KeilinAlyr

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Yes, there are people here who are snarky and cynical, with less than tasteful senses of humor.

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*rubs his ears*

Geez....Burning...



Seriously, I'm honestly a nice guy. Forums bring out a rather aggressively defensive instinct in me. I'm really not like this. Ask the folks who know me in game. ('cause, ya know, I'm not tellin' you how to find the ones who know me IRL...)

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I wasn't naming names. Heck, if you knew my roommates you'd think I enjoyed snarky humor and people who were candid to the point of rubbing your skin raw.

Wait, I do. Unless I'm some sort of twisted masochist. *chuckles*

Oh, and just because it's tradition for me to address people I've haven't quite met yet in forum in this manner. *pounces on DarkTyger and gives him a hug*

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While these boards aren't the worst I've seen they are the worst I frequent.

The other places I frequent are smaller communities with a zero tolerance policy towards spammers, trolls and flamers. If you go to a big site/forum you'll generally find a larger amount of flaming and other rude behaviour.

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Oddly enough, it's the smaller communities I frequent that tend to grate on me worse than this place. Here, I have a few safe haven threads (Litter Box, anyone?), I know how to avoid the Powerset Nerf threads, and I know which poster comments should be taken with a grain of salt or as sarcastic jokes.

In smaller communities, I tend to see a lot of moderator meltdown. Threads get locked that criticize their favorite people, people get snippy and make an artform of just skirting actual flamewars, people whine over some person's conduct and know that they can get away with it because no one dares call them on it, threads get locked that aren't remotely controversial because someone might get their feelings hurt... I could go on.

Personally, I'd rather see people have the ability to flame and look like morons than put up with small community mayhem. At the least, idiocy is ignored or called out because there's so much of it scattered among the veteran posters and intelligent people. Maybe a thread gets locked if it gets out of hand. However, I'd rather ignore which parts of the "mighty Intarweb" that bug me rather than have someone tell me what I can't view because it bothers them.

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*eyebrow-arcs* I need to find some better forum communities or something. That mini-rant looked to get quite ugly at times. *shrugs* Then again, I only have two communities I'm truly happy with, so I guess I have a right to be angsty and fussy and everything I've ever called out in others.

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I prefer to think that this is paradise compared to, oh, say -- the Apocalypse

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*has returned from a most unholy of journeys to the WoW forums, shuddering uncontrollably and with her eyes bleeding tears*

Oh goodness... That place... it burns... *sobs* So many... inane topics of conversation in the off-topic boards, I did not dare venture into the on-topic lairs. Such a frightening place it is. *claws at eyes*

Now then... *removes her unholy-pilgrimage garb and resumes her proper treefrog form*

To Crevab, I've been on friggin' My Little Pony discussion boards that were far ruder, flame-filled, and hate-spewing than the CoH boards. I'm far from joking here (all future pink plastic horse jokes aside).

Yes, there are people here who are snarky and cynical, with less than tasteful senses of humor. Yes, people forcefully shoot down others who post the same doom-filled or whining posts. Yes, people fight and bicker and it occassionally does get ugly.

However, I must remind you: this is a forum board and opinions will clash, often messily. Wish it could be better, but that's the whim of the Internet I'm afraid. Trust me though, it does get worse than this. *shudders slightly*

Heh, check out Fark.com or SomethingAwful.com for some interesting flame-fests if you're really curious about boards worse than CoH. It does burn the brain on occassion so pack some sunblock and don't say I didn't warn you.

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My favorite: anything by PuffyShirt. *Snifff* I miss good ole' Puffy. He always put a smile on my face.

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Whoa... if someone was inane (or maybe insane) enough to warrent being remembered by States himself... damn, who was this Puffy legend, and what crazy things did he post to be universally remembered with such "fondness"?

*glances around and removes the "Do Not Feed the Newbies" sign from in front of the zoo cage door*

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I like the art but the story doesn't make any sense.

