The_Widowed

So what DID happen to Junior, anyway?

One of the devs was just asking us about the double parentheses over the CoHGuru channel a few nights ago. The parentheses have their place, but I can understand how a non-RPer would find it annoying to be talking casually within a non-RP team with one or two people who insist on saying everything in double parentheses. "Which one should I snipe first? The Behemoth Overlord or the Agony Mage?" "((The Agony Mage))" "((I agree. Agony Mage. He has less Health.))" "Oy."

If it's a decidedly non-RP group (like your average pick-up team), please, don't put "((" and "))" around everything you say. Other people will think you're being overly pretentious, and people who don't understand what they mean will only be confused, not impressed with your ability to roleplay. Me? I subscribe to the old "Local chat is for roleplay, Team and Supergroup channels are kinda-sorta, everything else most likely isn't" creed. Nobody on Global chat uses the parentheses, and for good reason; It's more oriented for players than their characters.

And please don't use them in private Tells; Just the fact that Tells are usually used for discreet, out-of-character conference should suggest that Tells are between players, not between characters...unless we're talking about telepathic communication or whispering to someone standing next to you, perhaps.

Just my 2 rubles.

Now that's the naughty Bo Bindel we know and love.

(Nooooo! Bo Bindel can't break up with Dr. Neuromancy! It can't be! Those two were made for each other.... *weeps openly* )

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Someone mentioned it earlier in the thread: The Pro-Isolators in this thread are being nice, cordial, and posting constructive ideas to rectify a badge that should have been taken care of long, long ago. Our counter arguements are also nice and cordial.

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*waves hand* Yo.

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Not once in this thread have we done as you described here Celtic:

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...You [censored], whine, moan, and further prod just to get something your way...

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The only people in this thread that are acting that way are you Celtic and the other Anti-Isolators.

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At least LiquidX tries to contribute something to the anti argument here and there. Even Pax has made a decent gesture or two underneath all the abrasiveness. The antis could do without Celtic's help (or lack of).

As Celtic went on to say, he replied as he did because his opinion was solicited. But let's make a distinction here: "Giving an opinion" is a separate concept from "being a deliberately rude and belligerent pighead". And, in somehow managing to accomplish both with one swoop, Celtic mistook one for the other or assumed they were the same thing.

Yes, Celtic, I'm calling you out. You've been pretty quiet for the last few pages of this thread, so let's keep it that way. Here's the deal: You stay out of this debate, I'll stay out of this debate. We'll sit back, stop throwing gasoline on the fire and let the more level heads go at it here. Start cutting people down again and I'll start giving you lip about it again.

Well?

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Meanwhile, the Pro-Isolators keep posting their arguments as well as they can.

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Yeah, often things like "Oh my god, its a slap in the face that the Dev's wont let us get this badge!"

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Quotes, please. Complete quotes with quote brackets, no LiquidX filter. Hop to it.

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Has anyone else noticed that the people who are pro-Isolator are posting their reasonings, trying to make comparisons and generally being nice, tactful and civil about it? "I think the Isolator should be accessible under this and that circumstances...."

And the people who are anti-Isolator are pretty much being a pack of hostile, unreasoning, bullying, dismissive jackholes? "Just shut your mouth and suck it the hell up, n00b. Because I said so."

I'm sure there's a comparison to be made here, too. But I'll leave that open to interpretation.

Yeah. Pretty peculiar, huh? It makes you think.

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Yep...it also makes you think how many people actually read my post pretty close to the beginning of this thread of why it shouldn't be in the game.

Oh...did you happen to miss it? Here you go:

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asking for something that takes resources, money, and time away from things that need it more (eg: bugs, powers, content)

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It was only on the second page, too...

I'm not being a beligerant [censored] who doesn't want something in the game, I'm being a person who knows the value of a dollar, and knows that Cryptic's money can be put to better use elsewhere.

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1) Oh, I caught it on Page 2, all right. But it didn't take long for you and your cohorts to sink into repeating mean-spirited drivel like this:

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*Calm down...calm down...don't smack anyone for being stupid...you can do it, Celtic....ah Hell*

*SMACK*

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Meanwhile, the Pro-Isolators keep posting their arguments as well as they can.

