rian_frostdrake
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Quote:You know, its kind of funny, but as a straight guy, the lara croft thing always seemed to breed negative stereotypes about players like myself who tend towards female characters. The whole "lets stare at her butt" thing tends to, for me at least, breed a exploitive feel to it.Originally Posted by Az'rial
Something that never really occured to me until I read this post is the fact that if some hetero males roll predominately female characters for the "Laura Croft Factor", and my many gay friends that play this game roll male alts for the gay version of the "Laura Croft Factor" (judging by the way the outfit their characters), then as a gay male shouldn't I be rolling hot male characters?! Hmmmmmmm. 0.o
I like female characters because they can look good, its just a confluence of the body proportions and the costume parts, but i think i can make better looking women. guys, i tend to make to a theme, power, medieval, robotic, bestial, but i cant really make a "good" looking guy(im thinking like alucard or soma cruz in the castlevania artwork) with either our or co's art style, so for an actually attractive character, it is female or bust. (as a side note, the only game where i feel that my male characters look good are asian mmos, like final fantasy XI or granado epada, and again, the women look better there too).
so while i get what you mean, and i am not implying that you were directly inferring it, this was just a conception that grates on me, we are bad, but we arent that over the top..well, most of us
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well ac, almost all of the college advice that i could contribute has already been given, I will wish you luck on this career path, and second that it is best to minimize distractions, even the most unappealing distraction can be employed when you really dont want to write that paper(i can recall a paper on adolescent cognitive development that was procrastinated for unlocking character costumes for dead or alive
) so good on that. hopefully on breaks you may have the cash to pop in and have a look around. we will have to decide on something to argue about for old times sake. But my prayers are with you, you have what you need and you seem to have the determination to make a disciplined attempt at it, and really discipline was the factor that i saw time and again separate the successful students from the unsuccessful. so, i feel that if you keep that up, then you will figure the rest out.
And yes, getting a credit card is good, but for the love of all thats holy, do not spend more than you can pay off, the rates on those cards are often pretty nasty, so buy with them, but pay them off before they accumulate any interest.
and the only advice i can give is, if you see the cute red-headed girl in the striped sweater in the class next to yours and you chat and find out that you share a lot of interests, dont be a goofball like me and never try to ask her out, she winds up marrying a really boring bald guy and having boring looking kids, you know you could have done better
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this thread has taught me one thing. there should be a major ingame event where pain and ultimus fight using super powered superfluous threads
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I figure it was an admin powers thing. I hope he still plays and is still around, this game really is his baby (after rick dakken's, yadda yadda) and whatever the current situation is, we do owe him soem gratitude for being here. the current crew is doing a great job and i16 is by far the most relevant to my interests that has come out, but I still respect the contributions jack made and hope he feels welcome here, just not with admin powers.
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my thought on this subject is that if done right, this could help mitigate the "need" for stamina for a lot of builds. My ice/ice tanker gets a lot of endurance back using heat absorption, and my /elec brute works well with power sink, but both come kind of late in the set maturation and any exemplaring makes blue issues return, often cripplingly. if exemplaring allowed you to always access these blue mitigation tools no matter what your exemplared status, then i can think of at least 3 characters i currently play with stamina that could be skipped if we get some access to these powers while exemped.
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this is a tricky subject. some people want to be on less populated severs, other feel that their server has a specific feel that they prefer. honestly i wouldnt mind it, as im pretty much a pug ho and will team with anyone who is not a complete twit, but some people have significant objections, and will voice them if this were to come to pass.
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Quote:you may not have intended to sound that way, but your post was accusatory and basically looked like you had already decided that paragon had ripped off cryptic. that understandably ticks off people who were familiar with the story. So no harm no foul, but maybe take a second to reread your posts to make sure they don't come across in a more hostile way than intended. It is easy to be misinterpreted in a medium that lacks tone of voice or body language.Originally Posted by Radman_EU
I'm Sorry! I only wanted it cleared up to me...
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well, if he/she is a seraph, fire/fire would fit, since the root of the word for seraphim references something brightly burning and fiery. If you are going for archangel themed angels, i suggest /empathy for raphael, sonic/ sonic defender for Gabriel, and any fire set for Michael for the catholic and islamic versions. Islam also mentions azrael as an archangel related to death, so a dark/dark defender could work here. finally uriel is mentioned as the (light bringer) so an angel themed off his soldiers would probably fit energy (anything) or a peacebringer.
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Quote:ever hear ghost widow talk? /shudderOriginally Posted by Lady_Athyna
Hahahahahahaha!!!
Wait. Who's Doctor Girlfriend?
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after taking advantage of the second package deal, my reptilian butt is here till june of 2011. but Posi better watch his step, because otherwise i will take my business elsewhere..in about 2 years
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Quote:if you mean football(and yes, im referring to the European usage) then i played it for about 4 years in grade school/high school :P so this yank knows footy just fine thank ye.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Because you Yanks can't spell and don't know what footy is.
