Ironik

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I'm a burner.

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That's pure awesome. You should add it to the screenshot thread.

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Old list of characters that badly needs updating

Meh. I have over 140 characters now, so it's going to take some time before I can update my list. Anyway, feel free to browse through these to see if there's anything you like. Don't force yourself if you don't want to. It is a long list after all.

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Some of those links are broken. I forgot about Orbital Hammer -- love that name and the look.

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I'm sorry.

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It's the pretty colors that do it for me.

Heh.

I've seen a lot of screenshots that are cool. I want to see them all in one place, and I've been missing the Screenshot of the Day thread since it went bye-bye. Let's see 'em!

Ka-zapp! I don't recall who the hero is (this was taken in October of '05), but I caught the energy blast at the right moment and the framing is nice.

Gothikus. One of my Scrappers hanging out in front of the hospital. No idea why I took this, but it's an unusual shot.

Eleventeen. My little Tank helping one of Dr. Vahzilok's cadavers get some big air.

CoV bug. One of my favorite bugs: the transparent buildings of the Rogue Isles.

Dr. Lovecraft. My Dark Defender spending some quality time with the Infected.

Gardvord. My reformed-Troll Scrapper just saying no to Superadine.

Show me yours.

Hm, I'm seeing a lot of interesting characters, but not too many interesting screenshots.

Here's one of my reformed-Troll Scrapper: Gardvord. (I like the pretty colors.)

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OMG! Where?

Here. I'm willing to draw someone's character for free. And I really mean "free". That is, you will have to take a battery of surveys, suffer through countless ads and send in your testicles in the prepaid envelope provided.

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Drat, this lets me out. My wife already has mine.

Ohm my goodness, that's Shi-riffic. Gallery surfing now.

I don't get what's so good about it.

Good idea.

I was going to say blue, white and gold, colors of the PPD.

Few things are as cool as a machine-gun-wielding silverback.

Another cool J joint.

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Duh, the RBOFC! Okay see I blocked out every book I read in high school on purpose... thanks for reminding me!

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As punishment, you now must make an alt based on A Separate Peace.

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the only names I could agree with that on, are Ath and Liquid, though perhaps I dont frequent the right boards to know who is the "in crowd"... from what I gather, most of the people involved werent so much "asked". Rather those are the people who, when the idea was spreading around said "Dude, im so in on this..."

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well i can tell you i was asked. But if there is someone else who ya guys think would be better suited, by all means lemme know.

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I think you're the best (armor) suited for the job.

The very first thing that occurred to me on seeing the name was the Stephen Crane book, The Red Badge of Courage. As that's about the American Civil War, the second costume fits it better. (Blue v. Gray, the stripe on the pants, the flared gloves, etc.)

Cool. It just needs a few minor tweaks. Corrected version:

Gloria Reign was once a simple teacher in Paragon City. She spent her days teaching basic math to the youth who came to her class. That all changed when a guest speaker turned villainous in front of the student body. The speaker came in under the guise of a local hero. However, when questioned about his origin, the speaker attacked. In an effort to defend her students, Gloria jumped into the path of a pulse of energy. The results were devastating, and by all witness accounts she should have died from that shot. Somehow, three days after the event, she disappeared from the hospital.

Now she has returned under the name of Omegawoman Fate. She, like others before her, has no memory of where she was or who she worked with. But she has come back changed. Her right arm and many internal organs have been replaced with impressive machines. Sadly, her sight was also taken; yet now she seems to see better than before. The question is, can she see what Fate has planned for her?

Very cool manip. I like the eyes, especially. I envy those wings.

I like the second one best. It would look good with blue instead of gray, too, but the gray is fine.

The yellow pants in the first one don't seem to go. My first thought was, "Why not white pants?"

Yeah, if those are her actual arms, how would she get normal clothes on? It'd have to be a robe with large arm holes and no sleeves.

May I correct the spelling and grammar of that bio?

That looks keen.

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This is just a general note about the Scoop ~

As a former Editor and Proofreader, the misspellings and lapses in grammar really jump out at me. I realize this is all volunteer and everyone makes typos -- I commit them all the time -- but I keep seeing the same issues crop up: plurals that have apostrophe-s, common misspellings, tense changes, etc. It detracts from my enjoyment to see those things, so I tend to avoid reading publications that regularly have them.

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Just to note, like Frost said, we're getting better at catching it in our own stuff all the time. However, we kick back and forth whether we ought to be doing the same in interview answers. Chances are, if there's a grammar error you see in an interview, it's from the person being interviewed. It's an ongoing debate we have. We are doing our best, between having more people check each piece, to talking about other more organized ways to mark up pieces for the final.

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Newspapers, magazines and online periodicals correct the grammar of submissions all the time, whether written interviews, poetry pieces or letters to the editor. There's generally an established policy as to what gets corrected and what doesn't. If they're feeling particularly cheeky, sometimes they use the indicator "[sic]" to show that the mistake comes from the original person, but that would be antithetical to something like the City Scoop.

The only time I can think it would be appropriate is if the person submitting the work was using incorrect spelling for a purpose. But even then, different periodicals have different standards. My mom submitted a short prose piece about what Recovery Room nurses do to RN magazine, and they altered her folksy "just sittin'" tag to the correct, "just sitting." It was better in the original, in my opinion, but it's their magazine and ultimately their call.

I think you should be doing it for interview answers, as well, because they usually don't intend to misspell a word. They just made a mistake.

This is just a general note about the Scoop ~

As a former Editor and Proofreader, the misspellings and lapses in grammar really jump out at me. I realize this is all volunteer and everyone makes typos -- I commit them all the time -- but I keep seeing the same issues crop up: plurals that have apostrophe-s, common misspellings, tense changes, etc. It detracts from my enjoyment to see those things, so I tend to avoid reading publications that regularly have them.

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It's not really a derail, I asked you to clarify and you did. I appreciate it. I agree with you that things are different now, but to me it's in a Good direction. I don't so much see favoritism as highlighting the good things people have been doing, in some cases all along. Having forum titles like that helps dispel the climate of post count snobbery and anti snobbery. But you know that too.

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My only real beef with the forum titles is that they only acknowledge people who currently have done something Ex Libris has noticed. There are plenty of players still around who were instrumental in making CoH the game it is today, but they don't have groovy, unique titles.