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  1. I'll be honest - I let myself get sidelined by an Archery / Martial Combat blaster and a long-standing character I hadn't played for a while, my Martial Arts / Ninjutsu scrapper. As for the tanker, I'm strongly leaning towards DA/FM, but at some point, I also want to try FA. I just don't have a concept to go with it yet.
  2. Okay, alright, I can appreciate a bit of Abbott & Costello style humor. Consider me warmed to the movie by about 1.5 degrees.
  3. From the Buzzsaw mission "Retrieve Dr. Pierce": Dave: Whoa, villains! Nifty, but also super unsafe.
  4. Based on some sparse and scattered comments on the trailer, apparently Apple TV was originally planning this as a sci-fi flick of some kind. I... just... don't even want to imagine it. @Techwright I hear ya. Add to that the sheer incompetence apparent in some recent releases, and I'm squarely neutral about the whole thing. Even cautious optimism is asking a lot of me these days. Still, I might watch it, but I might also wait for a trusted buddy to tell me it's good first.
  5. I can imagine. That, Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," and Matkosky/Sembello's "Maniac" have all been ingrained in the brain DNA of a generation and a half. Maybe we'll hear those as well...
  6. It doesn't look terrible, might be good, but did they have to rip Europe's "The Final Countdown"? I'm assuming that's a deliberate callback to "Rocky IV," but that just raises the question as to whether people even make original movie scores anymore.
  7. You know, once in a while I come across a classic superhero theme song, and I find myself shocked - SHOCKED - that it's not in this thread. So here you are, complete with lyrics. Pepsiman - James Shimoji (I can neither confirm nor deny that I got this from a popular Youtube channel)
  8. Rad armor was my first choice when I started working on this character, but I can't quite do it. Those rad circles in the auras make me a bit dizzy for some reason. If I use darker colors for power customization, I'm fine - but as someone suggested in another thread related to this character, space genies aren't about subtlety 😉
  9. I'll be honest, I've been having a "should I? could I?" dilemma about those boots. Which tells me they need to go into the character's "final form" costume... Also, is that spine a backpiece, or part of the torso piece?
  10. That's what this thread is for, right? Thanks to @Troo for the headpiece - I never would have thought of it (or the snakes) myself. Not sure yet where this will actually go, but I'm now considering having 2 costumes - a vaguely human-ish being somewhere between my original design and yours, plus an "it's OVER 9000!!!" costume with the snakes and the headspikes and all the sticky-outy bits I usually ignore. Will have to learn how to use them costume change macros that I've also been ignoring forever. In any case, I may regress a bit and use a dark gray as the base color to match the ashen skin, and to give a singed look. The trim will likely be orange or the gold-yellow just under orange, but brighter than I'm usually comfortable with. Will have to play with it after work.
  11. A term that was still kind of relevant when the game launched. I think CoH was the first online game for which I used broadband instead of a dial-up connection.
  12. Entering "too many choices" territory here... 😄 So far, the suggestions include: SD/FM DA/FM FA/FM FA/BS or Katana FA/Staff All have good arguments for them, not only in terms of effectiveness, but also for style. My reason for avoiding a "pure" Fire Tanker apparently no longer applies - I had a pure Fire Scrapper before shutdown, and though I liked the concept, the powers felt very weak for a melee character. However, it sounds like FM at least has been souped up a bit since. Maybe FA has as well? As for the rest, I've played SD, DA, and Staff (though only DA as a Tanker), and I've gotten a lot of mileage out of all of them. I wouldn't mind pairing any of those up with a Fire set to see what happens. I haven't gotten much playtime with blades (BS, Kat, DB); my short dabblings with those sets left me a bit unimpressed, but I'm open to other arguments in favor. Right now, though the front runners in my brain are DA/FM, FA/FM, and FA/Staff. SD/FM is a runner-up. It looks like it has the best overall synergy with Leadership, but as I mentioned before, I'm actively playing a Mace/SD right now and I'm concerned that the two playstyles may be too similar, even with customization. I guess my first job is to compare customizations and animations for Fiery Melee and Staff. It may come down to style points, unless more suggestions are made...
