Thirty-Seven

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by flashrains View Post
    But how did he become the hero he is today? Or villain, as the case may or may not be?
    I was planning to come back and add his bio verbatim when I get a chance from my home computer... Sooooo, here it is:

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
    Transcript of Therapy with Dr. Meg Franken
    Date: 09.18.08 @1103, Re: Chris Allys, Loc: Franken's Office

    [Franken] : Chris, lets start off with something you said last session; you said you were a villain.

    [Allys] : Honestly, doc, I don't really sit around and think about it. I'm not very introspective you see. I just do as I'm told. Some folks have been rather miffed when I tell 'em their number's up. Ain't my fault exactly.

    [F] : Following orders? What exactly do you mean by that?

    ((At this time, a monarch butterfly lands on a nearby windowsill.))

    [A] (To the butterfly) : ...Right, okay. But, ahhh, these sessions are court-ordered Clyde... Uh huh. Yeah, I'll get right on it.

    [F] (Baffled) : Are you talking to that butterfly?!

    [A] (To Franken) : Yeah, o' course. That would be Clyde. I guess this concludes our session. (Gets up to leave) Clyde says I need to bust some heads. That guy sure has a way with words don't he?
    As you can see, Chris is rather crazy... but he actually DOES have a talking magical butterfly that follows him around and is not plagued, as most assume, by command hallucinations. He is, however, still crazy because he is willing to take orders from a butterfly!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    I was worried this would devolve into what these threads usually devolve into: iPwn, Followed by Ninjas, Deja Vuvuzela and that sort of "joke characters," like that Malibu Ken I ran across the other day. Thank you, Samuraiko, for proving me wrong and restoring my faith
    I don't want to start stuff here... but isn't that just a touch "high and mighty" to deign that funny characters aren't worthy to have what are considered a "good bio"?
  2. I love this thread already!! :-)

    My favorite bio that I have written is a transcript of a tape recorded session of the character with his court-ordered therapist. I find it to be pretty original.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DLancer View Post
    I'd settle just for being able to change a character's costume in the character select screen
    Ummm... you can. The costume that appears is now the same as whatever costume you logged out in last. Or did I misunderstand?
  4. And what metric do you propose? I can't imagine there is one that is "fair" and would please everyone.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    the dogma like all others is simply dumb
    I suspect you have a less than optimal grasp of the meaning of that word.
  5. Yep for Halloween salvage.

    Can't wait for the event to start... I love this holiday!
  6. Hello, RL brother! There isn't really much to see here for folks who aren't a part of our RP group... so, look I guess... but don't touch anything.
  7. Thirty-Seven

    Why?

    Pool powers tend to be rather generic "anyone can have these" type powers... a damage aura is a rather specific variant, I should think. And most come in elemental damage varieties, something that simply does not appear as ANY type of pool power.

    Unless you are talking Epics/Patrons... which is a whole 'nother story.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Atago View Post
    Why?
    Ummm... did you even bother to read the rest of that post? It was a pretty good and accurate description of why. Better than mine, I thought. (I posted too slow.)
  8. Oh, I totally agree it is FAR more logical. It just doesn't seem to do what ordinary revamps do. I would think it might even simply reverse what is happening now: more people take the fears, and some people decide to kick the taunt because they don't want to grab another power they won't use.
  9. So... your proposition is shaft those players who take the pool for [Provoke] and assist the somewhat limited number of others who want the fear powers?

    I'm not sold on having to take an additional power to get the only one I really wanted from the pool anyway. Adding an additional power does nothing to help that situation. I thought the idea behind a pool revamp was to improve the current situation for everyone?
  10. Wow... that long ago already? That really shows how old that arc I made is. I just discovered that feature recently when I was helping a friend make a storyarc for our RP SG. Thanks.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint View Post
    on hero side i would say KR and Steel are the least used.
    Steel is a decently busy one on occassion due to its proximity to the university. KR is almost always dead though.
  12. Somewhat of a tangent: When did they add the option to re-name a boss's enemy group? That didn't used to be the case. I remember making an arc where I needed Nictus, but wanted them to be part of a custom group... I recall being annoyed with them still needing to be labeled as 'Nictus.'

