BellaStrega

Yeah, yay for that, but...wha?

Speaking of which, I hope he has a big ol' apology for Diana when he gets back from the prehistoric past.

People aren't seeing what they "want to see." People are seeing how the symbols have been used in the past 100 years. There is no objective truth to these symbols, only their usage by human beings. If you want to use the Maltese Cross or the fylfot in that context, you'll have to do some work to redeem their image, or you'll have to explain what you really mean every time someone sees you parading around what appear to be Nazi symbols.

What you said isn't meaningless, but it is wrong and misinformed. You think that original meanings should easily overcome more vivid and recent usage, as if symbols have an objective existence outside of human perception and consciousness. The fact that you can't acknowledge this subjectivity makes it impossible to even discuss symbolism, simply because you don't acknowledge what symbolism is (rather than what you wish it to be).

But all said and done, no one is oppressed or harmed by the fact that these symbols are associated with Nazism, although many were harmed by Nazism itself.

Guild Wars also did not have an aggro system designed around tanking. Aggro was a fairly short radius (you had a smaller circle around you in the compass that would show the distance where mobs would attack).

The words are not identical when referring to people - not because of their strict meanings, but because of historical context.

I generally let people tell me who they are, and if someone says she's an African-American, I take her word for it. Why try to enforce a definition on her? Same as if she says she's not African-American.

Unfortunately, meaning does not exist in an objective state outside human consciousness and perception. Humans create symbols and inscribe meanings on them. The iron cross and the swastika as used by the Nazis mean exactly what the Nazis used them for. It's not a matter of perception being more powerful than truth, it's that symbols have no meaning beyond perception.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to lie about a symbol, but you know what the Discordians say: The opposite of a truth is a lie, but the opposite of a great truth is also true.

When I set out to IO my scrapper out, it only took a couple of weeks of playing the market (no farming, not much actual play) to get her all the IOs I really wanted...but that was in issue 9 or 10, before purples were added.

There was a time during the first year of the game when Boomtown had a level requirement of 12+, but you could be sent there at 10-11, at least via the Positron TF, possibly via the security chief mission.

As pointed out earlier, it's a genre convention in superhero games that all damage is non-lethal unless the player making the attack wants it to be lethal, either a choice made when they attack, or a design choice made while building the character.

You're overreacting to this thread, then. That's not where it went, and I don't think anyone made an argument remotely like that.

I like Castle!

So there.

How do I know what? I said "I think" which is a qualifying statement indicating that I expect it to be one way, but do not know for sure.

Er, what? I have never ever been yelled at for running anywhere in WoW, and I never use the walk toggle.

And the run speed isn't that much of an issue. CoH is built around characters being faster, having access to ways to move even faster, fly, teleport, leap, run, etc.

It's pretty tragic. If only playing WoW hadn't killed you. Then you could be here to regale us with tales about how people yelled at you for running through Ironforge or something.

How long ago was this?

That's because the revamp is in the next expansion, which isn't even in beta yet.

I play a blapper. She rarely dies, but has been known to cause the death of scrappers.

It's amazing what you can do with aim, build-up, and two war hulks.

The daytime is prime sleeping time for me.

Otherwise, yeah, I would've taken a villain over.

Armor is a percentage reduction from total damage, like resists in CoH. Dodge and parry are direct avoidance, like defense in CoH. Block is percentage chance for partial avoidance of, I believe, a flat value. You're not braving multiple checks to get through this, though. If you have 21% block, then if you don't avoid, you could still block. I believe mobs also have a 5% or so chance to miss all the time, and I think defense (which reduces crit chance) has some effect on this.

Nowhere near 20-30 seconds knocked off, seriously.

You see the spawn, they don't see you. You jump next to the sapper, who will almost immediately get stunned by OG. You then beat the sapper up.

This works best if you have an immobilize, as some sappers will take to the air and fly off at really high speed while stunned (or used to, I haven't looked to see if that still happens).

If the sapper sees you once, your end bar will budge a bit, but not very much. When I talk about sappers being trivial for /DA, I'm not talking about using IOs. I'm not even talking about when toggle end costs were reduced. This was back in issue 4.

A hit on invuln will take 20-30 seconds of fighting time off, but invuln's end drain resistance is noticeably weaker than /DA's.

I'm not saying /DA is as good as /ElA, but I think that /DA's advantages are being discounted a bit here.

Heh. You can put a lot of IO bang into a character without paying too terribly much. Still, it's good to have the uniques that buff recovery, which are pricey.

Well, that settles it. All Americans are murderous psychotics.

Yeah. All Americans are gun-toting thugs who would just as soon shoot our neighbors as look at them. It's a real bloodbath over here when holiday shopping comes around.

My point is that if scrappers are meant for "the back ranks" every mob on the map is in the back ranks. I shouldn't have to explain this, least of all to other scrappers.

Also, charts are abstractions.

Also also, not all scrappers have knockback.

Also also again, I wanted to make a second chart that covered your situation (and said so), but I was too lazy.

Yeah, it is ridiculous that people demand this information as if they're entitled to it, or think they're entitled to decide who people really are (as opposed to who they say they are).