Cancrusher

Astrophysics articles are the worst. The headline is always some click-bait hyperbole: SCIENTISTS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN STRANGE, ALIEN, SIGNAL! *Me, rushing to click excitedly on article* Oh, yeah... it's another gamma-ray burst from a pulsar. 🤦‍♂️

@Snarky I have monitor/TV envy.

I like it as an option. I would certainly use that option, every month. I like to explore different builds and concepts, but I don't enjoy play at early levels and would like to skip it without grinding for 2+ hours (generally takes me longer than that, but I don't dual box and am somewhat shy about asking to join farms). On the other hand, if the devs don't want to do it, it's not the end of the world or anything. Nice to have, but not essential, as it were. The main objections to the idea appear to be that either 1) People won't earn the lvl 50 (not sure why I should care about that, or why I would need my fellow players to "earn" anything while enjoying their hobby/recreation time) or 2) People won't learn how to properly play the AT (the "proper" way to play an AT is any way that you want, since it's your character. I assume what they actually mean is play "skillfully", but that can be learned through practice at any level and, as other's have noted, this game does not require a ton of skill, unless you're playing on the hard mode settings). On the other hand, if the suggestion is tanked, no biggie. I'll go about my business and continue to enjoy the game, as usual. 😁

Make the damage multiplier = to a blaster? Close the range gap with the blaster? Make the Nuke as powerful as the blaster's nuke? I guess my question here is: "What do the blasters get? Defiance?" I think you should dial back your expectations a little, amigo.

It happens (sometimes) when you activate the power that the AT enhancement is slotted in. It fires more reliably (often) when you slot it in a slow recharging power.

Don't necessarily want to remove any of the emojis, but it does personally annoy me when someone thumbs down without any context, particularly on in-depth posts making multiple points. Which parts are you thumbs-downing? Some of it? All of it? Just feeling negative today? Beyond the initial feeling of annoyance I have when I see them, I typically ignore a thumbs-down without any additional context. It provides no useful information. Confusion has legitimate use (theoretically), but I most often see it used in response to a comment that is perfectly easy to understand for anyone that doesn't have English as a second language. So, what is the explanation for why the emoji was used? IMO, it's one of 3 things: 1) English is not the confused person's native tongue. 2) They are generally confused (highly unlikely, in about 98% of the cases where the emoji is used, unless the reader is an imbecile. I think most readers here, regardless of their position on a particular topic, are not imbeciles). 3) They don't like the stated opinion and/or suggestion of the person they are replying to, but either don't have a legitimate rebuttal, or are too lazy to articulate their opposition to said comment, so they gaslight by pretending that they don't understand what is being said. I think scenario #1 happens on occasion, scenario #2 happens almost never, and scenario #3 is the explanation most of the time. Just my opinion, for what it's worth, which is probably nothing, I suppose... still, it made me feel better to get it off my chest. 🤷‍♂️

But even the Illiad had Big Ajax and Little Ajax, man. This guy is Little Ajax. 😁

Yeah, I think it's just random. I got 5, right off the bat, and then nothing since. I just play as usual and don't worry about it. Eventually I'll gather enough to get me one of those spiffy, new NPC costumes. 😁👍

@Xcillion I don't understand what you mean by this. This game is not a for-profit enterprise. It's a hobby project ran as a labor-of-love, by a small team of developers. In that respect, there is no "company" to hurt. Anyways, I've tried some farming since the changes. Rewards are a bit less, but I didn't find it significantly harder to S/L or Fire Farm at +4/8 than it was before the change. Maybe it only affects AFK farming, though (which I, admittedly, I don't do). Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but personally, I don't really understand the complaints. 🤷‍♂️

You know what, everybody is claiming this guy is the troll, but he's just making a suggestion for something AS AN OPTION. And you guys are the ones losing your shit. Why? Because you're unhinged that it might become AN OPTION? I don't care enough about it to throw my support in for the devs to spend any time on changing it, but everyone soiling their drawers over the suggestion of adding the option and then accusing the OP of being a troll because they aren't acknowledging your intellectually feeble opposition points, is pretty hilarious. 😁

And by contrast, the meat cleavers seem way too small. 🤷‍♂️ I'm fine with the size of the hammers, though. And new costume options are always welcome, IMO. I particularly enjoy the new travel stances (blitz and parkour). 👍

