arcane

People sometimes get likes or thanks here just for mocking people that others felt deserved it or wanted to join in on. So, yeah, these rankings tend to have zero value. I once surged to the number one spot for awhile on another forum's rep system many years ago. I cracked a lot of jokes, talked a lot of shit, and certainly would not have considered myself to be #1 in terms of kindness and helpfulness.

Perhaps I’m just building tanks to have too much mitigation. I don’t have pleasant memories of tank damage post-buff, but it’s true that the tank in question had more mitigation than any brute would ever have.

I see how you get more bonuses,, slots, etc and how tankers can do a fair bit to close the damage gap. What I don’t see is how you get enough to overpower brute damage at typical fury levels (75%+ or so?), and what I *really* don’t see is any data that is remotely adequate to conclude either (1) “brutes are useless” or (2) “more people play tankers than brutes in the endgame”. Also, I, for one, have never started a tanker build by making a brute build first. Seems like a strange way to do things. Then again I frequently forego traditional build wisdom, for instance by building like half my toons without even trying to get anywhere close to soft capped defense.

Of course. Just thinking out loud since the GM’s have waded into political messaging like that discussed in some posts here in recent months.

A feature in which the player can personally add or subtract from the list of words on their own profanity filter seems reasonable though I wouldn’t personally use it. Would it apply to GM speech as well or is their format of messaging immune?

Absolutely agree. Just pointing out there is something called leading by example they are absolutely doing the opposite of in this one instance, if their goal is to discourage political discussions.

If we are in agreement that we should talk about politics elsewhere, can we at least change the MotD no one is allowed to talk about? Kind of makes it hard to take the moderators seriously when they personally direct political messaging towards every player every time they log in.

No, I’m just trying to show you I don’t want to silence you or anyone.....

Sorry but I think I’ll publicly defend myself from untrue accusations. If these guys want to drop it, I’ll drop it.

You said I wanted to silence you. My comment was merely that your standard appeared to be “if it risks offending anyone, don’t do it”, and that would include basically any speech ever. I have zero desire to silence you. So yes you were putting words in my mouth.

I do A as well. If you actually treat everyone on the internet exactly as you treat them in real life, you might be the second coming of Jesus Christ. But I just don’t believe that of anyone here. It defies our basic understanding of how humans do, in fact, act on the internet. And please do not imply you aren’t putting words in my mouth too.

I only said you should be silent according to your own standard, not mine.

I personally don’t want to talk about politics at the moment because I have actually spent the last several years of my life absolutely obsessing over politics and have realized what an utterly toxic, hopeless, illogical hellhole that realm of discussion is. Now please reiterate for me how this makes me simpleminded and we’ll call it good.

You do realize the rather broad scope of “behaviors capable of offending someone somewhere”, don’t you? For one thing, city of heroes is a violent game and should be shut down according to that standard. You probably shouldn’t speak to anyone ever, either.

If it’s so black and white, why not just remove emotes from the game.

What other woke stuff do I get to do thanks to my pixels? If I, a dude, am entitled to accuse people of sexism for acts against my female pixels... does this warped thinking also extend to the ethnicities of our toons, for instance?

In 2020, people, especially the woke ones, have pretty nutty interpretations of life. I’m not too bothered by it, no, but I do find your little intimidating “prepare to get canceled” tone to be cute so thanks for that.

I just want to clarify, again, as a dude with a handful of female toons that wouldn’t say no to a spanking or two. Your claim that this is sexual harassment only works if we can agree that the sex of the pixels in the game is the only relevant data point, as opposed to the typically unknown sex of the player. Is that really a hill you want to die on?

I am a male and have probably ~25% female toons, so tying the spankings to sexism just feels a tad questionable.

No one is discouraging anyone from talking about politics in a broad sense. There's a time and place though. And to say that people are ignorant just because they don't want to discuss divisive subjects in their playtime is kind of ignorant as hell.

When people insist on waiting on the entire group to be ready on easy content to the extent that a level 54 PI radio team would spend 50% of its time sitting around if you didn’t personally step up and run in first. Squishies shouldn’t run into melee first, ideally, but sometimes it’s that or go make a pot of coffee while the tank/brute makes up his mind.

That statement makes sense but only if we have already all agreed on the assumption that an archetype must be the absolute best at one single thing to earn their seat at the table, as opposed to offering their own variety of things. If you haven't made that assumption though, we have to consider that 2nd best survivability and 2nd best damage might be every bit as valuable as best survivability and 3rd best damage or vice versa. For instance, in the most obvious example, in the realm of +4x8 AFK farming with EB's, scrapper survivability is not ideal, nor is tanker damage; brute's unique balance gives them supremacy there.

Can you provide any data that supports this assertion that doesn't seem consistent with the reality I've perceived?

Brutes = useless? Now I've seen it all.

I think, for water, a support set that mashes up storm, cold, and empathy would be pretty dope