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Time for a new fun contest, rename me! People are starting to get tired of my ever-changing name. Well it keeps changing because I can't find one I'm happy with. Also, people just keep calling me PK anyways, no matter how long the Philotic Knight is dead.

So I propose this: think of the best names you can that have P and K as initials, such as the name that I have on right now. It has to be allowed by the forums - i.e. nothing that would be censored, MUST be between 5 and 16 characters as per forum rules. Anything else, including insulting names, it permitted and encouraged.

Just so that you know, I'll be the final arbiter and judge about which name wins. While you can submit any entry, keep in mind that I'm a bigger fan of CamelCase than I am of using underscores, but all legal entries will be considered.

I promise to keep the winning name on my person for at LEAST six months after the post date of my announcement of the winner. Good luck!

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PeeKaboom

I'm going to have to bail today. I woke up this morning feeling like a sac of hammered [censored]. All I want to do is sit on the couch and watch movies.

Sorry, guys.

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Again, I'm simply tired of building a "super-hero" who, regardless of how much care and time I put into him, is in no way comparable to any of the villains he fights. I'm tired of it.

Are we building superhumans or not? Seriously... 'cause it strikes me that, given everyone we interact with in the game, we're average at best.

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I'd say its just good simple open communication.

I also use the definition of blind invite that means "An invitation to a team sent with no information about what you are getting into".

Just because a store has a help wanted sign in the window doesn't mean you get the job for walking in.

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But it doesn't mean that you dont' automatically NOT get the job just for walking in.

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Depends on how you are dressed. For some employeers you most certainly can be auto disqualified just by walking in. Especially in this economy.

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/rolleyes

Right... so here's the part where I abandon what is clearly an overfed analogy.

If you have your flag up and it's set to anythign other than "Do Not Accept Invites" or "Not looking for a team", then you have no right [u]whatsoever[u] to complain about recieving an invite out of the blue. None.

You have every right to send the person a /tell and ask them anyting you like. Nobody's saying that you can't communicate however you like with whomever you like. That being said, my rule is three questions. If I'm asked more than three questions the invite is rescinded, even if I have to kick the person from the team. I have no patience for that nonsense... but that's just me. I'm not doing "interviews" for prospective team mates, forget it, I have better things to do with my time.

So if your flag is up and you get an invite and you want to ask the person what they're doing and what level they are... that's fair, there's nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned. But if that flag is up, you lose any and all right to complain about an "out of the blue" invite because you're soliciting it in the first place.

You want people to send a /tell first, then keep your flag down.


EDIT - And, by the way...

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Okay this is an idea I guess on enforcing a little etiquette within the game.

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The idea of "enforcing" etiquette is not only high-minded to the most ludicrous degree, so much so as to be arrogant, it's also completely paradoxical.

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I'd say its just good simple open communication.

I also use the definition of blind invite that means "An invitation to a team sent with no information about what you are getting into".

Just because a store has a help wanted sign in the window doesn't mean you get the job for walking in.

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But it doesn't mean that you dont' automatically NOT get the job just for walking in.

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Get a new one

And I've just requested the time off...let's see if it gets approved!

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*crosses fingers* What would a Hero-Con be without Frog?

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The same as any other hero-con, just with less salmonella.

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I'd rather have my HeroCon with salmonella, thankyouverymuch!

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Whatever blows your hair back... I make no judgements. I never said salmonella was bad... just that there would be less of it without the Frogster.

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It's an invite that you solicited. If you want to consider it a "blind invite" then fine but at that point the phrase has zero meaning whatsoever given that you were literally asking for it in the first place. So the word "blind invite" not only loses all meaning in terms of the way we say it, but most importantly it loses all it's pejorative qualities and simply becomes a "solicited invite".

If you ask for an invite, any invite you get is not a "blind invite".


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I remembered that at one time, I wanted to find a boyfriend. Then my mom said that she could find her friend's son or something like that. I told her that I don't know them, it's like a blind date. Then she said that it's not a blind date since I asked for it. I said to myself..oh my...

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Dissembling aside, it is what it is.

A solicited invitation to a team is not a blind invite. It is, in fact, a solicited invite.

And getting snotty with someone when one is sent an invite when one's flag is up is douchey in the extreme. It's like having a "Come on in!" sign on your porch and a wide open front door and then getting all uppity when people wander into your house because they didn't knock.

