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Quote:TLDROriginally Posted by PSLAnimal
"Soldier," in military parlance, refers to someone in the Army. A Marine is always referred to as "Marine," and every real-life jarhead I've ever met would object to the term "soldier."
It's an old inter-service rivalry thing.
Basic definition of soldier - a person engaged in military service
I spent just a few years in the military and never felt a rivalry with any of my brothers/sisters in arms, especially once I realized one branch could not execute its mission effectively without the other. I think the appropriate answer is that the Marines specifically feel very strongly about this point (we've all seen the sexy commercials...fancy unforms, the few & the proud etc...got it, understand the strong sense of pride in the Corps). Honestly though, I have never seen navy personnel get riled about about being called a soldier and responding with, "Im not a soldier, Im a Seaman!".
You have to realize that many civilians dont see the difference and that the term soldier is often applied across the board with no disrespect intended. A good example would be me sitting in a bar awhile back when a woman mentioned that her daughter (in the AF) would be home soon and a guy nearby raised his beer up and said, "I love our soldiers".
Military groups with a strong "sense of self" and unit esprit de corps often seem to buy the hype theyre sold about being the best and fall into the mindset. When I was jumping out of airplanes, alot of the paratroopers I served with thought they were better than their "dirty leg" counterparts that werent Airborne. Its funny when you think about it in the most basic of terms and realize that somebody went to a school...learned how to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and then considered themselves a step above those that havent attended the school. The funny part is once you're a civlilian again...none of that or military affiliation really means much to anyone except to the individual.
God bless you if you served and God bless all of our "soldiers"
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Quote:I agree that its a lot more complicated of a thing than the way I put it, your post is right. I was kidding more than anything else and Im always grateful for new stuff, complete with bugs or not.Originally Posted by Zengar
Easy to implement, yes. But one of the things that the devs said when they implemented the moving tails was that with the engine they are stuck with, they were concerned about a possible performance hit. I don't know if they came up with an alternate way of doing them that was computationally cheaper, or whether they just datamined and determined that the resulting effects were acceptable, but it's something to keep in mind. It would be fairly trivial in a single player game but in a massively multiplayer online game, however, there are a lot more considerations than just ease of coding.
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Quote:No derail intended, but why is that?Originally Posted by PSLAnimal
Any Marine would object to your use of the term "Soldier."
Also, I have rad Troller and used the empty jarhead option to say that he is something like a nuclear reactor "core" type. I havent figured out the full bio yet. -
Quote:Gotcha...I had considered a KM/DA Scrapper at 1 point to basically stun everything. I had noticed that CS from KM was doing like 600 dmg in PvP (like twice the damage of Stalkers AS without the disadvantages) and wasn't sure if the mechanic crossed over to PvE or not, but figured the stuns would be fun as well to use PvE side.Originally Posted by Intrinsic
Unreliable. The attacks have lower chances to stun than their EM counterparts. I can often string attacks together quickly to make a boss wobble for a little bit, but not often enough or long enough to make it really useful.
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Quote:Agreed, shouldnt be that hard rite?Originally Posted by Rapthorne
*patiently waiting for paypal to load up to BUY MOAR POINTS*
Only two things I can say to critique this costume set (aside from the acknowledged bugs)
1. Please give us a just plain "headless2 option for the jar, no glass, no nothing.
2. Please make an animated serpent hair style, I'd pay 400 points just for that alone.
Use the moving tails concept, add a bunch of mini moving tails on the head and design the tips with snake heads....done!
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Quote:You ninjad me lol.Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
What about the fact that the herd suddenly couldn't smell food 2 feet away when we had already had an entire episode about their sense of smell? That's the part that bothered me the most.
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Quote:Consider the episode in season 1 when after they escape the city and all drive back to camp in the truck and Mustang. I think the car alarm was sounding off the whole time and then the camp is attacked by 5 million zombies (fuzzy about this part as I dont fully remember it...little help please). Is it a stretch to assume the zombies were attracted by the noise and just kept piling up and walking until they came across our guys? I mean I wouldnt even talk unless I needed to, Id make everyone learn sign language just not to make noise while running their mouths lol.Originally Posted by Dark One
Re: the motorcycle.
