Schismatrix

Since Villian the Villain died while fighting Blotto the Clown it's only reasonable. Maybe the premise could be that Villian keeps on getting cloned, fighting Blotto, and then dying? The ghosts of all the dead Villians could form their own town. A villainous Ghost-Town of Villians.

Conga line!

i'm betting it's close enough to me that i've laid in a supply of water, firewood, batteries, and dry/canned foods.
Already received a message that the studio will be closed tomorrow, so no work either.
Rum time!

Saying it poorly as well. Most MMOs start cutting back on the staff and slowing development down long before shutting down. Some have continued for years with little more than a support staff before shutting down. Paragon Studios went from full speed ahead on multiple projects to terminated with no warning in less than a day. That is not a very common event. "Just saying."

Well, personally i was continuously subscribed from less than a month after the game launched until the day NCsoft killed all subscriptions. So i might not be as loyal as you (hence not being as broken up* by the closing as you obviously are), but i was a somewhat loyal customer.






*Broken up is a synonym for gloatingly, condescendingly dismissive of those who actually liked the game, right? If not i'm probably using the wrong term.

Is a Babbie the larval form of a Babbage?

Morality does have something to do with it. Albeit nowhere near the level of animal abuse, slavery or genocide, but then only the most overwrought on either side would claim otherwise. Morality is not a binary choice between everything's hunky-dory and GENOCIDE!, that's just silly. Someone deciding to steal a candy bar or pet a kitten is making a moral choice, just not a very significant one.

Now, it seems odd that NCsoft didn't cite CoH's lack of profitability as their reason for shutting it down since they've done so for other titles. All the more so considering the abruptness with which it was done, going from full-bore development on at least two titles to "as of today you're all laid off" in one day, and that most financial analyses suggest that the game was viable, if not exactly a profit blockbuster. There are older MMOs still going with smaller player bases. i still think it was most likely more a case of making an example of CoH as a dramatic show of NCsoft's commitment to their new direction.

Still, what's done is done at this point. City of Heroes will be shut down fairly soon and will most likely never come back as the game we currently know. While i find the [anti-CoH/CoH deserved this] posters' need to constantly belittle and heap scorn on the CoH fans who aren't happy about losing a game they love a bit bemusing i'm reluctant to see it as anything more than a combination of sour grapes and schadenfreude.

Well, Oliver Queen is seeking what he considers justice, but maybe the class warfare subtext blurs it a bit.

As for Deadshot, maybe it'll turn out that Deadshot's eyepiece thingie saved his life or something. i hope so, since he's one of my favorite characters in the DC universe, and it's just idiotic to throw him away as a bumbling incompetent who shows up for one episode and then dies. (Incidentally, the most recent issue of Suicide Squad has Deadshot being, well... Deadshot, and possibly dead in the DC(N52)U now as well.)

This is truth. While some of the greater variety of discussion it permitted was nice for a while it has also allowed greater asshattery as well. Even worse (from my point of view) i let the greater profusion of aggressive stupidity and general acrimony provoke me into being a bit meaner despite the number of times i stopped before submitting. i've decided to resume using the ignore feature and let others deal with countering the more chronically stupid and malicious posters.

It improved my mood when browsing the forums.

i wouldn't be a bit surprised if the banned account rumor did in fact come from a certain former player who did a very dumb thing and then tried to claim it wasn't his fault when it got his account banned instead of trying to fix it. i'd had no issues with him in the past, but when he aggressively refused to understand simple English and logic... It was like he'd been infected by some sort of evil legacy of distorting facts to align with his rigidly set beliefs instead of adjusting his beliefs to align with newly learned facts.

i certainly haven't been banned for criticizing NCsoft, and i haven't been silent in my criticism. Although admittedly i also haven't been the sort of person who claims they're the fount of all evil just because they made a decision that i disagree with and that i consider to have been a bad decision that was badly (oh so very badly) implemented.

i have to admit i rather enjoyed Spider-Man 2099, and wouldn't mind seeing Miguel show up in the regular (now with all-new minty freshness!) Marvel universe. Sure, some of the plotholes and gaps in logic were reserved for transporting UR-500s to the launch pad, but it was a fun read and i liked the Miguel/Spider-Man character.

With you playing the part of yellow, yes. Except not since i6, but since the end of August. Seriously, this is the last time i'm bothering to acknowledge you since you are obviously just not clueless, but willfully ignorant and contrarian. You constantly misinterpret, distort, and exaggerate, and i'm pretty confident it's not even really conscious. It's not worth pointing out when you're irrefutably wrong since you'll either ignore it or through some arational process convince yourself that being wrong means you were actually right. You're less like a brick wall and more like an unfunhouse mirror.

Well, the point as far as i was concerned was that it meant he disagreed with the post in particular, not just being generally contrarian to whatever the poster posted. The difference being that it wasn't who posted so much as what was posted.

He just did.
Jranger would say no to any idea he disagreed with. Now, when pressed for an explanation of why he would provide one, but otherwise he would simply say no. In all the instances i recall it was always in reply to a specific post or point he disagreed with.

You can choose from three different colours to use when your torch ends the world.

Given the opportunity, yes. However, in actuality i would have significant technical hurdles. i currently do not have access to the hardware or bandwidth to effectively run an emulator.

i feel is a bit of a mischaracterization. That fix caused base defense items to go horribly awesome and i loved it for as long as it lasted.

i'm guessing you mean unlimited server transfers as often as whim dictated since we were already getting one free transfer a month with a subscription. Obviously it was not impossible to grant more since there were times when we were given more than the one a month.

As for the original premise... i wouldn't even care if i had to start over with new characters, but i would be rather annoyed if i lost access to all the perks, powersets, and costume pieces i've unlocked over the years.

i know it should be obvious, but just to make it absolutely clear, those making credible efforts included NCsoft?

Valkyrie's spear would make a nice staff.