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Originally Posted by Premonitions

I can post things that have nothing to do with the discussion too.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

And that's an old nursery rhyme. What excuse does that internet meme use?

Originally Posted by NekoNeko

Mislabeled? No, that's actually what it is.

My character names ARE mine, and NO, you CAN'T have them.

Originally Posted by deadpool415

LONG LIVE THE RED SIDE! (Yes I only play Red)

Originally Posted by Ultimus

Had we not done that, how would of Tyrant faired against the Battalion I wonder?

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

Zwillinger assured me the writers take care with their work. Zwillinger was misinformed.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Normal day in the life of a Bots/Traps MM -_- Which is exactly why I stopped bloody playing him.

Originally Posted by Traska

Second, someone having a silly name doesn't affect me. But when I see an account full of silly names, and said person says something to the effect of "I always get the name I want quickly, I don't know why you dont", the first thing I think to myself is "well, it's because we go for entirely different names."

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Quite honestly, "Azure Scarab" would make me wonder why s/he had that name, and get interested in the character. First thing that comes to mind is something either ancient or Egyptian related. "Blue beetle" sounds like it was named after his favourite cheap car.


Frankly, your problem can be boiled down to three letters, after looking through your various comments. Namely, Y, O, U.

"Oh, that's not a legitimate name." .... to you.
"Oh, that doesn't fit this"... to you.
"Oh, that doesn't XYZ" ... to you.
"Oh, that's pretentious" .... to you.
You're the one putting a ton of limitations on yourself.

Essentially, the argument starts boiling down from "All the good names are taken" or "I can't find a good name" to something along the lines of "I can't get any names starting with Ynx that refer to mesoamerican gods!"


As far as name@global or other iterations - no freaking thanks.

Originally Posted by Kirsten

gimped

Originally Posted by Traska

Again, word salad =/= creativity. Using a thesaurus =/= creativity. Google Translate =/= creativity. There is nothing at all creative about calling the Blue Beetle the "Azure Scarab". There is nothing creative about calling Iron Man "The Awesome Armored Avenger". There is nothing creative about calling The Tick "Le Cocher". And there's nothing creative about tearing down a perfectly good character concept just to choose a name that doesn't fit. Many of my characters are easy to fit with the current name system. But many are not.

What royally peeves me is when my argument for a different naming system gets boiled down repeatedly to the ad hominem of "you lack originality and creativity". Claiming that because my creativity springs from a different direction than your means I have no creativity is the height of elitism, and does nothing to help the discussion. Which is convenient, since it allows you to off-handedly dismiss the discussion.

Originally Posted by Traska

And again, "you're not creative", "you're not original". Condescension grows tiresome.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU

And some villains are happy to be lackys - so long as their orders give them lots of stuff to smash.

Originally Posted by Pauper

Really? Because when I first encountered "Doc Delilah", she didn't even know her own name and had just emerged from years of psychic domination where she didn't really have her own individual identity. So she's got to discover her individual identity as opposed to being artificially held in the mindset of a submissive 17-year old girl.

Then, when she does go out into the world and attempt to do good things, she's being thwarted and undone at every turn, sometimes by people and things that say they're trying to help. (In this, I'll agree with the folks who say that some significant amount of time must have passed between the Praetorian missions and the First Ward missions.)

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

With more cosmic content on the way, it's possible that the devs could create a story arc for Villains to take over/destroy another planet - but that would open up massive motivation and logic problems in all follow-up red side content.

Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down

Pssst... I think he was "joking"....

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

It's pretty much unanimous on the forums that the technology does not yet exist to create a viable dark armor build. It just uses too much endurance. Many have tried, all have failed. Legends tell of the chosen one who will come from the east on a steed of pure blue and save us from this curse, but I say those are just old wives' tales.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Let's look at an example. Let's take, say, Doc Delilah and return her in the new Incarnate content, only she's not cheerful and upbeat, she's dark and brooding and likes to lash out at people for no reason. As soon as I yell "Betrayaaal! Be-traya!" a writer comes up and says "No, no, no. It makes sense. See, between appearances, Doc Delilah lost her loved ones to Arachnos and now she's angry at the world." OK... It makes sense, but... How is that a better story than having Doc Delilah show up as Doc Delilah, as opposed to Squall Lionheart playing Doc Delilah?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

This seems like cascade flanderization to me. The Katie Douglass of Imperial City was confused and tortured, but ultimately cheerful and very nice individual, bringing some positive emotions to the otherwise negative world of Praetoria City and leaving the player with a good feeling at the end of the day. The Katie Douglass of First Ward was, if you'll pardon my language, a right *****. The "confused and tortured" parts were left in even though she should realistically have gotten over it, yet the cheerful and positive sides of her were gone, leaving this whining, ungrateful, sarcastic brat worthy of standing in for Dominatrix as seen in Dark Astoria.

Now, I would have expected that First Ward would be a shock to Katie's system, so starting Night Ward by freeing her and responding to player request would see her revert to the Katie Douglass of Imperial City - a nicer, more positive character. You know, like what happened to the Prince of Persia from Sands of Time to Warrior Within to the Two Thrones. I don't actually know how that was resolved, but it seems to me that instead of fixing her character, that rotten version of her from First Ward has been taken as the base and made more unfriendly and unpleasant than even that. Thus, flanderization.

I'll have to run this for myself when I have more time and a character of the appropriate level, but this does not sound good.