Ponderables


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Things I wonder about while I play...

* If CoH Civillians are immune to falling damage... why are there railings?

* Does the Paragon American Kennel Club ONLY recognize German Shepherds as an official breed?

* Do Praetorian characters only go up to 20th level because the Enriche Corporate office refuses to allow beverage competition from the Well of the Furies?

* If Statesman is going to die... can I have all his stuff?

* Why does he live on an island filled with sychophants, toadies and hangers-on... yet still call himself Recluse?

* If there are NO heroes around to save them why do the civillians in the Rogue Isles seem LESS fearful of villains than their Paragon counterparts?

* If the news guy in front of the train station was just going to yell out to everyone passing about the possibilities of time travel... then why did they Entrust him with the Secret?

* Why does Percy Winkley have a poster of Darrin Wade over his bed?

* Shouldn't anyone with the Time Manipulation power set get Entrusted with the Secret automatically?

* If you get Time Manipulation does that mean you can help me get my Blu-Ray player to stop flashing and tell the correct time?

* After an entire play session of keeping an eye on it... just exactly why DO they call it the Help Channel?

* Why does the Paragon Municipal government use the Free Farm system? Wouldn't food stamps have been easier? And... judging by the number of people I see begging for it... is the Free Farm system capable of feeding everyone who needs it?

* Since they're just over-enthusiastic LARPers anyway... What would happen if you yelled "Critical Fumble!" just as a Warrior began his swing?

* Where do Freakshow shove the batteries that keep their suits running?

* Why do you have to hit Sally TWICE before you believe?

* So now Sister Psyche has a voice in her head that constantly tries to usurp her control, get her in trouble and generally ruin her life... and this is different from most women... how?

* If Fusionette and Percy Winkley ever had a kid... would anyone ever be able to find it? And if they COULD find it... would it be an honorary MAGI vault guard since birth?


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All valid questions. Here's what puzzles me...

If a red-conning boss can put my hero in the hospital, why is he having so much trouble taking a purse away from a civilian? It's like a tug-of-war match when, from the villain's perspective, it should be like stepping on a bug.


 

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
Things I wonder about while I play...

* If CoH Civillians are immune to falling damage... why are there railings?

Because everyone else isn't immune to Falling Damage

* Does the Paragon American Kennel Club ONLY recognize German Shepherds as an official breed?

Since when does Paragon City have a kennel club?


* Do Praetorian characters only go up to 20th level because the Enriche Corporate office refuses to allow beverage competition from the Well of the
Furies?

Didn't you know that Enriche is actually bottled well water?Just look at the Civilians in TPN.

* If Statesman is going to die... can I have all his stuff?

No.

* Why does he live on an island filled with sychophants, toadies and hangers-on... yet still call himself Recluse?

Answered above, he's named for the spider


* If there are NO heroes around to save them why do the civillians in the Rogue Isles seem LESS fearful of villains than their Paragon counterparts?

Cause the Rogue Isles are actually a safer place to live than Paragon, why else would Longbow be so interested in it?


* If the news guy in front of the train station was just going to yell out to everyone passing about the possibilities of time travel... then why did they Entrust him with the Secret?

no idea

* Why does Percy Winkley have a poster of Darrin Wade over his bed?

cause he has a bromance with Wade


* Shouldn't anyone with the Time Manipulation power set get Entrusted with the Secret automatically?

technically time manipulation isn't time traveling

* If you get Time Manipulation does that mean you can help me get my Blu-Ray player to stop flashing and tell the correct time?

Sorry but that's impossible to do


* After an entire play session of keeping an eye on it... just exactly why DO they call it the Help Channel?

it helps people communicate with each other

* Why does the Paragon Municipal government use the Free Farm system? Wouldn't food stamps have been easier? And... judging by the number of people I see begging for it... is the Free Farm system capable of feeding everyone who needs it?

Probably, after all it does generate nearly infinite resources


* Since they're just over-enthusiastic LARPers anyway... What would happen if you yelled "Critical Fumble!" just as a Warrior began his swing?

He'd get a crtitcal hit, all
the laws of gaming support this.


* Where do Freakshow shove the batteries that keep their suits running?

