Jack_NoMind

Heh. I know these aren't my oldest posts, but the earliest ones I can find are costume suggestions; steampunk costumes and spaceman helmets -- including a space pirate helmet. :P

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...971#post847971
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...858#post533858

(Sorry for length, shortest segment I could cut that made sense and didn't feature pedophilia or catgirls.)

[Help] Rita Ramjet: true. MMO's are a new form of entertainment...much more like losing a team you have been a part of for 8 years
[Help] Justicar Prime: demorecord?
[Help] Plane Shift: I believe most or all of the employees were laid off on Friday. They might have a skeleton crew to maintain the servers, or be using other NCSoft employees.
[Help] Rita Ramjet: than just a game you play that goes away
[Help] Angel Parabellum: (HC) New rumor: If you bake a pie, you will have pie to eat....no wait..that's true.
[Help] Crushalot: a few devs are around
[Help] Polychaos: CITATION NEEDED
[Help] Crushalot: had one in our team yesterday
[Help] Plane Shift: Yeah, but are they being paid?
[Help] Crushalot: I thought it rude to ask
[Help] Ulthain: It's simple. We kill a man in a bat suit.
[Help] Plane Shift: Heh. Point.
[Help] Rita Ramjet: Ah
[Help] Plane Shift: But they've apparently shut down the beta server, so that means a lot of QA people won't have much to do.
[Help] Parity Man: It's not shut down.
[Help] Parity Man: Zwill's rebooting it asap. It was just laggy.
[Help] Brianna Magefire: True Rita, but a famous Founding Father also said... "A Country Taxing it's citizens into Prosperity... makes about as much sense as standing in a bucket & trying to lift that bucket w/ its handle" And, we can all see that fell by the wayside quickly
[Help] Parity Man: yeah, it's a shame, too.
[Help] Polychaos: Ugh we really don't need tea party politics on top of this
[Help] Parity Man: the countries that tried it did really well for themselves
[Help] Parity Man: Oh well! One false analogy down, a billion more to go!
[Help] Densmorou: That was Prime Minister Churchill
[Help] Plane Shift: That's interesting, Parity. About the beta server, not about taxation.
[Help] Crushalot: don't clutter our minds with facts
[Help] Plane Shift: SMASH FACTS
[Help] Parity Man: Well, I mean. As long as I hope we revive this game for, I'm willing to bet taxes will be around for longer.
[Help] Parity Man: Distraction : POLITICS FIGHT!
[Help] Brianna Magefire: I'm not a tea partier & not trying to bring politics into it.. promise, but we're talking corporations & making money afterall... True dat Parity
[Help] Parity Man: ...Maybe I shouldn't have said that part out loud.
[Help] Brianna Magefire: LOL!
[Help] Parity Man: um... REPUBLICANS ARE BABY EATERS...?
[Help] Rita Ramjet: thats atheists.
[Help] Brianna Magefire: Hahahaha
[Help] Rita Ramjet: repubslicans steal candy
[Help] Parity Man: Oh please. I haven't eaten a baby since last Christmas.
[Help] Crushalot: uh no they are pro-life - think you mean the other party - Blue like zombies
[Help] Sir Mason Stone: PRINCESS CELESTIA 2012!
[Help] Parity Man: It was a family thing.
[Help] Rita Ramjet: liberals give babies lsd stamps that look like tweety bird
[Help] Sir Mason Stone: Er....
[Help] Plane Shift: And holiday calories don't count.
[Help] OceanSpray: which one punches babies?
[Help] Rita Ramjet: its all explained in the handbook
[Help] Parity Man: Of course they're pro-life, Crushalot. They need babies. To eat.
[Help] Rita Ramjet: libertarians
[Help] Crushalot: Ron Paul punches babies
[Help] Sanctum Centurion: which side shoots people in the face?
[Help] Rita Ramjet: Oh yeha i saw it on the internets
[Help] Plane Shift: Libertarians leave the choice of whether or not to punch babies up to the free market.
[Help] Brianna Magefire: Holy Cow! Sorry Polychaos!
[Help] OceanSpray: thought ron paul eats their souls to stay alive
[Help] Parity Man: No, Ron Paul is the Evil Tooth Fairy.
[Help] Parity Man: True story.
[Help] Rita Ramjet: but he doesnt wait for the teeth to fall out to ge tthem
[Help] Crushalot: Obama just drinks beer as they punch babies
[Help] Justicar Prime: Ron Paul looks like a kiddy fiddler to me.
[Help] Sir Mason Stone: It's the end of the world, and the Help channel has gotten a bit strange. :P
[Help] Warp and Weft: Gotten?
[Help] Crushalot: is it helping?
[Help] Densmorou: No... it's just getting back to "normal?

Edit : Oh, actually, I guess a little crept in at the end there.

Taking over organizing an event like this would be a bit too much for me, but I'll work with whoever feels they can handle the lead spot on a Northeast North America meetup.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/...ndary-tertiary

Quinary, apparently.

Damn you, Quine. You're everywhere.

This is on the Titan boards : http://www.facebook.com/TheBigBangTh...61180263926547

From another thread; wanted to bring it to everyone's attention (briefly). http://www.facebook.com/TheBigBangTh...61180263926547

Glad to hear it, Matt. Take a look over here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=295867

Hmmm... to be honest, I'm not sure exactly which of these are or aren't mac-compatible. But maybe they'll be things to think about anyway.

Mechanically, I felt the closest to City in DDO. But it doesn't have travel powers and it's a bit of an instance hell.

Practically, Champions offers a lot of the same things that City does. But it's really pushing hard for a triforce play style right now -- which is a step up from "everybody's a damage-dealer" it started with. As of the last time I played, there was no mez or aoe control to speak of and barely any meaningful support gameplay.

