Chad Gulzow-Man

That's actually kind of what I was thinking of when I said "techno-organic" back in my earlier post. Chitinous growths as opposed to wires and metal plating, etc...

You mean other than just ripping it off from the title of a John Cusack comedy?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231587/

You'd be surprised how much a QA team that size would cost. Especially since getting us to test it is free.

That's the same thing I ultimately end up picturing in my head every time I think of a scythe in TW. So awesome. *_*

And it was very kind of you, thanks very much.

Oops, I misread Alpha Wolf's post. None of the individual enhancements were on sale this morning when I updated my spreadsheet.

It can't be any worse than stabbing with a rocket-powered hammer, a chunk of concrete on the end of a pipe or a demonic meat axe. And if the stabbing animation is really your concern, I have a solution for that:


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EDIT: ... Yeah, what Kyriani said. >_>

My last full time job was building and repairing computer systems for a company that offered forensic video analysis software. The kind of stuff that is actually possible is pretty impressive, as long as you don't expect "magic green lines" to do the work for you.

(Also: Hollywood really loves their keyboard interfaces, lulz.)

You quoted me to give me flack for overlooking something that I acknowledged within the quoted text? Classy. :/

You know they eat dogs in a lot of Asian countries, right?

I remember a time in college, we had a discussion about our favorite foods for some reason and this Chinese girl started talking about how her favorite food was "baked black dog," and everybody else was all...

Correct. They can add or remove individual listings from the market at will, but the devs cannot change the functionality of the market in any meaningful way.

I'm sure if they could wave a magic wand and change one thing, that would be near the top of the developers' list too.

I've been saying this since the first time it came up on beta back in early 2012. A scythe would look ridiculous as a Staff Fighting option; it doesn't function mechanically the way a staff does, which is to keep the weapon's center of gravity as close to the core of the shaft as possible.


On the other hand, since Titan Weapons was (were? damn you Grammar Goblins!) first announced, I've been clamoring for a scythe option. It would work beautifully as a TW choice; heck, the only reason a scythe really works as a tool in the real world is because of momentum. It's a weapon that's built for broad, powerful swings, at a scale that's much more reasonable for a "normal guy" character to wield than any existing Titan Weapon options.
No sillier than the current giganto-swords or demon meat axe, I'd wager.

I was, in fact, referring specifically to player characters. As you point out, it's pretty much a staple in comics across the world to have THE BIG BAD capable of doing terrible things that no protagonist, alone or in groups, could manage... at least at first. In Western comics, this will usually be solved by a team-up of unlikely heroes and/or villains, a deus ex machina like Marvel's "Cosmic Powers" which flit from character to character, some Hail Mary I-hope-we-never-have-to-do-that-again play that just barely manages to work, or some combination thereof. It just seems that only in Japanese comic literature does a single protagonist grow to (and especially maintain) equal footing with the big bad, before raising his friends to a similar level and then having, as you said, "a bigger rock thrown at them the next time."

And strangely, despite my former fondness for Dragonball Z, I was actually thinking about Guren Lagann... the climax of which involves the main character creating a super robot so large that the collateral damage of the final fight was literally galactic in nature. (He actually used an entire galaxy as a barrier against an attack.) Though to be fair, the latter 2/3 of Guren Lagann had me going, "WHAT IS THIS @#$%" at least once an episode.



That is, of course, all part of a particular sub-genre of anime, which I generally hear referred to online as "Fighting Forever" anime. Obviously, you and I and most people who actually watch anime know that not all anime features this, and that even within the "Fighting Forever" sub-genre, there are plenty of series which handle power creep at a much more reasonable pace than planet crushers like DBZ et al.

(Side note: I am hating Bleach so much right now.)

Not exactly.

For starters, any anime where characters are strong enough to destroy an entire planet single-handedly won't mix with the CoX universe. So there's a power level limit somewhere in there.

And not to mention any adult-themed sub-categories, since this game is T-rated (though that obviously applies equally to Western art styles as well).



But hey, at least we get Hammerspace. *thumbs up*

Perhaps he actually expected the Spanish Inquisition?

I can't really complain about the idea of a small discount for VIPs (not that I think it's needed), but putting things in the market that only VIPs can buy is a bad move. It tells people who can't or don't want to subscribe for whatever reason that the money they can spend isn't wanted.

Now, if you wanted to switch that up to give VIP players an advance release of something--basically making it exclusive to VIPs for one or two months before opening it up to the Premium players--then I think you've got an argument.

Yeesh. Glad to hear you're doing well, but sorry about the car.

(And no, knowing that you were in mortal danger doesn't really make me feel differently health-wise.)

I've only been ill since the middle of last week. My roommate got a sinus infection last weekend that went untreated and turned into bronchitis, and she's one of those people who doesn't cover their mouths when they cough. I convinced her to go to the doctor by informing her that a bronchial infection is just a step away from pneumonia.

So the day after she goes to the doctor, *I* started getting sick. So I hit up my doctor the very next day and told him about my roommate's illness, but by that point I was so drained I had to come back home and go to bed. To my roommate's credit, though, she actually did a pretty good job of taking care of me while I was incapacitated, including paying for my antibiotics. (Whether that was due to her genuinely caring about me or feeling guilty for getting me so friggin' sick remains a mystery.)

I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be returning to work tomorrow... not that I'm looking forward to being on my feet for 7 straight hours as I'm on the tail end of this bug.