Between their shoulder blades


* Why do you have to hit Sally TWICE before you believe?

The first time was a Fluke

* So now Sister Psyche has a voice in her head that constantly tries to usurp her control, get her in trouble and generally ruin her life... and this is different from most women... how?

Good question.

* If Fusionette and Percy Winkley ever had a kid... would anyone ever be able to find it? And if they COULD find it... would it be an honorary MAGI vault guard since birth?
That would be impossible with the Vault having been destroyed.

I put my responses in bold.


 

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I put my responses in bold.
/foghorn leghorn

It's a joke, Son, Ah say, Ah say, it's a JOKE!

/foghorn leghorn


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* So now Sister Psyche has a voice in her head that constantly tries to usurp her control, get her in trouble and generally ruin her life... and this is different from most women... how?
Had you said from most people I would not have found this sexist.


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/foghorn leghorn

It's a joke, Son, Ah say, Ah say, it's a JOKE!

/foghorn leghorn

and most of my responses are jokes as well.


 

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Things I wonder about while I play...


* So now Sister Psyche has a voice in her head that constantly tries to usurp her control, get her in trouble and generally ruin her life... and this is different from most women... how?
Quote of the day!


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Quote of the day!
I cannot argue that logic. You win. Hard.


 

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Had you said from most people I would not have found this sexist.

Yeah, that was my reaction too.


 

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* Shouldn't anyone with the Time Manipulation power set get Entrusted with the Secret automatically?

No, not necessarily - my time manipulator only goes so far as to have plenty of the stuff, but doesn't have any ability to travel through it at any rate other than one second per second. It does, however, mean that countdown timers on missions ought to be much more ignorable than they are.


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Yeah, that was my reaction too.
Indeed. Thumbs down on this. Way down!


 

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* So now Sister Psyche has a voice in her head that constantly tries to usurp her control, get her in trouble and generally ruin her life... and this is different from most women... how?
Quoted for being true of every single female I've ever met. Nothing sexist about stating facts.


 

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Quoted for being true of every single female I've ever met. Nothing sexist about stating facts.
So you're saying that you've met every single female human on the planet?


 

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I think it's pretty reasonable to extrapolate that the women I've met are not all from some specially-selected pool of trained crazies. My sample size might be small, but it's all the available evidence I have to work with.

The fact that a large percentage of those professing to be women online have the same hair-trigger reaction to anything short of fawning worship from men reinforces my theory.


 

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* Why does he live on an island filled with sychophants, toadies and hangers-on... yet still call himself Recluse?
Because "Teh Mantula" was taken.

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* Why do you have to hit Sally TWICE before you believe?
Fool me once - badge on you; fool me twice - badge on me.


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I think it's pretty reasonable to extrapolate...
No, it isn't reasonable at all. And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.


 

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And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
Thank you for proving my point.


 

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Thank you for proving my point.
If that point was that you have no idea what you're talking about, then you're entirely welcome.


 

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No, it isn't reasonable at all. And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
Do you find it difficult to make broad generalizations? When you see a forest can you not say that it's a bunch of trees in spite of all the animals, rocks, and shrubbery therein?


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Do you find it difficult to make broad generalizations? When you see a forest can you not say that it's a bunch of trees in spite of all the animals, rocks, and shrubbery therein?
We're not talking about a bunch of trees or the weather, here. We're talking about people. Hello?

If someone is going to tell me that all women are crazy, I think I'm going to have to at least ask for what evidence they have for making such an assertion.


 

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We're not talking about a bunch of trees or the weather, here. We're talking about people. Hello?
And? People can be generalized just as easily as anything else. People are a bunch of two-legged nutters. See?

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If someone is going to tell me that all women are crazy, I think I'm going to have to at least ask for what evidence they have for making such an assertion.
You'd be crazy to expect such evidence to exist and thus to be presented, which itself may be taken as evidence.


Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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And? People can be generalized just as easily as anything else. People are a bunch of two-legged nutters. See?

You'd be crazy to expect such evidence to exist and thus to be presented, which itself may be taken as evidence.
I've kind of noticed that you tend to generalize everything to the point of meaninglessness though, spiked with snarky one-liners. I'm not at all sure how I'm supposed to take that seriously.