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Quote:I had to actually go look up the word "myopic". Sorry, English isn't my first language. And thank you for forcing me to learn a new word today!Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina
Of course there are some things about CoH specifically (too easy, few oneshots, and ability of any build to cap defense) that interfere, so the myopic suggestion hate brigade has to mob the heretic rather than just discussing how those things could be made compatible.
But really? Just because we simply disagree with a suggestion in its entirety and don't wish to discuss how it could be made compatible we're myopic suggestion hate brigade?!
You disagree with my opinion that Anti-One-Shot needs to be removed! You're not discussing how it could be made compatible! You're a myopic suggestion hate...person!
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I came into this thread being happy that someone was gonna suggest to get rid of this "easy button" and that I wasn't alone in hating the "anti-oneshot" system. I was wrong.
Defeat is already so incredibly meaningless in this game. It's worse when you know that if you're at 100% HP, you can walk up to Hamidon and burp in his face and nothing would happen until you get shot TWICE. Don't even get me starting on not being able to die by taking a long fall.
What kind of logic is that?!
And now you wanna make it EASIER?! Very much unsigned. Call me a masochist. But I enjoy reasonable challenge. -
...right!
You just described a fraction of character stereotypes in all fiction! I get it! Hahahah!
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Quote:Sure! What color would "ham goodness" be? Pale pink? That could work!Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
I like to think of Empathy as a ham sammitch which radiates ham goodness to fix all that ills.
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Quote:That's totally something someone I know would actually say. xDOriginally Posted by Silver Gale
Absolutely not. If it were a Psi power, it would be called "Psi Healing" or "Psi Support". You can make up stuff that's not in the game, but don't expect me to acknowledge it. #contraryjusttobecontrary
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Quote:That actually looks really cool!Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I'm pretty sure he meant something like this:
No, I don't have the patience to angle them. Welcome to Squaresville, Daddy-o. -
Quote:What did he mean? I'm curious about horizontal vents too!Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Vents...when I first read that I thought "WHAAAAT? You can make them horizontal? WHY WASN'T I INFORMED????" but then I realized what you mean. That could be cool...it would use more items but would give a grungier look than lights.
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Quote:Empathy can be considered as whatever you want to consider it as, thanks to Power Customization.Originally Posted by Aumakua
Since I have been playing this game I found myself making pure elemental characters such as my Elec/Elec/Elec Blaster, Ice/Ice/Ice Blaster, Dark/Dark/Dark Defender, Fire/Fire/Fire Scrapper, and Stone/Stone/Earth Tanker. I was thinking of making a Mind/Empathy Controller and was wondering if Emp can be considered Psi?
Empathy- understanding and entering into another's feelings
Fortitude-strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Clear Mind- self explanatory
Color Empathy pink and you should be fine! The concept is generic enough that, to me, it can be ignored. -
Quote:I tried your solution. And it works wonderfully. I downloaded EVGA Precision for my card and it had a nifty feature that'd let me create a "temperature vs. fan speed" curve and after some adjustment, it's lowering my temperature down rather significantly.Originally Posted by Lakevren_
Unfortunately, this is normal. At least for CoH. The only way I can tell you to lower the temperature is to use software to manage the fan control on the card and push it up beyond 40%, to like 60-75%.
But this comes at the cost of extra noise and extra wear on my fan. Hopefully the latter is not that big of an issue.
The noise I can deal with. Until at least I get a new case over Christmas! -
Quote:Do you just seriously make stuff up like that?! xDOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Around November 16th or after Thanksgiving.
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Yah, I don't have a very good case. But I got it for free as a bundle on some of the parts I ordered...so! It has one fan in the front, one larger fan in the back. There is also a "pipe" that kindda "sits" on top of the the fan mounted on top of CPU (it's attached to the removable side panel and when the side panel is closed, it positions directly on top of CPU fan, which directs the CPU heat straight out the case).
The issue is...the "pipe" thingy, is right in front of the rear fan. And the video card is at the very bottom of the case below the pipe.
I tried many things, including removing the pipe, adding a third fan on the side panel, etc etc. But nothing seemed to have a drastic effect.
I guess I have to save up for a better case. Sigh! -
Quote:I don't have any issues with the card to stress test it though. I'm just worried that playing CoH at 84°C might ruin my card.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
For some reason OpenGL games, like CoH, will stress a graphics card more than a Direct3D game. No idea why.
Want to stress test your videocard, max out temp and power use, a number of review sites now use FurMark, which happens to be OpenGL based.
