ThongSnapper

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

Great work, thongsnapper.

But, to be honest, if we're licensing products, why not really pick one that can really take advantage of the name... and possibly even act as a "hook" to the elusive female gamer market.





Yes, it's an old joke. Most of mine are.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Now here's something that I hadn't had happen to me before, and always thought it was an urban legend, like all those people with four travel powers or the mythical people who kick you off teams when your Defender isn't an Empath. But this was real.

I'm talking, of course, about the inarticulate beggar. Here's how it went on.

I'd just gotten my level 30 costume mission to defeat 30 Crey, when I left Icon. Predictably, a couple of Crey Security Guards came rushing in to fight me. Easy fight for a level 30 Scrapper, generally, but this time I get hit with a blind invite mid-fight. I reject it with lighting speed, just in time for... I don't remember, I think it was either fire blasts or electrical blasts to hit my enemies. I turn around to see this level 37... I think it was a Blaster, "helping" me. Mid-fight I get another blind invite, then at the end of the fight I get another still.

Annoyed at the thought that this is probably one more case of a person thinking that kill-stealing from me and inviting me to a team is a good way to make friends, I opt to not be an *** and just jump off. This is when, in local, he calls for me to stop, and the following conversation takes place.

Him: wait
Me: I'm not interested in teaming.
Him: please give me money
Him: please
Him: i need it
Me: "Please give me money?" What do you take me for? You can't just go around asking people like that.
Him: o srry
Me: You're level 37. Just kill stiff.
Me: Be faster than begging anyway.
Him: were

Then I left him standing on the roof of Independence Port's Icon. A couple of minute later, I got another blind invite from him, though I don't believe he followed me. And... That just boggled my mind. How is that even possible? OK, I was more than a bit of a jerk, granted, but I don't appreciate being told "please give me money" completely out of the blue by a character 7 LEVELS above me. Oh, he needs it. I need it, too! I'll be looking to get Inventions in a few levels, and those aren't exactly cheap.

And it wouldn't bug me so much if this were a reasonable request I could relate to. I know better than anybody that sometimes you just run short and it sucks to not have enough. But "please give me money" is the lowest form of begging there is. If he'd explained what he needed the money for, maybe I'd have been a bit more open. I mean, if I know he won't spend it on booze and women or something. And this wasn't exactly a bum. This was a high-level player. And he wasn't hitting up some filthy rich 50. He was begging a level 30 character. It's like that sketch in History of the world where two beggars keep begging the noblemen, moving from one to the next, until they start begging from each other.

This just amazes me. It's not about the money, or even about the begging. I just cannot wrap my head around how someone can approach me and be desperate enough to beg, yet not desperate enough to put together a full sentence to ask for it.

"please give me money..." Now I've heard everything.

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

yeah
i want going rogue info

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

Badges. Get all the Badges.

Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU

Also, welcome to the forums, ThongSnapper - even if your name is crazy

Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU

Surely this means they'll be able to fund animated hair research now?