What My Six Year Old Has Learned From CoX

Okay, I have read all the posts up til mine in this thread, and I've been laughing like a goof for the last several minutes.

_Wyll_, I am sorely lamenting I had not read this thread BEFORE I made my "City of Commercials" contest entry, because I think Sister Flame would have had a starring role. Kudos to you and la familia for reminding us all why this game just rocks (and kudos to the devs as well).

And you can bet that when the players get to start creating their own content, someone had BETTER create Sister Flame's Task Force. It may be the shortest one in the game, but probably the funniest.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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So cute. Such a fun thread- it made me giggle!




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This thread is awesome.
My 3 year old little girl named my crab spider, "Itsy-Bitsy Spider".
Even though he's a guy, she insists that he is the mommy spider, the spiderlings are his(her) babies, and the bigger spiders are the big brothers.
She waves at him and I make him wave back, she tells him to run, and played red-light/green-light with his babies. It's a hoot.

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Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)

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And you can bet that when the players get to start creating their own content, someone had BETTER create Sister Flame's Task Force. It may be the shortest one in the game, but probably the funniest.

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Thanks for the idea. I explained what a task force was to Sister Flame and asked if she had any story ideas for the game. Currently, she's into Doctor Who and the Goosebumps books, so anything slightly spooky is a treat for her.

Her idea for a task force was a haunted house that was controlled by aliens. She said the idea was the heroes had to save people while defeating the aliens.

I asked her about the haunted house part of the task force and she told me that the house was "to make it scary and exciting".

Her mind is pretty sharp for a seven year old. So sharp, she has her four year old sister playing with her while her dad sits and watches on the sidelines.

That reminds me. I have to go change some of my passwords. She's memorized the ones for my main computer system and the last thing I want her figuring out is how to brute force my Ebay or Paypal accounts.

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The Elementals - Brother Frost and Sister Flame

Who Is Sister Flame?

Arc 118690 - Sibling Rivalry (Sister Flame) Tweaked 09/15/09

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I asked her about the haunted house part of the task force and she told me that the house was "to make it scary and exciting".

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Has she encountered CoT ghosts yet?

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and the last thing I want her figuring out is how to get into my pr0n collection

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Fix'd.

(teasing!)

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BTW, have you told Sister Flame that if she plays a VEAT, she gets a new costume slot at 10!?

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You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame

Great thread!

My 2 year old son has seen me playing just a few times (usually my play time doesn't coincide with him being awake).

The first time he came up and watched me I was going into a store to sell of some enhancements... He saw this and started laughing and saying "Opeh da doah... opeh da doah (open the door)"... over and over. I went in and out of that store 30 or 40 times before I finally had to stop.. (he would have done it and laughed forever I think).

This past weekend I was in ouroboros when he came up and started asking for me to find colors (we've done that a few times)... "red.. red?" Well, there's no red in ouroborus that I'm aware of, so I jumped of the side of the island. Boy did this make him happy! He asked me to do it "again? ..again!" over and over repeatedly each time he broke open in a huge belly laugh. We jumped off the island for 20 minutes or so having a great time.

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I gotta make pain. I gotta make things right. I gotta stop what's comin'. 'Least I gotta try.

"Save Sister Flame Save the World"

lol nice thread thanks for sharing; reminds me of my lil niece playing wii golf so cute..

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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Perverse? Nothing wrong with video games in moderation, especially when daddy's supervising.

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My four year old nephew just runs into the house when I babysit running for the computer to play CoH. He doesnt understand melee vs. ranged yet, and he keeps wanting to play a cool looking melee character and cant do much. I try to get him to pick a blaster, controller, or defender to blast away. He does pretty good and can run around the city pretty good. I sent him a team invite while playing on my laptop and told him to hit the button on the left and he said "the one that says 'yes' ".

I havnt had him on any other teams. He still KS's a little while running around the streets. We were a two man team the other weekend and when the zone we were in had a Rikti raid, I would invite and pick up others, and no one was the wiser, but i wouldnt put him on a team in a mission with others yet. We have duod a few missions "we call them - adventures".

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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I know, right? How dare a parent take an active role in the development of their child in a different way, instead of just plopping them in front of a television set for hours.

The nerve of some people.

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I know, right? How dare a parent take an active role in the development of their child in a different way, instead of just plopping them in front of a television set for hours.

The nerve of some people.

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absentimental, you have to stop this. I am running out of room in my signature to quote you.

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Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)

This is the greatest thread ever

I'll also say, I don't have any children, and neither Anasthesia or I want children, but we do have our three dogs, so they're like our kids

and sigged!

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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But look on the bright side. In ten years, some gamer guy is going to be very happy and envied by all his friends.