There's a spell on the city that "suppresses super powers". It evidently doesn't do anything to the war walls (some pretty elite tech there), the guns wielded by the thugs, or cars. This means that it's very, very selective. And what about natural origin MA/SR scrappers who just know kung fu? Why would they be at anything less than full effectiveness? If guns work, why can't AR blasters just keep shooting? What about heroes whose powers are inextricably linked to their existence, like magical entities or androids like Bastadel (ok, they're probably just dead)? Why is Positron still generating anti-matter if that was his superpower?

Then we're told that 6 weeks later, the city is happy and peaceful and being cleaned up by "Arachnos drones". Life for the civilians is completely back to normal, but the only heroes in the city are hiding in fear of their lives. Super powers work everywhere else in the world but not in Paragon.

What?

Exactly what kind of drugs are the government and the civilians smoking? If I lived in that city, I'd be RUNNING for the exits. There's an unknown spell on the city - does that affect my cancer treatments, my cell phone, or any of the reverse-engineered Ritki tech being integrated into commercial products? If I was the president, I would scrounge up whatever military I had left from the war and send it to secure the place and get everyone out. If I lived anywhere else in the world I would drop everything and figure out how to make sure what happened to Paragon doesn't happen to me next. Superpowers get suppressed, a bunch of people die, some Arachnos guy sends in robots to control the place...and it's business as usual?

I don't buy it.

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Already made this point back in early April, though not to your level of detail.

Check the last two posts

Oh, and don't mind the silly mistakes in my post regarding the comic. This was back in the day when I was a bit shaky on powers and was convinced Devices was a Blaster primary. Oops. But the point still remains.

Now then... I want guns... lots of guns.

Late as usual on my part to find the little gems hidden in the rough. I suppose you could consider this a free bump though. *grins*

Back to my point, that was simply a beautiful piece, wonderfully paced, to the point, and still leaving me wanting to know more. Hell, yours was the first short piece of fiction I've read in months (and the first piece I've read fully and enjoyed in about as long), and well, it gave me everything I've ever hoped to one day have in the fiction I write and the characters I create. To say you're a talented individual would be an understatement.

Now then, after all this hero-worship on my part, I'm partially tempted to join that Whitmoore Apartments thread of yours, 430 pages or not. Just not sure you'd want to be kept up by two apartments' worth of poorly roleplayed, poorly designed heroes and their small menagerie of cats. Not shoulder kittens, just random stray cats they've managed to pick up or notice following them home over the past few months. I think they're up to six now, and yes, I know, I'm evil. *chuckles*

Now then, carry on with the awesome-ness, and I'll be looking over your shoulder once in a while.

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ya'll can call that instant crap tasty but until you've had authentic fresh cooked and fresh made ramen... you're all just posers.

Be men and go get some Tan Tan Men.

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Oh man... don't remind me of anything freshly prepared and oriental in terms of food. I've been surviving off of one meal a day consisting of "food" of a quality that would make starving mice cry. I am also a fiend for anything tasty.

What I wouldn't give for some well-prepared Naeng Myun or Japchae right now.

*starts drooling over some of the internet pictures of Korean dishes she's found*

*glances through her refrigerator and cupboards*

*cries*

Did you copy this story out of a Word document? Sometimes Word will replace apostrophes and quotation marks with curved "smart quotes" rather than the regular straight quotes.

Smart quotes aren't ASCII recognized characters, so they'll appear as the garble of symbols in a format that requires ASCII, like this forum's text boxes.

I have two suggestions. Either go to Autocorrect Options under the Tools menu in Word, uncheck the "smart quotes" box in the Autoformat as You Type box, then re-save your story (I'd recommend doing this if you plan on posting more stories to the forums). You could also copy your story to Notepad before pasting it to the forum box.

Hope this helps.

Heh... I just want to apologize for my completely off-the-deep-end posts in this topic and similar ones. I've been trying my hardest to keep from snapping at some people in the main Korean-CoV threads, and well... look how successful I've been in keeping my ragged emotional state from leaking over. *chuckles lamely*

My mother and I have been the target of quite a bit of racist idiocy in the past, but I know my kneejerk reaction toward anything even remotely grating against my mother's culture doesn't do much to foster positive feelings here. Again, my apologies, and I'll try to keep my suddenly irrational mindstate in check... usually I'm not this snappish and terse, even under worse conditions. *shrugs*

Anywho, back to college student-lifesaving noodle goodness.

