Melancton

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?

Frankly, I think the odds are slightly in your favor...

I have to affirm the target control aspect of Lift, which I failed to mention. The Crushed baddies merrily shoot at me, but you can't shoot if you are being dropped on your head and then trying to stand back up. Usually, just in time to get a Forklift to the Kisser FTW!

Lift vs. Crush has been a longstanding feud. On my first Grav/Storm, who I took to 50 long before IOs, I had Lift. On my second, who is around 36, I took Crush.

Lift is, at least to me, a lot more fun. Tossing the baddie in the air and seeing him land on his ear is just fun. It was especially fun when I hit Lift on a baddie, then Singy hit the baddie with Lift and took him higher, and I was able to Lift the baddie yet again. It was like two gunfighters shooting a can in the air.

Crush, on the other hand, is more efficient for all the reasons you cite.

However, the reason I am commenting is:

With Inherent Fitness in i19 freeing up three powers, there is no reason to have to choose between them now. Actually, "then"... since i19 won't go live until the week after Turkey Day. But you know what I mean.

Yes, I will have both on both my Grav/Storms, and I will have Efficient Fun!

Well, the music video for "(Do You Want to Date My) Avatar" was simply smashing, so seeing another music video would be great.

What? Because you didn't use Mario Brothers?


That will open up more avenues for creativity, methinks. The Issue Trailers are certainly great, but they do impose certain constraints. I should think a CoH music video would be great.

And yet another Bravo for your Issue 19 work.

Well, Hover got "fixed" and Lightning Storm got "fixed" after what, four years and some change? The worst part of it was the indignant finger-pointing that "Everyone KNEW they were bugged" and they were therefore "exploits" that went on in the forums afterward. Wait, what? But "fixed" they got.

Moral of the story: Do not rely on it being a "bug they won't bother fixing."

They will "fix" Hot Feet long before they ever fix this.

Once again, Local Man pretty well sums up my thoughts. If I do not want to bubble the team in both bubbles, I should not play my Force Field heroes. If I do not want to SB the team, I should not play my Kin. As he said before, it is simple enough to bind to your Number Pad and just run 1-8 as needed to buff the team.

The big issue here, as I see it, is what to do when the team scatters and individuals who have run ahead and are separated from the Kin start to demand SB. Well, that way lies madness. If I can't see you, I cannot SB you, plain and simple. If one person is entitled to Valet Service wherever they happen to be, then all are, and there is no way to SB 7 separated teammates. If the team has a Stone Tank, I will in their neck of the woods for sure, but if you also want it, hang where I can see you and buff you.

Fortunately, I have not encountered kick-happy leaders who punt at the drop of a hat, and like Local Man, I am not one myself. If I can see you, I will SB you. If you have run out, I do not mind a "SB plz," assuming that is not on Autofire. And as a corollary, I will NOT SB anyone that requests a pass; it is not Cod Liver Oil that you will take whether you like it or not.

*gets kicked from team*

It is a game, folks.

I really wish folks would stop making Steelclaw and Samuraiko retire. Neither is a desirable outcome in the least.

It was simple and direct.

It has a theme song: Do-do-do, do-do-do. Do. Other than the timing, and the lyrics and the harmony, I did not care about it anyway.

Money well spent, Black Pebble.

The possibility of Masterminds with Disturbing Grandma underlings was enough to kill this with the Devs before it ever got off the ground.

A mind is a terrible thing to toast.

At least, that is what I have always heard.

"Dang," said Superboy, "I forgot that I can move at Faster-Than-Light Speed and could punch Karate Kid 30,000 times a second, even if I were not already invulnerable to any physical attack he could make!"

"Blast," said the Silver Surfer, "I forgot that I can alter my molecular structure to be stronger than hardened steel and unbendable by any human, much less than I can reduce T'Challa to a pile of smoking cinders if I wanted!"

"Tell me about it," murmured Doctor Doom, "I forgot that if the writer wants it, Squirrel Girl will kick your freakin' butt... but, of course, She's Just That Good."

It is enough to make Troy Hickman weep.

...on my noggin! I got tossed out and had the "invalid password" routine done to me today as well.

Of course, there could be a Mad Mod exulting at all this woe, while throwing the "Logout/Login" toggle switch at random times, and we only encourage him all the more when we post. Probably not, but it makes as much sense as any other reason.

But then how do you fit into your spandex?? Do you just have a high metabolism or something?

No.



Bonus Kirk quote: "We find the One quite adequate."

I'm unhappy you feel that way.

I thought THIS was Yul: