Lothic
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Yeah Ghost Widow has been serving as a sort of in-game beta test for a long "hair cape" for years now.
I think the main reason why it hasn't transferred down to players yet is that the Devs are concerned about using one of their limited body model animation "anchor" points for this. This is the same reason why we haven't gotten much in the way of robes or loincloth type items either. They have mentioned for years that their current body models are being pushed to the limits of what they can do. Since Ghost Widow is a unique NPC they can better control what it does with her specific animations.
They've probably also decided that it'd be a combination of "too much processing" on individual clients and "too much bandwidth" to send that data around to everyone else to make it worthwhile. Just imagine how rough it would be on the servers if you got like 15 or 20 long animated haired characters standing next to each other. That extra load is probably a real server lag issue to be concerned about.
Bottomline I'd love to have long animated hair styles for my characters.
I'm just not going to assume it'll happen anytime soon. -
My idle speculation of INF supply pretty much begins and ends with my own characters. The same 40ish billion in liquid INF I was doing nothing with a few weeks ago is the same 40ish billion in liquid INF I still have today. I think it's cool the Converters came along to shake things up but I'm not here primarily to play "City of Wall Street" so I'm content to just let the Converters generally lower the prices on most of the most expensive things and move forward from there.
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I heard a "non-spoiler" review that claimed that this movie supposedly took the classic horror movie formula and turned it on its ear and made something truly cool and original out of it. Still not sure I'm interested enough to see it ASAP but I might see it if there's enough people saying that yes, it is really unique enough to be worth it.
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Quote:The American 'dolls' are probably leading the way in what they are doing. But it's the Japanese who are not only a world leader in robotics but they already have cultural leanings towards accepting artificial/inanimate objects as things that humans can acceptably "interact" with.Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
First, it will be strange to me til I die but the newer generations are increasingly into it so not long.
Next, the market here for that kind of "interaction" in the US out strips many other nations combined as it's a multi-billion dollar deal all originating out here in San Fernando Valley, California.
Let's just say I believe that the cultural shift towards accepting these kinds of things will not only be a young/old thing but a societal thing as far as being more easily accepted in Japan before places like North America or Europe. -
Quote:Yeah I think I've actually seen shows on things like what you're talking about. It is a little weird/freakish at this point, but the closer we get to fully functioning human-like robots there are going to be more cases like this. Heck people are already trying to marry pets and buildings, how much longer will it be considered "strange" to be marrying perfectly modeled human-looking artificial beings?Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
LOL, that very well may be true. However, in the case I referred too on HBO in the US it was an American company that made them. Not really a surprise considering the businesses located in the San Fernando Valley and the fact that is the "capital" afterall lol.
One of the dudes on the show "married" his non-human "friend" and openly discussed his "marriage" in detail. It was like I was watching some bad futuristic type movies gone bad. Very disturbing actually.
Again for what it's worth the Japanese will probably be doing that first.
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Quote:I've used Sappers to farm for Mez badges. I never noticed them doing serious amounts of damage even to my squishy badgers. Once you park yourself right next to them they seem content to just use their ST Hold power which barely does any damage on its own.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Assuming you're telling the truth, you must have had +HP and +Regen out the roof. I even went to Rikti War Zone and found a -4 Sapper, which still did too much damage. He eventually got bored and went away.
Finding a mission with Sappers usually works best and keeps you from logging out. Just clear out all the other critters except for one or two even level Sappers and let it go for hours that way. *shrugs*
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Quote:And when you bring the "mechanically underperforming" sets up to par (whatever that means to you) and make them "equivalent" to every other set (again whatever that means to you) then we'll be playing "City of Cookie-Cutter Clones". That's even assuming you could make this pseudo-pipedream of yours actually work.Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
Forgive me for being rude, but this is a stupid argument.
I don't recall seeing anyone complain about the huge host of buffs and usability changes that Gravity Control or Energy Aura just got, for recent examples.
Nobody cried when Fiery Aura was made a good offensive armor choice again in Going Rogue, completely changing how two of its powers worked in the process.
Mechanically underperforming sets should absolutely be brought up to par, or at least as close to par as possible without creating a new FotM, even if it comes at the expense of the feel of one or two powers - because at the end of it all, the people who love those sets love them conceptually, and after a day adjusting to the changes, they'll be the happiest of all that their favorite set is now as good as the other options on the table.
Thanks but I'd rather get the measured, incremental improvements we ALREADY get now than to try to have all the powersets in the game work "equally" well to each other. That's not powerset diversity - that's having everyone be locked into being identical. You may not like my take on this, but it is highly debatable which of us has the more "stupid" unrealistic position on this. *shrugs* -
Quote:Not surprisingly the Japanese have been at the forefront of many of these particular "innovations".Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
That is nothing. There are companies in the world that make life sized "friendly" companion type dolls that people "interact" with and have been for years.
