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ran the bny and lady winter quite a lot, great for lower level chars to get a solid hit of exp. no wl's but that had more to do with so much to do now that it didnt have one up when i was free. hit a good number of presents as well. tried to get my lowbies badged up, rian and the elders are pretty solid at what they are.

yeah, ghost procol, calm down, you are turning a whiter shade of pale.

4) is accurate, but the origin of the voice is rarely in one's head.

you know rather than whapping each other with our attendant politics, can we admit that we all do silly things and be done with it? it isn't just men, or just women, or adults , or children, or common "regular" people, or sanctimonious misanthropes or just any one subdivision. human interaction is a series of negotiations, you just have to work with the fact that others have different valuations and find a workable compromise.

for the immediate future, id prefer if they cooled it on the powersets and went hog wild on alt animations. that said, it would be nice if we got new ancilliary pools and expanded pool powers. and a few more themed incarnate powers. More breadth of concept for existing pcharacters would eb great.

i have 64 characters, but i tend to concentrate on only a few at a time, and ones on liberty are definitely more played. it really helps with patrol exp, that when i can play, on the weekends, i can rotate through a few and they are all gassed up on high octane exp

well, my stj char is 7 foot tall, so she tends to have more a knee to the chest(which i like, it seems more muay thai that way), but the whole "knee to the junk" thing was a minor meme back when the devs announced it.

MA is kind of my baby here, and have made similar appeals in the past. SS is a bit more abstract, pro wrestling is probably the closest we will get to "dramatic fighting with super strength" so long as we cant grapple and throw enemies.

takumi, total agreement. have said very similar posts in the past, so totally on your side on this.

Sam, i see your perspective, but i think you are wrong. outside of eagle's claw, all of ma's moves do have real world antecedents(primarily in korean karate styles) and it bothers me quite a bit that they look so poor in relation to how they really look. and the punches, while nice were clearly an attempt to make ma a more palatable option for people wanting a more street brawley character. that was fine when stj didnt exist, now brawlers have their own set, and i would like martial arts to actually look better for actual eastern martial arts(though savate boxe' francais would fit). they can be better, i have provided, in the past, videos showing tae kwon do practitioners doing the techniques correctly, it needs fixed to look more like them. So i have to strongly disagree, they can look a hell of a lot better. and do not convey their theme properly. We do have one area of agreement, I'd rather we not just see animations ported over, street justice, kin melee and ma occupy different conceptual spaces, so I'd prefer the animations reflect their respective spaces. new ma animations would be drawn from korean or japanese karate or maybe muay thai, kin from Chinese wushu styles and sj either brawling or mixed martial arts.

whoever said thunder kick stinks, agreed, it is the worst of the set, It seems to want to be a roundhouse kick, but the myriad of things it does wrong..well, i have gone over a few dozen times, improper hip rotation, improper knee chambering, horrid stance, the supporting foot doesn't turn fully, but no its horrid, bethesda could make a better animation, we need a good alternate animation for it, go tea kwon do or muay thai for the animation, just make something not hideous.

one thing stood out to me a while a go, i was playing my stj character and she got rib cracker. i know it seems to be primarily liked for it being a knee to the balls, but the reality is, there is another thing to it that makes it so appealing, the sense of momentum in the attack. you don't just knee them, your body motion carries you forward, it looks like you committed to the strike. now, i dont need that entirely in ma, since its actually poor form to let your leg fall like that after a strike, but it had a sense of gravity behind the hit. thunder kick barely looks like you slapped them with your foot, a good roundhouse kick would have had a full hip turn, a full 180 degree turn of the supporting foot, and a horizontal arc for the leg as it strikes. that would give a feeling of force, momentum, weight, that's what ma needs.

paragon, put em on the store if you have to, i will pay more just to get the animations i need to enjoy the game.

one other note, I tend to view MA as more foot and mixed style for animations. given the current animations are apparently based on tai chi chuan, kin melee may be a better place to put the animations for more hand based kung fu styles (always wanted a 7 star praying mantis styled alt anims for that one myself).

It does sound coached, but its also not a bad observation, id say a more damning indictment of toys gender bias is how girls toys tend to be about passive social interaction whereas boys toys are oriented more towards active competitive play. Those both reinforce far worse things (passivity for girls and d-baggery for boys) than some color schemes that let befuddled relatives find their product when they are trying to find gifts for the kids.

And while z was partially being facetious, the modern mlp is actually a good example of how to market a toy that may not break gender bias' more obvious trappings, it at least treats its target audience with a bit more respect and has found a way to appeal to both boys and girls as a result. (admittedly a lot of the boys are 20 something hipsters, but baby steps i guess)

I remember back in the days, even buying a she-ra toy as a boy got you questioning looks, and she had a sword, dangett.

i'm hoping for the carnie accessory set, would buy the heck out of it.

nothing geeky for me, i got a 2-24 lb weighted vest, a AAA membership renewal and some chocolate pretzels. but for my steampunk enjoying little brother i got a brass sextant to go with his brass telescope and compass. also got him a signed copy of the new abney park cd that i will be "borrowing" quickly. both of those quailify for the geeky subheading.

heh, well, in my ideal situation, the shards would be fully revamped with the more up to date technology and the current 4 tfs would be drastically improved or removed to oroboros for the masochists to deal with. The shard is very dated looking so new content would demand some sort of retouch, but not sure if they want o mess with the tfs that some people seem to enjoy.

A good compromise I'd sees to make the zone nominally co op, but with separate contact lines and separate culminating tfs that are heroic for one quest line and malevolent for the other. Its unlikely we will get a full zone for only one side, and based on populations at any given time, villains would not win out if such a decision were made. so I think the shared but with separate contacts would be a way to go.

all over the map. I tend to prefer defenders and scrappers/brutes. one for being a great team force-multiplier, the other for being a good fun smash fest for braining down and blasting loud music. but i have a few of just about everything.

I am confused by the comments about the widows I find them to be very fun to play, so i'm a bit confused by the comments about them being slow going. I guess they are a bit squishy to start, but once they get going, and particularly on a team with their leadership buffs, they are delightfully powerful.

forums tend to draw certain personality types. it happens. I have been known to rage out occasioanlly, but usually right afterwards its more the embarrassment of" oh heck, they got me to waste time on this". happiness is a full ignore list

I can honestly not tell if z is joking anymore.

That said, i like the pic, it doesnt really strike me as sexy, closer to an anime cute drawing really. the mouth seems disproportionate, but beyond that, im not getting sexy. And i agree with ten, the robe should have a gold trim in game to, it looks better than the dark green on light green.