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On 7/13/2023 at 12:06 PM, Techwright said:
FYI...current Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes is not the Charlton Blue Beetle Ted Kord, and therefore not a true retcon. Kord remained a Batman-like character to the end. Jaime premiered in 2005, three years before the Iron Man movie suddenly made its titular character extremely popular. Incidentally, Kord was not the first Blue Beetle. That was Dan Garrett, and he actually had mystic powers from an Egyptian scarab (though initially it was said they were from a unique vitamin). So in essence, Jaime Reyes is the third Blue Beetle and if you will, the third retcon/fourth powerset of the title character (vitamin to mystic scarab to science inventor to alien tech). Retcon/change is nothing new to the title.
Jaime's tech beetle is alien technology, so there's something of a mystery level to it (just how much does it actually have and how far can it be pushed?) whereas Iron Man is a human creation with (supposedly) known limitations. The closest comparison in the DC roster to Iron Man that I can think of is Steel. I know a great many Marvel characters (not all) and I cannot really state a good equivalent to Jaime's Blue Beetle. Venom certainly has "alien" and "symbiote" but isn't technology.
Maybe the best example would have been "CypherLock" a merger of the mutant Cypher (Doug Ramsey) and the alien technarch Warlock. Like the alien Blue Beetle, there was a risk that the technology that was Warlock's DNA would take over his "host" Cypher, but together they were more powerful than separate, and could do things like create weapons. That relationship didn't last long however, and Cypher was eventually killed.
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.
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On 8/16/2023 at 8:41 AM, Techwright said:
Joker before Joker. The episode premiered February 1991, and the animated Joker that Mark Hamil has become legendary for premiered November 1992. My guess is he did the vocal work around the same time as the live acting. I strongly suspect one role caught someone's eye, or ear as the case may be, and created the other, but I've not heard the backstory. I did hear, a long time ago, that the producers of The Flash wanted the Joker, but were not allowed to have the character, therefore created the Trickster, so I strongly suspect they heard his Joker recording and tried to recruit him for the Joker. It works out fine in the end. He got to portray the Trickster again in the new The Flash series, and all performances were scene-chewing, over-the-top fun.
EDIT: forgot to add that Mark was even given the chance to voice act the Trickster in Justice League: Unlimited, again with a scene-stealing moment despite being a cameo.
Biiiiiii-lateral symmetry!
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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))
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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).
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20 minutes ago, Ghost said:
That’s not what was said
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.
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8 minutes ago, Snarky said:
This is entirely situational. If a really drunk person said F-bomb they might be using a slur.
….gosh darn it, Snarky.-
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4 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:
I'm the same. I'm a boomer so getting offended at something wasn't a thing. If we didn't like it we just didn't talk to the person any more.
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. -
6 hours ago, Sykar said:
Lesbian is not a gender identity it is a sexuality. As to abusive, that is debatable. The player might very well have meant it ironic, or it can also really just be that particular character with no further intention than that. You have not presented clear evidence that the person went out and made a statement about all lesbians and in fact you cannot. You only have shown that you personally seem to take great offense to the name and seem to expect that everyone else has to agree with you.
I would rather say that someone making a character named after a goddess of womanhood and give her water blast power set turned red to simulate menstrual blood is far more offensive or at the very least exceedingly childish.
But what I find truly offensive are players who would ruin other players experience by crashing servers because they throw a tamper tantrum.
The F-slur is clearly a slur and understood as such by basically everyone even in non-English speaking countries. The character you seem to have a problem with is not such a clear case as I have outlined earlier and in fact not in the slightest. Poor taste maybe, but a slur? That is a stretch unless you can show via chat screenshots that the player is clearly bigoted towards lesbians.
“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.-
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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.
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2 minutes ago, biostem said:
Sure it did - some people use it as a bad word, so it gets blocked. It isn't about how you or your child use the word - it's about providing a broad protection against offensive uses of it. If you feel your child is mature enough to understand how it can be used in the an offensive manner, then by all means disable the filter and carry on with your gameplay.
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.-
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1 minute ago, biostem said:
People can use the word "queer" as a slur. Some people are not ready or prepared to parse out the difference between it being used as a simple identifier or as an attack. It's similar to why we have the "no real life or politics" rule - some people do not want to bring real world topics in-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.
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Just now, biostem said:
As a teen rated game, I'd assume 13, (though there are likely even younger people playing, though those are not technically allowed).
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? -
3 minutes ago, biostem said:
But you have to acknowledge that your "chosen descriptor" can also be used as a slur. The great thing is that you can disable the filter; It is meant to be very restrictive. Look at things from the perspective of a parent supervising a child player who is of the minimum allowable age.
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1 hour ago, GM Crumpet said:
To expand on the filter issue. As a PG13 game it's assumed that people of that age and above are kind of used to a lot of the words in the filter and have been exposed to them at some point. People younger than that perhaps not. This is one of those games that really does appeal to a younger demographic and youngsters either want to play (which is wrong and we don't allow it and shhhh don't tell dad) or watch while their parents play. For parents it's an option they can turn on as certain words and concepts may arise that they don't want to have to explain to their little ones just yet. I still squirm in embarrassment on behalf of my parents for the times I asked them what certain words meant when I heard them 🙂
There are things in the costume creator that are 1000x more awkward to explain to a child than words. 😛
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11 minutes ago, biostem said:
You can't account for every permutation of words that may be offensive. It is actually against the rules to bypass the filter via misspellings and the like. That being said, we as mature adults can disable the filter and go on our merry way. There's no need to remove any words from said profanity filter.
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.
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4 minutes ago, Captain Fabulous said:
I'm also a gay man of an older generation when queer was absolutely a slur, I fully support removing the word from the profanity filter. But this absolutely should not give license for people to use it pejoratively in the game.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.
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Yeah, if we can’t avail ourselves of safety tools (or just preference tools), we shouldn’t be able to communicate at all. 😂
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How exactly do you ignore folks on the forums? I feel like I'm missing something (or maybe it's a little counter-intuitive?)
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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.
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2 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:
But back to the topic at hand, that's why we have a profanity filter. For those who aren't offended by words it can be turned off. For those who find it offensive or have smaller children who love to watch it keeps the naughty words a parent doesn't want to have to explain hidden.
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.
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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.
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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.
GM Kill Stealers Ruin Game Experience
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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.