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Quote:Seriously. There are ZOMBIES IN THE STREETS, PEOPLE! Strap on your superpants and get out there!Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Oh geez.
At least it's not as bad as the "I want Going Rogue NAO!" that we had to put up with for the past year and a half.
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Quote:I'm more on Gray_Lensman's side about these sorts of items. If you have a character concept that requires the Vanguard pieces, that's something to work for. I suppose someone out there wants to make ALL their characters Vanguard-related (or Rikti or Ruularu or whomever) but these parts are story-driven, not game-driven.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
My point exactly. Let's take a little example of what kind of difference it would make to me.
Right now, it takes around 1000 Vanguard Merits on a single character to unlock the full Vanguard set on that specific character. I would be perfectly willing to accept raising this to 10 000 Vanguard Merits among all of my characters to unlock the set for all of those characters. So, for instance, if I want the Vanguard Sword, now I have to pay 100, and under my proposed system I'd have to pay 1000. 100 now seems expensive to me. 1000 for having the sword account-wide seems perfectly reasonable.
Here's another example - you unlock Rularuu weapons for defeating 100 Overseers. I would happily defeat 1000 over however long a time that this may take, if it were to unlock the weapons for my entire account. Or even just that one weapon that just that one character can unlock. So a Broadsword Scrapper would have to slay 1000 Rularuu to unlock JUST Rularuu's Bane, but then all other Broadsword Scrappers on my account would have it unlocked.
Right now, you need to do the ITF twice to earn the Nictus Romulus sword. I would gladly do it TWENTY times if it unlocked the sword for my entire account.
I'm not against working for these things, I'm not against achieving "stuff" in the general sense. I'm against having to achieve it over and over and over again. I can put forth the work, as long as I know I only need to do it once. I may not like it, I may not agree with it, but I wouldn't complain.
Unlocking Epic ATs is game-driven. Unlocking the Family Tommy Gun is story-driven.
I'm on record for having been against gating capes since those are such an iconic part of the superhero mythos, so my alternate story-based suggestion was that the heroes of Paragon City simply honored the request not to wear capes for a year in memory of Hero 1. Then the capes should be available at character creation, with special capes being something you unlock.
I don't know if that argument was heard, but it seems to have been somewhat implemented when wings were added to the game. Basic wings (angel and demon) are earned at 15 months, while variants can be found as dropped recipes or purchased. Again, I would've put them in for everyone at character creation, but I understand the business decision of rewarding long-time subscribers and giving new players incentive to stay. (Although the market makes that sort of moot with the demon wings.)
But overall, I do think specific, special, non-iconic items should be earned by each character as part of the story-driven aspect of the game. -
Quote:...and Gray earns another spot. You guys are on a roll.Originally Posted by Gray_Lensman
Whipping out your wallet isn't the answer to everything in life. That's as it should be, though some people seem to have lost sight of this. If everything was for sale, anyone could just whip out a credit card and buy themselves a championship cup or gold medal - items that not only look cool, but show others that the bearer achieved a particular thing - if they really wanted one, but didn't want to bother with the 'grind' involved with, you know, actually earning it legitimately. That really trivializes those sorts of items. And as I said before, not all costume pieces in CoX are tied to in-game accomplishments like that, but the fact that some of them are doesn't bother me in the slightest. I wouldn't mind if more of them were, in fact.
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Quote:Sam, you just earned a spot in my quarterly collection of quotable quotes. Well said.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Games should be entertaining. They should not be a professional sport you have to dedicate your life to in order to succeed at. They benefit from not being harsh like real life and permit me to eat my cake and have it, too, something I may not always get to do in the real world. I play this game as my super hero escapism. I don't need real life hardships in here, too.
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I preferred the original ones that were like actual FB posts. Because of the language I can't post them all, but here's one:
The superhero ones were just as good.
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These will blow your mind. For some of us, they are a way-back machine, for you youngsters it will be akin to seeing cavemen unfrozen from the ice.
There's even a special one for BafflingBeerMan as a bonus. -
Dude.
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I read it in the hardback collections, but I'm often left feeling that I wish he would stop riffing off of Justice League and Avengers and just run with his own characters.
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Quote:Where are you?Originally Posted by MasterElemental
More like just hate having satellite to connect with. Over 3 Hours and still no connection. And yes i do have multiple Updaters open. Maybe by the time the event is over I'll be able to play. Save me Some treats.
Would be nice if they would make the Updater more Satellite friendly. -
Quote:"Hey baby, wanna stork?"Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Sure, they think it's fun to tell us that stuff about storks and babies when we're little, but we make them regret it later on.
"...they're cheap and deliver on time." -
Quote:I'm unhappy right now.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
That's just crazy talk. This is an MMO, someone is always unhappy.
No, wait... sorry, it was just gas. I'm happy again. -
Another new guy, DP/Electric Blaster USAim. DP has been a disappointment, but at least he looks cool.
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Heya peeps, I'm back. Just for the record, hospitals are no fun but I'm glad I went. (I'm better now, no worries.)
