TroyHickman
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Quote:As a Horta with a heart of gold...?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Quote:(1) There's no way I'm getting in the middle of a thread with this title, especially given some of the stuff I saw skimming through it. If you remember the days when I would get involved in such threads, you know what I think...Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
I think the problem is that she is slipping toward the role of 'default token hero to be horrified/fearful/despairing'.
That and her portrayal in the comics and game seems on the surface to be full of contradictions (I'd like to see the costumes she wore in 1860, 1890, 1920, 1940, and 1960). She is either a very deep, complex character with enough issues to give Asuka Langley pause, or she's suffering more from Multiple Writers Syndrome than other characters.
Hickman! Hickman! Hickman! *sacrifices a pair of pants* Any insight you are allowed to share?
(2) I'd be glad to answer specific questions, though, if you've got 'em. -
Quote:If they name it after me, it'll have to be a combination bull rider and gunslinger.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I think they'd have to rename it to something else with that name.
Troy Hickman.
Troy Hickman.
Troy Hickman.
I'm a bullslinger... -
And even then it's just a myth.
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Quote:You're welcome.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Smoke & Mirrors.
Thank you Troy Hickman.
Thank you Troy Hickman.
Thank you Troy Hickman.
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Quote:OK, you get the crowbar, I'll get my jackhammer, and we'll start tearing up those ramps and the unsightly bars in those extra-wide toilet stalls...Originally Posted by BrandX
Oh I understand the connect of the theft of comics to the Hero/Villain Culture. I just think handicapped people would rather be treated as everyone else and not be treated with special treatment! Or at least, that's what I'm told by the PC folks.
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Quote:Y'know, my dad is a plumber, and I really don't like the notion that the answer to "who ya gonna call" is Nub Hickman...Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
Now Troy, you and I both know that the next step would be for them to buy a old car, a firehouse, some nuclear material and start up a ghostcatching business.
And yes, my dad's name is Nub. -
Louie the Lilac.
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For my money, I'm happy to see any evidence of the characters looking more like they do in the comics (the traditional comics), even if that means what we might call "Reb Brown Syndrome." I'm a little sick of padded leather and such.
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Yes, but this WAS a handicapped person getting his prized Superman stuff taken, and this IS the section of the boards for Comic and Hero Culture, so it's more notable in this context than the everyday robbery, which is why it probably affects the folks reading about it more than, say, the guy down the street getting his car stereo taken.
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Quote:If handicapped people are being robbed of large Superman collections every day, I really need to have that place pinpointed on a map so I can avoid it.Originally Posted by BrandX
We need to put up more "Look someone got robbed" threads, so we can hear everyone say "I hope they die" posts! \o/
I mean really, people get robbed every day. -
Quote:If they had CONCRETE evidence, then the show wouldn't be called Ghost Hunters. It would be called Ghost Finders, we'd all accept the existence of said ghosts, and they'd go back to being plumbers...Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
Heck I even used to watch GhostHunters when it first started..but after Seven seasons of no concrete evidence I've given up on it as well.
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Quote:My real name is Yelnick McWawa...and I'll be your next president...Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Lisa is right. I'll be away on vacation from the 12th through the 19th, so I expect it to launch then.
But what about people like Troy Hickman? -
Quote:Well, since we don't know what in the series actually DOES happen (since it's all told first person through her possibly skewed noggin), it's impossible to know how tied to reality she is (for example, is her father even IN the comic?).Originally Posted by Dark One
It almost felt like she wasn't even really "alive" in her world. Just that she was there, but on the outside looking in. It felt like that once her mother passes on, her ties to reality, so to speak, would be pretty much severed. That's why I liked it when she met up with the other guys at that convention. But even that would probably not be enough to pull her back from the edge. If anything, it would probably push her over.
Did you ever disclose what it was that she was taking the medication for?
As far as clomipramine, it's used for everything from OCD to depression to bed wetting to premature ejaculation (I'm guessing she doesn't use it for the last one). -
Thanks, D.O. Melancholy is part of what I was shooting for, so mission accomplished.
And, y'know, back in the early 90s, when I created TG, if I'd known that 15-20 years later she'd be confused with sparkly vampires, I would've called her the Midnight Pedestrian or something... -
I think that's "do not PROVOKE Hickman"...
It's ok to feed me, though... -
Quote:Unfortunately I just got word that the TPB has been postponed for the time being. Yes, I'm amazingly sad about that. But if things like this didn't happen, it wouldn't be called the comic book business; it would be called "the happy funtime cotton candy machine"...Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Check out Twilight Guardian, by CoH-favorite Troy Hickman. Four issue series, quite good. I believe it's gonna be out as a trade in another month or two.
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Quote:Sorry, but I'm in Vancouver at the moment, and with the exchange rate, it's four times. On the plus side, the baked goods are quite tasty here.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Hickman set the precedent of using he rule of three. For example, to summon Hickman usually requires writing Hickman three times in the post.
