Agonus

I'm as big a Star Wars fan as the next guy, but I'll also admit it doesn't hold up well under examination. Jedi don't have it so bad, they're cautious to a fault, but I like that. They aren't perfect, they aren't always right, and while some of them know that, some also refuse to accept it.

The whole Sith thing, especially the Rule of Two silliness, is so contradictory though it's almost painful to read at times. I can attest to it to an extent though after running an RPVG for a while. If you don't give a group of morally unrestrained types a target, they -will- turn in on themselves. Nature of the beast, you could say.

I'd say it's both.

I forget where I read or heard it, but the definition of evil that sticks out to me the most has to do with personal interest versus concern for others. Granted there's levels to it and it depends on what the action is, but essentially doing something for the benefit of others is heroic, while doing something for yourself -can- be evil.

As far as Team Dark here, they're more anti-heroes.
Rouge has an evil motivation, evil goal, but heroic outcome.
Omega has a neutral-ish motivation, evil goal, but heroic outcome
Shadow has a heroic-ish motivation, evil method, and heroic outcome

Reminds me of the Deathwalker episode from season 1 of Babylon 5 that I watched last night. Deathwalker is an alien general that spent years slaughtering innocents for biological research. Her entire race was thought to have been wiped out (from wars against her, I think) until she unexpectedly shows up on Babylon 5, but it doesn't look like she's aged. Deathwalker approaches the humans, and offers them her life's work; an immortality serum, and she's proof it's successful. So the human government wants her sent back to Earth asap so they can begin working on production of the serum. The human commander of B5 doesn't has to follow his orders, but he's rationalized it that if they can save lives with her serum, then all the deaths she caused will have meant something.

But the League of Unaligned Worlds, who were Deathwalker's main targets during her research, want her put to trial (and promptly executed) on the station. Some political wrangling later, Deathwalker ends up headed to Earth after all, and it's then that she reveals the catch to the serum. She doesn't explain the specifics, but the only way the immortality serum works is if you take the life of another to improve your own. Humans will end up as Deathwalker's now nigh extinct race if they take advantage of her serum.

Deathwalker knew exactly what she was doing all along, and the problems it would cause playing the races against each other. So while she had a "heroic" goal with the immortality serum, the means to make it and what she wanted to do with it with incredibly evil.

At least one can ignore rambling character descriptions. Want to get any of my characters out of a room? Start rambling on in local for paragraphs at a clip in noirspeak/purple prose. Y'know, "/em, takes a long, sorrowful look into the bottom of his almost empty glass, tilting the cup to watch the intoxicating liquid circle around the depths of the glass. It had been a bad day, yaddaa yadda yadda blah blah blah." Good gods do I hate that.

Everything related to ATI or a specific file type?

*shrug*

I updated every updatable thing on my computer, and I still lockup (sound loop with a graphics degrade) pretty much immediately upon loading the character select screen. Sometimes I'll get a popup that says the graphics card has been reset because it stopped responding, sometimes I don't. This -never- happened before yesterday's patch.

Same thing happened to me. I'm in the process of updating everything, so I won't know what worked for a while.

I'll ask again, did the new patch increase the base requirements to run the game or something?

Did they increase the base requirements for the game with the newest patch? I didn't think my system was that old, but maybe it is.

I got a message like this for the first time ever last night after installing the newest patch. Crashed at the character select screen. I updated the drivers, and got to log in for about 2 seconds before crashing. Going to tinker with the other system updates, and see if that helps.

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, people are really getting desperate for things to get pissy about these days, aren't they? GRRR! How dare they keep up their proven track record of preventing exploits from being used! *boggle*

I haven't been thinking of it in a circular sense. Very cool if that's how it'll work.

Agreed.

That's one of the "little" things I'm the most excited about. >.>

Can we get something like this in a pure Emotes Super Booster, maybe? Pretty please? I have no idea offhand what you'd call it or how you could tie it into superheroes, but it's awesome!