Tenzhi
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Quote:My eyes were drawn immediately to the star. They still are when I start up the game, despite suggestions that the crotch is omnipresent.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Okay. I'm going to try to treat this topic as seriously as possible. I am an actual artist, not a great one, but I do have some training. Much about this image pulls your eye to Statesman's groin. That seems to be inadvertent artistically.
If you look at the art almost all the lines go to Statesman's Star chest, the intended focal point of the piece. So the image can read as the star exploding in rays. This is enhanced by the lines of the cape. Unfortunately the saturation of the light is changed slightly in the screen (at least on my comp) and the man's crotch is better lit than it should be. Two very powerful lines (the legs) could be read to emphasize the Star, but unfortunately also emphasize the crotch. Which is no longer shadowy, nor is the star as bright (exploding!) as I have seen in some concept art for the image. So, competing point of interest. Since the groin is not in shadow, Statesman's "problem" becomes apparent. He has no bulge. None. We are talking Ken crotch here. Once seen, it cannot be unseen. And in the way of the human mind, anytime something is "wrong" it grabs your attention. So, the star loses in the focal point battle. Statesman's well illuminated and physiologically improbable missing genitalia win.
So, look forward to that jarring image glaring at you until i23.
My monitor is positioned such that I look slightly down on it. Many computer desk setups leave the monitor positioned such that one is looking up at it, which might change where one's eyes are drawn. However, in either case the star is blazing white surrounded by the dark and somewhat desaturated costume so it should still have the stronger pull. The secondary characteristics that should jump out are the face and the belt. -
That's a view of the moon from a place that might be somewhat dimensionally out of phase. Is it ghosted from other zones? I've never noticed. Perhaps it's too far away and doesn't fully draw in.
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I remember running into it in a few of the instanced missions, but I don't think it was in *all* of them.
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Quote:For me they never have. But I agree that those personal stories shouldn't be part of the arc and thus potentially prevent moving forward without doing them. They're rather pointless missions, even if I found them mildly interesting.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
our characters no longer feel 'super'
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Genesis of the Daleks is probably my favourite of the bunch. I wish I had seen the Troughton episodes (I should check into the novelisations). I like the Daleks as a serious hate machine, but I also don't mind seeing that subverted a bit every now and then for a fun adventure. And my favourite Dalek designs are all the variants.
Admittedly, though, the Spitfires in Space episode(s) could've involved just about any aliens and been about the same.
Also: Ace with the Hand-of-Omega-powered bat was hilarious. It's a shame Sly didn't get another season or two. -
Looks like we have a long way to go to catch up to DAoC and Anarchy Online. The asian offerings caught my eye momentarily, but I've played so many that are similar in appearance and ultimately disappointed that I went ahead and voted for CoH.
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Quote:They've had multiple colours for quite some time, as I pointed out previously. There have been leader Daleks in black, a leader Dalek in gold, and Imperial Daleks that were white with gold trim. Not to mention the heavy weapons Dalek, the lighter and darker greys, and the various Emperors. And that's all classic Who. So much for 'utter deindividuation'. They must've had the intent to sell toys since the 60s, when the black Dalek showed up.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
The central theme of the Daleks as villains in Doctor Who, like the Sontarans and the Cybermen, is that in their mission to conquer and destroy, they've utterly deindividuated themselves. (Daleks with their own names in New Who are heretics of the Cult of Skaro, for instance.) Making them color-coded for convenience misses the point - unless the point is to sell more toys.
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That 'removed at the request of the studio' pic doesn't reveal enough.
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Quote:Ha! I had the same exact experience.Originally Posted by Mister Rik
For me it was "awry". I first read the word when I was a little kid in grade school, but I never heard it spoken until I was in high school. I'd been pronouncing it "AW-ree" (only in my head, fortunately) for years before I finally learned it was pronounced "a-RYE".
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Quote:They may be a real factor somewhere, but they're irrelevant to me. Were they relevant, I might have a multi-coloured set of Daleks on a shelf. A Heavy Weapons/Tank Dalek would be awesome, too. Sly McCoy's Doc would be selling that one.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
You are aware, I trust, that things exist outside your own narrow experience, so toy tie-ins are a real factor in New Who.
I didn't see the episode as a WWII allusion, but more of a pulp sci-fi adventure in a WWII setting.Quote:And with all hodge-podges, some elements don't work that well in the mix. Jumbling up Daleks, spaceships, Spitfires, and bad Winston Churchill impressions is simply juvenile. If you want to see how Doctor Who can pull off World War II allusions, go watch "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" serial.
