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    If you had to play 1 MM, what would it be?

    in Mastermind

    Posted

    Simply stated, my Mercs/Traps MM, the Munitions Mistress.

     

    She was the only MM I played on live and the only villain I ran to 50 and ran the same on Homecoming.  I have 7 books worth of story written on her exploits and evolution.  On Homecoming I have a 50 Demon/Dark, and a 45 Necro/Time and rolled a Thugs . . . something till I deleted her at 38, but with MM as my MM I have fun, even before they improved Mercs, now just more fun.

    We need vehicles in game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, Snarky said:

    supposedly that is a recoilless rifle.  i.... i would not want to be the infantryman that tested that advertisement.

    They didn't have much recoil, even when ground-mounted because much of the combustion-compression from the shot was vented out the back, reducing the actual blowback when the round left the barrel as well as acting as a bit of a compensator.  When I was in the Navy doing comms support with the Marines we worked with some third-world militaries that still had them in their inventory along with the Carl Gustavs.  Obsolete as hell now with the changes in armor over the last 40 years but still, kind of cool.

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    We need vehicles in game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Overland villain chaser.  So many things that just dont make sense due to the hero in the jogger.  Sure if it was someone slow like Green Arrow or I don't know, Jimmy Olsen.  But Supes?  Guarantee not faster than a locomotive (or a speeding bullet).  And why would he need a protective window, he is immune to gunfire (sand Kryptonyte).  How does he control it?  Kenner you baffle me!  Baffle I say!

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    Is there a way to do this

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    11 hours ago, biostem said:

    I never understood why most games don't allow you to doodle and put notes on your own world map, beyond the thumbtack we have now...

    I am having trouble remembering right now but I swear I played a game once that let me do it, like multiple notes and points on a map.  It's just . . . eluding me right now.  and it shouldn't because I haven't played a lot of games in my life (outside of the arcade) overall and only on PC.

    Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #38: Speed Runs

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For me it comes two ways; some I do and some I don't.  I do not build characters to do speed runs (leading or participating); I build to play.  So they don't all have stealth and team teleport and the other tools of the trade.  However first an foremost is that if I haven't done the Task/Strike Force very often I will try to jump on a "normal run". 

     

    Certain Task Forces are so burned in and so old and so plain that speed running is the way to go.  All of the original or remastered Task Forces are in this pile as well as OG Posi and Psyche in Flashback.  I am on Excelsior so for really good speed run fun, Blapperella runs a hell of an efficient speed run show with those.  Others where speed runs work are TinPex, Tarikoss, Morty Kal, all three tiers of Respec/Treespec, DFB, DiB - done so many times I know the story back and forth.

     

    Others I like normal or would at least like to be able to do normal a few times.  Aeon is the worst when it comes to trying to get a normal run.  Forget trying to get the Becky badge.  I still haven't been able really enjoy that one (though still more coherent than Inception).  Sutter, Eden, Liberty and Khan; I get it but would love to actually enjoy the run a few times.  Villain side Strike Forces I simply havent done as much as Blue to where I know where the mob is gonna be and all that.

     

    But there is a third option, the Kill All/Most ones.  Imperious is like that, Yin too and Market Crash.  All just good smashing fun and because they are short even when you kill all its still pretty quick.

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    Sigh Barbie

    in Art & Multimedia

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Akisan said:

    That, and I'm pretty sure his fangs always do that sparkly, pretty guy smile shine... even in the dark.

    Like Steve Trevor from the OG Wonder Woman show first season.

     

    You go Lyle Waggoner!

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    Sigh Barbie

    in Art & Multimedia

    Posted

    1 hour ago, JasperStone said:

     

     

    OMG I cannot wait to get home and listen to this (No speakers or headphones allowed at work)

     

    then again reading video game forums are sort of not allowed either 😕

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    Sigh Barbie

    in Art & Multimedia

    Posted

    Well.

     

    First off, I enjoyed the movie.  Not perfect, had some slow moments but fun and definitely something different than the bulk of the crap that has been shovelled out there as of late.

     

    As for Barbie toons.  about 8 months ago me and a number of other Nukems created a goof supergroup called Barbie's Funhouse (Barbie's and Ken's welcome, sorry GI Joe) and had Barbie named toons, some of which were around even before we did it, Kick Fighter Barbie, Riot Buster Barbie, Ball Breaker Barbie.

     

    This morning when I logged to check on my market transactions I got the alert that she had been Generic'd.  Same for the bulk of the group (all of the ones mentioned above).  Does it suck.  Sure.  But hey, I get it.  But that kind of muddies the idea of the whole someone narc'd the names out (as alluded to above) because I hadn't logged onto her in more than 15 days.  But again, whatever, it was meant to be funny and it was and now I shall move on.

     

    Besides, life in plastic is still fantastic.

     

    Of course I need a new name.

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    Least favourite map?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Grandville.

     

    And Cake Room Caves

     

    But mostly Grandville.  When CoV came out and I was leveling up the Munitions Mistress I was enjoying the different feel of many of the zones.  I was willing to accept big long haul maps like Nerva, or jumble ruble zones like Mercy outside the walls.

     

    Then I arrived in Grandville and within less than five minutes I was like "I am never rolling another villain again", eff this place.

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    Bigotry and Racism

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by High_Beam
    Corrected Spelling Errors.

    Last night on Excelsior it wasn't subtle or minor, some cat popped on and dropped what amounted to a paragraph worth of racial slurs, specifically the N word connected to the classic stereotypical associations with that word.  I reported then blocked.

     

    For me its been about six months since I saw a blast of suck like that.  As others have said, its not common and the community reacts appropriately then moves on.

     

    The key is reacting appropriately before moving on otherwise the foolish assume that silence equals acceptance.  They begin to believe that more people than there actually are agree with their words and over time become further emboldened, and as is the nature of humanity as a whole but especially the online world, some will begin to believe that it is acceptable, that its no big deal, that its snowflakes getting butt hurt.

     

    Evil must always be challenged, fought and defeated and in a game based on heroes, it should be even more so.

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    Four Billion Influence

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Herotu said:

     

    If you'd have said sister, I'd have believed you.

    I have a two inch scar on my left buttock from the knife my brother stabbed me with fighting over the last Rice Krispies Treat.  Granted he also has a similar scar from the same incident.  True story.

     

    And in the end, the dog got the treat.  Mom was supremely unhappy with the mess.

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    Silly names you would never use

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Back on live in the Babes of War, I lost a bet over something stupid and was required to make a Kheldin (which I didn't care for) and do so with the ugliest costume I could design with the dumbest name I could think of.

     

    Hence 

     

    Squid Markz LOL

     

    and the costume was wretched, made Clamor look like a beauty queen.  A lot of green and that silly tin crown.

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