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Quote:How could you really be "firmly" in either camp with such a vague, easily reversable statement like this?Originally Posted by mousedroid
I am firmly in the Black Widow would win camp. A well-placed strike to a vital nerve cluster or pressure point and Buffy is down for the count.
One could very easily say a well-placed strike to a vital nerve cluster or pressure point and Black Widow is down for the count...
Well clearly Whedon is totally biased in this scenario because of the two fictional characters in question he actually -created- one of them. The only way his take on this would have been shocking is if he sided with Black Widow to win.Quote:Originally Posted by mousedroid
That said, these are fictional characters, and Joss Whedon is a writer. If a writer writes a story that has one fictional character beating another, who are we to say he is wrong? At least with respect to two fairly evenly-matched characters. I mean we're not talking Dark Phoenix vs. Robin.
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Quote:Why do you assume that Buffy would never be able to get the drop on Black Widow and crush her into a pulp before she could squeeze a trigger?Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Why do you assume Widow is going to be stupid enough to engage in hand-to-hand with someone who's demonstrating superhuman strength and speed by fighting things with superhuman strength and speed?
A few weeks of patience and one bullet. That's all that's required.
That, or the bazooka thing.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Two words (well, two more): PLOT ARMOR
And guys, I don't care how great you think Buffy is. NOBODY dodges a supersonic round fired from a mile or more out. They're not faster than sound and their head winds up like a watermelon at a Gallagher show before a single sound is heard.Yes, but if Buffy is going to have to be logically vulnerable to sniper-fire then Black Widow is going to have to be logically inferior in hand-to-hand combat against an opponent who's strength and agility is enhanced by supernatural-based powers. If Black Widow can't shoot Buffy at a distance she's going to be pounded into dogfood 99 times out of a 100 against Buffy.Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Sorry, but she's not going to dodge a sniper round. She'll never see the sniper, and will be dead before the sound reaches her.
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Quote:Ha! I suppose I did become one of Wonder Woman's loudest Devil's Advocates in this forum.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Soooooo, Lothic. If Buffy is essentially Wonder Woman, then I guess you have seen her on TV in the last 30 years.
/runs out of thread ducking.
For what it's worth I did like Buffy but I never quite saw her as a direct "TV show equivalent" to Wonder Woman just for the simple fact that she was always presented more as a "teenager" than a "woman" in the mature adult sense. If anything Buffy was probably more correctly analogous to Supergirl than Wonder Woman character-wise if not strictly power-wise. -
Quote:I retroactively loved how Tyrion slapped him around in the first episode of season one.Originally Posted by Defenestrator
The kids are doing a great job on Game of Thrones. Joffrey Bieber as an awful character in the books, but Jack Gleeson has taken that awfulness to new heights. I've never wanted to see a good stabbination befall a fictional child more than I have Joffrey.
But I think I can reasonably suspect that "Joffrey Bieber" is going to get his revenge for that eventually.
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Quote:I suppose the argument is boiling down to whether Black Widow is going to have a chance to snipe Buffy or not. Even there I would not automatically assume Black Widow would succeed. *shrugs*Originally Posted by Nericus
Sure she does......one hollow point round right into the head..... Snipe! Snipe!
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Quote:I already accounted for skill depending on what version of Buffy faced Black Widow. At the beginning (even when she had Slayer powers) Buffy was obviously a pretty poor fighter.Originally Posted by Nericus
Indeed, I don't recall bulletproof skin or wolverine level regeneration powers as part of the Slayer's abilities.
Granted Buffy's pals revived her from the dead at least once so it could likely be done again.
As to not coming back from a tactical nuke explosion, well Spike was at ground zero of a rather catastrophic event as I recall, then came back as a ghost and later was restored to flesh and bone, albeit still a vampire with a soul.
As tough as Buffy is, and yes she has strength and speed to her advantage, Black Widow is a highly trained covert op/espionage agent/assassin with a few decades of experience.
Skill vs. power
But I still don't think that even with Black Widow's arguably superior tactical experience that she'd be the automatic winner versus a trained version of Buffy. In a way this is almost a variation of the classic "Superman versus Batman" debate cast in terms of Buffy (being Superman) and Black Widow (being Batman). Unfortunately for all of Black Widow's skill and smarts she just doesn't possess any kind of Kryptonite that could affect Buffy.
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Quote:The problem with "tinkering" with sets like this is that you risk upsetting the people who actually like them the way they are now.Originally Posted by Waylorn
I know it's a big pile of work, but I think it's needed to give more difference and variety to the playerbase.