And it seems the only thing I can do to lower the temperature to around 73°C is to either:
A. Bring the resolution down to 1280 x 800 (I'm running at 1680 x 1050 now) or...
B. Remove the side-panel of my case. This is not something I'd have to do just run ONE stupid game. xD
Bottom line is...SHOULD I worry about 84°C?! If so, I might just as well lower the resolution. -
First thing's first. There are my system specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2 Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 896 MB Memory
Now I can run CoH rather decently at near-max graphics with Ultra Mode. My frame rate usually hovers around 35 FPS. Sometimes it spikes to 60 FPS or even beyond when there is not much going on. In some other areas of the game, especially in Pocket D, for some reason, it drops to as low as 15 FPS.
I have Vertical Sync forced off both in game and in NVIDIA Control Panel, and I'm following the settings found here:
jg0001's NVIDIA Settings for Quality (ver2), Post #136
But performance isn't my main issue. My issue is that with these settings, my GPU seems to run at around 84 °C.
I run games like Fallout New Vegas, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, and all those 'fancy' games at maximum graphics, and my GPU NEVER spikes that high in temperatue! At max it'd only float around 70 °C!
During idle times when I'm not running games or doing graphically intensive stuff, my GPU hangs around 50 °C.
I'm just wondering is this behavior normal?! City of Heroes looks visually terrible in comparison to all those high end video games; why would it punish my GPU like this? Does anyone else experience this pattern? Is there something I can do that would improve my performance without making the game look even worse than it does?
Is 84 °C too dangerous? Should I even worry? I might just be paranoid since my recent graphics card fried on a hot day when hitting around 90 °C (it was a 9800 GTX) which made me go buy the one I currently have. -
Quote:Glad to know I wasn't alone!Originally Posted by Okashi
Broken Links
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Quote:You know what WAS scary? Female Face 22 and 23 (I think)...before they patched them and added shaders.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Then you cross over in to Custom. The Youthful option, as is, is terrifying. Giant head, huge eyes, tiny chin/mouth. The scariest faces to use it on are the Young Face (that looks 5 years old) for females and Disfigured for males.
The day they went live I almost jumped out my chair. It was so terrifying and hilarious at the same time! -
Quote:It's because generally people who constantly whine and complain about sexualizing the breasts and objectifying women are the same ones sexualizing the breasts and objectifying women by making such a big deal out of everything they see.Originally Posted by OmniSurge
I find it funny that someone would complain about toons with "unrealistic" boobs, but noone ever mentions the abundance of toons who have heads the size of watermelons. I see it sooooo much on Virtue...these toons who have these oversized heads, which are usually perched on top of super skinny bodies. There /is/ a head scale option in the tailor people.. learn to use it.
If you wanted to bring that up, there are tons of things you could complain about that are "unrealistic" in CoH. But only boob size comes up by the same people who are trying to put a stop to breast sexualization. See how retarded that sounds? xD -
Quote:I laughed so hard at that for some reason. Thanks! xDOriginally Posted by Anarchist_Kitten
...as I saw a show where Playboy admitted to sometimes lengthening legs via Photoshop (or whatever program they use), cause Hef likes long legs)...
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I love how this thread has covered topic ranging from Size of Breasts in CoH, Female Objectification and Breast Sexualization, to Values of Friendship, Feminism, Cross-dressing, Legs, Art Style, Realism, Comic Books, all the way to Social Abnormality, Social Acceptance, and Lifetime Happiness. XD
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Quote:Hey, are you suggesting there is something wrong with being perverted? ARE YOU?Originally Posted by Anarchist_Kitten
Yeah, I finally have. She accused me of making this thread only for sympathy and pity, and maybe a part of it is that, but mostly I feel I just needed to get the opinions of the community to find out if I'm "normal" or "perverted" as she said. I have Asperger's Syndrome, so I have a hard time understanding others emotions and even more so my own.
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Quote:The entire "it's unrealistic" argument is invalid even BEFORE all that!Originally Posted by BrandX
My point was purely on the complaints that come with max slider.
I've seen women who naturally had what all those who complain about "being unrealistic"...it's not common, no...but there are women who do. So the "unrealistic" (whether or not the game makes it looks good is up to personal opinion) arguement is invalid imo.
However, get a toon who's leg sliders are maxed, and it's nothing. No "it's unrealistic" arguements (mind you, I've seen some OMG those are some long legs before too).
Basically, I find the arguement for "unrealistic" not to make sense. If they said "you know that's not common" I'd see it more, but if they just said "it wasn't common" they'd have nothing to complain about.
If City of Heroes artistic team showed, in the slightest, that they are actually aiming for a realistic style of art with realistic characters in a potentially realistic world (like, you know, Mass Effect, or Fallout 3, or Crysis, or a bunch of other games that really made an effort in trying to give us 'realistic' graphics and art), then yah. Unrealistic boobs would not fit the world.
