Westley

I have no idea what you're talking about Mirai. What's bumping?

Ah, I wake up to find B_I doing exactly as I expected B_I to do:

Not care and then POST about not caring.

At least she's consistent.

Good times.

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autistics thrive while psycho-normals struggle in computer driven environments where social cues are massively truncated to text and a few rigid emotes.


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Have you been reading my diary???

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I only look at the pictures on account of my own disorders. Hope you don't mind. You're a good drawer. I mean with a ballpoint pen. Not with socks and briefs stuffed in you.

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O RLY?

u liek mai drawringz?

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autistics thrive while psycho-normals struggle in computer driven environments where social cues are massively truncated to text and a few rigid emotes.


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Have you been reading my diary???

[u]My Post Count...[u]

.... is 1006. Kick the forum's [censored] PK.

Wait, that's not right...

...IT...







...IS...







...OVER NINE-THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



In honor of this momentous occassion, I'd like to thank the following people who helped me get to this milestone:

<ul type="square">[*]Memphis_Bill - I really wish you'd bring back your Elvis avatar, I like it WAY better than that female gargoyle thingy you have now. Anyways, your copy-paste blocks of text helped to make the journey to 9001 that much longer and more enjoyable![*]Zombie_Man - For, well, everything. Seriously, one of the coolest undead males on the City of Heroes forums that edits the Guide to Guides! No one is better at what you do than you are.[*]Zekiran_Immortal - Thanks for always being "on my side"... well, so far. BTW, awesome lightsaber... don't kill me, please.[*]Nethergoat - For always giving me insulting yet entertaining comments to bounce mine off of. I know that deep down, under that gruff exterior (Nethergoat Gruff?), you really love me. Without you, I wouldn't be at this point... for another three months.[*]Bad_Influence - You always know just how to put me in my place. By being SO COOL that you don't care. About anything. Ever. But still post about it... how you don't care. About anything. Ever.[*]Steelclaw - the only poster to ever make me speechless. I read your stuff, and all I can say is "huh" and awe in wonder at the insane brilliance that exists inside that noggin of yours.[*]Laser_Judas - For being just as inane as I am half the time.[*]Angry_Citizen - For.... well, being ANGRY. And for having an avatar that is close enough to Lord_of_Time's at first glance that I mix you two up all the time.[*]PWNZ - lolPvP. Luv u n00bz. 2 bad u h4d 2 g0 n d13 t3h w41 u d1d [*]Perfect_Pain - For... well, being YOU. Probably the most fascinating person on these boards. And I say that in the most neutral way possible. You are your own world, P_P.[*]The Free....dom Server - For giving me three years of joy and frustration, teaching me the meaning of patience and how to be a good leader. For teaching me that you can take any 8 random idiots (myself included) and make them shine for a couple of hours.[*]The Protector Server - For re-invigorating my interest in the game. After years of putting up with Free... dom, you have taught me the Way of the Low Pop Server, and I shall never turn from it. Even if you did vote me off the island, I still appreciate you.[*]The Justice Server - For starting me in this game 5 years ago and taking me to 50 the first time. And a future thanks for putting up with all the crap I'm going to be laying on your doorstep in the months to come. That's right, you're stuck with me now, again.[*]YOU - You know who you are and why I'm thanking you.[*]The Ocho - For so kindly putting up with my crap for so long.[*]Niviene - For ENJOYING putting up with my crap apparently.[*]Positron and the rest of the monkies and monkiettes at Paragon Studios - For giving me 9001 ways of saying how I want to be a hero, and for letting me BE that hero, even if it's just pretendy fun time games.[/list]
If I missed anyone, I apologize. You can kick my [censored] the next time I enter a PvP zone....

And last but not least, a final thank you to every single forumite who has ever posted on these forums. Combined, you have created a wonderful sense of community that could never be expressed in one post. Luckily for me, that sense of community exists between every white line and curve of every character on these boards. Hopefully that sense of community will never fade.

I love these forums, and take them for what they are. The good, the bad, and the ugly, I honestly believe that you people, even the worst of you, represent the very best of the internet.

Here's to another 9K!

P.S. Eat at Joes.

P.P.S. no u!

P.P.P.S. Uhuhuhuhuh, "peepee"

tl;dr Version: Vanity post is pointless.

