khorak_EU

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Well, you can start by treating other people the way you would like to be treated yourself

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Everyone get out of the thread right now, I need some alone time with GG.

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NCSoft and Linden both publish figures for CoH/V and Second Life respectively, so those figures are relatively accurate.

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And the WoW numbers are so big you can be out by about a million and it's still pretty accurate.

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Sorry to pull you up on this but to refute you have to provide evidence. You can deny it, you can reject it if you like, but your post doesn't refute it. Just a pet hate of mine, carry on

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You stole this from QI!

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They just read it from a dictionary, I'm of the lazy generation we watch TV while others read for us. I used my favoured medium of learning, quiz coms, and applied the knowledge gained

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Actually it was Stephen Fry and he did the same thing, amusingly smacking down Clive Anderson refuting his answer by stating a refutation requires evidence, and it was pretty much a moment of Stephen Fry proving that he really is just way, way smarter and well read than everyone else.

As a cherry on top, he offered 'repudiate' as an alternative word.

Heeheehee! 'Sapphic Shock'. It just looks like 'Lesbian Shock' to me, which then lead to the bank robbery vision of:
"Oh my God, it's a lesbian!"
"Check again! We're not set up to handle lesbians!"
"She's right there, and totally homosexual! What are we going to do!?"
"Open fire and hope she's bi-curious!"

I got somewhat bored of my Electric Melee Brute at around level 22 or so, because I noticed that she'd pretty much achieved her rest of the game attack chain already. It left me with not much desire to bother going on.

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Sorry to pull you up on this but to refute you have to provide evidence. You can deny it, you can reject it if you like, but your post doesn't refute it. Just a pet hate of mine, carry on

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You stole this from QI!

I have also found that my mission instances feature a lot of lag. Usually power activation lag, I don't notice a problem otherwise, it's just that one second pause trying to activate powers.

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the game is dying otherwise we wouldnt have the mass influx of vocal were leaving

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im not getting involved in any more jousting of words over this as everyne is entitled to there own biased opinions

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Hmmm....

It's nothing but negative energy damage so you can resist it now (it used to be special). They're only a danger at low levels because you have very little resist, and depending on your Kheldian no hard control or self heal, and just to really dump on your parade, they cause knockdown so you can't fight back.

Even so, Quantums can still be dealt with easily enough because they're normal squishy scumbags you can fly up to and unload all your most vicious attacks before they fire off more than one shot if they're lucky. Voids have effective energy resists though, so at low levels you have to dump inspirations all over them and hope you have a good day.

This is all moot if you're in a team, they can mash up Voids and Quants effortlessly. The only problem is playing solo, where Voids go strangely in the space of a single level from "doom brigade" to "mook brigade". And they probably wouldn't even be that much of a solo problem if they were actually included in the mob spawn calculation in the pre-20 levels, so you don't have a whole group of normal enemies to make it worse.

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Wait - your not still serving as his loinlcoth right now, are you?

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He never was you pervert, that was your deviant idea.

I have accepted a blind invite three times. Two times the team fell apart within five minutes because of wildly varying levels and a mute team leader, the last was also a largely mute team leader with no brain, which resulted in what was essentially entirely wasted time.

I demand a tell, because until you start proving otherwise immediately with evidence of a rudimentary form of linguistics, I consider you an idiot, and I don't want to follow an idiot.

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That sort of thing really should be kept private.

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Why? I want the whole world to know of our love! *huggles his fluffy blue friend*

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I do! Especially in plush form with a tummy I can poke and tickle to my heart's content! ^_^

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I swear he's really coming onto me sometimes....

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I guess I couldn't reconcile in my own mind that an aliens origin isn't necessarily any of the choices that we have; primarily because the 5 choices we have are humanocentric - technology and science seem (despite the Rikti) to be based on human tech/science

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Uh....I don't understand how you can't easily look at it from the aliens perspective. Is it different from its own species via a process of scientific Hulkification, being a mutant freak, using magic or technology, or is within the accepted normal genetic boundaries of that species.

It's easy to imagine if a bear is a huge scientific experiment, a mutant bear, a magically empowered bear, a bear inexplicably in a suit of power armour or just an angry bear. So why not the same for an alien?

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They might as well have gone to France and been put in prison.


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A fate far worse than death to any English immortals - and not because of the prison aspect.

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I should probably have pointed out that the idea of the immortal soul also technically applies to Statesman as well and makes the whole thing hypocritical in refusing his application to be immortal. But sod it, either way he's exactly the same as everyone else and his only such claim is agelessness rather than a bona fide immortality different from the rest of us. Hit him hard enough and he's the same kind of 'dead' anyone else is.

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Highlander was called an immortal, yet he could be killed by chopping off his head.

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What actually happens to the immortals is unknown, in every single respect. Their origin, nature and eventual goal is unknown even to them.
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Baldr is called an immortal, yet he gets killed just before Ragnarok starts by getting hit by a piece of mistletoe of all things.


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You've picked the worst possible example considering he was only 'dead' as a catalyst for Ragnarok, and even then he could have been released at any time by Hel who was willing to do it if everything in existence weeped for him (obviously Loki didn't). Hel as a realm isn't even destroyed by Ragnarok, since Baldr and his wife are the only ones allowed to walk out of it into the new realm left after the destruction and restoration of the world, so the Gods are still all kicking around in Hel but unable to leave. Like pretty much all religions, Norse mythology follows the precept of the immortal soul, no-one at all dies, it's just a relocation of dimensions with death essentially being nothing more than an irritating lack of credentials to access certain realms without permission. If you were truly gone it wouldn't be possible to come back, but you can simply by being allowed to walk straight out of Hel.

