MrCaptainMan

Time Travel is wicked cool. Zzip-Im back in time! Zzapp! - I'm walking around in the future! ZZappoooom! - I'm back in the present betting on the horses! I'm rich!

ZaparoompADOOM! - Im back in time again! Take that, grandad! Ooh! paradox? Nope, BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT MY GRANMA WAS HAVING IT AWAY WITH THE MILKMAN!

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I like how "facial expressions" is censored.

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LMAO 'facial' is banned?

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EDITed out my amusing yet possibly smackable sentence about man fat.

I agree with you that a profanity list should exist. Just as 'sporran' has only one meaning (afaik), some offensive words don't have other, non-obscene meanings. The F-word, the C-word, for example, I'm fine with them being on the list. But '"polly wanna cracker!" screetches Ghost Pirates parrot' and 'my eyesight is superhuman! I can see Pluto with my naked eye!'
Aren't harming anyone.

Qr - the 'head-scratcher' - LOL I hadn't thought of it like this up till now LOL. I guess it might be considered strange. What I had in mind was more that crey didn't one day just gut the place and start from whitewashed Walls, but that the base was left empty fir some tine after The Lifesavers...er, event lol, and then crey came in and took over, appropriating any data on their systems, probably updating the hardware for sure, but, well, the Lifesavers had a lot of information that might be useful to an organisation interested in superhuman tech.

And obviously The Monitors been tinkering as well.

Thanks v much fir avoiding spoilers btw.


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PC to the extreme.....

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Meh, id rather this be a safe space and have a few annoying words being blocked that makes us think more than let some of this slide

I've already seen a mission on AE where a Klansman asks you to rid the world of coloured people. With the NAACP as the Arch Villain.

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This us EXACTLY why the profanity filter's 'not in front of the vicar' overcompensation is stupid. It doesn't prevent missions like the one you've described, because normal, non-swear words aren't intrinsically obscene -it's the way people use them that is. Would you like to see the word 'colored' banned? They'll use 'people of color'. So ban 'color'? They'll use 'african-Americans'. What then? Ban 'african'? Ban 'black', 'dark', 'indian' , 'arabic', 'french', 'fluff', 'come', 'stool', 'penetrate', 'rim', 'johnson' , 'behind', 'bottom', 'meat', and hundreds more, every word that CAN be used to incite or offend? That way leads to toontown online.

I hope you reported that arc. That's the way to deal with profanity or obscenities in the MA system.

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Wow. I'm not normally at alossfor words.

Thank you so much for playing The Echo and for this wonderful reaction!

I had to pull The Audition as it's filesize jumped suddenly to unmaneagable lengths, but I'm going to expand it and publish a Directors Cut version (LOL) in 2-parts, (with an extra mission) soon.

Thanks again.

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It's 'erring on the side of caution'.

And the point is this: 'help me hero, I was attacked by a bunch of spoons! No, not ghosts, I mean African-Americans' should justifiably be countered by the reporting system, whilst 'help me hero! The CoT is running amuck in my auntie Ednas house! She's got mages in her attic, demons in her kitchen, and spooks in her basement!' should be allowable. Because theresnothing wrong with it.

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You must take time shifter through Speeding Through Time when he's level-appropriate-I'd live to see what he makes of mission 3!

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I spend about a week or two writing each mission in my arcs. I'm currently a little into the last mission of the first half of my two-part arc. The second half is done, so I'll be publishing in a week or two. Then my slots will be full and I'll start lobbying for the option to buy extra slots

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Qr - time travel stories are easy to compose without any messups as long as nobody says 'but what if bob had killed his grandad?'.

I walked to work today. I didn't get hit by a truck.

But what if-

Nope. It didn't happen.

Likewise, if a time travel story ends with the mcguffin that enables time travel destroyed at a point in time after any time travellers are extant and using it, then you're pretty much ok.

Also, today, I didn't open my front door to find myself standing there with a longer beard and the keys to a delorean. This means that whatever happens in my future, I will never give myself the keys to a time travel machine, even if I find one and want to. Various accidents may have already happened to my future self that prevented him from meeting me today. It's more likely though that he remembers not meeting himself today and so just hasn't bothered.


