Forbin_Project

The struggle never ends. There are no happy endings.

No one ever wins a war. Both sides always lose.

It's not about "winnning", it's about never giving up.

It's about eternal vigilance.

It's about not going gentle into that good night.

If you were expecting something else then you never understood what it means to be a hero.

As I recall

1. Fortitude. Fortitude allows you to soak aggravated damage, including that caused by sunlight. According to page 302 of the Vampire 20th Anniversary edition, the difficulty for soaking sunlight while "fully protected by heavy clothes, sunglasses, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat" is only 5, which isn't hard to make.

2. The Children of Osiris had access to the discipline Bardo and Ra's Blessing which was a ritual that allows the Child of Osiris to temporarily walk in daylight.

3. There's a bloodline called the Kiasyd who have access to a discipline called Mytherceria; at level 9, you can resume mortality for a while, which would make you immune to sunlight damage while it was in effect.

4. Then there was that one Obtenebration power Tchernabog: Which temporarily blots out the sun in your area.

So I don't find it genre breaking to see a V:tm vampire out in daylight.

And for those interested here is the link to the page that explains what restrictions are applied to F2P accounts.

http://www.swtor.com/free/features

You have to mouse over the words Limited Access to get a pop up with the explanation.

Some of the restriction explanations are vague.

Actually, no I couldn't. Until I saw it used in this thread I wasn't aware of the term 'Striesand Effect'. But I learned a new term today. Yippee!

Not seeing how it's going to hurt them. They have chosen to focus on the Eastern market. That market finds this topic totally acceptable. So they don't give a rat's patootey what a bunch of Western self-appointed morality police think or say.

As a matter of fact this type of "attack" inevitably backfires in the face of the morality police as it gets people that would never have even looked at the game to check it out for themselves and invariably attracts more customers because of the taboo nature sex has in Western cultures.

For example

Terry Rakolta led a boycott against Fox Broadcasting's Married With Children because she was offended by an episode that showed the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings.

Her attempts to boycott the show instead caused a dramatic rise in the shows ratings and led to the show being carried for several more years.

To add insult to injury the shows staff made sure to send Miss Rakolta a gift basket every year thanking her for attempting to get the show cancelled.

I agree with you on this.

I believe that's the whole Eastern focus. Anime/Manga whatever has been doing this type of gross misrepresentation of the female form for what decades?

Anti-Gravity MelonBoobs! Thank you. That's a great description and it captures what I was referring to. I wish I'd thought of it.

I've never understood this fascination with cartoon boobs. I want my female characters to look realistic, not like they can be used as a flotation device when an airplane makes a water landing.

No what's silly is that those newly released titles with their newly released engines suck when compared to a dated game with a dated engine.

Those games should be blowing peoples minds with their awesomeness. People should be saying things like, "I love CoH but ***** is **king amazing. If I ever had to leave CoH that's where I'm going." instead of, "WTF? CoH is 10 years old and has all these new games beat hands down. It's like having to choose between piles of poo. Do I want the one that's firm with pieces of corn in it, or the soft runny one. The hell with this I'm not payin for poo."

Not only does this game have lemonboob even on the lowest settings, in the beginning of CoH all female characters had hard nipples until the devs removed nipples altogether. So don't try pretending this game is innocent of doing the same thing as B&S.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I made that post.

I didn't know Champions Online had the authority to legalize marijuana.

J/K

What are republicans if not trained chimps?

Whose talking about confirmation bias. I'm just facetiously poking fun at the types of some incredibly stupid studies that are being done.

For example the US gov has spent

$492,000 to determine whether or not tweets can be trusted

$168,766 to study monkeys as they throw poop at each other

$700,000 to study cow burps for methane emissions

$216,000 to study why politicians make vague statements

$442,340 studying male prostitutes in Vietnam

$3 million to study World of Warcraft

$175,587 to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior

$500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that "can't sit still" in a kindergarten classroom

$30 million on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos

$239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love

$400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk

$800,000 in "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa

And these are just some wierd studies funded by the government. Who knows what wierd things are going on in the public sector.

That article is talking about viewers. Viewers are not necessarily people. You can train a chimp to watch Fox News.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's a scientist somewhere conducting an experiment to see if watching Fox News causes brain tumors in chimps.

Thanks for asking that. I went back to check the articles when they announced the switch to F2P and I see that I misread what was said. For some reason the 700,000 stuck in my mind. Probably because it was written as a number instead of spelled out.

"EA has revealed Star Wars: The Old Republic subscriptions have dipped below 1 million, a drop off of about 700,000. According to the BioWare, in order to break even, SWTOR needs 500,000 subscribers."

And back in July when the F2P EA's Frank Gibeau confirmed to interviewers that the goal of the F2P initiative is to get lapsed players back into the game.

Uhm as I recall Disney didn't buy the Indiana Jones IP.

I can just see it now. Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Hewey, Dewey, and Louie being chased around a dungeon by hungry orcs.

The last official numbers I've seen from EA/BW reported SWTOR's subs dropped to 700k and Bioware stated they needed 500k to break even.

And while I don't want to see any game get shut down, let's not delude ourselves here. Any MMO that was designed to be sub based and decides to switch to F2P 6 months after launch is in serious trouble.

This change in the business model is a desperate attempt to save the game, and I wish them the best of luck with it.

From what I read of the article that sounds exactly like what DC did.

"Tyson performed the celestial sleuthing at the request of DC Comics, which wanted to run a story about Superman’s search for his home planet."

Thank you for correcting me. I was trying to be accurate as best I could without including any of my personal opinions about either company.