2) I'm not buying your "value of a dollar" argument. If the devs are kind enough to give us the Column-versus-Council firefights, the Rularuu invasion, the Eochai Halloween invasion, the Winter Lords and the Ganymede-and-Scratch missions, would you take umbrage with them because they're making quality-of-life stuff for us to enjoy (and for CoX to stand out for potential future customers...) rather than fixing the invisible baddies bug? Why can't the dev team do both if they like?

Maybe I didn't kill 100 Isolators back when the Widowed was a mere SL1 back around May of 2004, but I can sympathize with the people who did. Cryptic will never do the datamining necessary to verify that these people are worthy of the Isolator badge; If you were in the same boat, wouldn't you feel just the slightest bit ripped off?

Has anyone else noticed that the people who are pro-Isolator are posting their reasonings, trying to make comparisons and generally being nice, tactful, civil and well-reasoned about it? "I think the Isolator should be accessible under this and that circumstances...."

And the people who are anti-Isolator are pretty much being a pack of hostile, unreasoning, bullying, dismissive jackholes? "Just shut your mouth and suck it the hell up, n00b. Because I said so. Shut up! SHUT UP!"

I'm sure there's a comparison to be made here, too. But I'll leave that open to interpretation.

Yeah. Pretty peculiar, huh? It makes you think.

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Usually you guys are articulate, thoughtful and when you do deliver and opposing opinion or 'flame' someone it is artful, tasteful and clever. I was beginning to wonder if someone had hijacked your accounts. Seriously, you guys ok?

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Well, lets put it this way...

I work a mind numbing, soul sucking job in the resteraunt buisness. I've been doing it for Nine Years now, and before that I used to work retail. So, I hear stuff like "Well, I'm a paying customer!" or "Why should I have to pay for <Insert item here>" or "I've been a loyal customer for <insert time here> so you should give me <list unreasonable demands here>" ALL THE DAMN TIME. I get sick of listening to ungrateful people whining all damn day.

So, I'm stressed out, and tired of hearing the same excuses all the damn time. It's getting on my last nerve.

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In short, your job sucks and you hate it. And somehow that's supposed to make it perfectly okay to bash Shadow_Song, huh?

The first difference between the Suggestions forum and your horrible, mind-numbing, soul-sucking job is that Shadow_Song's not here to give you his money in exchange for the ***** Burgers (or whatever) that keep your restaurant in business...therefore, you don't have to kiss his butt, right? But here's another stark contrast to your crappy job: Nobody's paying you to be here, either. And I'm pretty sure the dev team doesn't need you to protect them, considering that they're pretty much the gods of CoH. If they don't like the Isolator suggestion, into the trash can it goes.

Sorry, Liquid, but you see, I've been the resident manager of an apartment complex for three years, and that's my pet peeve: People who use the "I slave over my horrible, horrible job for 25 hours a day, therefore it's perfectly okay for me to come home, throw away all vestiges of civility and treat you like you're snail slime whenever I have a complaint about the way you're doing things" excuse.

At least I don't have to tolerate the customer's bad attitude, however; I've shot down lease renewals over less.

Thrust and riposte. Your move.

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Shadow speaks for me too.

/signed

Though I would still prefer my idea of hunting lvl50 superfreaks for the same badge....

Bo Bindel's Big-Time Diry
Bo Bindel
Resident Troll, Skyway City
Whatever date this is....

Dear Diry,

Sorry about long absence. Valentine Day rough. What Indigo mean by eating lots and lots of bread before trying Crimson's Long Island iced tea? Bo had upset stomach and just wanted tea.

Bo still recovering. Must have been really strong tea. Good too.

Will write again soon.

--Bo

So the Isolator badge is for defeating 100 Contaminated.

It doesn't say that the Contaminated have to be the level 1 guys we got to beat up in Outbreak. What if some of the Contaminated escaped without getting their share of the antidote? What if they continued to mutate, and grow stronger, and merge bodies, and develop even more superpowers....

I wonder what a Level 50 Contaminated Monster would look like. Or 100 of them. Rampaging through an instanced zone like an army of Godzillas....

*tosses the suggestion in the hat and leaves*

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Positron, please, for the love of all that is sweet and munchy reorder the badges! The helter-skelter ordering of the badges, particularly the Achievement badges, makes it rather difficult to find particular badges.