Time to add the new alts! Here's the first guy, my GR Whip/Storm MM Whipper-Snapper. A bit on the non-serious side, but he's been a hoot to play.
I named each of his demon pets after real demons:
Dybbuk (Jewish for demon)
Ukobach (Inferior demon who maintains the fires of hell; appears ablaze) - the fire demon
Itzcoliuhqui (demon god of the Aztecs. He brought cold and destruction.) - the ice demon
Uphir (demon physician) - the healing demon
Astaroth (prince of Hell) - the big guy
Bael (head of the Infernal Armies, commands 66 legions) - the REALLY big guy -
I heard it was Marky from the 'Hood. Maybe that was his album.
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Quote:How can you be married to someone who's dead inside?Originally Posted by Chyll
I told my wife I was going to buy land there for our retirement home...
And then decided I should open an internet company selling deeds there, like those that let you name star, buy a parcel of the moon, etc.
(FYI: she didn't like either idea) -
Quote:It's like DRM: doesn't stop the thieves but annoys the customers.Originally Posted by 2short2care
Until someone buys the dvd with the no security tape on it and take it home and find that it has no dvd in the case. The security tape is there for a reason folks, so people don't steal the dvd outta the case.
And from a place like Amazon that doesn't have retail space, it doesn't matter. I hope it's a trend, not a fluke. -
Quote:Well, the general rule of thumb IS "bad book, good movie," so you never know.Originally Posted by Brachaesnethar
I can't check out the trailer at work, but I bought the book from the Science Fiction Book Club recently, based on the little blurb they give in their catalog.... and WOW was I disappointed. Arguably one of the worst books I've ever, EVER read.
In its defense, I am reasonably sure it's a "teen" novel, so I'm a generation (or two) beyond the intended audience. But, I mean, it hit ALL the boring tired cliches. I could predict EVERYTHING that was going to happen, and I was -right-.
When I found out it was going to be made into a movie (or HAD been, by the time I actually got the book)... I just knew it would be a Twilight-wanna-be movie... tragically misunderstood lone newbie student with secret superpowers meets local girl and falls in love.... black trenchcoated, razor-teeth bad guys hunting him and his father figure... mandatory cute pet with surprise twist....
YAWN.
I'll try to remember to check out the trailer when I get home --- always possible that the movie could be BETTER than the book... -
Quote:I do it because they're free. Someone posted a thread about running a character using only drops as an experiment, which struck me as hilarious: that's how I run ALL of my characters.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Funny, the economist in me can't stand slotting and reslotting SOs when they go red every 5 levels.
The only time I make an IO is if I have excess Inf and common salvage that I can't store and would sell anyway. In this past month that's happened about six times. -
It's always the same way: three nights a week there's nothing you want to see, and two nights have all nine shows you want to watch.
Glee has lost me, so as heavy-handed as NOF was, I'll be watching that. -
Quote:Dear god, that looks absolutely ludicrous. They start adding crap like that, I'll have an aneurysm all over you.Originally Posted by Mirai
"You call those dual swords?
THESE are dual swords."
Let's keep the truly stupidly-huge Final Fantasy weapons out of this game. If you want that stuff, go play that game. -
Quote:I made no comment about the pack's quality. It was not embraced, people made a fuss, they added an item and bing, more sales. That was the point.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Beyond the fact that the pack itself in question wasn't a bad pack (the only stigma that it garnered was that it either wasn't quite mutant theme in the general sense and that "Beast parts" were expressed to be coming in a pack...but only until much later did we find out it wasn't *this* pack), it's supporting the development team and expressing what you want with your dollar.
I'm not feeling well, so therefore grumpy and justifiably cynical. -
Quote:The Incredibles were named "Parr" as a play on words: par, or average.Originally Posted by Durakken
their last name is Powell I found out while trying to find out their names last night...
Notice that people like P names family names
Parr
Powell
Patrelli
I suspect Powell is employed similarly because of the associations with "powers" and "pow." -
It looks intriguing, but the director brothers at the helm also made the incredibly bad Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, so it's causing a certain amount of wariness.
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Quote:It absolutely is infringement.Originally Posted by Mr_Samoa
That raises another question, though. What if the character is significantly altered? If I made a Spider-Man comic but his name was John Doe instead of Peter Parker, essentially, is a different character besides for the costume and more or less the same powers. Does that still fall under infringement (assuming still that no money is made)?
The *idea* of a boy bitten by a spider who gains spider powers isn't covered, but the *expression* of that idea -- the character's name, what he looks like, etc. -- is protected.
You can make a character who resembles Spider-Man to any reasonable person, as long as every single characteristic is different. Then you might skate under the parody provision. But even then you might run afoul of the lawyers. Decades ago Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, got sued by Disney for his Mickey Mouse parody in the follow-up comic strip Outland. -
Holy crap. Giraldo was easily the funniest of the latest batch of comedians with smart and incisive jokes. His riff on illegal immigrants was brilliant. Such a waste.