Trike

Am I being mocked by AI?

Is this titled “Where’s the bathroom?” I’m still 12 mentally. 😆

I literally had one person run away from my clown character. His name is Moist the Clown.

My basic idea for a knife set was to make a combo melee/ranged unlike other sets. Adding knives as a secondary to Blasters etc. similar to Ninjitsu is a bonus. Knives are thematically perfectly suited for melee/range, unlike other weapons with the exception of throwing axes/tomahawks. Melee/ranged: Mostly melee but also as Blaster secondary:

But S’p1d3rM0n is fine. Either Parker Peters or Morty Miller version.

That name is a great get, as is Gameplay.

Excellent backstory.

Cheerio, chap!

And here's an actual Marine Affinity toon, Saltwater. Just got him up to 10. A bit surprised the name was available on Excelsior.

Thanks! It is one of my all-timers, that's for sure.

Marine Affinity you say? Here's a tsunami of sea-worthy alts fer youse. Water Guardian Coral Strike Xiphias Lefty McWright Yule Tide Tiburon Tigre Scurvy Dog Sea Horse RipCurl Ms. Megalodon Kitty Pool

What ho, fellow orcas! Shall we go wreck some yachts?

I tried it in Bing AI. Here are the best ones. No idea why sometimes it cut off the title, that’s just odd.

I’m picturing animations that borrow from Dual Blades, Katana and the Red Caps. Some attacks will be with one knife, some with two, some with multiples (the thrown cone, which is fun to say). Brute/Scrapper Slash 1 Single Knife Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal) Slice 1 Single Knife Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal) Stab 2 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense Throwing Knives 6 Multiple Knives Ranged (Cone), Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe Knockdown Poisoned Blade 8 Single Knife Melee, DOT Moderate Damage (Lethal, Poison), Foe -Recharge Taunt 12 Ranged (AoE), Foe Taunt Bleeding Edge 18 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe Slow, Foe -Defense Thrown Poison 22 Multiple Knives Ranged (Cone), DOT Superior Damage (Lethal, Poison) Whirling Bladestrike 26 Dual Knives Melee (Cone), Superior Damage (Lethal) Tanker Slash 1 Single Knife Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal) Slice 1 Single Knife Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal) Stab 4 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense Taunt 10 Ranged (AoE), Foe Taunt Poisoned Blade 16 Single Knife Melee, DOT Moderate Damage (Lethal, Poison), Foe -Recharge Throwing Knives 20 Multiple Knives Ranged (Cone), Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe Knockdown Bleeding Edge 24 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe Slow, Foe -Defense Thrown Poison 28 Multiple Knives Ranged (Cone), DOT Superior Damage (Lethal, Poison) Whirling Bladestrike 30 Dual Knives Melee (Cone), Superior Damage (Lethal) Stalker Slash 1 Single Knife Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal) Slice 1 Single Knife Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal) Stab 2 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense Assassin’s Strike 6 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage +Special Build Up 8 Self +Damage +To-Hit Placate 12 Ranged, Foe Placate Bleeding Edge 18 Dual Knives Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe Slow, Foe -Defense Thrown Poison 22 Multiple Knives Ranged (Cone), DOT Superior Damage (Lethal, Poison), Foe Knockdown Whirling Bladestrike 26 Dual Knives Melee (Cone), Superior Damage (Lethal)

Prompt I saw scrolling through news last night that I adapted. Comic book cover, character description, scene description, title 'name of book' in type of font, include barcode and price. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. Comic book cover, Dr. Vivek Singh holding glowing ancient artifact, ghostly figures from different historical periods surrounding her, modern background, transparent spirits, detailed historical elements, title 'Science Mage' in elegant font, include barcode and price.

Just a note here, it should be “There are” not “There is”.

EDIT: I just realized I clicked on Build 1 not Build 3 like I thought. Please to ignore comment. Yeah, everything after the comma should be deleted because it’s misleading. ”Soloing” has always meant “fighting alone” not “sneaking around hoping not to be noticed”. I think expectations should be set correctly from the get-go just to avoid complaints.

That would actually be an interesting way to go — groups making tentative inroads here and there to see if they can establish a foothold in a new town. So you’d only find mobs in very limited areas, not spread throughout the zone.

I like to listen to audiobooks while doing TFs.

That’s not what I said nor what I meant. I was very clearly talking about how it would appear: a bully beating up on a little guy for no sensible reason other than a strict reading of the law tells them they should. i’m not a lawyer either but I *was* an editor at Lexis-Nexis and edited more than 10,000 cases. I was absolutely stunned that Marvel lost the suit against NCSoft, since so many of the original costumes and powersets in the game were clearly patterned after characters like Wolverine. But it just goes to show how messy the law can be and that the right argument can sway the right court in your favor, something I saw play out time and again. (Also, Marvel’s lawyers did some dumb things, but that’s a side issue.) They should have sued in the Texas or Delaware district courts, which are notorious for siding with skeevy patent-owners who have simply bought the patent and proceed to use said ownership to sue people they claim infringe on it. Since the law for trademark infringement changed in 2011, there is a better chance a similar lawsuit today would come out in favor of the corporation filing it. To reiterate though, winning the case wasn’t really the point for Marvel. The rules of trademark law include the vigorous defense of one’s IP or risk losing it. That’s why Disney sued Berkeley Breathed over his character Mortimer Mouse in his comic strip Outland. They had to do it but it made them look really bad. In recent years there have been more lenient views on small-time use of IP, such as t-shirt designs I mentioned earlier. It’s a form of benign neglect that came along with corporations being allowed to extend their copyright/trademark. It’s an unspoken rule of, “You can have 95 years of protection if you aren’t being a dick about it.” It helps that George Lucas has always allowed people to play with Star Wars as long as they follow one rule: you can’t make any money from it. It underscored to companies that letting fans play with the toys kept interest in the IP burbling during fallow periods. That’s why Paramount has no problems with Star Trek Continues but sued the pants off of the guy who made Prelude to Axanar. The former is a non-profit fan production while the latter is a for-profit venture using Trek IP. (Which is too bad since Prelude was better than 90% of official Trek.) These days it’s more of a slippery slope, what with Patreon and YouTube monetization, etc. All of that to say that’s the reason why I don’t think Homecoming is in any real jeopardy if someone makes a knock-off or parody version of a comic book character. There’s no real upside for a lawsuit because there’s no money to be had, this is a fan-run joint, and no reasonable person would buy that player-created characters are endangering the company’s IP. That said, Winnie the Pooh and OG Mickey Mouse are now in the public domain, so have at ‘em.

IP owners have to defend their copyright. No one wants to become the next aspirin. That said, there are a lot of gray areas where corporations look the other way, such as tee shirts and such. I strongly suspect this would be one of those cases, because there’s no money to be had and it would only garner them bad publicity. Disney, for instance, is already treading water reputationally and Homecoming isn’t even small potatoes, it’s no potatoes. There’s no upside to going after us. Just as no one wants to be the next aspirin and lose control of their trademark by not enforcing it, no company wants to find itself in the same situation as ASCAP did 30 years ago when they went after the Girl Scouts for singing licensed songs around the campfire. ASCAP demanded that every camp pay a fee and blowback for that overreach was ferocious. That was when those videos of pre-teen Girl Scouts dancing the Macarena hit the news… but they were dancing without the music because they didn’t want to incur the $10,000 fine or go to jail. The optics were bad.

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