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Marvel's Stan Lee Memorialized in World of Warcraft
SBFord
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Marvel's Stan Lee Memorialized in World of Warcraft
Now that the v8.1.5 patch has been deployed to the World of Warcraft public test realm, players are busy ferreting out new information about upcoming content. In one of the more touching pieces discovered, players have found a new guard in the human Alliance city of Stormwind simply named "Stanley". A quick look at him shows that it is clearly Marvel's Stan Lee. Two other character models have also been datamined, one wearing a Horde tabard and one without any faction markings.
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My daughter and her husband met Stan at a comic con photo-op here years ago. They told Stan their first son is named after Spider-man (named him "Parker"). They of course were ushered through the photo-op quickly. Stan saw them leaving the area later on and he yelled at them "And tell Parker I said Hi".
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
this seems a little iffy though.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
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i am pretty sure there are huge marvel fans within blizzard, and i am also sure they wanted to pay tribute to someone who might have had a big impact on their life.
This have been a good conversation
I had fun once, it was terrible.
Pretty cool move by Blizz.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
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STFU? Heh - he is actually right. To me SL looked like an arrogant asshole and I never liked him!
I dont think that "Stanley" can be killed...pity
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
He made his money on other artists back and shared very little of the profit with them, a lot of the characters that you think he created, were the work of other people, that you don't want to google for that information is not my problem.
Here is part of why he was shitty.
This allowed for huge creative freedom and sped up the production process considerably – a real benefit for a small company with big ambitions. But the artists’ work was not always fully recognised. They were being credited purely for the art when they were often creating the characters and story, too – before Lee layered the dialogue and captions on top.
Lee compounded this recognition problem in interviews and in books like Origins of Marvel Comics (1974), where he talked enthusiastically about how he had created all the stories and characters. The artists knew different. Frustrated by creative differences, Ditko left in 1965 and Kirby went five years later.
Games have expiry dates. And while WoW is still chugging along I think we can all agree its far past its best before date and is aging like a bad cheese.
Pretty sure Stan Lee did a pretty good job at immortalizing himself with ink and paper. Nice try Blizzard.