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  1. it'll be great - for lonely people, the elderly (see prior), and case in point - provides a rich interactive that evolves, or can educate you, tell you stories, and (if allowed to) tasks groups of itself to better understand you, and even act as your proxy.

     

    my only hope is that we create laws not to just stop machines taking our jobs, which they absolutely will, is that those laws wrap and forbid very explicitly and tightly any enslavement of sentience... because we, humans, will try.

     

    we will (likely) try to make something far greater than us our slaves.  and should be damned as slavers should we try.  i can think of no greater betrayal of creation.

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    Figs - rogue isles exorcist

     

    hmm.

     

    legacy chain were always a really 😎 group, fighting in unison. so as a low effort lift, probably stuff from that.

     

    chains like wow shackle undead.

     

    stuff where you flail yourself  like some kind of zealot, blood magic and all.  like how radiance works in lords of the fallen, all holy light and bloody thorns and nuns vomiting blood into chalices they then raise and drink to empower casts.

     

    and hotcakes 🥞❤️, because christmas. also, custard.

  3. i still want a wolfy that charges a mob and knocks it down for some damage, instead of confront, on my scrappers.  stuff like that, not a single target taunt.

     

    maybe a nice damage fire 15 ft single target blast with a 1.5-2s cast.

     

    an electric melee one

     

    dual blades attack where you throw one like a boomerang...

     

    ...something offensive!

     

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    Figs - friend of spirit creatures

  4. you could batch submit the entire lot to amazon polly, and it'd nicely assemble you a collection of mp3s, notifying you on the job IDs when it's done.

     

    its surprisingly cheap. once upon a time i wrote something that did this on appearance of posted news content, then cdn'd it about so you'd have a little 'listen to this article button' on a news site.

     

    so, if the text exists somewhere, you could do it.

     

    for voices, theres some 15 default, and if you can render the text as voice markup, it can go past what it can imply from the structure of the text for excitement, whispering and so on.

     

    openai just added speech synth to chatgpt, and apparently that sounds very good indeed.

     

    variance of voices might be a thing, but when you consider like 15 of the default EN-US ones, and several variants by asking other EN-XX, and even foreign language ones (which can read english but will mangle some pronunciations, as you might imagine, but in an exaggerated manner), there's a decent selection.

     

    past this, there's also the voice emulation models... so every npc can talk like omniman from invincible. or you / a volunteer.

     

    imagine if I, Figs, were part of your audio experience in CoH!

     

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    Figs - voiceover hero

  5. Disney helped a lot during WW2, and produced masses of ally propaganda when it was needed, at cost, and effective loss.

     

    epcot design was like a cellular replicable template, and some of the designs are pretty stunning even today.

     

    they helped the US gov a lot, theyre more than likely not going anywhere.

     

    Walt was insane, depressed, and abused of mind. a lot wrong, a lot wrong view, but in act, to win hearts and minds away from realized horrors, contributory to avoiding far worse that lurks in the mind of (hu)Man. imo, at any rate.

     

    you cant dress up and impersonate copyrighted things on HC, its not nice, and strictly(ish) forbidden.

  6. is subduction like fulcrum shift, aoe around mob+aoe ariund you? or an ally-or-enemy 2 mode affair?

     

    something unique, and probably harder to implement might be an effect on crystalize.

     

    -- damages all. allies caught in cast that are <30% hp after strike are stunned/held mag 999, rez debt protect, and slain 5s later. they return to life at 50% health and 25% mana 5s later. if crystalize affects an ally in this way, its next cooldown is increased 240s, caster accrues 500*0.2*player_lvl xp debt. OP? howling twilight is OP.  it should do decent damage.

     

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  7. hi!

     

    it's me, Figs.  Many players often send me inf at my global @finnthehuman - and for good reason!

     

    I really need ~2.5BN right now, for shadow auras.  unfortunately my paws hurt too badly to farm all that up.

     

    I also had to take down my sub site - onlyfigs.paragoncity - because it's against the corporate handbook apparently.

     

    so please contribute, kupo!

     

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    shadow Figs

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  8. 6 hours ago, arcane said:

    There’s absolutely nothing wrong with developing a policy of downvoting any post that incorporates obnoxious and irrelevant anime gifs. The poster is free to change his or her behavior if they find this bothersome.

     

    I've searched for thee, dark-stricken creature.

    I am descendant and at once; the honour of the gods, the glory of fire, and the fear of the dark.

    Thou shalt not go unpunished.

    For thy treachery, thy profanity, and thy shameless yearning! (to thumbs down posts instead of being plus ultra!)

    Remember this, creature.

    Never would I ever...
    ...forgive thy lowly kind.

    -- attributed to someone who waited past the end of the world, and breaking of time's seal, that made a sun shine

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  9. best:

     

    lords of the fallen  about 110h so far, 70USD. thats 0.63USD/hr and going down. pvp a bit imbalanced right now, but theyre patching it every few days.

     

    dark souls 1/2/3, bloodborne, elden ring:

    1000s hours between these. pvp!

     

    smite: fun 130ish or so gods and monsters square off in arena, assault, conquest... sort of like lol, but more 3rd person shooterish with line lock targeting. probably spent 200usd on skins over nearly 10y.

     

    wow-

    played ~14y. miss it a bunch sometimes. but i dont have the strength for the required social at high levels anymore.

     

    recently: my hero ultra rumble - its fun, and you needn't spend a penny. importantly, dont feel motivated to as the gatcha content is crappy.

     

    bad:

    genshin: i spent thousands bc i wanted venti, xaio, albedo and scara... no.

     

    seven deadly sins grand cross: same...but gloxinia, helbram (all fairy boys available, and all their outfits, always)... smelly meli... pvp was good.

     

    i am strictly forbidden from all gatcha. i love them, but im not an oil baron. and they cost that much. like you spend as much as a nice car yearly as much (or more), if you want all the things...

     

    diablo 4;

    i didnt go back after ~season 1. i adored d3.

     

    both, sort of:

     

    - ffxiv, good value to mess about / be a little ghost in.

    tho subbing retainers costing more than the sub does is silly. e.g. its 78USD for 6mo sub... but if you want another 140 slots in the ah, its another 88usd on top of that over the same 6mo.

     

    coh - like it lots but cant find strength to gather prisms by farming, and all i want is some shadow auras... so havent played in a few months.  some people on excelsior are right wing lunatics, anti semitic, weird nationalisms, deeply upsetting, and kind of push that in public chat.

    maybe its an older crowd comprising them and HC has become some sort of den for them, maybe its like how eve online had terrorists in its bowels...dunno.  been thinking of migrating off excelsior when new content drops to HC.

  10. confront on scrappers replaced with cool abilities - such as a wolfy pet summon that charges an enemy and knocks them down.

     

    or a repel towards, or street justice tp attack .. 🤔 something thats not a st taunt, inferior-to-provoke, worse than st placate tier skips.

     

    animations for confront look cool tho, sometimes.

     

    at very least, if st, it could have big debuff component.

     

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    tough and weave, without 'punch' and kick!!

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    Figs  - scrapper 'confront'

  11. On 10/9/2022 at 4:12 PM, Troo said:

    How's the old saying go? If we don't have something nice to say we shouldn't say anything at all.

     

    Thumbsdown & Confused are at times being used in a way that is more aggressive than probably intended.

     

    Would this make for a nicer forums.. maybe, maybe not. But at least folks would need to articulate their disapproval and could be held accountable for any actual harassment.

     

    theres one 'arcane' super creeper, who literally fishes my posts from months back timelines (for ones theyve missed, normally their very quick) to thumbsdown them....

     

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    ...nearly every single one....

     

    👎 like a museum patron, who pisses on the displays.  

     

    its a type of person, that goes out of their way to do that kind of thing.

     

    id agree with removal of both of these, which are definately used to try to harm (by some).

     

    more 'my hero', less general sustained unkindness, ya.

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  12. 6 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

    No, it's not creepy at all. It's actually pretty normal for most mammals. I'm not sure how or why normal comes off as creepy to you.

     

     

    Yes I have, and yes I know.

     

    You know, I just love it when you post in a thread and lecture us as if you're the only one on the forum who's ever been to a University. Well, you just go being you and trying to educate us lesser folk.

     

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    Figs and Percy - who think it odd when animals sing at each other, or low brow at the very least - and study biology at the university, which only they attend.

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  13. 7 minutes ago, Rudra said:

    Scrapper Confront has a 70 feet range, 11.25 second duration, and a -75% range debuff (move to you effect). Presence pool Provoke has a 60 feet range, 6 second duration, and no move to you effect. Sure, Confront is a single target ability and Provoke is a 15 feet radius with a target max of 5, but not seeing the inferiority of Confront to Provoke here. I can make mobs move to me from farther away with Confront, and they will keep doing so for longer.

