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I would assume the upside-down smiley would have indicated that I was jokingly turning the premise upside down.

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I kind of like Radiation Armor, but the visuals are annoying. Can we not have invisible radiation? Aside from that, generally I play Invulnerability with a few each of Willpower, Super Reflexes, and Shield Defense... plus a couple Bio Armor, and even a Dark Armor brute and Regeneration sentinel.

Do we have any dedicated straight supergroups in game? I mean, sure there's lots of supergroups comprised of people that are probably straight... but that doesn't mean they are straight supergroups. Just looking for some inclusivity and representation. 🙃

We're not all vagrants. Some of us just want a giant mug of root beer. Get a job, you vagrant! 😝

It really depends on what you do with it. I mean, if it looks like a Superman copy with blue tights and red cape & red underwear on the outside along with the yellow belt and the i symbol being in red and yellow on a white guy with dark hair... that is a Superman copy and very likely to be found to be a trademark infringement by legal standards. If your Invulnerableman has other color tights with a pattern that doesn't look at all like Superman's iconic look, along with a different face & hair from the original... then Invulnerableman would be considered legally distinct (from Superman; if you copy someone else then that could still be problematic).

That name makes me think of

I too had the name F-Bomb until just recently. And as far as context goes, I would drop false F-bombs in General chat... like just saying "Fudge" or "Fudge it." All I can say is: whoever decided that was against the CoC... fart you.

I didn't say it has to be great mez protection. Get a couple things stacked on you, and boom.

If I were going to create a new AT that used the Assault sets, I would couple them with blaster secondaries as the primary sets and keep the assault stuff in the secondary role... make it a support set capable of dealing damage at range but capable of doing some decent blapping when in close range due to having melee attacks in both primary and secondary sets. As an inherent, give them mez protection and let the damage for the Manipulation primary sets sit high while the attacks in the secondary Assault sets just do damage on par with defenders, basically giving you more options for building attack chains between those non-melee Manipulation powers. Auto mez protection is their only real defense... they'd still be rather squishy.

Whew... I thought this was a revival of a fairly annoying trend from the old days where the devs from the Live server would post something and people would post "First" just because they got a post in before anyone else. No quality to their post, just announcing that they got in before everyone. It was more annoying than those posts where people knew a post was going to get locked because of its content so they would post "in before the lock" or some such nonsense. I'm just glad to see we've matured as a community.

A.I. is learning. Soon it will be coming for you in the home.

How can F-Bomb be bad? Unless you're walking around dropping F-bombs, it's a PG-rated way of saying the word without saying the word... like saying "frickin." We know what it means, but its pretty much acceptable to say on public TV and radio and kids can say it without people losing their ship. This sounds to me like someone going overboard with the code of conduct enforcement.

We could debate it, but it's pretty obvious that the intended difference between science and tech in this game is that tech requires hardware (whether nanobots, cybernetics, or just external gizmos like guns or force field generators or whatever), while science is more like mutation... but artificially induced. Yep, mutation is science, too... but it happens naturally. But wait, if mutation happens naturally, wouldn't that make it a natural origin? We could debate all the origins, really... but it's easier to leave them vague and let them mean whatever to each individual player.

It's just a bottle. You could empty a bottle and fill it back up with whatever you like. I'm not saying I do that... 😁

The coconut cup is obviously for fruit juice drinks, and a giant mug/stein is perfect for root beer drinkers. Alcohol? Why's it gotta be alcohol? On the other hand, who's to say that the coffee emote isn't spiked with whiskey? And do we know for certain that Enriche isn't an alcoholic beverage? That's the problem with fictional products.

PC: (also) *giggle

Superman is magical science, naturally. He's also had robot "clones." And there was that time he was split into Superman Red and Superman Blue with electric powers... mutation?? Good grief, Superman is all origins.

When the game was first released (or pretty early into it), people complained about being straightjacketed by origins. What natural means to some can be entirely different to others. Is your science actual science or science fiction bordering on magic? And as for magic, there are many who equate the trope of "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as meaning that magic is advanced technology. So the original developers pulled back a little on trying to make origins mean something. Then they introduced a new bonus attack power (throwing knives, tranquilizer dart, etc) and starting missions that were tied to your origin, and once again I believe there was some complaint (probably from completionists that would have been upset that there were 4 arcs they wouldn't have access to since they could only choose one origin). These days the bonus power is easily traded out for whichever one you want at the P2W Vendors, and I don't know what became of the origin-specific missions. But the TLDR version is that people get fussy when you try to make origins meaningful because some people just don't like to be so blatantly confined by the simple choice from 5 options... especially when you can have vastly different interpretations.

Not the kind of wind I was thinking of. Mine takes advantage of the storm blast and summoning powersets.

Exactly. "Last bullet... gotta make this one count." **fires either a perfect shot for great damage & effect or misses completely**

How about maybe... Pandora's Other Box?

I get the idea of taking a penalty to use something big, but locking down other ranged attacks in that pool is significant. Leaving the target with only the defense and a melee attack (assuming either or both are taken) doesn't negate the penalty of lost ranged attacks.

I'm still amazed at the names I can find available on Excelsior. Recent additions include: Bikini Expectation Irish Cream Little Trickster Overpowering Personal Escort Stone Time Thunder-Blade Wind Woman

Just adding my own jokes here.