The City Scoop! ~ Discussion ~ June 20, 2008

Edition 53 of "The City Scoop” a publication for Supers by Supers!

Looks like a full issue of “The City Scoop!” We have market watch, base showcase, some regular editorial features, and Flavor. What is your favorite part of the Scoop, we’d love to hear your feedback.

If you have concerns regarding the content of the Scoop please direct your comments via PM to Lighthouse or Ex Libris.

If you would like to do a feature article, have an event covered, or join "The City Scoop" team please PM Snow_Globe or Pants_Stealer

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Finally if you have a Classified Ad you would like included please contact: LadyK

Discussion on the latest edition of "The City Scoop" is located here.

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Wait a second, what's wrong with Soul Train's skirt? It looks like it's turned 90 degrees!

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Wait a second, what's wrong with Soul Train's skirt? It looks like it's turned 90 degrees!

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You win an internet.

Or a cookie.

Choose wisely!

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-STEELE =)


Allied to all sides so that no matter what, I'll come out on top!
Oh, and Crimson demands you play this arc-> Twisted Knives (MA Arc #397769)

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Wait a second, what's wrong with Soul Train's skirt? It looks like it's turned 90 degrees!

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You win an internet.

Or a cookie.

Choose wisely!

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I want... <hurk!> <Owie!> Stop that!

<sigh> Ok, I can't say [u]exactly[u] what I want with regards to that image.

But no one can take that mental image from me.

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Peterpeter,

thats a great market article. Love the graphs.

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@Catwhoorg "Rule of Three - Finale" Arc# 1984
@Mr Falkland Islands"A Nation Goes Rogue" Arc# 2369 "Toasters and Pop Tarts" Arc#116617

It is, actually. I just checked the market for the first two and the prices looked similar. (Heck, at the rate they are selling, I'm sure some of the numbers were the same ones he read off.)

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I liked the comic. Always funny to see cave missions on a building door or vice versa.

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I've been attempting to contact the City Scoop. I have a base I'd like to submit for consideration in the Base Showcase article.

Both of my PMs have gone unanswered.

If you guys think I'm a jerk and don't want to have anything to do with me I'm ok with that, but could you at least reply to my PM and let me know that?

Thank you.

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WHOOT! A big thanks to the City Scoop! staff for their continued efforts in producing these newsletters. And thank you for spotlighting our SGs :-)

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Legion of Valor / Fallen Legion (Victory server)
http://legionofvalor.guildportal.com / http://fallenlegion.guildportal.com

Pagan Priest - L50 Dark/Dark Defender

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I've been attempting to contact the City Scoop. I have a base I'd like to submit for consideration in the Base Showcase article.

Both of my PMs have gone unanswered.

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Sorry for the delay, reply sent.

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Snow is not the only Editor in Chief, so don't hesitate to shoot me a PM, too.

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I've been attempting to contact the City Scoop. I have a base I'd like to submit for consideration in the Base Showcase article.

Both of my PMs have gone unanswered.

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Sorry for the delay, reply sent. You jerk!

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Fixed.



I keed I keed.

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Snow is not the only Editor in Chief, so don't hesitate to shoot me a PM, too.

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Pantsy keeps me honest.

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Peterpeter,

thats a great market article. Love the graphs.

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Thank you. It didn't work out quite the way I had hoped, so I'm very glad it was still worth reading.

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Avatar: "Cheeky Jack O Lantern" by dimarie

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Snow is not the only Editor in Chief, so don't hesitate to shoot me a PM, too.

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Pantsy keeps me honest.

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But you don't want to know how.

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It's her Sled!

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Self Proclaimed KING of Radiation
My Post count is > Dave Winfield
The Smoking Lounge. Saturdays @ Midnight on The Switch

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I liked the comic. Always funny to see cave missions on a building door or vice versa.

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Gotta agree. That was my favorite comic in the Scoop yet! Way to go!