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Here, here! And can we get the same reordering for Contacts? I hate having to scroll way, way down on my Contacts list to call Tina MacIntyre just because I--in my ignorance--made the mistakes of clicking all three PvP zone Contacts and all four Croatoa contacts, seven Contacts whom I can't use because I had already outleveled them by the time they were added to the game.

What about a menu option to click-and-drag Badges and Contacts into whatever order you want? Could we ever have something like that?

(By the way, Happy Birthday to Professor Blues! )

Oops! Sorry.

*stows the lighter and gets really, really nervous*

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Bo Bindel like the Fall
Watching the leaves turn from green to yellow to red
But what Bo Bindel really like...
Is watching kape jerks...
Turn from green...
To yellow...
To red
Raaawrrrr!

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Bravo! Bravo! Encore!

*holds up a lighter and sparks it*

Do my eyes deceive me?

*blinks*

Fire_Wall and Bo Bindel are back!!!

*does the happy dance*

Is Julius the Troll really dead, by the way? I need to go to the Hollows and check. That was an excellent epitaph, by the way...

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January!?! Who knows how long that will be!?!

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Widow think January come between Easterween and Fireworks Day, but Widow not sure. Rarrrrgh! Stupid calendar not working somehow....

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Bump

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That's not a bad idea, actually....

*bumpitty-bump*

I wonder if anyone else here would care to follow my example and write a chapter of Bo Bindel's Big-Time Troll Diry as faithfully to the source material as you can.

Fire had sent a PM out asking me (and possibly several other Bo Bindel readers) to ask Cuppa and Nomad to move the thread back to the general discussion forum. He worries that the Roleplaying section isn't very popular, but over at the CoHGuru forums it's one of our better sections.

We among others (and the fifty-billion threads in this section) are proof that people do read Roleplaying. In fact, I'd wager that these people are cut from a more genteel, supportive and imaginative cloth than the n00bs, clique snobs and min-maxers who infest the rest of the site.

Roleplaying's all right, Bo. Come back!

It's tempting to take up the banner in Firewall's stead just to keep Bo Bindel alive. The Unabridged Acanonical Apocrypha of Bo Bindel, so to speak.

I wonder if Firewall would approve.

...

It's just not the same without Firewall. *sigh*

Bo Bindel's Big-Time Diry
Bo Bindel
Resident Troll, Skyway City
November 26, 2005

So Bo invite everyone to Momma Bindel's for Big Pilgrim Turkey Day. Kape jerks and Outcasts not invited, but City Kid Kody can listen thru wall (refridgerator side) if him want.

J'nith'r'a'a'a'a facedown next to punchbowl. Punchbowl filled with Beovark's Olde Tyme Recipe raspberry punch. J'nith'r'a'a'a'a not driving home now. Small-time Trollkins up on roof, check pigeon traps and get more poultry for main course. So they not help her up yet either.

Beovark get hungry.

Beovark say, "Hey, Bo! Momma Bindel always serve stuffing and deviled eggs on tablecloth?"

"No," say Bo, "Momma Bindel serve stuffing and deviled eggs on silver trays with wood handles on side."

Dunnovel come down from roof. "Hey, Bo! Baby Clock up on roof with two silver trays and satellite dish, trying to build robot!"

RARRRGH! Bo hate you sometimes, Svrgyn.

We sad. Not want to see Bo Bindel end like this. Want Bo Bindel to beat up kape jerk after cape jerk till kape jerks get tired and team up and launch Mama Bindel's place into orbit or somethin'.

Bo Bindel big-time troll in big-time forum, Fire_Wa11. It not matter whether Bo Bindel in Genrull Talky-Talk forum or Role-Acting Stuff forum or Stoopid Blaster Kape Jerk forum or Deviled Egg and Potato Salad forum. Write it and dey will come.

Besides, we roleplay up some more Superadyne and Baby Clock pets for Svrgyn to play with. That fun, huh?

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Dunno why you guys are all excited... Statesman and his laggies (not a typo: you pronounce it "lackey," I'll pronounce it "laggy") are just gonna mapserve your butts, then pound you into submission. The guy's an ex-crook; he's not going to play straight. He'll win by any means, fair or foul. (I hear he's learned a new move: the Synapse Bowl.)

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Okay...so he's a shrewd strategist, a pragmatist and a master of improvisation. Now that we've covered his good points, what are his vices?