Holy CRAP.

Go take a look at the comments posted by someone calling themselves "ComingCurse" on the article's comments.

Someone has some anger issues to work out.

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I'M LOVING THIS THREAD!

QQ more please!

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LOL @ LOLing at other people!

Wait... did I just insult myself by insulting him for insulting us?

My brain hurts.

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We do not, however, want someone reactivating their account and deleting some of the dirty little tracks that point to their research method being slightly less clean and forthright than they intimated.

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O SNAP!

I just read through his 26 page "paper". (I'm not sure what to call it, essay?) And I have to say, I'm not impressed.

This man has a doctorate, and I've written more in-depth papers than this one when I was a FRESHMAN.

Wow, just wow. I want to go to the school where he got his doctorate, maybe they'll give me a free one.

Yay! I posted! That makes me special!

I think I'll post my comment over there to see what response it gets.

So..... he's a Professional Griefer? Where do I sign up!?!


EDIT: Actually READING the article.... let me sum this up and see if I understand.

He went into a zone where players are competing against each other, a zone where players are supposed to attack other players. A zone where the purpose is to be "mean" to each other. A zone where aggression is a VIRTUE.

And he's surprised when people get angry and aggressive at him?
Someone needs to take this guy's PhD away. Seriously.

It would be nice if the no powers room allowed JUST Sprint.... I HATE walking, it's so lame and slow.

If I wanted to play WoW, I'd play WoW.

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How many times does a full team need to be saved when they are virtually soft capped already? I get needing to save a teammate, but a full team? The only time I can think of is when the team is facing significant -def debuffs. Outside of that, it's a just a bad team really.

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You're talking to a guy that plays on almost nothing but random PuGs. Playing on bad teams and making them work is WHAT I DO!

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I reckon youve got a point with Force Fields, Turbo. If a team is never close to dying for whatever reason, then a FF-er isn't going to bring much to the mix because it is the most specialised set of all.

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Have you never saved a team's but by turning on Repulsion Field or Force Bubble and running around as a knockback/repel machine and grabbing all the aggro and then going into PFF?

If not, I pity you, because it's AWESOME. Gives the team just enough time to regroup and recover.

Still no FF for Corruptors though. And honestly, I WOULD roll up a */FF Corruptor blueside instead of a Defender if I could.

Nice!

Well, after all the editing, I'm going to take a break today, but it's a start. More to come soon.

[u]Steelclaw's Expansion After Going Rogue[u]

After a week of hiding out in the various trash cans at NorCal (BaB's was my favorite one to hide in, he always had the best doughnuts) I have managed to ferret out information about the expansion that will be happening AFTER the Going Rogue one.

It will be obstensibly titled City of Heroes: Golden Age. It will be about those glorious heroes and dastardly villains who were fighting back in the 1940's and 50's. No, it won't be about them back then, it will allow you to play them as they are NOW.

It will be sub-titled: Going Senile.

Some of the features of City of Heroes: Golden Age; Going Senile:

1) New travel power in the pool powers: Super Wheelchair which will include the tier one powers of Trick Riding(def buff), Coasting (zero end cost at sprint speeds), Turbo Props (faster superspeed with poorer handling) and Rockets (flight)

2) Clothing With Skin costumes will now have the Depends option.

3) For those who have been clamoring for the walk emote you will be met half way as the devs will introduce the Walker emote.

4) The Geriatric Arch Type:
<ul type="square">[*]Includes a large number of sleep based powers both against your enemies ("Why when *I* was a hero we didn't have that fancy Spandex stuff; we wore burlap and we liked it!" "That's nice grandpaa.. ZZzzzzZZzzz..") and as self heals ("Just a little nap before going to sleep I think.")
[*]Has the Senility inherent power. Open up new mission possibilities with this inherent. Every time you are headed towards a mission door you have a percentage chance of stopping suddenly and muttering. "Now what the heck was I doin' again?" At this point the mission in your mission list and the navigation bar will change to something completely different. Adventure for you and confusion for your contacts!
[*]New weapon selection: The Cane. Does smashing damage with a chance to stun. At lower levels the attacks will debuff the victim who is humiliated at being beaten by an old fart in public. Higher level attacks cause allies within range to act as though disoriented as they laugh themselves silly.
[*]Charge up defense. Similar to Brute's fury or Dominator's domination bars; this bar will charge up as the Geriatric fights. When it is full the hero/villain will give a mighty cry of "My Hip!" and fall down writhing. This immediately summons two dozen pets dressed as medical staff. The staff will heal and buff the Geriatric and all his/her allies in the area.
[*]The Psychological Torture secondary will be available to all Geriatrics. Examples of powers include: "Why Don't You Call Anymore?", "Let Me List My Illnesses", "Why Can't You be More Like Your Brother?" and "You Put Me In A HOME You Ba***rd!"[/list]
5) All in-game Hospitals will now be fleshed out as completely as the AE buildings or Pocket D. There will be multiple rooms with different kinds of doctors or specialists. Geriatric arche types will gain experience points for special AT-specific missions called "Track Down a Diagnosis."

