Marcian Tobay

Exactly. I'm sending him the "please come back, we're sorry you hate us" trial that these crazy devs concocted.

Oh, and to everyone else:

This here was the point of my post. Whether pirating a game is justifiable is a moral discussion for another day. When he said that, however, I just imagined some guy with a bank robber mask, bursting into a food court, screaming "EVERYBODY HIT THE FLOOR!"...

... nomming a couple free sample teriyaki bites...

... and then bursting the hell out of there before the cops show up. FIVE OH. FIVE OH!

Freedom toast to satiate American players.

1) I was making fun of his impulse to pirate something and the fact that he went so quickly. He and I go back and forth on that subject all the time...

2) He's been playing the game for a very long time and had taken a long break. It's not as if he's absent from the concept entirely.

I'm focused on Maelstrom literally whirlwinding into the bank...

This was after I had explained to him that he didn't need to buy the game again, because he already owned it permanently...

TF2's Spy summarizes it best.

I'm curious as to whether you're disregarding me in the same way, as what I said is canon.

She's joking. Disregard these posts when approaching the conversation seriously.

I can totally get behind this mentality.

I want to see the Taliban in spandex, just to confuse GG...

... And to completely this downright offensive slashfic I've been writing...

You terrify me in these conversations. You are Miko from the comic I linked earlier.

Sadly, it was discussed on the forums and ended in a flame war that burned on while a couple cynical people sarcastically mocked everyone including themselves, vaguely derailing the thread.

You're seriously blaming her for both your being wrong, dead wrong and your choosing to attack her about it?

Even if you were right, dead right you could have chosen to not be so inflammatory and crass.

And I quoted you for your convenience.

Yes. They have their own seat on the United Nations and are technically acknowledged by all other nations.

I think asking you to delete it would be the equivalent of trying to make you "unsee" it. As such, just don't share it with others, and I feel you'd be giving the respect you are clearly trying to convey.

You're wearing white after Labor Day. It's SO in to disregard her posts and make fun of her, even when she's being a valid and worthy contribution to a discussion.

You want to be in, don't you?

I'll admit that I've been debating seeking the video from those clever enough to already download it. This post, however, convinced me to respect your desire that we work with you, rather than against.

You has my luv. May it carry you through the weekend. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

While I'm more "on the fence" then on a specific side (BlackPebble passed his Charisma check with me), I think it's only fair to point out that they've explicitly stated that things changed. That they didn't have this plan in mind.

There's a whole subject of discussion called "The Philosophy of Language", and I believe one of the topics in that is "Can someone be lying when they, themselves, were sincere but did not know the truth?"

They contradicted themselves, sure. You are, however, obviously trying to get some mileage out of the word "Lie". It's that gambit that I'm challenging.

I've had a (genuine) issue with how "heroism" is treated within the canon of City of Heroes. I'm not faulting the writers; I'm faulting their characters.


Getting licensed as a Hero entitles you to a lot of wretched privileges. As Poshyb joked about before, being a "Hero" means you can literally eviscerate someone for loitering. We know that the Hellions aren't nice, but "IRL"*, physically attacking someone for obviously being part of a gang isn't okay. You need significantly more evidence than that.

Paragon has been suffering a code red emergency for five years now (Referring here to the premise of the game). The Heroic forces of Paragon have had the challenge of walking the fine line between "Privileges and rights granted only for extreme situations" and flat out taking advantage of the situation to abuse their power.

In other words, they're pretty much doing the exact same thing that Praetoria is doing; it's just more palatable in this context.

It's why I've always had a perverse form of respect for the villains of the Rogue Isles. To paraphrase Order of the Stick: While that might be evil, murdering, thieving, lying villains out to only profit their own hides... at least they cop to it.

Edit: While it's not a direct response to your OP, I'm sure you can see the correlation.


*Ow, I said it, ow ow ow.

I believe it's this. The story of Star Wars takes place in the world of Pokemon. As such, they settle things through Pokemon battles, rather than Star Destroyers.

Can you imagine Mewtwo hooked up to an amplifier instead of a Death Star? Freaking epic.

I was trying to decide if I was going to let myself be persuaded by this. Then Glee's cover of Safety Dance came up on my iTunes. It's a good sign.

While I understand both the natural evolution of this decision and how it has no sincere effect on veterans, I am still feel slighted. Perhaps it isn't as upsetting as I originally made it out to be, though.

Thank you very much for posting your response. That means a lot, and I will be supportive during this time.

I hope get more people from this!

(Note: Seriously, people. Safety Dance.)