Zekiran_Immortal

You *represent* a group of people every single time you post. Because of that title you've got there above your avatar - every. Single. Post.

Every lie, every threat, every poorly worded excuse, every troll. You represent people who may not like you doing so. Whether you "volunteer" or not, you ARE showing them off in a bad light.

Maybe the pvpec people think you're worth giving a high-five to because of your trolling efforts on the forums.

Maybe they will exclude you from their ingame activities because of them.

Either way, YOU are putting words in THEIR mouth - by being their representitive and stating these things in such a way.

If you had another account that wasn't associated with them, why not post on it, instead, and not drag them through the mud WITH you?

People like you should be forbidden to play social games. You are not worth the electricity it's taken to read this thread. Just so you know. It's not "funny", "punk'd" is just another word for "too stupid and foolish to keep your own mouth shut".

The only thing that "punk'd" indicates is your willingness to troll the forums and drag your PVPEC name through the mud. Just admitting it *does not make it acceptable* on the forums or in real life.

You're willing to lie, many times - several times contradicting your own "but I was lying when I said x" - and maybe you don't understand how many people READ these forums and actually keep up on them? But plenty of people did see your posts, and your post history. So... yeah, the only person you're punking is yourself.

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I strongly suspect that if I can, I'm going to change my necro/dark mastermind's dark powers to a pretty pink. After all, her supergroup is "Little Rays of Sunshine" and their colors are pink and purple, with the Heart (the nice cute valetines' heart, not a real one) as their logo

I see him for someone he really is: a 12 year old who shouldn't be playing the game let alone posting pretending to be someone / something he's not.

All your post shows, OP, is that the huge majority of players here will come together over something as seemingly trivial as one person's bigoted and idiotic opinion. If you're willing to express that opinion, great - but be warned.

We still stand together, most of the time, and I'm happy to say that I'm a part of a community that does just that.

On Virtue I have Onierocritic

On my second account on Liberty I have Screaming Meatsack

Somehow on Freedom on another account (... yeah I have several but sadly only one active) I got Little Booger.

Most of my toons names are "name" names, or odder combinations - Winter's True Spirit, Trickster's Jackalope, Icy Grip of the Bear, Spiney Surprise, Fire's Bold Burn, Pie Ratt Chick... etc.

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I would like to point out Sailor Moon.

More specifically, the Sailor Stars.

Wasn't there at least one that actually changed gender when (s)he "powered up"?

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Along with the openly gay couples? And the men who couldn't be told from the women because of their hair and dress/voices, and who were *changed to women* in one American version because people like the OP were worried that it might "corrupt" our youth... To which, the author *yanked the publication rights* from the company in charge of it for changing HER work...

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if you have COSTUME SLOTS that look like men and some COSTUME SLOTS that look like females that is called drag.

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No, it's *changing the gender of the character from male to female*. The female toon image *does not get male costumes.* The male toon image *does not get female costumes*. What part of that isn't clear?


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and is inappropriate for minors.

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Insane. No, it's not inappropriate for minors - why would it be? Please go back to the linked cartoons, tv shows and movie clips to see that cross-dressing AND gender bending have been long-used in not only entertainment but in society in general.

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Thosespell check on the clubs that have drag are all 18 ad old making this game have an adult theme with an adult rating. what part of that dont you get?

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What part of this game is a drag bar? And btw: plenty of clubs have 16+ portions, and a LOT of those have plenty of dressup-type nights.

What are you even smoking to get this worked up about pixels on a screen?

The character can be male or female.

That is not cross dressing. Read please.

No one but you "needs" a dev to do anything. Your impression of what is "happening" in the game is *wrong*. You're reading into it FAR too much, and it's painfully obvious that this IS an issue for you. Please get yourself some help.

"I never once said I had prob with it.
I find it concerning"

Those two things in your post just now are contradictory. You do have a problem. The rest of us don't.

You do not have to use the options. But the rest of us will because we know it's *a game* with great character/ costume generation.

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OP: get some therapy about that issue you have.

Your kids will be fine. They can actually play opposite gendered characters in any game and be fine. Unless, of course, you are as adamant about it in real life as you are about it in a game where the control over the appearance of your characters is the pinnacle of gaming achievement.

I worry for your teenage kids, seriously. It's not a moral issue.

My coworker loved cosplay and went so far as to get himself *completely waxed* for a pair of costumes. *he was hairy as hell* by the way.

One costume was a beautiful Sephiroth, full leather 'dress' style with straps and swords and all. The other was a geisha in silk and hip-high pleather boots. He looked fantastic in both outfits. He is not gay, he just likes dressing up.

This game is a big dress-up party.

If you treat it like it's a crime or a sin, the only ones you're hurting are yourself and your kids.

Verify files, and also make sure that you don't have a firewall interfering with the game.

All downloads and updates come from one source, they haven't put in a mirror.

Maybe try Steam, but I think it just goes through NC anyway.

Striga Island.

Yeah there ARE people who'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount for that, not THAT much I think but still. Yeowch.

