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1. Do you consider yourself a roleplayer? Yes.
2. Do you actively seek out the company of other roleplayers? No.
3. Do you use specific language, symbols, or playstyles to define yourself as a roleplayer? Yes. -
Quote:Was it a story about a mafia cryptographer from Maine who drives a haunted car and believes Jesus was a Mason?3 separate paragraphs from the same story submitted got me:
Mario Puzo
Dan Brown
Stephan King
So ok, I have multiple personalities.
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Quote:What about a guy who has mystical powers and only calls himself "Doctor" because an honorary PhD was bestowed upon him by Paragon U. after he foiled an attack on the Croatoa campus by a bunch of Cabal Sorceresses who couldn't get into the students-only midnight showing of the latest Twilight movie?Character concept helps me decide whether a title should be spelled out or abbreviated. I could think of concepts where "Doctor", "Dr.", or even "Doc" would be appropriate. I'd need to know more of the concept to make up my mind.
Personally I'd use Dr. for a character with an academic concept,
Doctor for a character with a MD, PHD, DDO etc concept,
and Doc for a character with a corpsman/medic concept.
I'd even consider Doktor if the character had an old world European flavor.
Quote:The use of Doctor or Doc for me would depend on the overall cadence of the name. Different strokes, of course.
Doctor Savage would sound so silly to me.
OK, I just snagged the name in question on Virtue. It is Doctor Crocodile (aka Doc Croc). I know I'll have to be careful to avoid looking too much like Marvel's Lizard lest I get hit with the generic bat.
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Yeah, that is a pretty good name. I purposely didn't post the one I was planning to use because i didn't want someone to steal it, but now I want to go see if Doctor Moonlight is free!
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If you were going to create a character who is a doctor (think Fate, Strange, Who), which of these would be your first choice for the name:
Doctor Moonlight
or,
Dr. Moonlight
In other words if both were available for the name you wanted, would you spell out "Doctor" or abbreviate it? -
Three end reduction IOs should be more than enough to alleviate end usage problems.
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Quote:I guess looks can be deceiving (see third paragraph)Largest...city...in...America? Where'd that come from? It doesn't look it, and is likely Providence.
If Paragon is supposed to be bigger than L.A. or N.Y., it sure doesn't show it.
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Quote:I don't really see how a fly could make Chardonnay any more disgusting than it already is. I think the real irony is that the person said, "give me a fancy, expensive wine," and the waiter brought them a glass of Chardonnay in the first place."It's a black fly in your Chardonnay." The expectation is that Chardonnay is fancy and expensive, but the reality is that a fly in it makes it quite disgusting. Thus irony.
ETA: I just looked up irony in my dictionary - Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published in 1983. The first entry under irony was, "a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning."
I've never heard that definition of irony, which is apparently referred to as Socratic irony, but I thought it was funny in light of all the disagreement in this thread over who really knows what is ironic. -
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Three things I'd like to see (which may already have been mentioned):
Shopping mall(s)
Amusement Park(s)
Sports Stadia (baseball, football, hockey/basketball - as the largest city in America, PC should have several pro sports teams)
All at least enterable, and maybe the Amusement Park(s) could be entirely new zones - a rundown, abandonded Park in the RI and an active one in PC. -
Maybe if you report the credit/debit card lost or stolen. If the card just expires, you should get a new card with the same account number and a new expiration date. They may update the CVV number or whatever it's called, but not the account number. I had a credit card with the same number for close to 20 years before I finally cancelled the account.
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Quote:The ratio of Inf required to purchase Prestige isn't really supposed to be about getting you more Prestige; it's about destroying Inf. It's one of the few Inf. sinks in the game (and they really need more to combat rampant mudflation.)
I'll bet if they made the Inf:Prestige ratio more attractive, a lot more people would use it and a lot more Inf would get sunk.
It's like if Proctor and Gamble suddenly wanted to get rid of a bunch of coupons they had on the market for some reason. At a value of 1/20 of a cent each, I guarantee you (almost) no one is cashing in coupons for money, but make them worth a penny apiece and I'm sure a lot more would get cashed in. I know that analogy has a lot of holes in it, but it's the only one I could think of off hand. -
I could be completely off-base here, but I don't understand why everyone is saying that since the single level of Incarnate play was removed from GR, all it is now is a 1-20 game.
The Devs have said repeatedly that you can't change your alignment until after level 20, and since we don't currently have a mechanism in the game to change your alignment, it's pretty obvious to me that there is going to be new 21-50 content in GR.
Again, I could be wrong, and if I am, I will be VERY disappointed myself, but my assumption is that they are not going to add one or two story arcs that players have to go through ad naseum with every character they want to side-switch. Since the price of GR is similar to the price of CoH and CoV when they came out, I fully expect a similar amount of content all the way from 1-50 that those games had at launch.
