NobleFox
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Quote:That is because you are not selfish. It is the core difference between a child who screams "the world must love me no matter what I do" and an adult who understands, "Even in a game, I have a responsibility to fellow people to not make them carry my weight."Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
I have a Kin/Rad defender who has a build that lacks Speed Boost. It's his solo build, and I need every solo-oriented power I can find.
But on a team? Switching right to my team build. I know how much a Kin can benefit me, and I could never in good conscience neglect to help my teammates with those powers when I can.
Like much of life, it's a gray area, I'd say. You are not at responsibility to make the _optimum_ build for teaming possible when on a team but you are responsible to carry your weight. Scarlet Shocker? Grow up. The world does not rotate around you or any other one person; this game is a society and we all have to make an effort to make room for one another. Selfishness has no place in the reality of this game. Your choice to be "different" is only acceptable to the line where that choice begins to harm others for no other reason then you believe everyone should accept everything you do without question. Deviation within an unharmful normative is being "different", going beyond that is childish.
Even a first year psych student can tell you that one's attitude at play is indicative of their attitude in all of life. Play is how you learn the rules of society. If you choose to stand at odds with those rules, no compromise, no gray area "don't you DARE get mad at me or anyone else for causing you distress, we're just being 'different'!". Then you are a spoiled brat.
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Quote:I assume everyone is a male player, and treat their characters as whatever gender they are playing. In fact, I assume every player is a 45 year old trucker named Bob, and physically resembles the guy from the "Make love not Warcraft" episode of South Park. The player behind the character is absolutely irrelevant to me unless they choose to become relevant, and that is the very picture of irrelevance to me.Originally Posted by NekoNeko
You know what's easier on my time? Treating what looks like a girl like a girl and what looks like a guy like a guy.
I've heard this LAME concept before ("I'll just assume everyone is a guy"), and it makes me wonder if the person spouting it has other issues that generally make him uncomfortable around females or is more comfortable with his own gender, and THAT's why he'd rather treat everyone as a guy, so he could avoid interacting in any way with females ("gasp!").
I'm sorry, but I'm female (I only have ONE male character out of dozens), and I'd like to be treated that way. If that bothers you sooooo much, you're welcome to stay far away from me.
It shouldn't bother you that I think you're a 45 year old trucker named Bob. It shouldn't matter in the slightest. Are you playing a role, or is this game a dating interface for you? The role I am presently playing will react to the role you are presently playing, and that should be the extent of it. Is it insecurity that you feel you "must" always be treated as a female? -
Quote:You speak the absolute truth. If you try to involve that many people at once, you might as well just call it quits ahead of time or keep the RP so generic that it never advances past "DA BAD GUYZ ATTACK-ED OUR BASE WE GOTS TO GET DEM BACK!". I've never been in a campaign or adventure worth being in that had more the... 7 people, tops, and even that was pretty directionless.Originally Posted by Kai
I totally don't miss 40 people trying to have a conversation and a plot :7 I think a lot of us realized that if you want a story to go anywhere, you have to limit the number of people involved, and the first people you pick are your RL friends and SG mates so the visibility just got smaller.
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Quote:You can as well. Nominate a DM. Make whoever comes up with the story stretch their mind and keep the story directed. It's just a stone cold fact, when everyone is a "consensual equal" in the RP, then your storytelling can never be cohesive. Everything degenerates into ridiculous "I'll make another alt which is yet ANOTHER child from the future of my character while she sleeps with that guy over there but this kid is the child of THAT other guy. What amazing drama and angst it is to run the same 10 base plots again and again and again because none of us are willing to use our imaginations and stretch beyond the boundaries!"Originally Posted by Tokyo
Great advice...for those people that live in a universe where a DM narrates their life...
I haven't been in any actual 'meaningful' RP because RP outside of 'for its own sake' is meaningless..
