Crosshairs

What i would like to know is where they found 13 million people insane enough to want to move (back) to a city with people like the Joker, Killer Crock, Bane, and i´ll just stop the list right there.

It´s like they put up a worldwide add. "Are you masochistic and/or have a deatwhish? Move to New Gotham where our specialy preppared psychotics will slowly dissolve you in acid when they get around to it."

What has me wondering is why no normal person has taken a shotgun to the Joker and claimed self defense.

The man is crazy, he can do any kind of horrible thing at any time anywhere. If that does not put "me and mine" in mortal danger and makes grounds for at least a court trial to see if it´s self defense i don´t know what would. And i seriously doubt any jurry would convict the person.

Hm, would make an interesting "Elseworld" story i think.

Iiiiii.... could be wrong, but didn´t one of the original (violent and dark one) comics end like that?

Didn´t they also buy up the rights to make a Monopoly movie?

Interesting. Wondering though, not wanting to be a bother, doesn´t Cryptic, or who ever, own the rights to the characters somehow? Think that was in the EULA. Might be a problem, but i hope not.

Amazing work from the FREEM Fifteen. You guys are our Heroes.

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MORAL COMBAT!

/em boombox_technomusic

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Sen. Joe Liberman launches his Bloody Spear at Satanic_Hamster, "GET OVER HERE!"

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Hmm... Kongressional Kombat: a Mortal Kombat skinned with the faces of real politicians and populated by their best sound bytes....

The potential...

brb...

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oooo, I'll play that game.

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Heck, i´ll buy that game.

Gonna see it if i get the chance, but from what i see in the trailer... It´s "Oh noes! RPG´s are dangerous! Sitting around with paper and pens, not to mention rolling dices, is teaching our children to use black magic and worship satan!!" all over again.

On the eight day of Christmas, the gaming gods gave to me, eight Madness Mages,

Seven Fiends Fighting,
Six Morts a-rezzing,
Fiiiiive Super Arachnoids!
Four Master Illusionists,
Three Nerva Spectral Lords,
Two Air Thorn Casters
And a Sapper in a Devouring Earth Treeeeee!

I use both Character, or Char if i´m in a real hurry, and Toon. The difference is what i mean with them.

Character is for the heroes or villains i have made to activly play, both to level and keep in character if possible. It´s for the ones that actualy mean anything.

Toon is for those jokes i make from time to time, or those that will just be tried out and deleted, or those that just gather dust untill i get bored with my characters and need to just run a few quick missions to blow of some steam.

At least, that´s the way i work it. To each their own.

/Vader "Nooooooooooooooo!" /end vader

Good points there Venture. Let´s see if i can explain my point of view.

How many of whom could have done a damned thing in the event of a building fire? Very few would have powers that could let them put the fire out without demolishing the building in the process -- pretty much just ice and storm heroes. We have building fires in-game and the vast majority of heroes need special gear to fight them. (The possiblity of a character with something like water powers can't be dismissed, but since such power sets aren't represented in game it is safe to conclude that if they exist at all, they are incredibly rare.) Heroes with TFoe/Recall could presumably snatch victims from the flames -- if they could see them. Heroes with the right defensive powers could possibly walk into the fire unscathed, but that's not much help to the victims if they're not reached quickly.

Only if you use the powers like they are locked "in game". IE, energy blasts can only be used to damage badguys, or the odd item that needs to be blown up. A person with blaster powers could have used them to blow an extra escape route, or blow their way to the victim. A person with flight could have carried them to safety, yes i know most people don´t bother with Group Fly, but unless a persons Fly power work in some realy strange way, then carrying one person to safety should not be a problem. Same goes for Super Jump and Super Speed, and Super Speed also has the potential of that Whirlwind powers, that could possibly put a fire out. Heck, we see The Flash do that stuff every now and then. And that´s just the top of the proverbial iceberg. And no, the report does not report how many others were in that building, but i would be surprised if there were any others, or they would have smacked him with numerous accounts of Reckles Endangerment and/or Attempted Murders too, and that is not mentioned.

