LaserJesus

That arc sets ham sandwiches back a century. They've fought hard for their rights!

Unless we get the chance to buy more slots past 8 down the line, it had very much better not be. If that is the case, then when the 3rd one comes around hardly anyone will be able to submit arcs.

It can be argued that anything could theoretically be a good idea if implemented properly. However, I can't think of any way and you haven't provided any examples. So unless someone has a really good idea of how to use it, making it a consistent level range is just being nice to the player. And even if someone does have a really good idea of how to use it, then they should still think twice about it, since what seems like a good idea to them might not be a good idea in everyone else's mind.

Besides, nobody is limiting your creativity. You can still run out and make an arc that has level ranges going from 1-5 to 20-21 to 1-40. However, it doesn't mean that anyone will like it.

The costume creator has tabi boots, yakuza tattoos, baggy pants, robes, those conical hats (can't think of the name). Give your guys some katanas and such and just call them Tsoo.

It's not? Then why the hell am I eating it then?

Yeah, grats to the nominees, don't get me wrong, but I was sad that there wasn't more fresh blood in the nominees. Was kind of hoping some more unknowns who don't really post on the forums but still have great missions would be highlighted.

Also:

Then how come Return of the Revenge of the Son of Drakule Part 2: First Blood didn't get nominated?

(I love typing that out, it's so ridiculous)

Yeah, when I crashed, by the time I got back in global chat had pulled it's act together. However, that was a very surreal 15-30 minutes.

Never.

Too.

LATE.

It's never too late! He's going to pick ME, dammit!

Not at all. I'm going based on your words.


There's arguably one fan of his in the arc, which is the girl with the I can haz cheezburger shirt, and I say arguably because the arc describes her as looking confused by the LOLBAT's speech. The people outside around LOLBAT "toasting" their cheeseburgers really are most likely people who are excited that the burger chain was rescued.

First, if I want to be obtuse, (and really, I see no reason why not, since you've gotten pretty damn combative) the contact's not in a mission. A contact introduces the the mission. Second, the first and third missions don't involve memes as part of the villains' actions. Monsieur Rongeur is robbing a bank, and Scrabbler is threatening to bomb a newspaper company. Unless there's some really obscure memes involving those two things, I think it's safe to say that LOLBAT's dialogue sandwiched in between missions is the only meme-related thing "in" those two.

You see, unlike your example, all of the pieces of LOLBAT's joke are there. I've explained it at least twice now, but I guess I'll have to use plainer english: LOLBAT and the memes are the setup, not the punchline.

Unfortunately, DeviousMe already ruined it, because you were so close!

Hmm, what's a name for a cooking utensil that contains a word that sounds like the name of a Batman villain? (LOLBAT is a Batman parody, after all.)

Oh yes, a Crock Pot.

I love your portrayal of me as a moronic fanboy, but honestly I got the reference of the name when Croc Pot first showed up in the PvP comic. It's kind of clever, really.

You probably overthought it, considering you were thinking of looking for references outside of the U.S. and Canada for it and just didn't see the most obvious pun.

By the way, that's not me trying to make a personal attack against you.

And really, neither was my initial post. I disagreed with your analysis of the arc's direction of humor, and yes, I did defend it, because I had a different interpretation and since this IS a feedback thread, after all, I thought I should list my contradicting interpretation just in case someone is looking in here to see what other people thought of the arcs, and if they would enjoy them or not.

You have some valid points, about things like the description of "toasting" hamburgers being too ambiguous. And honestly, all I really was stating was "Humor is subjective, and you didn't find it funny. I did. Other people might find it funny too, and for more reasons than 'lol netspeak is funny'."

You're incredibly hung up on the mission with Croc Pot in it. You realize that was one mission, right? Sure, you have to fight him in the last mission, which also uses his custom group, but the first and third mission don't involve cheezburgers or anything. Hell, they don't even involve memes. Scrabbler hates LOLBAT because he has horrible spelling.

And where the hell do you keep getting this think about Croc Pot being a parody of pot noodles? Frankly, you pulled that out of thin air. He's called Croc Pot because one of Batman's villains is Killer Croc. His name is just a pun, nothing more.

Didn't contradict, just made a mistake in typing the post. Essentially what I'm getting at, is that the arc states that LOLBAT comes from another city. In that other city, all the villains and LOLBAT are pretty much worthless, but nobody seems to realize. Then they come here and wreak havoc, and you're stuck dealing with these bush league villains. That's where the humor comes in. The worship of LOLBAT is part of that, as it's why the villains hate LOLBAT so much.

And really, if you have such a problem with the line about toasting their hamburgers, talk to Dr. Aeon about it. It's a good chance that's a typo or he forgot to write a word down or something. Personally, I thought it was pretty obvious that he was going for the visual image of them "clinking" their hamburgers together like champagne glasses.

And the plot of them mind controlling LOLBAT being incredibly vague and confusing? Also part of the joke. Again, they're completely terrible villains. At the end of Scrabbler's clue in the last mission, he realizes how terrible of an idea making everyone talk like LOLBAT is.

Honestly, I think you're too hung up on one character and a couple missteps in writing. You've missed the greater joke at play, especially if you think the entire joke is contained in the second mission.

Being a fan of theirs for quite some time now, I think the main issue is that the written word is not their strength. So much of their humor comes from how they deliver their lines, and that is really damn hard to put in written form. Frankly, the difference in quality of their guest arcs and their videos is like night and day.

Carnies are nothing. Seriously. They have bosses that can pull some annoying tricks out of their sleeves. Everything else dies incredibly fast to lethal damage. Knives of Artemis aren't hard, just annoying with calrops spam. Malta are difficult, however, as they have something that will hit practically anyone's weakness.

You're half wrong on one account and completely wrong on the other regarding Tarantula Queens. Psionic attacks are not auto hit. Mind Control and Illusion control powers don't have positional attack types, and that's it. Dominate, for instance, ignore's SR's defense, but it's not autohit in the slightest. Other psionic attacks still generally have a positional attack type. My SR is far, far better than an invulnerability tank at not dying from psionic damage because of this. Also, the Tarantula Queen only debuffs your defense down to nothing if you don't have a lot of defense debuff resistance, which SR does. SR scrappers can had radiation infection put on them by Positron and only have their defense go down by a slight amount.

However, that's still irrelevant. Tarantula Queens are still one boss in one group. Sure, you'll run in to things that will hit your weakness some times. When I fight malta I always go for the Gunslingers first because they have high accuracy. Same with rularuu eyeballs. However, the problem with custom critters is that practically every blast set has aim in it, every melee set has a build up equivalent, and they get them on hard. All four of the guest author missions have enemies that have build up or aim. Some of them have enemy groups that have one of their ranks completely filled with enemies with build up and aim. Hell, Quest for Magic has a boss with TWO Aims!

This is not good enemy design. This is strongly stacking the odds against one specific kind of protective power. Just because you don't think it's too much, it doesn't mean it's not. To have every lieutenant in a group have aim or build up is just brutal to characters who get by mostly on defense. Apparently your shield scrapper didn't have much of a problem, though I suspect that has more to do with shield charging most of the things to death than superior protective power. (Though, you also do have resistance to most types of damage, whereas an SR scrapper does not.)