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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by dugfromthearth View Post
    I'm not alfred of you
    You must be quite Brave AND Bold.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RiOTWRAiTH View Post
    My interest in this topic is beginning to Wayne.
    Now, now... mind your Manors.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
    It seems to me that many players talking about the lack of status protection being a 'wall' are too insistent on soloing while playing powersets that are intentionally designed to favor team play.
    For my part, the aforementioned Controller, at least, is almost as frustrating for me to play on teams as solo. The main difference is that the frustration isn't followed by defeat nearly as quickly/often.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demon_Shell View Post
    Unless you turn off your XP, you're not really getting enough to matter at a time where it will completely break things. Though that is something I hadn't considered, I will admit.
    On a good run, I can get enough to fill what few slots I have at those levels. If that's not enough to matter, then it doesn't matter.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    On the flip side though.

    This was supposed to be a nuclear FUSION device.
    This argument comes up in BattleTech all the time.
    Fusion devices don't go "boom".

    When a fusion reactor breaks down, the reaction stops.

    Granted, it's "sexier" if a mech goes up in a pillar of fire.
    Hence the "Stackpole rule" (due to Mike Stackpole's penchant for having this happen rather frequently in his novels).
    What if it's actually a stabilising containment device that the reaction is started within, and then the containment breaks down and the reaction expands violently for a bit before the instability causes it to fall apart?
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kirsten View Post
    ...I need to hurt you people.
    Alright, but just remember that these jokes aren't worth killing over. And at least give us one more day (which is to say: until the next nightfall) before you turn this into some sort of no man's land. Yes... on the next dark night you may return and claim your dark victory - it will probably be legendary. Of course, you can wait longer if you like, but if you wait too long it will be Halloween.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tannim222 View Post
    Which is is alluded to all the way back in Begins, where Raechel tells him that Bruce is the mask and until he's willing to stop being Batman and become Bruce again, they can't be together. So forward to the end of TDKR, while Bruce doesn't end up with Raechel, he does learn to let Batman go (for himself) and once again become Bruce Wayne, only with Selina Kyle.
    Poor Batman. Everyone wants him to stop being himself and fully embrace being some hollow shell that they prefer, even while acknowledging that said shell is not who he truly is. Having Batman abandon himself and fully become Bruce Wayne for some idyllic happy ending is the action of someone who has lost sight of the character's nature, if they ever had it to begin with.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demon_Shell View Post
    I'm not for removing TOs and DOs. Has nothing to do with INF, it creates a balance issue. Having attacks that do 66-99% extra damage at level 5 would wreck enemies.
    It would wreck enemies for about 30 seconds, and then you'd be level 6... and still on your first run through DFB... where you'd be getting more of those SOs that are supposed to be creating some sort of a balance issue.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    Since you brought it up, I wouldn't mind one bit if T9 VIPs here got "Freeforms" to play with.


    .
    I would be trapped in the character creator for *days*. Slots would have to be cleared up. Fingernails would become several feet long.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Honestly did nobody read the article beyond the headline and first paragraph??
    I read it. I found it to still be an interesting, if not potentially significant advancement, despite the fact that it wasn't quite as dramatic as the title implied.
  11. The Heart of Gold might improbably come out on top...
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    It prevents us from becoming CO at launch. In other words, broken.
    CO at launch didn't do a very good job of representing superheroes either, IMO, regardless of any apparent freedom to mix and match powers. As weak as I find characters over here to be, I found it to be even worse in CO. Maybe it's gotten better, but I'm to soured on the game to give it another chance.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Issen View Post
    Except that if it's JUST your character, it can't be a threat/issue on the same level or scale as Praetoria/Mot/Battalion, yes? Because the whole idea around those is that they're problems that are too big for any one person to handle.

    I mean it's fine if you want something for just your character to deal with, but you should know that it likely won't be AS important as the stuff that requires groups.
    It seems to me that the whole idea around becoming an Incarnate is to become 'big enough', as it were, to handle such threats on your own.
  14. I don't entirely disagree that some aspects of this particular truth are a bit horrible, but that's no reason to sully your hands with necromancy.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nylonus View Post
    But wouldn't that be robin us of our creative freedom?
    It would certainly take away our Miranda rights.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare View Post
    Jon Favreau as a lackey to both Daredevil and Iron Man. Didn't know he directed the second one as well.
    For me, he will always be 'that rich guy from Friends.'
  17. Est Aliquid Ex Nihil...

    Love the head explosion. Been awhile since I saw a Scanners movie.
  18. Before Attuned enhancements existed, I was a proponent of getting rid of IO levels. It seems like an even better idea now.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    Is Cracked an Internet site? Yes.
    Does their writeup of the inherent ridiculousness of the "hipster culture" function as a great beacon of hope in an otherwise daunting sea of douchebags? Yes.
    Ah, so: "But the real reason hipsters get so much hate is probably just the smugness. According to certain alarmists, hipsters are not just Acceptable Targets, but an occasion for outright panic. To them, hipsters represent Friedrich Nietzsche's Last Man: they stand for nothing and believe in nothing, so their ironic sneer is a harbinger of the downfall of Western civilization."
  20. Does Internet pop culture qualify as real pop culture yet? And if so, wouldn't referencing cracked.com to make the point be hanging a lampshade on it?
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    I know it may be nitpicky (but hey, isn't that the modus operandi here?), but why do people keep using these "laws" and "postulates" and "corollaries" from a website called TV Tropes?

    Is City of Heroes a TV show?
    The tropes come from many places and can be applied quite broadly. As the main page itself says: "The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They reflect life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere."
  22. Did they take away the hover effect that was already put in place to keep people with slow connections/computers from falling quite so much?
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    Pam doesn't grow thorns from her body and fling them and she doesn't use flowers to heal anyone so Thorn Assault and Nature Affinity are out. She's a Plant/Poison Controller. Maybe one could make a case for a Plant/Poison MM if such a set existed.
    I've never seen her hurl and spit poison at any significant range. Now, if you could combine the aesthetics of Nature Affinity with the debuffing focus of Poison, that'd probably be the best.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    It's not Knockback, it's KnockDOWN. It's only turning into Knockback when you pair it with the Overwhelming Force proc because the 2 knockdowns are combining.
    Technically, it's not Knockdown, it's Knockback. There is no actual Knockdown effect - just low magnitude Knockback. This is why there are numerous situations where "Knockdown" irritatingly fails to be "Knockdown" and shows its true Knockback colours.

    If only they would have based "Knockdown" on Knockup in the first place...