StarkFist

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BMT of Champion]Miz: Congrats ont house man!
[BMT of Champion]Miz: mt
[BMT of Champion]SteelDominator: synapse forming in 15 Mins 4 spots open
[BMT of Champion]Miz: nice we can throw [censored] in it
[BMT of Champion]Miz: mt so sorry
[BMT of Champion]ILYA: i was gonna say...
[BMT of Champion]Dasanii Charity: hell of a mt lol
[BMT of Champion]Kadium: yeah it was
[BMT of Champion]Miz: I know sheesh O_O
[BMT of Champion]Dasanii Charity: makes for a good laugh thou lol
[BMT of Champion]Kadium: now I'm wondering what is this thing u r throwing the holes of donkeys into is
[BMT of Champion]Kadium:

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Miz posting her own Miz-tells? Hmm.... but that was a classic. I lol'd.

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Awwwww...

Not our fault that your neice is reportedly a hottie!

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I meant the report as a warning!
Not as permission to drool over her.
She has enough guys chasing her on MySpace.


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Well, technically we were only drooling over 4she's avatar.

However, if you want to provide links to that myspace page.....







giggity?

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I laugh when someone says "lol get over it nerds" in this thread, because they don't get it. Nobody wants to murder this guy, we don't wanna flex our e-pecs and go over there and threaten to beat him up at a gas station in Sac-town, and we aren't afraid of furry things because he griefed people.

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Though I was never greifed by Twixt, I am afraid of furries. Can I sue somebody?

Mysidia, I wished you HBD in another thread. So here, you get nothin'! (At least until next year.)

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Champion is a dark dark server filled with sociopaths and miscreants, find the door, run run run.

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*locks the eyes*
*eats pistol*
****** door*
No one leaves.
*narrows key*


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fix'd. we're just that crazy.

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You say something? The avatar, it mesmerizes.

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Of course it does. The woman's name is SHAY Laren after all...(and my Scottish blood comes from Clan MacLaren, so....)



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That's you in 4she's avatar!? I thought it was BA's neice...

>.>

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I hate you Stark.



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Awwwww...

Not our fault that your neice is reportedly a hottie!

Ah ha! It had nothing to do with the Twixt thread- you are just coming back for birthday well wishes and Bronx's money! We see through your clever little scheme... shameless!

Oh, and.. uh... happy birthday!

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From revealing the niche, the prediction should be that the price of crafteds overall should go down and the price of recipes should go up. These two would occur because, hopefully, a run of people would attempt to list theirs lowest to sell first until people started settling for less profit by listing below another common bid point, such as 55M even. If the run continued, people would continue to settle for less profit, thus resulting in the prices of recipes and crafteds arriving at an equilibrium that made the profit minuscule for awhile. Instead, it appears almost no one is heeding my advice.

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Or that everyone is heeding your advice to sit on it a few weeks.

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That... and hunting through the mountains of recipes for other non-publicized niches.

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If you go into an amusement park and create a disruption that upsets those that are there to have fun, I'd expect that you would be asked to leave or escorted off the property.

City of Heroes is no different. If you violate the terms of service or rules of conduct, through activities such as causing a disruption, you can expect to be asked to leave or otherwise have action taken on your account.

For those who are playing and are impacted by a situation that negatively affects their gameplay - be it other player actions or through a bug - we want to hear about it. You can contact us via the in game /petition command and out of game through the link in my signature.

- Lighthouse

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1) Mysidia!? Welcome back? Or did you just poke your head in to this fun little thread? Awesome post- hit just about every nail on its head.

2) Dinah is Lighthouse? Who knew?

3) Pie

I actually took the time to read his paper on the "sad" story of Twixt. What a load of self-serving drivel cloaked in pseudo-academic hogwash! It does help explain his motives somewhat- acting like an [censored]head was his "breaching behavior" to test the boundaries of socially constructed rules of behavior, versus what the inherent rules of the game would allow him to get away with.

The only surprising thing about the consistent reaction he received was that he was consistently surprised by it, as if he actually didn't understand or grasp that in a social game, social rules of behavior still apply. It was almost as if he expected the other human players to react as if they were NPCs; dictated and directed by the hard-coded "rules" of the game. He expressed shock and dismay that he was ostracized by both villain and hero players because of his style of play that was "within the rules and goals of the game" but did not cohere with the unwritten social rules.