I've been playing The Secret World since beta and following it for a long, long time (my friends, who also now play, insisted for a while it was never actually going to come out). It's a great game in a lot of ways, but frustrating and bumpy in a good few as well. I highly recommend trying it out, but I don't know if I can say you'll love it. It's... very interesting.

I hesitate to mention this next one, but, screw it, I had a blast for a while. Vindictus, which Nexon put out. (Nexon might be behind the decision to can CoH.) It's also an instance hell, but it really feels like an indie game; it's creative and it makes its limitations work for it for the most part. The game gets bogged down after a while under the grind, but the first half of it or so is a real joy. Not great character customization (it's class = person, though you can tweak a lot of the look), I admit.

Last one?

City of Heroes, man. It's got everything you want. It ain't gone yet, and I sure ain't giving it up without a fight.

Pebble, the only thing I have been able to think while reading your posts since Friday is that I wish to God you'd been posting more.

Incidentally, I now picture you and Tunnel Rat working together as something like Galactus vs Bugs Bunny; two indestructible cosmic grigori, one embodying an ominous soul-crushing terror and the other a hilariously violent anthropomorphic rodent.

Hey, I'm all about obeying the spirit of the forum rules in all, but you know what?

This.

Dropped you a line. Of course, it's not like I need to repeat that here, so why on earth would I be bumping this thread?

Of course. We have mez protection.

Keep in touch. Followed you on Twitter.

If the game had to end... Forced into a desperate battle with Battalion, we'd blow up the Well of the Incarnates; the two, linked, sustain one another, fighting a war for control that will not end while either exists. Without the power from the Well, superpowers would begin to fade from the world; even the power of natural heroes is diminished without the living connection to their spirit the Well facilitated.

But the changes superheroes wrought wouldn't disappear. Magic isn't gone; it wasn't created by the Well, merely empowered by it. The technologies invented by super-geniuses don't fade, and while the flashes of insight might not come so easily, hard work and dedication still enable people to create amazing things.

The portals to the Rikti homeworld wouldn't disappear, either. And while the Traditionalists finally wrest political control, rogue Restructurist guerillas and terrorists still threaten both worlds.

The Praetorian citizens start to integrate with the Primal citizens... but they bring not only new technologies and social developments (their teaching system, in particular, is incredibly successful, creating a new era of enlightenment in Primal earth), but their vices and criminals as well. The inherent facist tendencies, so deeply imprinted in the society after only a generation, lead to new gangs even as the coordinated remnants of the Syndicate wage -- and largely win -- a silent war with the Family, Tsoo, Trolls and other gangs, creating a precarious but effective coordination among many of the criminal elements. Street crime in Paragon rapidly drops; the Syndicate doesn't approve of random violence, and their enforcers are sometimes hailed as heroes when they disperse violent anarchists like the Freakshow. But in the boardrooms and the darkest alleys of the city, betrayal and murder continue with a quiet and ferocious intensity.

And using their advanced ecological technology, some displaced Praetorians build new homes for themselves -- in the sea, occupying huge domes and traveling ships, and on the moon, where a brief war is waged. The details are kept quiet, but frightening images find their way to earth, images of strange Nictus Council troops and far more frightening things. Oh yes; the Kheldians are not gone. Their control over energy and form fades with the Well and Battalion to some extent, but they are their own beings with their own strange lifecycles.

The remaining heroes and villains slowly consolidate themselves with existing groups. Many former Natural "super" heroes join the PPD; others join Wyvern. Those whose unique gifts have not quite faded remain with a reformed Longbow or Vindicators as peacekeepers -- the UN expands, for the dimensional portals have not gone away, and there are many Earths (and Orths, Terra Primes, and stranger places) we make peaceful contact with. The Midnighters still exist, as do other groups. The villains... well, some of them join these groups too, quietly. Some reform; some "reform," living dual lives in Paragon City. Arachnos is not gone, nor is the Council.

The 5th Column... that's a stranger story. Their three-way battle with Nemesis and Ouroboros is fought across time and space in places no other sentient being will ever see. And they are all changed by this.

Even without superheroes... there are still heroes, and the story goes on.

I'd fight it.

Shhh! Don't get them to fix that. ;*p

My friend -- a fellow early-adopter of CoH -- and I were talking about MOGs recently, as we often do. I've been more active in the past few years playing CoH than he has, but the loss is hitting us both. We're both feeling skeptical of other MMOs, and we miss the promise of Neverwinter 1; a game where the servers are or at least can be hosted locally and even if the official support shuts down -- when the official support inevitably shuts down -- you can go back to worlds you've loved and keep them going.

There's something to be said for the MMO aspect, though. There are a lot of practical problems with the other style; piracy is a big one. Another is monetizing them; you are selling the client, not renting server access.

But I think there is a hybrid model possible. And I think you can run a cash shop; we've proven here and many other games have proven that players will (sometimes grudgingly) buy modular content. And I think you can run premium servers; the ROI on those is actually decent, although it would be a scale-up question (particularly in the question of how many content/story designers you need for those things).

Anyway. Just some random thoughts. I'm gonna miss you, Posi (no matter how many times Rikti or zombies killed me at your uncaring feet). I hope not for very long.

Oh, are we posting our favorite attack chains here?

...SPRING ATTACK! ...RISE OF THE PHOENIX!

I was all set to get GW2. I don't know about a boycott, but I'm definitely reconsidering that. And any other NCSoft or Nexon purchases. A shame, since I really enjoyed Vindictus.

Seeing an IP sale to Titan Network or a credible publisher and/or an open-sourcing of the software would go an awful long way to change my mind. As in, I'd go buy GW2 while the ink was still wet.

She'd hardly be the only person to roleplay her character here.