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    Originally Posted by SpaceNut View Post
    Impossible?
    I believe so, yes.
  13. Adios dude.

    Also, I wanted to say that that was probably the best "good-bye" post I have seen. No rage, no stupid, just a good honest "adios." You will be missed Wes/Phil.
  14. I can't watch this quite yet as I am at work... but the following gets my vote for the next vid:

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
    "The Most Interesting Man in Praetoria" (a series of spoof ads)
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mallerick View Post
    My graphics card is a 10,000 BC. A spark of flint against iron is "0" and no spark is "1". Neanderthal Binary they call it.
    Interesting that Neanderthals do it backwards like that. One is on and zero is off usually.
  16. With regard to the question of influence destruction, I have just one question, namely: Isn't the concept of destroying money to cause deflation pointless in a system that is infinite and not finite? What I mean to say is, doesn't that only work when the amount of money has a "cap"? In CoH the system of influence and item creation is open and infinite. In the real world, while gov'ts can surely make more, at any one moment, isn't there a finite and theoretically countable amount of currency and items?
  17. Just so you guys know, the arc has been put back to its proper order, so for those wanting to replay it.... you will have to play the whole thing to get to the last part.

    Thanks for the glowing reviews. I take credit for the enemy design and such, but I too have to give some real props and proper credit for the basic design of the story as well as basically ALL of the writing to our buddy Nox. I was consistently impressed how he crafted everything so seamlessly and was able to take my suggestions for aspects and changes to things and mold them in such a way that everything fit and made sense.

    Bravo!!

    And as for a gaming PC? I really don't do well with hardware stuff. My PC isn't really top of the line or anything, but it does alright. The only thing I really did to it was to add an nVidia GeForce 9600 GT. As far as I know, that particular card is a bit old, but for me, it does the job. Aside from that I couldn't tell ya a heckuva lot. I know that Nox got a pretty shiny Alienware PC... but that thing is ginormous and, probably a bit more expensive than necessary.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    This thread has an awful lot of views for one with no responses. What's THAT about?
    Maybe lots of people feel dumb being the first response to a thread and their entire post being: "The hell if I know."
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    Actually that's probably a lot more to do with chinese gold sellers who were PLing people doing that, rather than farming per se. Possibly a semantic explanation but the difference (to me at least) is important
    And the proof of this... is where?

    Yes, I know, we can't possibly have access to that kind of proof as players. However, I guess that is why I would never make such a statement, as far as I can tell it is 100% un-verifiable.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    My interactions with people have left me with the impression they are ****** bags that don't know much about what they are talking about and are more likely to be snarky than they are to act like grown ups.
    Fix'd, for accuracy.

    (Just messin' with ya, dude.)
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    Devs hate Huge modles.
    Funny... I read that as "huge noodles" at first. Much funnier that way.

  22. It sounds like exactly what one would expect to happen with a resolution as large as the one you reported in the OP. I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, just that you will have to get used to certain details being smaller.

    Also, if you want to take a screen-cap that shows the UI you need to toggle that option on.

    To turn that particular toggle on, type: /screenshotui 1
    And then, to turn it off, type: /screenshotui 0
  23. Yes... I think you are safer, Dire, just coming on back next week.

    We are going to correct the issue with the Medics in the second to last mish and then re-order the arc so we can start with mish 4. No one else was in much of a state of awakeness, so we called it quits before the finale ourselves.

    Tune in next week, for the exciting conclusion of: Finding Freedom.
  24. I thought so. It is the name of the plant that grows to the right of our front door. We named the ones in our planters.

    You could go the way of naming it after a plant's sexual organs: pistil and stamen.