verse'.. while on a case I can just imagine Bryce looking up to the sky at Leopardon and saying : Pfft! show off!

Cars I like and think are Stylish (even though I don't drive)

 Hi WWW

Been thinking about this over many years since I first got interested in Top Gear in the early 2000s.

I also keep thinking.. why don't manufacturers bring back their classic designs? Like the ones below but electric versions? They'd make a fortune and save a fortune, due it being just batteries and a electric motor.. OG chassis, suspension and originally styled leather interiors.. 

Citroen DS

As Top Gear claims.. the most comfortable suspension ever made. Bit pretty too.

Toyota Levin.. 

First became aware of this due to GTA. Ultimate sleeper! Looks like a total 'mom' car but will blow the doors off most regular cars. ( twin cam 16v SC 1.8L does 0-60 6.9 secs, top speed 143mph)

Rover 2000TC/1970 Rover P6 3500

Twin-ish 1

SAAB 900 Turbo or Volvo 340 GL Special/440 TDi (Turbo Diesel Injection) two/three door version.

SAAB 900 Turbo

Volvo GL Special

SAAB's waay better looking than the Volvo, however the Volvo is not without its charm.

Twin-ish 2

1969 Ford Mustang  /Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 1967/1980 BMW M535i

Ford Mustang

Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 1967

1980 BMW M535i 

Porsche 911

VW Beetle

VW Phaeton

Fantasy

Restyled Hillman Imp.. 'Hillman Giant'

Restyled .. 'Argyll DeLorean' .. a Scottish take on the Irish Time Machine :)

Alice chases The Fermi Paradox Down a Rabbit Hole..

Alice chases The Fermi Paradox Down a Rabbit Hole.. 

Hi WWW

Like Alice, I was curious why the rabbit checked their watch.. I'm very very late he said. We've had the ability to study the sky for thousands of years now.. and even in modern times, our abilities in knowing our cosmos, are truly astounding. Where are the aliens? .. are they as the rabbit.. simply running late?

We have mapped our Galaxy.. the star map was completed just this year, in 2022 (Gaia).. I *did* wonder why Starlink didn't contain also multi linked outward facing radio telescopes.. like the Doctor Who 2010 Episode  'The End of Time'..I mean Starlink is basically a network of radio satellites already..  but I digress.

What are these maps for? What is their purpose? A lot of money has been spent on them.. why? All those telescopes pointed outside of our solar system.. why?

It's not like we can ever go to these places.. well not within the next 1000 to 3000 years... but even that is pure imagination.. 

firstly outside of our solar system, are amounts of radiation the like of which we have never seen, the Galactic cosmic rays/radiation would kills us stone dead. And the distances involved are jaw dropping; At a conventional 17.3 km/s, it would take 73,000 years to travel to our nearest star Proxima Centauri.. 73,000 years in deadly radiation. No amount of water is going to wash *that* off! No matter how long the rabbit checks their watch.. 73,000 years is too long..

Sure sure.. one day FTL etc.. but even FTL, brings up paradoxes and even more radiation..

For the next thousand years.. why not turn our Solar system in to our home, we have failed stars that have mini systems of their own, that we can ACTUALLY travel to within a year or two.. It is these system we require mapped..

Astronomers are our cartographers.. but do we really need yet another map of another star system that we aren't going to go to for 1000-3000 years? .. What we DO need however is detailed maps of every single speck, of every valley of every planet, moon, asteroid, centaur and every object inside our solar system.

Imagine.. we had live feeds of satellites, from around every planet and moon available on the internet, 8K, available for everyone to see, to inspire.

Little Green Aliens

I believe in alien life but not in alien civilizations; I believe in alien fish, cows, plants, insects etc, but no civilization.

I *think* the money spent on Telescopes and Radio Telescopes, except for Asteroid/Comet threating Earth or the Sun for sunspots and coronal ejections, needs to be diverted in to.. 'lets go there' rather than 'lets rent a spyglass'.. Even small missions to simply gather video and pictures, mini satellites whose only job is to let us all see whats there. Instead of pie in the sky, aliens who bake..

Also there's no sense in making huge telescopes on Earth, whilst Pluto, Charon or Kuiper Belt worlds would be ideal. Once we occupy all our solar system, building a telescope there would be a simple matter, that would return much more than spending huge sums upon the Earth.

Imagine satellites that can land, refuel from a moons atmosphere and relaunch.. now that would be a mission worthy of creating!

A mini nuclear reactor for electricity, diffuse hydrogen and oxygen from the water/ice on Callisto or Ganymede or Europa, diffuse methane/oxygen/hydrogen from Titan, land, refill the tank and be off again to orbit another Jovian or Saturnian world (moon).. imagine 20 of these mini craft per Gas Giant doing this constantly. They're only job; to send back detailed video.

Astronomy jobs should decrease until we need Astronomers again to map the Oort Cloud, which is best done from a Trans-Neptunian world. For now.. maybe.. searching for craft- suitable landing zones on solar bodies.

I'm getting really tired.. and hungry.. maybe finish this up another time.. but for now I'll publish. It's crazy we have systems here we can get to in a short time and we are spending billions on hippy telescopes.

Dava

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Update: 27/June/2023 

Thinking about this again..

Q: what is the smartest way for a civilization to create advanced apex technology, with the least amount of effort and resource usage?

A: Develop AI and robotkind smart and able enough that they can develop it on their own to the peak of technological advancement.

Problem: By the time AI were finished doing this, the civilization might have died out.

A: If the civilization (like in the movie Interstellar) lived on a stable planet next to a black hole, time further away would move quicker.

If humans had the ability to reach and live in such a relatively fast place while leaving Robotkind on a  slow place and given them much time, this would quicker the advancement of the technology.

Prose: Not that I believe in Alien civilizations but.. if such a thing existed, their radio signals would be very different.

Why? time dilatation would shorten or lengthen of the light wave.

I have often said.. the speed of light is NOT constant but relative to local gravity.

If such a (alien) signal existed it would would be many Hz below what would be expected.