TroyHickman
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I graded papers!
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And an early thank you, good sir!
Let me eat cake! -
Quote:You know...I had planned on sleeping late today...but noooooooo...Originally Posted by tanstaafl
But when people like Troy Hickman (oops I said the name), Mercedes Lackey, and PVPonline comic authors are making them its worth checking out. -
Quote:I can't speak to any of this except the comics. Actually, MY take on Statesman WOULD be kind of a cross between a Cary Bates Superman and a Kurt Busiek Capt. America. I'm not an "edgy" kind of writer in general. With my issues of the comic, I was doing the second arc, after Mark Waid's initial run. Mark wrote a version of Statesman (as well as some of the other characters) that was darker than the way I saw the character, but I don't like just jerking characters around, continuity-wise, so I started my arc with States being a little more high-strung (though definitely not a creep), and by the end of it I had him much closer to where I wanted him, ostensibly with a bit of character development to explain the difference. Hopefully it worked for the readers. Anyway, that was my mindset with it.Originally Posted by Heraclea
The character cross pollination seems fairly obvious in the official comics. It's hard to say how much. Some writers just aren't fond of Superman-style heroes, and hang "kick me" signs on the backs of any such character they write; think of Superman by Frank Miller. I suppose we could just ask Troy Hickman.
Edit: that particular issue was Wohl's, not Hickman's -
Quote:Do you see my name over there?Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
bah too late Hickman...you lost out on your Terrahawks boxset...
HOW @$#% RED DOES IT LOOK TO YOU???
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Quote:Semi-obscure reference to plot archetype being the reason for tardiness in this venue. Double entendre based on sexual or scatological functions, risque enough to seem edgy but sufficiently veiled to appease the Moderators.Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
Claims thread has not reached critical silliness levels yet.
Summons Hickman.
Reference to wearing apparel or lack thereof, with implication of a dearth of knowledge regarding social norms, or possibly a mental deficiency.
Blatant self-promotion of various sequential art publications. -
Quote:I don't know WHAT the hell I'm doing!Originally Posted by Melancton
They should have let Troy Hickman have the controls. I vote for his take on all CoH matters.
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Most damage ever done with one shot?
When I was in third grade, Steve Bennett wouldn't stop picking on me, so I backhanded him in the solar plexus and knocked the wind out of him. I never heard a peep out of him again.
I don't know how many points of damage it did. -
Unfortunately, I take lousy screenshots.
And chicken make lousy housepet. -
Quote:I'm in Indiana, so I have to listen to many of my fellow Hoosiers exercising their natural bordering-state-antipathy towards folks in Kentucky by mocking a Southern accent. I love to point out that most folks in our state south of Indianapolis speak the same way (so does my family, most of whom originally came up from Kentucky and Tennessee).Originally Posted by Blarg
I live in Ken-tuck-ay (that is the correct pronunciation
) and I got about a foot of snow. Maybe an inch or two less. And more on the way.
And to bring up a conversation that was mentioned on the first page. "Ya'll" is commonly used down here in the South as a contraction of "ya" (meaning you) and "all." It is only correctly used when referring to a group of people. Calling a single person "ya'll" is a very clear indicator that the speaker has no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Anyway, that clears up all that.
Heck, I myself say "ya'll" to my classes all the time. -
Due to the weather, I got two days off from my college teaching gig just as dual pistols went beta. Life is sweet.
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How about just one rib, and we pour some soda in your hand?
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Quit busting the intraweb!
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Quote:I think we should use our Cartel influence to make this happen...Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
They could reword it as "Millionaire"
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Quote:There are a lot of very cool folks over there, too.Originally Posted by Westley
Wow, just reading those few posts in the CO forums... there is so much anger and hate over there. I wonder why?
Unfortunately, the anger and hatred is due to the alchemy of two phenomena interacting:
(1) Human beings easily fall into group-think and mob mentality. As George Carlin said, "People are okay in ones and twos. After that they tend to choose up sides and start wearing arm bands."
(2) The internet, because of its relative anonymity and its ability to allow you to voice your opinion everywhere from right there in your own home, often brings out the worst in folks. If the trolls we encounter had to make their thoughts known in a crowded room, 95% of them would instead skulk back to their parents' basement and resume cataloging celebrity nipple shots. -
So...I've had this tremendous influence as part of the Cartel...and didn't even know it???