Don't be afraid to take your turn at the wheel as well. If you suck at it, fine. Not everyone who tries it is good at it; but it's unavoidable. Without one person directing a story, the center will NOT hold. You need NPCs to move a story along if you ever want to advance past soap-opera level stuff.
Also, a DM who "narrates the life" of your characters is an incompetent. At no point can a DM EVER tell you what _your_ character is doing or feeling. The DM presents the world and flow of events to you, you, as a player, have your character exist in them. You change them, as you change your own life, and just like a good campaign, you have no control over anyone but yourself in real life. -
Ended up with a guy that wanted help with the Valentine's mission who made one of these builds. He expected a human-form Warshade to do all the tanking and fighting for him, and then insulted me when I wasn't able to. Wish I'd had Dwarf form available, but for some odd reason I was in my other build. Mighta worked out better, a human form can carry it's weight on a team, but it can't carry the weight of two.
Fun times. Made more fun when he decided to start insulting me over Broadcast in the D because of it. Made even more fun when the "Everyone can play how they like" kids started piling on me for defending myself. Awesome. Reminded me why I don't usually hang around the D right after school lets out.
I don't mind people using a petless build, but it's insane to insult me because I can't carry their share of the fight on my back and would rather not get tons of debt over the choice.. which the MM didn't even feel the need to inform me of so I could switch to their other build first to try to deal with it. -
To make it clearer, you are looking at trusting a "high rating" some unknown person has on a site owned by these people http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032_3-6079567.html
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Quote:Never buy goods with Money Orders. If something goes wrong, there is nothing you can do to get it back short of a lawsuit. A Money Order is essentially cash. Scammers know this, and if anyone insists on Money Orders, take your business elsewhere. Do not Western Union or Moneygram it either, that's the exact same thing. (In fact, they literally print out a money order at the receiving station and cash it on-site)Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm
This is from an individual with a high heatware rating... http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=54555 which is some sort of rating for hardware sellers I think.
Incidentally, "Heatware" is not sponsored by any of the sites it pretends it is, they just have clickthru advertising, and, furthermore, I can pick any high rated profile at random and SAY that's me. Use your head, stick to reputable sellers and services, and information aobut the reliability of a seller form a site like that should be treated as exactly what it is: irrelevant. This "heatware" site seems to be owned by Dotster, well known for cybersquatting and stealing domain names within hours after they expire.
If you're not doing a Paypal/Credit Card transaction or going through a service like Ebay or Amazon, you can be scammed, easily, with absolutely no recourse. There is no reason to use any other method. -
Quote:Seeing that written somewhere would drive away all thoughts of rebellion and your average person would end up throwing their lot in with Tyrant. At least Tyrant's ensuring people know how to spell and express themselves, rather then playing children's games with things that look like cyphers but are actually just a waste of time phonetic equivalent that "looks cool". Nobody with an IQ over 90 is going to be unable to read what that says, and the faux-special language would just turn people off.Originally Posted by Dolphin
Un4tunt1y, n0 0n3 cn b t0ld wh4t the Undrn3t 1s. jo0 h4v3 2 c 1t 4 jo0rslf.
Seriously, someone in the resistance would say "Stop that. We're not ten year olds, let's start acting like a real revolution here. If you can't win the hearts and minds of the people, you will never throw off the yoke of oppression, and that's just going to get us laughed at." The idea at it's core as presented by the OP is rather well thought out, but that "numbers as letters" stuff is just silly. -
Wine. Honestly Cedega is a joke. Their support is slower then WINE's, and you _pay_ for Cedega.
Yes, I realize in both cases you're mostly doing your own support anyway, but when you REALLY need assistance... Cedega is sssllloooow to offer suggestions. WINE's community seems to.. what's the word I'm looking for... care? -
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The term "Tankmage" originated in fanatasy games and has since crossed over into most if not all games to signify a character with both superior defensive and offensive abilities well beyond the norm.
But honestly I think your just dodging things you don't wanna see.