6) New costume pieces: Hospital Johnny, Pants Pulled Up To Armpits, Ear Hair, Sandals with Socks and Plaid, Plaid, PLAID!

7) The boob slider will now have a "gravity" slider option as well.

8) The bio section of your character will allow the option of changing the title from "Bio" to "In MY Day..." Once changed to the latter option the text space will increase enough to hold a small novel.

9) A new type of inspiration called "Fiber"; 'nuff said.

10) Those buying the collector's edition box of City of Heroes: Golden Age; Going Senile will get a special click power. The power only works in Pocket D. Approach DJ Zero and click; your character screams "You call that music?!" At which point a record player scratching sound effect occurs and the club track switches to Big Band music for the next several minutes.

11) New Hero Zone: Happy Acres Retirement Community

12) New Villain Zone: Lou's Discount Retirement Penitentiary

13) Senior Citizen's Discounts at Wentworth's/Black Market

14) AE Tickets? Reward Merits? Vanguard Merits? All old and forgotten. The new standard: Gift Certificates to Country Buffet!

15) Finally you will be able to respec all your powers AND AT. Not because you fell in a vat of toxic waste, got bitten by a radioactive ant-eater or made an incredible scientific discovery. No. Just because you're Going Senile and woke up this morning thinking you were a Peppermint Fairy with minty-fresh blaster powers.

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It's called The Purge.

Fear it!

[u]Steelclaw's Mystery Solved![u]

I finally figured it out!

Ever since I've been a member of this fine, outstanding community of CoX forumites the incredible abilities of the Paragon City civillians has been a subject of much joking and conjecture. We have at once both lamented and lauded their seeming invulnerability to attack, incredible leaping abilities and endless endurance (at least when it comes to purse tug of wars).

Well, at last I feel I am able to put this mystery to rest.

Every civilian in Paragon City is, in fact, a hero. Yep, that's right. Every one you see walking in the streets who isn't an enemy is actually a super hero in their secret identity.

Think about it! Clark Kent always has to play the bumbling, helpless buffoon when there are witnesses around! You see him cowering before a man with a gun, but the second you turn your back.. WHAM! Unconscious bad guy!

This also explains some of the wierd comments civies say. They're forever going on and on about how nice your costume is. That's because they're comparing it to their own! And that business about "I've changed my mind about capes." Has nothing to do with how they feel about super heroes.. you just helped them come to a fashion decision!

One good thing about this is that you no longer have to feel guilty about walking on by those people getting mugged or intimidated without helping. Rest assured that the moment you are out of sight the "victim" is going to make a miraculous come back.

In fact; I would hazard a guess that the only Non-Meta people in Paragon city besides the criminals are the Police. Kinda sad, huh?


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Editor's Note: Later in the thread...
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Scene at a Paragon City school for adult education:

"Welcome back class. Tonight we are going to review the lessons we learned last week for how to react to a street thug when you are in your secret identity. Now, what was the word I asked you all to remember?"

"Crap!"

"Right, C.R.A.P.
Cower back in fear.
Run away as though in terror.
Assume your hero garb once out of sight.
Pummel the bad guy once you go back."

Editor's Note: This post came about because of a large number of "open letters". Open letters to the Devs, open letters to the Community, etc. The Editor must, in full disclosure, state that he is guilty of one of these.

