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I had to. Which is really funny because every time my friends and I take the tram in Paragon City we yell "To the Subway of Justice!" specifically because of this cartoon. We'd been saying it so long that I'd nearly forgotten where it'd originally came from.

I noticed that neither the Paragon server, nor Vanguard server, are mentioned on the Wiki. Was Paragon the secret server run by SCORE during the Dark Times?

Oh wait! It gets better.

Looks like your wait is over:

@Excraft @ZacKing Do you guys need anymore proof that he's never going to change his mind, no matter what you say?

By all means go see it then. I'm not one of those that says other people can't enjoy a movie, or game, that I don't. Nor am I one of those that calls people -ists and -phobes if they don't watch a movie that I do. I hope you watch it and enjoy it. I'm actually not happy because it looks like I was right. I really wanted this movie to be good. Unfortunately it looks like it'll be yet another example of a movie that does poorly and then the star and director will attack fans on social media.

It looks like I called it.

I'm sure you already know this, but you're wasting your time talking to him. He's not going to change his mind, he's going to just keep on ignoring everything thing you say while continuing to insist that you don't like the new FF reveal only because you're a "misogynist who doesn't like that a woman's in charge." No matter how many times you tell him that the real reason is because it looks like they're changing Sue's entire personality he's going to keep on holding his hands over his ears while chanting "nah nah nah can't hear you, you just don't like girl boss, nah nah nah you're a bigot."

It may be a cliche, but that's because it's something that is often true. Look, someone can be a "mother figure" without the adult men around her being children. The Matriarch is long standing archetype for a reason. In large families the actual mother, or grandmother, is often the Matriarch who, while not quite the leader, is a respected figure who guides people into certain directions, helps family members and gets them to cooperate. You say this like it's supposed to be a valid critique. It's a comic book! It's not supposed to be Shakespeare, or a scientifically accurate historical text. It's a comic book written for kids and teenagers. If you change the story because it's not grown-up enough for you, or scientifically accurate enough for you, then it's no longer the same story and they're no longer The Fantastic Four. Yeah, and? I don't see anything wrong with that picture. Why don't you tell me what's wrong with that picture.

Are you REALLY trying to argue that comic books aren't ultra realistic takes on the how the world works? What's dumb about it? What's wrong with a strong mother figure? Families and moms are very important to human society. Moms in particular are extremely important. Spoiler alert: the entire species dies off without them. And Sue Storm being the super powered mom figure of the team is part of The Fantastic Four's lore. Change that and you're no longer telling a story about The Fantastic Four, you're telling your own story about a group of super heroes that are wearing Fantastic Four skins suits. This at least I can agree with. But the writers can make Sue Storm a strong supporting character without making her a man-hating feminist girl-boss that "don't need no man." How are Reed's motivations bizarre? He's a curious scientist that wants to learn more about how the universe operates. What's bizarre about that?

"John Spartan you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the IP copyright statute."

I recommend PMing @GM Crumpet and asking him if he would be kind as to inform you specifically why your character was genericized. Perhaps that will allow you to create the character that you want without stepping over the line that gets you hammered again.

Well, one of the spiritual successors, Ship of Heroes, is supposed to be launching within the next two months.

Ok, so I checked Homecoming Wiki and apparently my memory was wrong. Issue 6 went live on October 27, 2005. I do remember that I started playing in May 2006 with City of Villains and Issue 7 came and after I started playing. I guess maybe I thought Issue 6 came then? I don't know what I was thinking but I was clearly wrong. Feel free to make fun of me for it. Anyway, I read tons of stories on the retail forums about what the game was like prior to Issue 6. Dumpster diving for XP, tanks herding entire maps, etc. Honestly, none of that ever sounded fun to me at all and I'm glad that I missed all of that. That being said, Jack posting fake videos to justify the GDN, and lying to paying customers about it, and lying about ED, and lying when he said "we didn't cut CoH back to a skeleton crew", all of that is completely inexcusable. I still think the game is better with Enhancement Diversification.

Nope. ED was added with the release of Issue 6, in 2006. Paragon split from Cryptic in 2009. Jack was completely in charge of, and responsible for, ED. I remember some of the arguments where Jack was trying to convince people that ED was a good thing and was overwhelmed with the amount of flamage and negative responses and finally stopped posting on the forums altogether.

So you're telling me that after being reduced by the Purple Patch and by the target's DR, damage resistance debuffs are worth using? I've used some of the powers you mentioned, and the Sentinel inherent, Vulnerability, and, other than the Daggers you get from the P2W vendor, none of them seemed to noticeably affect DR on EBs, AVs or GMs.

I'd say that damage resistance debuffs being nearly useless, because of the Purple Patch and being so heavily resisted, puts them objectively in the pretty close to worthless place.

So here's something that I found interesting:

Isn't this exactly what happened in the comics though?

I really liked Galaxy City, and started a lot of my characters there. I understood why they wanted to have just one starting zone, but I still miss it. Personally I'd like to see Galaxy City completely restored as a starting zone and I'd also like to see it made into a high level hazard zone where we'd fight the forces that have invaded it. I'm not sure how you'd do both. Maybe with Ouroboros, or perhaps just as a continuation of the story line, where it'd be available as a starting zone until your character hit 50 and then you'd only be able to access the hazard zone version. I don't have any idea how realistic a possibility this is, with our small volunteer dev team, but I can always hope, right?

Keine sorge. Ich glaube das die Entwickler es schnell reparieren konnen.

Haven't the developers shown that they don't want discussions in the feedback threads? How many times did we ask them to not add a combo mechanism to Energy Melee? They went ahead and did it anyway. How many posts were written asking them to add an AoE Immob to Arsenal Control? How many asked them to NOT nerf Rune of Protection? How many of our posts have been deleted specifically because we were discussing the patch notes? They even came up with a special term to insult those of us who were pushing back on the changes. Remember that? What was it? "Patch Note Reactor." Was that it? And the mods allowed them to use this insult at will. While deleting posts that responded to those allegations. Am I the only one who remembers that?

I've already suggested, multiple times, that the way to deal with this in the feedback threads is to allow each person one post in that thread. ONE. Any post past the first one gets deleted. Even the first one will get deleted if there isn't something that says they did some actual testing. If people want to address other issues that get brought up then they can edit their post. That would solve almost every problem that we have with the feedback threads.

Welcome back!

Thanks, I do try. 😁 And yes, I do know that CPO is Navy, being former navy myself. But when I saw the Air Force pic I had to poke fun, Chief.