Nalrok_AthZim

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TonyV View Post
    I can't believe you wasted an entire highlighter doing this...

    inCase, son!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    Fixt.
    LOL
  2. I'm sitting on 9 useless Enhancement Catalysts on my blueside Stalker, and this is after using 6 to upgrade my Stalker's Guile set to Superior.

    Why aren't these transferable?

    Once you catalyze a whole set, what good are they? None.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    I don't love it when people post stupidly.
    I was criticizing someone for using the word, but you lumped me in with the loons.
    I'm not lumping you in with anything. I'm just pointing out that threads often latch on to a single term and wring it out. Take a breath.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Is it the *villain* characters who tell Scirocco "For the greater good as usual"?
    Yep.

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    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Because somehow that's become your phrase for "villains having to play co-op content". But it seems to me like "For the greater good" is what *heroes* have to tell themselves, through gritted teeth, as they are forced to work with the villains they were fighting just last week.
    It's become my phrase for co-op because that's exactly what villains are doing. We're helping save the day. Have been since the first co-op content. Heroes do the greater good on a daily basis. Villains do not.

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    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Villains don't care about good, greater or lesser. Villains team up with heroes for the sake of long-term self-interest. Because the world being destroyed would be hazardous to your own health, because it's where you keep your stuff, because it's useful to have someone in bright tights distracting the guards while you steal anything that's not nailed down.
    But we don't get the option to be anything other than heroes. In Heather Townshend's arc AND SSA7 we're forced to work "for the greater good" and to "play hero." Whether you think this isn't the right term or not, villains are being pigeon-holed into doing hero work, and now the writing team is "cheekily" poking fun at this fact.

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    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Yes, I know there's been a lot of co-op stuff and it would be nicer if there was a "steal all of Wade's stuff while other people are busy fighting him" villain-only arc. But "for the greater good" is not the villain phrase here. Maybe more like "against a greater threat".
    No. Wrong. The villainside content is literally admitting to doing the "greater good." No amount of speculation or "maybe it's this way" thinking will change that.
  5. Did this thread travel into the future from four months ago?
  6. I'd donate a sizeable amount to Paragon Studios.
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    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
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    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    Seeing as how a lot of the discussion was pretty specifically about whether that term was a valid/appropriate, I don't see your point.
    If you call that a discussion, then I understand where you're coming from. Personally, I saw it all as a few people trying to use the word to try and defame my post, while others called them on their assessment. In other words, a pointless argument.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    SSA #2 probably won't start next month, but in May, after the 8 Year Anniversary for CoH is over. I expect it to focus on the FP sans Statesman, and end with the contest to place a player created character into the FP.
    That character probably being Ascendant.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stone Daemon View Post
    This leaves us with one path...

    We must...kill Prometheus.
    Sign me the hell up. That big blue jackwagon needs a good killing. I swear, I can't get through a single page of his "information" about the trials without coming across a sigh, a snide remark, a quip or a "trailing off". Dude needs to man up or shut up.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    hyperbole
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    Originally Posted by InfamousBrad View Post
    hyperbole
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    Originally Posted by joshdex View Post
    hyperbolic

    Hyperbolic
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    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    hyperbolic
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    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    hyperbole
    I love when a thread latches on to a term and then beats it for all it's worth.

    Coming up next in the thread:
    Ad Hominem
    Disingenuous
    Red Herring
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion View Post
    Of course back to the typo issues; SSA # 7 has quite a few of them in the info description boxes, "TEXT"....really?
    If you ask me, SSA7 has been a colossal boondoggle, especially for people who primarily play villains (such as myself). Between the writers attempting to cheekily poke fun at co-op mentality (and failing fan-*******-tastically) and the numerous amounts of things that QA seems to have just forgotten to look at ("INSERT BIO HERE", "TEXT", "OBJECTIVE"), I don't think I'll even read the story for the next SSA and just play it for the cool maps.

    Seriously, the Maps/Costumes/Textures/Sounds team really stole the show this SSA, but the writers really dropped the ball. This whole SSA1 experience has felt like buying a Maserati and opening the door to find the interior is made of decaying foam rubber. Beautiful, functional, but lacking finer details and comfort.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Knight_Marshal View Post
    He says he can help us ascend, but that will take the potential from every Human or something like that and he will not help us do that until the Coming Storm has been dealt with.
    This is just further proof that Prometheus is a judgmental crapsack.

    "You can have the weapon after the threat you need it for is defeated."
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    What other task (bug fixing, new content, testing, etc) would we have to deprioritize to allocate the time for the task.
    If text fixes are getting in the way of power pool customization, I will happily diffuse my bombs and hang out with Huab Tov.

    >_>
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    I am extremely disappointed at the amount of hyperbole being expressed in this thread.
    I appreciate you not locking the thread, Z.

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    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    File a bug report please.
    My only beef with this is the huge cluster of people who've been saying for years that they HAVE been, and that the lack of recognition has made them stop. I file text bug reports as often as I can (my most recent ones being "Huab Tov" and "Mu'Vorkin" in Heather Townshend's arc, and "upmost" in the Max arc), but I've never seen them fixed. I only ever see typos in power text fixed.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
    But he is, himself, a wannabe hero, so that's... okay?
    Honestly that just makes the whole situation even worse in my eyes.
  17. I think it'll be a full scale investigation in to how Wade got Rularuu to sprout a goatee the size of Mexico, followed by an invasion from the Goatee Universe, followed by Praetoria suing the Goatee Universe for copyright infringement, followed by Statesman dying while dead.

    All of this will happen after Marketing sends out an email blast outlining the plot of the whole SSA, down to what Black Pebble had for breakfast before hitting 'Send'.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Moreover, finally having a villain admit to that particular kludge in City of Heroes storytelling strikes me as, finally, the ultimate betrayal of villainy. Our villains have been roped in as lackeys and into doing stuff for the greater good so often they are now just rolling with it.
    Sam, I hate to break this to you, but that's not the worst part of this situation.

    The worst part of this situation is that my character was speaking to Scirocco.

    That's right. We couldn't even get the dignity of admitting to doing the greater good to a hero. We admitted it to another ****ing villain!
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MisterMagpie View Post
    I dunno, I liked the bit where the clue said you were gonna fake being a hero because people always buy that BS.


    You can hang on to that slice of humble pie you're trying to serve me.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Reppu View Post
    But, I'll just state it one more time, tl;dr - Dechs insulted me. You all may think he couldn't have, but he did. That's all. You may disagree, but I will still have been insulted.
    If you could quote the insult? Just to sate my curiosity.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Reppu View Post
    @Nalrok: Apologies again for that, but to each their own. But if you believe he hasn't insulted me, that's... blind of you, in respects to how you view your friend. He has, maybe not as bluntly as I have in return, but he has been insulting and rude. You're free to ignore it because he is your friend or it's not as obvious as my end, but that doesn't mean he's not insulting me and is TRYING to. And if he claims otherwise, then it's a case of 'badly worded'.
    I never said he insulted you. I said you insulted him and that you ceased to be civil, using my apology as a way of getting at Dechs. Not cool.
  22. Apology redacted, as you're using it as ammunition against my friend. I'd like to ask that you keep as civil as you and I have; that is, the insults need to stop since he hasn't insulted you once.