[u]Steel Claw's Various Kinds of Letters to Various People [u]

I figured I'd jump on the band wagon..
<ul type="square">[*]An open ended letter to the forum: U[*]A series of letters regarding the series of letters currently sweeping the forum: WTF[*]Letters to the guy wondering why the girls are all pointing at him and laughing: XYZ PDQ[*]A message to the person also suffering from food poisoning: OU812[*]To the guy with the terminally slow computer when you all enter the mission door at the same time: CUL8R[*]To the guy who always quits the team when people take too long between missions: YUH82W8[*]To everything that ever happens on Pinnacle after the statement "Hold My Beer and Watch This": LOL[*]To everyone running a mute character on Virtue who eventually gets sick of the communication barrier: OOC FTW[*]To all the thoughtful, well considered dialog that the hard-working creator put into his AE mission which became the latest one beloved by farmers: TLDR[*]To all the teen age boys first trying out the game and seeing the costume category to show skin and the boob slider: Y UZ COH4XXX[*]In response to ANY attempt to get a developer to quantify "Soon": ROFLMAOWMBMOTHWWBFWRCC[/list](A little help with that last one for those not in the know: Rolling on floor laughing my a** off while monkeys beat me over the head with wiffle bats filled with rotten cottage cheese)

[u]Steelclaw's The Scallion[u]

There is a tongue-in-cheek "news" paper in Paragon City called the Scallion. You may have heard about their sister company in this world.

Any-who, I happened across this article from them. If any of you happen to have others, feel free to add them.

The Origin of Disgust

Meta beings of natural origins have throwing knives, magical heroes or villains got their cantrip spells and even those technological wonders all seem to carry tazers up their fully armored sleeves.

But what about Mutants?

Mutants have an ability called Mutagen. They claim it’s simply a super power that every single one of them possess. An amino acid expectoration that does minimal damage and sometimes causes their opponents to choke for a bit.

[u]The Scallion has discovered otherwise.[u]

Our investigative reporters have done research into this so-called Super Spit Ball and discovered that this is no simple hock-a-loogie attack. For one thing, our staff watched several well known mutants use the power and in every single case they were throwing something with their hand. Further investigation revealed the mutants were not spitting into their hand and throwing it first. In every case the mutant seemed to be reaching towards their chest first before throwing their mutagen. We here at the Scallion filmed such an act with a super slow motion camera and were appalled to discover the hero reaching into their own armpit prior to throwing.

That’s right folks; mutants have been throwing their arm pit cheese at their enemies.

“Well it’s no freakin’ wonder we all fall to chokin’ and gaspin’ after getting’ hit with that stuff,” said a Hellion member who wished to remain anonymous. “You can just imagine the smell it gets up to after buildin’ up a sweat fightin’ all day.”

Although the PPD police chief refused comment, we here at the Scallion have received word that they are in heavy talks with both the Ban Roll-On and Right Guard companies regarding possible counter-measures from the villains of the mutant community.

Here we go with the oldest that I could find that survived the purge.

I'm also going to do a BIT of editing to make them more "spiffy" and more pleasing to read, using CoH FOE. Not to worry, I won't be adding tons of color all over.

That being said....

[u]Steelclaw's Salvage Your Fate[u]

So I was thinking again… despite the fact that my thoughts have taken a restraining order out against my brain… about the new tell fortune power in the magic set. It's very cool and all, but I was wondering what would be a better way for your heroes or villains to know what their future held for them.

So I introduce to you the City of Heroes/Villains Horoscope! Now, we can't very well base our horoscope on the stars since the ones in Paragon and Rogue Isles never change. So, your CoX horoscope sign is dependent entirely on the very first piece of salvage you receive when first running the character. Like the astrological horoscopes of our world, they combine a list of personality traits and possible future omens based on the characteristics of what you find.

And, in response to the comments I am sure I am about to get: Yes, as a matter of fact I DO have far too much time on my hands.

