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  1. Bill Z Bubba

    Thank you everyone

    POST-ACTION

    And just WHAT is so funny about Kali's post count?

    hmmmmMMMMMM?
  2. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
    It'd be interesting to do a Scrapper ITF but I'm not sure I'd want to do it as a pug, I'd like to do it with close friends who know how to SMASH! effectively.
    When I ran one on Pinnacle, I'm 99% sure we ran it on 5th diff. Took some work to take down Rom in the final mission, but we managed it.

    Had the SRs yank off the healing fluffy, a regen aggroing the autohit fluffy, and the rest to beat down Rom.

    Lots of fun.
  3. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler View Post
    I promise that if we ever added animated tails, we would not be replacing the existing static ones.
    I'd be happy with the long tail functioning with trenchcoats/togas/etc. I'd also like to be able to wear a belt while still having a tail.
  4. Bill Z Bubba
    8 scrappers. Any/Any
  5. Bill Z Bubba
    Quick sidenote: A claws/sr scrapper does NOT need aid self to take down AVs. Just throwin that out there.
  6. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _____ View Post
    the game is as violent as a saturday morning cartoon show
    your sig is, you know, more so

    and i think extra context is needed to make that picture more than your character violently killing someone
    What you think has rapidly become irrelevant to me. Why don't you go rant about all the boobies in avatars for a while?
  7. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _____ View Post
    you're confusing the issue

    a piece of art that offends my moral sensibilities may indeed be an amazing work due in part to the feelings of repugnance it elicits, but this isn't about the ethics of aesthetics, this is about appropriate context

    as mentioned before, the forum as a whole has no knowledge of your character's backstory or the story behind the picture itself, so right off we're missing a lot of the information that would be relevant in correctly interpreting the work
    what we're left with is an arguably gruesome image just laying around in a message board for a t-rated game and you want to claim that anyone who raises an eye over the content is a easily-offended and incapable of separating reality from fiction
    No context? My forum name is billzbubba. An obvious takeoff of Beelzebub. My avatar is a devil easily made with the CHV costume generator. I'm on the CHV forum. The signature picture is obviously the same character as the avatar.

    This is a game where we violently dispatch enemies. many of them scantily dressed females.

    No other context is needed. If my sig art is inappropriate for anyone, then they shouldn't be playing this game.

    I'm not confusing anything. You're making up a BS argument because you don't like my sig art. To which I gladly say, tough noogies.
  8. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _____ View Post
    pathetic is a great word to describe people who don't share your standards

    if you are claiming that one can't legitimately find something constituted by fictional entities objectionable, then i hope you could explain why it is that we shouldn't be offended by something like the animated rape of a fictional child
    You go on being offended by whatever you desire to be offended by. Don't expect me to understand it, don't expect me to sympathize with it, don't expect me to think highly of you for it.

    Art is supposed to create a reaction, this is true. However, to censor ANY art because of that reaction is the height of ignorance. I've seen works that made my stomach turn. I applauded it for the artist's ability to do his/her job. I didn't spit on the artist or the work.

    EDIT: To put it another way, any drawing of any event, no matter how grotesque we may find the act it *represents,* is still nothing more than lines on paper or graphical representations of 1s and 0s. If you can't separate reality from fiction, there's no help for you.
  9. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _____ View Post
    you don't find anything questionable in a scantily-clad woman being graphically impaled?
    I find it highly disturbing that so many humans seem incapable of differentiating artwork from reality.

    It's quite pathetic, really. Were it an actual picture of a woman actually being impaled, then you might have a case. As it is, it's obviously a depiction of two completely fictional characters in a fictional environment.

    I could go on with my opinions of such people and their easily offended sensibilities, but it would bring a mod-smack upon me the likes of which I've never dreamed.
  10. Bill Z Bubba
    LX,

    While I'm not sure how I feel about your suggestions specifically, I would like to see some changes made to the Peacebringer even if such changes made it a more team-oriented archetype.

    After deleting a level 50 PB, a level 30 PB and probably several more that didn't make it to the teens, I would very much enjoy seeing Something done with PBs so that I could find them worthwhile.
  11. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Flea_Mark_Evil View Post

    Also also OT, Bill - who did that art? Enquiring people with money at an inverse proportion to sense would like to know.
    Graver on pencils. http://graver13.deviantart.com/
    JTran on inks/color. http://jtran218.deviantart.com/

    Two of my favorites.
  12. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna View Post
    Demons... pft.
    That'd be Devils, oh she of the "let's show off as much cleavage as possible in my avatar."




    HA! More rep lost due to my sig. I love it. Before I know it I'll be in the red because of the easily offended masses.
  13. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU View Post
    But the picture doesn't show that - it just shows a male creature violently killing a female creature - and without the context of a backstory, it does look quite bad.
    Ok, fair enough. Hell's a violent place.
  14. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU View Post
    Ok, I can see why someone might have complained about that - but it is kinda hard to tell what it is when it's a cropped signature pic, so maybe they saw the original?
    Seriously? On a forum for a game where we consistently burn, impale, eviscerate, slash, smash, freeze, brainfry, irradiate and pummel enemies of both sexes, folks find that picture misogynistic?

    Interesting. But it would be perfectly acceptable to have shown the roles reversed (which happened often in BZB lore as he and Lilitu have been "killing" each other for thousands of years,) right?


    Funny part is, Perfect_Pain is correct.
  15. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna View Post
    Your edit does make it look worse than it is... is that the point?
    .... oddly enough, I was just trying to get their faces in and keep it at 600X120 pixels.

