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Lord_Recluse

... its spelled Grieving not Griefing.

Try a college type dictonary and you will see there is grief without a plural and grieve with the plurals of grieved and grieving. Grief and grieve are basically the same definition but one was meant to be used in the plural and the other not.

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"grieve" means to feel grief. Not the same thing as the topic under discussion. "Grieve" is what the victims do when someone gives them "grief". The person giving them grief is a "griefer", a colloquialism. From "griefer" people have quite naturally derived "griefing" to express the acts or actions related to causing another player to grieve.

Time to buy a better dictionary, maybe. ;-)

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No and here is why you are wrong,...

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You can quote dictionaries all day long and it won't change common usage. Go back and reread the preface to your dictionary. Somewhere in there will be a clause about the dictionary presenting one possible set of definitions which may or may not reflect the reality of daily usage.

Sorry, daily usage > dictionary definition

Every responsible lexicographer knows this.

- Um, yes, sad though it may be, writing dictionaries is one of the things I do for a living. Well, not "writing", actually, but proofing. -

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Interesting comeback and common place, since if you can't spell or use the word correctly. Then it is understandable as to why the action happens as in illiterates know no better.

IE you can spell sucks as sux and you can spell be right back as brb. But your texting shortcuts aren't within our real world's english vocabulary.

Point being you can misconstrue and miss use words and those that do don't really understand any wrong or harm being done because they have misinterpreted thier actions.

This is why as children we are taught morals and values and an understanding of words and meanings within the english vocabulary.

Understand yet? if you don't use words properly then you have no clue as to what you are doing.

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Lord_Recluse

... its spelled Grieving not Griefing.

Try a college type dictonary and you will see there is grief without a plural and grieve with the plurals of grieved and grieving. Grief and grieve are basically the same definition but one was meant to be used in the plural and the other not.

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"grieve" means to feel grief. Not the same thing as the topic under discussion. "Grieve" is what the victims do when someone gives them "grief". The person giving them grief is a "griefer", a colloquialism. From "griefer" people have quite naturally derived "griefing" to express the acts or actions related to causing another player to grieve.

Time to buy a better dictionary, maybe. ;-)

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No and here is why you are wrong, which can be ascertained from the definitions of both words, which are found in most common dictonaries.

Grief; noun.
1, deep mental anguish, as that arising from bereavement. 2 a source of sorrow or anguish. 3 annoyance or frustration.

Notice no pural acknowledgement

Grieve; verb. grieved, grieving.
1 to cause sorrow: to distress. 2 to feel or express grief (Latin for gravdre, to burden)

Now number one in "grieve" sums it all up as to the action. But since it is a verb in order to convey it as an action, one must make it pural, hench it become grieving.

Now, if you can find the definition of the word "griefing" in the dictonary ( no such word exists) , sorry but you won't because it's the pural of grieve, as stating a "grieving" action and a feeling that was caused by it. See the pural of the word now, the action and the feeling caused by it?

LOL what better way to really stress test CoV than to give everyone a shot at Statesman.

Tricky devs we have here, but like I said before I only have a lvl 12 CoV char. So boycotting will be the same as if I was actually there, only differance will be I won't need a bodybag for whats left of me to go home in.

Oh Rheticus to answer your question about grieving or whatever you want to call it, it's nothing more than plain and simple harassment in any shape or form. That causes frustration from another's act that was directed at you or someone else personally with the intent of some sort of malice being inflicted.

Lord_Recluse

Define Grieving about Griefing, if you can now Please?

BTW When did spelling ever count in a video game or at a forum board, not since day one I guess because its spelled Grieving not Griefing.

Try a college type dictonary and you will see there is grief without a plural and grieve with the plurals of grieved and grieving. Grief and grieve are basically the same definition but one was meant to be used in the plural and the other not.

Hmmm, can video gamers rewrite the english language.

"me goes ther mite b anada wayz, oar wez con al 37it3 5p34k" LMAO

"definition from my book",
I guess there might be another way, or we can all just elite speak.
The LMAO can't be definded here without censorship.

Broomhilda now that is a perfectly great idea, boycott this crap shoot.