--NT

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They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!

If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville

I also think we owe _Wyll_ and Sister Flame a huge round of thanks for proving that there are, in fact, chicks who play CoX. You've heard it here first, gentlemen.

And think of it, _Wyll_ - in ten years or so, when Flame starts bringing home the boys, she's not gonna care what kind of car he drives or if he's got tattoos, it's gonna be:

"Can you keep up with me on an 8-man Invincible team with no buffs? No? Pshaw, you're not the guy for me."

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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Is that you, Jack Thompson?

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Doom.

Yep.

This is really doom.

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, because we all know that playing tackle football is sooooo much better, because it doesn't train violence at ALL, nosiree. [/sarcasm]

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And think of it, _Wyll_ - in ten years or so, when Flame starts bringing home the boys, she's not gonna care what kind of car he drives or if he's got tattoos, it's gonna be:

"Can you keep up with me on an 8-man Invincible team with no buffs? No? Pshaw, you're not the guy for me."

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Well, I often wonder what she will be like when she gets older. I did worry for a while that she was getting too much technology time, but she's shown me she that she is just like me as a child.

As a youth, I ate up early morning television like it was candy before spending the afternoon outside. Then, as I hit my independent years, I played video games on my Atari 2600 for a few hours before going biking all afternoon. Even after I hours in the arcades in the 80s, I was still fond of walking all afternoon just for the heck of it. Today, I still like to play video games, but more than 2 hours is enough for me. Gone are my all nighters from my teenage years and Final Fantasy for the NES.

I wouldn't call Flame weird compared to other kids her age; just unique. She'll spend an hour or two playing on the computer with me easilly, but you mention "outside" and she is gone in a flash. We spend most of the weekends outside doing archiac things like climibing trees, going to nature walks or playing at the park. She's quite content to watch two hours of television as much as she is to read all afternoon (with some help, of course). I listen to her friends (7 years old, don't forget) how they played their WII or PS3 until it was 10 o'clock and they had to go to bed. It just made me boggle (and no, we don't anything newer than a Gamecube, which we use for some Mario Party goodness once in a while).

I like to think that Flame's well-balanced attitude towards technology and the outdoors comes from my wife and I taking an active part in all our daughters' activities, but I could be wrong. All I know if I like playing video and boardgames with the kids as much as I enjoy our family nature walks and outings... and I know my daughters do to.

So, as a father, I often wonder what kind of a person she'll be when she goes up and what kind of people she'll bring home. Will she turn out to be a hardcore gamer who knows all the latest stuff about MMPOGs? Will she be an athlete who prefers to be outside and active (she's fast, strong and clever)? Will she be an artist and a writer like her imaginative older sister? Flame's imagiantion is pretty strong, much like mine. All ready, she plays superheroes with her Barbie dolls and tells me short stories of heroes she has made up in her head. The villains always appear to be either Clockwork-like enemies (because "you can't call them Clockworks because you can't steal other people's stuff" Flame tells me) or generic thugs.

In the end, I take comfort that all my daughters are comfortable with technology and love the outdoors. Flame may not want much to do with me when she gets older, but for now we have our City of Heroes time... that we split with our boardgame time and our bike riding time and our reading time and our Doctor Who time.... you get the idea.

P.S. Flame has encountered the CoT ghosts and wonders why they are always white and not green like on 'Scooby Doo'. I tend to shout "It's old man Smithers!" when I see one because that gets her giggling. I hope she doesn't get the idea for short-term tribute characters because I am not weaing an ascot.

VEAT Comment - I've kept Flame ignorant to VEAT because I spend four months getting a level 50 hero on my second account so her and her sisters could fly at level 1 as an alien. If you think "Are we there yet?" is annoying on a car trip, try these on for size:

"Are you 50 yet?"

"Did you find all the glowies yet?"

"Are they all defeated yet?"

"Have you got my next level for me yet?"

"Are we in a big team yet?"

Or having to go to Pocket D and see War Witch just about everytime we login together.

Now, do those about a hundred times in a row and see if you start mumbling "Cthulhu fhtagn" under your breath like I do.

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The Elementals - Brother Frost and Sister Flame

Who Is Sister Flame?

Arc 118690 - Sibling Rivalry (Sister Flame) Tweaked 09/15/09

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i think it's perverse that uve got your kid hooked on video games already.

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Just a quick note to people not feed the trolls or goldfarmers. Espcially ones whose archenemies are Captain Grammar, Lord Spelling and Queen Misinformation (based unbiasly on the user's highly informative past posts).

Cheers.

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The Elementals - Brother Frost and Sister Flame

Who Is Sister Flame?

