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Holy CRAP! I giggled my butt of at THAT one! I love GEORGE!!
OK all, I've mellowed out and can accept all the "gay" comments in with a smirk and a sigh. If the women think he looks hot, cool! If there are some dudes that think he's hot...it'll be a compliment. All's fair in love and art! I just wanted to apologize for coming across as a crab-[censored] without a sense of humor. I DO love you all!
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In that non-threatening, purely platonic and socially acceptable manner. >cough< >cough<
What?
Good to see this discussion hasn't fished anyone's mind out of the gutter. 
Neat character, too. I especially like the stealing from his father take and the poke at Zeus' prolifity. 
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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Thanks! I really had fun coming up with the concept and having it mesh with an established CoX character.
This has inspired me to roll up my own diety, still undecided on what it will be, tho. I've been addicted to Brutes lately, maybe a /WP brute.
ITT: Homophobia-phobia.
Coming from someone who *worked* in a primarily Gay oriented BDSM leathershop, lemme tell you. This isn't the openly gay guy. This is the guy who's desperately trying to convince himself that he's hetero while loving the company of military boys.
I mean common sense here. This was just asking for it. True there's a lot of bigotry and hatred in the world, but there's just as much over-reaction to perceived slights as well. People need thicker skin overall.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN
Well I wouldn't necessarily say that Majesty's character was just "asking" for it. I mean, the atmosphere of these forums is such that while some posted art is just "asking" for some critique, few if any people will say anything other than "nice" or "awesome" so it's really difficult to get any sort of discussion going over a particular piece. I think this sort of fear goes back to Jomaro's testy reaction when Sayterra critiqued his painted colors on Halley's Comet piece a few years back and did a few mods to explain and show how a particular technique would make the piece pop more.
Given that criticism (even constructive criticism) is self-suppressed out of fear of offending artists/owners and causing a flaming ruckus of poop-flinging that you see in other sections of the forums, I don't quite see how it's just asking for it. I mean there are plenty of designs that've come across these boards but few if any folks ever make questionable comments, let alone any sort of real helpful feedback. True, maybe the OP could've explained his thoughts behind the design and what he was shooting for, but until there's a movement/effort that somehow encourages more than just one word commentary so that maybe statements like TA's *don't* look out of the norm then I dunno. I personally don't comment a whole lot on other people's collections/commissions because they more often than not don't care to hear about that sort of thing. I think that mindset is unfortunate, because this hobby is frakkin' expensive and in tight times like these, I'd like to see people getting their money's worth and amateur artists who don't charge more for their work than professionals do. Hell, I remember someone threatened to kick my @$$ for teasing his girlfriend over a pretty trivial comment that was less innocuous than TA's on dA. But yeah, I don't think Majesty was over-reacting and really looking back over the whole thing there was nearly as much drama over the whole matter. Heck, the fact that it was resolved so neatly kinda shows how much better this section of the forums is at handling confrontation than other sections do. *shrugs*
For a "gold like" aura I've always been partial to the halo/sun disk effect you can get with Glowing Aura-> head.
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I agree with this. I always try to encourage constructive criticism because it helps me, as an artist, grow and improve. The few times I've tried to give it in the past, though, I've gotten unfriendly responses. While I like hearing "Nice work" from people, none of us here are so good that we can't still improve, and "nice work" doesn't help us in any way to aspire to be better.
Discussions about techniques, color schemes and yes, even subject matter, should be encouraged more.
Just my opinion.
People want to think they live in a perfect little vacuum where they can be praised all day on everything they do. It's pretty sad to see really, since there's a lot of potential learning that could be done on many sides if people were more open to just speaking their minds.
Nobody is ever going to get along with everyone else. Human nature and all that, but holding it back also does nobody any good either.
But the majority of the people here want to live in their bubble, so I abide by that decision. ...for the most part. Of course when I see people actively looking for a fight over something that should be common sense, then I'll speak up. This *was* asking for it. There's few other people here more qualified to say that than I.
TA wasn't being mean or rude in his original comment and there was no need to bust his chops over it. Mr. Majesty was clearly in the wrong on this and it's [censored] if anyone else wants to try and hide that. Grow a thicker skin about the things you're clearly baiting people on.
There's *nothing* wrong with being gay, bi, pan or a-sexual. But there is something wrong with overreacting to things that aren't even insulting at you. SoZ flames. Hard. So? Accept it and move on.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN
Would you mind giving it a rest. I've apologized already. 
Well if anything...
Everyone knows who "Scion of Zeus" is now 
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Everyone knows who "Scion of Zeus" is now
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True dat!
This whole thread reminds me of this skit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUcMJFKZEM
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