  13. @ZemX Good points on Shield Defense, both in terms of synergy and in terms of customization. In fact, that was my original plan for the character. The drawback is that I already have a SD Brute, so I'm concerned that the playstyle would feel too similar. That said, a space-tech shield might add enough visual difference that I don't notice it as much (had a similar dilemma with another pair of characters, and the costumes made a surprisingly significant difference). Already committed to getting Combat Teleport on this character, and will likely get Teleport Target as well. I'm strongly considering dipping in to Sorcery, but I don't want to dilute out Leadership too much. Are Rocket Board and/or Magic Carpet customizable now? If not, I appreciate the suggestion, but I'll have to pass. @SeraphimKensai I already have a Dark/Dark Corruptor (another insane space genie) and a Staff/DA Stalker, and I played the heck out of a DA/Mace tank on live. TBH, I'm trying to break the habit - but DA/Fire is seriously tempting, and would have menacing-looking auras that would fit the character nicely. Might have to retire my Stalker, though. From both your posts, though, I'm getting the feeling that Fiery Aura isn't your first pick for a primary. Is that true?
  14. I started some time after Issue 6, and much of what I could say has already been said. However, the one thing I remember most is the team-friendly nature of the game. Not just in terms of design, but also in terms of the players. On the design front, there's no quibbling over loot, no such thing as a "useless" AT, and the game introduced the first level-matching system I'd ever known about (and for a long time, the only one I'd ever seen). Granted, that first system was a bit clumsy and open to exploitation, but at least there was an attempt to get different level players together. On the people front, in my experience it was pretty rare to have a truly "bad" team. Borderline incompetent teams, sure, but that just meant more jokes to be made and stories to be told. Sometimes the game would surreptitiously change from "Beat Down the Bad Guys" to "Keep Character X Alive." Plus, there was often that magical moment when seemingly bad teams just sort of fell into a groove, almost by accident, and became a force of destruction. I'm sure people will say that's all still true, but before the sun started to set, I noticed a steady trickle of players who came in with expecations gained in other, bigger MMOs. More and more people had the attitude that a team "needs" a "healer," or needs a tank - and, along with that, a surprising amount of people would blame the tanks or "healers" for not doing their jobs. Other vets may remember otherwise, but I remember people being pointlessly and unnecessarily combative about who should have been doing what when, and quitting with bitter parting words when a relative old-timer like me would say "We can make this work" and why. Not a happy note to end on, maybe, but I remember my teaming experiences in those first few years quite fondly.
  15. I've been struggling with this character's costume for too long. The character is basically an insane genie from outer space, and the nominal leader of a trio of insane space genies. I'm also struggling with powersets, but that's for another thread in the Archetypes forum. I want her to look sinister (hence the oh-so-edgy black trim), with a main color that's vaguely reminiscent of fire (hence the wan yellow color). Plus, she needs a mask that covers her lower face. The character will be a Fire tank of some description - just not sure whether I'll go for Fiere Aura or Fiery Melee. Definitely won't be both. Specific points of frustration - I'm not fond of the cow-catcher mask or the color scheme. I'm not typically a fan of bright colors, but maybe this character needs some Zazz and I just don't realize it. You know, Zing, Zork, Kapowza. Anyway, here's a current pic and the costume file, and my thanks in advance. SpaceGenieBlech.costume
  16. I have an idea for a "space genie" character, but I've been fumbling with different powersets for too long a time. My interest was sparked (pun retroactively intended) when I found out that Tanks get Controller-level bonuses for Leadership powers, so I'd like to build around that. In addition, I'd like one (but not both) of the character's main powersets to be Fire. I'm leaning towards Fiery Aura, because you're on Fire, but can be talked into Fiery Melee instead (Breath of Fire would fit the character well). I've considered Dual Blades as an alternative to Fiery Melee, but am open to other suggestions, so long as Fire is involved somewhere. At the moment, I'm not looking for detailed IO builds - just some general feedback on what seems to work well with Fire and what doesn't.
  17. Agreed, and I hope Miller the best in that regard. However, I'm going to be "that guy" and say that I feel like there's a double standard at play. Mental health issues aside, many of the allegations would pose a significant threat to the careers of binary actors or actresses. To read the zines, it sounds like Miller's getting the "aw, that poor kid" treatment instead.
  18. Yep, hard pass. I was never a fan of any cinematic Flash to begin with, and having read Ezra's rapsheet on Wikipedia, I seriously wonder how the kid finds work at all. I wholeheartedly agree about Elfman's music. Hearing his "upgraded" Batman theme just made me angry, in no small part because it reinforces the "everything AND the kitchen sink" vibe I got from the first trailer. I'm convinced at this point that the showrunners are just plundering from the past and hoping everything will all work out. Unfortunately, given convos I've had with "true fans" of a few different franchises, it probably will.
  19. Damn. Sounds like a younger version of my sister. Ultimatumed herself out of a high paying job, was left at the altar twice (once with a restraining order), and can't understand why her relatives and friends won't lie, cheat, and steal on her behalf. I'd love to tell stories, but I won't. I don't know if this is related, but back when I lived in a college town, there was a fairly abrupt "sea change" in my neighbors in the early-mid 2000s. For a long time, I could go to any neighbor who was making a bit too much noise, introduce myself, and ask if they could keep it down - and they'd do so. No argument, no skunk looks, no issues, and I'd rarely hear loud noise from them again. There were exceptions to be sure, but they were just that - exceptions. Then, suddenly, I had two sets of neighbors almost back-to-back who stunned me with a question I hadn't heard before, i.e., "...so when CAN we be noisy?" After recouping, I'd try to strike a deal like, "How about this - if you want to have a party, give me a day's notice and I won't complain." In both cases, the deal fell through with the very next long weekend, and in both cases, the people involved decided to harrass me in small and petty ways. A third neighbor just looked at me for a few seconds, said "I don't know you" while I was mid-introdtion, closed the door, and cranked his music. At that moment, I decided that, much as I hated the idea, calling the police was the only way to proceed. That neighbor was evicted after 3 visits. So there may be a personality thing going on, but to me it feels like there was (and is) a generational thing as well. I'd never claim that my generation was well-mannered (points at sister), nor would I claim that the above examples are typical representative of any younger generation, but the quality of the responses left me thinking, "...just where do you think this is going to go?" Now I live in a post-industrial town full of divorcees who just don't want to be bothered. The guy next door occasionally plays loud music, but 1) he's very old, in poor health, and deserves whatever joy he can get, and 2) sometimes he sings like an old drunk, and for some reason, I appreciate that.
  20. Heard this one in the grocery store, after not having heard it in decades (quite literally). I'd almost forgotten it existed. Couldn't figure out why anyone would play it at all in this day and age, but I guess I have "Guardians of the Galaxy" to "thank" for it. I should probably watch it some day. Anyway, I found myself mouthing the words and getting all mushy-eyed, so I put it in my "Senile Old Softie" playlist alongside EWF, Carly Simon, and Kenny Loggins. 10cc - I'm Not in Love
  21. "Bang a Gong" by T Rex. The particular line where I got the idea was "You're built like a car, you've got a hubcap diamond star halo." I instantly though of a "biker angel" character, but changed it to a "biker Valkyrie." Kept the wings, though. Still a bit miffed that we can't use a hubcap as a shield...
  22. This is a side-note to the thread, but I have a Mace/Shield Brute with the concept of "A valkyrie takes a vacation". She's armed with a pipe wrench and a manhole cover, and even though Mace seems slow to me, she's been a blast to play. However, I was lucky concept-wise; I was driving home late at night and a classic rock song basically shoved the idea in my head. That said, a fun concept doesn't necessarily help a powerset "stick." I don't know how many false starts I've made with Dual Pistols, and at this point I've just kind of given up. Back on live, I had a Pistols / Energy Manip blaster, which seemed to work - until I realized that blapping with EM was a lot more fun than Pistol dancing. I've tried a few other combos since HC launched, but aside from the damage issue, I realized I just don't like the weapon customizations all that much. My live character used Sidereal Sidearm, which fit nicely with the character's concept, but since then I find myself settling for the plain old boring default Semi-Auto. Everything else is just too improbable, too unwieldy, too retro, or too difficult (or impossible) to color. Other sets I'd like to play but don't: Devices, Traps, Broadsword, Dual Blades, Katana, and most "elemental" sets (though I recently started a Fire/Fire Tank. Things I am not likely to play, and probably will not feel like I'm missing out on: Anything Mastermind, any of the "epic" ATs, and finally, I doubt I'll ever play Dominators or Defenders again (they keep getting re-rolled as Controllers or Corruptors, respectively).
  23. Warning: Watching this video may skew your image of your redside characters forever... Tom Waits - God's Away on Business
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