Fleeting Whisper

Arbiter Reginald Fabulous (aka Equation):


Author of the "Because I Have to Look at You" column in the City Scoop. Other than being a player and regular forumite, I honestly don't know what else he's done with relation to the game.

Equation has also cosplayed Arbiter Fabulous at HeroCon

Je suis une pomme de terre.

With sarcasm!

Doppelganger as a member of the group guarding Naylor would be another option.

I pledge to you we will have order in Praetoria

Ditto for one of my Matermind's costumes. Magic Bolero + Fringe Cape looks really cool, but you can't combo them any more (one cape system per player costume rule).

I said as much when the power appeared in the game just before the Martial Arts pack. (In fact, I thought Shadowy Presence was going to be the travel power in the Martial Arts pack, which would have sucked.)

They're not wallpapers, they're gaming mousepads. Really really really thin mousepads.

Actually, attempted suicide is illegal.

Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh

But there's no ambiguity by the last mission.

^^^ What he said.

Threatening to cancel your account is rarely effective. Doing so over a third-party tool just makes no sense.

But according to you (or possibly someone else in the thread, I can't keep track), the act of placing the character in the game gives NCSoft full ownership of that character, period. That is a ludicrous and patently false claim, demonstrated by The Goddamned Batman™.

It's mostly from double XP weekends. At first Freedom/Virtue players would crash because the server was overflowing. Then they implemented a system to lock out the server if the population got too high, but people complained they couldn't log in (you couldn't select the server, and the server select screen doesn't automatically refresh). Now, there's a queue system, so if there's too many people you can get into a queue to be let on.

If an update made your computer spit out $100 bills every minute, people would complain that the bills weren't sequential. If it were changed so they were sequential, people would complain that they needed the untraceable cash.

Depends on the alternative, I suppose.

Let's put aside the assumption that all MMOs are the same with the "an MMO", and pretend you just meant CoH:

You're wrong. NCSoft does not gain ownership of my character if said character already has a copyright or trademark on it. If I create the character from whole cloth on their server, they do. If the character existed previously, they merely gain the right to distribute the character's likeness as rendered in the game (for example, put a screenshot of my character on their web page or in banner ads).

Think about it this way: If your interpretation were correct, then I could create Batman on Freedom, and suddenly NCSoft would own Batman. That's ridiculous. (I realize the character creator stops you from using the name Batman. Insert a character name that it doesn't stop.)

As I recall, he actually did get his Harry Dresden character genericed. Then he sent an appeal (y'know, that thing you're allowed to do if you believe the generic was unjustified) along with proof of ownership, and his character name was restored.

Note: clicking 'I agree' is often considered a "Digital Signature", especially since expecting a user to have a tablet is ludicrous, and trying to draw your signature with a mouse is nigh-impossible.

Nietzsche did no such thing. He wrote about the concept of the Übermensch. "Über" shares its origin with the Latin "super", the Greek "ὑπέρ" (hyper), and the English "over" and "above". "Mensch", of course, refers to humans (not specifically a man).

True for trademarks (and sloganmarks, etc.) but not for copyrights.