Panache

Shouts to the great BaB fight of Live days, generator of two of my favorite BaB quotes: "You all con grey to me." "OIL SLICK ARROW?!"* *BaB laid waste to a ton of PCs; a bunch of them rezzed off a Howling Twilight that targeted OSA. Good times.

Fun fact that I learned as the movie release was getting closer: even that version of Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett with the magic scarab) isn't the original. The first Blue Beetle appeared 25 years before that; same name, but just a rookie cop with no powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Dan_Garrett)

Biiiiiii-lateral symmetry!

Lately I've been more into playing 'bad' combos. The most recent is a Thugs/Kin: T3 Vigor, T3 Barrier, T3 Reactive (also T3 Melee Hybrid like an idiot; switching that to Support) Anywho: 168 seconds, 356 DPS. Shouts to Increase Density doing that -KB work. (A note: this build isn't close to being done; whole lotta procs and ATOs still missing (Enforcers are prolly over-procced, though))

Symphony/Storm Troller, T4 Cardiac, T3 Reactive, T3 Ageless: 209 seconds for ~311 DPS Cheating a bit by relying on small purples, but I wanted to see where it was at. Biggest area for improvement would be fully proccing out the pet (right now it just has the Malaise proc).

It absolutely is; look at the post Crumpet was replying to when they wrote "I'm the same". I've said my piece here. It's disappointing to learn that this is how the game is being moderated, but apparently it is what it is.

….gosh darn it, Snarky.

Legitimate question here: do the Homecoming GMs feel that they have a responsibility to moderate the community, or no? Because “well I have a thick skin, so other people should too” is an interesting approach if so. If not, well, that’s a bigger conversation.

“F-bomb” isn’t a slur, it’s a sanitized reference to a swear word, curse word, whatever you want to call that kind of phrase, but it absolutely isn’t a slur.

Re: Teleport Target and Reverb I didn’t dip into the Teleport pool, but Reverb sometimes makes me wish I had. It *consistently* gets lost on maps, staying behind and not reattaching after I go find it. Since its power effects are duplicates of mine, I often don’t realize it isn’t keeping up until I’m three or four spawns ahead of it.

I can guarantee y’all that no 13 year old who self-identifies as queer is naive to the fact that it’s a word that’s been used with the intent to offend. That’s old hat to them. What might be new to them in 2023 is finding out that that part of their identity isn’t allowed to be mentioned in a video game.

This doesn’t answer the quoted question, but I didn’t expect it would. Because there’s no good answer.

To phrase it another way: as mentioned, the filter can’t grab every permutation of inoffensive words, but it does grab those words that are objectionable *on their own merits*. That’s what the filter currently says about the word queer.

Ok. So say I’m the parent of a 13 year old who identifies as queer. They create a character who also identifies as such. Then they find that people cannot read that in chat because they have their filter enabled to sort out offensive words. How would you explain this to them in a way that makes them feel like they’re welcomed and supported by the folks in charge of that filter?

What is the minimum allowable age?

There are things in the costume creator that are 1000x more awkward to explain to a child than words. 😛

Well, that's your opinion. Mine is: including someone's preferred descriptor in a list of words that get caught by the profanity filter is telling folks that you consider their descriptor profane. And that's pretty disappointing.

Right, which is what reporting is for. There are absolutely words that aren't filtered that, when combined, can be wildly hateful vitriol. The filter won't catch that. But filtering out words that are part of people's identity because they *might* be misused is a backwards policy.

Yeah, if we can’t avail ourselves of safety tools (or just preference tools), we shouldn’t be able to communicate at all. 😂

How exactly do you ignore folks on the forums? I feel like I'm missing something (or maybe it's a little counter-intuitive?)

I've never joined a TF with the expectation that I (or any of the non-leader members) would need to ask if there were any challenge debuffs being applied to the team. I don't intend to start, I'll just bail if/when someone decides to do this again.

I think the issue here, or at least as I understood it in the OP, is that including 'queer' in your filter sends a message to folks who identify as queer that their preferred descriptor is a slur.

I clicked on that YouTube account's profile to see what else they had and was immediately sidetracked by Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. I had fully forgotten about Jayce and the crew.

This has been happening to my most recent character also. I thought maybe it was just the combo of Symphony and Storm, but nope; I'll Mapserve with them just walking down the street. Only character I have this issue with. They were created about 4-5 days ago.