I like that thought, anyone else with us, like I don't need to battle some ego crazed dev with a lvl 50 that is maxed to the hilt.

BTW They say money talks BS walks, so let show them where the money is, as in who pays for thier game and salaries.

Honestly a dev without programing tricks is just a fish in the water.

So States I will be there and battle you with my nerfed down version of a scrapper and I hope that at least you can fight as much as you ego is. Because I can only do what you allowed me to do within this game and to beat you will be just joy, but we all know you will CHEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW Silly isn't it, my CoV char is a lvl 12 and you will be using a lvl 50 at the least I bet.

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I wonder if ol' Emmert will actually be in front of the computer or if Statesman will just be an NPC. WOW that would be cool to open unlimited bottles of kick butt on the lead designer of CoH.


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You'll have your chance - I'll be playing the one and only Statesman!

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This I have always wondered, can I get a shot at the nerf god of CoH in an arena or will I have to wait to see him as a nemesis in CoV.

Either way, he has cute and clever comments but never will play us on equal ground because he is just a comic book hero and as we all know ya can't fight pen and paper or as in this place, text at a board!!!

I preordered from EB, two days ago and they sent me an email stating that the ship date has been changed to 10/27/05 for CoV, which means it will be in EB Games on the 28th or 29th, which makes sense to give the two day headstart.

But what do I know other than retail store chains make errors in judgement and so do game publishers.

Well if you think about it, hover and flight can be used with only 3 additional slots. I have 2 chars that have it each way.

Hover 1 SO End Reducer/1 SO Defense/1 SO Flight Spd

Flight 1 SO End Reducer/1 SO Filght Spd.

But no matter what the bottomline still is whatever you like best and what works for you that your happy with. Not everyone can just take someone elses build or opinion and it fits them perfectly.

LOL Dude take stealth and manuvers. Ever hear of stacking as in when using stealth you can use powers that effect you and the surrounding world, its not like invis, phase shift and cloaking were as you can only use powers that effect only you.

One of my favorite past-times is using stealth while hovering, fighting that way gives me the bonus of both defenses each of the powers have which I have also SO enh sloted and when I have hasten going which I have also SO sloted for defense, it gets even better because of the three defenses being stacked at once. So just take a guess what happens when you stack in manuvers petty 6.25% defense to my other 3 defenses LOL

Gee I never knew hover and flight sucked so much?

LMAO

Nah when hover is SO six sloted with 2 end reduces/2 flight spd/2 defense and flight is SO six sloted 2 end reduces/4 flight spd.

They are really sweet, but most players are so darn concerned about damage and six sloting other powers they negelect other powers that need to be sloted up too in order to be useful and productive.

Oh Super Speed or SS, fun power there guys if ya like boucin off walls or catching corners of buildings and or running into other players while moving so fast that you don't even see spawns, not to mention its obnoxious sound.

Hover the slowest travel mode in the game but a very nice panoramic view thats almost totally uncongested and great for those one of a kind screenshot sniper shot moments.

Flight no where near as fast as TP or SS. Gee its only just a hair faster than a fully enhanced Swift and Sprint mode. But ya get to see what your getting into sizing up the groups and surroundings before you get there which gives you time to plan your attack not rushing in half cocked.

But awe yes for a balanced travel power pool its Hover/Flight/Super Speed, without a doubt in my opinion.

Super speed for getting some where fast or pulling a Steve McQueen(The Great Escape) and getting out of a real jam.

And flight for flying around scoping out target groups and thier surroundings.

Then hover for those times when ya just don't feel like getting intimate with all twelve of them purples at once down on the ground.

Yep thats the three travel powers I have and I know the good and bad of all 3 very well. They are just like any other powers in the game, you take the good with the bad and make the best of it

BTW Robinson thanx for sharing the info, but no offense its not the ultimate blaster build, maybe to you but I wouldn't even waste my time trying it out. It just doesn't sound like a fun char. Maybe its a killin machine but it just sounds too easy and looks like not a challenge to play. But I guess thats part of what powerleveling is about, just getting there quick and not caring what ya miss out on.