    Hmmmm.
  16. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU View Post
    I can't even see what it's meant to be

    EDIT: It looks like a fight, but it's been cropped way too much.
    Cut it down to whatever the sig picture said it should be.

    Here's the original:
    http://pages.suddenlink.net/dmweb/dancedesk.jpg
  17. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain View Post
    Some people said some really terrible things.
    I, honestly, have no problem hitting that alert mod button...
    I don't see an alert mod button on the rep section of the UserCP.
  18. Bill Z Bubba
    I just received my first negative rep hit. Here was the comment:

    Quote:
    For having a sick and glorified abuse of women in your sig you piece of useless crap
    How cute.
  19. Bill Z Bubba

    Thank you everyone

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Umbral_NA View Post
    I think it's fair to say that the Scrapper forums are known across all of the AT boards as the place to go when attack strings are important and AV soloing isn't simply due to stacking loads of debuffs on the target.
    Next thing ya know, folks will start coming here to get help with tech issues and overclocking guidance. Guess I'll tell Mid_Forever to start hanging out here.



    Why, yes, I love the scrapper forum most of all.

    Side note... damage auras on top of regular attack chains... kinda groovy when backed with the proclobster mindset.
  20. Bill Z Bubba

    Electric Armor

    POST-ACTION

    I'm going to have to consider a claws/elec brute now.
  21. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nod View Post
    Same happened to me. I may be imagining this, but I could swear when I switched from Hero skin to Villain skin is when my inbox filled up. Did you just switch skins?
    Not just... but I had checked them out a day or two ago. It's possible that it happened then and I didn't notice.
  22. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shannon_EU View Post
    Scrappers running back with their aggro cap crying "heal meh!!!" have got it wrong
    Absolutely true. That also falls under bad scrapper.

    A good scrapper dies laughing, hits the hospital and is back in the mission before the team realizes he's gone.

    The better scrapper doesn't die.

    A scrapper IS allowed to haul an aggro cap's worth of baddies back to the team when the team Wants him to. I'm often in this position on ITFs.
  23. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xemulas View Post
    Probably, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

    Here's a reasoned response, instead of a hot-headed snipe, which I apologise for.

    Everyone plays their characters differently, and all team dynamics work differently. I am a a Villain player 95% of the time. Co-op task forces obviously create opportunities for my regular, habitual villain teams to come into contact with hero ATs (We've all got them, mind, we're not allergic to heroes). This, more often than not, results in interaction with scrappers, in the same was as some brutes, who consider it acceptable to launch ahead and aggro whatever they like regardless of what the body of the team is doing.

    Most of the time, the teams are "tank"less, maybe the odd brute, but no tank is present, I find them to be the most redundant archetype. The rule of "Squishies have Daddy Tank" is flawed, as not every team runs as you described: not every team can facilitate and support to full efficiency, a rogue melee AT.

    A good friend of mine I met in game plays mostly scrappers, and I have to say Bill, he is your antithesis. Don't get me wrong, he'll step up to the oche and solo a mob if the situation requires it, but he is nothing short of an amazing scrapper, in the way we have come to define good scrapping. Dishing out damage, never biting the dust, and most importantly, guarding and protecting the others on the team, always aware of what is going on.

    Thus a point emerges: my opinion, voiced in reaction to the OPs rather warped view of his own actions, was constructed from my presumption that he acted like many of the scrappers/brutes I have politely asked to refrain from doing: attempting to play in ignorance of the team, as if they were soloing.

    I'm not going to end on any cutting general remark, but I will say that certain people have certain expectations and each find some things acceptable that others don't. I'd advise the OP to be aware of that
    Now that's a great post.

    Here's how I team:

    Team goes from spawn to spawn. Everyone sticks pretty tightly together. Spawns are wiped out in seconds. Team moves on. I'll usually stay with this team.

    Team has a tank. Tank wants to herd. I'll be on the next floor or at the other end of the map.

    Team has an excess of control and debuffs. Team is completely safe at all times and destroying spawns at what they consider to be a comfortable clip. I'll be on to the next spawn as soon as the bosses are dealt with.

    Team has a bunch of new players, or poor builds or on a difficulty too high for the team's ability to handle it. I'm with the team doing everything I can to keep them alive.

    Yes, there is a time to stay with the team. There is a time to run off and have fun. More often than not, because this is not a difficult game with properly slotted characters of some skill level, the scrapper should be off killing whatever but close enough to get back to the team should the need arise.

    Because of the people *I* generally run with (that being badgers who tend to know the game well and they know I'm a chaos bringer) I no longer have to think about it. Team's good? I'm free to kill. Things getting rough? I'm back with the team to pull them out of it or fall with them.

    The scrapper that completely ignores his team is a bad scrapper. The player that constantly gripes at scrappers for doing what scrappers do best is a bad player.
  24. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xemulas View Post
    I'll keep that in mind
    What you should keep in mind is the fact that your alteration of my quote has a completely different meaning that what I posted. Since your response was not in jest, this means that you are incapable of defending your position and instead was forced into becoming a liar by misrepresenting my position in order to make a failed attempt at covering up your failure to make a reasoned response.

    I award you no points and your mother is now ashamed of you.
  25. Bill Z Bubba
    Anyone have any idea why I'd suddenly have 100 messages that I sent suddenly appear in my Inbox as if I received the PM from the person I sent it to?