They were on the move. They weren't expecting to stop for any real length of time, or at the very least not to break down on the interstate. They would far outpace any deaders before they could zero in on the bike's noise. Once they were stopped, the prospect of making extraneous noise when they know there was at least one herd around became a bit more dangerous.
Silly? Yes. It was naive to think there wouldn't be traffic jams on there, especially when they passed a massive one on the way out of Atlanta.
In this new episode, it could have been the zombies were heading in a diffferent direction until they heard the motorcycle and then began making their way toward the sound (or not). Its the first thing I thought of...but I tend to overanalyze things.
Either way, it doesn't take away from how much I enjoy the show, but I thought to myself that I wouldnt take any risks that werent worth taking if it was me and my family in that situation.
An additional point of contention...if T-Dog (lol, great name for a black guy I suppose) was bleeding like animal, how come the zombies didnt "sense it/smell it" or whatever it is they do? -
Quote:Agreed, but I guess they wanted him to look cool so to hell with zombie attraction. Im sure at least a small population of the ladies watching the show probably get gushy for an independent, good ol southern boy that can hunt and track and refuses to ride in a car with everyone else b/c he's the lone wolf/independent, man's man type. It doesn't matter that the end of the world has arrived...40 years later and Easy Rider is still making an impact. Got to give people options for sex symbols on the showOriginally Posted by Demobot
Ordinarily I can do that, but it gets annoying when the series starts breaking its own rules for no apparent reason. Like Daryl's motorcycle. The single loudest vehicle in all of post-apocalyptic Georgia, yet they're worried about a SINGLE gunshot attracting a herd of zombies.
I personally will be riding my 10 speed Huffy once the zombpocalypse hits. A little oil here and there and Ill be ghost biking around town like a ninja. -
Quote:Great stuff...funny thing is I thought the same thing about the motorcycle and the dude cutting his arm.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Got to get over the little common sense things since this is Hollywood...just enjoy the ride
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Quote:lol good times.Originally Posted by Comrade Hero
Billy Batson says SHAZAM! and turns into a female superhero version of Captain Marvel? Stranger things have happened. "Holey Moley! What are these!"
This character has always been interesting to me and I feel underutilized. Maybe there has been a placement issue b/c hes partially a Supes clone, but his backstory is really different enough to flesh him out. And yeah, I enjoy the concept that has been used in the Young Justice cartoon recently to portray him...seems right on the money. -
Quote:Sorry if I jumped the gun and "got all up on you" in your thread.Originally Posted by Mokalus
I just want to say I'm not complaining, I'm not being overly dramatic and saying "devs hate non-melee", I'm not calling doom or anything like that. I'm a fairly universal player, and I play melee characters too - in fact the only powersets I have no characters for are certain Blaster and Dominator secondaries. I bought Street Justice on day one, and I'm still looking forward to both of the upcoming melee sets.
It's just an odd situation in my eyes when we've had information about five new powersets (Time, Beam, Street Justice, Titan Weapons, Staff Melee) and over half of them fall into the same category. You might say it's illegitimate to look for a trend in only five powersets, but when I consider that Going Rogue had four brand new powersets then nothing for a year, five powersets seems a lot more significant to me.
All I'm really asking is whether I missed any information, or whether they're focusing more on the melee ATs. It does make business sense to focus on the most popular ATs, and the point that melee sets reach more ATs than any other type (besides their defense counterparts) is legitimate. If you have limited resources it's clearly the easiest option to make the most people happy. It's just that you can't assume that X new powersets will make everyone happy regardless of their type. -
Quote:Been awhile since I watched Conan...great catch!Originally Posted by Lothic
It's funny but when I watched that scene with Carl snatching the bundle of tools away from the body in the truck I got a distinct flashback of the scene in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan film where we see him steal the sword away from that old dead king sitting on his throne. Even the moment when Carl yanked the bundle and the body slumped down towards him seemed incredibly similar. I don't know if the people making this show was trying to copy that Conan scene on purpose, but if they weren't they had a major case of unconscious copy-catism on their hands.