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You are correct. It doesn't have anything to do with range. It has to do with power.
Not saying I'm correct for sure, but didn't the term actually originate in one of the 2000 AD company's post apocalypse series? Wasn't there a sort of unstoppable supercop with awesome weaponry and armor that called themselves the "Tankmages"? Not sure exactly but I vaguely remember a promised but never released PC FPS based on being a Tankmage in 2002 or so. -
You can set Winamp up to play certain songs on certain keypress combinations already.
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Vigilance is utterly useless. While not everyone HATES it, there's absolutely nobody who finds it useful. I don't know any Defender who has ever said, "Man, I tried to save the team but I just ran out of Endo!"
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A "Spam all" button would be pointless and waste GM time investigating non spam mails because people would just brainlessly hit that button instead.
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Alright. I'm finished posting here. People have decided the time has come to stop discussing and instead have decided it's better to be snide and sarcastic, and even insulting.
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I kinda noticed that about the Defender boards in general. From the people who throw temper tantrums if anyone uses the word "Healer" or DARES to ask for an Empath, to the people that expect everyone to do what they say when they say it and feel they are the "backbone" and "leader" of any team, regardless of it's makeup or even who has the star; this board isn't worth discussing anything on.
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Once.
Years ago. I wouldn't care if email stopped working entirely. It's just an annoyance I have to deal with every time I login. Stupid spam emails from trial accounts.
Honestly, how much money would an MMO lose if they just flatout banned China entirely? Here comes a whole flood of "Gasp! You're a racist!" posts from the high and mighty crowd, now that I suggested exactly what everyone knows would actually flatout solve the problem. -
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It's the difference between a team that goes "woo, we just barely survived that" and moving on, and the team which wiped. Then that team has to spend 5 minutes listening to some control freak Rad telling them we died when everything went because they believe as if everyone has nothing better to do then make sure they're doing whatever their flavour of Defender wants them to do.
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But maybe having some awareness about the capabilities and how some defender type play is a good thing. If you're a tank and can aggro half the map and live - then great go for it. If your a squishy that might need heals, then dont grab alot of aggro from non-debuffed spawns if your playing without an empath. A little common sense and a minor adjustment of your playstyle can cutdown on alot of dirtnap time.
Knowing how all the defender powersets work and why they work is important, eventually most everyone figures this out. A team that works with it's defender(s) and controller(s) in defender mode is a team that just flat works better.
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Yup, it's why I said odds are I wouldn't take an Empath over a FF if we lacked in other Defender types. However, there's a difference between a Defender who likes other to be aware and one who freaks out at the mere thought that they could ever POSSIBLY need heavy healing, and anything that goes wrong can't POSSIBLY be their share of blame. There are seriously people so arrogant and ignorant of how the game works that they believe if you even TAKE an Empath you're a bad player.
Of course when things go wrong it's everyone else's fault and they don't realize that these (hopefully rare) instances are when an Empath shines brighter then all the rest. -
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joined an AE team one night.
me: kinetics def
brother: sonic defender
another rad defender and a /rad controller.
we invited a tank...he said thanks for invite....i chose the mission...then he said....
"we are gonna need a healer."
...and he had the 42 month vet badge.
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I do the same thing. If I have a slot to spare, an Empath is a wonderful insurance policy. I'm not so arrogant as to pretend that everything always works perfectly and we'll never need heavy healing.
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Seriously. Empaths are wonderful for when things go wrong. I won't take an Empath before a Bubbler if our team for some odd reason is devoid of other Defenders, but if there's an empty slot an Empath is good way to round out any team.
It's the difference between a team that goes "woo, we just barely survived that" and moving on, and the team which wiped. Then that team has to spend 5 minutes listening to some control freak Rad or Kin telling them they died when everything went because they didn't act as good puppets should. They believe as if everyone has nothing better to do then make sure they're doing whatever their flavour of Defender wants them to do, and nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong if everyone would just do what they say when they say it.
