Mattman

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Actually someone found a linguistics website where a Hmong speaker spoke the word "Tsoo" (Which incidentally means "To Hit or Strike"). And yes, the Tsoo are NOT Chinese or Japanese, they are Hmong. Anyway, the word "Tsoo" sounded much like someone saying "jong" or "djong". Very interesting.

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Hearing this, I looked up a search in metacrawler for "hmong tsoo"


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Wait a minute, Hmong is real!? I thought they just made it up so they'd have a vaugely asian sounding country without singling out any actual ones!

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Hmong are a people, but there is no "Hmong" country. They live mostly in South East asia, in the area around Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and South Eastern China.

Essentially the rise of communism in Asia and the Vietnamese war took a very heavy toll on them and many have since settled in the United States in scattered pockets (There's one in California (which is why Cryptic probably knows them, and one in Wisconsin).

They've had some integration problems in the United States that causes some tension. Last year you may remember hearing a story about a Hmong hunter killing six people over an argue over a deer hunting stand. While this Hmong was probably a bad egg, there have been some tension as Hmong immigrant's have different understanding of property rules nad have been known to cross property lines to hunt as their concept of ownership is different from hours. In addition they're somewhat suspsicious of many aspects of our culture, such as Western medicine.

As for the Hmong in game, their look is somewhat generic. To me a Sorceror's appearance as well as several bosses seem much more South-East Asian than the "Ninja-lite" enforcers. The fact that their weapons are traditionally Japanese doesn't help either.

Actually someone found a linguistics website where a Hmong speaker spoke the word "Tsoo" (Which incidentally means "To Hit or Strike"). And yes, the Tsoo are NOT Chinese or Japanese, they are Hmong. Anyway, the word "Tsoo" sounded much like someone saying "jong" or "djong". Very interesting.

I'd just like to say SaberCat is one of the coolest guys who EVER played this game. Seriously, all you n00bs bettah recognize!

Okay, someone mentioned the "Devs load 2 billion Hellions in Atlas" experiment. On the Beta boards someone posted a picture of his charater using Repel on a absolutely massive group of Hellions surrounding him. It looked amazing as Hellions went flying EVERYWHERE. Anyone have that picture?

First Loki then Fenris. Hel and the Midgard Serpent should be showing up anytime now

Now my mouth is really watering...very stylish stuff.


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Ok, the teasers for I4 have official worked out the knots in my shoulders. I'm ready for my 'happy ending' now.

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Horribly offensive, but hilarious

I'm not entirely sure what Rick Dakan's job is.

As I understand it:
First he was lead game designer. Lewis owned Cryptic, they brought in Jack Emmert to help build the game.

The project struggled so he was asked to step down by Lewis (Jack took over) and he stayed on in to right the fiction. He also wrote the CoH comic book.

Now, I thought he was still lead writer but I think he said in an interview that his only connection now (outside of being friends) was through the comic book. So maybe he's not lead writer anymore either. Confusing.

He said in another interview. It's something like Go Go Chex and he even gave the server. I bet he had to shelf that char though

I'm guessing S.P.I.D.E.R.

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Hey Positron, I was just wondering... when you're testing the Arena, do you get to control the actual Positron, with powers and all?

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Nah, I usually just play whatever archetype needs testing that day. I generally play Defenders or Blasters though.

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OMGBBQ haha u squishys r goin 2 get sooo pwnt by my tanker lol!!1

(Just in case anyone can't tell, that's a joke)

Mako, huh.

Like this?

So first a spider, now a shark...veeeery interesting!

Anyway, welcome to the boards!

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I remember the Rularuu invasion where unlike the WL event, heroes of all lvls were fighting side by side united against a common enemy, where the word killstealer meant little or nothing.


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Hehe, during the Rularuu invasion some jerk claimed I was stealing all his Rularuu because I attacked a group close to the one he was fighting and sent me a nasty tell about how he was petitioning me for Kill stealing. Still waiting for that GM to show up.

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I remember Diva Dautnless calling for Geko's resignation


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I don't remember this. What was that all about?

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Oh man, I can't remember. If I had to guess it was over him saying Hasten was "working as intended" in Beta, but then changing it in live. I may be wrong though.

However, this will make it difficult to complete your Praetorian set for the badge.

I remember when Temporary Invulnerability was a CLICK power.

I remember back in Beta when Regen was considered a worthless set.

The other thing to consider was that one of hte big "no nos" of switching to the AT design was that Range + Defense was an overpowering combo. However, if you look at spines with it's semi-range, people don't just spam the range powers and run away, they're up in the grill. And honestly, with how strong defenses are, it doesn't really matter if you're taking ranged shots or not. Hell, if someone made a Pistols/Invuln, they'd WANT to be in melee.

So, yeah, do it gun-kata style, and people will WANT to step into mele range if it maximizes their damage.

Ah man, I have a feeling my Invuln tank is going to get nerfed for PVP befoer I even get a chance to use him Just kiddin' I want a nice fair competion.

Great to hear. I'm not really a convention going type dude, but I'd love to meet the Cryptic staff in person sometime.

And for the love of God, HIRE THE ONE ANIMATOR SOME HELP. He kicks butt, but my Lord he's just ONE MAN. No wonder we never see him on the forums

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"Nidhogg, Keep fighting -Statesman"


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P.S. How's the weather down in Hvergelmir?

Theodore Knight is an actor, and on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" his character's name was "Ted Baxter" so thus, Ted Knight Building ---> Baxter Building. (I didn't think this up, so I can't take credit for it )

Tony Kord is the conglomeration of two tech characters: Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Ted Kord (Blue Beetle II)

War Witch and Apex are from the City of Heroes comic book

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One I had a question about.

The 'manager' of the Steel Canyon Icon is named Serge. He looks an awful lot like Bronson Pinchot, who played Serge, the 'manager' of the art gallery in Beverley Hills Cop.

Is this a coincidence, or are they related?

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Seeing as what generation the Cryptic staff is and how big that movie was (and that scene) gotta be intentional. It'd be funny if they had some of his lines from the movie.
"It will cost 5 million influence to redo your costume" "5 million? Get the *bleep* outta here!" "No, I cannot, it's serious!"

Also notable is the Founders Fall's Icon guy's name is Carson. Carson, of course, is the fashion guy on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"

I love that Freak quote.

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I do, however, realize that I do sometimes come off as an arrogant jerk and sometimes people take my sense of humor the wrong way.


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Sometimes?!?

Just kiddin', glad to see the old LiquidX avatar back.

Don't say you won't use them until you see them.

You go in, pick out a new outfit for your character, looks swank.

You go into the game.

Some guy says:

"Ah sweet, those boots look like the guys from [insert obscure anime title] and your jacket is like [ditto]"

Do you freak out and change them because you just NOW found out they were anime inspired?

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Hey gang,

Sorry about that… this is a known issue. I guess he didn’t get the memo to be in his lair when heroes arrive. This will be fixed soon. Thanks for the heads up!

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He also didn't get the memo about the TPS report. He just sent me one without the new cover sheet!

Also Lorna Dane, of course she's a RELATIVE of Big M, but still.

I really, really hope minions make the first release of City of Villians and they have their own "minion customization" system. I remember an old interview when they mentioned how City of Villians and villian play would be an expansion (this was before it was announced) and some said "If we're going to do it, we're going to do it right" so they'd focus on heroes first. Later someone brought up the topic of minions and they said "Oh, definitely. Like I said, if we're going to do it we're going to do it right" Viva La Cryptic!