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Originally Posted by Sigium
...My question to the community is... How does your alter ego look? The person behind the smoke and the mirrors in the land of Oz? Is there a big, bad gargoyle behind the wizard, or just someone humble who loves life and loves to laugh? Do you think you'd make a good place in that article?
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We are playing a game about the superhero genre.
As far as I recall, in that genre people put on masks when they fight wrong doing because if their faces were revealed it would would mean that bad things would occur to them during the time that they were not wearing a mask including the possible injury, maiming, or death of their families, close friends, co-workers, or innocent by-standers.
Of course, some want us to pull off the mask.
I have to say this - the mask is there for a reason.
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yeah we discussed this before but its a good topic regardless. a lot of us were taken by the swg guy, his real body limited him, but in swg he got to be free, that was touching. As for my avatars, i tend to be as far from myself as possible, but rian does share some comparisons with myself, both martial artists, both tried to join the priesthood(he joined, i wussed out), he is a comical goofball, and ya know , he even looked similar to me in his second and fourth costume(though with a better waistline, and slightly thinner arms), but since as a normal guy, even modestly athletic , low level hellions with uzi's would end it fast, i like the idea of adding mythological creatures on top of existing people, a facilitator to enable an intention. a dragon certainly would be stronger than a few twits with guns, and dragons look cool, so there you go, similar enablers involved angels, genies, werewolves, mermaids, robots and power-suits, and the ever-popular scientifically engineered plant woman.. plus when i got the game, and the reason i have stayed 5 1/2 years later is the costume creator freedom. if i wanted to play a certain game style but look a certain way, i was free to do so, no race limitations, no armor limits, i wore what i wanted, so poof, im still here. and here shall remain till someone does it better. especially since bab's little home run with issue 16 was more than i expected.
(and for those wondering, champs does it pretty good too, im there too, as a lifer, but it does things coh cant, and coh does thing champs doesnt, so I dont see a clear winner there)
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Originally Posted by Orion_Star_EU
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Of course
I have 3 that are like permanent, and the other 2 slots get used for seasonal or event outfits.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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This quote right here ended my interest in the study, though I read down to the end, anyway. I guess I'm just an exception, as I never, not ever, tried to insert myself into any of my stories, dreams or indeed games. I don't make characters that resemble myself, largely because I'm constantly trying to reshape myself into something I like better, and so my characters simply never reflect me in any intentional way. I do have a character, my namesake, in fact, who was designed as sort of an image of myself long, long ago, whom I have retained as something of a snapshot of my state of mind then, but whom I have also flanderised to such a point that THAT particular aspect left with the early birds.| There are now an estimated 10 million online gamers across the globe. Each one has an online identity, a personally created character representing them in their virtual world. |
While I know this isn't interesting to anyone whatsoever, I hide nothing and pretend nothing in my "online persona." Who I am, act like and introduce myself here on the forums and in-game is who I am in real life. Physicality doesn't really matter around these parts (part of what makes the SWG kid's story so touching), nor does normalcy, as we can tell the stories we know would never happen, so I tend to not care about what people look like in real life.
All I know is I don't have an online persona, with all of my characters designed as puppets in a puppetmaster's interactive theatre. They don't represent me. If anything could ever be said to represent me, it is the narrative, itself. Which no-one reads, anyway.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I'm probably more like myself online than I am in person
edit: although I do punch less people in the face IRL
@craggy see me on Union for TFs, SFs (please!) or just some good ol fashioned teaming.
You can order pizza from right in the game??
I don't know if I should laugh, cry or be jealous...
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Only if they wanted to mention two of my characters. I have my main character, who runs a big SG and whose name is also my forum name. This is the character I play the most and that people identify me with - and he looks nothing like me.|
Originally Posted by Sigium
My question to the community is... How does your alter ego look? The person behind the smoke and the mirrors in the land of Oz? Is there a big, bad gargoyle behind the wizard, or just someone humble who loves life and loves to laugh? Do you think you'd make a good place in that article?
