Terry1138

I don't see anything wrong with using the clocks. If it were me I'd keep it just because people objected. heh.

Names huh?
The Grey Revenger
Cane of Justice.
Wrinkles of doom.
lol
Okay, I'll try to be serious.

Cybermonk is all I can come up that's serious though, and I'm sure someone took that.
One more.
Shao Lin Clock?

Good luck with the name thing.

Discussions like this are always interesting.

Ran into an interesting statistic the other day while surfing the virtual waves of the electronic ocean out there.

Appearantly, IRL, around 80% of all cross-dressers are as straight as a straight person could be, except for the cross-dressing thing. Trippy eh?

To expand on what I said earlier, most of my alts are female. I have a couple male characters ((Swamp bug is my fave right now)) but usually I'm playing a female alt. I'm male, 6'2", 200 pounds, dark haired, handsome and I know Tae Kwon Do. Why on earth would I want to be that here too? Seriously. My one male martial artist is a 14 year old angry kid thats part of a male/female Yin/Yang kinda thing. None of my characters are anything like the way I am IRL. ((Actually, some of the personalities are but they are female characters. LOL))

I would rather roleplay something I'm not.

It's far more interesting.


((Don't ya hate it when you spell check something only to press the submit button instead of the preview button? LOL, I know I do.))

Interesting thread.

Purple Nebula secretly heads up a multi-national corporation and has a private investigation firm on the side.

Greystar lives off of what little he gets from the city for fighting bad guys.

Swamp bug lives in a swamp. He doesn't even own a pair of pants. Doesn't care either.

Malakai McFey is homeless, sleeps on the streets, begs for change, washes visors and goggles for influence. He's pretty new to the city.

Femdroid is the property of Galactic Investigations. Doesn't earn money.

Demonelle has been known to occasionally charge bad guys an 'arresting fee', which usually consists of whatever they have in thier pockets, for her time and trouble. She's trying to be good, honest.

I play both genders and if somebody asks me, OOCly, I tell them the truth. If the possibility that a male playing a female character or a female playing a male character is disturbing, well, that's thier problem isn't it?

I'm here for a roleplaying game anyway, not cybersex. There are a billion Mu*'s that cater to that, if that's your thing.

Men have been playing women for a long time, and vice-versa. There is a long history of it in shakespearian times, for example. If somebody gets so upset that they start hurling insults around, I feel as if that person has some issues with thier own sexuallity.

If I showed up for an RL date, dressed as the opposite gender and purposefully trying to fool that person, then Yeah, that's wrong. But it's an online game, not real life. Honesty is the best policy. If you freak out, well, there are 179,999 other players out there somewhere.

It's kind of silly really.

How many teenage boys lusted after Lara Croft and then pretended to be her, guiding her actions, living her life? hehe. I know it's the common example, but to me it illustrates exactly how silly it is.



Just for fun.
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SUPERFREAK by Rick James

She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow girl

She likes the boys in the band
She says that I'm her all-time favorite
When I make my move to her room it's the right time
She's never hard to please

(Refrain)
That girl is pretty wild now
The girl's a super freak
The kind of girl you read about
In new-wave magazine
That girl is pretty kinky
The girl's a super freak
I really love to taste her
Every time we meet
She's all right, she's all right
That girl's all right with me, yeah
She's a super freak, super freak
She's super-freaky, yow

Super freak, super freak

She's a very special girl
The kind of girl you want to know
From her head down to her toenails
Down to her feet, yeah
And she'll wait for me at backstage with her girlfriends
In a limousine
Going back in Chinatown

Three's not a crowd to her, she says
Room 714, I'll be waiting
When I get there she's got incense, wine and candles
It's such a freaky scene

(Refrain)

(Bridge)

Temptations sing!
Ohhhhh
Super freak, super freak
That girl's a super freak
Ohhhhh

She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow girl
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Thank you Statesman and everyone else on your team.

I read the first post by Statesman, and a couple pages after that, so if I'm repeating somebody I'm sorry.

I'm an old hand at online internet multiplayer gaming, and I have a lot of quirks and opinions that makes it difficult for me to team with people occasionally. For example, AOL speak makes me insane and I've found that I can't team with people who type that way. It's rare that I will make an exception on that point, because trying to communicate is a chore instead of fun. I'm verbose, and I feel that everyone should at least try. Middle of battle shortcuts are fine, but not during conversation. Another barrier to me and teaming is that I don't enjoy being around people that are offensive, dropping the F-bomb all the time with crude jokes. No fun. I'm not a prude, and I'm prone to it myself occasionally but not with people I just met and not in public.
I'm trying to have fun, but I feel like people such as myself who enjoy running off and being victorious solo, as well as teaming, are being forced into something we would rather not do. I always though the Task force stuff was for teaming fanatics. I have yet to do a single task force, because I'm not interested. I'll do them someday I imagine, with some character or other, but it's not that important to me right now.
I really really like this game a lot, but my feeling is that I'm being forced to do things a certain way that is different from the way I've been doing things all along and having fun. I learned a long time ago that I can't force myself to be something I'm not.
Lots of you are out there that know I'm not against teaming, and join in with enthusiasm when I do, but I don't always want to team. Like with Dr. Vahz. He could stomp me flat, but I had no problem with accomplishing the mission without 'arresting' him because it was a lot of fun figuring out how to do it by myself with an empath defender. Maybe if that option was there a little more often instead of almost always having to arrest the bosses in addition to collecting the artifacts/finding a cure/confiscating the weapons. I realize that this is probably not going to happen, because it would require a lot of work, but I think it would be a healthy compromise to the tougher bosses.

