Green Bean
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Quote:There's no reason to believe he actually would have succeeded. Personally, I figure uploading a hostile mind into a network with billions of experienced psychics would not have ended well for Nemesis.Originally Posted by Seschat
Such as nearly getting away with erasing the minds of a planetary population and overwriting them telepathically using their own abilities with his own consciousness?
@Gadget
Nemesis fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side, so it isn't like his racism is out of place. Given when he was born, it makes total sense, especially since his attitude towards women seems to have the same origin. Plus, his faction is nothing but white dudes. He's not producing a lot of contradictory evidence. -
Nemesis. No one else is even close. The guy literally committed genocide. He killed billions of people for the crime of not being white. Honestly, I'm surprised this isn't brought up more often in the lore, because it is easily the worst thing he's done.
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Quote:They did repeatedly establish that all the civilians had long since fled, which was the only reason Cole was willing to go that far.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Why are we having a problem with a man that DROPPED A NUKE ON AN ENTIRE CITY FILLED WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE just so he could power himself up even more?
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Quote:Alternatively, the Cold War going hot made Praetorian Hamidon lose faith in humanity much faster than he did in Primal.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Now the idea that it was his father I think I could accept. Presumably Primal-Hamidon-Senior was also working on similar research but never perfected it leaving it to his son to do so. Whereas in Preatoria the Cold war was a lot Hotter which in turn lead to a more pressurized military research environment allowing Preatorian-Hamidon-Senior to advance further and faster becoming Hamidon rather than leaving it to his son (who was presumably not even born or was absorbed into Hamidon as a child).
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I think the simplest explanation is that Paragon City's legal system realizes it exists only at the sufferance of its heroes, so they didn't push it too far.
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Quote:I'm pretty sure that Paragon has a law wherein dressing up in a funny costume protects you from all legal consequences for your actions.Originally Posted by minimalist_NA
To clarify, "I'm really really sorry" doesn't excuse one from undergoing due process (arrest, trial), whether you're a cop or a brain in a jar.
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Who couldn't like Arachnos? They have Cap'n Mako, lord of the seven seas, the four oceans, and a number of inlets and fjords. He's Cap'n...of my heart.
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Don't forget, Portal Corp isn't the only group that does cross-dimensional research. Arachnos has their equivalent, as does Crey, and the Traditionalists, and any number of the independent mad scientists that the Rogue Isles are infested with.
And Nemesis. A million times over. Don't forget the time he slipped into another dimension and killed billions of people because they were too black for him.
I'm sure all the heroes in Paragon are fantastic people, and Portal Corp is a responsible corporate citizen, but Primal Earth really sucks at cleaning up its own messes. If my entire population's lives were entirely dependant on not making some science horror feel threatened, learning that Primal Earth knows where I live would freak me out. -
Longbow's problem is that they really don't get politics. They're a large scale paramilitary organization that has the mentality of a twelve year old boy borrowing his daddy's gun so he can fight crime. Sure, in theory they mean well, but they're not nearly responsible enough to handle operating on a scale larger than a neighbourhood or two. I mean, in the Rikti War Zone arc they basically declare war on the UN.
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Quote:Maybe, but those are alternate versions of the Thorns, DE, and etc. This is Primal's version of Nemesis that's committing genocide.Originally Posted by Megajoule
It also loses a lot of impact since it's part of a whole travelogue of alternate worlds in which the Thorns, the Devouring Earth, the Fifth Column/Council and even you have also killed off and/or enslaved most humans on that Earth. After multiple apocalypses and extinction events, one gets a bit numb.
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One series of missions that gets me emotionally engaged the most is the Get the doomsday device out of Nemesis' grasp mini-arc. Admittedly, the emotion it tends to engage is raw, seething rage. It reveals that Nemesis (our Nemesis) has literally committed the worst racial genocide in human history, killing billions of people because of the colour of their skin. This mini-arc is why every single one of my characters has a "kill Nemesis on sight" policy. And the worst part is, it's never mentioned again. There's never any newspaper articles, no reference to it from other contacts, not a peep of it in the lore. Whenever I finish this arc on a hero, I have to switch to a villain for a bit of catharsis, to burn the world that seems content to ignore an event like this.
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Soul Mastery looks tempting, but I'm worried about endurance costs. The final build's going to have something like 6 toggles running constantly, and there's only so much IOs can do.
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The question's pretty much self-explanatory. I've got an Electric Melee/Shield Defense Brute nearing its forties, and I'm looking at the various options. I'd like to maximize my AoE damage, and I've heard good things about both Pyre and Mu Mastery, but I'd like to hear from the board's collective wisdom before I decide.