Mischief

My Peacebringer is Luminous Lad
My Warshade is Kid Quasar

They are twin brothers and their costumes are inspired by the Silver Age Legion of Superheroes.

Over the past 5 years playing CoX, I can't count the number of times I've gotten an idea for a new character and have come up with perfect a concept, costume and name, only to find the name has already been taken.

I would love to see the CoX name monopoly lifted for Issue 17 - or sometime soon.

Anyone have any knowledge or guesses if this could be in the works?

I was blessed with 5.

Thanks to I16, I'm back in the 600 Club!

Fantastic suggestions, Steelclaw. Hope the Devs take them into serious consideration. I'm a Son of the Silver Age, so I especially LOVED your Death Traps idea.

I too love this power. And the animation is fantastic! I can't believe I'm saying this due to the many annoying sound effects in game, but the animation for Reveal is so cool, I wish it has sound too.

I recall there being a "Tech Scan" emote under Animations. I can no longer find it for Ally or Captive. Has it been removed?

Sister Psyche. I always go for the mental powered heroes.

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Gratz! and hopefully losing the 89+ MA badges won't set you back too far on getting back into the 600 club when i15 launches

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The I15 changes pulls me back 20 badges, so that's not too bad. Post I15, I should be back in the 600 Club soon. One badge title I'll miss is "Do Gooder".

Just got my 600th badge! WOOT!

Got mine May 6.

Nice video. Well made.

...and thanks again for the gold title, Ex Libris!

Fantastic anniversary party! Thanks Devs!

It was my first time listening to w00t Radio - and I loved it! Great job, DJs!

Mischief Rockin' it Out with DJ Jester of w00t Radio

Gratz to all on 3 amazing years

When I logged on to the Test Server this morning the free Tailor visit hadn't been added. I assume that will happen later today - if it hasn't been added already.

Thank you Devs for a marvelous event. You really outdid yourself this time.

I've been around since launch and this is the best event you're ever done.

Congratulations and thank you!

Has the name of the Mayor of Paragon City ever been revealed in the CoH lore?

I never really gave much thought to the meaning behind "Nerf" until I was reading this book, "Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early 1970s". In the chapter about Soft Rock, I read this...

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Just as Parker Brothers had to reformulate the Nerf Ball in 1971 because it was flammable, the early seventies' soft-rocking bellbottomed-male Caucasians defused rock and roll's incendiary character, rounding its edges and making it safe for children.

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I was 10 years old in 1971, so I remember when Nerf Balls first came out - they were all the craze. I never knew they had to redesign them to make them safer.

This sure sounds like a connection to the term "Nerf" we use in MMORPGs today, doesn't it?

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Psyche had to be in the book because she's in the Freedom Phalanx, but her powers would have pooched the plot so she had to be sidelined. Arguable Laws could have used a different plot, but he didn't.

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As I explained in my post, I understand this was part of the plot, however she NEVER was able to truly redeem herself after the villain’s plot was foiled and prove she could be a real hero.

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FWIW I thought the book was mediocre at best. I just think that writers should be free to write without having to suffer the slings and arrows of political correctness.

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It has nothing to do with political correctness. I hate PC BS. It has everything to do with being creative enough to tell a story without falling prey to tired trite clichés we've seen a million times before. For me it's not about offending my political sensibilities, but my sensibilities as a reader who expect something more than a tired wore out plot device handled in a stale uninteresting way.

Just finished it. I started off LOVING it, then liking it, and ending being very disappointed. Much of it was a fun compelling read and I had a hard time putting it down.

I understand in any given genre there are conventions and essential elements you must remain true to. It’s based on comic book superheroes; so of course you are going to have certain traditions to uphold. Of course the super villain is going to want to take over and/or destroy the _______ (Insert: city, county, state country, continent, world, universe - in the blank) The pitfall is that it is very hard when dealing with such familiars to put a new spin on them so you don’t fall into the trite or obvious. The challenge is to do something new with the same old ingredients.

