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Would've thought it'd be funnier to imply that he has a double-standard - expects more from a woman than he'd apparently provide.

Well, it is true that I expect people in general to:

* Act like entitled schmucks
* If they don't experience something, deny that it's real
* Refuse to account for anything outside their experiences (overlaps with the above)
* "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks

This is something I've wanted to see for awhile now. As Nethergoat's been chronicling, the old content is showing its age. I'm also not sure how realistic it is.

Someone else said this upthread, but it's true. Doing so can utterly wreck what faith in humanity you might have.

I'm kind of tired of people proposing that anyone who plays WoW must really be fooling themselves into having fun - it's not rubbish, it's not a bad game. The people playing it are not deceiving ourselves. We're not having badwrongfun. You don't like it and you resent its success over your favorite game. Yay, we get it, can we move on now?

Yes, and WoW multiplied that by 10.

WoW has never reinvented itself. It has been refined with expansions and content updates, but it's never had to reinvent itself.

Also, WoW's not on the list because it is getting a remake with Cataclysm, and because it's so damned successful it's hard for anyone to say that Blizzard's on the road to ruin and expect to be taken seriously by anyone who's not invested in hating their game.

WoW's getting a fairly massive revamp in its next expansion. It also has two previous expansions, so they probably consider it fairly up to date.

I would like to see CoH get some nice revamping in Going Rogue, though. Could always use quality additions.

I didn't mean your unstated bit, but the "breasts are equivalent to penises" bit.

Sorry about both lack of clarity and the assumption. In that case, I don't think we have a functional disagreement.

Whether or not this is the case does not make them equivalent. Your position is what leads to stupid extremes like women wearing bikini tops getting kicked from buses, or whoever it was in the CO thread complaining that having a breast slider in an MMORPG was an obvious sign of immaturity (and it's so much better to portray all women as having exactly the same size breasts apparently).

Nah, it'd be a chest slider.

Breasts != genitals, and most specifically != *****

[insert savage dismissal of the notion that 'package' is equivalent to breasts here]

Oh, just pick one, or all three.

Exactly!

Here's the link.

There's a page that helps you find missed missions. I can dig it up later, if you want. It does take a bit longer than grinding, but is more fun.

As for tank builds - I know energy shield is a bit weird for your classic invulnerable superstrong hero, but laser knight makes you tough as nails, and works nicely with bountiful chi resurgence. Every time you use a melee attack, a weaker version of energy shield comes up. It does reduce your damage, so you should use the advantage that removes the damage debuff from BCR. My might character is low on damage right now (all rank 1 attacks) at 17, so it takes her all day to defeat anything...but it takes them even longer to really touch her health bar.

Yeah, I think three MMORPGs is my limit right now - and I stretched that to the breaking point.

I disagree. I tend to think people overreact a bit to certain topics. I do agree that I have a bit of a soapbox here, but I do not agree that I have a chip on my shoulder. I could show you where I did this morning, but I edited out a few minutes after posting it. It wasn't in this thread, and had nothing to do with orientation.

Also, the bit about lumping you in? Lots of people really do take this kind of stuff personally like that, and say those exact words without any humor or irony intended.

Wait wait wait, you're assuming that I was talking about all straight people when I specifically referenced straight people who say specific things in certain kinds of threads, and I'm the one with the persecution complex?

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.

Dude, if it's not about you, it's not about you. Chill out.

If you want it clearly stated, I don't recall you participating in those trainwrecks. Also, I don't think most of the people I respect on this forum (and yes, that includes you) say those things on this forum. I'll even add "some" in front of "straight people" so it's more obvious.

I wasn't shouting anyone down here. I made a note of "Oh yeah, this'll be good reference the next time someone says stupid ****" and someone made a stupid neg rep comment that was from someone who clearly misunderstood my point, but replicated some of that stupid **** that gets said. I clarified, and a bit of a side conversation has developed. Please try to keep up.

I really don't want to discuss this in depth here, I just wanted to make a note of it.

I'm pretty Sure Westley/Philotic_Knight has id'd himself as male.

The thread isn't, hypothetically, lesbians could be posting in here right now! (wait, that's not a hypothetical)


Of course I don't, not really, but people will assert all kinds of random, vacuous things to justify their homophobia and pretend it's not really homophobia, that they're just being objectively critical about everyone, etc.

Although, to be fair, chocolate ice cream lovers aren't likely to encounter people saying horrible crap about them just because it's Tuesday. And part of the problem is that many people can't seem to distinguish between identification and conduct.

I'm not talking about the thread. I picked a specific post from a poster I know is a man.

He could be bisexual, but I guess I can clarify:

When the topic comes up, some oversensitive straight people* flood the topic with their complaints that people flaunt their same-sex attractions and make everything about how they're attracted to members of the same sex, while people are properly sedate and dignified about their opposite-sex attractions and never bring them into the game. They go on further to act like there isn't a flood of negativity directed toward same-sex attractions (and in this case, that's aimed at bi people as well as gay and lesbian people) that would make anyone who isn't straight want to join or form a supergroup where that kind of behavior isn't cool.

Is that clearer?

* If you're straight and don't flood the topic, this statement isn't about you.

Hey, when a guy starts talking about how he'd tap that ***, that's flaunting heterosexuality.

There is nothing wrong with flaunting heterosexuality, I'm just gathering evidence the next time someone claims that no one does that.

Possibly!

Oh? What kind of tank?

I didn't think you hated it - I have had different experiences wrt how many powers I use, but I did kind of wonder how you were building. I think it's far too easy to take too many attacks and then rarely use many of them. But it's also pretty easy to take four or five attacks with particular synergies and use them as appropriate.

I think I've seen several convincing arguments that Kinetics would be OP for masterminds (although I'm still not sure I agree).

Or yeah, I'm not sure anyone would play anything else.

Maybe she's a magical carnival person.

Uh yeah, that's me, uncritically positive about CO 100% of the time.

I was curious because it seems to me that CO gives you too many powers, unless you build around a certain degree of flexibility. But not everyone wants or needs that flexibility. I mean stuff like taking more than one passive and swapping as needed, or picking up support and control powers.

I've also found that there's a reason to use more than two attacks in more than one framework, but it's easy to miss that if you get comfortable with one or two powers. There is a good reason to have three or more power armor attacks, for example. Or to use two-gun mojo even if you have the otherwise superior assault rifle or gatling gun.

Part of the problem is that some powers are unreservedly superior to all other choices (like gigabolt for AoE). They've whittled down the number of attacks that could be comparable to burn since launch, but a few remain.