Talen Lee

For what it's worth, your version of thor, as a brute, will save the world and quash gang uprisings and generally be a good guy.

Yeah, it's much easier to ignore it when I say something that you can't refute. I mean, silly me, thinking that my reaction to things was mine to dictate. I should wait on the polls to tell me what I think before I form my opinions.

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It is a completely unexciting inherant power.

[/ QUOTE ]*I* like it.

I know that probably doesn't matter to you, but hey.

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Yes, much better for all of us Im sure if the only content allowed to be produced were that which meats with your personal approval. *nod, nod*

[/ QUOTE ]I know, I'm so unreasonable for wanting content that meets my standards.

Oh, the rest of you are happy eating mud? Well, fine, I suppose, but I don't want to eat mud. I'd like to eat, you know, food.

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And I thought /I/ had an ego problem...

[/ QUOTE ]My opinion is not a democracy.

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None of these are in my opinion good things, because the ease of use encourages everyone to do it, rather than providing the barrier for entry that I'd like. If it was actually challenging to make an arc, I would hope that most of the terrible arcs wouldn't be there.

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So it's poorly implemented because it's...... easy to use?

[/ QUOTE ] because it encourages mediocrity.

[/ QUOTE ]And rewards popularity based on the opinions of the mediocre.

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There is consistency in comics (though not always).

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And I still don't get how you think the AE is poorly implemented.

[/ QUOTE ]The AE is a feature created to make it maximally accessible for a community to easily and transparently swap things from one to another, with a rating system. None of these are in my opinion good things, because the ease of use encourages everyone to do it, rather than providing the barrier for entry that I'd like. If it was actually challenging to make an arc, I would hope that most of the terrible arcs wouldn't be there. If there was oversight or editing or a rating system that was worth a crap, most of the terrible arcs wouldn't be rising to the top. Instead, the AE is implemented in such a way that every person is totally equal under its purview and the net result is fanfiction.net with XP.

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However, in your initial comments and comments in this specific post you did presume to speak for everyone else, not just yourself.

[/ QUOTE ]Who the [censored] else can I speak for?

Yes, well, that's nice for you, but since the subject was 'my reaction' to the announcement, and why I wasn't enthusiastic, my opinion is kinda the one that I find germaine to the discussion. There are people out there happy with Oprah, that doesn't mean I have to be.

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If you think the current implementation is so horrible then what would you change while still sticking to the original plan of allowing people to make custom missions?

[/ QUOTE ]I wouldn't. The plan is predicated upon the idea that every person has something to contribute. For the most part, they don't. If I had to make a system whereby people could make custom missions, I'd make it discerning and possibly even a contest, with oversight and testing and an editor.

None of this is feasible. Instead, we got a toolset that lets bad arcs get made, a rating system that rewards mediocrity, and a playerbase festering in incompetence.

And 'Make your own' is the most retarded possible solution to the problem of everyone else's material being bad.

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I was thinking of a build for small farm-tanking/soloing/fun. And was wondering about everyones thoughts and advice to Ice/DM?

Yes, I'm fairly new. But I just like the concept of the aura tanking with frosteverywhere, and being able to siphon the life outta my mobs.

[/ QUOTE ]Dear. God. Yes.

In the early game, before you can really get the SO-level protections Ice Armour affords you, dark melee's punches will be adding to your survivability by keeping the heaviest hitters you attack from attacking back meaningfully. By stacking -tohit and +defence, you'll be very tough to kill early on, though you won't have great area effect. Siphon life will help smooth out those periods where Hoarfrost isn't available. It's also great damage.

You might find yourself hurting in the late game when you want to IO out. I say 'hurting' because you might want to get a lot of recharge (to fuel Siphon Life, Soul Drain, and Hoarfrost), or a lot of typed defence (to fuel your armours and get to the soft cap). I haven't found a build that can do both, but I did fiddle with a build that could get about 30% recharge without trying and soft-cap itself to s/l/e/n.

In essence, yes, ice/dm is very good.