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Qr - hold on. Do the 'venturites', as I've just rather heavy-handedly dubbed them, think Doctor Who is crap?

That's not cricket.

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*waits for Talen_Lee to flip out for being lumped in with Venture*

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Lol. 'Doctor Who and the Venturites' isn't that far from an actual Classic Who title.

But you can see how shocked I was at the thought of me beloved Who being dissed by intelligent chaps like Venture and Talen-I forgot to sign off!

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Qr - hold on. Do the 'venturites', as I've just rather heavy-handedly dubbed them, think Doctor Who is crap?

That's not cricket.

Backup your souvenirs file every week or so. It blows that the souvenirs Ger deleted like this.

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'City of Heroes: Going Rogue' - how about that for atitle?

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Qr - invent a character who's emotionally close to one of the sig heroes, preferably one with a bit of angst about them, like manti, and at the arcs conclusion, have the player kill that person and escape with the gold/device/artifact/whatever.

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Grrrr, that throws a spanner in my works.

Ah well, workaround ahoy.

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I can't find Anti-Matter, or baryons or muons etc in the MA critter list for boss objectives. Anyone know if he's usable?

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QR - I just finished playing Curiouser and Curiouser too (I sent you an ingame tell with my feedback).I'd also like to add that i think your dialogue is golden in many places, I also loved the 'makin bacon' line, and the Viridian and Margaritas sequence was hilarious.

So that's all three of your arcs I've played now - looking forward to you putting the Echo through the wringer

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Seriously, if you don't know why its on the profanity filter, your google image fu should let you know PDQ.

Not that odd, just underused 'cause there are a lot more common terms in American vulgar vernacular.

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marking the word 'naked' as profane or obscene is absolutely ridiculous. It's a word. i can understand why actual swear worfds are banned, and i agree with it. But banning words like 'naked' and 'gambit' is ludicrous. If something is obscene, then the complaint system should catch it. I can put a sentence such as 'bob rammed his giant member deep into his Auntie Edna's slippery hole' into the MA without difficulty. But 'the naked eye' is not allowed? What a crock.

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EDIT: Not that i'd actually say anything about Bob;s Auntie Edna lol

QR - 'naked' is also profane. 'It can clearly be seen with the naked eye' is obviously an obscenity to rival [censored] [censored] the [censored] [censored] [censored].

As is 'You're a cad, lord Recluse, and thats the naked truth!'

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For 1. Make a custom group, and put into it only a minion (or a lieut or whatever you want to usexas your 'boss'. Then choose this group and it'll let you choose the minion fir your bosscencoubter

For 2. You could chain the bosses and have the finall one drop the clue you want.
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Qr - the 'not rating=zero stars' myth is the 'black specks in bananas are tarantulas eggs' of CoH

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Qr - there are two types of sci-fi fans. Those who think The Core, Eight Legged Freaks and Tremors were awesome, and those who think they were terrible.

It's the same with Nemesis.

Imo those movies rock, and so does Nemesis

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QR - I'd be pleased if you'd play and review my arc The Echo, Arc ID 1688.

I'd prefer you to run it on a highish-level damage-dealing Hero if you can. Whatever AT you choose, I'd very much prefer you NOT use a Brute. I feel that the final mission especially works best witha more measured approach than a Brute's playstyle encourages.

I was prompted to submit this to you by your statement that you read all the text etc. I hope you enjoy it.

Eco.

EDIT: if you do review it, could you possibly avoid spoiling the ending?

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In an old TV series called Blakes 7, the "bad guys" were actually the good guys and the "good guys", the government, were the evil doers.

The series ended with the government winning and all the main characters dying. Sorry to spoil the show.

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Well, all the alledged deaths apart from Blakes happened 'offscreen' (the screen was black, accompanied by the oft-argued-about sounds of the lazergun firefight that is supposed to have killed them all), so its still possible that they arent dead, iirc. I saw this when it was first aired in the UK. it was awesome.

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