khorak_EU

You just caught me in a hideous confluence of uproarious laughter and crushing, tragic sympathy.

Hope is....sometimes a weakness. I understand your frustration there, but the whole place is playing out pretty much like a loved one died, and you told them there is no afterlife, only worms. They're going to be angry if you point out their lifeline isn't what they want it to be. NCSoft absolutely do not have to sell their property, and even more absurd is the thought that buying an MMO is somewhat like buying a T-shirt and Valve would totally do it. It's a nightmare of organisation for a company that, crucially, has no MMO experience and no intention of having any.....and are massively rich anyway without the hassle of limited gains playing silly wotsits getting an MMO set up under their own banner.

Turn the other cheek?

At some point a long time from now you'll realise how utterly ludicrous it is to be trying an email campaign to Valve, so they'll use their own money to brawl over City of Heroes with NCSoft because you emailed them a bit.

You're asking them to make a simply colossal effort, which is what this is, for very little return. You know what, I think they're going to do nothing and continue to be mind bogglingly wealthy without the effort.

Now I'll never get to go to one and meet you and be creepy and make you hate me. More.

Exactly what point do you think you're making here? People thinking you're harmless until you straight up murder people for stopping you doing illegal stuff doesn't make you 'misunderstood' or any definition of 'ok'. And the other police died when a raid on his warehouse went bad? Well someone call a lawyer, clearly he's been misrepresented! Killing the police in the course of their duties isn't that bad guys!

If he didn't know they were robots he still built them and directed them. He is culpable for what they do. Which was kill someone who tried to stop them, and kill more people who came to stop them.

And now you've gone to self contradicting crazytown. The Clockwork are intrinsically not sentient or individual to any degree, because they're psionic constructs of the Clockwork King. The very best you can hope for is to define him as having a truly epic case of split personalities....he's still culpable for himself.

Relatively. Non. Lethal.

Babbage? The Paladin? The comic with the entire army of colossal robots causing devastation? A single anecdote about some Clockwork failing to kill someone who could do nothing to actually harm or stop them, does not make for a convincing argument for their niceness. You've managed to pull them up to 'thugs shoving over the disabled' level.

It does when they're psionic ants, wasps, bears, or dogs that are created and controlled by a man.

Because crap writing. The Frostfire thing is all sorts of massive crap, though it is blatantly obvious that Frostfire is tied up heavily with Longbow as he moves on from the Hollows. They're responsible for his whole arc after that, they serve as his antagonists, his jailers, then they start using him themselves, then he somehow ends up a 'hero'.

A good writer would have a field day with that, since Longbow is itself a murderous vigilante organisation with a happy face, that interferes with, impedes, and ignores actual government authorities, often international, for their own purposes.

Longbow have flung Frostfire a bone he wanted to take, no-one is saying he might not wanted to redeem himself, but it's only a result of Longbow being a ruthless bunch of bastards who wanted to make use of him during his incarceration.

He created a self replicating psionic robot swarm that started maiming people and killed a policeman when they tried to stop it swiping their stuff for materials. He then killed three more police whilst resisting arrest.

He is not a tragic villain. At all. He's a straight up murderer who became, or always was, insane. Probably always was, because why, exactly, would a sane man create the Clockwork to do what he has them do? Which is replicate themselves (thereby increasing his own power) and kill anyone who tries to stop them. Though if he was sane, it just means he's basically evil.

A tragic villain is evil through actions or circumstances they have or had no control over. The Clockwork King was either always insane, which doesn't make him tragic, it makes him just plain insane, or he was sane and freely performed what are blatantly evil acts.

There's no grey area with the Clockwork King, he's a bad guy who now happens to be affably insane.

No, Orks are an invading force. They just happen to simplify their logistics by bringing their ecosystem with them everywhere they go.

The what?
*checks*
Oh hey, that looks really good...
*downloads*
So why do YOU have a realistic blood mod for your Skyrim?

Meh, the combat is better and Kallandra will ignore me either way. :P

There was no like button, so in my fervent need to agree with you I wrote 'LIKE' on a post-it note and attempted to punch it through my Golly Gosh Darn monitor and onto the internet.

The things you mention enrage me so much, right down to the Broken-From-Day-One Vahzilock, that it even almost worked.

When I see beautiful women in spandex, my thoughts aren't particularly moral.

No I had him marked as 'bad guy' immediately. It's easy enough to know you're going to have to fight him because he's clearly just plain belligerent, but it was otherwise easy to tag him as ultimately being your bad guy because the setup is too easy to see right through. His lie is transparent and in conjunction with his attempts to keep you away from what he's doing, it becomes very obvious. Every scrap of information you get after your first conversation just reinforces that he's the bad guy. By the time you're trying to talk to mysterious informants you're being smashed in the face with an anvil with "It's Leo" carved into it.

It was so obvious that I was becoming more concerned that I was actually being set up for a bait and switch, and was surprised the whole thing was played straight. Then I beat him to death.

Yes. *shrug* That's pretty much the whole of it.

Skyway City was always the less preferred choice between it and Steel Canyon, but the death warrant was signed when it was Steel that got the Auction House and University. Skyway as it is now just gives the illusion of choice. It's not a choice, you go to Steel Canyon and that's that.

Personally, I would actually use Skyway City and the ancient missions it has in it, if they'd just take out the bull**** that forces you to talk to Wincott, and every single PvP zone, and the Hero Corps rep, and a random security guy literally miles away to do the most lame street huny mission....

Oh no reason. No reason. *pat* *pat*