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Quote:well, lets be fair here pain, the first thing i do when i have a gaming idea is call up chase and tell him to break it for me. Why? because good ideas always have unintended consequences, so before an idea solidifies, its better to hash out what is going to be wrong with it so that they can catch it and stomp it, rather than have it go live and scale it back, because then people of specific personality types will announce in numerous threads that the devs have just murdered their grandmother with a hacksaw.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
If you always look at things negatively...
Do things ever look up for you?
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Quote:/golfclap, well played sir, well played.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It does. The revenue is gross! We don't want it! Take it back!
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you know moo, i dislike twitter, but you have skipped over the line to full on curmudgeon here. Disliking the information diffusion is one thing, but turning it into an entirely personal diatribe about how you don't think people should be wasting our time with the minutia of their inner thoughts carries a greater amount of irony than you may be fully aware of.
the dev digest is begin worked on, it is irrational to think it isn't, soon we will have the one stop area to check for relevant info once the appropriate tech-work is done. Now may be the time to pull upon the maturity we have accumulated from becoming adults and just learn to wait a few days. Really, it is just a video game, you know? -
Regularly, just liberty, but when the mood strikes me i have guys on virtue, protector, and guardian
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id just like a "breath" power for scrapper epics, i'd love to have rian use frost breath as his ranged.
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as i have over the years, i /sign this suggestion yet again. it really would help pugs.
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Quote:i second this hope. I am seeing either a passing of the hand over the arrow with a colorable amgic sigil appearing in the air between the and and arrow or a japanese styled sutra paper being slapped on the arrow, or ideally both options existing.Originally Posted by InfamousBrad
Edited to add: Speaking of the Rularuu bow, you know what would be really cool for magic-origin trick arrows defenders, controllers, corruptors, and masterminds? If we got alternate combat animations for Trick Arrows that looked more magical, less ultra-tech. Instead of various ultra-tech warheads, have them all be plain arrows, but with different shaped and different colored glow on the shaft depending on which "spell" was being cast on the arrow. I know we won't get it for i16, but I can dream, can't I?
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Quote:in all honesty though, a person whose job is to design things really kind of has to work with what he does. If he isn't skilled at making monster bits, then you cant force it. Its a shame he is held back by such a silly mindset, but if he isn't any good at it, i guess you cant force him. hopefully the other artists have a more robust skill set in this regard.Originally Posted by Imoba_Strife
The "I don't like it, so I'll deny my customers it" reasoning just doesnt cut it if you ask me ¬.¬
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rian frostdrake. orphaned during a local skirmish in rural germany, was found near death in the ruins of his families home by a flight of ancient dragon philosophers who lived in a nearby forest. They nursed him as close to health as they could, but still he looked like he was not going to recover, also at this time one of their own hatch lings had been born malformed and seemed close to death. Seeing a convenience of the two events they used their ancient magics to bind the two together into a single entity, not fully dragon, nor human, but the combination of the two was just strong enough to survive where neither could individually.
Rian lived among them for several decades till the dragons reached a time when they ascended as a group to a higher plane of existence, leaving him to wander the world as a spiritual pilgrim, after stuying under many great spiritual leaders, he had landed in Tibet during the beginning of the Chinese occupation. Following a altercation where the monks at the temple he was studying at were killed, he succumbed to his human side and killed the entire group of soldiers responsible. After regaining his senses, the guilt overtook him and he swore to never use violence again.
His travels then landed him in paragon during the rikti invasion as a chaplain, during the invasion he realized he had to fight one more, and now Rian is who he is.
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Quote:my thought was something like spawn, with his chains. the chains could wrap the enemeis up for the controls, and emanate from the player for assault moves. but conceptually we arent far from each other.Originally Posted by Daemodand
First thing I think of when I hear Doms+Chains is Cenobites. Those Cenobites are classic Dominators.
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one is planned on my list of new characters. i can say that the first run of proliferation did not make me quite as excited as this one. I can see at least 4 new characters being made. maybe more. its sad but defender damage, even with the potent debuffs of ta just is too low for me to enjoy playing solo. and teaming at the hours i play can be dicey.
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I just noticed i don't have any, any ninja i have are more modern snake-eyes styled.
I have a dragon..as you may guess, but no knights, samurai or wizards.
prior to weapon customization, i really didnt care much for weapons based characters.
ok got two slightly d&d style
here is rian in full dragon form
and here is seraph blue in her heavenly warrior armor
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this argument is silly, in he real world most people dont use whips they also dont use broadswords nor shoot thorns out of their hands, whips are used a lot in comic books, and hellfire whips will, apparently be in the game. And it fits the theme of a dominator to have a whip, so hopefully we get it.
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Short answer, hopefully brawl will get animation customization once the pools, epics and epic at's get done. some sets do kick rather than punch (archery, dual blades, spines occasionally, im betting dual pistols, any set where both hands are encumbered), and if you want it, sure, wouldnt be a major problem. just give it time, basically.