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Current desktop.

I really wish I remember where I got the wallpaper, though. I've had it for nine years, at least.

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Okay a bit of SearchFu turns up the Forums user Fasque as Twixt's player.

Sending a PM to The Ocho to see if we can get his posts locked and saved for a bit. Apparently there's going to be a counterpoint response to the article by some of the players here.

Note: This is NOT something that's going to be "Oh he was a [censored] + character assasination + rant" thing. We do not, however, want someone reactivating their account and deleting some of the dirty little tracks that point to their research method being slightly less clean and forthright than they intimated.

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I would be most appreicative of seeing the results of this, and wish you luck in your endeavors.

Faskinating information, though I find both Professor Myer's position and actions lamentable. Further, in that he presented it in such a subjective fashion (to paint him as more of a martyr for his research), then he did in anything (that I've so far been able to see) close to objectivity.

Research like this is what kills the market for everyone, and I'm extremely disappointed that such a (presumably) educated person could make such errors. :/

I sincerely hope his next research project is himself, as I'm sure he could stand to re-evaluate his own social and psychological abilities.

Popular suggestion, though just as popularly countered with 'For the love of all that is holy, can we get something besides a smashing/lethal set for melee?'.

There's plenty of variations on the theme in the Powers sticky in the Suggestion's forum.

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* Strange you should mention that... my Lady Love is always telling people "don't encourage him... if you do he'll never stop..."


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Man, I know exactly how you feel. I've debated wearing shin-guards when we go out on dates, just to avoid all the kicks under the table from when I say something that's apparently embarrassing or inappropriate.

You got my vote. o7 C'mon, Jay! You know you wanna~.

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I can't see the word 'Transformation' anymore without hearing Manny from Bug's Life saying it...

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Funny, but them I see 'Transformation' I keep thinking of Optimus Prime

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...is it wrong I immediately hear Spongebob Squarepants in my head for 'transformation'?

'All you need is imaaaaginaaaatioooon!'

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Now see, with the way you said 'imagination', I immediately thought of this.

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Nope, more like this.

Which I still find incredibly hilarious, given the image used.

Felicitous annual hatching day! :3

*Dumps ice-cream upon.*

Oh, I do say. Surely someone will clean up this dreadful mess!

^.~

...do lumberjane dwarf princesses count? Because I could totally save me a dragon. Ah've ah thing 'gainst wood, yer see.

Bloody doors! RAAAWR! *Smash, cut, bang, crush.* Damn ye to 'ell, ye woody fiend. A TREE KILLED ME FATHER, AND REVENGE IS BEST SERVED WI' AN AXE!

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I can't see the word 'Transformation' anymore without hearing Manny from Bug's Life saying it...

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Funny, but them I see 'Transformation' I keep thinking of Optimus Prime

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...is it wrong I immediately hear Spongebob Squarepants in my head for 'transformation'?

'All you need is imaaaaginaaaatioooon!'

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If the girl in question is a spines scrapper, she knows anything she wears will be shredded defeating the first hellion. And not by anything he does. Spandex is expensive. Look at the human torch. anything he wears (other than that improbable fff suit) is toast when he says "flame on". How much money will he waste?

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Human Torch (and the rest of the Fantastic Four, and a lot of other heroes in Marvel) wears a suit made of unstable molecules (concocted by Mister Fantastic) that alters it's structure whenever Johnny's powers activate to become mostly immune to heat (letting him Flame On all he wants and still retain the suit in question). They also allow Mister Fantastic to utilize his stretching abilities to the fullest, compensate for The Thing's super-strength (as most fabrics would outright shred under that much physical force), and phase along with the Invisible Woman's body (though normal clothing would do the same).

All while being highly resistant to most punctures or tears (though not immune), easy to repair (apply more unstable molecules), and entirely self-cleaning.

Reed's done up a number of costumes for various super-types over the years, and I think Hank McCoy may have borrowed the technology to replicate similar outfits for the X-Men and various other X-affiliates (and it may also have been stolen by various villains, because once a secret is out, everyone tends to scramble for it). Which takes care of most of the comments about costuming in the Marvel Universe (though not all people either have access or choose to use unstable molecules if they can - Captain America for example wore an armored suit as opposed to a molecular costume, as the suit was far more durable then the costume would have been).

Now, for DC... I'm sure they have something similar that's been cooked up in Star Labs and given to anyone that wants a piece of it (namely the Justice League and their associates) as well as various alien or otherwise advanced fabrics and polymers that get the same general point across.

We'll find out sometime this month.

When? WHO KNOWS!

The Shadow knows.

...creepy [censored].

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Since changing you colors will be -20% damage how many of the non-carebears will actually do this?

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That 20% is a maximum value. Remember, it scales depending on how far you deviate from the correct color.

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This makes me glad i left cox......- dam due to changing color? TOTAL BS....if i change my shirt color do my muscles get bigger or weaker? NO. lmao at the devs they will drive this game into a slap fight among toothpicks

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I know. I hate it when people are totally clueless too.

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It's fine, I brought a clue bat.

