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Quote:Using that definition Harry Potter is a "cult" phenomenon.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I saw this yesterday on the magazine rack at my library (cover story was Doctor Who).
I guess if you define a cult show as one that develops a grass roots following to the point of having gatherings, mailing lists, dedicated fan sites not associated with either the production company or network, then I can see that list as legitimate. -
Quote:here's their definition in their own words:Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Seems like "cult" status for EW means a show that a loyal group of fans is still talking about years after the show went off the air, or continues to try to convince others that it's "the best show ever" if the other person hasn't watched it. Also a show that in some way influenced other shows or pop-culture in some meaningful way. Viewership numbers at the time don't seem to enter into it.
I can see why all of these shows would fall under their definition of cult. I would put a couple of shows higher than they are, and perhaps swap out a show or two with things like Futurama, or V (the original series).
"''Buffy'' to ''Galactica,'' ''Community'' to ''The Comeback'': Ranking the greatest alternate-universe hits."
On a list with many genuine real-world hits.
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shows on the list I'd define as "cult":
Twin Peaks
MST3k
Party Down
Fireflly
My So Called Life
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Arrested Development
defined as 'not hugely popular but with a core group of rabid fans'.
Lost was a massive hit, to the point that every other network was ripping it off. ST:TNG was a response to a preexisting audience and was one of the biggest syndicated hits ever. The original Trek I'd agree was a cult thing, TNG was created to feed the demands of that cult.
Dr. Who was a cult thing when I was a kid and the only way to see it was at weird times on PBS. Now, every new Doctor gets their own Entertainment Weekly cover.
Buffy, again a bit hit. X-Files, ditto.
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they have a really loose definition of "cult".
and as usual with these stupid things, "of all time" = "of the last ten years".
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Quote:So that's the devs fault too?Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
No, that means that by the time it finally comes out, I'll not be as excited about it because I've been playing the set on beta so much for free.
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Quote:they weren't.Originally Posted by Party_Kake
The Front Loaded missions sound like they'd be okay....
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and while I have all my stuff open, here are a few other random screens from the past week or so:
A character I particularly liked:
proof any idea you have, someone else has also had. Logged in Ray a while back and this is the first thing I saw, standing right in front of me. Same idea, even the same title, just different execution:
got a laugh out of this guy's inventive shield scrapper:
Not the best lighting, but I ran a Yin with this fellow, who had one of my favorite aquatic themed characters:
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So I didn't do much marketeering over 2xp, being somewhat obsessed with leveling Cathode Ray (hello, level 40!)
Logged in my market guys this am and fussed around for a while. Ray had a bunch of overpriced PvP IOs in his inventory- i left them up over the weekend to see what happened- a couple sold, but I still had a few left.
As my recipe supply had dried up I hadn't been burning converters at my usual rate I found myself with a surplus, so I tried a new wrinkle- in-set conversion.
I took a couple of not that great IOs (a cheapish Javelin Volley and a so-so Fury of the Gladiator) and converted them, hoping to get one of the really good sets. The RNG was with me and they both came out Shield Walls- one TP res, which I left alone, the other one of the not that great ones, def recharge I think?
Anyway, did an in-set conversion...and got another TP Res!
Whoohoo!
Okay time to list- last 5 were all 310, so I went fairly lowball at 244. It was taking a chance, as bid creeping is way more common with purples and pvp IOs than with regular junk, but it was still a fine profit even considering the extra converters I'd had to burn.
That was this morning.
Just logged in to mess around with Ray's enhancements while my son watched a show and found this:
One, probably an expensive typo.
Two, probably not.
Three?
Someone REALLY wanted them some teleport resistance!
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good luck out there, hope to see you back sooner rather than later!
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Okay, it should be in your inbox!
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ahhg spaced out on this last night- sorry, I'll log in now and send it along.
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Quote:I used it like I use DFB now- a nice way to catch a few levels when you had the urge. And it was a rush hanging out chatting for a while then suddenly BOOOOOOM! a massive surge of XP.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Yes, I too remember being invited to a team and told to stay at the door while other people played the game for me. It's what inspired me to start my business of going to rich people's houses to eat their food for them. I was SO doing them a favour, no matter what the judge says!
It wasn't "good for the game", but it was fun while it lasted.
And also, let's remember that back in those days 'the game' itself was much more aggravating and slow paced.
Loved them back in the day.Quote:Originally Posted by GlassGoblin
I can't let a discussion of the Old Hollows go by without raising a glass to the heroic efforts of the Taxibots.
In the spirit of the Taxis I used to hang out in Perez with my high level emp/elec buffing and healing low level street hunting teams.
Even better, way back when Bone Daddys would one-shot you if they landed Shadow Maul.Quote:Originally Posted by Mister Rik
So then, Jack is the guy I should blame for things like encountering Martial Gloom in a safeguard mission at level 10, and watching him stun me into complete helplessness the instant I run into him, then kicking me to death while I can do nothing? (twice - once in the bank and then again when I tried to catch him at the manhole cover escape point)
I've definitely run across a lot of things in the game that seem to be leftovers from somebody who thought "frustrating" and "challenging" were the same thing.
But my absolute favorite example of Jack's Idea of Fun was the (in)famous Front Loaded Mission.
