Myopic Aardvark

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So, if you have any toons at around 20-22, and you want to join in the mayhem, here's where to sign up for it!

Plans for Saturday:

At least one Respec Trial

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FG - you'll need to be 24 minimum to start a respec trial.

Edit: Nevermind - I just read it properly...

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Nopers, KB % is actually the % chance of causing a Knockback effect. The Knockback caused is based on the Enemy Type usually. Cogs fly, Humans move, Big Stompy Robots fall over.

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Doesn't it also depend on level? I mean I've done Knockdown with Energy Punch on a +2 Clockwork Boss, but that turns into Knockback on the same boss at -1.

Take care of yourself AM.

You'll be back though - they always come back. Issue 9?

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How dare you, Sir.

Begone Controller from the blaster section - you are making me cry!

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Erm, he'd have to be a Kin/ defender to do a Nova like that though...

Excellent. Thanks for that folks - guess the sidekick thing will just have to suffice.

Kinda thought it would be too obvious a PL gap to have been missed.

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May be instant if you actually drop the partnership...

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So if I stop sidekicking him, then his pets vanish? That sounds... odd? Unless that was how they stopped a low level getting high level pets in a mission.

Just out of curiousity...

If I sidekick a level 33 Mastermind up with my level 37 Mastermind and he deploys his pets at level 36 and then unsidekicks, what happens to the pets?

Do they drop level, or will they be the usual even level -1's and -2's to his sk'd level?

(FYI, it was just to help him close the gap quicker between us for even teaming purposes. I just don't recall anyone ever discussing this before).

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so any suggestions

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Purple/Gold - and make sure he's got something more than speedos on

Back in my US days, I had a character called Obsidian Operative, who was based on Kyle Rayner...

Thankfully, my EULA embracing, guilt circuits kicked in and I deleted him.

Your character, Hammerfall, may have similarities, but I wouldn't say it's GL. Nice choice on the green and gold too.

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Yes, it's definitely one of the most generic superhero costume options - the same way the corset (Leather) top and bikini bottoms are very Hellfire Club.

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Yep - I'll admit to being guilty of that - corset and fishnets. Given that this character who has these is the grand-daughter of a golden age hero, I kind of thought it was appropriate. Her later costumes are much more modern (and slightly warmer).

Heck, I tried the fishnets on my ice controller (who has a body temperature of about -30 degrees), but the Father Time missions, made me feel cold, so I went and put some clothes on her

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One of her costumes consists of the Metal top and bottoms (the one which covers little and looks nothing like metal)....

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I've always avoided that one, simply because it keeps screaming "Witchblade!" at me - even more so than claws emulates Wolverine, that skin type seems to say Sara Pezzini and nothing else.

As per usual though, your actual mileage may vary.

See though. You're doing it for story reasons (and I'd assume that you've got a bio explaining at least some of this (since you don't want to give it all away)).

In that way, you can justify it. At least better than the whole "My toon is nekkid!!!! Wooot!" attitude that may crop up.

I don't know the sizes of anyone I've met online. I know my size (obviously), I know Days size (because we were friends a long time before we played COH). Interestingly enough, I now know Weasel and Max's size - but so do you because you read it at the same time as I did.

Or did you not read it, because all of the above would be pretty clear if you had?

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Two pages about each others shoes sizes is borderline kinky

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Maybe to you - keep that sort of thing to yourself.

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I think there is horrible inequality going on.

I mean, women can wear pants AND skirts, but guys can only wear pants? What's up with that?



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Not true - there are kilts after all

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Likewise, someone who is large isn't necessarily a lazy bum who'll eat everything and anything put in front of them

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Good metabolism FTW! I'm pretty much living off a steady diet of cake, candy, fast-food and chocolate milk - and yet, I'm not overweight. And did I mention I hardly get any exercise? I love my genes. *snuggles genes*

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Oh that never lasts....

Brilliant Coin. I loved that track (wore the tape out when it was released)

For those interested, here's some history on it ---> To Wiki!

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I've got size 13 shoes. Max is much taller than me and has smaller shoes.

