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Quote:I doubt it. I mean, yes, it's an incentive, but there's a dozen other things CoH could have thrown against DCUO. Even though from what I've seen so far it's not necessarily aiming at the CoH crowd in particular but trying to be its own game instead what with their focus on physics, combination attacks and of course the staple characters of the setting.Originally Posted by Knightfox
And probably we won't see Going Rogue until it's time for DCUO to release.
And CO is so bad that CoH doesn't need to worry about it in the long run. I predict that one will be dead in the water before it hits its one year anniversary unless they revisit some underlying gameplay mechanics. Trying to lure away CoH customers by offering them almost the same stuff they get 'at home' but with a worse game and a setting that's been completely mutilated from its roots is an effort in silliness.
Which means I really believe the main motivation was that it was asked for and that it was a logical option to have in such a customizable game. -
Quote:And I can't stand Illusion (or MMs for that matter). I much prefer getting my own hands dirty. But that doesn't change the fact that the combo's pretty insane.Originally Posted by Lord_Spawnus
Never could get into that powerset myself, I have a rad on villains but never can be bothered on heroes.
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Quote:Pound for pound you probably won't either. That's pretty much the most effective power combination in the game right there. Blueside at any rate.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
[i still cant find a stronger character than my ill/rad!]
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Quote:That was the intention. Though in my game-local circle of friends, 'Invading Poland' is a euphemism for something else altogether.Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I think that wasn't such a good choice of words, going by your location and his current location
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*invades*
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Actually, that's pretty smart considering there's weirdo nations out there that list the month first, then day, then year, making for an utterly arbitrary order (neither ascending nor descending in magnitude). I'm amazed they don't tell the time in minutes:seconds:hours. When the month is clearly distinguishable (usually written out, but Roman Numerals will do) that removes the 'ah hell, which order are these guys writing their dates in' quandary when faced with a day before the 13th.
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Quote:Roman Numerals have no rules for fractions.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
How about Roman Numerals?
"This car uses between V and VI litres of gasoline per C kilometres at XC KPH" is pretty damn vague when trying to compare fuel efficiency.
Then again, keep in mind that you're talking to people who think in dimensions such as 3/8 of an inch (which incidentally is roughly 1 cm or 10 mm). -
Quote:Uh. You make it sound as if that's a bad thing...Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
...Japan finally getting around to banning sexual predator simulators...
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Quote:And if you mix them with SR (for Quickness) and a solid helping of global Rech you really only need the basic two ranged attacks.Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
Craws or spines with weaponry epic pool? You have 3 or 4 ranged attacks then
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Quote:I'm never bitter, just... spicy. In fact, I'm Angry Spice. The crossdressing unknown member of a 90s girl band, kinda like the fifth Beatle. Which of course makes me even angrier.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
But you're not bitter.
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Quote:It was probably put best in one of the first Werner comics.Originally Posted by Sitriel
Unfortunately we are stuck with two big parties that both walk the same path with different explanations. Both are easily insolent enough to assume they have to do the thinking for the people and pass corresponding laws, p***ing intelligent people off in the process.
On top of that, if you consider at least the last decade and pay attention to detail you might get the impression that both of those parties are desperately trying not to win elections. It is theatre... and a ridiculously pathetic one on top of that.
"If you needed to pick between two piles of ****, which ones would you pick?"
I'm generally squirming here because political discussions have nominally been taboo on the US boards but I fully agree. The two centrist parties are either doing horribly or trying so hard to appeal to the lowest common denominator that they have long lost any semblance of a properly defined outline. The Liberal Democrats (really a party for upper middle class intellectuals) have accepted that they will never be more than the christian union's sidekick, the Green Party has lost all direction since the other major parties also adopted green agendas and the only thing they really know is that they're not the Left. The Left in turn wants to appeal to the man on the street but completely loses me when they become apologists for homegrown terrorists.