When I think of all the wasted months of flagrant power abuse I could have enjoyed... -
I had a student in one of my classes, a woman in her thirties. She had become absolutely ADDICTED to World of Warcraft. And I mean literally so. She and her husband had gotten into the game, bought twin computers so they could play together, and then proceeded to do NOTHING ELSE for the next year. They played eighteen hours a day (more if their energy drinks would keep them going). They both quit their jobs, then went through all their savings paying for only their "necessities": game subscription, food, and electricity. Next they had to start selling their furniture a piece at a time, everything except their computer chairs, and took to sleeping on the floor.
Eventually the guy ended up meeting another female WoW player online, went to meet her in person, and cheated on his wife.
The wife, in turn, figured it was then OK for her to do the same, took up with a teen-ager she ALSO met in the game, and left her husband. She STILL plays every waking moment she's not in class, now with her new "man."
Now, here's the kicker: when I mentioned to her my connection to CoH, she said "City of Heroes? I tried it, but didn't care for the other players. Those people are CRAZY." -
Quote:How DARE you! That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!Originally Posted by NarfMann
On the forums, DO NOT mention Troy Hickman, it causes him to appear and Jack your thread.
...Wait... Well maybe he didn't notice.
I've never been so humiliated!
Well, maybe not "never." I remember that time in kindergarten when I just couldn't hold it anymore and I left a big puddle in the back row, and I hoped they'd blame it on my deskmate Todd Fleming...
...who always made me think of figure skater Peggy Fleming. Hey, speaking of figure skaters, that Dorothy Hamill was always a looker, wasn't she? I think it was her hair that got me...
...and y'know who else had great hair? Lynda Carter. Say, did you ever see that episode of the old Wonder Woman show where Lorene Yarnell played Formicida, the queen of the ants? Of course, she was the mime partner of Robert Shields back in those days...
...now if you want to talk mime, there was no one like Red Skelton. Man, I loved that guy. Y'know, he was a Hoosier like me. You know where the word "Hoosier" comes from, don't you? That's been an interesting conjecture over the years. Maybe we should talk about that...
P.S. Glad to have you on the boards, Drew! If you need a team in-game, my global is @CommonGrounds.
P.P.S. Play my new guest author arc in Architect!
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Quote:And he writes them all in iambic bat-ameter!Originally Posted by Caemgen
Give Batman all the time to prepare he wants, I don't think he can best Shakespear in sonnets
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Quote:Somehow I just KNOW Batman and "has enough time to prepare" are going to enter this paradigm...Originally Posted by Caemgen
Splitting the atom is easy if you know how to do it and have the right tools.
So is building pyramids, writing code, rigging elections, running drug cartels, alpaca farming, reading peoples fortunes and sending probes crashing into the moon...
Frankly everything is easy with the right knowledge, skill set and talent. Lack any of those and it becomes very uneasy.
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Quote:If umbrage = "joking," you are correct, sir or madam!Originally Posted by BigFish
Why are professional writers taking umbrage at what I wrote?
Me? Yeah, I've been published in some amateur journals. Never had anyone pay me, not claiming to be any great shakes, not currently pursuing writing as a career
just done it enough to know it ain't easy
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Quote:Brilliant analogy.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
I suspect being creative professionally is a bit like being really good in bed professionally, everyone thinks they can be, but only a few can bring the quality to make real money in it when it is time to deliver
Sadly, most professional writers don't have a fluffer on hand... -
Quote:Been there, done that.Originally Posted by BigFish
Well said Sam
Please, all of you who think writing is 'easy', write a 20 page short story that involves the Freedom Phalanx yet has NOTHING to do with any toon you've ever created
Do it in one week, and let us read it (if you wouldn't die of embarrassment)
If you can do it, by all means pursue writing as a career. If not, stop calling it 'easy'
Although it was more like sixty pages, and took about three days.
And embarrassment is for those with shame... -
Quote:I feel your pain, sister.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Yep. Scythus and I are hoping to get into positions as Content Writers - the ones who write missions and arcs following the in-game timeline, canon characters, and building on established information.
My alternate goal is to get in as a Tech Writer - the person who writes Paragon Studios' policies, documentation, work procedures, etc - more of an IT/business practices than gaming thing, but I've got almost 15 years' experience doing that.
And no, it's NOT easy. How often do players go, "Oh CHRIST that arc was lousy! It's overpowered/underpowered/boring/too involved/all over the map/not enough dialogue/too much dialogue/etc etc etc"?
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Quote:And this Hoosier shall root against you!Originally Posted by BackFire
I doubt I'll be on Sunday as I'll be firmly planted in front of a big screen TV, rooting on my Saints.
Good luck!