Arc 118690 - Sibling Rivalry (Sister Flame) Tweaked 09/15/09

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[. If you think "Are we there yet?" is annoying on a car trip, try these on for size:

"Are you 50 yet?"

"Did you find all the glowies yet?"

"Are they all defeated yet?"

"Have you got my next level for me yet?"

"Are we in a big team yet?"

Or having to go to Pocket D and see War Witch just about everytime we login together.

Now, do those about a hundred times in a row and see if you start mumbling "Cthulhu fhtagn" under your breath like I do.

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BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! I'm sorry, this is actually one of the big reasons I waited a little bit to get my daughter her own account. Because if I had to her "Moooooommmm! So-and-so already has three costume slots and WINGS!" one more time I was likely to take away her computer for a week.

Keep enjoying the time you guys have together.

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Part of Sister Flame's Clickey-Clack Posse

The English language is an intricate high-speed precision tool.Stop using it to bang open coconuts. ~Tokamak
Dark_Respite's Video page

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VEAT Comment - I've kept Flame ignorant to VEAT because I spend four months getting a level 50 hero on my second account so her and her sisters could fly at level 1 as an alien. If you think "Are we there yet?" is annoying on a car trip, try these on for size:

"Are you 50 yet?"

"Did you find all the glowies yet?"

"Are they all defeated yet?"

"Have you got my next level for me yet?"

"Are we in a big team yet?"

Or having to go to Pocket D and see War Witch just about everytime we login together.

Now, do those about a hundred times in a row and see if you start mumbling "Cthulhu fhtagn" under your breath like I do.

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Hehehe, sounds like me and Greg, save his favorite guy in the game is the Back Alley Brawler, and he once decided on making a "photo shoot" of BaB once. He used the camera emote and kept goung around him going "oh yeah, pose it, pose it, work it, work it..." told my wife he was watching too much of her "Americas Next Top Model" for his own good....

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i read every page of this and LOVE it, i just turned 17 and i want a little kid to teach and play the game with (not my own for a while mind you) maybe i can invite the lil 1st grade neighbor over for some fun and spread the game into that family

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Warms the heart reading everybody's stories in here.

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Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP

Remember kids, crack is whack!

Samuel_Tow: Your avatar is... I think I like it

Greetings all:

I know I've been answering post in this thread on a regular baiss, but I thought you would all like a quick update on Flame and her CoX experiences.

Now that she is seven and a bit, Flame's reading has much improved (thanks in part to CoX). In the past, she's needed me to read the contact's text and the mission text, but now she can do it pretty mucb by herself. It takes her a while to get through a paragraph, but she is pretty proud when she does it.

Flame is starting to realize there are stories in CoX. I tell her most of the background based upon the story arcs in the game and she thinks most of them are pretty cool. She's starting to realize that there are motivations for the NPC in the game and she finds that concept interesting.

With summer here, Flame spends most of her time outside. We still manage to play CoX about twice a week for an hour or two. This means it is slow going for levels (I think Flame is 23 now), but she is in no hurry. She really gets excited when she encounters a new villain group. Clockworks are still her favorite, but she thinks the Circle of Throns spirits are pretty neat. She still likes to go back and visit the Hollows. She keeps hoping she gets invited to a Frostfire team because she loves the Ice Slides. I've taken her to Perez Park lately to show her what it is like. She thinks the forest is okay, but a little confusing to get around in. She really likes being able to mow down piles of grey conned Skulls and Hellions. She's learned that she can use her Rain of Fire to slow their escape while to cuts them down with the rest of her powers.

I think our levels would go faster if Flame didn't split her time with CoH and CoV. There is also the "Chushwah" factor. "Chushwah" is the name of my youngest daughter's first serious toon. At 4, Princess S has decided that she would like to play CoX as well. Right now, she plays just like Flame did at her age: sitting on my lap with me steering and her firing the powres. She's gettting to the point now where her and Flame will play as a duo and do missions in Atlas Park over and over, rerolling toons as needed. It's nice to see CoX bringing siblings together.

I don't know what the future will hold for Flame and CoX. She doesn't play it as much as she use to, but she has a lot more hobbies now then she did 3 years ago. Don't takeher lack of playing time as a lack of love for CoX: Flame still loves CoX like a favorite toy and being able to fly is probally the biggest thrill for her right now.

CoX will be one of Flame's special childhood memories. Her meeting War Witch and getting a letter from her favorite hero ranks right up there with being able to ride a two wheeler and going to Disney world for the first time.

Until next time, keep it real.

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The Elementals - Brother Frost and Sister Flame

Who Is Sister Flame?

Arc 118690 - Sibling Rivalry (Sister Flame) Tweaked 09/15/09