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Indeed, I'm only a size 10. And my friend who's about the same height as Silver Weasel has size 15 feet.

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Well, you know what they say about the size of a man's feet...

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As bushbaby said to me some two months after we started dating (we were both teenagers at the time) --- "Small brains".

Apparently I was stunned speechless at the time...

Edit : The actual phrase used by her originally was "You know what they say about men with big feet...."

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I've got size 13 shoes. Max is much taller than me and has smaller shoes.

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Indeed, I'm only a size 10. And my friend who's about the same height as Silver Weasel has size 15 feet.

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Ouch. Given that it normally takes me an age to find Size 13s (and of course, the store you went to last time, never has them in this time), I really pity that person.

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I've got size 13 shoes.

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Yep - it's a bit of a bugger to find shoes, isn't it?

The aforementioned friend is around the same height as me 5' 10" or thereabouts and has size 9/10's.

Everyone's different, but not everyone has crippling back pain - perhaps that's an inherent superpower that these EE's in game actually have

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I'm female, I have an idea what is a 'realistic' breast size, and I don't see it often around CoH.


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That's interesting -- given that my wife has one specific breast size and one of my female friends has a diametrically opposite end of the scale breast size, I'd be curious as to how a single person, regardless of gender could know what a 'realistic' breast size is?

On the other hand, I have wide shoulders and my best friend's shoulders are much less broad - which one of us should claim to have the more realistic shoulders?

NB: Of course, if you scale up one item (in nature), then the rest of the items usually scale up with it. Usually.

I have to admit, I'm still a tad unhappy that certain patterns aren't available on all body parts, especially on boots and gloves.

You get a brilliant design running on the top half and sometimes you can't get it on the lower half at all. And if you do, you can never find it on the boots or the gloves.

I'd put this as a major fix to the whole costume thing - ensure that all patterns are available over the whole body.

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If someone was to do this, then there is something fundamentally wrong with it. Apologies here if you're shocked by that non-PC "we must tolerate all viewpoints" stance, but it's a fact and fairly well documented.

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True.

Sometimes people need help, but to be honest, if they're not capable of recognising that need themselves and getting it, then they'll be dealt with through a process called "Natural Selection".

Now the human race can avoid natural selection (hi, I'm diabetic and my appendix ruptured earlier in the year, that's twice so far nature has tried to kill me and I've happily avoided it. I've repaid nature by not propagating my genes.)

But I had to make the choice to do this (and at times during my teenage years, I did the stupid thing and ignored the consequences of too much chocolate). But I did make the choice to live.

If someone continues to voluntarily choose to ignore advice, signs and consequences, then I have no time nor place for them.

But I always have an open mind at the start of it.

That's how PC I get.

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The same way people with glasses are seen to be intellectuals, and people with massive amounts of piercings and tattoos are seen to be deviants.


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Just as a comment here (and this might be because I'm me (something I can't really help but generalise over), but on Friday I hired a non-glasses wearing, pierced tattooed Business Analyst over several smartly dressed, glasses wearing other applicants, simply because he seemed to be more prepared for the realities of this job and had more capabilities than all the "brightly shining" qualified (but not experienced) applicants.

Not all of us judge a book by it's cover - but then again, sometimes we prefer the cover of the Necronomicon to that of Mills & Boons.

(None of the above is directed at anyone, so I'll put my paranoia away, if you all leave your high horses in the cupboard - except for Stasis, who can have a pony (that was a friendly comment too))

(Reading certain threads this weekend has left me paranoid and I don't know why).

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I doubt very much there's a single female on this planet who couldn't be made to look gorgeous.

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But that shouldn't be our defining trait, or what we're judged on

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Shouldn't be? What happens if a female (or male, for that matter) chooses that to be their defining trait - are you wanting to remove their ability to choose?

Regardless of what we may think of someone who simply wants to look beautiful, to the exclusion of all else, surely it would be worse if we remove the freedom of choice from them?

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Sure people can choose to do that, but it shouldn't be assumed that everyone wants to be judged that way too.

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Thoroughly agree - variety is a wonderful way to go through life. IDIC and all that.