City of Heroes: ORANGE CONS SHOULDN'T RUN

I have really enjoyed my time playing City of Heroes these past few weeks. Chances are right now if I'm not doing something productive, such as eating, sleeping, or lining up work, I'm playing City of Heroes. However, there are certain aspects of the game I feel could be, well, improved upon. And as it'd do me as much good to post them here as it would in the official game's boards, getting lost in the morass of players who whine just because. Because their beloved choice of character class is obviously being shafted because someone else can do something better than them. Or perhaps they're whining because they feel they need to be heard simply because it's clear they love the game more than you or have more posts on the board than you (both valid criteria for priority listening, if you believe them.) These are also the same people who believe the only way you can have fun with the game is to be the most powerful class that does the most damage and grabs the most amount of experience in the least amount of time, and look down upon anybody who has different ideas. I mean, my current favorite character, Mr. Influence, defeats villians and gains experience very slowly and has thus been labelled "gimped" by those who think everybody should be able to kill anything in one shot and leap about and off to Happyland we go or something. Never mind the fact that I am having fun by successfully playing solo with a Controller, an archetype which the power gamers sneer "can never solo." Guess what, Jimmy, I'm doing just that, albeit slowly. Sucks to your ass-mar.

I suppose these observations should've been made during beta, but I wasn't around for the beta. Well, then.

( At any rate: )

Oh, and if you're still playing and enjoying the game and are doing so on the Victory server, you're invited to join my supergroup, The League of Above-Average Gentlemen. Our motto is "66th Percentile or Die!" and right now it's just me and a friend and all our alts, but you're more than welcome to join too, and all your alts. And then we can team up and beat up bad guys and stuff. If you're on Victory, shoot Dr. Plutonium or the Barista a /tell one of these days.

and on a sad note

The "M&M Enterprises" community on Orkut seems to no longer exist.

Oh well. It was one of the most clever gimmick communities I had the pleasure of reading a month or so ago: Milo Minderbinder and Yossarian were heavily involved in a discussion on how to make a profit buying eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and selling them on Pianosa for five cents, and the Syndicate was a hot topic ("everybody gets a share") and Hungry Joe would periodically show up, screaming, in whatever thread was active at the time.

You could tell it was a group of friends indulging in some nice back-and-forth character roleplay and the doublespeak dialogue was spot-on and damn hilarious to read. It played out like an intelligent Orkut version of the Conversatron, really. And now that I'm re-reading Catch-22 for the first time in I don't know how long, I really wanted to go back to the community and pick up on what I'd missed when I first saw it.

Only now it's gone.

So it goes.

Wait, wrong author.