Texas Justice

I'm not sure you understand what item they are talking about.

A fairly recent addition to the Paragon Market was the 50% XP Booster Temporary Power and it was available in 3 versions (1 hour, 4 hour and 8 hour).

The 8 hour version gives you +50% XP for 8 hours for 960 PP (120 PP/hour). It also gives you a temporary power that you can share with another player so that you can "give" someone a slice of the +50% XP for 8 hours pie.

If two people buy these, they could then each have the active one they bought plus grant (trade) the sharable version with each other.

Not trade as in Trading in the AH or in the Trade window, just an agreement that "we both buy them, I'll give you my sharable portion and you give me yours" type of trade.

These were on sale over the Memorial Day weekend for 25% off.

I'm fairly sure that is EXACTLY what was being said.

However, that name is still available on all of the (formerly) English speaking servers except Freedom and Protector.

I suspect someone may have been testing that name on Protector when I checked but I can't be sure.

Just as an FYI, I checked all but Vigilance and Zukunft.

Thick As A Brick was available on all servers except for Freedom and Protector.

I was rather surprised to get Texas Tech for a robotics MM about a year after CoV came out.

It's not always Texas Noun either.

Eyes of Texas

Yellow Rose of Texas (also created about a year after CoV came out)

Sometimes it is Texas Noun.

I've tried creating characters on a different server to try to play with some friends. I tried using 3 of my established characters names and all were taken. I was still able to come up with a name I liked that fit the character without much trouble. Then most of them quit playing so he sits there abandoned.

Let's talk about those four-color superheroes for a bit. And toss in the length of time a particular system has been around with regards to naming.

How long have superheroes been around in the four-color comics? Since 1938 or so?

Someone today comes up with a concept for a new character and it practically wrote itself. They go to pitch the character (and perhaps a series with it) to a comic publisher and the exchange goes something like this:

P(ublisher): What's the character's name?
W(riter): Superman

P: Already in use.
W: (thinks quickly) Ultra-man

P: In use
W: (thinks a bit longer) Miracle Man

P: In use
W: (thinks for quite a while) Hyperion?

P: In use
W: Prime

P: ... Well Gerard, I think we can make this work. You and Len work up a few issues and I'll put you in touch with Norm Breyfogle. I think his art style will fit really well on this.

Sure, Gerard Jones likely didn't start out wanting to call his character any of those names, but he still found a way to find a unique name that fit a character concept he wanted to make over 50 years after superheroes first started appearing in four-color comics.

But the age of the system and how many names were already in use didn't stop him from coming up with a unique name for his character.

But let's look at it from a slightly different viewpoint.

What if he'd come up with the name before or even with the initial concept and gone to pitch it to that publisher. The publisher liked the concept and the name but then before they got started on the process another comic publisher came out with a character with that very same name. They'd likely go back and try to come up with another name that fit the concept, possibly by adding a minor bit of a backstory that accounted for the different name or possibly not needing to add anything.

That's all part of the creative process.

You are the only person I've seen in the entire thread use the term suck. No one is claiming people suck.

You are also the only person I've seen use the word stupid. No one is claiming people are stupid.

Unimaginative might be inferred from my repeated comment of Be Creative, but even unimaginative people like me can Be Creative.

I gave a few examples of why someone that only speaks English might use a name that isn't English. Here's a few more.

Maybe before they decided on a name they used their powers helping someone that spoke German and they called them Flammenwerfer and they liked the sound of it.

Perhaps they saw a design on a Football helmet and heard it called a Fleur de Lis and liked the sound of it so decided to use that for their name.

They were watching ESPN and they were showing footage of an earthquake in Mexico during a soccer match. The Mexican announcers referred to a Terremoto and it had a nice ring to it.

It all falls back to one thing:

Be creative.

Feuern Sie Werfer isn't word salad, it's German.

Vider Le Lanceur isn't word salad, it's French.

Licenziare Il Lanciatore isn't word salad, it's Italian.

Surely you don't consider those obscure languages that no one knows.

Very few people born in America have a family tree that didn't originate from somewhere else in the world.

Why wouldn't someone want to honor a revered ancestor by naming them self in the language that ancestor spoke? Perhaps that ancestor was a hero as well and the brute is carrying on the family hero tradition and honoring that name. Perhaps it's for some other reason.

That's not a kludge. It's called a back story. Or part of an Origin story.

Be creative.

Use a Thesaurus.

Be creative.

Use a foreign language.

Be creative.

Skewered?

Or skewed.


I'm not sure I want prices impaled on a stick.

I know at least one character that has Jesus in his name. There are likely others as well.

Don't forget, Jesus is also a Hispanic name. Jesus Alou was one of the Alou brothers that played professional baseball, Jesus Guevara was a Venezuelan boxer (several boxers from various countries have been named Jesus), Jesus Quintana was a character in the film The Big Lebowski, James Jesus Angleton was the Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence of the CIA (ADDOCI) from 1954 to 1975, and too many more to list.

Incorrect.

Several of the OCR team have a numbered Moderator account as well. That way if they do post something in a thread it doesn't show up in the Community Digest.

I know a few of the numbered Moderator accounts that belong to members of the OCR team, but I don't necessarily know all of them.

To give a few examples:

There used to be a Moderator called Moderator 08. He had no presence as a redname except for the Moderator 08 account. He was promoted and got a redname and chose TheOcho as his redname based on the Moderator 08 name. When they had the Bay Area Meet & Greet in San Francisco in 2010, I met Moderator 05 at the Paragon Studios office (well, the lobby anyway, that's as far as I got) who had recently started working there. Several months later we were introduced to Beastyle on the forums when he got a redname.

So, not all numbered moderator accounts are NCSoft employees. Some may be, but not all.

So it's going to be Wednesday this week? And now the Brutes are Thrushing instead of Thrashing?

You sure know how to keeps things confusing.



Monday (today)
Tuesday (1 day away)
Wednesday (2 days away)
Thursday (3 days away)

I don't think I need to go on. Hopefully you can figure out the rest of the days of the week on your own.