You'd hit a mission, the archetypal one that drove me totally crazy was in Skyway, a lost mission where you're supposed to defeat the boss, Sneaky Pete or something like that.
So you jog all over hell and gone to get to the mission, Skyway being a giant PITA to get around back then at a zone appropriate level, and you hop in the door, and oh boy look, it's a HUGE spawn of purple and red con lost, RIGHT there.
So that's pretty much a team wipe if you're not expecting it.
Go to the hospital. Jog around to a store, stock up on inspirations, jog back to the mish, everyone buffs up and goes in.
Using the old 'door trick' (you could zone out and get all your health back) you'd eventually whittle down the spawn.
And, you know, it would actually make you feel pretty badass- it's a ridiculous challenge for level 10,11,12 characters, and you did it! It probably took half an hour just for that spawn, counting jogging time, but BOOYAH!
Victory!
So you're all hyped up, and go charging down the hall...and the next spawn is a lot smaller, and it's whites an yellows?
Huh, weird.
And you keep going, and you come to a spawn that's BLUES and whites?
WTH?
So you steamroll over pile of these wimps and you finally get to the BOSS, the big head of the whole operation, Sneaky Pete!
And he's a GRAY, and doesn't survive one volley from the team.
Jack went on and on and ON about why that was a "fun" way to structure a mission, and along with Don't Worry Regen! it remains my defining memory of him. -
Other companies offer this functionality.
it would be a good business move for this one to do so as well.
I'm about as interested in hearing them whine about why they can't as I am hearing players whine about how this or that game system is "too hard".
It's been done. It's BEING done as we speak.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Frogfather
This makes me miss playing with my son around the time villains came out....I did a lot of swimming with my namesake, levelling slowed....but the cry of "He's a frog, he should swim" was too much fun to ignore. So we swam every time we saw water.....and every zone in COV has water.
Hah, LOVE it!
One of my sons great disappointments with CoH is that the water is ornamental- he L-O-V-E-D swimming around underwater in that big fantasy MMO. But overall, he much prefers CoH...as do I. -
Quote:This has obviously crippled Steam....it's a wonder Valve is still in business!Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And what does the OP expect to happen when someone uses the feature to make unauthorized purchases for other peoples accounts? Say a child/angry spouse or BF/GF
"We can't have nice things because mommy and daddy keep leaving the house keys at the bar" isn't much of a counter-argument.Quote:Also NCSoft has already had a security problem where people were getting access to other players Master accounts by simply logging into their own accounts. From there they had access to the logins of all accounts on the Master Account and the ability to get/change passwords.
How about mommy and daddy just stop going to the bar, or put the house keys on one of those trucker chains. -
Quote:on the low end, here's something I was doing with one of my marketeering alts to build up a lot of market sales to unlock more slots:Originally Posted by snowball54321
Could someone explain to me what flipping is?
buy stacks of Steel for between 75-90k (the price kept fluctuating as other flippers moved in and out), re-list them for 100-150k, with the 'average' sale coming in around 200k, or roughly 2m per stack. I tried to keep listings and bids mostly even, so I'd log in to a 20-30m profit, re-list my wins, throw out new stacks of bids and leave him alone for a few days.
Rinse and repeat whenever I had the time to log in and mess around.
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Jack in a nutshell.
Good times, good times!
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Quote:I'm not saying don't express your opinion, I'm just saying any time you feel the need to add "I don't mean to sound ______" to a post, maybe pause and give it a once over & a quick edit before tapping 'submit reply'.Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Yes, but this is going to be 6 weeks from Water Blast's release. Another 6 weeks would be October 2nd. So, we're still talking late September at the earliest. I'm mostly irritated because I LOVE Bio Armor and am upset I have to wait so long for it when it's ready to go now. I don't have much interest in Nature Affinity, not much wiggle room on what the powers represent (like Water Blast which can be water, blood, oil, acid, etc.) . You control nature and there's no alternative interpretation there. And hey, whiny or not, I am allowed to express my opinion. At least I acknowledge how I sound.
They'll never release new powersets in close proximity to one another, so there's not much point in getting worked up about it. -
it really bemuses me that this wasn't an option at launch.
it's like they've never used Steam or something. -
Quote:this just in:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Honestly, that pic makes me thin the Statesman is about to make out with the ACU.
Sam likes it rough!
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Quote:Their strategy is to create a steady, relatively predictable revenue stream by carefully spacing major releases so as not to saturate the market.Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Sigh, so this is probably gonna push Bio Armor back into the beginning of October. Ugh. Was put into beta at the beginning of June. 4 months in beta. This is Staff Fighting all over again. Or maybe I'm wrong and they won't wait a full month to 6 weeks to release another powerset. But this is Paragon Marketing and I still don't understand their strategy, if they even have one.....
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I really should go through my old base storage bins and see what I've got...
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My guess is they took all the complaints about Mannequin Statesman a little bit too much to heart...
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DISCLAIMER: Sam Tow beware, as this thread will contain INTERENT MEMES meant to cause mild amusement in its readers.
So, that terrible new load screen immediately made me think of two things...no wait, three things. One, a bad rave flyer. Two, myspace. Three, Ryan Gosling.
In honor of Ryan's Meme, here is Maurader working to become his CoH counterpart:
