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Fair enough. Like I said, it's probably my living in a smaller town. I work right downtown, and across the street is the tallest building in the city, and it's 9 floors (former fancy hotel, now converted to low-income senior housing.

Yeah, but condos and apartments aren't quite the same thing.

I don't! I'm too busy leveling my 58 (so far) alts to spend time farming. The one costume editor change I would like to see is ... allow male characters to use the Venus symbol, and female characters to use the Mars symbol (chest details). Dang it, I have a team of female characters representing each planet, and all of them get to wear their planetary symbol except for Ms. Mars. I'd like to know why this silly restriction was there to begin with.

I dunno, maybe it's because I live in a smaller town, but I boggle at those Pinnacle Apartments that start at $399,999. Mostly because the practice of actually buying your apartment, as opposed to renting, is odd to me (though I'm aware it does happen in some places), but also that one can buy a house with property around here for less than that, 15 years after those billboards "went up".

I've always wondered if it was deliberate, or just an oversight, that there doesn't seem to be a single church of any kind in Paragon.

I got a chuckle a couple days ago. Couple Hellions in The Hollows, sitting on a wall directly across the street from the police barricades at the Atlas Park entrance. I don't recall the exact wording (didn't get a screenshot), but it was something like: "Oh, we could charge the barricades, but we could get injured, we could get caught. Let the Trolls do it. They're dumb."

Stomp Em'?

See who gets this one ...

I know it's RNG, but man, every time I've played around with the random feature it seems to be heavily weighted toward selecting the bestial and monstrous heads and pieces. That, and those jester parts come up with alarming frequency.

Playing at low volume, I've discovered that Static Field's sfx produces this annoying, irregular ticky scritchy sound just on the edge of my hearing. It's also stereo, so it creates the effect of random insects skittering around nearby.

My all-time favorite bit of NPC chatter came from a random Outcast in The Hollows, explaining things to one of his fellows: " No, I didn't call you stupid. I said your comment was an oxymoron. It's a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are put together. Am I the only one who reads the books we swipe around here?"

Sunset in Kings Row - this is currently my desktop wallpaper: And this similar shot from Independence Port is my lock screen background: Gotta say, though, that most of my "cityscape" shots would be greatly improved by the absence of those glaring war walls. Looking at them together, I'll add that having the AE building in both shots was not deliberate.

A Phil Collins pun would never have crossed my mind.

I'm running into an unusual problem every now and then with CoX screenshots that I take using the in-game screenshot function (as opposed to a 3rd-party solution). I open the image in Windows 10's "Photos" app, crop it to a reasonable size for sharing, and go to save it, except this error pops up: Wut? So I look at the properties of the image file in question (this is after moving it from my SSD to my HDD, which is why the path isn't showing \CoH\Screenshots): Notice the "Security" information at the bottom. Another computer? It most certainly did not. Also, checking that "Unblock" box does absolutely nothing. The oddest part is that this does not happen with every screenshot. It's just random, every now and then, and I have no idea what's causing it. EDIT: I'll also note that the only thing about it that actually seems to be "blocked" is re-saving the file after editing it. I can open and view it just fine. I can also upload it to my Google Photos account and then re-download it from there, and everything is fine.

Yeah, I've just noticed on newer alts that those origin attacks often do more damage than either of my first two attack powers. Kinda discovered this on a level 2 toon with slow-recharging powers. Fighting 2 mobs, used powers on first mob, and then Mutagen + Brawl on the second, who went down just as fast.

The visual effect of my Stone Melee brute's "Fault" power is frequently drawing in midair, instead of on the ground where it belongs. I don't know if it's specifically related, but this wasn't happening until the first mission after I trained up to level 17. I added a slot to the Fault power, and slotted it with a Knockback DO. It was previously slotted with an Accuracy and a Stun.

Since I was a WoW player for years (except for these times when I realize I'd rather play CoH), today I was inspired to roll a WoW "tribute" character. Well, sorta. May I present, "Epic Gear" (f10 battle cry: "FILTHY CASUAL!"):

Unfortunately happened to me while stealthed in a cave. Recharged too close to a big crowd of Tsoo, ended up frantically trying to hop away...

Last night I heard some villain chatter that I had totally never heard before. I was collecting exploration badges and history plaques in Atlas Park, and there were a couple Hellions sitting on the wall right next to one of these plaques. I assumed they would ignore me since my character was around level 15 or so, but no. As I approached, one of these Hellions told my character: "That dress makes you look heavy!" It was particularly amusing because this character's backstory specifically mentions that she is a former Miss California, a fact of which she apprised this thug before fireballing him. But yeah, my character got fat-shamed by a Hellion.

Yah, I had noticed that I can be standing right on the sub, hitting it with melee attacks, and some attacks will keep saying "Out of range".

I was rather surprised while doing a Safeguard not long ago. I was fighting the Lost vandals who were busy slaughtering parking meters and trash cans, when a panicked civilian ran right past ... and one of the Lost pulled out his shotgun and blew him away. Like, whoa, did that just happen? I mean, the civilians are usually completely ignored.

Perhaps simply add an "out of character" comment to the bottom of the Twinshot popup, indicating that her missions will teach game mechanics. This would be similar to the way some missions have differently-colored text after the actual mission text saying things like "This mission is more difficult than normal - you might want to bring some friends."

Thanks - I double-checked at that link and read Positron's dialogue, and I definitely did not talk to him during the arc. I'm curious what will happen when I get a Technology character leveled high enough to do the arc.

I ran my main through Percy Winkley's "Origin of Power" story arc. The arc purports to be explaining all of the modern origins, but I realized after it was finished that it never covered Technology. Percy sent me to speak with War Witch (Magic), Synapse (Science) Penelope Yin (Mutation) and Manticore (Natural), and then handed me the "finale" mission to stop the Circle of Thorns from doing something-something. I brought this up in the Help channel, and the person I talked to was redside and said that the redside version of the arc does include a Tech contact. So now I'm wondering if my run-through on blueside was glitched (which would be odd, because the arc progressed to the finale with no apparent hiccups), or if the omission of Technology was simply an oversight on the part of the original devs.

Huh, must be a recent change. I originally made the character back on live and it wouldn't let me. I'll assume the filters would still stop me from using "Nazi" - back on live I made a character that I ended up calling "Grammar 5th Columnist". He was a joke character who did nothing but sit in chat, correcting people's grammar. It amused me for ten minutes 😛