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Get a new one

And I've just requested the time off...let's see if it gets approved!

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*crosses fingers* What would a Hero-Con be without Frog?

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The same as any other hero-con, just with less salmonella.

Judads

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Ignore the drones. Besides Ms. Liberty, on most servers there would be dozens of heroes on site in seconds.

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It would be terribly boring for me and my villain friends to pound through waves and waves of grays.

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Well probably, the greys would just stand there and watch while the 50s pour out of: AE, Wentworth's, Vanguard, and Ouroboros to pwn you!

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Likewise, it'd be cool to have a window that opens to Mercy Island or something for 50's to pour into Villains and pound the hell out of the lowbies there until the villain 50's arrive.

Pohsyb is my favourite developer!

Congratulations, Pohsyb! All the best!

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If you solicit an invite by setting your LFT flag to "Looking for..." then it's not a blind invite.

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No, it's still a blind invite...because you have no idea what kind of team/person it's coming from.

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It's an invite that you solicited. If you want to consider it a "blind invite" then fine but at that point the phrase has zero meaning whatsoever given that you were literally asking for it in the first place. So the word "blind invite" not only loses all meaning in terms of the way we say it, but most importantly it loses all it's pejorative qualities and simply becomes a "solicited invite".

If you ask for an invite, any invite you get is not a "blind invite".

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Or make it even more fun. Whenever you get to that point in the Strike Force... A hero event message is sent out calling for heroes to defend City Hall... They then take a teleport at their city hall to the one you are currently in....

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Could you imagine how bad*** you would feel if you were able to complete the mission anyway?

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It would never happen.

It needs to be random.

Preferably at the high point of the population of the zone, like a costume contest or something.

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(ERR...sorta)


OK the first mission of the Barracuda Strike Force (5th Column return) has 8 villains (with some Arachnos transport support) attacking City Hall in Atlas. Yes, of course, this is an instance, but could you imagine what would happen if 8 villains really tried this.

Ignore the drones. Besides Ms. Liberty, on most servers there would be dozens of heroes on site in seconds.

This gets replayed over and over in COV, but only once IIRC in City of Heroes, on the STF.

It got me wondering. Should those encounters be rewritten? Not necessarily to make them harder (although that might be the effect), but instead to add a whole lot of generic "heroes" (and in the case of the STF, "Villains") to the maps of missions where you attack opposite side zones.

So instead of dozens of generic PPD and/or Longbow, you have SpiritKnight and Starry Lass, etc. And of different levels too. Having a costume contest going on in a mission would be the height of immersion IMO.

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It's my opinion that AP would be the perfect place for the odd BSF to show up randomly as part of their SF.

*inspirational poster style*

BANANA HAMMOCKS!
Helmets and giant magnets sold seperately

"Do not accept invites" does not prevent people from sending you a /tell.

/hide can prevent people from sending you a /tell, however... that is, if they can find you in the first place, which even your friends shouldn't be able to do if you have it set right.

Having "not looking for a team" set as your "LFT" flag means any invite you get without being preceeded by a /tell is a blind invite.

But that's it... If you're out there with anything else up, in other words with "your flag up" signaling that you're looking for any kind of team at all, there's no such thing as a blind invite. If you solicit an invite by setting your LFT flag to "Looking for..." then it's not a blind invite.

In other words, players have all the power and ability and therefore the responsibility to dictate the terms of their own experience. In other words, if you're really annoyed by blind invites, then do something about it for yourself. It's your game, it's your character, it's your account.

Aw, I have to play with Kat?!

Dammit!

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I might as well get this over with.

*stabs self*

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You actually took the time to type a reply that made a lot of sense and actually helped me see the other side of the view point in a way that was easily understandable WITHOUT being sarcastic, rude or just plain not helping.

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If you ever stepped foot in the WoW forums, you'd be torn to SHREDS. We're a LOT kinder and more jovial than even the nicest in that lot.

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Seriously... or the Penny-Arcade forums or the CTRL-ALT-DEL forums, or... well, any other forum, especially a "left-leaning" one. I'm afraid Mr_Mechano would be torn limb from limb.

The CoH forums is like the kindergarten of the net.

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More like the rest of the net is kindergarten. Most "discussions" on the WoW forums and their ilk essentially boil down to "I know you are but what am I?"

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I can deal with that.