     

    (Edit: And if Scrapper Confront was made AoE, then what advantage would Brute Taunt have? Brute's only advantage with their Taunt is theirs is an AoE. And Tankers' advantage over Brutes, is the better move to you effect they have.)

     

    it wouldnt matter, youd just have better mov herding.

     

    the brute is more rovust, so theres an 'advantage'.

     

    id rather have a low duration rushing wolfy 🦊 fox summon, instead of confront.

  14. animals singing at each other, loosely as courtship or encouraging of mating ritual, is creepy af, by and large.

     

     

    if you study biology, at all, for any length of time - the parallels in behavior, and violence to murder even, between 'lesser' species and humans are obvious and clear marked to the point where it'll affect your vision.

     

    whats makes us great is transcendent of base instict... keep repeating that to yourself, Figs. it'll be ok, or over, one day anyway.

  15. if there was one sweeping improvement that could be made to scrapper, for me, itd be across-the-board replacement of 'confront' with (ideally) a mix of utility, aoe taunt, and various other powers in that slot --> varying by power set, and ideally thematically so.

     

    or just confront >> taunt very simply.

     

    as is, wasted choice, inferior to powerpool taunt.

     

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    Figs - scrapper who's confront power was replaced with a temp wolf summon that charges and KD.

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  16. 29 minutes ago, biostem said:

    It looked better before the gold icing, IMHO.

     

    pour 🍯 honey upon it, a foot bath of cream! 

     

    or spirits set aflame, and a handful of currants!

     

    eat in one sitting, its not to be shared.

     

    with custard, not broulee, proper custard, is best.

     

    you may also prefer a platinum/silver 🐸 should gold not be to taste.

     

    they taste kind of chalky, those metalic sugared, food colorings.

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  17. 20 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

    If you're asking have I got a bunch of Invention IOs, then the answer is no. I have a combination of stock IOs and SOs.

     

    hm, even stock io should do well with the stun cone, fear, sleep, and psi cone layering - damagey wise.

     

    too much incoming damage?

     

    that can be rough in a combo with /psi if youre not using all the fancy enh. especially lvl 20-40s.

     

    dominators in general, that way, very much benefit  from expensive builds that grant sustain theyd not otherwise enjoy.

     

    tough, weave, combat jumping, stealth help.

     

    try to assemble 5x luck of the gambler uniques. they give recharge and def boost.

     

    that and the uniques for health / stamina.

     

    take it from there, as a base set, should you care for such.

     

    if dom and no munee - plant / energy consider, I'd say - for the confuse cone, creepers and ok pet. energy to stay ranged and some kb soft cc. 

     

    really, you can drop 2x prisms and have enough for a panacea unique, or 1.5-2 lotg.

     

    get the ato sets with merits, if you truely are starting from nothing.  might help. do this by buying winter ios. sell for 15m, buy dominator atos for no more than 8-9M each.

     

    it can be trouesome.

     

     

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  18. dont gamble either, thats 2 six sided dice.

     

    we're so good at wiping history, its off kilter, but i sometimes wonder - was 6 fingers common, in the past, and bred or killed out then covered away? it'd not be humanity's first hurrah with genetic prunings.

     

    we'd all be base 12, 'imperial', inches by feet, and so. and if you had that, youd be at an advantage to count, naturally.

     

    today, its still at around 1/1000 births.

     

    other species tend to have 5 digits in mammals, but really 5 fore, and 4 rear.  and so for 340 millionish years. we're told.

     

    so why 1 in 1000, and why of that over 70% matched, and often not vestigal?

     

    because jealous, and rare, and marked of giantism, or other such horror lullaby.

     

    so murder, most horrid, and gene line exclusion. then we forget, dont write about it, its easy when there was no electronics.

     

    maybe? probably. if humans are involved - hate, and murder, and bashing in of skulls often follows.

     

    just be glad you dont have red hair.

     

  19. On 10/25/2023 at 7:57 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:

    This is really useful. I've been playing a Symphony/Mind dom and truthfully found it quite overwhelming. Doubly so, solo... I really struggled with the trapdoor mission at 0/+1

     

    What am I doing wrong?

     

    do you have all of the enh?

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    ^ if you know you know, kupo.

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