Tyger42

Tell me more about how that apple compares to this orange.

But you're wrong there. It's just that you have a different idea of what a female gunslinger should look like.

I'm totally baffled as to where you're getting that it looks like they DIDN'T. Just because they didn't succeed doesn't mean they didn't try. And the story's not over with yet. As others have said, it's damn common for heroes to take a pummeling in a story arc in comic books before ultimately scraping out a win, and sometimes that win is barely by the skin of their teeth with heavy casualties along the way.

Thing is, the villains aren't getting any full victories either. I just think that you can't score the villains a point without having to give the heroes one as well. It's not the missions that are skewed in favor of the villains, it's your scoring system. Both sides end up with gains and losses.

A revamp like they did for Faultline would be great for all the hazard zones. In addition to story-content, a hospital, trainer, and at least a generic enhancement store to dump "fluff" at.

Ah, cool, then. Yeah, it's about time they wiped Whacko Jacko's persona from the game.

Have they actually confirmed States is dying? I mean, I know he's a likely suspect, but there are other possibilities just as likely barring anything official having been stated by the devs...

No, we don't. However, I don't see any reason to assume or even GUESS that they are if they haven't even vaguely hinted at them being limited that way. It seems you're just making up things to object to...

Actually, it most certainly IS racism. Racism isn't necessarily negative, but it can be offensive either way. Yes, even positive racial stereotypes can be offensive to those of that race, especially to those who don't live up to said stereotype. ( "Here, Keichi can help! Those Japanese kids are great at math!" )

Family Guy annoys me. They use offensive crap in lieu of humor. Sure, the show gets a chuckle out of me now and then, but it too closely follows the trend these days of being stupid rather than funny. ( Example: The Hangover. 1 and 2. Ugh... )

Eh, no, it's nothing like this. It's more like seeing someone light up next to you in a restaurant with "NO SMOKING" signs posted on the door and complaining to the manager. See, one of the rules you agree to EVERY DAMN TIME YOU PLAY THIS GAME ( Right there after you enter your login info. That big thing with the "I Agree" button at the bottom? That's the rules. Might wanna skim them sometimes. ) is that you won't use profanity in the game.

That said, I do agree that the "B-word" is hardly considered profanity anymore ( Key word: "hardly". Some people still consider "hell" to be profanity, but not enough that anyone bothers to censor it anymore ), being one that isn't even censored on network TV anymore. Hell, I don't even think the profanity filter catches it, but I'm not sure about that. I'd have contested it. And, yeah, I also swear occasionally in-game, but only in private channels with my SG where I know everybody is okay with it. Is it still against the rules? Sure. But, no one's going to be offended by it there and report me, so it doesn't matter.

I've never heard Nippy mean anything that would be considered offensive. The meaning you have up there is the only one I know. Aside from people using it as a silly word to describe a small dog that likes to play-bite (nip) at people.

Seems a bit of a stretch to be calling "nippy" a racist term. By that logic, why isn't " 'coon" filtered? Southern shortening of "racoon", but also a racist term, albeit one that's rarely recognized as such anymore. ( Saw someone totally go off on another SG-mate in our OOC channel once for using the word in the former context. )

Anyway, that's what people mean about the filter being too sensitive. It smacks down words that have only obscure racist connotations or even ones that happen to contain a string of letters that might be profanity if you take the rest of the letters away. >< The filter is dumb about context, and that's big enough of a flaw for a lot of people to turn it off.

Hmm, good point. That would be giving their product too much credit.

a) shouldn't be playing this game at all, then. Practically everything you do in the game is gambling in some form.... Whether it's the hunt for random drops or being at the mercy of the RNG for every single attack and defense roll...

Actually, it does change that fact. Quite a bit, really. At least, it changes the value you've assigned to them substantially.

I don't usually like the spandex look either. A lot of comics have moved away from it. A good number of superhero movies as well ( going more for the leather look. Few exceptions that can't really be done in non-spandexish like Spiderman, though ). I read comics, I watch superhero movies, and I definitely play CoH. So there.

CoH is intended to INCLUDE that motif. It sure as hell isn't intended to be exclusive to it. It's actually rather obviously intended to include as many "superhero-esque" motifs as possible. And, yeah, that would include anime.

Naruto is as bad anymore. Bleach started out good, but kinda turned into DBZ with better artwork partway through the first season.

Problem comes around in people who only are familiar with it in passing who generalize it based on some BAD examples of sub-genres. Someone catches an episode of DBZ and suddenly believes all anime is spikey-haired freaks shouting incoherently for 15 minutes amid a slew of flashbacks before even starting a ridiculously OP-ed fight. The ones who are in that category and who will refuse to even watch far better examples of anime such as Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Deathnote ( to get a more recent one ), and so on are the most annoying to deal with. Those are the ones like the OP who tend to get confrontation about what the perceive as "too much anime influence" in a game such as this.

So...a direct competitor.

Winter is coming.



( C'mon, you had to know someone would pull the Stark motto out. )

No, but WOW lets you dual wield 2 handers with the right high end talents as a warrior

The graphic for a sheathed weapon isn't there, but that isn't an issue with the set being illogical. Just a technical limitation. Properly using a shield while wielding a two-handed axe? That's illogical.