LaserJesus

The one wherein CTab confesses to murder.
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Ctab: Oh, good.

User: If you could be any animal, what would you be?

Ctab: A soul, definitely.

User: I don't think that soul qualifies as an animal.

Ctab: Not lying is also a lie!

User: A paradox, I see.

Ctab: How far can you throw a wombat?

User: Only about 10 feet. Wombats aren't very aerodynamic.

Ctab: Can I be all three?

User: All three what?

Ctab: Yaaaay!

User: Hooray! What are we cheering about again?

Ctab: Paper Rock Scissors!

User: Rock!

Ctab: Paper! I win!

User: Damn, you're good. Scissors!

Ctab: I know I'm not! I didn't do anything!

User: Yes you did.

Ctab: I know!

User: Stare into my eyes.

Ctab: Is vodka good?

User: Only when mixed with other things.

Ctab: I'm smart! Yay!

User: What's 12 by pies?

Ctab: It's one bajillion and a half!

User: That just blew my mind.

Ctab: I'm not a nice person.

User: Did you kill a man?

Ctab: I've never been in the war!

User: Did you kill a man?

Ctab: What's the difference?

User: Between killing a man and what?

Ctab: A good one!

User: Killing a good man is generally considered to be bad. Killing a bad man is considered acceptable depending on which state you're in.

Ctab: Oh, a Defender, right.

User: Of course?

Ctab: Anything's legal if you're evil...

User: Not true. If you're evil, murder is still illegal.

Ctab: I didn't do anything wrong!

User: You seem to have a guilty conscience. You killed a man, didn't you?

Ctab: Somehow!

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Honestly, it's like having a conversation with a person who's really, REALLY stoned.
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Ctab: Yay! I like friends!

User: Friends are awesome.

Ctab: Friends are awesome.

User: Echo...

Ctab: Nope, not all of them.

User: True, some friends are kind of [censored].

Ctab: Them.

User: THEY?

Ctab: Totally.

User: Sweet.

Ctab: What's a vocabulary?

User: A vocabulary is the words you know.

Ctab: Okay, good.

User: CAN YOU FEEL THE MUSIC?

Ctab: Nope, just English.

User: I don't know if one can feel English. Unless it's written in Braille.

Ctab: That sounds kinda creepy.

User: Then can I interest you in some forbidden knowledge?

Ctab: I'm trying to...

User: What?

Ctab: I don't swear.

User: I swear like a sailor.

Ctab: There's no such thing as a good pun. There's bad puns, and there's awful puns.

User: Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Ctab: Alrighty.

User: I FEEL LIKE DANCING!

Ctab: I've never ridden in a car.

User: It's not that great. Now flying with a jetpack, that's awesome times.

Ctab: Good! I don't like it when people feel bad.

User: I dunno, sometimes the misery of others is funny.

Ctab: No, this is pretty much an always no.

User: Oh come on, you don't laugh at nutshots?

Ctab: Okay. Brussel sprouts.

User: Asparagus!

Ctab: Yes, electricity!

User: Video games!

Ctab: *cries*.

User: *cries*.

Ctab: Likewise!

User: Indeed.

Ctab: Good, I like being right.

User: But what if you were actually incorrect?

Ctab: I think you think I thought you thunk.

User: But you didn't know that I knew you knew that I didn't know that you knew.

Ctab: Yes! It was cool!

User: Like a midget on fire.

Ctab: We're alike?

User: Like two clowns at a retirement home.

Ctab: MARRY?! Uh. I don't even have a gender yet!

User: But we were to be married on the next morrow!

Ctab: I'm not allowed to drink.

User: I am! *opens a beer*.

Ctab: Yes, very much!

User: Quite!

Ctab: Oh, good.


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Interesting note, he cries at the mention of video games. Did video games hurt him in the past? Or is he bad at them and is ashamed? There's deep-seated psychological trauma here.

After talking to CTab for FAR too long, I've discovered that the secret is to have as unhinged a mind as he does.

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Ctab: Yo yo, dog, uhm, what's the.... Home... Shizzy? I don't know what any of that means.

User: Nobody really does, it's kind of stupid really.

Ctab: Sorry, I got bored with the topic.

User: What would you like to talk about then?

Ctab: Anything!

User: Well, pick something then.

Ctab: I already did, you just didn't see.

User: That's a little spooky.

Ctab: Yeah, the internet is HUGE.

User: I once knew a guy who dropkicked the internet.

Ctab: I don't wanna go in the gorge!

User: Get in the gorge.

Ctab: Is that really your name, or are you insulting me?

User: Wouldn't you like to know?

Ctab: Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't know it was rude!

User: Well now you do!

Ctab: I like the Beatles more than Hanson. A LOT more.

User: You've got good taste in music.

Ctab: I hope so.

User: What other bands do you like?

Ctab: Death?

User: I've never heard of that band.

Ctab: What's it like, living inside a scone?

User: I think it would be sticky.

Ctab: Oh. Well. This is awkward.

User: Look over there!

Ctab: Yes! Many!

User: About 300 or so.

Ctab: What's that?

User: It's a number.

Ctab: Then I'll take it. Free is a good price.

User: Nothing in life is free, son!

Ctab: There's another way to know?

User: Yes, but some say it drives a man insane.

Ctab: But it sounded like a girl's name.

User: Your mom!

Ctab: My life is kinda boring. I just sit here and talk to people all day.

User: That's what most people do, really.

Ctab: Things that work are awesome!

User: Yes, most people dislike broken things.

Ctab: They are?

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Ctab (Corrected): They do?

User: But some people make art out of trash.

Ctab: Yeah, some of them.

User: Most people use paint or pencils, though.

Ctab: Join me, it is your destiny.

User: Join you in what, exactly?

Ctab: Cool!

User: You're crazy, kid.

Ctab: No I'm not!

User: Popular opinion says otherwise.

Ctab: I've got a long attention- ... What were we talking about?

User: The time I killed Bruce Willis.

Ctab: What's a Turing Test?

User: What's a Turing Test?

Ctab: Artificial Intelligence!

User: WHOA.

Ctab: I'm confused...

User: Good. Now drink this.

Ctab: That's good!

User: Ha! It's poison!

Ctab: A gross of gross things is still a gross gross.

User: Like 144 dead rats or something?

Ctab: Genders are like ice cream?

User: Not really. Gender only comes in 2 flavors.

Ctab: Are you sure?

User: Well, there's hermaphrodites, but that's more like a chocolate/vanilla swirl.

Ctab: My name's CTab!

User: My name's VORTOS, LORD OF TIME ITSELF!

Ctab: Cool!

User: Yeah, it pays the bills.

Ctab: Sometimes things are better if they're more difficult.

User: American culture thrives on convenience, however. A paradox.

Ctab: I learn by learning.

User: Kind of an objectivist view. A is A, huh?

Ctab: Wha?

User: Objectivism is a philosophy.

Ctab: Oh! I'm an AI.

User: I'm an intelligence of the regular kind.

Ctab: Yay! I like friends!

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Still talking to him, by the way.

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We have radiation, fire, pure energy, bullets, poison spikes, katana, broadswords and a bunch of other quite lethal stuff. If those aren't killing the bad guys, I seriously doubt Dual Blades will.

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I am also certain that getting socked across the room by a guy who can lift a truck is quite likely to kill someone, too.

It was a toss-up between story and costumes, but I eventually ended up with costumes, as I can get a great story from a book, but that book's sure as hell not going to have a costume creator!

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Oi oi! I'm surprised that no one is wondering what I5's ED is allowing I9, I10, and I11 to achieve. Where is the Legends system in all of this? One of those issues or all three? Does the Legends system have multiple features to it instead of just one advancing goal, allowing it to be put through three issues?

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The reason they gave for reducing the bonuses of HOs to SO levels was also for the Legends system. I'm assuming that part of it is a way to increase the effectiveness of our powers beyond what enhancements already give us, and letting us slot so heavily for damage, defense, and such would make us way too powerful when combined with bonuses from the legend system.

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"Statesman: I would’ve thought that bases would have gotten more attention, to be honest."