Not necessarily. The fire department simply may not have gotten to the scene in time. Additionally, the robbery was taking place in a convenience store. If that store had soda fountains, with compressed gas cannisters, they may have been set off in the initial blast. The same for natural gas lines used for heating or cooking.

Yes, the Firebrigade might not have gotten there in time, i´ve even stated that myself. I just find the combination of "Not being able to react in time self/Firebrigade is late/no Heroes in time either" rather strange and farfetched. As for a Soda Fountain that is powered by a gas that is explosive.... Eh, remind me to not visit the places you go to. I think i´ll stick to my CO2 treated drinks, a gas that is, if anything, fire retarding. As for gas lines, again, if they vere volatile enough to make a house go up like it was more or less doused in petrol, then there is something fishy going on, or there would be far fewer survivors in housefires than there are.

There's not nearly enough information to justify that conclusion.

No, but there is enough to form that opinion, and that it maybe should be looked into a bit closer. And as you may note, i never stated that that is what happened. I said "To me, it sounds like that..." /snip. That is a statement of opinion, not fact.

Spot on Tundara.

Also, keep in mind that this was only 10 years after the Might for Right article was kicked out of the system, so "Faith in the system" as it were would probably have been pretty low still, and that might explain why he didn´t register, or take the deal offered to him.

Been thinking a bit about this. Now, according to what we read, FF tries to use his fire to thaw out the store clerk when his powers go wild, and the end result is that the building burns down, the robber and the clerk are both dead, and another person as well.

Now the robber and the clerk could have died in the initial "power surge" so i will leave taht be for now, but.. what of the third person? He/she is not mentioned to be in the store, so he/she must either be on a different floor, or out back in the stores storage area.

So now we have the following, a person that is out of the direct "blast" but is still killed by the fire it causes. If we then take into concideration that this person has time to react to save him/herself but still can not do that. Ok, that could happen, but what of the fire department? Sure they might not have gotten there in time, those things happen all the time. But what of the heroes patroling the area? Even in the comic, Pargon City is shown to have an almost ridiculous ammount of heroes being just about everywhere all the time.

So that leaves us with.. a person that is killed by a burning building, but has not time to save him/herself, the firedepartment does not have time to react, and herose does not have time either. That means that building had to have gone up like a pile of century old dry paper.

Now take FF into concideration. Is he realy powerfull enough to make an entire building go up like that? Even with a surge? No, if he had, he would be blowing up city blocks for Malta instead of running a crummy streetgang.

To me, it sounds like that entire building was a firetrap just waiting to happen, and was most likely in violation of a multitude of fire safety violations. And most likley, FF got shafted (at least for the last death) to protect the owner of the building.

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The infamous cracking of the neck, where you tilt your head to one side and it pops, then to the other side and it pops. And maybe a knuckle cracking emote.

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FYITICU (For Your Information That Is Completely Useless) I can do the neck cracking in RL.

anyway...

Emotes:

I can't think of any, but I like Recluse's idea for the "BANG" gun.

I guess a YMCA dance one, but that would violate copyright.

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Why would the YMCA dance violate copyrights? I know of at least one other MMO that has it as an emote. (Anarchy Online if you wonder.)

Just wanted to put an interesting little fact. Think it might have been in earlier, but don´t feel like browsing some 40 pages.

My main is an AR/Dev blaster. Before the ED i could take on most mobs (minions) that weren´t purple in groups of 4-5 without risk of dying being too high, because i could Snipe one of them to death to start the show. So Orange and Red con minions i get one down in one shot. Hey, sounds logical to me, Snipe is an aimed shot to a vital part after all.

After ED i can not one-shot even con minions. Not even with Assault running. Even the ones with lousy resistance against lethal damage has at least 25% healt left. That is with Snipe 6 slotted. 1 Acc 5 Dam all SO´s +2 levels. And with Assault running.