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I have recently made a mind psi dom and am liking the set pretty well how ever being to to doms i would love any information you can give on what powers i should take,

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With Mind control, there are no bad powers. However, the changes to the psi set make a huge difference in the power selections for this set.

Quick list of mind powers that any mind dom should have:

1) Dominate
2) Mass Hypnosis
3) Tk or Total Domination
4) Terrify
5) Mass Confusion

As long as you have those powers, you'll do well.

[/ QUOTE ]I question the wisdom of TK/TD when you have mesmerize and Confuse in the same set.

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Therefore it is a success and a worthwhile addition to the game.

[/ QUOTE ]For you, sure. For me, it's a lot of effort spent on something that's made the game actively worse. I can't speak for you. I can speak for me. And when I see things being put in the game that make it worse for me, it doesn't muster up my enthusiasm.

Now stop telling me I have to be enthusiastic about giving idiots the tools to prove their idiocy.

NPCs are written and don't have to comply to balance. That's why they get to break the rules. Bonus, they're stupid.

Then defenders are debuffed for joining a team. That's a bad idea.

Yeah, defence got sensibled-up in I7. On the other hand, it would actually make the force fields better.

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Heh, probably true, but I thought in the context of this thread, someone might have looked at it. Ok well.

[/ QUOTE ]Don't get me wrong, it's good that you're thinking about that. But you need to take the next step, which is to go from 'How I would have done things,' and then into the realm of 'This is how I would change things as they are now.'

Note, that 'change' is carefully used word there. You have to know a lot to really know what's a good change. You need to know how powers work. You need to know how they don't work. You need to consider everything that's been set up one way or another way in the game has a reason for that set up. Understand, consider, then propose.

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Level 47: Mass Hypnosis

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In your opinion. I've played some very good, well-written, and creative arcs. Just because they don't meet with your approval doesn't mean they're not good, just that you don't personally like them.

[/ QUOTE ]If 99% the function is used to produce is crap to me, then the function itself doesn't seem to have been worth the time and effort, you know? On the other hand, one could say the same thing of the official content.

I'm passing my opinion. Most of the people writing arcs are bad writers. Most of the arcs that get written are bad arcs. None of them are going to get better on their own, the rating system serves no purpose to encourage good arcs at all, and the developer's choice function indicates that the minds that gave us Doc Brainstorm and the VEAT arcs are going to be the ones who determine if arcs get special preferential treatment.

In essence, from where I sit, the AE is a giant pile of terrible. Not because of bugs or exploits, but because it puts the power to create easily in the hands of people who aren't any good at it. So yes. That is my [censored] opinion, thank you very much, and I'll continue to hold it. Watch me be unimpressed with how they implement side switching, too, because I'm making the bold prediction it'll be handled with really stupid writing involved.

Edit: Oh, and good writing and bad writing are not, in fact, pure matters of opinion. Good design and bad design are equally not. A lot of the [censored] that gets churned out by the AE is emperically bad. It's not just my 'opinion' that most people are incompetent writers, it's an observation backed up by fact.

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Way to miss the point genius.

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Seriously. Do you even know what the point you're arguing against is..?

[/ QUOTE ]Johnny is attempting to pick nits, because the alternative would be raising his level of discourse to the point where he can't just accuse wildly, state without justification, and invent numbers.

The playerbase that identifies as 'masterminds' are unique creatures that don't seem to realise they probably don't want to draw serious dev attention.

Basically, 'price guides' have very, very strict standards for anything that they label. It's especially bad when you're dealing with international price guides - here in Australia, when Beckett price lists were used for Magic, people wouldn't convert the prices in USD, because it was just unnecessary math. The upshot of it is that if you, for example, took a business trip to Sydney, you could buy Arcbound Ravagers for 80 bucks Australian and then, back home in Texas, sell them for 80 bucks American. Not a niche many exploited, but still a little embarassing.

Also, broadsword is diversified from katana in that katana is really, really good and broadsword's kinda weak.

Being fair, I thought I was purchased in packs of twelve at the supermarket, but that may be eggs. I get them confused some times.

It does look like it's one of those TFs where you're rewarded for doing it solo. No AV, no multiclicks...