And you thought the shoulder pads in WoW were silly.

Elisha linked me to a YouTube video of the current beta testing for the new Titan Weapon power set in CoH.

And then this happened:

[10:27] <JadeNSC> ....so I can make Cloud?
[10:27] <Doctor_Gerbil> [10:23] <Doctor_Gerbil> I am so making a Cloud Strife knock-off with a silly name like Cumulonimbus Troubles
[10:27] <Doctor_Gerbil> [10:23] <Doctor_Gerbil> (Cumulonimbus is latin for 'don't wear suede')

Nah, we aren't Final Fantasy nerds at all. Also, after hanging around together for about five or six years, we totally don't occasionally inhabit each other's head spaces. That'd just be silly.

*settles in to read up on some Astrophysics filed away in here*

In other CoH news, Sam and I went trick-or-treating last night and I am kicking myself for not copy+pasting one funny bit of conversation between (the original) NinjaWeazel and Ballari, but here's a basic run-down of what happened.

* NinjaWeazel gets a treat and is rewarded a Crey Security costume.
NinjaWeazel: (Being his old flirty self despite knowing and respecting Ballari's orientation.) "Heeeeey, wanna get frisked?" *wink, wink*
* Ballari, roughly at the same moment, gets a Freakshow Stunner costume and puts it on.
NinjaWeazel: "...on second thought, no.

More from Elisha (with commentary from IRC)

WARNING: The following is NSFW or child friendly. Please do not watch if you are in a place where your employer can see you/your child can be traumatized by an arm turning into a phallic tentacle and sucking the life out of a woman through her vagina.

No, this isn't a product of Japan. The animators are French (or at least have French names). And in spite of how, ah, disturbing and graphic it is, there's no nudity at least, just nothing is really left up to the imagination.

[11:32] <Doman> allegory for the loss of innocence that comes with teenage promiscuity
[11:32] <Doman> it's all a heavyhanded message encouraging abstinence
[11:34] <JadeNSC> lol yeah.
[11:34] <JadeNSC> Like every 1980s horror movie *ever.*
[11:35] <JadeNSC> There's a reason Scream said, "Don't have sex, do drugs, or drink alcohol." Best example is in the original Friday the 13th when Kevin Bacon gets skewered from beneath his bunk after banging one chick.

The music, at least, is pretty neat.