<ul type="square">[*]Alien Blood Sample: This rare drop is probably best left rare. You are out there in left field, unable to connect well with other players in teams. You feel vaguely guilty during Rikti Invasions and Vanguard billboards upset you.[*]Ancient Artifact: You have much better luck against "ancient enemies" like Circle of Thorns. Those "new-fangled" Malta and Freakshow are best avoided. You spend most of your time complaining about how "in my day there weren't any fancy travel powers, not only didn't we have Sprint we didn't even have Boots as a costume choice!"
[*]Architect Ticket: You are disconnected from reality and see things that really aren't there. You have a tendency to want to live in the fast lane and get impatient when the level ding isn't sounding at least once every ten minutes or so. Direct sunlight scares you.
[*]Base Salvage: You are living in the past; it's time to move forward with the times. On the plus side, you have just received the Entrusted With The Secret Badge!
[*]Boresight: You are exceptionally far sighted. You plan out your character's slotting and power selection before you even create them. Your character's accuracy is going to be exceptional as they continue onwards. Let's just say if you're running a katana scrapper you can make a day job out of neutering flies… while they're still in the air.
[*]Brass: Loud and obnoxious are two words that describe you perfectly, at least two POLITE words that do so. You tend to use the broadcast channel even when speaking to your team mates who are in a different zone. On the plus side, you get Taunt without having to purchase it through sheer enemy irritation.
[*]Chemical Formula: Drugs are bad, m'kay? Your Sprint should be changed to Stumble. You see the world as though through a swirling force field haze even when you haven't seen a bubbler all day. You are perfectly content hanging out under Atlas and begging people for munchies. Note: This is the best possible salvage drop for an Illusion Controller.
[*]Clockwork Gear: Your character is so organized and precise they make Howard Hughes seem slipshod. You don't care about graphics since you can't see them through all the information windows crammed on your screen. You simply can't live without knowing the exact buff statistics when some wandering kinetics defender zaps you with speed boost on the fly. Mids screams when it sees you log on.
[*]Clockwork Winder: You always start out strong in any situation but before long you begin to run out of gas. It's as if your energy level slowly deteriorates over time the longer you stay at something. Like a draining battery. No, more like a rolling ball slowing due to friction. Nah… Hmm.. I'll come up with a better metaphor later.
[*]Complex Chemical Formula: Same as Chemical Formula but with an extra helping of paranoia just for fun! Don't bother making a team because they're all out to get you anyway. Unlike Chemical Formula people you CAN'T hang out anywhere for long because if a civilian walks by and mentions you by name you are immediately sure that he's one of THEM and THEY know where you are now! What really ticks you off, though, is the lack of a Tin Foil Hat option in helmets.
[*]Computer Virus: I'm not going to bother telling you your future since your computer won't be able to run City for much longer anyway.
[*]Daemon Program: "A hidden, resident computer program." The hidden program serves as a little entity that follows you around. If you receive this on an odd level of experience then the entity is a poltergeist who just revels in tripping you up, making sure you miss directly after popping a yellow inspiration, waiting until you are in an epic battle to send you into map server disconnect, etc. If you get it on an even level then you get an angel named Murray. Murray doesn't do much for you except keep the poltergeists at bay. You can always tell Murray's around by the faint smell of garlic in the air.
[*]Enriched Plutonium: Provided you can avoid the authorities who would like to "talk" to you about where you got this stuff, you have a very bright future to look forward to. Bright as in "glow in the dark". You really should have checked the seal on that container before you picked it up. Note: This is a good omen for those with radiation emission, radiation blast or those who always wished they never had to shave again.
[*]Heads Up Display: You always know what's best to do in any situation. This is great when you are soloing but not so good on teams. It's not that you don't know what to do while on teams; it's that no one ever listens. You will spend most of your days writing posts in the forums complaining about how stupid the people you played with last night are.
[*]Heavy Water: Your future will include a great many chat messages of "brb bio."
[*]Human Blood Sample: If you received this from Skulls, Lost, Hellions, etc then you will be a dervish in battle! You will PWN your enemies through glorious combat and the civilians around you shall call out your name in praises of awe at your incredible pugilistic skills! If you got this from a Clockwork you will be confused. Very, very confused.
[*]Inanimate Carbon Rod: It just sits there. No matter how long you stare at it, it just isn't animate. Let's face it; you're not the brightest light on the Christmas tree. It's a CARBON ROD! Why do you expect it to animate? How in the heck did you manage to find an enemy to get this from in the first place? How did you even manage to load the game? Oh, I'm sorry. I really should apologize… I wasn't thinking. Here… let… me… talk… slower… does… that… help?
[*]Lament Box: You complain. A lot. You're leveling too slowly. Your team mates are idiots. Anyone who uses MA to farm is wrong and ruining the game. Well CRUD, they just nerfed MA farming. What's next?! Are they gonna nerf Brawl?! On the other hand, you have an excellent career as a forumite ahead of you.
[*]Luck Charm: Everything you touch turns golden. You have it made in the shade. No, seriously, at this point you could be a soloing defender with brawl six slotted with nothing but recharge reduction and still run the Statesman Task Force without a hitch.
[*]Mutant Blood Sample: Your name is WolfReen, Wulvarine, WolverTeen or Hugh Jackman. You're not aware that there ARE other options beyond Claws/Regen Scrapper. You've been generic'd more times than a WalMart shopping list. You'd be playing right now but you're on the way to see the Origins movie for the third time this week.
[*]Page from the Malleus Mundi: Yeah, you're a few pages short of a book there Skippy. Despite your absent minded insanity, which is kind of endearing actually, you are a dervish in a fight. If your team doesn't show up at the mission door on time they'll find out you've already cleared the mission instead of waiting. Note: If your forum name is Steelclaw you will immediately try to come up with new lyrics for the Bangles' song "Manic Monday." It's just another Malleus Mundi… ooh oh.. Lookin' like it's dooms day… A 'send 'em to their tombs' day… just another Malleus Mundi.
[*]Plasma Capacitor: You're just a little on the short tempered side. Those dents on your walls are from various computer components thrown at high velocity. You wish there was a universal PvP not because you want to fight other players so much as you desperately want to beat the tar out of your team mates for being so stupid.
[*]Polycarbon: You are destined never to win a single costume contest. People laugh as you walk by while pointing at what you're wearing. You need to avoid open flames at all costs. Your endurance takes a serious hit when you run due to your skin's inability to breathe… wait… oh… PolyCARBON… I thought it said polyester, my bad.
[*]Psionic Ectoplasm: You are a deep thinker and of a philosophical bent. On teams this gets in the way because you would prefer to stand around discussing tactics before every new mob. Your team has been known to abandon you after faceplants since you invariably begin to discuss the nature of death and mortality. You have a great career ahead of you if you prefer to solo because you will always be able to out think and out maneuver your enemies. You will also take 2 years to get to 20th level as you plot and plan every battle out on graph paper ahead of time.
[*]Psionic Manifestation: "A remnant of a psychic manifestation." Okay, make up your mind, are you a Psionic Manifestation or a REMNANT of a Psionic Manifestation? You are confused and confusing to those around you. You often contradict yourself, sometimes in the same sentence. You are the one who creates a scrapper and invests only in the Medicine pool because you really wanted to run a healer.
[*]Psionically Charged Brass: Similar to Brass, but much more cunning about it. In most Psychological Profiling Manuals your picture is located firmly in the section on passive aggressive behavior. You prefer running Defenders so you can withhold buffs and/or healing from the team mates who upset you. A MasterMind with this salvage omen will feel in their element but run the risk of their pets seeking employment opportunities elsewhere.
[*]Runebound Armor: It's all about the costume, baby. It's better to look good than to feel good in your opinion. You will gladly spend all day in the costume creator to get the look just right, you only wish they had a button in the creator to change the light quality to match those found in-game. Any costume contest you don't win is obviously fixed. They may as well just give you the Icon day job badge as soon as you enter the tutorial.
[*]Scope: You're focused on future plans, sometimes to detriment of what's going on right in front of you. You already have your Soldier of Arachnos's slotting planned to 35th level and the highest villain you have in your account is 5th.
[*]Simple Chemical: Yeah, see, drinking this was probably a bad idea. Now your brain cells are dying faster than a hellion in Peregrine Island. I'd tell you what your future is going to be like but you're going to be distracted by the pretty colors soon anyway.
[*]Soulbound Armor: "A piece of armor with an unwilling soul bound into it." You are conflicted. You created a scrapper but now you really think a defender would have been the better choice. Or maybe you should just skip the hero thing and go create a villain instead. You really can't wait until "Going Rogue" is live… on the other hand… you've heard some good things about WoW.
[*]Source Code: You like this character but what you're really looking forward to is the power set coming out in three or four issues. That and the costume pieces, not to mention that awesome new Accolade badge that's down the road a bit. Too bad they're going to cancel your account for violating the PIGG file restrictions for the 10th time in a row.
[*]Spell Scroll: Ur karaktar Rouge Angle iz gr8t! U totolee PWNZ teh 733t sawse in CoX! U hayt pepl who do'nt no teh diffrenz tween LFT &amp; LFG. WTF?! U dont unnerstand Y pepl dont wana chat with U.