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re: Confederate Statesmen (Don't actually know him in-game)

Sounds like a fan of the "Great War" series of novels by Harry Turtledove. Same premise: Confederate States survives as a nation and takes part in the first and second world wars. There was a mention of a Confederate Super-hero called "Hyperman". (Counter-point to Superman)

The names and the costume probably could have used some work, but it is a neat idea. Even though crossovers have a stigma of being unoriginal.

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"Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind.
In heaven and earth I alone am to be revered."
- Motto on the war banner of Takeda Shingen (1521-1573)

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re: Confederate Statesmen (Don't actually know him in-game)

Sounds like a fan of the "Great War" series of novels by Harry Turtledove. Same premise: Confederate States survives as a nation and takes part in the first and second world wars. There was a mention of a Confederate Super-hero called "Hyperman". (Counter-point to Superman)

The names and the costume probably could have used some work, but it is a neat idea. Even though crossovers have a stigma of being unoriginal.

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Huh, really? I just always found the versions of Statesman to be incompetent (especially Imperious, freaking fool). And I just wondered how I could mess up Statesman even more, especially with a huge beard. Just the whole image of Statesman as a stereotypical Southerner seems funny to me, and I think it's even funnier if Recluse was a bird-man. But thanks for pointing that out.

DISCLAIMER: When I say versions of Statesman, I in no way am referring the developer, lest I be smote with furious vengeance and get my account revoked.

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Actually Richter being "Union" and Cole being "Confederate" makes sense. Cole is a very southern/western name, while Stephan was from a family of European immigrants which would have probably settled in the Northern States.

Because the split in America, the British and French sided with the Confederates while the Union allied itself with Imperial Germany. The irony was Imperial Germany never fell because of this and as a result of losing the first world war the Confederates becames the Nazis, with their own holocaust.

It's funny if you actually made that up off the cuff just for the article. Though it wouldn't suprise me if someone made (has made) a similar character.

Although Kaiser Nixon did seem like something out of Futurama.

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"Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind.
In heaven and earth I alone am to be revered."
- Motto on the war banner of Takeda Shingen (1521-1573)

Suggestion: Get two people to write the Point / Counterpoint article. As it is, the counterpoint usually comes off sounding a bit like, "here are some objections I've heard, but they obviously don't outweigh the original argument made in the Point section."

In this week's Counterpoint, for example, I don't think enough was made of the fact that players on a trial account won't be able to experience the game as most players do. They'll barely be able to use the market at all, and they'll have to depend on the kindness of complete strangers to even see a base.

Also, I think the most glaring problem with the trial account nerfs was completely left out: the fact that when a trial account player does make a friend, the lack of tells means that they have to literally hunt them down in order to initiate a conversation with them. Try to hunt someone down sometime that has no clue that you're looking for them. Don't use any travel powers; trial accounts are capped at 13, so they won't have them. You might get lucky and run across them in one of the usual places. If the person you're looking for is in their base or a mission, you're SOL. Also, the Draconian way that the change was implemented with virtual assets being deleted of people who had already been playing on trial accounts wasn't mentioned.

I mean, come on, is "This can be a strong incentive to start a full access account" really supposed to be a Counterpoint? Shoot, that sounds more like it belongs in the Point section.

I'm not saying that the things I mentioned outweigh the benefits of the changes, but I think the article would be orders of magnitude better if it's written from two genuinely independent points of view.

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

How can you have a list of top ten spoilers without: HE is Keyser Soze!

I guess "He was dead all along" refers to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, but when I first saw it, I thought of Tim Robbins in another of my favorite movies, Jacob's Ladder. It applies equally well.

Fun filler article, though; nice job.

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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)

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Peterpeter,

thats a great market article. Love the graphs.

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Yes, good work.
Thanks a lot.

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I liked the comic. Always funny to see cave missions on a building door or vice versa.

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Gotta agree. That was my favorite comic in the Scoop yet! Way to go!

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Oh thanks a ton for saying so

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