rian_frostdrake

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ohsirus View Post
    Am I the only one hot for Tink?
    an attractive girl of asian decent in nerd-targeted entertainment. I strongly suspect you are not .

    and i do not exclude myself from this demographic.
  2. ya know, i recall having a discussion about how taunt works, and why it is not realistic, that no villain, no matter how stupid or drug addicted would continue attacking a target that they clearly were not going to have any noticeable effect on just because they keep making insulting comments. I keep getting proven wrong in real life.
  3. you cant please everyone, thats all there is to it. some people aren't particularly civil when the threat of being punched in the face for being overly rude is removed, so you tend to see some over-the-top personalities out there. Whether you agree with their decisions, the developers here clearly have te capacity to make a mmo, maybe not the one that will agree with everyone's desires, but on a basic capacity level, the comment is demonstrably false. You will always find contrarians online, some people interact online just to fight with someone, can't imagine that being healthy, but whatever, i know i get in my share of fights so i have no room to talk. sometimes people view ignore lists as a form of failure of communication, or too harsh, but some people just are never going to listen, and continuing to put up with them is just profitless masochism.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    It's even a valid word outside of City.
    dunno how big their dictionary is, empathy, empathic or the like probably would have been fine, but i have only heard of someone as an "empath" in comic and sci-fi terms, usually for a form of a psychic. case in point, firefox doesn't know the word. I remember back in grade school in english class having to convince my teacher that polymorph was a word, while pretending that i didnt learn it from dungeons and dragons
  5. rian_frostdrake

    Private messages

    i cleaned out my inbox a bit ago, so only have 2. works for me though, if im on a forum, ill talk out in the open.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Plasma View Post
    Turns out I am nerdier than posi. First 20 "good" jokes get a tshirt, so I go with:

    An electron is speeding down the road and gets pulled over. The cop asks it, "do you know how fast you were going?"

    The electron replies, "yes, but I have no idea where I am!"

    It bombed. I followed up with a bad doctor joke, at which point I think he gave me a ticket largely out of fear of what I might inflict next.
    i might get this joke, but i am uncertain, at least on principle.


    (yes, i love nerd jokes too)
  7. rian_frostdrake

    Martial Arts

    not yet, but based on past proliferations, id expect it, nothing official or witha timetable though. also, if you are getting gr, there will be a second "martial arts" themed set that will be going to all melee at's called kinetic melee. it will ,according to a video from the pax east conference, involve a number of chinese kung-fu looking open handed strikes, might want to hunt that vid down. that WILL be for brutes, once gr hits.
  8. Hmm, thought the thread was about crystal meth. Anyhow, i usually leave my search on not looking for, i tend to get as many invites as on looking for any, so it never was much of a functional difference. as i see it i'm not looking for a team, but if one comes along and i'm not crafting, i wouldnt say no.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Terror1 View Post
    The bush kangaroo?
    you're gonna need a bigger bar of soap.



    ok, moving on, his name is intentionally supposed to be "sidekickish" before robin became a walking linkin park song, sidekicks used to be goofy and silly, it fits the theme. I rather like it. besides, jay is apparently "nice axe" where can you go from there?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    A friend of mine had a dog, a cat, a lizard, a snake and a horned toad. They were all named "Fred".
    did he also have a half-a-bee named eric?
  10. i had a stalker once who was a walmart employee, she would appear out of nowhere and kill everyone's medical coverage and jobs. I was all political and rabble rousey back then,and you can make the usual outfit pretty easily.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Magoo_NA View Post
    For as long as I've been playing, players have wanted more clown items in CO*...
    Clown costume pieces...
    Clown-themed powersets...
    Clown minions for masterminds to control...
    Clown-themed events...
    ... and players have been told "No".

    I don't understand. Why is this so? Is it because it doesn't fit in with "the CO* milieu"? Or is something else going on?