What even more difficult than that is trying ot have a civil conversation with a large number of group-thinkers who consider anything other than their own ideology to be "bigotry" of some kind, or who are unable despite even the most Herculean of efforts to see their won sophistry or the blindness of their own position or the fact that they are, in fact, the bigots.

For poops and giggles, go into the Jezebel.com forum and say something like "I'm not a big fan of very public breast feeding" or something equally inocuous (take your pick) and see how you're treated.

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You actually took the time to type a reply that made a lot of sense and actually helped me see the other side of the view point in a way that was easily understandable WITHOUT being sarcastic, rude or just plain not helping.

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If you ever stepped foot in the WoW forums, you'd be torn to SHREDS. We're a LOT kinder and more jovial than even the nicest in that lot.

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Seriously... or the Penny-Arcade forums or the CTRL-ALT-DEL forums, or... well, any other forum, especially a "left-leaning" one. I'm afraid Mr_Mechano would be torn limb from limb.

The CoH forums is like the kindergarten of the net.

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buncha nubs in this thread making dumb [censored] remarks about food in a gaming forum...wtg

i agree with the ops ..if i spend my money for city of heroes then i want my money to go there

plain and simple...i think the other games they have suck and wouldnt waste my money buying such crap.

spend my money wisely or you wont get any of it...now thats the way big buisness works kids

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Too bad. So sad.

Guess what?!

When you buy something from a business or vendor, be it a service or a product you take away, the money's theirs now, and they can do with it whatever they wish.

I know, but there it is...

What was that expression you used... ? Oh, yah... "... thats [sic] the way big buisness[sic] works kids"

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Fast food: my McPizza.
--NT

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I'm trying that.

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I really like steak. I hate tofu, though.

The grocery store I buy my food at sells both.

Do you honestly think it's reasonable for me to bang on the manager's door and demand that, because I hate tofu, that any money that I spend on steak should be used to further enhance the store's stock and inventory of steak, and that it specifically not be spent on maintaining the store's tofu stock?

[/ QUOTE ]Dude that is a horrible example as it just doesnt work in the modern day and age. When you buy something from a store, say a game, or movie or even food. That stuff comes out of inventory and the cost of it is paid by the customer. So you buying steak doesnt help tofu in anyway. I would assume the samething goes with CoX.

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The point, despite whatever temporal inconsistencies you may find with the analogy (and, by the way, analogies are by their very definition inaccurate), is that once you've purchased a product or service you don't get to dictate to the vendor how they spend the money that is now theirs.

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I will not go to McDonalds except for chicken nuggets. Anyone who says McDonalds fries are good has serious mental issues.

[/ QUOTE ]Wait... you hate their fries... but you'll eat chicken nuggets at McDonalds?

Maybe I've been spoiled by Chic-Fil-A, but I'd take waterboarding over eating McD nuggest.




And McD fries are the only thing edible on their menu, either.

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Well, I like their breakfast.

Back when I was a young lad my best buddy and I had a tradition.

He was at home with a cast up to his hip as a resutl of a car accident, and I was working at the airport starting around 0330am, and finishing up around 0930. If I hurried I could get to the drive-thru before 10 when they stopped serving breakfast.

I would drive up and order 6 bacon'n'egg McMuffin meals, large sized (so that they each came with a large coffee/juice and 6 hash-browns). I'd take that [censored] to my buddy's place and we'd each eat three of those large-sized meals. We were usually done eating shortly after 1030 and we were done.

Like, done for the day.

My brother and I also had a tradition for a while with the regular meals. We called it "Teh Disgustorz!" (and we'd pronounce it that way). We'd each get a double big-mac meal, large sized and ten nuggets.

Oh, god, what a meal that was... but you felt like total butt for the rest of the day, and most of the week.

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I find McDonald's fries entirely flavorless. Like chewing old gum.

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I'm Canadian.

I find Canadian McDonald's and American McDonald's taste different... for what it' sworth I think American McD's is disgusting.

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I don't know, I can't cite the source at the moment, but at one point, the devs said that they would never give away anything that people paid for, in relation to people asking for stuff like some of the add-on pack perks as veteran rewards.

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They may have said it, but it's not true at all. The travel power effects, for instance, not to mention some of the temp powers like Sands of Mu and the Ghost Slaying axe were part of a very early booster pack or "special edition" or something.

That being said, I'm sure there'll be some mealy-mouthed rationalization/cop-out on the part of the dev team as to why those particular ones don't count, but there you have it.