Ulysses Dare

What happens when, a month from now, some new player uses search to find money-making advice and lands on this post? It's a good thing some people decided to point out its flaws even it the OP was a troll. Also, Poe's law doesn't get April 1st off. On the small chance that they're on the level, it's good to at least try to educate them.

I always start with a concept. It might be a name, or a power combo, or a theme but there's always a starting point. Usually that concept will also point me toward a particular look. However, sometimes I simply have no clear idea what the character should look like. On those occasions I've used the random button for inspiration. It's never to make the full costume though. Hit the button, look over the results, see if anything catches my fancy. Once something does, work from there to finish out the costume.

Just saw this one. It was definitely flawed but not as bad as the buzz had lead me to fear. Certainly less of a mess that Love & Thunder. PROs: Kamala is just delightful. Carol Danvers is much less wooden that she was in Captain Marvel. Nick Fury isn't sleepwalking through this one like he did in Secret Wars. They made good use of Goose. That Bollywood number was hilarious. The post-credits scene. CONs: Way too much plot crammed into too little runtime. Too much audience homework expected. I've seen Wandavision and Ms. Marvel. If I hadn't, the movie gave me little reason to care about Kamala or Monica. Monica is still lacking in development. As a fan of her version of Captain Marvel, I find this particularity annoying.

Super Tech, Artifact, and Resource Transfer

Same here.

That people think something is a problem doesn't actually prove it is one. It also doesn't mean that the solution those people have dreamed up is a good one.

Unfortunately no. Only members of the Super Group can access storage bins.

I'm not privy to Homecoming's plans for the future but I'd guess that having a license from the IP owner makes a number of things easier. Server hosting, for example, can now search for a combination of price and reliability without having to prioritize "doesn't care about piracy". Openly advertising our existence is another possibility. And I know of a least one person who's more willing to make an account thanks to the cloak of legitimacy the license provides.

Seems to me all the drama is coming from the folks insisting the impossible really isn't. Yeah, okay, maybe it's not absolutely impossible if we had NCSoft's cooperation. But we don't. Indeed that database was scrubbed precisely because NCSoft demanded it.

Here's the problem with that, as I understand it. The character database was just that: a data base of characters. It didn't contain any account information because it came from Paragon Studios, who never had access to that info. Instead, when you logged in the NCSloft account server verified your ID then passed along a token to Paragon saying, essentially, "this is legitimate user XYZ". The secret squirrel server could figure out whose account was whose by simply looking up the character names. Something you can do when you run a tiny private shard full of people you've personally vetted. It's not a process you can scale up to a public server the size of Rebirth or Thunderspy, much less Homecoming. Even if the data base did still exist, there's no quick and simple way to just hand everyone back their characters.

Uh, no. The term "Mary Sue" originates in a Star Trek fan fiction written in 1974. It definitely precedes Vash.

Supposedly that data was either erased or turned over to NCsoft as a sacrifice to keep them from coming after SCoRe once word got out.

The Council of "We Ain't Sayin' But Definitely More Than Two".

Some new insight into the mystery:

The change they made was to say that the scarab was alien in origin, rather than being magic. This is a retcon to the Dan Garret's version of Blue Beetle, not Ted Kord's. Ted never used the scarab.

Sad news. I was a fan of his work on Justice League International and Ambush Bug.

マジカル・レインボー ミステリアスなプリティ・ウォリアー きらめくプリンセス aka Magical Rainbow Mysterious Pretty Warrior Sparkling Princess Tragically shortened to "Sparkling Princess" by that mean old character limit.

I have no idea what you think the difference between "Healer" and "healers" is but, as a practical matter, there is none. Either way, it's insulting because it reflects the old school trinity mindset that the character's only purpose is to heal and reinforces the idea that powersets without healing, like FF and TA, are subpar. Now, maybe you just never met any of those people but I can assure you they exist. Back on live I was once kicked from a team the minute I zoned into Steel Canyon and the leader realized I was playing a Trick Arrow defender. I don't recall if they specifically said "you're not a healer" but they certainly made it clear my lack of a heal was the reason.

I played CoH from around Issue 2 until sunset. The game never revolved around the "holy trinity". There were always some people who thought it did; who wouldn't move an inch until their team had a tank and a "healer" (usually meaning an Emp). But most of us just rolled with whatever and it worked just fine.

We have a level one arching! Repeat, level one arching!

I saw the video of a secret server that got posted to the Titan Network and had a front row seat to the ensuing firestorm. Made an account on Bree then, after it imploded, on Homecoming.

I'm quite fond of the Wearing the Cape series by Marion G. Harmon. Fairly straight forward super hijinks but with thought given to how all of this would really work if it happened in the real world.

Oh my goodness, picking just one was hard. Very nice work, all of you.

Dear Devs, thanks for revisiting the decision to remove beanbag.

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