Like all politics, it comes down to picking the lesser evil, cause not voting really means that 'they' will win. Maybe when Wowereit finally graduates to national politics, he'll cause enough of a stir for parties to define themselves a bit better. In spite of all his faults, I'm very fond of my mayor because he's at least given up constantly trying to please everyone and instead simply focuses on what he thinks should be done and lets the voters judge him. Not many politicians have the guts to do so anymore. -
Quote:Unfortunately, the conservatives are likely to win the upcoming elections because... get this... a ranking member of their strongest contender, the social democrats, had her favourite driver bring her her limo all the way to Spain where she was addressing a group of German pensioners in a bit of pre-campaigning. Not only didn't she need the limo for the brief trip from her hotel to the meeting, not only did the drive incure several thousand Euros worth of costs for the taxpayer, no. To top things off that car got stolen in Spain, which really catapulted the story into the news and is likely to be the one single torpedo that'll sink the moderate party's ambitions.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
From what I hear, chasing businesses out of Germany during a recession is pretty much political suicide.
The only upside is that our conservatives are about as conservative as the US Democrats. But like most right-wing parties they're essentially a bunch of big business muppets whose great idea of combating the recession is to make blue collar people work more for less money, give up on paid off days and so on while allowing bankers to make off with millions of bonus payments from the taxpayer's pocket. -
Take it from the German: It's unlikely to happen.
Why? Well, mostly because this idea crops up every couple years. Usually as a filler topic in the weak summer months. Some guy does something stupid and it's found he has Counter-Strike or Quake or whatever on his PC. Cries go out to ban these things. A lot of hot air is blown about, and nothing ever happens, for several reasons.
One, it's plain unconsitutional. The worst they could do is slap an 'adults only' label on stuff and forbid it from being advertised or openly displayed in all-ages stores. Which would be bad but hasn't hindered music albums or movies on the so-called 'index' from becoming obscenely popular.
Outright bans can currently only been given on material that either features a real crime (eg. plagiarism, racist propaganda or child pornography) or is otherwise questionable because it serves no other end other than to glorify the inhumane. Which is rarely invoked, not touching on splatter movies for example. However, one of my favourite bands had a few of its songs permanently banned. Inspired by splatter themes, one song tells the story of a cancer victim who decides to go out before the disease takes him and starts a bloodbath, and one is about a man who keeps a decomposing 'girlfriend' in a safe location for sexual purposes. Oh, and one about a pig farmer who like to pick up and murder prostitutes to make his special feed. Other songs dealing with torture and mass murder for example did however make the grade to merely adult-only labelling.
As such you can tell that under the basic freedom of expression laws most western civilizations sport, it takes a special kind of nasty to get banned in Germany. Essentially, to really have a chance to get this law past the legal hurdles, they'd have to prove that there is a high probability that violent computer games are harmful or dehumanizing. Which they can't.
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Quote:Oh, I have met reasonable Jews. Often without knowing cause much like members of other religions they don't come up to you and say, 'Hi, I'm Bob, I'm a Jew'. It's only the ones with a beef to pick who stress it. (Like this guy who's apparently always been trouble even before coming to Germany.) But I've met a sizable enough group of the other variety to think it's not just a fluke.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
Fair enough, you're there. I'm sorry if you've never met a reasonable jew. But I would call that guy a nutter.
EDIT - How do you do that thing where you put a URL in and it only shows up as a single word - the thing you did with 'this guy'?
Eco.
As for the URL bit, it's just the same as with the old forums. (url=your URL)your text(/url) -- just replace the rounded brackets with square ones. -
Quote:No worries there on my account. I spend all summer trying not to get a tan.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
My only beef with Germans is with the buggers who continually hog all the sunbeds at Spanish resorts!
Getting up at 6am to sneak down to the pool, collect all the towels "reserving" the sunbeds that were placed there at about 2am, and chuck the lot into the pool is a pain! -
Quote:'Over here' meaning 'in Germany'.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
'Over here'? I don't know where you're referring to.
I'm not getting into a discussion on that anyway. I meant that a normal rational Jew should have no reason do dislike a normal rational german. i'm not talking about nutters of any nationality. And please remember why I said that in the first place - this is a sidetrack.
