Concerns about the new EULA

Why did you leave? Your rants were epic. Come back.

Also, this is silly. He would've posted it Saturday morning for maximum uptime!

...what the heck?

Stop being so sensible and beautiful, you beautiful, sensible man.

Yeah, but posting it on Saturday would mean he'd miss posting it on September 11th for Maximum Never Forget-ness.

As for why I left: if you are ranting at a brick wall, eventually you realize the brick wall isn't going to magically become sentient and point out you're right.

Come post on Unleashed. Please!

oh no, it's the dip!

There's a reason for that.

correct, but I tend to avoid it anyway....mostly I have a bunch of inspired by myth or inspired by anime characters without actually completely copying said anime characters (usually I mishmash ideas from multiple sources when I'm creating any character anyway....myth being a very heavy draw on origin concept for me)

Wow. I'd always assumed that was a picture of adult Peter Brady from a reunion.

Also, is it just me not being used to seeing real unibrows, or does that guy have a fake unibrow?

According to the EULA, which is what we're talking about, it DOES magically become NCSoft's. They are always within their rights to choose to not exercise their rights. In fact, the new EULA says that very thing, multiple times.

In any case - the party line has always been "If you care about such things, then don't put it to the test. However, all we really care about is that we are able to use the character freely ourselves."

Using Mercedes Lackey as an example - If NCSoft chose to publish a novel or a comic book starring Vicky Vee, there's technically nothing that Ms. Lackey could do about it other than close her account. It's highly doubtful that they WOULD do something to piss off a high profile customer like that, but the EULA lets them do it if they wanted to.

Just don't pull off a Nick Simmons now. That's a whole other legal matter

The world of professional wrestling must seem like Mars to you.

And... it probably says something good about you that it does.

People say bad things about CoH here on the official forums all the time - they're still here, and haven't been dragged off to the BAF

Time to loosen the tinfoil hat, mate. It's clearly on too tight.

Yes. Mars.

Some awesome people/events have come from it, though (my favorites being "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the Andy Kaufman stunt, Rowdy Roddy Piper's movies, and The Rock/Dwayne Johnson who I really hope will indeed one day play Black Adam).

Something like a Curry Man Dance Party might blow your mind.

Is Mars really that homoerotic?

We're playing a superhero game where 90% of the populace is in spandex.

Genres in glass houses shouldn't throw stereotypes.

The even gender split among the heros of Paragon City means there's not the same amount of raging man-love that's seen in wrestling

Peter David's X-Factor is trying to make up for the lack of superhero man-love.

Go Peter David, Go!

I've always thought that Wolverine seemed like a man's man

Well, if you ignore the "Always hanging out with teenage girls" part.

A deperately unsubtle attempt by him to hide his true feelings for Charles - although he might also be unwilling to make a move and disrupt the Charles/Magneto relationship, in case he finds himself in a love triangle.

Okay, if we're going down this road, at least do it right: It's to hide his true feelings for Cyclops. That's why there's now a Schism keeping them apart.