The biggest problem I had with this novel me was the way Laws represented Sister Psyche. She was demoted from long standing full-fledged hero to helpless female hostage. The only woman on the team and she was scarcely allowed to do anything heroic. Almost immediately after her first appearance in the book, she is sidelined and incapacitated.

I kept waiting for Psyche to have the opportunity to redeem herself and do something heroic – the further I got into the story and the more she was kept in helpless captive status, the bigger this heroics she would need to pull off to pull her own weight and for the author to win me back.

Even in her escape from the super villains, she was marginally competent and needed the aid of TWO male superheroes to rescue her.

I continued to wait it out as her hopeful redemption needed to grow to mammoth proportions to balance her out with the other male heroes and be justified in the story, but then I soon realized that such mega heroic save-the-day last minute reversals would be reserved for Statesman – and they were.

When Psyche did face off with the Shadow Queen – the only female hero squaring off with the only female villain (another tired cliché) – the showdown was in a toilet for Pete’s sake! So finally Psyche does this pathetic smack down with her foe perched on the crapper. If that’s not adding insult to injury, I don’t know what is.

Laws pummeled Sister with the nerf bat and hung that poor gimped girl out to dry. What hero would want that loser like her on their team? According to Laws at best she can give foes a bad headache. Big deal. In fact one of her most powerful attacks in this whole story is when she --- scratches Protean’s face with her fingernails and draws blood. I KID YOU NOT! If that isn’t the most pathetic helpless female cliché in the world – I don’t know what is!

Yes, I’m a Sister Psyche fan. But I would have felt equally outraged if the helpless female captive was a non-powered ordinary woman - still a tired old convention and needs to be avoided. Done to death! Think of something new! Or make the helpless female captive a man if you have to.

Yes, I understand the core of the villain’s plot was based on psyche manipulation and this required Psyche to be taken in by the villains, but that still does justify her substandard representation overall.

No, I’m not a raging political activist screaming for equal rights for women. My charges of sexist in this novel are based not on social issues, but on being a reader who felt ripped off.

For the most part Laws did create some fresh new spins on superhero story telling. His story was well plotted and engaging. It grabbed me and pulled me right in – which made the let down all the more disappointing because I LOVED the first half of the book and I wanted to keep liking the whole book, but the tired story convention nearly ruined it for me. The first half of the book led me to expect better. If the whole novel was crap and he used worn out clichés, I would not be so upset.

I would have given the book a B+, but for how he handled the whole Psyche thing I give it a C-.

Bare leg option now available with the last patch. THANK YOU DEVS!

I still feel we need Tights3 for legs. For that classic teenage sidekick look, it doesn't work when you're using Chest: Tights 3 (not muscle-bound) and bare legs that look like a kick boxing gymnast.

We've had Chest: Tights 3 for a long time. I can't understand why they can't provide the matching lower half.

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I just joined Legion of Valor and it's a fantastic SG.

I cannot image a SG better organized with a nicer group of people.

Legion of Valor and our CoV sister VG, Fallen Legion have the top two slot for gaining the most Influence/Infamy on the Victory server.

There are always great people to play with - at any time - in the SG.

We have a huge beautiful base. We're always taking new members - check us out!

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Legion of Valor also uses TeamSpeak - which is a big plus!

I just joined Legion of Valor and it's a fantastic SG.

I cannot image a SG better organized with a nicer group of people.

Legion of Valor and our CoV sister VG, Fallen Legion have the top two slot for gaining the most Influence/Infamy on the Victory server.

There are always great people to play with - at any time - in the SG.

We have a huge beautiful base. We're always taking new members - check us out!

From the film, Mystery Men:

(Invisible Boy becomes visible in front of everyone and he's naked)

The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo): Maybe you should put some shorts on or something, if you wanna keep fighting evil today.



... a great quote from one of my favorite movies.

Female characters can have bare legs and male characters cannot - NOT FAIR!