Dark_Respite

Doing much filming/editing/etc today and Tuesday (since Sunday I'm gone all day and Monday I have an interview with a recruiter). I will TRY to get this thing done before September 1st.

Most likely if I'm filming, I'm on hide - mainly because while I love my friends, stopping every twenty seconds to answer tells is hell on production time. Don't take it personally if I ignore you.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Maelstrom's eyes look like he's had enough caffeine that he could get bit by a rattlesnake and not notice for three days.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Actually, they're finally able to get into Pocket D since all the heroes on Virtue are in Praetoria.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Damn it, now I have this image of Cole as Mr. Satan from DRAGONBALL Z (a la all his boasting about beating Cell and the whole world believing it).

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

And there was supposed to be a third (The Rikti War), but due to a fiasco with the publisher, that ended up never happening. Pity - though now with GOING ROGUE, this would be an ideal time for a new novel, especially one that deals with Primal and Praetorian Earth.

*grins*

There's also also a fairly good-sized chunk of fan fiction written for CoH, primarily here on the forums, some on FanFiction.net, if you're into the idea that it doesn't have to be official to be good.

Michelle
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Samu

My Mercs/TA Mastermind, Profiteer, is going Rogue strictly so she can work both sides of the financial fence. No heroism, no idealism, just pure profit.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Checking it now...

You're right - they did change it... there was a second piece of music that used to be there (which, if memory serves, sounds a lot like the "villain mission complete" music), and now it's just the main villain login music.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

It's in there?! What command did you use?

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I don't believe so... depending on the video editing program you use, though, you might be able to fake it (the game's font is Red Circle).

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Come to think of it, though, my CoH fanfic "The Course of Superhero Romance" could very well qualify as "horrible"... I wouldn't go so far as to call it an "atrocity," but you never know.

(Link is in my signature for the curious. "Support Nerd Flirting" goes to TCoSR I, while "Even More Nerd Flirting" goes to TCoSR II - yes, there's a sequel.)

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I totally agree.

Just spend an entire issue doing NOTHING but revamping the zones and missions and whatnot to match the quality of Praetoria. And what would this issue be called?

Issue 20: Reincarnate.



Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Being invited to join a PuG, joining, meeting up with them...

... and promptly being kicked for having the gall to play a grav/kin controller who did not have Speed Boost, Inertial Reduction, or Increased Density.

Then having said group tell others not to team with me for that exact reason.

Despite her being a lvl 50 character who was MORE than capable of holding up her end of things, and had several others who could attest to that fact.

*shrugs*

Their loss.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I've had an absolute field day playing through the Resistance>Warden arc with the Praetorian version of Andrea Blake. I can't say she's LIKED every Praetorian she's met, but she respects most of them. (Not all. The ones who want to blow up hospitals, she'd happily beat into the ground.)

And everything she does is motivated by giving people a CHOICE. I've not had the chance yet to go through the others, but I'm curious if all the arc paths start 'small' and end up affecting things on a larger scale. That's why principles are such slippery things to hold on to...

*spoilers follow*

Force Paolo to leave or allow him to stay? I let him stay - forcing him to leave "for his own good and the good of others" smacked too much of what Cole and his regime are about.

Free the Seers or not? This one was harder for me, but I did it anyway and freed them - because the burden of adhering to and enforcing moral and humane behaviour should be borne by each individual, not forced onto the shoulders of a select few, some of whom didn't want that burden to begin with.

Blow up the Enriche plant? At that one, I balked - I couldn't do it... I sat at my computer and argued with myself for a good 10 minutes about whether I'd do it or not, and was almost set to blow it up... but six months of suffering and disease and death just so Vanguard could come in and 'save' them? No. Deliberately bringing the populace to the brink of disaster and then rescuing them sounded too much like what Cole had done, and look where that ended up.

*end spoilers*

It's this distinct lack of "black and white" that I'm really liking about GR... if heroism were easy, everyone would do it. And how many villains are just true anarchists? It's those subtle shades of grey that I think are making these some of the best arcs in the game. Now if we could get more like these in PC and the RI, this game really would take on a whole new dimension.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

No idea, but it works fine when I did it. Lemme see if I can get these to you.

EDIT - yeesh - 111MB folder with screenshots of the whole demo. I'll throw it on my server and PM you the link - lemme know when you download it so I can delete it.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Maybe we can convince Black Pebble to put a link to this thing on the launch app...

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Ummmm... *frowns*

I don't think so. Sub yes, cargo ship no.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*laughing*

And the first think I hear in my head while reading the OP is Daffy Duck as Robin Hood shouting, "YIKES, AND AWAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY-" *SLAM*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite