PSLAnimal

Name: PSLAnimal
Global Contact: @PSLAnimal
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Natural
Super Rank & Super Group: Commander, League of Champions
Additional: Harbors Perverse Sexual Lust

Here ya go.

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I'm Jacob McCandles!

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*pause* *shock* I'm sorry, Mr. McCandles, I thought you were dead.

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Dead? The next person who says that I'm gonna shoot, so help me.

I'm Jacob McCandles!

To the person that did this to me in CoV today, in the event he/she recognizes him/herself: You're a bonehead.

If someone has "please send tell first" in the team search comment field, and has lft turned OFF, then a one word tell "team" (without even a question mark) followed IMMEDIATELY by a blind invite, is just plain stupid.

And yes, a one word tell sent sixteen nanoseconds before the invite is still a blind invite.

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1) Do not assume that, when I have "not looking for team" indicated in my search screen, that I "forgot" or that I might want a team anyway. If it's turned off, I don't want a team.

I might be waiting for my SG, or for a friend, or for my wife who also plays CoX, or I may be logging on to run a few errands and will be logging off again in five minutes - or I may just be feeling cranky and wanting to just solo for a while.

But "not looking for team" generally means "not looking for team." Polite tells are answered politely, of course, but still.

2) If I have "looking for X team" on, and as always "please send tell first," for crying out loud, send a tell a teeny bit more informative than "Party?" followed instantly be a team invite. It only takes a few seconds to type "lvl 36 team, want in?" or something like that.

3) I can't speak for anyone but myself on this one, but I don't respond to tells in l33t or stupid internet slang like "do u wan 2 do mish?" Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I think it's lazy and stupid, and not worth my time to reply.

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On the flip side, if I have "Looking for any team" turned on and DON'T say "Please send tell" in the comment...just invite me, unless I'm in a mission.

When someone sends me a tell asking me if I want to team up, when I CLEARLY have myself on the "Looking for team" list, I have the urge to reply: "Gee, do you think THAT might be why I have "Looking for team" turned on?"

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That's the best thing about CoX; to each his/her own, eh?

1) Do not assume that, when I have "not looking for team" indicated in my search screen, that I "forgot" or that I might want a team anyway. If it's turned off, I don't want a team.

I might be waiting for my SG, or for a friend, or for my wife who also plays CoX, or I may be logging on to run a few errands and will be logging off again in five minutes - or I may just be feeling cranky and wanting to just solo for a while.

But "not looking for team" generally means "not looking for team." Polite tells are answered politely, of course, but still.

2) If I have "looking for X team" on, and as always "please send tell first," for crying out loud, send a tell a teeny bit more informative than "Party?" followed instantly be a team invite. It only takes a few seconds to type "lvl 36 team, want in?" or something like that.

3) I can't speak for anyone but myself on this one, but I don't respond to tells in l33t or stupid internet slang like "do u wan 2 do mish?" Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I think it's lazy and stupid, and not worth my time to reply.

I have to go along with the "don't invite me to a team while I'm in a mission" snag.

I received three - three - that's right, THREE tells asking if I wanted to team while fighting the same Elite Boss with my 15 Brute this morning.

Distracting me while I'm fighting an EB = Not Good.

You missed one thing: Debt as a lesson in market economics.

The whoop-ti-do medical teleport system in use in Paragon City isn't cheap. Someone has to pay for it. And who better than the people who use it?

When you lose a fight, the Paragon CIty hospitals provide a service. They teleport you away and heal you. If a teammate rezzes you, that teammate is providing a service. Debt is how you pay for that service.

Of course, the analogy falls down on one point; if a teammate rezzes you, your debt isn't paid to the teammate. But then, few analogies are perfect.

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How about this...... http://www.kontraband.com/index.asp
.....don't play if you're this dumb

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How about, "that has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic?"

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l33tspeak is older than you realize. . .


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B1FF

Jargon File has listed him [and leet/l33t] since, what, 1980-something?

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When my uncle was a boy in the 1930's, he teased a skunk and got whiffed. Does that make it any less stupid to tease a skunk today, just because skunk-teasing has been something stupid boys have done for a long time?

No. 'l33t' was stupid in the 80's, stupid in the 90's, and it's stupid now.

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Good for you.

I have a female controller that gets that sort of thing occasionally. The worst was the guy that offered to "cyber" me. When I said "um I'm a guy"
He said "that's ok"

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.


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I had a funny exchange. I'm a Kheld in squid form. Another one comes squiggling up to me and stops right in my face and says "you're cute!" I said "you're cute too!" I thought that was a rather cute moment, and I went into my mission. then I get this tell "do you have a b/f in RL.?"
I said, "no I have a g/f, I like girls".
He said "oh! sorry then". I'm glad it stopped there.

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The only time anything like that every happened to me, a female toon sent my 8' gargantuan Tank a rather suggestive tell, followed with "girlfriend?"

My reply: "No, wife. I'm 44, been married 14 years."

"Eep! Sorry" No more tells.

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Whats the best way to level quickly for a level 6 villain?

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Play the game.

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Does anyone know what this means "leet" or "1337"?

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It describes a pseudo-language that substitutes random characters for proper English, and is used predominantly by drooling morons.

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Yes I have a kinectics and everytime I get invited to teams,they all seem to be set on invincible and we are fighting +4's.Then I get HEAL ME HEAL ME,and I remind them I missed 7 times in a row because we are way in over our head.Then comes the, your just a NOOB.

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On occasions where I'm leading a team, I have one rule: An immediate kick for anyone who uses the term "noob."

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To me and my friends if the comment says "no blind invites" what it really means is "I don't want to team with anyone". I also noticed something else strange... if you say "no blind invites" you tend to get spammed with team invites a lot, lol. That should tell you something...

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It does tell me something. Since I started using the "Please send tell first" message, I've gotten far fewer blind invites.

I guess that tells me that most players are a lot more polite than you and your friends, eh?

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I wouldn't think you need your friends to read your comments before inviting you, lol. The comment field should only apply to strangers.

I also don't waste my time with tells because there's already enough people who DO accept blind invites. And when someone wants a rundown of our plans first, I tell them "we're all gonna play this game called City Of Hero's, wanna team with us?" Many people laugh and join up and we have an incredible experience together. Those that do not join or get all prissy about getting details are no longer considered and miss out. This seems to work for me rather well because I no longer have bad teams.

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Important point, Wokka; I said your friends, not mine.

I've had far fewer bad teams since I stopped accepting blind invites. I've had far fewer blind invites since I put a simple, polite message in my team search field. It works for me. You can do as you please.

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To me and my friends if the comment says "no blind invites" what it really means is "I don't want to team with anyone". I also noticed something else strange... if you say "no blind invites" you tend to get spammed with team invites a lot, lol. That should tell you something...

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It does tell me something. Since I started using the "Please send tell first" message, I've gotten far fewer blind invites.

I guess that tells me that most players are a lot more polite than you and your friends, eh?

I thought this would make a good counterpart to the "how to tell you're in a PUG" thread, since there are no doubt many, many things that irritate us besides the assorted nitwittery of goofball teammates. I'll start with a few:

1) Begging complete strangers for influence. Just because you're a higher level passing through Atlas Park on the way somewhere, doesn't mean you're inviting a half-dozen tells begging, "plz d00d i need inf!!!!!!!111111ONEONE!"

2) Blind invites. When my team search message says, quite politely, "No blind invites; please send tell," and some gomer spams me about five blind invites in the space of thirty seconds, prompting a tell from me: "What part of NO is that difficult to understand?"

3) Spamming the broadcast channel with endless begs for powerleveling.

4) Spamming the broadcast channel with endless begs for influence.

5) Spamming the broadcast channel with endless LFT announcements. You've all seen them:

"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
"lvl 24 troller lft"
And so on, ad nauseum.

6) Spamming the broadcast channel. Say your piece once, twice tops; if nobody answers, the answer is NO.

7) /t exchanges like this, paraphrased from an actual one that happened to me a while back:
"d00d were do i lvl up"
"Lady Liberty, in Atlas Plaza."
"wres Atlas Plaza lol"
"In Atlas Park."
"wres Atlas Park"
"You're in Atlas Park."
"o rly i dint know"
/me facepalms

For the good of the community, post your gripes.

I've got two missions for two seperate toons that I've run multiple times now with no "End Mission." I've sent petitions - I get stock email replies, nothing else. Eventually I get a "We couldn't find you in the game" reply, ten or twelve hours after I sent the petition.

Uh, guys, I can't wait around for ten hours for you to come look at the mission.

The last petition I filed last night in my 37 Tank's mission has still received NO reply, NO action, NO nothing, NO kidding. I've been through this mission THREE times, emptied the cave all three times - no end mission. My 33 Blaster has run her mission twice - no end mission.

I'm getting really tired of this. Some kind of reply from the devs would be nice. I understand other people are experiencing the same kind of bugs. What's being done? Hello? Devs? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?