    Has there been an official reason?
    well, i wouldnt say no. we did get the jester set, a sventure showed in the pic, we have the carnies who heavily evoke the clown feel..with scantily clad women to boot. so its not like clowns are entirely excluded, powersets would be interesting, but with new power sets, they really try to keep the themes general, a clown set would only work for clowns. now if there were to be clown themed customizable animations for devices/traps, then we are talking, but there are clown themed things ingame, its jsut there are a LOt of different concepts in the superhero genre to work with, and we dont even have dinosaurs or a proper chinatown/little tokyo, lets get those comic staples in first before clowns get a second pass
  12. i don't hide because i enjoy meeting people and inflicting my horrible, horrible puns on them.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum View Post
    Do we get to pick the Dev?
    Dibs on jay or babs.
  14. rian_frostdrake

    A question!

    given your enjoyment of sentai styled characters, you may wish to look at the natural booster and the tech booster. natural added some decorative martial arts themed robes, as well as a chinese helmet that may fit your themes, as well as 3 new sets of swords, a chinese longsword, a chinese broadsword, and a seperate broadsword, and the incredibly popular "ninja run" which will likely be a thematic match for you. and the tech one has some impressive mechanical looking parts for alternate powersuits, plus some very nice shoulder bits.
  15. rian_frostdrake

    GR Release Date

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
    Girlfriend: The Closed Beta Version of "Wife"
    see, id say that a wife is a gm class of the girlfriend av. which would continue to explain why i am not married.
  16. rian_frostdrake

    Mystery men

    clive loveking is my favorite.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Fix't. It doesn't have to be a large SG. Smaller SGs with people on (and in SG mode!) can also afford pretty decent bases pretty quickly.


    yeah, my sg has 4 active players on it, 2 of us with limited playtimes, but without farming, we have a good influx. rubber, your buddy is talented though, has a real eye for putting stuff together, i know i have seen stuff on the base builders section that really is a testament to the versatility of some people's imaginations.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
    Personally I'm a bit amazed that people are saying "bravo" for implementing and then pulling a system which seems to be broken / underwhelming. I wish my customers would shower praise on me when I do something poorly and then tell them they can't have it yet because of my design flaws.
    well you see, in the world of people who actually are not perfect, sometimes we see that we could do better, so rather than throwing out something that doesn't impress, we work on it more so that its better. Blizzard and nintendo have a pretty good record of this, takes forever for their games to come out, but they generally are better for it. You need to hang out with more imperfect people, as mortals are different and can better understand the burden of imperfection..that or your customers are tossers
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    You mean like City of Villains? ZING
    ya know, usually it either has to be funny or relevant to be a zing, whether you think cov has had sufficient content or not, it has continually had content, powers, and archetypes added since launch, so stick to calculus, and leave the comedy to the pros.

    as for the news, nether and i are in agreement, you make an impression once, better to make it a better one.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Test_Rat View Post
    Freedom and virtue.

    So you guys are telling me, that you have never been in Cimeora or Grandville, seen someone call out in Global TF LFM DPS 6 spots, and have a stalker advertise repetatedly while the team fills?

    I was just on a TF last night where I had to Beg my way on, and once I joined the team the Leader says "I usually don't take stalkers."

    This stuff happens and it is not isolated.
    on liberty, never. LAst nigth we ran the mothership twice, our team had a stalker, im an emp, i was thrilled, because with buffs he could do significant damage to the bigger rikti, and with my powers i could make his lower hp meaningless.

    The problem, such as there is, is that there are now 4 melee at's(5 if you count night wids, though they do have some range too) having them shine at something that is always useful for every team is just not going to happen, people just have to accept that in coh even is someone is not bleeding edge optimal, they still are more than enough for the challenges set forth in the game. maybe a brute or scrapper last night would have given more aoe damage, but who cares, the stalker did his job, and we all had a good time, im not going to hole up in a mountain so spreadsheets demanding that specific mathematical levels be reached to have fun, and i daresay that most players are the same. Even the minmaxers dont seem fully crazy, they just don't want a teammate with none of their marquee powers.

    If anything its the newer and less experienced players who think they need to bring an m1 abrams tank to a knife fight that would have this misconception, not experienced vets who know what they are talking about.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nightphall View Post
    Typing "AFK for a sex"

    When I returned, my teammates were laughing. Scrolled up to see why, and started laughing myself.
    in their defense, you were only gone for 3 minutes.


    aaaanyhow, i am a 6 year vet, i have mentored many new players...3 weeks ago, i forgot who sells inspirations. for obvious reasons i did not ask in global.