There are a couple arcs hero side (can't speak about redside since I don't have high level toons there) which you'd WANT to have a partner for at least a duo or even a team for some smackdown on the arch-villains. However, nothing in this game is now "unsoloable" except for one or two scant "touch multiple glowies at once" missions - which are frequently droppable.

It USED to be different, I had to shelve my emp/dark defender because the AV > EB code hadn't yet been put in the game. But the moment I no longer needed a full team to take down an AV, I could pull a friend or two and have a small duo/trio do an eb way more easily.

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Neither computers nor paper are a crutch, so please stop arguing either might be.

Learning how to DRAW first is extremely important to having any kind of digital skill. I do in fact pity people who've gotten so good with using tablets and photoshop filters, that very likely cannot put color to paper and get anywhere near the results they want.

Each medium is its own reward and its own set of skills, however they DO all build upon a basic knowledge of artistic style, color theory, and the like.

You cannot - should not - learn how to draw from Comic books. There's an entire crappy generation of Image artists out there who learned directly from comics instead of heading to art school or actually learning by other means. It shows.

But by the same token, you cannot and should not attempt to make comic books without specific training to do so, BECAUSE it is its own medium. It is a storytelling medium that requires far more attention to details than some folks give it credit for. When one portion fails to live up to the others, it shows.

The only thing that is actually outdated, by the way, in producing comic books today, are hand colored separations. That's all.

Everything else is still in use from pencils and erasers and white out, to nibs - rapidographs - brushes - ballpoints - sharpies... The only significant difference is the coloring techniques because going straight to the printer from the computer is possible today. 15-18 years ago it was not. I watched first hand as these changes were made in the industry. I watched as the first *scanners* were used to produce the pages for coloring on the computer. (and you can tell that some early scanners being used were hardly better than fax machines set at a low resolution.) I watched as people grew more and more comfortable with using those electronic tools.

And I mourn the day when someone decides that inking is "not necessary" for comics. Inking *defines* comic style - when you think of a comic, you do NOT think of a sweeping fully-rendered color splash with no "lines". You think of 4-color process with bold black lines and forced perspective thanks to Jack Kirby and friends.

It's good to remember - it's good to KNOW - where we've been. It's nice to see where we CAN go - but like learning how to plough fields, it's something that cannot be replaced if it falls to the wayside. It can never be forgotten, but it can be lost as a skill and that would be a horrible shame.

Yes indeed please.

Well part of the problem with any course is that every instructor believes their class is the most important / the only thing that their students either are or should be concentrating on. It's like that for ANY course, maths, sciences, literature, whatever.

I think that if you can learn SOMETHING from a class, learn it. Friend of mine was getting ripped apart by one of the people at AI because he didn't have "enough" typography in his portfolio.

Guess what: that instructor was a typography teacher, and another guess what: my friend wasn't DOING typography.

Learn whatever's possible to be gleaned even if the instructors are dip(sticks). No person is perfect in all forms of traditional art.

I think they should spend some time hunting for a new marketing department

Yeah if you want hair with that, you have to get creative or stick with the tin crown.

If you DON'T need hair, there are a ton of head details available for "full masks" that would be good.

Holy crap I wasn't aware they were actually designing a NEW new expansion. I remember when they did the first one, flipping the old design around and mirroring it on the other side of the sails. Wow, that actually looks gorgeous.

Now, of course, where to put the parking...

I saw him tonight on Protector, he was level 5 I think... I petitioned him too. No reason this toon should be around.

FD, please stop trying to act like you know the comic industry.

You do not.

Pick up and read "Understanding Comics".

The second volume is also quite good too, though less broad in its scope.

While I might not agree with everything put forward in either book, they are far and away the best description of the comic book as well as the comic industry.

Comics are entertainment. They are not merely illustrations, nor merely for kids or merely ANYTHING. They evoke passionate responses, not just because of the individual images on each page, but through the story that they tell.

Good stories are hard to write and draw. Some people do it better than others. Jim Lee - aside from being one of the industry's best pencillers ever - has a skill in page layout which is unmatched. You know where to look, you know what you're seeing, even if it's on a glance complicated.

For a while in the early 2000s I was worried that inking would literally be left in the gutter by cheap publishers (and by that, I mean Marvel) because they simply didn't want to PAY for the inks to be done by a professional.

Good pencils and inks often come in the form of good teams - Jim Lee and Scott Williams for instance. Sometimes, pencillers should *not* ink their own work (John Byrne comes to mind).

Most pencillers and inkers do not do their own coloring unless they're a one-person operation. There are dozens of colorists working for any given large studio - Wildstorm has like... I don't even know how many guys have gone through that place, but half of them wound up working in the video game industry later on.

In the end, the results are usually worth the effort and the time. Learning the traditional inking style is extremely important as LJ said up above. Learning how to draw from comics, is suicidal in terms of "getting it right" - so learning how to be more of a traditional "illustrator" is one of the steps toward being a comic artist. It is, however, NOT the only/last one, since comics are not "merely" illustrations.