Sad, sad, sad. I pity his students.

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You say something? The avatar, it mesmerizes.

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Of course it does. The woman's name is SHAY Laren after all...(and my Scottish blood comes from Clan MacLaren, so....)



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That's you in 4she's avatar!? I thought it was BA's neice...

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Was this you?
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Posted by StarkFist on 07/06/09 at 3:27PM

I am a COH player and veteran of other online games. I'm not a huge fan of PVP, but even though I rarely go into the PVP zones, I had heard of Twixt through the grapevine. However, contrary to this article, Twixt was never the most reviled person in the game or even on his server, just a minor annoyance to the small PVP community with delusions of grandeur.

In my experience, in game or real life, you get back a lot of what you put out there. If you treat people with kindness and respect, they tend to treat you with respect in return. On the other hand, if you treat everyone you meet with contempt, you should not be surprised when people start to dislike you. Or to put it even more simply, what goes around, comes around.
This rule of "social groups," to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, did not originate with video games.

The article makes it sound like "magically transporting other players to a robot firing squad" takes some kind of skill. It does not- even a non-PVP player like me could sit around and do that all day if I wanted to be as scorned as Twixt. In the game it is generally considered cowardly since there is not any actual fight or skill involved. Yes, it is technically within the "rules" but is not considered sportsmanlike or honorable. If what this article claims is true, it wasn't Twixt's "skill" that kept him alive, it was his ability to hide behind the robotic skirts of the zone drones.

His "experiment" seems to be to test the hypothesis that if you behave like a jerk in a video game, people will treat you like a jerk. Shocking, groundbreaking work there. GG Prof. Myers.

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Very well said. Quite honestly i feel the tone of the article and the Professor's own words show him to be very lacking in even a pretense of objectivity or awareness of how many others actually viewed him in regards to his own behavior.

i also recall him being a topic of humor and mild annoyance for most, not "the most hated player in the game". True, some of the PvP types might have felt that way, but even most of them just thought he was annoying or amusing IIRC.

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I confess, it was me. I thought I'd confuse people by using the same handle I've used for 5 years, but you saw through my little ruse.

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Thanks for the tips, Ping! Now that I have a toon with a little extra Inf to invest, I've been itching to start playing the market more, but just not sure where/how to start.

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A little? >.> Sakitumi disagrees!

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Heh.

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The martyrdom of Twixt was not the result of an unfounded humanistic phenomenon, it was the deliberate effort of the good professor that caused the ruckus. It is a classic example of someone who knows better acting like an idiot and then wondering why nobody likes him. Again not an impressive social dynamic.

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Alternate headline: 100s of hours spent in an imaginary video game world to prove the Golden Rule still applies.

It is funny that he "tricked" so many people into thinking he was a jerk. Then again, maybe he really is a jerk.

After this, am I the only one who will be looking out for Stryker's PhD thesis?

Thanks for the tips, Ping! Now that I have a toon with a little extra Inf to invest, I've been itching to start playing the market more, but just not sure where/how to start.

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I much prefer redside in general. Less zones, and the story is more linear.


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Funny, those are pretty much the same reasons that I prefer blueside. More zones, more to do, more choice in content/non-linear stories. And, of course, the higher blue population is nice but I still end up soloing a lot.

Happy day, Demon Keeper!

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I dont care if it is impossible Im still up for it.

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Gratz on a successful solar circumnavigation! Good luck on next year's trip.

giggity giggity

Thx to all who came out for this, and thanks to Sinful for doing it (and for the big win- woot! )!

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Welcome to the boards.
You seem like a very well mannered young man.
Maybe BA will set you up with his niece.

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QFT and welcome!

They cycle.

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scratch that....

*Had the best avatar EVER. Now it looks like something out of Gilligan's Island.

meh

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lol- rummy will come back one of these days. t'was time for a change.

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[censored] kinda hurts to come back and find one [censored] bag decided to kick everyone out and destroy what we all worked so hard to get!

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This sounds so familiar, yet I just can't place it. Was there perhaps a similar situation recently? Hmmm...

Also, this thread delivers the drama! Keep it going please!

Look, I'll help... um....

Farms roxxors if you have enuf healzrs, and PL'd players are the bestest players evers, for realz!

Discuss.