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Quote:Same concept Id say...its why I placed evil in quotation marks. Many dictators and conquering societies of the past did "bad" things for what they considered the greater good. History is written by the victorious, but many times these personalities and societies are viewed as "evil".Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
My Peacebringer is still a Peacebringer, it's just achieving peace no matter the cost.
I havent read much of the cannon on Emperor Cole, but I think he also goes by the name Tyrant as a possible example.
Also, I just thought Warbringer sounded cool as hell is all
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Quote:I agree with you overall.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Finally got to watch it last night, and while I was impressed overall, I did notice more than a few cases of people holding the idiot ball, mostly the writers. I mean, if all Rick needed to do was separate the two walkers by a little bit, and then hit them with a rock, he really didn't need to run too far away from Sophia. He was in a creek bed, with one of the walkers coming down with him, and the other one standing on the bank still. He didn't need more separation than that when he finally took them down.
Still, it leaves plenty of mysteries out there, and I like the direction they're going with the zombies not being totally mindless and doing some "weird" things that will hopefully be explained.
The only thing I didn't really buy was them finding dead, but not reanimated, bodies in cars that were fine. I get that you'll have a few deaths from an accident, but who just sits in a car and waits to die? Wouldn't most people get out and walk, or try to maneuver their cars around the wreck? Or is there a possibility of some sort of zombie-virus-related reasons behind it?
I think the non-zombie dead bodies simply serve the purpose of a visual/suspense device for the TV show (its not as creepy seeing empty vehicles as much as dead bodies littering the area). While watching the kid reach into the truck, it plants in your head the question of whether the body is really a "sleeping" zombie thats about to bite a hole in this character since the adults are too silly to keep an eye on their children.
Obviously comic and TV show have some real differences, but if I remember correctly, in the comic ALL dead bodies reanimated...the virus was just a vehicle. If someone was bitten and untreated (chopping off the limb), the general infection killed the victim and then the virus caused reanimation at some point therafter. A poster probably already said all this at some point, but I havent read most posts so far in the thread. -
Quote:Your concept reminds me of DC comic's remake of the "monster squad":Originally Posted by Mystic_Fortune
Well, it completes the set of the 5 most famous monsters,
Count Dracula
Frankenstein's Monster
The Wolfman
Inhotep the Mummy
Gill-Man of the Black Lagoon
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...t-shade-246195
Very cool.
Im thinking of going all blaxploitation and making "The BLACK Creature from the Black Lagoon"...have to figure out a shorter name though. -
I JUST started playing a Dark/ Defender in the last few months and am a big, fat fan. I paired mine with /Rad to compliment the multiple debuffs Dark/ already brings to the table (also havent played Rad within the last few years). I went Dark Mastery and its currently sitting at 62% +recharge and at 30% defense to all except Psi, 24%. I pop a small purple and jump into melee, not much touches me in addition to Darkest Night doing its job.
Solo it does great damage, especially with Aim/Soul Drain combo...teamed it does great with debuffs and a monster AOE heal. Im not sure why it took me so long to play a Dark/ but it was a fun ride and still is at this point for TFs.
/Rad allows for the addition of a slew of procs like damage and Achilles' Heel: Chance for Resistance Debuff IO. I havent done Dark Blast in awhile, but sure you could add some items to beef up your damage output. -
Great story and I wish for everyone to have such a great experience through gaming.
Now I wonder how many threads will pop up of guys/gals who are already married and met the "new" love of their life in game and what the stats are for spousal divorces at the hand of CoX (have only heard of women taking off b/c of dudes too focused on Call of Duty so far). -
"Evil" PBs have been spotted in the Rogue Isles...Warbringers unite.
