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Cool, so you will Just god-mod your way out. nice.

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Women have, for most of human history, been taught to like being in a certain way. That doesn't mean it's a good way. "What people like" is determined by the culture in which they exist.

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Prove it.

There have been a million Years of Humans on this planet, I'm pretty sure you couldn't information get anything much further back than 8 - 10 thousand years. which a only a fraction of that existence.

apparently issues 19 - 20 of the comic do deal with the upcoming events.

i think the other thing thats irritating me in the "patriotic do gooders" that you are painting a lot of heroes to be.

most aren't, certainly here, most are playing heroes over from Europe. Mine is here to help wit the reconstruction of a country that got hit hardest by the war, but whom sent help in our darkest hour.

MY main character would be here out of repentance sake, not because she "believes in America" or any of that carp.

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Its not pink, its salmon >_<

It might sound a little messed up, but despite not being homophobic, i am very much Metrophobic

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Real men wear pink, you ponce.

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yes, yes, i know, and have hair like Tintin <rolls eyes>

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Real men are Jimmy Somerville?

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Let's just say many religions extremists and nationalists believe the US of A are trying to exterminate them - or at least everything they stand for.

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yes, but not in CoH's world, the US has Just been gutted by a war of annihilation, with massive numbers of hostile troops on home soil still, they might go after Portal corp's for contacting the rikti in the first place, or America in general for that idea, but i doubt America would be as nearly as expansionist as it is now, in CoH it is rapidly loosing the need for oil for energy as it decodes rikti tech. as as so much has been destroyed it all have to be rebuilt anyway, the infrastructure change is having to happen anyway, meny of the weights on change that are preverlent in our world would just not be there.

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...while I see it more like an added layer of cake. Sure, there are superheroes and supervillains - but while there are a lot of them, they aren't everywhere, thay can't deal with EVERY issue. Thus, there must be plenty of more mundane issues out there.


I realize many people like CoH as a simplistic world where SUper Heroes and Super Villains fight eachother or, occationally, Aliens. I simply want to have an added layer of complexity; as such a simplistic world makes me want to hurl. There are plenty of injustice in the world, and superheroes insist on trying to fix the symptoms (supervillains) rather than fix the actual disease (injusticves in society). Hierarchal systems create crime - and a super-hierarchal caste-system where some people Simply Are Better than others (superpeople - the new elite) creates super-crime. Doesn't mean there aren't greys. Or purples. Or reds. Black and white may be satisfying as a simplistic ideology, but Things Just Don't Work That Way.



...alternately, one can just view A-bom as a single madman, and everything he says or thinks as misconception and delusion. SO even if you hold to those black-and-white, simplistic silver-age-comicbook values, there's still room for A-bom.

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i not saying that, i'm saying in a world were we know we are not alone (the Keldian) and were even the lowest people could produce the next "most powerful person in the planet" not because they gain political power, but because they are born with that power in them, surely a lot more of those barriers are dropping, and while we fight the people that would sustain them, we have no choice but to ignore them for the good of the world.

and some times you argue with people just to make sure they know what they are talking about

no, there still are drugs barons, there still are terriost's, but by the same token, there are people who can survive a bomb blast, and there are distinctly unethical groups trying to control the raw powers of meta humans.

the point in the world of CoH, it's not about 3rd world farmers who can make more growing opium than corn, why take a solipsistic drug when you can become literally empowered by one of the superdyne variants? the war on traditional narcotics was relatively successful, but the superdyne and it kind mearly replaced them, so no, it didn't work, just like here.

Yes they didn't Make it up, and no the rikti haven't gone away, they still turn up every were, they had cells hidden all over for years. if they were no longer a problem, we would no longer have to combat them, Like the fifth column, they would be gone.

the point of the back ground is to give to the flavour of the game, the CIA would be out of there depth, these are global problems, the Malta are much more dangerous and competent than any real world Intelligence agency. the most of the traditional structures from our world just wouldn't be there.

as for Religious or political dissenters, I'm not saying they aren't there, but why attack someone who might vaguely disagree with you, when you are fighting something that is literally trying to exterminate you?

