Zombie Man

Fine. Have a guy wear a *formal* tank top then.



Believe what you want. I wasn't lying. And I made sure to say it wasn't all the devs.

Wow. Totally fail on the use of English. Entitling something "Reverse... X" is not saying that *everything* is *exactly reversed* like some absurd Bizarro universe. It's a figure of speech.

"Zombie Man, your premise that these are 'Reverse' times is absurd. In Victorian times people had their skin on the outside but their internal organs on the inside. But since I see no one with their skin on the inside and their internal organs on the outside, you have absolutely no point!!"

And if you don't think women (at least the young pretty ones) aren't expected to wear next to nothing at a Red Carpet event, then you have not seen one single fashion show on the subject.

Fine, skip the title "Reverse Victorian". It's still double standards based on sex. Which is called... sexism. If it's not, I challenge you to wear a tank top at a formal event.

Precious metals is in a huge bubble right now thanks to nutwing apocalypse preachers (and I'm not talking about the May 21 guy). They think that if the world economy collapses, you can use precious metals as tender. Like if you bring in an ounce of gold to the WalMart, they'll not only accept it but they'll make change with it... with you know... those billion pieces of precious metal coinage that doesn't exist for such exchanges to actually take place.

Yeah, it's called a shower towel.

Which brings me to my next rant on societal sexism: The Reverse Victorian.

In the Victorian age, modesty for females meant being covered from neck to wrist to ankle, even at the beach. Now, it's expected, AT FORMAL EVENTS, for women to wear as little as possible: sleeveless, shoulderless, strapless, backless, plunging, and mini. You've come a long way, baby: From being covered up because you were some man's property to almost showing it all so you can be every man's property.

And at these Black Tie affairs and Red Carpet Events, how are the men dressed? Covered from neck to wrist to ankle.

Yay. Progress.

Now, let's bring this Reverse Victorian sexism back to City of Heroes: Go to Ouroboros on the Beta server and check out the two new NPCs, Astral Christy and Empyrean Michael. Notice something?


[Oh, forgot another sexist thing the CoH Devs did until called on it: The original Pocket D dancers were all female.]

And that last statement of yours is sexism, too, even though you obviously abhor it. It's societal sexism. With the 'Woman's Lib' movement, it was more easily accepted for women to adapt the clothing of the gender that had more power because they wanted to be considered equals. There was at the time a lot of pushback to that. I remember in the 60s and 70s the scandal to the previous generations to see women wear pants in public and professional settings!

Naturally, the men weren't clamoring to be wearing the clothing associated with 'the weaker sex.' It was then stigmatized as being gay (not that there should be anything considered wrong with that) or feminine (not that there should be anything considered wrong with that). I remember the older generations bothered to no end when men started to wear hair length past their ears ("those sissies!").



Every heroic guy needs that perfect little red dress.

Then you wouldn't mind if the Devs removed the Derby from hats for female models since that's a man's hat? <looks at Jophiel's avatars>

I was privy to some developers thought processes both publicly and privately as to why the gender-specific choices were made. Not once was it because of developer resource limitations. The reasons given ranged from 'it's gay' to 'men don't wear that' to 'fear of prostitution harems' to 'cross-gender dressing is beyond the pale of the T rating' (but poisoning children into blindness is within bounds).

I'm serious. They said that. Not all of them giving all those reasons. But by different devs at different times in regard to different pieces.

Not being colored the way you want it is not a *fix* of a bug.

Also, it's a list of what they done so far. Did you think they recolored the backpack and Zwillinger inadvertently left that off the list? Otherwise, you're just asking for something which was already asked for and the question should have been, "Some of us have asked for the backpack to be recolored; is that on their list of things to do?"

And the basis for making those Lack of Gender Parity choices is... what exactly? Genderism?

Call it what it is.



I'm sure the Devs wouldn't want anyone in the world at large to wear barbed wire or to go around with an exposed brain, either. That's not the point.

They make the overwhelming majority of player costume pieces fit the mesh for three models. But they then they purposely exclude one or two meshes out of the three for about 1% of the pieces. Why? Is leaving out one or two meshes for such a tiny majority of pieces really going to save them that much time?

If they shouldn't make pieces because of how rarely used it would be, then there's a lot of stuff in the costume creator which should not have been, e.g., chains wrapped around the eyes.

Reread what that is a list of.

We already have this:



And they're afraid of cross-dressing? Not to mention all the gender bending that can be done with other costume pieces (and not to mention switching gender models on the fly now). That horse has left the barn.

Which is why it astounds me when they keep up at these sexist choices in which model gets which clothing.



At one time, men couldn't get kilts because they weren't considered 'male clothing'!!!??!! Yes, that's true.

We had to pitch a fit to get the cottontail ported to male models. Someone thought it was too feminine!!!??!! Yes, that's true, too. We had to remind them of: Harvey, Bugs, Peter, Easter, etc...

We couldn't have female MM pets because it would be unseemly for a male toon to have a stable of female 'pets' and the fear of pimp characters!! That's also true, and unfortunately, that's also a valid fear, but you don't restrict options because of a few jerks that would abuse them. That's what /petition is for. And yet today, we can now have a stable of Widow and Carnie girl pets at our disposal.

You know, I thought these fights would be over because it seemed they were letting go of old sexist stances and because there is now a female lead designer.

Guess not.

Paragon Studios still puts out a game with sexist stances. Always has and it seems always will.

Please let that player know the next time they are online that no Community Rep nor Developer would ever do that outside the confines of scheduled events. That was just a random Rikti Raid that happens when someone complete the Lady Grey TF. NCSoft employees are not allowed to use their god-mode powers to affect gameplay on Live Servers and bombs causing damage would be interfering with gameplay.

The recent appearances of Community Reps as seagulls or giant spiders is not interfering with gameplay mechanics... no one dies and gets debt from it (in fact, debt is turned off in zones with these special events).

Their showing up is actually a form of RP, which the player above should appreciate if they're a RPer. Of course, it a Community Rep as a Giant Spider drags a hundred other players past your RP session... well... then they should RP it! If they can't, then they're not very good RPers.

• DO. NOT. ATTACK. ANTI-MATTER. UNTIL. THE. FINAL. PHASE. PERIOD.
  • Attacking Anti-Matter and damaging him only increases the amount of damage of the pulses.
  • Be careful of AoE damage when Anti-Matter is around as well as pet agro and damage procs in auras and debuffs.
  • If you have AoE Heals or Regen buffs... use them. The damage pulse does more damage than most characters ordinarily regenerate. The Destiny Incarnate Rebirth powers are very helpful to have for this trial.

Why would you do that since you can just click the first player on the first team with the yellow star?



I like to add an audial cue:

• /macro DIS b HELP! I'M BEING DISINTEGRATED, Y'ALL!$$em whistle

Add a mention that the warworks guarding the terminals need to be defeated *or moved away* from the terminal. Thus pulling or knocking them away will work as much as defeating them.



Called Goliaths.



Add:

• There are three doors to each bunker, so, make life easier by destroying the big garage door to get in and out of the bunkers rather than the tiny door which gets easily blocked.

Not if it's linked to iTrial badges.

It used to be we were suppose to PM BAB about FX that was or wasn't being suppressed correctly. I don't know who to PM about this now except maybe Zwillinger and he'll send it to the right Powers Team person.

It used to be that things that got flagged incorrectly for this were fixed rather quickly (as measured in Developer time).

I'm gonna make my Rainbow Aura toon where each costume piece is a different color and make sure I'm always on your TFs!

Using SuppressCloseFX turns off power auras but not costume auras, just FYI.

And together, they fight crime!