Twisted Toon

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Remember the scene in Wolverine:Origins where Logan slices the cast iron sink in half by accident because his claws are so sharp? These blades are sharper than that.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

After being more a Star Wars fan, reading more about the history and technology (to this day, it's the only PnP game I think is hilariously fun to play compared to any other and the only one I ever GMed a campaign), I start to imagine how things *really* work. I believe one of the explanations for a lightsaber's blade is that it uses some sort of magnetic field or matrix that keeps the energy constrained to a certain area.

Further visualization, the way I imagine a lightsaber is, it's actually a hollow column of light. A lightsaber isn't a solid column because that'd require even more energy and heat and would constrain the energy traveling straight out of the handle.

No, the way I see it working is the energy/magnetic field constraining the energy is actually *flat* but then curved around to make a continuous loop/column shape. The field basically *spins* the energy around this loop, looser around the hilt and more tightly at the tip so all the energy is contained in the same area. This would also explain why, as described in canon, the lightsaber is difficult to handle because there's some sort of gyrating motion that has to be compensated for.

So if you lightly poke something with the tip of a lightsaber, it'll make an 'O' shape (that is, until whatever you touched burns up or melts, making the shape indistinguishable)

Originally Posted by The_Laughing_Man

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Since everyone else is sharing

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

just saiyan ;p

Originally Posted by Ura Hero

*Inserts snarky comment about 'Forum Cartel' while denouncing any poster with a join date older than 2 months ago.*

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

unless the store has it double listed, it says that there's a version in the pants section

Originally Posted by MortisEques

No, there is always something wrong with being stupid. Most people are at least smart enough to go about correcting the problem, and those who willingly don't correct the problem are on an entirely different level of stupid.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

I very nearly inhaled water up my nose, since once again, I forgot the cardinal rule of "do not eat, drink, or even breathe while reading one of Steelclaw's posts".

Then Silver's post was icing on the cake.

Breathe, D_R, breathe...

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by Melancton

For crying out loud, why IS the writing so bad?

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

Dammit, guys, just because we have an endgame now doesn't mean we have to behave like every other MMO's boards.

Originally Posted by Rajani Isa

That's not a skirt, it's a belted Tunic.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

I just wanted to note that I was wrong about what the devs intended. I had assumed when they said they were creating a system for people who like to play alone, they understood what the term 'alone' meant.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

If he's ever seen a War Walker or anything with his own eyes, he might put 2 and 2 together and come to the conclusion that this is where the invaders came from, but he might not, it depends on whether Cole allows regular citizens to see his war machines.

Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards

Holy smokes, there are people that know about BraveStarr?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Praetoria is an entire world, not just a group of people

Originally Posted by Bladesnow

Naw, just proof of something I've always suspected. Arcanaville is a strange visitor from another planet. (wink)

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the devs want to have people running the WST 27 hours a day 500 days a year, that would be one way to encourage that.

Originally Posted by TonyV

Since day one, task forces have required multiple people to start. Some, with simul-clickie missions, require multiple people to finish. Since day one there have been rewards (souvenirs) attached to completing team-only content. Since September 16, 2004, less than five months after launch, there have been rewards (badges) that you could "wear" gated behind team-only content. Since day one, a very small contingent of people have complained out it. Seven years later, I guess they still just don't get it.

Originally Posted by Nihilii

There is indeed great independent thought in quoting the same post everytime this topic pops up.



Indeed.

Really, the only relevant data we have here is from psychology/sociology circles ; humans are social creatures and, save for a few rare cases, generally need to communicate.

So guess what the so-called soloer, low-pop loving crowd does to fulfill their social needs? They come on the boards and post thousands of times, including in topics against server merges. Meanwhile, people who socialize more ingame don't need more interaction and post less if at all, including of course in these topics.

If you do a search for server merge topics, you'll see that in action. The same forum names with thousands of posts replying against server merges, while the people being pro merges tend to be new names with at most hundreds of posts, and often lower than that.

Of course, that's just, like, my interpretation, man. Much more likely is that people love being alone and that all these different individuals asking for merges are just one guy creating account after account to post the same question.

Originally Posted by IanTheM1

This. I love how many hoops people try and jump through to avoid advocating a nerf to player characters, lest they upset someone with the notion. But sensible balance dictates that you fix the outlier, not change everything else around it.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

There are reactors there that do not sleep....and the great Cole sees all. The ground there is burnt and pitted, and the air burns the eyes and chokes the throat.

Not with one hundred Incarnates could you do this.

It is folly.



S.