In short, not only is everyone inviolably immortal in Norse mythology, but Baldr takes it to the new level of being one of the very few allowed back into the new world after the end of the world!

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The titans where immortal yet a score of them where killed by Zeus and his kin in pre Olympian myths.

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All the Titans were not killed, they were banished to Tartarus, some had their mortal bodies destroyed but that's not really an impediment since you'll walk out exactly the same if anyone were ever stupid enough to break you out of Tartarus. Things go in and out of Greek 'death' so often it might as well have a revolving door. It's the same deal, it's just a system of various mystical realms you get shuffled into when your meat shell gets splattered, and the line between being dead and living is a matter of having the permission from the local authorities to walk back out.

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I just think that generally speaking, immortals have been known to kick the bucket, albeit very difficultly.

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Which makes them not immortal. The very definition of mortal includes 'liable or subject to death'. Mythology, built as it is by humans predictably scared silly of death, effectively makes everyone completely immortal to remove the terror of dying (by making you never actually die) and get you to act in the preferred manner by variably punishing or rewarding the actual immortal part of you in various new realms of existence. Who and what they are always survives, always goes somewhere, always continues on indestructibly, and only stay 'dead' because some sort of powerful being won't let them back out. They might as well have gone to France and been put in prison.

In fact the only time I've ever seen anyone have the balls to completely remove all doubt and literally destroy a usually immortal soul was poor Fred in Angel. Which was harsh, a shocking plot twist designed to remove the slight comfort that comes from our mythologically constructed perceptions of personal immortality and knowing our heroes aren't actually the dead kind of dead. They're just religiously dead. Which isn't.

39 months.

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He's immortal - he's got plenty of time on his hands to get there

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No, he's ageless. He can be killed.

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Have you ever heard of a prison break where there's NO alarm?

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No, because in a good prison break the alarm never goes off and no-one ever works out how you got out and how you disappeared so completely.

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Least favourite is easily Statesman, as the equivalent of Superman he fails because he's not remotely as innocent and likeable, as the equivalent of Captain America he fails because he's not remotely as inspiring and smart. Generally speaking it's clear to me that he is a horribly written Gary Stu char, I've been hoping to see him downplayed since Jack Emmert left.

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Just consigning him to the scrapheap would be more trouble than it's worth, and not even the best idea at all. He's buried into the universe, you can't just put him on the bus or bump him off.

CoX doesn't have too much depth of characterisation built up to save Statesman as a character, they just have to make the effort. And he doesn't even have to be likeable, the comic where he was hilariously incapable of being able to deal unexpectedly with a real person (the young hero who became a hero through the inspiration of Statesman) was an absolutely wonderful piece of characterisation that could be run with. He inspires just by being there, resolute, a symbol of untiring heroism, but we only get really, really brief glimpses into just how damn tired and worn down this guy really is (aforementioned social reclusiveness, and when he was talking about having to deal with every single villain out to prove himself). Eighty years of crimefighting and the world is worse than ever, every friend he makes will either be killed or simply outlived, and if I were him I'd be a bit depressed that my grand daughter is building a massive personal army that's slowly putting Paragon City effectively under a colourful martial law.

I want Statesman played UP, warts and all. He HAS a character, we know he's a dour but hardworking man who inspires by action, and we know he won't compromise his principles under any circumstances. We also know he has the one to one skills of a thrown brick. What we need is to know why, because without having any reason for him to be this way, and I can come up with loads of them, he's just an entry on super****ery.

I kinda like that Statesman is an uptight social incompentant. It's like he's jaded from eighty years of constant fighting and all that's left is the costume.

I've started a new AR/Dev in anticipation of the new buffs in the latest patch. Although, I try to get an AR/Dev toon going periodically every month and it never takes....

Still, might work this time! The sheer pain of levelling a newborn Kheldian makes a Blaster look luxuriously easy! Look at all that lovely damage! Look at it!

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Ah right, you're the one I put in the annoying sounds category. Its fine teaming with them, but playing them drives me nuts.

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I like my sounds!

Yeah, I pretty much only clicked on this thread to see how it would disappoint my expectations.

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You go for pointless powers or annoying noises on your HEAT? (at low levels at least, allegedly WS is good later)

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Um....it's a Human/Dwarf (eventually) biform Peacebringer. It's a bit evil at the moment because she's essentially a rubbish blaster with zero control, fewer hitpoints and an S/L shield that just mocks my desire not to drop dead when glared at, so unless I outlevel them, Voids kick a hole in me just for a laugh. Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't knock you clear on your **** on top of the huge damage and energy resist.

The tables will turn when I've got Incandescent Strike, they're gonna be walking into murdertown. I'll bring peace to them all right, they'll look real peaceful when I'm done. Won't even be fair when I can Dwarf it up. I'm gonna spend a whole hour just flying around kicking Voids faces in.

So yeah. I'm pretty much at the 'pointless powers' stage. I love how my PB sounds, apart from that weird dirge that starts up when you use any of their powers.....

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Well done. Good luck abandoning your Kheldian

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She's at 15! I'm gonna damn well grind this one out, even if it KILLS me!