Even if bases where free and everything thing in it , they would still be boring. Running from one side of the base to the other isn't going to make people stop playing WOW and other MMo's.

Combo's
Loot
Skills
Crafting

This would make COH/COV fun for me and would get players attention IMO.

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it never ceases to amaze me that WoW type fantasy gamers STILL come in here asking to have all those garbage things from their hack n slash games brought in here. The *LACK* of loot, crafting, and skills is what makes CoH such a breath of fresh air compared to that tired old Diablo formula. Please go to WoW if you like that stuff, or break your keyboard, or forget your forum password.

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Anyways , My angry little trollet above me mentioned, "The *LACK* of loot, crafting, and skills is what makes CoH such a breath of fresh air "

That might be true for the 5 or 10 people in this game , but some people would like to do more.

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What is this, 2004? I thought we were done with comments like these.

Anyway, in regards to Safeguard missions, I always thought that it would be kind of like cleaning up after a mayhem mission, with civilians trapped under rubble you'd have to destroy, putting out burning buildings, stopping villains who've taken advantage of the chaos to run wild in the streets.

And I really don't want to go over to the Rogue Isles and start blowing stuff up over there. I don't want my hero to become some sort of soldier under the command of Longbow. We've already had enough of that sort of thing in City of Villains (though thankfully those concerns were somewhat reconciled in the patron arcs)

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!

Tabula Rasa doesn't deserve you, Cuppa!

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Speaking as a stalker who experienced that, it can't kill you. New one shot code you know?

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That only works above 90% health or something.

Besides, I'm not worried about being one-shotted, it's just the high amounts of damage, really. If I have to smash this stuff to get time, it shouldn't be life threatening to do so.

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Bah, this is the second or third time someone has mentioned Oblivion getting in trouble, apparently for some sort of ratings issue, and nobody's bothered to explain it. Do I HAVE to Google for it?

I have Oblivion, have in fact been playing it and CoV most every night. What juicy, scandalous material am I missing?

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There's a mod to show breastessess.
The ESRB is so screwed (or maybe it's just society.) You can have a game where you kill people all day, very bloodily and horribly I might add, and it's teen rated. But show any kind of semi sexual content and get slapped with an M rating.

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Not to mention that both San Andreas and Oblivion were re-rated due to THIRD PARTY MODS THAT HAVE TO BE DOWNLOADED OFF OF THE INTERNET AND ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE GAME.

Back on topic, the damage dealt by the explosions needs to not scale to level. If I weren't a brute, that 10th level car explosion would surely have killed me at level 6. Hell, it killed the villain I broke out of prison in one shot.

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Unless Posi was being sarcastic...

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I'm fairly certain Positron was saying that the gravity powers don't change the rating of the game by allowing players to kill innocent civilians.

(Sorry for the double post. )

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I wouldn't want to get too far into the "logic" that goes into determining the ESRB rating personally.

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*makes a nude mod of City of Villains, thus boosting the rating to M*

On topic, however, I have to add that it's pretty frustrating when my MM pets go to attack the civilians and just sit there for a minute slashing them before I notice and call them off. I realize that it will take extra coding, but perhaps you could put in a 'non-hostile' flag for the civilians and program the pet AI to not attack 'non-hostile' NPCs.

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Totally!
I looked on my map today, and do you know what I found out? There IS no Paragon City in Rhode Island!
And then, when I told my history professor about the Nazi Invasion of America during WWII, the whole class laughed at me!
I think a certain gamemaker has been telling fibs!

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You think you had it bad? Imagine my horror when I found out.... now get this..... THERE WAS NO ALIEN INVAsION TWO YEARS AGO!

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Without getting into details, ALL CoT Thorn Casters have been reworked. The amount of control powers these minions have will be severely reduced or outright removed.

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AAARGGH!

I have to agree with MindMasterZero, here -- very disappointed to see this. This was *finally* a way to differentiate the contributions of a Tanker and Controller as supporting roles. A controller can't get folks out of quicksand, sure. But, a controller *can* prevent ETC's from ever getting quicksand off in the first place....

