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I'll always /sign any suggestion to add more emotes to this game.
People have wanted variations of "lying down/wounded/unconscious/dead" emotes pretty much since the beginning.

When the Architect System arrived I looked through all the options it allowed for. Turns out there are several "prone" emotes that you can use when you set up MOBs in your missions. These things already exist in the code but they are currently only available to the NPCs.

While I'd love to have new emotes created for players it seems like it'd be easy enough for the Devs to just allow some of those existing NPC-only emotes be made usable by players outside the Architect System.

Well I don't have any particular favoritism for Katy Perry in particular. I don't own any version of her music, not sure I've seen any of her other music videos and really don't know much about what she's done to become "famous" in the first place. As I said before she probably would've been better off in this Sesame Street appearance dressed a wee bit more conservatively to avoid all this "censorship" silliness. Regardless I still think it was a misguided move to cut this video for reasons I've already given.

Having said all that I wanted to address this idea of whether or not a person's "professional background" disqualifies them from ever appearing on Sesame Street in the first place. Obviously there are people out there who are so controversial that they would never be considered. I intrinsically trust the people who work on Sesame Street to have enough good judgment to keep those people off the list.

But if the people Marcian Tobay listed managed to appear on the show already (the likes of Cheech Marin and Gene Simmons?) I hardly think Perry could be much worse what little I know of her. The idea that a performer who's normally more "adult/mature" oriented could never switch gears and handle an appearance on a show designed for kids is a tad bit narrow-minded all things considered.

I think it's kind of sad to think Perry might actually be mainly famous for "wearing cupcake bras with cherries for nipples" in her videos. If that's her claim to fame (again because I don't really know) then that'd be a little pathetic. But clearly the folks at Sesame Street didn't think she was a "naughty" enough person to preclude her from even showing up to tape this video with Emo to begin with. As was pointed out Perry's outfit here is not really any worse than Tinkerbell's. Was it really provocative enough to be censored, really?

It's too bad Sesame Street supposedly caved to outside pressure to cut this video from their show. Obviously it's their call to run their show the way they see fit. I just think this act of censorship is going to ultimately cause them far more trouble than it was worth in the long run.

Eh, ballerinas and female gymnasts wear far more 'suggestive' clothing than this. Even the talking heads on the MSN made the point that Katy almost looks like a cartoon character anyway. Very few if any kids are going to "read into" the combination of the song lyrics and her outfit the way adults have anyway.

So yeah the song is silly and the actual setup for the video was basically shortsighted, but worthy of censorship? Hardly.
This is a classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill, regardless of the amount of "cleavage" involved.

I just street-sweep for level 20+ bosses. I have hunted for Tips this way at least 20 times now and it has literally never taken me more than about 5 minutes from the time I start hunting to the time I have a Tip. As always YMMV.

If the /stuck command is "smart enough" to know where we are in relation to the map then you'd think they could apply that to the MOBs. Maybe after the mission spawns all the MOBs they could run a /stuck on themselves just to make sure.

Seems a simple enough idea but since it does seem pretty simple maybe the Devs have experimented with something like this already and it didn't work well. There could be a number of "under the hood" reasons why this might not work as straightforward as it seems because we don't exactly know all the reasons why MOBs appear outside the confines of the map to begin with. *shrugs*

If we can't rely on the game knowing for sure if a spawn is inside or outside of the map maybe the Devs could provide a command line command that would "TP Foe" one critter to a player as long as that critter is the only one left alive in the mission. This would solve the vast majority of the problems people ever seem to have with MOBs either stuck in a wall or outside the map.

I realize there might be ways to exploit this command (like being able to TP a big mission-ending boss even if he's not technically stuck somewhere) but if it can only work as long as there's only one enemy left it doesn't really matter exactly where you fight that one last guy does it?

Maybe they could make this an automatic thing that would happen after say a 5 minute timer. If there's only one enemy left alive on a "kill all" map after 5 minutes that guy is auto-TPed to your location regardless of where he is. Seems a bit convoluted but doable I guess.

I've gotten around 20 purple drops total since they were first introduced to the game.
I've bought many others, but getting 20 of my own is probably not too bad all things considered.

I understand those merits are deleted automatically by the game when you switch alignments. But for the life of me I can't really see a purpose for why a player would ever want to manually delete them, regardless of their intrinsic value. I never bothered to look into the "delete-ability" of the various types of merits but I'm actually surprised the game allows players to manually delete any of them in the first place. *shrugs*

When you think about it there's not too much "female diversity" in most of the enemy groups of this game. I think part of the reason Castle added the new "Girlfriend From Hell" Hellion boss type in Issue 18 was to try to fix that lack of representation a bit.

The Devs addressed this male/female concern many years ago. IIRC it was a compromise between making more female models for existing groups or making a larger number of different groups. Supposedly instead of spending their limited time making lots of female models they decided to make most enemies generically male so they could have more time to make a larger number of different factions for us to face. I guess they succeeded because we do have lots of different types of enemies to fight, even if 95% of them are male.

Hopefully, like the "Girlfriend From Hell" example, the Devs will continue to add new female enemies to face in the future. Maybe'll we'll even get a female Lost critter to fight.