MissInformed

I don't think I'd have used the term confusion for any of those examples. I love mysteries. Mysteries intentionally don't spoon feed details and sometimes give you information which leads to an incorrect conclusion. That's not confusing to me, as is not having all of the back story in a show like Pushing Daisies or doing the Radio missions and not knowing exactly why or how the radio is directing me. That's intriguing. Confusion is frustrating.

Some stories are told out of oder, like Pulp Fiction. That, to me, is a little more confusing than just not having all the pieces. As long as it all comes together, I don't feel confused and I generally try to trust the story teller to make sure it does. Most of them do, as I think was done in Pulp Fiction. The Radio missions may still leave people wondering, but in the end it doesn't matter why, so I don't feel like the not knowing leaves me unsatisfied or confused.

When story tellers don't start putting pieces together in a timely manner, throw in too many red herrings or side stories just because they can, or have strange and pointless things going on for no reason, or have a lot of contradictions in the plots, then I might get confused or frustrated. A better example of this, I think, would be David Lynch's Twin Peaks television series. Twin Peaks was the Winchester Mystery House of the television neighborhood. There were plots that seemed important one week, then went nowhere. A few quirky people is one thing, but the town was full of eccentrics with no explanation. What was up with the backward-speaking dancing dwarf? I stuck with the show through every episode and enjoyed it as something I thought of as unique, but it bore little resemblance to what we've come to expect as a typical TV show and that bothered a lot of people. Unless you only cared about the "Wow, I wonder what crazy thing will happen next," there was no pay day on your investment. It was self-indulgent craziness. (Which you could say about anything Lynch has done, really.) I liked it, but sometimes it was confusing or frustrating because it didn't delivery what's expected of most television shows. Expectation has a lot to do with this kind of thing. If I considered it "entertainment," and didn't expect it to be like other shows, it was and I enjoyed it. If I expected it to deliver something that made sense of it all, I was let down.

Lost sometimes borders on that, but they've learned to include more payoffs than Lynch did. They leave you with questions, but they do deliver answers. They mislead you, but they make up for it. Make me think, make me work to figure some things out on my own, but don't waste my time doing it. You don't have to give me everything right away, but give me something so I feel that I can trust that you'll deliver in the end. That's the difference, I think, between confusion and keeping people guessing. I enjoyed Twin Peaks but I never trusted that Lynch would have a satisfactory payoff in the end, even if it hadn't been canceled. Lynch never delivered enough smaller payoffs for me to trust him with that. I loved Pushing Daisies and I did trust that the story tellers there would give me a satisfactory payoff because that was the pattern they'd established in the conclusion of every episode. (In the end it was nearly satisfactory, but they were rushed when they got canceled.) Pulp Fiction delivered, even though it didn't wrap up everything into a neat little package and left you wondering about some things. That made people talk and I think it was great.

I like stories that keep me guessing and have a payoff. I tend not to like stories that leave me confused, never seem to get to a point or have no payoff, and seem to be more about the story teller saying, "look how clever I am" than about the actual story. Keep me guessing, then deliver. If the story is just muddled confusion and can't deliver or the story teller changes the balance so I don't feel the delivery is worth waiting for or worth my effort, I'm most likely not interested.

If you do enjoy movies that make you work and may or may not confuse you, check out Primer. The less you know about it going in, the better.

Spyder Noir would also like a place on the list. He'll update later with the character info.

Miss Anthropic - 50 - Plant/Thorns Dominator

A new baby and a new job are good reasons not to attend. Congratulations on both.

Welcome back!

For me it's less about class that powersets, playstyle, and how I feel that day. My Plant/Thorns Dominator is loads of fun because of Seeds of Confusion and Carrion Creepers and the Domination button. My Martial Arts Scrapper is fun because I like the animations. Spinning around on the floor and knocking a bunch of guys down at one time is really funny to me. I solo with my Ice/Kin Controller and Dark/Dark Defender and have fun, but they're even more fun on teams. My Scrappers and Brutes do well on teams, but are great to play solo, too. My VEAT was fun after I leveled and got to pick the branch I wanted and a team full of VEATS is great fun because you feel pretty unstoppable.

I didn't really get into MasterMinds because it feels too passive to me (and I'm a micro-managing MM), but I have friends who think they're awesome.

The "most fun" class depends more on the individual players than the actual ATs or Powersets.

Under your character or to the left is a circle with some text about "colors linked." It's defaulted to be on. Click in the circle to turn it off. Choose your skin color, then click the other color bar (above or below the skin color bar, I don't remember) to choose your costume colors. See if that works.