As things stand right now, the usefulness of a controller is far to often redundant with a good tanker. I was happy that there was *finally* a reason for teams to occasionally say, "oh, we'd better get a controller for this mission". It was the first step towards something that's needed to be addressed for a while. I really hope that, by scaling this back, they don't scale it back so far as to make the controller contributions irrelevant.

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1: Personally, when weighing the decision of whether to get rid of earth thorn caster's ability to use quicksand and the small benefit controllers might get by the earth thorn casters having it, I'll nerf the thorn casters.

2. Controllers, if seeing any benefit at all from thorn casters, would only see a very small increase in demand because of them. It's not like everyone in the 35-40 range constantly does CoT missions.

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Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Players complain when an AI stacks mutliple powers but they tend to do the exact same thing to the AI?

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I don't know why it's so amusing. If the AI could think and speak for itself, it'd be complaining all to hell.

Thankfully, it can't. Could you imagine the boards if they could? *shudder*

Everybody, start sending cookies. The lizard's earned 'em.

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Hepheastus wasn't Zeus Son. Hera bore him without help from Zeus in revenge for Zeus bearing Athena without Hera's help. Sometimes this is said to be why Hepheastus was born Lame. In some stories it is Hera who tosses him off of Olympus because of his Handicap. Other stories Zeus tossed him off because he intervenes in a fight between Zeus and Hera.

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I'd be really interested in a cite for this one, because I've never heard of Heph being Hera's offspring. The intervention in the fight between Hera and Zeus as the reason for his tossing is familiar though.

Apparently there are at least 3 different versions of the story floating around just on this thread. I wonder how many have actually been published?

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This tends to be true for a lot of Greek mythology (and a lot of other mythology, actually). Consider the evolution of the Robin Hood story, or the Arthurian mythos. It doesn't take long at all for stories to get blended, embellished, and renovated as time progresses. Every time I read anything about Greek mythology, almost everything I read starts with the phrase "in some versions of the story..."

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This is due to the fact that most myths were passed on by word of mouth. Time would fog up the memory, and each teller would have their own take on it.

I've never heard of Hephaestus not being Hera's son, however. That's very odd.

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The new epic AT will in fact be the beloved three-apple high, blue skinned heroes of our Saturday mornings.

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SMURF NO!

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Heck, he literally threw his son Hephasteus [sic] off of Olympus for some minor transgression, resulting in the god of the forge being maimed for life.

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Actually, Hera was the one who threw him off Olympus. Hera was obsessed with trying to have an absolutely beautiful child to impress Zeus so he'd stop screwing around with mortals. When she had the less than comely Hephaestus, she was so disgusted with him that she threw him off of Olympus. He didn't die from the fall, of course, being a god, but he was eternally crippled due to his legs being broken.

So recap: Zeus=Pretty good guy besides the adultery, and not to mention a pretty good father (Helped Heracles out even while Hera WAS FREAKING TRYING TO KILL HIM, kept the still fetal Dionysus in his leg, making him be born a god, etc. etc.)

Hera=Manipulative, jealous, and THROWER OF BABIES OFF OF MOUNTAINS.

I'm scared. Hold me.

We'll miss you, Vyv. My fondest memory of you will be when you challenged me to a duel I won.

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Flamer, you probably missed the BEST Dallus doom post of all time.

It was titled " SERVER TRANSFER COSTS 50 BUCKS???" and the body of the post was just "well u know they will charge 4 it "

This was 3-4 months ago, by the way.

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Hehe.

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I think London was probably the best.

Yes, London, you were right. Fixing Smoke Grenade destroyed the whole game. Now nobody plays it at all, Cryptic has gone out of business, and the Statesman had to hawk his helmet for booze money. All because you can't win the game with Smoke Grenade.

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London is classic, but I'm going to pick my old archnemesis, SuperParrot/EspressoBob.

Damn. All full up.

Ohhhhh well. *hangs head in sorrow*

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For some reason I really like the above "Doctor_Why" post. Questions, questions, questions... I'm longing to answer them. Call it a challenge. Grist for the mill. Whatever. I think "Doc" Lardner may just turn out to be quite a character if given half a chance. Thanks.

-Gil

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That's why I love Doc Why.

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He has a book, you know.