*is currently filing away the various aforementioned recipes and techniques for tastier ramen*

By the way, I recommend adding a little chili powder to most supermarket brands for a little kick. Also, after boiling the noodles, try transferring the drained noodles to a frying pan with a little oil (I prefer sesame for the genuine oriental experience), and frying the noodles to preferred doneness. There's a technique to ramen frying that makes the noodles extremely tasty, although I'll have to play around with my packages to see if I can remember it.

The latter "recipe" is pretty darned tasty when topped with some shredded vegetables like carrot or cucumber... maybe a little boiled egg. Oh... and anything ramen is tasty with some fried whiting on the side, but that's my love of seafood calling there. *chuckles*

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This half-Korean is going to be going berserk and seeing heads roll if that "oh noes, the Koreans are going to screw up our game" nonsense keeps up.

*grumbles under her breath*

*dons her tinfoil hat*

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Well at least the game is already set up for you! Me can no hunt big buffolo!



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*chuckles* Silly Miss_Kitty. *pats*

I'm not even really sure why I'm getting so defensive over the two Korean threads. I've only been in my mother's country twice, and I've lived in the freakin' US pretty much all my life.

Then again, no one on the forums really needs a soliloquy or a run-down of my personal life, so... *un-dons her tinfoil hat and tries to ignore the irksome threads*

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So far we've got all non-European descended Americans pissed off, plus some blasters. In another thread, posters feverishly debate whether Koreans killed The Statesman.

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This half-Korean is going to be going berserk and seeing heads roll if that "oh noes, the Koreans are going to screw up our game" nonsense keeps up.

*grumbles under her breath*

*dons her tinfoil hat*

You know, I have a slightly different theory. The legendary heroes must have their own special contacts, since obviously their level cap has to be higher than ours in order to perform these outrageous stunts and global-scale crises.

Much like my close-to-level 25 Scrapper, Synapse is just trying to trying to acquire max debt so he doesn't outlevel his current contacts. Because let's face it, any battle that's epic enough for a movie short and this sort of thread would cause anyone to ping a few levels.

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ramen eating Europeans.

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What's wrong with Ramen?

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That was my first thought too. Ramen goood

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I never said Ramen was bad. Only Europeans.

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You know that all you americans descend from europeans?

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Only half of me. A quarter of me originates from Germany, a quarter of me originates from Finland (which, at least back in the medieval day, was so isolated it might as well have been its own continent), and half of me originates from Korea.

I win. And ramen is good, especially the slightly higher-priced stuff from Asian supermarkets. *nods*

Now then, back on topic, we better not lose Synapse. He and Mynx are the only things that make Skyway City worth visiting. *tries to lure out Synapse with cookies for an official, surprise-killing response*

Onyx Tiger: *pokes The Bar-Fly* I think he meant violet. *winks*

Evenfall Knight: *glances at her costume with obvious disdain* Anything but bright purple. I happen to prefer sapphire blue as well as white. Nobility and sincerity, along with tranquility.

Onyx Tiger: Black. But that's because it's fun to combine with every other color, not because of those silly goths. You can put black next to something like neon pink or turquoise and it won't too terrible an eyesore. Now purple and turquoise on the other hand... *grins*

Evenfall Knight: *glares at Onyx*

Garnet Drake: I'll probably regret saying this, but purple. *chuckles* Especially shades that have red or pink mixed with them, like a nice burgundy or lavender.

Sunstruck: *tries to peel a yowling Sunspot off of her shoulder* Gold I suppose... *continues fighting with the kitten* It represents the color of the sun... ouch, stupid cat... without being an eyesore. *finally removes the struggling kitten from her bleeding shoulder* Now if you stop sinking your claws into me when you're bored, we'll both be okay. *ruffles Sunspot's fur*

Keilin Alyr (in tree frog mode): *shifty eyes* Blue, and I'm not terribly picky about the shade.

Garnet Drake: You're not a hero, silly frog, you're a nuisance. Go play in that Litter Box thread you're so fond of.

Keilin Alyr: *hops off, somewhat disgruntled*