And maybe your saying, "Well, where does that leave those of us who don't want to switch sides?" My answer would be, the same place it leave those of us who do - the new missions are going to have moral choices which can shift your alignment based on what you choose. Want your hero to stay a hero? Make the moral choice. Want you villain to stay a villain? Make the immoral choice.
The one thing I think everyone needs to keep in mind is that CoX as a whole is a six year old game with the combined content of two whole games plus 18 free issues and six years worth of development. Don't expect Paragon Studios to match that amount of content in one expansion to the game, and I don't think you'll be disappointed.
I just hope, as others have said, that Incarnates doesn't become the new Cathedral of Pain/City Vault where it gets pushed back indefinitely. If the full Incarnate system is introduced in I19 in late 2010 or VERY early 2011, I will be satisfied because I too am really looking forward to this system. -
Quote:I've often had a similar fantasy - sort of wake up one day in the body of my younger self anywhere from age 8 to about 14 with all my present knowledge and skills. There isn't much about my own life I would change, because I've had a good life, largely free from hardship or tragedy, and I'd be afraid that changing my decisions about certain things would lead me down a less desireable path.I suppose it depends on the mechanism. I have often fantasized about going back in time to my childhood, essentially replacing myself with all of my current knowledge. I could change a lot of things in my life. If I cannot replace myself, I would probably choose to travel to the future and see whats going on a few hundred years from now.
Some things I would do though - buy multiple copies of collectibles that I knew would eventually be of enormous value (Giant Size X-Men #1, Incredible Hulk #181, vinyl-caped Jawas, double-telescoping Vaders, etc.), and encourage my dad to invest in companies like Microsoft or Apple.
I'd also ask out the girl I had a crush on all through high school, but was too shy to ask out. And even if she rejected me, I would do my best to find a way to warn her about the breast cancer that took her life at age 36. I'd also treat my parents with a hell of a more respect than I did the first time.
ETA: I don't think I would try to warn people about tragedies like the Challenger disaster, or 9/11. In the case of the Challenger, even if someone believed a college freshman from Pennsylvania, it might well lead to an even worse disaster in the future. With regard to 9/11, showing foreknowledge of such an event could get a person in a LOT of trouble. However, I would make sure I was in Manhattan that day, just out of morbid curiousity. -
If I would be perfectly safe and could return to the present, my choice would be to travel to all of the mysterious or controversial events/time in history:
- The day the meteorite hit the Yucatan penisula in Mexico 65 million years ago
- The building of the pyramids
- The time of Christ
- The assassination of JFK (I'd stake out the grassy noll one time, & the book depository another time)
If it was a one way trip, I would choose to visit my hometown in the late 1940s, or early 1950s. When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s it was just another economically depressed northeastern steel mill town, but in the postwar years, it was booming. I would love to experience first hand what a vibrant, affulent town it was then. An alternate choice would be the period between WWI and the Great Depression. -
Yeah I heard about that Twilight fiasco. My mistake was that on first reading I thought you were saying there is nothing in that room the rest of the day, not that there isn't anything that would cause camping.
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I'm not a PvPer either, but I have all the PvP badges on my blue side badge toon now, partly thanks to playing on Guardian.
A friend and I helped each other get the Disruptor badge by logging on for two hours each evening over the course of about a week and a half.
We each had four lvl 30 toons we would cycle through in Warburg. My badger would kill his four toons, then we'd switch and his badger would kill my four. In this manner I think we each earned about 20 rep an hour, or 40 a night.
Was it tedious? Yeah, but if I played in windowed mode I could have another window open and play on the net while waiting for him to log his toons, which relieved the tedium a bit. -
I wonder if when Going Rogue comes out, a lvl 50 villain could switch sides and gain access to APPs through a respec.
The one thing I don't like about redside is the specificity of the PPP powers. My mind/fire dom would much rather have a fire-based version of Scirocco's PPP set. The APPs seem much more flexible to me in terms of fitting the themes of my heroes than the PPPs do in fitting the themes of my villains. -
Quote:Actually I was hoping I'd get the day off to celebrate the day of the apple-trees (fĂȘte des pommiers in French) but unfortunately it won't be so *sigh*
So there will be a forum game next Monday after all :P
If I were you, I'd just take a day of vaction, Avatea. See how the bosses like them pommes. -
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Mom? Guess what... I won first place in the San Diego Comic-Con Masquerade! -
I need a few TF badges for my blueside badger, The Erin Brand, including all three Respec Trial badges I think. Problem is, I'll be in Orlando for the Star Wars con the second week of August and I'll be exploring Praetoria the third week, so I don't know that my time will msh with yours very well.
Either way though, kudos for doing this and giving folks the option to join you. -
Edited because I probably misinterpretted your statement about that room later in the day.
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