My Dumb Invention System Thread

[Apollinaris]

Auction Houses (Heroes and Villains)
Where better to buy and sell all of these new items than in the new auction houses! Wentworth’s Fine Consignments have sprung up throughout Paragon City™ while the villains prefer to do their bidding alongside “black-market” trucks placed throughout the Rogue Isles™.

http://members.cox.net/apollinaris/nooptimus.jpg

:cry:

[Kurai Inago]

I Think I would make a Megatron Clone and Just Stand around Mocking that Truck.

[Knightward]

You know what this means. We need to nab the Autobot Matrix of Leadership! Best temp power in the game!

[Apollinaris]

o/~ You've got the touch! (DUN DUN, DA DA DUN DE DUN!) You've got the pppowwwweeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! o/~

[Plasma Wisp]

Didn't the trailer have a name as well?

[Apollinaris]

Yes it did actually... Wasn't it like Firebase-1 or something?

Also supposedly the trailers in game have the license plate "OPT 1357" on them. Though someone was noting that 1327 is a prime number, and maybe the person reporting the plate is reading it wrong.

I would now like to start the contest to make bad Transformers puns based on the new system. Here is my first contribution.


"Autobots! Transform and dole out!"

[Astartus]

No, the plate is correct as 1, 3, 5 and 7 are Prime Numbers

[bpphantom]

"During this economic downturn, even paragons of virtue such as Optimus Prime must do what they can to make ends meet."

[Knightward]

o/~ You've got the touch! (DUN DUN, DA DA DUN DE DUN!) You've got the pppowwwweeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! o/~
Yeah!

[Charon]

That truck has been hanging around in Mercy Island forever - Wids posted a thread on this exact same subject either in the Asylum or the villain section of the forum, I forget which. Either way, it's been said, it's been done.

I'm glad they found a cool way to use it so more people will check it out, though.

I Think I would make a Megatron Clone and Just Stand around Mocking that Truck.
Did you know that they found that a lot of serial killers randomly capitalize words when typing or writing? :P

[Kurai Inago]

No, I Didn't know That. (Please don't look in my Trunk) *Looks around Shiftily*

[Seadevil]

More like Optimus CRIME!


Sorry. Had to.

[Apollinaris]

No, the plate is correct as 1, 3, 5 and 7 are Prime Numbers

1 hasn't been considered a prime number for a while.

From Wikipedia
Until the 19th century most mathematicians considered the number 1 a prime, and there is still a large body of mathematical work that is valid despite labelling 1 a prime, such as the work of Stern and Zeisel. Henri Lebesgue is said to be the last professional mathematician to call 1 prime. The change in label occurred so that it can be said 'each number has a unique factorization into primes.' [1] See also "Arguments for and against the primality of 1". [1]

Of course... I thought 1 was a prime number until someone pointed it out to me... so the chances of the artist knowing are decidedly slim. ;p 2,3,5,7 would be the first four offical prime numbers though. ;p

[Apollinaris]

Heh Heh, Apparently I need more dumb thread in my life. A certain someone at the main boards is taking the Optimus thing very badly. (Update: Devs nuked the original post) They also followed the artist to the polycount forums to complain (http://boards.polycount.net/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=176175&page=0&vc=1)

She states something in particular though.

If the Black Market truck was a statue of Jesus Christ, religious players would scream blue murder.

A lot of peeps here are kids of the 80s. Our faith was based on kewl role models like Optimus. We don't want to see him sell stolen goods to villains. How is that difficult to understand?

FREE OPTIMUS!

Now, does this really make you want to scream blue murder? What about red, yellow, or chatruse murder?

http://members.cox.net/apollinaris/blackmarketjesus.jpg

Edit: Not seeing it? What if you saw him in game?

http://members.cox.net/apollinaris/blackmarketjesus2.jpg

[Seadevil]

Isn't comparing a religious figure to an 80s cartoon character a bit... much?

I mean, I love me some Transformers and all but Optimus doesn't have, you know, an organized religion that's been around for a few thousand years based around him.

That said, i'd buy guns and Jello from Jesus.

[coldcut]

Isn't comparing a religious figure to an 80s cartoon character a bit... much?

I mean, I love me some Transformers and all but Optimus doesn't have, you know, an organized religion that's been around for a few thousand years based around him.

That said, i'd buy guns and Jello from Jesus.

But he died and was arisen! And thus did cast down the False Prime and led us to cast away our graven Go-Bot idols!

[Apollinaris]

Hey they weren't my words..

And personally.. I rather like the /nerfbat/ that Jesus is selling.

Added: Incredibly tasteful Black Market Jesus wallpaper (http://members.cox.net/apollinaris/Black%20Market%20Jesus%20Wallpaper.jpg)