In the world of CoH, there are lots of people with agenda's, but they are operating on a much higher level than we would be used to, after all when do we have to account for a man that can survive a nuclear blast interfering?

well, nothing about the Malta is from Plaques, it's all from the late game story arch's.

the drugs stuff, "Why hasn't Statesman exposed the CIA drug rings in Central and South America?" well, because they no longer exist, in this world Back ally brawler and the regulators took the fight to the drug barons in South America. and took them down, the drugs have changed and moved on, "superdyne" is the biggest problem now, they aren't sure how or were it's produced, but i'm sure you've encountered the trolls, they are the result of over use of the drug.

as for guantanamo bay, o doubt it exists in this world as if your a super powered menaces you end up buried and cryogenicly frozen under boomtown, like richisman, by Statesman.

this world is both more extreme, and better off. the government has to meny obvious treats to bother making any up and have to reassure people as much a possible that things are getting better as if they were any worse people would be dead.i think this world had, with the first rikti invasion, what Adrian Vedit figured out in Watchman, that they need something to unite against, and they didn't even need to fake it.

So while political discussion is good and interesting, i don't think we can apply to much of what happens here to the CoH world, who need the great Satan of America when you have daemon'a literally appearing right out of the air?

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All the major intelligence and government agencies are there. CIA, FBI etc. and i'd assume they're still doing the covert operations and the like, just using superheroes for their 'black ops' instead of soldiers.

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they can't conscript them if that,s what you mean, they would have to be recruited like anyone else.

you need to read the Right to Might act history plaques and the back story of the Malta to get a better handle on the covert ops world of CoH.

Also, reading your site, it's good stuff, but how much of the back info have you read? while it may be annoying and spolierish, i would recommend looking up the blurb on all the history plaques for in game.

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I discussed this a little with Zortel the other evening, but wanted to get a slightly wider range of opinions....basically, how plausible do you think it would be that a Nictus becomes overpowered by their chosen/host victim and instead of dominating them, becomes dominated himself?

I felt it would tie into the character's fairly aggressive personality, but I haven't got much to really compare this to. As I understand it, Nictus are more parasites than symbiotes so the idea formed in my head quite well I think.

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i really don't think this is plausible, they would have to reject the nictus completely or be dominated by it, the nictus don't go in for bonding. they either have all the contorl or get a diffrent host.

plus you can't ever be a nictus in this game as of yet, rejecting the ways of the nictus and undergoing a bonding is what creates a warshade, Just like a natural Keldian bonding with a human creates a Peacebringer

cack word filter.

and your correct, i know alto of the Kelvin bridge's characters were, but the prevalence of lesbian characters is, i think, to do with guys playing girls.

he's in for a shock then.

i have always taken Sunstrom and shadow stars comments to mean that a new individual is crated when the two join.

a person flavored by the experience's of both the Keldian and the Human.

yeah, i mean that awful, how could you catzeh, you terrible fiend...

no, wait... that still really good, i understand it might not of come out exactly as intended, but that doesn't detract from the end result.

Aye, very nice Vixen.

((You really quite good at this aren't you. another very good chapter))

((Very good, almost makes me want to play villians))

((whispers quietly "you forgot to mention which server it's on"))

*gathers Jaw off ground*

yes, quite good, some talent there i think.

/understatement

Princess Silver

there you go, and it just takes time to work out (like 18 months here)

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However, I argue that anyone who wishes to can simply ignore both the process and the outcome of this community-wide plot."

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i would say this, while acknowledging that people can and will ignore the outcome, does say it is a community wide plot and that people must choose to ignore it, rather than choose to join in.

And for me that a problem, surely the point of plots with in the world is to make something for people to Join in on not exclude people based on what they think of heroes mixing in to politics.

But everything you do seems to be designed to provoke a reaction then you act surprised when it does?

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I just want some idea of wether there's a community out there I could actually get involved with.

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Well, fear not; there is!

In fact, Zortel is running that SpeedMeet thing in Pocket D tonight. I'll be there, you coming? Good chance to get to know other characters IC!

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what is with you people and thursdays?!?!?!?!?!????!?!?

*wanders off grumbling about people these days*

i won't be either (but am only in the back ground at the best of times) but yeah, is just not really...

hmmm, not my thing? to my taste perhaps.

Not as such, have made it part of the characters history, part of her day to day life, but mostly use than like a military decoration, shows the things she's done well.