Discussion: Vote for City of Heroes Freedom at Massively!
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Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2012-06-18 11:42 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Why is that ironic? The operators of the game can do all sorts of things we aren't allowed to do. That would be like saying its ironic that Paragon Studios encourages players to pay for subscriptions when all its employees get one for free.|
Originally Posted by Chyll
yeah, the irony of self-promotion through comparison when we can't compare is somewhat tasty.
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Its ironic that irony is the word most ironically misused.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
This is a hilariously pathetic justification.
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It's not a justification.
It's pointing out that you were wrong.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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Yes, by all means proclaim glorious victory based on niggling semantic technicalities, Clarence Darrow.|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
It's not a justification.
It's pointing out that you were wrong. |
The fact is if a player had posted this thread it would've been locked in five seconds.
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Nonsense. Players have posted links to websites running a poll that included City of Heroes as well as other games, without being locked or removed.
Some of them have even been polls about the same three games as this one.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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pfah. Is it perfect irony? No, but there remains at some level irony. |
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Why is that ironic? The operators of the game can do all sorts of things we aren't allowed to do. That would be like saying its ironic that Paragon Studios encourages players to pay for subscriptions when all its employees get one for free.
Its ironic that irony is the word most ironically misused. |
Our general direction: "You may not compare here."
The specific direction: "Go there and compare."
We are presented with a defined substance of allowed behavior within these boards that is then contradicted by direct instruction from within the same boards.
And 'their rules on the boards' is handwavium.
I remain amused, but it is also no more significant than that.
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He posted a link to a Leaderboard article on another site where they pit our costume creator against those from two other MMO's. He didn't even say what MMO's or if they are in the same genre as CoH.
Of course, those of us that have been to the site know that they are in the same genre and are indeed CO and DCUO, but Hit Streak didn't compare or contrast either game with ours, or even the costume creators in the games.
He merely mentioned a site running a poll and suggested we go there vote for CoH: Freedom.
However, Hit Streak's link does directly promote comparison - voting inheritly implies comparison/contrast.
And, if a thread devoted to making explicit comparisons and contrasts of the three editors at issue was started, I predict it would be shutdown quickly. But, by all means go vote, we are encouraged... It remains an ironic contrast, in my mind.