(On a side note; that last one just made my spell checker commit suicide.)
[*]Spiritual Essence: You are always willing to help out other people with their troubles. Newb players absolutely adore you because you hand out free influence as generously as you do advice. The only downside is you will never in your gaming career succeed in a timed mission because you are wracked by guilt if you try to run past a mugging scene on the street without helping.
[*]Strand of Fate: You have an uncanny ability to manipulate the destinies of those around you. With delicate fingers you lead team mates to the mission you prefer while getting them to give you preferred drops. You look forward to Going Rogue so you can see how many heroes you can turn to the darkness and how many villains you can lead to the light. When you see a Fake Nemesis, you never fight it, you simply pat it on the shoulder and wink.
[*]Symbiotic Armor: You are always more comfortable in a team. The extra experience is nice, not to mention the exciting battles, but ultimately it's the camaraderie that wins you over every time. In fact, you tend to feel antsy when not on a team. It's not like you're co-dependent or anything. You could solo if you really wanted to. Sure you could. In fact, just last week you soloed just fine! Although that was your level pacted character. And you DID have a printed screen shot of your pact partner taped to your monitor. And you kept typing in team chat even though you were alone. But it was either that or hyperventilate, so it's really completely understandable.
[*]Temporal Sands: You have a hard time playing the game because of time constraints. So when you do, you have to be doing something at all times when logged in. You always lead your own teams so there will be no debate in setting missions. Regardless of their chosen travel power every one of your characters has Recall Friend. If you get to the mission door first you start teleporting in your team mates whether they ask for it or not. Those who have their accept TP turned off are automatically booted.
[*]Unearthed Relic: You have a severe case of alt-itis. Indeed, the character you're running now is one you can't remember making in the first place. The counter on the character select screen that tells how many days it's been since last played had its numbers replaced with a row of X's. When you signed it on it took several minutes for all your veteran badge earned messages to finish popping up. You're pretty sure it was created pre-diversification since you have everything six slotted with damage enhancements.
[*]Volume of the Obsidian Librum: You are never without someone to play with because you are the master of social networking. Your global friends list resembles a New York City phone directory. You have filled out ratings and comments on people you stood next to in a costume contest. RFT spammers would LOVE to have your mailing list. In your case Volume of the Obsidian Librum = Little Black Book. [/list]