I just wanted to vent I guess, and say that I appreciate that the 'squishy' problem is being looked into.

City of Heroes Rules! The rest can drool!

Badges? Badges? We don' need no stinkin Badges.

I'm still waiting for a maple leaf somewhere in character creation ... I'm not worried about badges. Take it, don't take it. I think the change to Freedom instead of Patriot is great. But I'm Canadian. I'm all about compromise.

"Say it together now children .... com-pro-mise."

Sorry, had a flashback to grade school there.

Here is my thing, I play this game to GET AWAY from reality. Reality and in particular Politics, is not a fun place. Personally, I would have put the city in a mythical nation that I entirely made up. Avoid the whole issue. But, it's good the way it is and I understand why it's set where it is. Part of the draw for the crowds.
Sure it might bother me a tiny tiny bit to be confronted with a patriot badge for standing beside the american flag if I was in a REALLY bad mood, but I don't have to take it do I? Most likely I would just laugh and shake my head before moving on.
**Commence over-use of quotation marks**
Just because I have a "green card" to "work" in the "U.S.", it doesn't mean I have to "swear" anything to any "flags" or "Whatever". It's a game. Nothing in it is "Real". Geez. (he mutters instead of more substantial remarks)
Now I forgot what I was talking about ....
Oh yeah, that's right.
Good job on the renaming. For some, the word Patriot doesn't carry the same intention as it does for others. But I hate it when politics intrude upon my gaming at all. National pride is fine, but it should be tempered by reason and compassion. I've seen a number of fine ideas in this thread that could be used, some requiring a lot of work mind you. But really ... why? It's just a badge because you stood beside a flag right? I prefer more substantial things that you have to work for. But that's me.
Speaking of national pride, when do I get a single maple leaf eh?
**begins poking the lion with a short stick**

Welcome to Good Morning Paragon. This week we will be searching for answers about where all these foreign so-called heroes are from and why they are coming here in our expose "Foreigners and Aliens, Don't we have enough home grown talent?".
On todays show we will be talking to a newly arrived 'hero' and find out why he is really here. Joining us from a remote location is Pane Jauley who has tracked down Greystar, a self-proclaimed hero.

(scene cuts to the interior of a run down warehouse where a tall man in grey is standing beside what looks like a commando type due to all the camoflage and the large weapon in his hands.)

Pane Jauley: So, tell me Mr. Greystar ... Why ARE you here?

Greystar: How did you get in here?

Wardog: Who are these people?

Pane Jauley: That isn't what our viewers want to know Mr. Greystar ... if in fact that is your name? Please answer the question.

Greystar: Hey buddy, you better run. Ya, you with the camera.

Pane Jauley: You don't own this building. We have just as much right to be here as you.

Wardog: I agree, believe me, but that giant bucket of bolts behind you doesn't.

(the video feed ends abruptly and cuts back to the anchorman suddenly, catching him in the middle of picking his nose)

What the?
Get the video feed back ... are they alive?
What do you mean I'm on?
I'm on?
(the anchorman quickly removes his finger from his nose)

Welcome back. We appear to be having technical difficulties and will return to the Greystar interview as soon as we are able.

(the scene quickly changes again to a hurky jerky view from the camera as the holder of it flees for his life)

Cameraman: That's IT! I QUIT.
Pane Jauley: Shut up and RUN!!!!

(in the background the sound of smashing metal and machine gun fire can be heard, followed by a large piece of metal suddenly falling into view to land with a crash before the camera. Seconds later Greystar crawls out of the wreckage with a pained expression.)

Cameraman: Please God ... I've been a good person. Let me live through this!!
Pane Jauley: Praying? PRAYING? Run you idiot!!!

(Pane Jauley is then visible onscreen again as she leaves the sobbing cameraman behind and runs for the door visible a hundred yards away)

Cameramanon't leave me ..
Pane Jauley:Then run you idiot.

(as several pieces of broken metal and grenade shrapnel fly past the camera, and beams of energy suddenly erupt from the hands of Greystar to blast into something behind the cameraman, the scene suddenly fades into static as the video feed is lost)

Uh .... well. That's can't be good. We apologise, but we have to cut this segment short. Let's all hope Pane is safe and sound and stay tuned for possible updates in the unlikely event she does survive.

Coming up after the break ... Purple Carrots ... has science gone too far?

OOC: (( had some time to kill, and this seemed amusing in my head. ))