NinjaPirate

Pretty much this.

And there's plenty of "evil" done by non-sociopaths too. Some by elected officials.



I imagine the question we need to ask before asking if we should abolish Evil, is "What is Evil?"



-k

Back in CoH Beta, Iron Man was held up as the epitome of the "tankmage", the ranged attack hero with heavy defense. It was a power combo that the game design specifically tried to stop, at least after they went to Archetypes instead of "pick any power".

During early development stages, there were no Archetypes. You could freely pick any power. There were two major problems with this:

A) You could gimp yourself quite easily by picking powers badly, which in a commercial product will likely result in a player saying, "This game sucks" rather than "I made a mistake", and stop playing, possibly telling other people that the game sucks and not to play it.

And

B) Players over time eventually figure out the most optimal combos, which means that eventually you see 90% of the characters all with slight variations of the SAME power sets. This was observed during alpha testing, where a huge number of the characters you saw were all tank-mages.

So they took a year, completely re-wrote the powers structure, and made Archetypes, which attempt to provide a minimum amount of balanced powers to prevent gimping while forcing some power selection diversity.

In short, you're not supposed to be able to make Iron Man in CoH.



-k

I really don't know why Pym bothers with his Giant Man sizes any more, at least when facing opponents other than low level mooks.

Every time he's used them, his modus operandi is to just smack a giant hand down on his opponent. But most of the time his opponent seems to be either STILL stronger than him, or has massive fighting skill. So Pym ends up getting the crap beat out of him.

The only time he seems to win, really, is when he goes Ant-man and does something scientific on a micro-scale that incapacitates his opponent.

In short, he should really stop trying to be a brawler. He's not good at it.



-k

"Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, and spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands?"




-k

VCRs created a huge stir at the time. So much so that a consortium of media companies went to DC to try and get them outlawed.

Mr. Rogers went to speak at the hearings in support of the VCR, though, so the US government told the media companies to shut the hell up.






-np

It LOOKs like they may have used work cuts, not finished animation.

We'll have to see.



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Fan Myopia.




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I just put down "inertial dampers" and leave it at that.




-np

There are stories floating about that the scientists and military guys testing the first atom bomb left their cars running, just in case the atmosphere caught fire and they had to flee.

Ahh, the joys of naive ignorance...



-k

"I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties. I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid!"




-np

Something like this?




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