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Darmian

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  1. So someone else is weighing in. Oh well. 1) I'm Irish. And no, Halloween as WE created it, was nothing like the reimported thing from North America that now prevails. (You do not want to hear me rant about Croatoa!) Growing up in the countryside in Ireland I was surrounded by tales of the Sidhe and puca, all of that. 2) Arguable. In the mass media sense since Action Comics #1, yes they are. 3) That's entirely fair and I agree with you. 4) Well, I've agreed with one of yours, so that must be a win for you then, yeah? Glad we settled that. Best wishes, Darmian.
  2. I know I said I'd said my final word on this, but frankly we're not going to agree on this and I'd appreciate you not trying to start an argument with me. Maybe we can agree to disagree? Is that possible? I don't see what I said as looking down my nose at people, you do. There's not much I can do about that. I had some more written but I've deleted it because it's just extending the argument and I don't want that. Best wishes, Darmian.
  3. Maybe it's a cultural thing. No, I didn't want to pretend to be Superman et al, mainly because I didn't read very many superhero comics growing up, and you can extend that further. And no, the Halloween thing as described is a distinctly North American thing that got exported well after the likes of me grew up! People who are cosplaying? At a convention? Irrelevant and possibly a strawman argument. And belittling people's imagination? No, asking is it not better is not that same thing. You can read it that way but that's on whoever if they do. I'm saying I know your imagination is great, look at all the effort you've gone to to recreate this, but this is someone else's thing, so with that great imagination show me what you can do. That's my last word on this.
  4. The ink is barely dry on the license making us legal, and this old nonsense crops up again. I am sure this will get some adverse reaction, but I sincerely ask, to every person who wants to be Arachnoboy or whoever, is your imagination not better than that? Sure, you love Arachnoboy, read his comics, watch his movies, maybe even play his licensed game on a machine/console of your choice, but here, in COH, where you can play anything you like, you can't do something uniquely yours? Again with the caveat concerning genuine homage characters.
  5. If anyone WANTS to look at (IMO) great inspired homages to Marvel/DC, and ones that work, then read Astro City.
  6. On a very silly analysis, this isn't the Marvel Universe or the DC Universe, or any other external comic book derived universe. So why the hell do you want to play any of those characters here? COH has, for a game that only ran live for less than a decade, a fairly interesting world of its own. Delve into that! Yes, homages are different. I get that. And maybe somewhere Manticore is reading a Batman comic and grinning, who knows!
  7. Slightly off topic, but it's been an age since I saw a character called "Higgs Boatswain". LOL.
  8. Maybe a HC pop up on logging in reminding everyone gently that this is against the TOS and so on.
  9. No, Source is singular. Otherwise it would be sources. Source here being read as a mass noun, like the sea. The sea is, not the sea are.
  10. Welp... maybe. I WAS a kid, and the box is probably long gone.
  11. OMG. Somewhere in a box I MAY...MAY have the ROM "action" figure from waaaay back. Forgot about it until now.
  12. Watching Scrapyard attempt to leap from a roof on to a Rikti Drop Ship that blasted him during the invasion was kinda funny. I think he even did it some damage before it flew off.
  13. Scrapyard? Then again you did say off the top of your head.
  14. Oh, it's not just caltrops. Give an enemy Time Manipulation and if they get a time field up and then die, well, you're waiting for the mission to end. Found that out in my very first mission of my very first AE! Tested it over and over before I spotted what was happening.
  15. Absolutely! Throughout the whole of the Rogue Isles every single tram will be on time, all the time. Not one will be late, and neither will it leave just before you reach it! It'll both wait for you to arrive while simultaneously being on time at your station AND making it safely on time to your destination! SCIENCE! Dr. Aeon has ensured it!
  16. Ah. Snag being that the "body" will get up then.
  17. Maybe police investigating the body or something?
  18. There's a dead slab choice, however there's a catch. You have to set the body as a friendly boss and have friendlies around them, or else they GET UP when you get to them. And obviously set them to not follow, just in case.
  19. That Victory and Paragon won't need their own License with NCSOFT?
  20. I find that the story shapes level design. Then again "story" might be "Farm this area for smashing", so that gets nuanced.
  21. Congrats to all! Loved the turn out on Reunion. I also didn't expect to see myself caught in mid run in one of the pics! Had to go chat to a fellow Praetorian, who placed! Well done Citizen Praetoria!
  22. Is that a thing now?
  23. Use the search bar when editing your base. Look for Pillar and you'll get three or four options. The one you want is clearly visible. Saves trying to scroll through everything to find it.
  24. ROFL. Ah, not quite! But if there aren't any ambushes in a Gold side mission then you haven't played a Gold side mission!
  25. At some point I'll have my final Gold AE trilogy done. I've done one for Resistance Warden and one for Resistance Crusader, and one for Loyalist Power. Only Loyalist Responsibility still to go. As that was/is my favourite throughline I'm taking a lot longer because I really want to write the best story I can. These are all 20- 25 by the way.
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