Anyone who starts that "You can't take a healer!" crap gets kicked no questions asked for exactly that reason. These people are of no benefit to the team unless everything always runs smoothly. When something goes wrong, these people are the first to whip out and load up the blamethrower. -
Oh good. Now that it's not just happening to people with Windows 7 they might actually do something about it.
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GMs CAN'T find name violations.
GMs are NEVER in game.
It is impossible for GMs to perform this game saving service.
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I remember a certain dark defenderr player sending me a tell about reporting me for copyright violation because I made a toon named HALO.
My toon didn't have anything to do with the halo game. My toon's name was Halo, her secret ID was Angela Winger. She was an angelic-themed character. I've never even played the Halo game. I couldn't tell ya the first thing about it...other than I am pretty sure it was a FPS.
So I deleted the toon, but I've NEVER, EVER forgotten that player did that to me, nor have I forgiven them. Forever, in my book, they are jerks. That character was originally a champions character I made back in 1989, way before the Halo game came out.
I might re-make the toon some day...but, heck, it wasn't all that great a champions character to begin with.
But as a rule, I NEVER, EVER report ANYONE for potential copyright infringement. Why? Because it doesn't give me xp or insp or IOs or influence. I have better things to do in-game than inspecting other players toons. I'm not a rat, I don't rat out people.
So, if you have had a toon generiched...believe me...it was NOT me that turned you in...I'm not a rat!
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I'm confused... is Windows 7 just 64-bit ready no matter what? All the pre-order things I've been seeing on Newegg and Best Buy don't mention 32 or 64 bit, and I was wanting to move up to 64 bit so Windows will see all 4 GB of my ram. Can anyone help clarify this?
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Honestly if you have a 64 bit processor you should be moving up anyway. There were a lot of problems with XP 64, but that has nothing to do with how it played out on Vista and now on 7. You'd honestly be a fool to install the 32 bit version. Unless you have hardware that is 6 years old... there's drivers.
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It's a mystery to me how people can play this game, with its flashing lights and bright colours everywhere, and be fine, but as soon as one little bubble/speedboost/ice armor shows up, it's migraine city and oh noes. Considering how hectic and chaotic the graphics are in a typical team battle, it's a wonder those folks don't die on the spot when someone fulcrum shifts.
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Because certain patterns bring them on and others do not. Sonic was pretty much a bullet straight to a migraine sufferer's nervous system which flooded you with nitric oxide. Instant migraine.
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My favorite to see is when people just type "+1". It's supposed to mean "I agree with your idea!" but I always read it as "Hey, up goes my post count!"
+1 !!!!
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Really? I though the actual meaning was "Hey, up goes my post count even though I know this thread will be deleted!"
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Yup. When people are in agreement they usually say "This". When it's dooooooomed it's +1.
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Eh. Too much time on the Steam forums I guess. +1 there usually means you're about to give someone Rep for the post you quoted.
Either way it's still pointless. Speaking of, I'm making an awful lot of posts about nothing tonight. Maybe I can break 200 posts before 2010! -
My favorite to see is when people just type "+1". It's supposed to mean "I agree with your idea!" but I always read it as "Hey, up goes my post count!"
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EDIT: Checked the posts out. Says a bunch of nothin' like most. Dont see why the people worship is there.
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That's how you get to 23 thousand posts, my friend, unless you're BillZBubba, jg1001 or Memphis_Bill, who got there by actually being helpful.
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*ahem*
you forgot one....
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Yeah I forgot a few, and it turns out jg actually has a pretty low post count, but you get the idea.
A lot get there by posts like "I agree entirely!" or "I like to do it just to be annoying" or other things that don't actually add anything to the conversation. I've always tried to mostly stick to "If you don't have anything to add then just read the topic and move on". It's served me pretty well in the 4 years I've been here.