Those AFK messages to let people near you know that you're chatting?
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Dark Energon,
Posted on: 2012-01-25 10:33 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I've always been a huge proponent of giving hands-free devices to homeless people so they look less crazy walking down the street talking to themselves. Call it Blue-Tooth Dignity.
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Those think bubbles with 'Uberhero is typing-shhh!' or whatever are mildly annoying.
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I miss being able to use those commands to put borders around my chat boxes (or make the chatbox clear).
I can still get them to work as keybinds with pregenerated text, but not to be at the front of my text string when I hit enter to type like I used to 
Actually killed a split-personality character of mine. His 'good' side was the regular enter and was a normal black and white text box while his 'evil' personality, which was the numpad's enter button, Was a black background with a yellow border and red text (and I'd often use capslock with that one too when I had the wherewithall to do so).
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I couldn't agree more.
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I once saw a guy walking down the street with a toilet paper tube colored black with some kind of marker and taped to the side of his hat. When asked what it was, he said it was his handsfree. |
Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I've always been a huge proponent of giving hands-free devices to homeless people so they look less crazy walking down the street talking to themselves. Call it Blue-Tooth Dignity.
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I kind of believed him.
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I should so do that the next time I'm in the car so I don't get pulled over for talking on the cell.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I once saw a guy walking down the street with a toilet paper tube colored black with some kind of marker and taped to the side of his hat. When asked what it was, he said it was his handsfree.
I kind of believed him. |
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Originally Posted by Frigid_Ice_Queen
I should so do that the next time I'm in the car so I don't get pulled over for talking on the cell.
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Oh! And can I have an Arachnos Mug please? I need it to climb evil mountains.
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mine just says 'Thinking...' . This way if it takes a few before someone gets a reply, they know i'm not ignoring them, or typing an answer.
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Those think bubbles with 'Uberhero is typing-shhh!' or whatever are mildly annoying.
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I just want to auto AFk for when I am respecing or in the Tailor. I feel bad when I can't respond in a timely manner.
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I try to remember to go into /hide before I start respeccing or doing anything else where I won't be able to see the chat box for a while.
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Originally Posted by NeoSaturn
I just want to auto AFk for when I am respecing or in the Tailor. I feel bad when I can't respond in a timely manner.
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As an RPer, I find them very handy. They let me know when someone's going to say something, so I can wait and not reply before I know what they were saying/doing. It gives people more time to react to RP, and makes it much less likely that the RP will become a jumbled mess of people posting different actions to things that someone else may have already delt with.
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Those think bubbles with 'Uberhero is typing-shhh!' or whatever are mildly annoying.
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There used to be an auto-reply when you were in any fullscreen UI like the tailor or enhancement screen. I think there was some kind of bug where it spammed chat or something so the feature was removed.
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Originally Posted by NeoSaturn
I just want to auto AFk for when I am respecing or in the Tailor. I feel bad when I can't respond in a timely manner.
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Originally Posted by Rabid_M
As an RPer, I find them very handy. They let me know when someone's going to say something, so I can wait and not reply before I know what they were saying/doing. It gives people more time to react to RP, and makes it much less likely that the RP will become a jumbled mess of people posting different actions to things that someone else may have already delt with.
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I like it as well for almost the same reason, just for when your talking to friends/people and you can see they are responding to you.
Yes im one of those people who when on msn/skype and i see X is typing, i wait for them to finish
Then get annoyed when after 5 minutes of typing its only "lol" 
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The thing I find annoying is that you when you send them a tell from another zone and can't see them and therefore can't tell they're typing, you get their AFK message as an auto-response.
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Those think bubbles with 'Uberhero is typing-shhh!' or whatever are mildly annoying.
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Especially when "Uberhero" is talking on their team chat or supergroup chat, and all you see is that bubble popping up over and over.|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Those think bubbles with 'Uberhero is typing-shhh!' or whatever are mildly annoying.
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