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Later on, I decided to make a character with some resemblance to me. Accordingly, I gave him the mustache and beard I have. I think it's called Gunslinger in the costume designer. But I don't play this guy as much and he's not in one of the SG's that I run.
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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I'm interested in the wording there on that quote - "...representing them..."|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
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It isn't written "...that looks like them..." or "...acts like them..."
It seems to say that when a player plays in a virtual world they select their own avatar. Even a randomly generated outfit has to be picked by the player before they enter the game.
I understand that they are trying to find something behind the way that players pick certain characters to play;
- Does the bully always play a Tank?
- Does the little kid that feels powerless always play a Tank?
- What does it say about players that want to play characters of the composite sex, aliens, robots, plants, etc?
They might even be trying to trace behavioral differences in-game versus out of game.
The obvious is comparing physical similarities or formulated reoccurring differences between player and avatar.
At any rate, if people want to run around the streets of Paragon City and aren't worried about being caught on the PCTV news then good for them!
I'm going to keep my mask on!
I'm in character - well, RP-casual at least!
There were quite a few CoH players in that. Awesome.
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I found it interesting that every single one was located outside the U.S. A nice spotlight for the EU players, for sure, but they couldn't even dredge up ONE U.S. player?
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Originally Posted by FizRep
There were quite a few CoH players in that.
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Every char I make eventually gets a costume that looks just like me. Back in the day with the old wrestling games for PS2, then later on in AoC, now in CoX, prety much any game I play with a char creator I'll make a replica of myself. Guess I'm just narcissistic......or awesome....nah both =P
that was a good read, thanks OP!
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This quote right here ended my interest in the study, though I read down to the end, anyway. I guess I'm just an exception, as I never, not ever, tried to insert myself into any of my stories, dreams or indeed games.
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In this context, I believe it to simply mean, X stands for Y.
For example, I'm making a count of how many people have posted to this thread. I have a tally mark on a piece of paper for each person. This tally mark in specific represents you, since you posted.
Am I to assume from this simple tally mark that you are a two-dimensional line? That you are only one color? No. It's a tally mark. It doesn't mean anything other than it stands for you in my little count.
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
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Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
There are only two characters in my stable that even remotely resemble me in real life. And even they don't look anything like me except for gender, hair color, and skin tone. All my other characters are of completely different races, genders, etc. And with the possible exceptions of the werewolf, the two robots, and the demon I've made, all my characters are infinitely prettier than I will ever be. And I like it that way.
Storm Summoning is great because it makes you better than everyone else in the game. - Camma
Knockback is mitigation. It won't be removed just because meleers ***** and moan. - Chaos Creator
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Of course
I have 3 that are like permanent, and the other 2 slots get used for seasonal or event outfits. |
I thought you used the 5th for that gig you got in Nerva on friday nights...
Thelonious Monk
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I thought you used the 5th for that gig you got in Nerva on friday nights...
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
There's particular aspects of me in my main characters, but the fun part is getting to play out the traits to the extreme in-game. I'm a small guy, and I am overly fascinated with both the physical power that I do -not- have, as well as focusing on what I do have, which in comic terms would be something like psionics.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
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lol, GG is a closet redsider!!! Embrace your inner ebiiiiiiiiiiiilllllll!!! XD
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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So, I was browsing via the terror of my time that is 'Stumbleupon' when I came up with this little gem:
http://gawno.com/2009/11/alter-ego-o...mers-revealed/
Normally I would've blown right through it and stumbled onward, but I was caught by the first picture of two people who play CoH! What a joy! It's good to know that the game still exists beyond our community (I joke, of course.)
I found roughly 4-5 people in that article who play City of Heroes/Villains and found it to be rather interesting to hear how their alter egos stack up against them.
My question to the community is... How does your alter ego look? The person behind the smoke and the mirrors in the land of Oz? Is there a big, bad gargoyle behind the wizard, or just someone humble who loves life and loves to laugh? Do you think you'd make a good place in that article?