Golden Girl
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Quote:And as an amusing link from that Lovecraft thread, the story "The Street", which features Eastern Ruopean immigrants in a very bad light, mentions a bakery set up by one of them who'who has the name "Petrovich"Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
That's sort of the point I was making, actually.
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Quote:That's a semi-Godwin.Originally Posted by _eeek_
Austria
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Quote:It sounds more like a Praetorian one.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
My surname is German
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Quote:Easy there, Howard.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
they were all first-generation immigrants. Like I said earlier, it's not a gang, it's an invasion.
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Quote:Well, they do mention that they have a drinking porblem, although vodka isn't mentioned.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
I keep expecting the new Skulls to say "In Russia, bears much smaller. Also more hair. Less lurking. Always eager to wrestle."
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I like the idea of developer voiced trailers to explain new sets - is this going to be a new thing for the future, or just a one-off for this set?
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Quote:She should actually be the end boss for a TF - Crey is quite a big villain group, so she deserves a suitably epic encounter.Originally Posted by Zamuel
I actually don't mind this since Countess Crey is supposed to mostly keep her hands clean. It could stand to have a cutscene of some form at least acknowledging that she's purposely staying out of the way. It would also be nice if the later story arc where you do take her down was easier to get.
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Quote:Check out the Incarnate Trials thenOriginally Posted by Agent White
I don't care which nazis I'm punching honestly, I just want to punch them in different ways and not just repeating the same map multiple times
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Quote:Fixed.
"Did grandmother take long giving you stupid haircut?"
"You like artist. Now do artist thing with haircut. You embarrass to me."
"Think fast, I get sick looking at your hair!" -
Quote:As it's available free to every single player, I'm not sure why you think the devs might be trying to promote it or get it to catch on.Originally Posted by Xzero45
It's called "Doofus". It's also on some of the new Family members. The devs keep using it, thinking it's good and it'll catch on. It won't. It's awful.
If you'd said it about the male Club Hair, which every single player has to buy, then that would at least have made some kind of sense. -
Quote:Just imagine a gang of Count von Counts.Originally Posted by Disappearing Girl
I like the update. Not so much the accents if all their voices have changed as per thread but like the pictures.
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On the last coffee talk, they said that they new Skulls mask was going to be in a 2nd Halloween costume bundle.
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Quote:I'm assuming that they're implying that the main language on Axis Earth is now German, and almost 70 years after the Nazis won, Reichsman would have picked up an accent.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
But not that many. The Reichsman thing is really confusing though since Reichsman was still born a U.S. citizen unless Marcus Cole became THAT naturalized.
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Quote:Actually, several of them have them - especially ReichsmanOriginally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
even the Fifth Column is lacking in German accents.
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Quote:We've got plenty on monarchist villain groups alreadyOriginally Posted by Zombie Man
That's all very racist unless they have a more diverse ethnic gangs, like a Liechtensteinian group of monarchists.
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Quote:They've always been run by the Petrovic family, who had a Slavic background - but the minions haven't been shown to be Eastern Europeans until now.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Have the Skulls always been an ethnic gang? That shizzle is news to me.
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Quote:Actually, the models weren't unfinished - the "sexy Flanders" look was intended for lower level mages and minions, and the minions had visible human faces - after the player feedback, the new CoT man-skirts were added to all levels, and all visible human faces were replaced by black masks with glowing eyes.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
fixt
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Quote:The older models and textures would clash too much with the newer ones.Originally Posted by TheJazMan
I like the new look.
My question is why don't they keep the old and new? It gives more variety (kinda).
I wondered the same thing for the CoT. The old and new would have given us much more variety. The classic old look robes could have been the lower ranks and so on. -
The new Skulls look great - they've added some new shades of blue to go with their traditional black, gray and white, their masks now look properly like human skulls, and the whole revamp has really helped to move them away from looking like reskinned Hellions.
Plus, Hollywood-style Eastern European accents, the big increase in references to Slavic mythology and the subtle vampire vibe that the new named bosses give off really makes them into a unique gang now.
Kings Row is also a more brutal place now - there are a lot of spawns of the Skulls kicking PPD officers and members of the Lost on the ground, large-scale stand-offs between Skulls and the PPD, Skull knife fights, the Lost with kidnapped citizens, CoT with summoned Hordeling Lashers, and lots more homeless NPCs - the revamped spawns make the whole zone feel like the police have lost their grip. -
As another semi-on topic thing, the Skulls revamp that's currently on the Beta server has them talking in broken English to represent them as being mostly drawn from the Eastern European community in Paragon City.
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The first 2 wouldn't really change the story much, as the results would still be the same - but the 3rd one would make I24 difficult
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Yeah, Lovecraft is still an awesome writer - but it's important not to be ignorant about what lay behind a lot of his writing - or to ignore the rather uncomfortable fact that it's very likely that works of HPL wouldn't have been the same without his obsessive racisim that helped to drive his creativity.
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Quote:See aboveOriginally Posted by SlickRiptide
So your opinion is that the descriptions in The Horror at Red Hook do not serve the ends of the story and are simply gratuitous?
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The wikipedia entry for ""The Horror at Red Hook" has a quote from his wife about his reaction to parts of New York:
"Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage. He seemed almost to lose his mind."
One more wacky fact from the zany world of HPL - his wife actually had Eastern European and Jewish acestors
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Although they're too disgusting and vile to post here, I'd suggest anyone who wants to check out some of Lovecraft's "wittiest" quotes on race look for the Tumblr page called "Fhtagn Yeah - Xenophobic Lovecraft" to see them collected in semi-meme form.
WARNING: They're pretty extreme.
After reading them, re-read "The Horor at Red Hook".