Eco.
And this guy for example certainly is no nutter. He used to be a respected conservative politician before his little run-in with the law (and come on, it's blow and hookers... I know I'd do that if I had the spare cash so I can hardly blame him for that) and he's still a presence in the media. And he's very fond of playing the Holocaust card. But then he's a generally unlikable individual in his public persona.
Case in point is, you made an assumption that was not congruent with modern-day Jewish-German relations. I corrected you, having more of the facts due to actually living in Germany and having to put up with this ****. There really is no bleeding need to get defensive about it. Your supposition wasn't unreasonable, but it was still off-target.
And for the record, it is a sore point. I never tried to gas anyone. Beat a guy up pretty badly once, but he had it coming, and he was a non-denominational Canadian. Yet I still have to put up with some ***** going 'you owe me cause your grandpa gassed my grandpa' now and then. Which usually ends... badly. -
Quote:Psh.Originally Posted by Rooks_EU
Aww but we own mate, and with mickey owen back in the top 4, a potential partnership with wayne rooney at the next world cup could be a recipe for moderate success :P
"Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win." - Gary Lineker, one of your very own. -
Quote:You'd think so, but you're wrong.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
Aside from the modsmacking issue, I think that your analogy in that thread was off. A jew today should have no reason to hold any grudge against a citizen of Germany.
There's a strong Jewish lobby over here which likes to play the Holocaust card everytime they don't get their way. Likewise, some Israeli governments have liked to do so whenever they had a political agreement with the German state. Which, amusingly enough, leads to a certain amount of resentment towards Jews on the German side. Maybe cats and dogs really can't live in peace. -
Quote:He's not my guy. If he was my guy he'd have purposefully dropped that UFO on an American city, then explained how he was doing the world a favour that way and gotten away with it, too. Or started a world war, but them's the breaks.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
It's an incredibly lame name that does nothing but confuse everyone thanks to the stupid One, 1 and -1 thing.
Mind you, it's kinda amusing that our guy gives his life to save others in the ultimate noble sacrifice, and your guy screws up and splatters 1000's of folks in the richest part of your city by dropping a UFO on top of them -
Quote:Oh, on that note. How do you Brits like 'Hero One' (Hero 1, Hero-1) anyhow? I always thought it was an incredibly lame name. Am I overlooking some cultural reference here?Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
Though we do need Excalibur back and some way to turn Hero One back... although I guess as is he breaks the usual US-media stereotypes of Brits.
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I got your gesture in brotherhood right here...
Premier League is boring. Too many millionaires who don't know what to do with their money. Mind you, it's the same problem in most premier divisions in the major football nations. Too many foreign 'stars', too little homegrown talent. It's not really 'my club' anymore when only two or three of the guys on the pitch are from the club's own talent pool and the others are bought mercenaries who'd play for any club. There are exceptions like Hungarian Pal Dardai who's played for Hertha BSC Berlin for some 13 years in a row now, but just look at the crap going down in Spain these days to see what I mean. -
Quote:Possibly, but most Germans can't really tell the difference unless they're French Canadian. They also probably can't tell an Australian from a Brit.Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
I think that the only time I'd ever hear a Brit refer to a Canadian as a yank would be if they didn't know they were Canadian and mistook the accent.
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Quote:Then you definitely don't have any Germanic blood in you.Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I don't like beer - but I think green soda, or Sprite in a green bottle is ok as an alternative
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Quote:You might actually get away with that. I once got someone smacked around for being insensitive to Asatru/Odinist practicioners.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Otherwise I'll just start demanding that Ms Liberty surrender Excalibur as she has no right to it, and that WarWitch's name be changed as it's unfair to Wiccan's to relate their relgion to war!
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Quote:Trust me, you guys aren't the only people referring to US Americans (and sometimes even Canadians) as Yanks or Yankees.Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
And to be fair back, we just talk about Americans or possibly yanks (in British slang yank usually just denotes american and doesn't have anything to do with historic North/South divisions).