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I for one think that opening up the forums to the free and premium players is a good thing. Here's hoping the RMTs get modded into Limbo so the mods don't feel like they need to cut off the access.
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Quote:snerkOriginally Posted by Firemoth
Slightly off topic, but I had to post this up. This has to be my favourite crash message I've ever received from City.
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/signed
I think that KoA would make for a good female ninja equivalent, with their sneaky-sneaky schtick. The female Crey infiltrators would make good merc equivalents. Robots are... well, neutral in design. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lymebt
As for "This is the comic book genre. The chicks are sexy and the dudes are swollen... that's why we're here. There was not some secret back door entrance in comics that any of you slipped through where the heroic girls are flat chested and wearing frumpy layers. "
No. That's not why I'm here. That's never why I read comics. In fact, the unrealistic massively huge boobs and muscles are one of the things I hated and still hate about comics. I read them because I liked reading stories about superheroes. Also, you can still be sexy without looking like a damned streetwalker, without having a triple F cup (don't get me started on how the women's chest slider's SMALLEST size is about a C-cup), and while wearing more clothing than a band-aid. If I wanted to see that sort of stuff, I could look at pin-up models.
It IS effing sexist when men get clothing that resembles something a gunslinger would've worn in the old west and women ONLY get the clothing that a PROSTITUTE would've worn.
QFT, Liked, /signed, +1... you said what I'm feeling on this topic. I can't make Annie Oakley or Calamity Jane with these pieces.
I can find use for much of this pack, just not in a female gunslinger. As a set, it's unusable, but the individual pieces have value here and there. -
Another item that is inexplicably male-only (well, leaving aside the "number of costume parts" explanation): the "Resistance Hat" aka aviator's hat.
Count me as another that would like female options for MM minions. My imagining of one (added) option would be the KoA as minions. Heck, they'd make good ninja-alikes in many ways!
(Here are some exampled of female characters that I'm inspired by in comics for those arguing that all female characters have to be rather... fabric-free: Renee "The Question" Montoya, Barbara "Oracle/Batgirl" Gordon, Jenny Sparks, Jenny Quantum, Katherine "Kitty" Pryde, most times Agatha Heterodyne, Colonel Maximillia "Maxima" Leander, Carol "Binary" Danvers, depending on the artist Anna "Rogue" Marie, Charlie "Misfit" Gage-Radcliffe, Tatsu "Katana" Yamashiro, Sandra "Lady Shiva" Woosan, Dawn "Dove" Granger, some renditions of Lady Mechanika, Alison "Dazzler" Blair, Valerie Cooper, Dakota North, Cassie "Giant-Girl) Lang, Molly "Princess Powerful/Bruiser" Hayes, Agent Abigail Brand, Rahne "Wolfesbane" Sinclair, Ruth "Sabra" Bat-Seraph, Julie "Lightspeed" Power, Jennifer "Hazmat" Takeda, Gertrude "Arsenic" Yorkes, and even Zinda "Lady Blackhawk" Blake in many appearances). Note that several of these are still in the "sexy" and definite "super-hero" categories without being trampy. I don't want City of Burqas or City of Nuns, but I would like to avoid having no real options for female characters but vestiphobes. -
Well, it's not noon EDT. Next guess: noon PDT.
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Quote:*winces* Well played. *golf clap*Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Parkour Lewis Cant Lose
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I'm definitely looking forward to this! The first toon I make after getting it likely won't use any of the costume parts but will use Beast Run - a MA/SR Natural (human) Scrapper who is a parkour practitioner (with the Leaping power pool for - of all things - Jump Kick, Combat Jumping, and Acrobatics). Still need a name for her, though...
Of course, my existing hybrids/mosters will get upgrades, too. Just can't wait for being able to switch as thematically needed between Beast Run and Ninja Run to mimic parkour. -
Quote:Is it sad that there are left-handed people that can't get over their mental block and just learn how to be right-handed like "normal people?" Introversion is a similarly innate trait, and attempts at forcing extroversion will cause problems much like forcing a southpaw to conform completely with northpaw expectations.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But as sad as it is to suffer frm that kind of mental block, it's unreasonable to expect the developers of an MMO to design their game around people with that condition - to maximize the return on their work, they need to create a game that appeals to the majority of MMO players.
Again, introversion by itself is not:
- shyness (I'm introverted but have regular contact with other people that I enjoy doing. It just isn't every night.)
- social anxiety (if I have this, it hasn't affected my day to day life one whit!)
- something to "overcome" (see below)
- a mental illness or other negative condition
- finding social activities "unfun" (tiring due to the mental effort, yes)
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Quote:Hear, hear!Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
GG, I know you think you're being helpful, but you're clearly an extrovert. Introverts can actually empathise with extroverts because the culture forces your point of view on us, so we have no choice but to do so. But you clearly simply do not understand what introversion is.
It's not a defect, it's not a deficiency. It's simply a difference. We are not inherently inept at dealing with people (many introverts that are are so largely due to lack of practice), we are not incapable of dealing with people (I work a help desk. I get paid to deal with people, and am surpassingly good at it, if my performance reviews of the past five years can be believed), we simply are drained by doing so.
Extroverts are recharged by going out and mingling with people; interacting with groups, friends and strangers all get an extrovert pumped and relaxed, making them able to continue on with whatever tasks they need to expend their mental energy on. Introverts are the reverse; dealing with people drains us, and we have to recharge by withdrawing. That difference doesn't cripple us - it's just a difference.
Just like some people train for marathons for fun, play sports for fun, or engage in any other tiring activity for fun, an introvert can interact with people for fun as well (I do it all the time). But just like no one can run a marathon constantly, an introvert cannot interact with others constantly.
With as much as modern American society enforces the idea that extroversion is the only norm and introverts are somehow broken, we are often forced into that interaction even when our reserves are already drained. Forcing us into that is a lot like forcing an exhausted marathon runner to run another mile - you're not helping any one, and are very likely to be doing active harm.
I know you mean well, but seriously: stop it. You're not helping.
Introvert does not mean socially inept.
Introvert does not mean broken.
Introvert does not mean antisocial.
Introvert does not mean that one hates people.
Introvert does not mean that one has social anxiety disorder.
Introvert only means being social is a energy intensive thing.
I am an introvert. I also am somewhat regularly social, go to huge events, and I am actually out in the crowds for some time before I adjourn to recover in order to do it again. I join the occasional PUG, chat on a global channel, and my preferred employment deals with people on a regular basis.
The world is set up to cater solely to extroverts. All I ask is that some acknowledgment that introverts (as a class) exist and are not broken be made. Saying that introverts require therapy1 is, quite frankly, wrong.
1. Sure, there are introverts who do need therapy, but being an introvert itself is not therapy-worthy any more than being an extrovert itself is.