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Quote:lolOriginally Posted by VoodooGirl
I prefer the idea that the deer shot the bullet from its chest. Sort of like an Anti-Theft device.
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Lets not turn this into a PvP forums thread with people openly battling it out...mistakes are made, it is what it is, time to move on back to the original intent of the thread.
Im thinking whoever shot the dear/kid is holed up somewhere nearby with more survivors and they came into contact with the other kid. Lets hope theyre not cannibals and trying to make lil girl and dear gumbo
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Quote:I was thinking the same thing and illegitimate is even tame in this sense.Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Beam Rifle and Time Manipulation just came out, we're only 1 month into Freedom and so far melee has only received 1 out of the 3 new power sets. I think the claim that one group is being ignored over the others is illegitimate.
How fast can the devs release sets at a time to make everyone happy? The answer is, "not fast enough"
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Quote:Yeah, my post was a slight counterpoint of Caemgen's thought about it being feasible for survivors to wear protective suits and goggles. I think you and I are saying the same thing even though you don't need any real training to wear an NBC suit...its as simple as putting on extra large sweats.Originally Posted by Lothic
Of course there's the other point that most of these people are straightforward civilians who've probably never had NBC and/or hazmat training. Rick and Shane (as law enforcement officers) -might- have had that kind of training. But they don't have any of that kind of equipment to use regardless.
I'd rather just use a bit of "Hollywood suspension of disbelief" and just assume the Zombie virus in this show is not spread just by getting zombie blood on exposed skin.
We know zombie fluids dont infect with exposure to the skin...reference the episode where they had zombie intestines hanging around their necks etc.
In my original post, I said the concern was zombie fluid landing in my mouth and eyes while stabbing the face off of one six inches away.
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Quote:Agreed and hollywood is hollywood...I was just saying the screaming and zombie fluids just seemed to jump out at meOriginally Posted by Caemgen
Really, in such a zombie invasion everyone left alive should be wearing long sleeves and pants, as well as protective goggles and something covering their mouth. You would wnat to protect from bites as much as possible as well a the transmission of fluids...
However, having all your characters running around in hazmat suits, or even a poor mans version of one, does not neccessarily make for the best TV.
I give a pass to a certain level of not worrying about blood splatter in eyes or mouth and such on this basis.
Fanservice beat me to the the reponse about protective suits/goggles etc. Anyone here in the military knows about mandatory NBC training (chemical gear/protective mask); we used to try and make it not so tedious by doing an hour at a time geared up but playing sports. You realize how quickly you can overheat, masks fogging etc to know its not an easy deal.
Gotta be safe, but I cant imagine running from zombies in Georgia (105 degrees easily?) with anything more than a couple of layers of anything, but I probably would. -
Quote:Agreed, but overall the chilling part for me was that it looked like the main zombie was grinning/smiling right up until he got his head smacked. Dude was probably sitting in church during a sermon grinning like a maniac before the zombapocalypse I suppose...crazy church peopleOriginally Posted by Demobot
The church scene was pretty chilling, especially in light of the verse on the sign outside.
Revelation 16:17 'The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!"'
Also, nice choice of music for the end-credits teaser. I would have gone with The Man Comes Around, but apparently that was used in the opening credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
EDIT: Or better yet, Ain't No Grave.
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Quote:Yeah, I dont know anything about the transportation system of viruses let alone the zombie version, but I would have been at least a lil worried about zombie fluid ending up into my mouth or eyes as Im punching a screwdriver through its head.Originally Posted by starphoenix
So would eating a zombie make you a zombie? You are fighting off a horde of zombies and some zombie blood gets into your throat. Classic zombie creation method is injecting the zombie virus into a victim's blood through biting. Swallowing zombie fluid would have the zombie virus go through an oral delivery system. Not all drugs can be taken orally so the zombie virus might not work orally either.
I was really MORE concerned with how many zombies were going to run into the vehicle since she was screaming at the top of her lungs.
And also, her peripheal vision sucks.