For example just because you don't see many people playing Electrical Blast doesn't mean there isn't a significant percentage of Electrical Blast characters being played out there that you simply never run across in your personal experience. There's no law that says every powerset in the game must be as popular as every other - there will always be some sets that are less desirable no matter how much you try to dress them up.
Ultimately I have no problem with the Devs doing minor tweaks to powersets after long periods of analysis and datamining justify those changes. But based on the simple fact that this game has been firmly established for 8 years now I doubt we'll ever see the kinds of sweeping changes you're suggesting here. -
Quote:Every account in the game has an "account creation date" associated with it. The Devs ought to stop worrying about who has what VIP time versus Premium time and simply do a simple calculation based on how many years a given account has existed and award badges based on that. I really don't see how hard that would be compared to whatever crazy data they are trying (and failing) to use for this now.Originally Posted by Nericus
Far as I'm concerned it's come down to this: fix them or remove them. If the removal option is done, then give out either some new type of badges in their place or else about 9999 market points to try to pacify the players that will be angered by badge removal. Or instead of automatic rewarding of the badges, set up a way that we can manually claim them.
Ultimately I don't care if this might give new badges to people who haven't been "subscribed" as long as I have or not. If someone's account has existed for 6 years give them the first 6 annual Vet badges and be done with it. -
Quote:I think it's probably just another hint that the Simpson's era is coming to a close.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
I probably cared 17 years ago. Now? Not so much.
(For clarity, that isn't a jab at anyone that still enjoys the show or a knock on the show itself. It's just odd he breaks this info out this many years later.)
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Quote:Good child actors = Game of ThronesOriginally Posted by daveyj3
you know, not until you mentioned it...
this show really has amazing child actors. i normally HATE child actors but these are so good that everything is believable and helps to make the fantasy more real. wow.
I want Arya and Gendry to get married and live happily ever after as king and queen with arya wearing the pants. :d Daenerys can come. and Jon Snow. and all the direwolves. dragons too.
please nobody spoil my fantasy.
Bad child actors = Terra Nova
Yes, it really does make a difference.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Chyll
They need to carefully pace so they do not out run the published material, and given GRRM's writing rate, that would be a real concern.They would probably be smart to pick a final endpoint for the TV show right now regardless of how much more or less material is added by the books in the next few years. That way they can better plan for a good conclusion to the TV show as a standalone story in its own right.Quote:Originally Posted by Quasadu
That's true of course, but they have to balance that with boring the viewers with a lot of new characters and storylines that aren't directly related to the main characters already.
They might have Feast and Dance spread over two season (still they would certainly combine them, they aren't going to give some of the star characters a whole season off and then ask the audience to go back in time the following year) but I can't see them going any more than two at most. So one season or two, GRRM still has to get cranking on the remaining books.
Of course as we all know it's often very hard for TV shows to stick to multi-year plans like that. There may be pressure to keep churning out episodes as long as the ratings are good regardless if it's good for the story or not. Time will tell of course but I hope they come up with a good climax/conclusion and stick to it. -
Quote:As cute as this scenario is I'd just have to ask why the vampires haven't ever tried to do this.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Buffy: So where's this...
*HEADSHOT!*
Natasha: Target neutralized sir.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nericus
It would be better if they fix the Veteran Badges.At this point I almost wonder if they've even tried to fix it. *shrugs*Quote:Originally Posted by viper_kinji
I doubt it'll ever happen....
I understand that it's probably not an easy problem to deal with but it's been almost 7 months since CoH:Freedom broke it. At this point you'd think if they've been trying to fix it all along and can't they'd be at the "Plan B" stage where they'd be considering drastic measures like either changing their requirements or removing them completely from the game. I mean what's the point in leaving a series of badges in the game that never work again for anyone?
Maybe they could just come up with something simplistic like "give us a badge for every year since you first activated your account". Sure that doesn't account for whether or not you've been an active player every day since you created your account or not, but at least that's an easy way to handle these currently broken badges.
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Quote:Yeah, but there's no guarantee she would depending on how Black Widow managed to kill her. For instance it'd be pretty hard to come back from getting hit by a tactical nuclear device.Originally Posted by Aneko
She's done it before.
The idea that a new Slayer would take the place of a dead one is a guaranteed way for any Slayer to "effectively" come back from the dead. Besides it pretty much means that no matter how many Slayers Black Widow managed to kill there'd always be another one to keep the pressure on. -
Yeah that's fine if Matt wants to nail The Simpsons' location down to a specific state. I still prefer the idea that there's an actual real "Springfield" in almost every state so it could be anywhere you wanted it to be. No big deal either way I guess.
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Quote:Well Buffy herself wouldn't resurrect from the dead, but I suppose her Slayer replacement (i.e. Faith) could always hunt Black Widow down for revenge.Originally Posted by Aneko
Not to mention that even if Black Widow managed to kill Buffy, she'd just come back.