Tenzhi

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zemblanity View Post
    I like knockdown. I like 100% chance knockback. I don't like random-chance to knockback.
    I've no problem with knockback (or knockdown, which is just low magnitude knockback), but what I *really* like is knockup. I'd love a knockup focused set with a couple of AoE knockup powers thrown in.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DreamWeaver View Post
    But - and I should say...
    Ha! Love it!
  3. So that's what, about two and a half million miles per hour?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aisynia View Post
    I'll go ahead and tell my hispanic cousins and brother in law that they deserve less than me because I'm white, and there are more of us. I'm sure they'll think that's fair.
    Putting aside the ridiculous racial tie-in, if there were a rationing or division of resources and there were four of them and six of you then you would deserve sixty percent of the allotted resources as compared to their forty percent. Dividing the resources fifty-fifty would, in fact, be unfair at that point.
  5. Tenzhi

    Please Fix PvP

    I agree. Fix it. Fix it like you would an inflamed appendix.
  6. By posting a request on the stickied Level Bump thread in the beta forum.

    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=268166
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arbiter_Shade View Post
    REALLY?! REALLY?! THIS COMMUNITY? The one that for the longest time shouted down PvPers and their concerns? The one that spent this ENTIRE topic arguing over petty matters of perception regardless of any actual evidence to the contrary? The community that involves certain people who are so narrow minded that they can't possible understand that there is an entire other half of the game that is devoted to "bad people" and goes on inane raves ending in emoticons that never contributes anything to the subject at hand? Or how about more pointedly your own treatment of Stalker detractors in the Stalker forums Leo?

    This flat out INSANE idea that the community in this game has ever been anything special blows my mind. This COMMUNITY is the largest group of egocentric close minded individuals I have ever met. Nice people? Sure. But so wrapped up in themselves they can't possible accept that anyone ever feels differently than them and WONT let things drop until the other party leaves or just nods their head in agreement.
    If this community is the largest group of egocentric close-minded individuals you've ever met, I have to assume you haven't been part of many gaming forums. This community is only a mild-mannered polite community relative to other large MMORPG and gaming communities. Perspective is what makes it special.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    So what was 5th grade, polar transformations? *Snicker*
    For financial reasons (and possibly due to my difficult attitude), the strange 1st grade private school I was shipped off to once a week (the other four days being spent at regular classes) to learn things like fractions, French, and (for reasons I still don't fathom) occasional oddball things like clown schooling was only attended by me for that one year.

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    9/18 and 2/18 for the numbers given, but that's beside the point. We're just talking about the denominator.

    I'm glad to see you understand fractions, though, even if you doing math isn't exactly on the topic of the thread.
    The point is the lowest common denominator doesn't change the value. And in the comparison it's the numerator over the lowest common denominator that indicates which value is lesser. Hence the phrase makes little sense in the context in which you used it (and in which it is often used).
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    In the advanced world of abstract mathematics, we have these confusing things called "fractions."
    You're explaining the wrong side of it. A little reading comprehension would've given you the implication that I have a basic understanding of fractions. That's 1st Grade math - well, it was for me anyway.

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    The phrase "lowest common denominator," when used outside of the context of mathematics, usually refers to perceived mental capacity: it's used to describe the bare minimum threshold required to accomplish a task--or, in this case, understand a story arc--in the same way the lowest common denominator (also called the "least common multiple") is used to express fractions in like terms. If redside players are 1/2 and blueside 1/9, you'd have to dip down to 1/18 to compensate (since 18 is the smallest multiple that 2 and 9 have in common).

    I don't want to give the impression that I believe players on either side to be inherently smarter or stupider. The joke was that the mental capacity of blueside players forced the quality of the Rikti War Zone arcs down to 1/18 so they would be on the same terms.
    Even assuming your initial fractions were correct it would come down to 2/18 not 1/18.
  10. Tenzhi

    Avengers photos

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    Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan View Post
    Agreed. I know hes an old school hero, but I don't think he would be too intimidating to modern villains while running around in what looks like a blue sweatsuit and wings colored onto his helmet. SHIELD couldnt have someone design him something more current but not over the top?
    Looks like stylized ballistic armor to me. Indeed, it seems to pretty much be a modernized version of the suit he wore in the first film minus the annoyingly miscoloured straps.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I thought that kind of mindless killer was the type a lot of red side players wanted to get away from?
    I thought that you thought that that kind of mindset is what most redside players had?
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    And what is your reward at the end?
    Some would say that caving in skulls is a reward unto itself.
  13. Tenzhi