With all the other crazy stuff in Star Wars, Mace Windu surviving Palpatines attack, requires hardly an suspension of disbelief at all. Star Wars is drawn from pulp serials of the 30's, which share the same niche as comic books, so all the usual hokey tropes apply. That's how it works in my brain, anyway. Then again, my funny old brains is pretty strange. 😁🤷‍♂️

I honestly don't care, one way or the other. but as long as it's an optional setting, seems fine by me. 🤷‍♂️

Alrighty. There's a lot of groups recruiting on there, so I thought maybe you didn't know about it. Carry on, then. ☺️👍

If you really want to find a group, you need to use discord. https://discord.com/channels/572090223115239444/574047503775957012 https://discord.com/channels/569909890819293245/898977325234929715

Right. 😁👍 Well, Mr. Wimple kind of expressed it better than I did- what I was trying to say, I suppose, is that if they beat the ITF on Invincible and had a fun and challenging time doing it, then they had a pretty good team. The new diff content is supposed to do exactly as the OP described: Get adrenaline and fun factor at peak. So that's a great endorsement for the end result of the difficulty additions, imo. 👍

So excited for Indy 5, Secret Invasion, Mando Season 3, and Ahsoka! Wasn't really a fan of Willow (saw it in the theater, bitd), but the series looks surprisingly fun. I'll give it a shot, at least. Disney may be the new evil empire, but they sure do entertain! 😁

These things are always fun to do. Apparently, I too, am a bard. 😁👍

A tank as the anchor, a brute for added muscle, a couple of blasters and 3 defenders. They're a bit short on control, but maybe the defenders are shoring them up in that area? I wouldn't say it's terribly unbalanced, just a little light on melee and control. Still, they finished at the 60 minute mark, which is pretty dang good IMO. 🤷‍♂️

Kind of bat-familied out, for whatever reason, so I got no dog in this fight, I suppose. As to the Flash, I always enjoyed watching Ezra Miller in the role, but he's done so many wacky (frankly, douche-baggy) things lately, that I'd honestly rather he just took some time off from acting to get himself some therapy. That's not a cheap shot, by the way. As someone who regularly struggles with extreme, clinical depression, you just can't have a normal life if you don't find a way to deal with that kind of stuff. It's the way it is. 🤷‍♂️

I have a great Rad/Titan AOE tank. Would say he's certainly my most survivable character and probably my all-around-best built character. Yes, like any tank, he tanks better if the mobs can glom onto him and the other team members don't knock them away. I still enjoy playing him, though, regardless, and I don't expect other players to play in a way that maximizes my own enjoyment of the AT. Did you ever consider how boring that could get for other players? Just waiting for the mobs to circle around me and then punch/blast them like fish in a barrel? I'm not surprised everyone doesn't want to do that all the time (or even most of the time, unless the mission/TF is so challenging that that tactic is necessary to succeed, which is, of course, a different story). Now, if the knockback and premature holds REALLY wreck your enjoyment of playing a Tank then, yes, I actually do agree with you that the answer is to find a different AT to enjoy. I quite like single-target scrappers and brutes, myself. You should be able to have a great time with one of those.

I assumed they were new, nictus-infused versions of the old surgeons. Makes fighting them pretty challenging now (not a bad thing, IMO). I run them down with combat teleport, just like with the Tsoo Sorcerers.

They've all been hot garbage (IMO, I mean) up to this point. I'll decline to watch unless/until it get's rave reviews. I'm not holding my breath, though.

My opinion is that, like all forms of artistic expression, it's subjective. If you view art, and you enjoy what you view, then that art is objectively good- at least as it relates to you. Likewise, if you view art and you enjoy what you view, then that art is objectively bad- at least as it relates to you. I have won a couple of costume contests in my several years of playing on Homecoming. Both times that I won, there were several costumes that I liked better than my own. Likewise, there are regular costume contests on the monthly that I go to, where I see several costumes win that (IMO) are far less more interesting/cool/whatever than the costumes that actually win. I chalk all that up to subjective opinion, rather than I have bad taste in costumes or they have bad taste in costumes. The people judging just like very different things than I do, for the most part. This is neither bad nor good, it just is. 🤷‍♂️