Of course, you clould also try posting terms like "Defense Mechanics" or "Has Accuracy been Nerfed (Again)?" -
Quote:I wanna write the scene that duplicates the episode of the cartoon where the "good" Captain tells the kids of the TV audience that when they get old enough to have kids, they should practice population control and have only one or two kids...that's my favorite episode...you can't write this stuff...but somebody did!Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
This will be just as bad as Dragonball: Evolution
I don't see them doing a exact image for Cap...he'll probably be Silver Surfer-ish, but with hair and a Earth symbol. But if they go full mullet....Troy Hickman help us.... -
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
OK, I shouldn't tell you this, but I'll let just YOU guys in on a little secret. Keep it to yourselves.
We only see Manticore's quiver there because...he IS the quiver!
That's right. Always at the forefront of the gaming world, CoH will now give players the ability to become...an inanimate object!
A quiver, a garbage can, a fire hydrant, the sky's the limit! Have you always wanted to be a desk chair in Frostfire's base? Now you can live the dream! Would you like to be a sailboat, floating placidly while Lusca comes and goes? It's yours! YOU, my friend, can do more than ride an elevator; you can BE an elevator, saving heroes' butts as their life bar teeters on empty and watching in futility as you give minions a ride for that nerve-shattering sneak attack! A lamp...an ashtray...a windblown piece of trash....it's all YOU YOU YOU!
City of Heroes #27: Still Life
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Quote:Actually, I read "the BOOK" when I did the comic book arc, or enough of it to know my Hickman from a hole in the ground.Originally Posted by Lycantropus
This is worth its own post. I agree completely. I've LOVED everything I've read of his so far. His work does a great job of putting the human in Superhuman.
I really think if they hired him, gave him THE BOOK of City of ***, let him read it, then let him go nuts with the lore and story... I think he'd do an awesome job with it. Pants or no.
With this stuff, if I find I don't like it, I just tell myself it's something else. It's easier for me because in recent times I've tended to solo, so NPCs can say whatever they want, but if I want to say I'm getting a boost in powers because I was groped by a cosmic powered TSA agent at O'Hare, I'll do so and no one can tell me otherwise. In a similar manner, when my only level 50, Nitewolf, uses his superspeed to zoom around town, I tell myself it's his motorcycle, since he's a "normal."
Now if I could just tell myself I'm thin and handsome... -
Quote:To be honest, I haven't followed all this stuff (if it gets too complicated, I tend to just ignore it and keep hitting stuff, much like my teaching style). So you're saying that if a character wants to get more powerful, beyond the standard stuff, they have to become the incarnate of a deity, like Hephaestus or something?Originally Posted by Melancton
I recognize the merit in what you are saying here, especially since I grapple with how to address the Insane Well Making Folks Immortal bit that, as you say, has landed on our toes.
(I have said that I am adopting the MST3K position of "It is just a show, I should really just relax," but someone pointed out that a more accurate description of my approach is that I am covering my ears and shouting "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" So it is surely a mess for a lot of folks.)
But I view the Incarnate lore less as the Devs overstepping their jobs and more as doing their jobs poorly here. Example: There should be a unified, coherent explanation for why Dark Astoria is the way it is. Not only is there not (Has Astoria been restored at some point? If not, why are there Vanguard billboards there? Etc.) but the Devs wrote into canon that the city leaders and the heroes, upon realizing the BP could not be expelled, put up War Walls, which prevented any escape by Astoria's residents, and they were all slaughtered and now their spirits roam about. That just reeks. I had always understood it to be that the residents were slaughtered and the War Walls went up afterward, but I was referred to the canon that said differently. Bad form and bad writing.
The Incarnate lore likewise should have been as open-ended as the Magic origin was when the game launched. Instead, to draw the parallel, if Tony Stark wants to boost his Iron Man armor's performance, he has to become the Incarnate of a diety... what??? He can't, oh, I don't know, develop a better reactor power plant for the suit like he did in the second movie? NOPE. HE IS AN INCARNATE *clik* INCARNATE *clik* INCARNATE *clik* INCARNATE *clik* INCARNATE.
What a mess.
Some things can be attributed to typos and the like. It seems pretty clear to me that all of the references in Eden to "Ms. Liberty" should actually be references to her mother, MISS Liberty, since they refer to her fighting alongside Galaxy Girl, who was a contemporary and friend to MISS Liberty. That can be tidied up. But what do you do with the Incarnate lore, which is frankly both stupid and by its inferences, an unnecessary breaking of the fourth wall?
The Devs just are not doing the job properly, and there are too many examples of how it can be done, and done EXCELLENTLY. And I shall bang the drum again: PAGING DOCTOR TROY HICKMAN! DOCTOR HICKMAN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, STAT! PAGING DOCTOR TROY HICKMAN... -
I, too, enjoyed it greatly, and I appreciate being asked to take part. Thanks to everyone who showed up. It's been a while since I appeared anywhere in game (I used to do a lot more weddings, talk shows, hitting 50 celebrations, etc., but I don't get asked much anymore. I think it's because people have heard about my cologne...).
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Quote:So, as someone with a particular interest in the Twilight's Son TF, how did that go?Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
The first event is finished- We had two teams doing the Twilight's Son TF. The next event will be starting in a half hour and it will be a Lambda Trial. I'll be PMing you all the global names of participants, and that kind of stuff after the second event ends.
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Quote:I'm just like my orders at Subway...everything but peppers, heavy on the olives...Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Does that Hickman come with...