    Avengers photos

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    Originally Posted by Forefinger_ View Post
    I'm not really liking how Captain America's costume looks. Very disappointing when I think of how well the costume looked in his solo movie.
    I like the Avengers outfit better. Though I'd still change his gloves and boots, make the star bigger, and give him the proper head-wings.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    We redsiders simply need to acknowledge that the co-op arcs need to be understood by the lowest common denominator.
    I've never understood that figure of speech. It seems to be used in an attempt to be degrading, but the lowest common denominator is useful in adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions. It's as if an ignorant person wanted to sound sophisticated and only understood the words "lowest" and "common" without understanding the full meaning.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    In regards to Doctor Who, I don't know how beneficial it would be to go back to the pure serial format. I've only seen a few of the classic serials, so it's possible they were just all crummy, but most of them really seemed to drag on much more than they needed to. I know the First Doctor is probably not the best place to look for refined serials, but I thought The Daleks was about twice as long as it needed to be.
    The few of Doctor Two I've seen tended to drag on a bit as well to varying degrees. The Mind Robber was particularly tedious.

    Doctors Three and Four had the most consistently decent episode, I'd say. Of course, I'm a bit biased against Doctor Five, and haven't seen enough of Doctor Seven.
  16. "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MantiCard."
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JKCarrier View Post
    Clearly, you've never seen "The Twin Dilemma".
    Always with the Sixth Doctor hate. I'd rather watch The Twin Dilemma again than either Fear Her or Night Terrors.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MisterD View Post
    Ok, obviously you enjoy those missions hero side where you have to run across 2 miles in IP..but I don’t. You can keep them. I am totally happy with my small villain zones. Why don’t you go play WoW if you are after a game that features massive zones you can walk across for days.
    I seem to recall being annoyed by missions redside where I had to travel long distances, though instead of running 2 miles I had to swim a terrible distance across the ocean to a group of islands and try to poke around in forested crevices to find the magical hole that led to the mission. It was like taking a trip across IP in order to poke around in Perez.

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    Never a lesser hero? Tell me..do you JOIN the freedom phalanx blueside? And no..I don’t mean just a shiny badge that changes and adds no story at all to the play. I mean, do you get an invite into the phalanx, get missions of that same calibre? No, you sure don’t(Besides Marias arc, where half the missions have you babysat by a NPC who can solo the map by themselves). But redside..you work for your patron..helping them while advancing your own goals, eventually basically become too powerful for even Recluse to pick on. Clearly, being too tough for Recluse = lesser.
    So heroes should aspire to become a faceless minion of a group, and it's fine for villains to be faceless minions all the way up to the 40s.

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    I can totally see why this is such a problem. Because redside, we are DESTINED ones. You know Sammy..destined? As in..not actually THERE yet? Obviously you feel that as a DO, we should begin the game doing super extreme hardcore villain schemes like trying to take over PC with the web device or something?
    So it's not City of Villains, it's City of People-Who-Might-One-Day-In-The-Far-Future-Perform-An-Act-Of-Villainy. I guess that name wasn't catchy enough. Of course, that's the problem with trying to make a game for Villains. Heroes are relatively easy because their role is reactive - a problem arises and they take care of it. Villains, on the other hand, are more proactive given that they're creating the problems that heroes should fix. In order to make them into the reactive sort appropriate for MMO questing you almost have to take the Villain out of them an make them into thugs and lackeys.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ScottyB View Post
    I think the point is that he had to scroll down in order to see the most-populated servers, and that load/population seems to have nothing to do with server order as evidenced by heavy-load Freedom being between medium-loads Infinity and Virtue.

    I'm just guessing and not even thinking about it very hard. For all I know there's no point trying to be made here at all.
    That's what I was thinking. Logically, shouldn't they be ordered by population, excepting the last-logged-into server at the top?
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
    Jack's naked again?
    Sorry, I should have said "crevasse" to avoid confusion.
  21. Jupiter's lightning bolts would make short work of any tanks.

    Re: Chest Plate v. swords:

    Many deaths on the melee battle field were from leg wounds.
  22. So all this hub-bub was about a giant windy crevice?

    In the last episode, will all of Jack's blood get pulled into the crevice and coalesce into a giant scabby head?
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Did the BBC also show an ad for Doctor Who toys, or was that just on BBC America?
    And just in case it didn't, I believe the commercial for these is what he's talking about.

    EDIT: "These" as in that toyline, not that specific set.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution View Post
    Just for that, I hope they never add animated hair.
    Personally, I'm hoping for animated hair to come inseparably along with improbable breast physics.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    For anyone wondering, the Hero-Villian split here is 60-40.
    Source?