And guess what! In NONE of the games I just used as an example, do we get 'unrealistic' boob sizes.
But CoH is aiming for a comic-book style of art! Comic book style of art is not even remotely close to "realistic". So why does CoH have to be "realistic"?!??!?!?! Can someone please explain this logical loophole to me pretty please?! xD
Edit: It's like someone watching a generic anime show and going "Hrm! Those hairstyles look awfully unrealistic! That is disgusting!". We're playing in a world with a dozen furry catgirls around every corner, demons and angels chilling in a night club, and people shooting energy out of their eyes. And suddenly their breast sizes are unrealistic?!? If people didn't get worked up over these things, then maybe, just MAYBE, the world would stop sexualizing such trivial things so much. -
Quote:I guess with your case it'd be a little more different if the character actually tries to pose as a female too.Originally Posted by BrandX
But...he's suppossed to look completely like a female minus the chest.
Not just that, but the lack of costume choices the concept would wear. He was replacing his twin sister (and due to mutant genes he took on a very female look...not just androgynous). So the female model is the way to go.
That said, I did try it with a male model on another toon, who is suppossed to be androgynous, but I didn't want to use a female model. I spent a long...long...loooong time trying to get the look down...I still haven't succeeded and I try often just for that concept.
And I've seen a few use male toons for females.
My rant was mostly directed to people who pull that off, and then you approach their character and go like "Hey!!! Wussup, gurl?" and they go "(( I AM NOT A GIRL CAN YOU NOT READ MY BIO I AM AN EFFEMINATE GUY I AM NOT A GIRL WHO ARE YOU CALLING A GIRL!? ))"
And yes, I've actually had that kind of crap happen; may be not to that degree, but you get the point!
Also, I wanna give OrphanedHope a high five! That's exactly what I meant! -
Quote:As stated, for obvious legal reasons, I doubt developers would want to open that can of worms.Originally Posted by Makai_No_Falco
The only problem with that is that some people want to make child characters. An 8 year old girl shouldn't have a feminine figure.
That's a whole other topic. As much as I am a promoter of the "Let people have fun the way they want with their $15/month!" mindset, I can't help but to be annoyed at male characters using the in-game female model to be feminine. And before gasping at me "BRIGHT SHADOW!!!!", just bear with me for a sec!Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
I want it! Then my very much looks like like a female, but is a cross dressing guy's image can totally be complete!
Luckily, there's a few costume pieces that flatten out the look.
I don't find it annoying because I'm against the idea. I also don't find it annoying because it's (to some people) "taboo". The one and only reason for which I find this whole growing phenomenon really annoying is cause I think (I still haven't given it too much though; so feel free to disagree with me and tell me why I'm wrong!) it only shows the laziness of the player. How, you ask?
Instead of the player going to through the challenge and effort to try and make an effeminate male/boy, they simply want everyone else to go through the effort and hassle of ignoring the first visible identification criteria of their character and thinking the opposite.
People can make perfectly viable effeminate male/boy characters through the character editor using the male model. It's a challenge! But I think if someone wants to go through that route, they should take up that challenge instead of taking shortcuts! How come I don't see any butch female characters on male models (now that I think of it, I remember seeing ONE...and she was adorably hilarious!)?!
So yah, BrandX! I think you're lazy!
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Quote:As I stated in my post, I wasn't directing my argument specifically at you.Originally Posted by Tramontane
I'm over it. In two years (on and off) of playing this game, this is the first time I've even gotten involved in such a discussion, and only because somebody else brought it up.
But seriously. All I'm asking for is the option. The OPTION. Of having a female character whose breasts can't be used as a floatation device. Maybe that's what I'd think is fun, hmm? Maybe I want to have a character who looks like an androgynous alien, or maybe a female bodybuilder. Hell, maybe I'm a deviant and I think that's sexy the same way most men think ginorminous bazooms are sexy.
Regardless of the reason why, I think it's stupid to first say "It's not supposed to be realistic, it's a fantasy" and then say "Nobody cares what you want, get over it."
Sorry for any misunderstanding that may have caused.
Some people, sadly enough, feel like they are somehow morally superior because they do not like big breasts and try to shove it in everyones' faces, like the OP's friend. And this age-old behaviour isn't limited to just pixelated boobies. It's all over the world over various topics in different cultures.
As for the ability to make smaller boobs. I'd say meh. I personally wouldn't care one way or the other if they let us make females with smaller breasts. But I also don't see such a dire need for it. I think the minimum value we have right now is close enough to bring variety and still keep the character looking feminine. -
Quote:He didn't. Starts with 'a'.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Please tell me you did not get modded for saying "gay."