I try to Snipe something with good Lethal resistance? Half the health goes away, tops. And this is from a power that is supposed to be the ranged version of Stalkers AS? I know it shouldn´t be as powerfull as AS, but still... Get real!

Heh some of the Freaks in Talos says "The fetizisation of material goods makes me sick!" every now and then. That always cracks me up.

Also, the fact that many times you can see Warriors, the big bad fighters, are getting mugged by Freaks.

Edited: Also, if you go down to Spankys Boardwalk in Talos you will find Platos Bookstore and The Golden Fleece café.

1: Visible weapons choices/"new" AT´s. For example, the claws power can be tunred into dual swords with just a few name changes and graphics changes. (And being the AR blaster my main is, a new gun or five. )

2: Personal vehicles. Say at lvl 25-30 you can do a quest to get the right to call a vehicle/travle assist device. It will still use a power slot, but the drawback being that you can not fight from these vehicles, but have to exit it before you can respnd to attacks. Say Motorcykels that gives you excellent groundspeed, but not as much as superspeed. It would be real nice to those that want to play "ordinary" people without flying, porting, huge leaps or running around at Mach 5.

Let´s see.

Crosshairs is a goverment employee, he works as a goverment liason for the SG On Her Majestys Service. That pays fairly well, but he also picks up any bountys on crooks he brings in, that makes for a nice lump of extra cash wich is sorely needed. The gov just refuses to spring for anything but standard FMJ ammo after all, and Tungsten carbide rounds just ain´t cheap.

TAD Mk 13 is a robot, he realy don´t need money as his internal nanobot repair system can break down just about any material to affekt repairs.

Agent Omega is a goverment agent, so i´d bet they pay him a fancy sum just to keep him happy. (Don´t want that agent running of with multi-billion cybernetics just because he felt he was being underpaid you know. : ) )

Dunkelrand is living of the interest of some Switz bank accounts from WW 2.

Big Earl is a truckdriver first and a hero´ish person second.

McBurk is almost flat out broke. Anyone feel like employing the poor sap?

Nessie just don´t care about money, being an ancient spirit kind of makes you look beyond that kind of stuff. If he ever needs to pay of informants or such, he can always bring up something from the earth that those silly humans concider important. Like gold or diamonds.

Crosshairs (Nat AR/Dev Blaster): "Hero? Well, if you concider some one that will shoot people in the back with a sniper rifle, blind them with smoke and plant mines on their backs, generaly shoot them full of holes and so on, well then i guess i´m a hero. Now get out of my face, i have work to do." (Mr. Charming he´s not.)

TAD Mk 13 (Tech En/En Blaster) "Negative, this unit has not been updated with Heroics 2.5, Platitudes 15.8 or PoseNflex 0.4."

Agent Omega (Tech Ma/Rg Scrapper) "Heroics citizen? Only if i have to. The goverment did not lay out multiple billions on me to have me running around in tights. They did it so i could solve.... Problems."

Dunkelrand (Nat Kat/Spd Scrapper) "Heroics. Feh, heroics died the second Adolf ordered us over the Polish border. Even in the trenches of the first war you could see where it was all heading."

Big Earl (Nat Inv/SS Tank) "Hero. Nah, i´ll leave that to Statesman and his palls. I´m just bashing some heads to help out while they load my truck for the returntrip up north."

McBurk (Nat Inv/SS Tank) "Maybe one day i´ll prove myself worthy to call myself a Hero, like my ancestors before me. For the Red Clan!" (Thinking of redoing this guys as a broadsword scrapper. Now if only they´d introduce Kilts. )

Nessie (Magi Storm/Illusion Controler) "I have known Heroesss throughout the agesss human. Men and Women of passion, righteousnesss and a willingnesss to sssacrifice themssself for the greater good. I would be honoured to be counted amongssst their ranksss."