Editor's Note: Below is a song of Steelclaw's that was posted later on in the thread form whence this list came, saved for posterity.

(To the tune of "Manic Monday" by the Bangles)

Level six already
I was just in the middle of a team
I was beatin’ on some Circle
In the blue cavern 5-layer scheme
Then I got a drop
That soon sent me down a brand new trail
To destroy the world
And then over the ashes prevail

I’ve got another Malleus Mundi
I’ll have ‘em all someday
And that’ll be a fun day
My blottin’ out the sun day!
I found another Malleus Mundi

Have to find another one
Can’t destroy the world with just nine
But when I find the tenth one
You know then I’ll be feelin’ just fine
But it takes me so long
‘Cuz I want them but I just don’t know where
But I’ll keep the faith
And soon I’ll plunge the world in despair

I’ve got another Malleus Mundi
I’ll have ‘em all someday
And that’ll be a fun day
My blottin’ out the sun day!
I found another Malleus Mundi

Then just last night
Why did the Longbow have to pick last night
For their raid?
Defenses don’t matter
One strike and now I’m shattered
In a downward fade
It’s lookin’ like I’ve got no choice
Farmin’ time, let’s round up the boys
Time it goes so slow
Here we go again…

I’ve found my first Malleus Mundi!
I’ll have ‘em all someday
And that’ll be a fun day
My blottin’ out the sun day!
Got back my first Malleus Mundi

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Brilliant!
The only problem is the messiness that comes along with the forum's inherent hatred of edits. Cause you can't edit a post after X amount of time.

Still, this will be an excellent resource! I might have to help.

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That's why I'm not going to bother to edit the OP, besides, I think it's funnier to read people's reactions afterwards as well, like the UniqueDragon thread. Getting to the end is more than half the fun!