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#31
Releases / Re: CRANLOX LABORATORY
Last post by heroidosilencio - August 18, 2025, 10:33:35 PMHei, Cranlox. Could you import a crow for Mystique, please?
#32
Requests for Skins and Meshes / IMPORTED PUNISHER FROM NETFLIX
Last post by heroidosilencio - August 18, 2025, 10:30:44 PMDoes exist a Punisher mesh imported like that one from netflix?
And if so, does anybody know where I can download it?
And if so, does anybody know where I can download it?
#33
General Discussion / Re: Randy Ripoff is gone.
Last post by cranlox - August 18, 2025, 09:41:23 PMWhat sad news, my respects to his loved ones and friends
#34
Releases / Re: CRANLOX LABORATORY
Last post by cranlox - August 18, 2025, 09:40:33 PMPost a photo, image, or video of what you want here.
#35
General Discussion / Re: Randy Ripoff is gone.
Last post by Kommando - August 18, 2025, 09:25:03 PMSadly, that's our reality now. None of us are getting younger and living is getting harder. The last time I spoke with Randy or any of the old guard other than Mikey was at least 15 years ago. Unfortunately, some of us are going to fade away without any way of informing anyone.
#36
General Discussion / [MERGED] Randy Ripoff is gone.
Last post by Nyte Dragon - August 18, 2025, 03:03:59 PMMerged mine and Tomato's posts.
#37
General Discussion / Re: Randy Ripoff is gone.
Last post by Tomato - August 18, 2025, 01:52:25 PMSo as has become all too common, we (apparently) lost another of the old guard. Armand Frank Jackson, known to many here as Randy Ripoff, passed away from natural causes on Feb 22, 2023.
https://www.chicagolandcremationoptions.com/obituary/armand-jackson
I'm... at a loss for what to even say. I didn't really know Randy that well personally (I believe I reached out to him about including his avatar in something I did, but that's about it) but it'd be hard to miss the impact he left on the board and the community as a whole.
https://www.chicagolandcremationoptions.com/obituary/armand-jackson
I'm... at a loss for what to even say. I didn't really know Randy that well personally (I believe I reached out to him about including his avatar in something I did, but that's about it) but it'd be hard to miss the impact he left on the board and the community as a whole.
#38
General Discussion / Randy Ripoff is gone.
Last post by Nyte Dragon - August 18, 2025, 01:50:06 PM It's with a very sad heart that I have to inform everyone that Randy Ripoff passed away. This wasn't recent, occuring in February 2023. But I just recently found out about it in a conversation with Robinka.
Randy was a founding member of these forums, as well as a member of the moderating and Admin team.
I'm leaving a link to his obituary, and after I've had time to gather my thoughts, try and post a memorial post about him.
https://www.chicagolandcremationoptions.com/obituary/armand-jackson
Randy was a founding member of these forums, as well as a member of the moderating and Admin team.
I'm leaving a link to his obituary, and after I've had time to gather my thoughts, try and post a memorial post about him.
https://www.chicagolandcremationoptions.com/obituary/armand-jackson
#39
Film, Television, Video and Music Discussion / Re: New Superman Movie
Last post by Tomato - August 18, 2025, 04:57:55 AMI'm... surprised you both feel that way, to be honest. Like, I don't feel like this is a perfect film by any means, it's overstuffed and the pace is way too fast, but I really like it for what it is. As an introduction to a new DC universe, I feel like Gunn and the team did a decent job establishing the character and the world.
Spoiler
As for him feeling a bit childish... I get it, and he is, but I feel like you're being a bit harsh. For one, he's been active as a hero for 3 years, but I also feel like this is the first time he's dealt with a PR issue at this scale. Like, if he's spent all this time just saving Metropolis (and maybe the earth, who knows), the press on him has probably been mostly positive. Oh, I'm sure there's been the Lex-supported "Who is this alien" BS, but the tide was likely otherwise in his favor.
And then he steps into this Boravia mess, and suddenly the tide shifts. And now he's dealing with this wave of public backlash, which he's likely never had to deal with before at this scale, AND he just got beaten for the first time in a very public way... and he takes what he assumes will be a softball interview from his girlfriend and she pokes that very raw nerve.
Now, she was fully right to do so, he was behaving childishly and she needed to give him that wake up call. But as someone younger, who has seen a fair few minor celebrities go through social media dumpster fires over the years for stuff much less controversial... Seeing this young Superman who hasn't yet learned to tune out the noise take all that stuff WAY too personally is fully realistic.
As for him not getting that it's complicated... Again, I think that's a generational thing. I'm trying not to get into it too deep, but there are pretty clear real world parallels in this movie to certain events going on in the world right now, and there is a frustration from my side of the fence, particularly from my generation and younger, that someone hasn't just taken certain world rulers and shoved them against a cactus. I'm old enough to know that wouldn't magically solve the problem, that the situation is more nuanced than "ruler bad", but even I'll admit if I had Superman's power, I'd have to seriously fight down the urge to do some Batman style mid-air dangling of more than a few world leaders, damn the consequences.
And then he steps into this Boravia mess, and suddenly the tide shifts. And now he's dealing with this wave of public backlash, which he's likely never had to deal with before at this scale, AND he just got beaten for the first time in a very public way... and he takes what he assumes will be a softball interview from his girlfriend and she pokes that very raw nerve.
Now, she was fully right to do so, he was behaving childishly and she needed to give him that wake up call. But as someone younger, who has seen a fair few minor celebrities go through social media dumpster fires over the years for stuff much less controversial... Seeing this young Superman who hasn't yet learned to tune out the noise take all that stuff WAY too personally is fully realistic.
As for him not getting that it's complicated... Again, I think that's a generational thing. I'm trying not to get into it too deep, but there are pretty clear real world parallels in this movie to certain events going on in the world right now, and there is a frustration from my side of the fence, particularly from my generation and younger, that someone hasn't just taken certain world rulers and shoved them against a cactus. I'm old enough to know that wouldn't magically solve the problem, that the situation is more nuanced than "ruler bad", but even I'll admit if I had Superman's power, I'd have to seriously fight down the urge to do some Batman style mid-air dangling of more than a few world leaders, damn the consequences.
#40
Releases / Re: CRANLOX LABORATORY
Last post by heroidosilencio - August 18, 2025, 04:24:33 AMCranlox, could you import a crow for Mystique?