The Runaway Bride - The Doctor versus Lolth.Quote:(Also, Forgotten Realms? Now you're just trying to find things in Doctor Who to suit your own tastes.) -
Quote:Because you gave him a 20.Originally Posted by Judas_Ace
Why exactly is it in my face?
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Quote:I hardly see any Doctor Who toys stateside, so any blithering about tactics to sell fabled toylines is falling on deaf ears. In any case, I've enjoyed multi-coloured Daleks in the series for ages. Gold, black, and grey (and white?) were fine in the past, but the bright colours amuse me greatly.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
It wasn't awesome with Peter Cushing's Dr. {sic} Who and the Daleks movie, and it's not awesome now. It's a blatant tactic to sell a new line of Dalek dolls.
Both. It's also Peter Pan. And Shakespeare. And Lovecraft. And Forgotten Realms. And a hodge podge of other things. Or haven't you been paying attention?Quote:Is this Doctor Who or The Care Bears?
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Quote:I'd settle for it being a targeted AoE kinda like a reverse Taunt.Originally Posted by kharnstalker
the only thing that would make the stalker AT better is a PBAOE placate
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Quote:If the population was consistently any higher, I might have to migrate to a less populated server than Virtue. And I don't wanna.Originally Posted by Bubblerella
To bad it's not doing much to pull people back to the game so far. Say what you will. I'll give it a few days to get better. The server colors don't lie! I love the game, but it is what it is!
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A smidge. Or an iota if you prefer metric.
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Sounds like a pack I'd buy.
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Quote:Silly question: is that wholly based on the base recharge of the power, or does it scale with enhancements/debuffs?Originally Posted by Jibikao
The chance of getting focus is based on the base recharge of the power. The faster the recharge, the less the chance. And due to my little testing, a 10s recharge power has like 100% chance to get Focus.
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Iä! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Staff Fighting wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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Quote:I spun around and jiggled movement keys while repeatedly using /stuck until I finally shook free from the wall. And then I jumped up the pit from tentacle to tentacle, which made the pit more interesting. Eventually the prompt came up and I was able to go to Dark Astoria.Originally Posted by MisterD
Get stuck in wall, cant move at all. /Stuck does jack.
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Quote:Because it wasn't an urgent matter given that, after all, it was just PVP.Originally Posted by MisterD
Which begs the question..if WE, the players, could tell KM, and particularly CS, was out of whack, thereby conforming to HAVING at least half a brain...WHY has it taken so long?
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When this happened to me, after using /stuck a lot and spinning/moving along the wall I was eventually able to free myself from the wall. Then I used Super Jump to jump up the pit from tentacle to tentacle until I found the spot that offered me the server selection choice (there were two instances of Dark Astoria to choose from, and I came to the same conclusion about why it had happened at that point). That allowed me to select an instance and get to Dark Astoria.
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Quote:Given that their apparent goal was to snag themselves the Doctor, it would have made no sense to ally with the Nazis.Originally Posted by Agonus
Why would the Daleks go undercover with the Allies during WW2 when the Nazis are pretty much the human embodiment of "You think like a Da-lek!"?
They can conceive of such emotions, but they hate them.Quote:How can Daleks program such a human-like android when they have no concept of any emotions other than hate?
It took an A-Team minute. Also: Prop planes in space are awesome.Quote:How long did it take them to re-fit the Spitfires for space travel, give them GI Joe guns, AND get them into space? About a minute and a half?
Because it was awesome.Quote:Really, why with the Power Rangers coloring?
Because even Daleks have to bow to the universal rule that you can defeat anything with the power of Love and/or Friendship.Quote:How could getting the android to think about his fake human memories possibly override his Dalek time-to-detonate-the-bomb programming? Why would the Daleks even allow for something like this to happen? -
This change is going to make me place less importance on Placate. Not much less, mind, as I was mostly using it for damage mitigation.
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The big question is whether Sharkman carries Bat Repellent.
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Quote:I've not had anything bad come from it. Though in my case it was a costume that got nixed... twice. The costume still exists after the second time, though with slightly modified colours as discussed between me and support. I imagine that if one makes a true nuisance of one's self one might end up suspended or banned, but that would be related to one's ongoing conduct rather than an instance of debatable indiscretion. Of course, this, too, probably comes back around to that 'sole discretion' thing.Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid
Well, Tenzhi, I asked about it because right now my account has itself a "perfect record" regarding these thing. Though I don't think there is anything bad that happens if you get a toon generic'd, I haven't heard anyone explicitly say that there wasn't anything else that could happen from it, so I err on the side of caution.