Ironik

I'm only saying this to be helpful, so please don't take offense, but your opening is almost screamingly hilarious.

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"I am telling you Director James, we can't do it that way!"

"Prove it Doctor Slater! You are the brightest woman here when it comes to energy physics, which raises no small amount of brows when people begin to ask where you came upon such information," Director Kevin James snapped.

"I told you Director, that information is classified even to you. I told you that when we got married 15 years ago and I will say it now. I can't tell you.

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This is what writers call "expositioning," where someone will cram way too much backstory and explanation into the dialogue. Reveal your characters and story as if you're peeling an onion. Show, don't tell.

How not to do it:

"Hey, little brother, are you feeling better now that you're over your affair with your cancer doctor, who happens to be my best friend?"

"I sure am, big sis, although I do still feel bad about mom and dad dying in that train wreck when we were kids and you had to turn tricks to keep food on the table."

"Now that I'm a famous doctor with a rock'n'roll boyfriend with committment issues, that's all behind us."

"That's so true! So how's that being 3 inches shorter than me working out for you?"

"It sure is funny referring to you as my little brother!"

"Ha ha!"

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So the other personalities, they are just 'self image' of what that person would be like? Or was the original 'host' capable of such things.

I love the idea!

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Whenever another personality takes over that personality's self-image causes the body to change to match it (subconscious control of the nanomachines). The original host had no powers to speak of before the nanomachines were injected into him. The reason why the nanomachines only work for him and Reaver lie in a connected childhood experience, which I don't want to go into detail about at this time.

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Very cool, I like it.

One of my original characters from back in the day (Teen Spirit) is similar to this, except the other personalities aren't hers and she got that way via magic rather than technology. One of my newer characters is a shape-shifter (Polly Morph) who can assume any other female appearance. (Limited by the game engine, of course.)

I'm on the verge of updating my Alphabetical line-up, too, what with my new additions and deletions of others to make room for them. I'm thinking of adding the profiles, as well, since I have screenshots of most of them.

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Thanks so much for the birthday wishes guys. You are making this old Troll blush.

Hope that Kilo cake is red velvet.

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Happy b-day, dude.


...I think the red inside is actual blood....

He leads pugs? Should be easy to find him, then -- he'll smell of snacks, for that's the only way to lead pugs anywhere.

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Just wait 'til you discover that you need to log into the CoV side to get the red background for the bad guys....

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Don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but you don't have to log all the way into a character... You go to create a character, pick villain, and then go back out to the character selection. It's a lot faster.

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...assuming you have a free character slot.

What? You're surprised by that?

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A'yup.

S'not personally going to interrupt my general business on DeviantArt. Just when I'm feeling ... "brave?"

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I was "brave" once on DeviantArt. I found out that apparently Kim Possible is a lesbian and is in love with Shego.

There are some things you can't unsee...

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My brain...>_<

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Well, at least it isn't Ron going down on Drakken.

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[u]MY[u] brain!

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I'd actually rather see that than High School the Musical. I am not kidding.

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How many accounts do tyou all have? I am thinking of getting a second...Theres just nothing left I want to delete, and I have like 8 slots left! lol

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I only have the one account. I screenshot and demorecord any alts that I delete for a new idea. (I give away all their money, inspirations and salvage to lowbies when I do delete them. Usually.)

V. cool. And grats!

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I utterly agree with you.

Are there blade wielding heroes in comics?

Certainly.

Are there blade wielding heroes in comics to any extent present in ratio to the whole as to be reflected in the manner they are in CoX?

Nah.

I think they're moving further and further from comics and more to a generalized "powerful people from many genres" MMO.

I mean, using the logic of "but some heroes use blades!" or "just look at manga", I could also say that this game lacks actual vampires as heroes (present in comics), powerless heroes who still kick [censored] (See Rex Havoc), furry animals as heroes (and no, RPing a catgirl just don't cut it - I'm talking about a zoo crew. Actual human sized animals. See Pig Iron, et al), all of these things are present in comics, but hardly enough to justify their presence in-game.

I totally understood having a blade in scrapper sets.

However, having 3 out of 8 scrapper sets be blades seems slightly askew as far as representing the "comics".


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I think this is rather Marvel- and DC-centric. Those are certainly not the only comics extant, even if we're just talking about Western comics.

There's a whole thread in the Comics forum about this, and the list is pretty long, and includes some heavy hitters such as Wonder Woman, Wolverine and Nightcrawler. Then there are the cross-media comics such as Buffy, Angel and Star Wars, which have a plethora of blade-wielding characters.

I wouldn't mind a nod or two to more anthropomorphic costume pieces, as I have a couple characters who are either animals or animal-human hybrids. I'm not a catgirl fan per se, but if putting up with more catgirls allows me to play my raccoon and samurai dog toons, then I'm all for it.

I think you can easily do a vampire character, too. The costume pieces are there, as are the powersets, Dark Defenders or Scrappers.

Wow, that's keen, dude.

So this is what Wit was going on about during Tanker Tuesday....

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<^_^> All I can say is, I'm going to have so many alts its not EEEEVEN funny. This coming from a guy with 70 or so already <,< I'ma run out of servers dammit! <T_T>

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"70 or so."

They're just so gosh darn cute when they're little, aren't they?

cya!

Good luck, too!

Either way, we are through the looking glass, here.

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hmm.. is it just me, or is a large chunk of this thread missing?

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It's the part where I put on a bra and said "Look at THESE dual blades!"

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I musta missed that part....

The part thats missing is about the Avengers. like 2 pages worth of posts

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I thought I posted about Patriot of the Young Avengers having a shield. I wonder why those posts went away.

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You mentioned Leotardo ... and the stupidest mutant concept EVER.
To me anyway.

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he asked for dual blade using comic characters. Leonardo fulfills this.

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Plus, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created as a gag. As in, "What's the silliest thing we can think of to mock dark comic book characters?" No one had any idea they'd take off.

I'd say there are more precedents for dual blade-wielding comic book characters than for clawed ones or hammer users. I can't think of any mace-users offhand, but there might be one.

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There are two types of people in the world - those who think the Big, Orange Head joke is funny, and those who just don't get it.

This movie was a test of my "movie-making" tools (home made database functions). If my friend doesn't come through with a demorecord file for Boy Howdy's partner "O Man", my next one may just be the "A rabbit hops into a bar..." joke.

Unless y'all got better ideas.

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Well, I thought it was funny... and I don't get it. But that's okay. (I've never understood that joke.)

Either way, it's very well made. What music did you use?

Which day was it that your meds ran out?

That's awesome that he replied -- and the pic is nice, too.

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...or something like that.

Here's a couple of new pieces that I just did. Neither of them are directly related to CoX, but I keep trying to think of a way to create them in game. (so if anyone has any ideas...)

Anyway, here ya go.

PsySpider

Brute

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I like the pics, but sayiong "PsySpider" aloud makes me feel like I have a speech impediment.

Most people don't realize that doing titles is harder than it looks, therefore "simpler." I liked the music transition, too.

Really well done, big props. And I don't say that about too many videos.

I particularly liked the shot of the Heavy shooting the camera and it going to fuzz, the bomb dropping on the hospital, as well as the "simpler" manipulations of the titles. And they were very good titles indeed.

Also, I apologize for not getting my invasion demos to you -- the PC that had them on decided to break and I completely forgot to send you a PM about that.

Bris training school.

I like his new hat.