I could take'er. :3

EDIT: I mean, it's not like she's Candlejack or somet

*Puts on a helmet and hefts an axe.* Clearly intended to be a lumber-dwarf today. Slowly working up to the point where I'll convince myself to go outside and dismantle the tree we cut down yesterday.

Arrr.

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As for showing skin, it's a matter of both character design and character concept. Typically, if a character is vulnerable to regular attacks, I find it inappropriate to show much skin. On the other hand, if that character is super-touch, like my completely indestructible cyborg, then putting her in shorts and a small jacket is actually a lot of fun. Here is this half-dressed girl punching holes in giant robots and taking rockets to the face who just hand-waves the damage away and keeps on going. It's ESPECIALLY fun when I put her on a team of armour-clad big burly men and STILL have her be the strongest and toughest in the end

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Sorry for the snipping, Sam (though I did read the whole post first - this is just the part I wanted to focus on), but I thought it'd probably be a good time to comment on my personal design philosophy regarding costumes and showing skin.

I watch a lot of action movies, do a lot of thinking, and actually do a fair amount of physical labor myself. The biggest thing I can tell you is that if you want any freedom of motion at all, less is more. Most of my 'athletic' characters focus on this sort of concept - even a fully-covering spandex suit actually does a fair amount to limit your range of motion. Specifically because it impairs joint movement (albeit not as much as something heavier or bulkier), which is the most important thing for an athletic/acrobatics focused character to have.

Most of my 'enhanced' or stronger-then-normal characters tend to lean towards being more covered up (because they have enough force behind each motion to overcome the disadvantages of whatever they're wearing), as do my characters that focused more on ranged combat or support (as they have less reasons to actually rely purely on agility)... but most of my up-close 'natural' type scrappers tend to rely a lot on clothes that don't do a lot to hinder their movements. Two of my 'ninja' types in particular tend to wear mid-drift t-shirts and athletic shorts to have the four major points (shoulder, elbow, waist, knees) free to move in any direction they have to with no impairment, in a way maximizing their total agility (the one defensive fallback they have).

You can replicate that with certain kinds of clothing, but that also has a few other logistical problems that are better to just plain cut out of the equation instead. Of course, when assuming stuff like, say, unstable-molecular cloth (that adjusts and flows naturally with the body's motion naturally - or it can be designed as such) it's less of a concern, but I tend to assume that I don't have that kind of stuff to work with.

A fair number of my characters are built on the small side, period - Minimized sliders everywhere but legs and waist which are adjusted as necessary. I almost always tend to minimize the 'chest' slider no matter what, though - female chests in this game are comically large (which, while expected, goes way over my 'maximum preferred' size for personal taste just at the low end). It's just something I do out of habit more then anything else... playing taller characters is a little weird/disorienting for me, and as a result a lot of my characters hover in the 5' to 5'5" range on average, with one or two actually taller then that (my one male character is around 6'). Costumes really depend on the visual style I'm going with - it's an even split between 'reserved' and 'belongs on the cover of Maxim' for me. I don't let anything get in the way of the character vision/concept, though naturally I tend to limit myself to my upper ranges of acceptable on everything. I've had some costumes I felt were a bit on the risque end, only to feel worlds better once I loaded Atlas or Mercy and saw something I know I'd never be able to play without feeling ridiculous.

*Flumps.*

Gawd, I am so tired... lots of yard work yesterday and today. :/

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Not enough to make that much difference. Any tank needs an empath spamming clear mind to prevent the hold of doom.

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Or a Sonic/*. >.> It's the same power. :3

Bah, you could take'em!

...I should start running now, shouldn't I?

Grats to the winners! And here's to hoping that next month is just as hard for me to decide on who to vote for just like these past few have been - you've all done amazing jobs.

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Sounds like you're just ending up on bad teams. That's PuGs for ya.

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Truth, this haz it.

...this is a common misconception?

It's news to me. :/

Then again, I play on Virtue. That may be why...

>_> That's the result of three hours, as a throw-away?

*Goes to devour her art pads.*

Very wicked-awesome piece, LJ. I think the black/white fits it somewhat perfectly, for some weird reason. Allergy meds are making it hard to focus on words.

Normally, I'd throw a book (a small, plush one) at you for making it entirely in FLASH, but it loaded fairly quickly (have you tested it on machines with slower connections, though? Just to be safe - I'm on 3mbps high-speed after all), and it was fairly well done and unobtrusive after the initial load.

The animations were also both light, and very smooth, and the site itself had a very nice 'feel' to it and the colors all worked very well. Some of the font choices I'd probably groan about, but they were all very easy to read and lent some additional artistry to it as well (in addition to being thematic).

I give you a solid seven out of nine tails for the design and layout - very slick looking, Snow_Globe!

EDIT: On the entire 'placeholder graphics' bit, I can see a bit of cleaning up being involved (to smooth it out some), but I think keeping it simple like it is right now wouldn't detract from anything. Heck, I rather like it.

This thread has suddenly made me self-conscious about my own Germannic villainess. >.>

But that's a very slick look, Flame!

Seconded on the part of the women, not so seconded about ze lemurs.