We are happy to announce that Stephnie is merely two bubbles away from 50. Whoo!

After we finished Positron last night, several of us gathered to run the first Strike Force in City of Villains: the Tarikoss SF.

Lady Nogitsune gathered many disparate villains, mostly Brutes, but including one Corruptor and a Stalker, to provide the much-needed muscle to prevent the
awakening of Bat'Zul. Nogitsune was aware of the betrayal Tarikoss intended, but went along with it anyway, to prevent the destruction of one of her
favorite massage parlors in Æon City.

This was a refreshing change of pace, as we finished it in under two hours. The only way it could have been faster is if Ankhani, our stalker, had access to
teleportation ability.

Bat'Zul himself went down remarkably fast once we began to fight, but the fire and earth controlly/dommy mobs all over were a little tough on us.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 125344.htm

Neat, yes?

…of The Bible. Words fail me.

--The Twisted One

Dow Jones MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/d ... teid=yhoof]RIAA tactics to combat piracy again in question

Note the webpage's title: "Does the RIAA engage in mob-like tactics?" When a article starts out with a loaded question, it's pretty much a given what the answer is supposed to be...

That related story is on The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/20 ... cumvented/]Caribbean firm circumvents BD+ copy protection. It isn't until the fifth paragraph (out of seven) that they mention the Caribbean nation in question is Antigua and Barbuda. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/antigua_us/](Remember them?)

 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I've been listening to far too much old electronica recently and this just won't leave my head.
So I'm going to infect you guys with this idea in the vain hopes that it will leave me alone.

(listing the lyrics of a daft punk song is like doing interpretive dance about particle physics, so I have included youtube links to their videos)

Harder better faster stronger:
Work it, Make it, Do it, Makes us
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
More than, Hour, Our, Never
Ever, After, Work is, Over

Work it, Make it, Do it, Makes us
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Work it harder, Make it better
Do it faster, Makes us stronger
More than ever, Hour after
Our work is never over
(repeat this 15 times)
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powers: upgrade existing mechanical device (maybe even venturing into Steve Austin territory)

Technologic:
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Technologic (x4)

(Repeat first section x5)

Technologic (x12)
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Powers: transfer data from one stored medium to another in Doug's area of effect. The more complicated the effort (reading data from an encrypted hard drive vs scanning a book) the larger chance that said device may suffer damage before the song is through. This song is not necessarily nice to electronics or other devices with fragile components.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

(Also known as "Mal goes into Illustrator fugue for 24 straight hours.")

Anyway, the shoulder patch designs from the frustrated graphic designer can be found here:

http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenspace/vvs- ... ection.jpg]%[link=http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenspace/vvs-patch-collection.jpg]http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenspace/vvs- ... ection.jpg]

I'm not going to direct link the picture, as it's a 1752x2365 860K jpg, and I have *some* regard for people's connections.

Comments, brickbats, etc. always welcome.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Numina_Task_Force

I'm going to try and run Numina TF this sunday.

Numina is a 4 person 35-40 TF, with 6 'core' missions, and a whole _stack_ of hunt missions. Given how fast we can travel, I think we can seriously
reduce total time on this TF.

Membership is currently wide open, I have myself confirmed, on Mag Flashlight (@Wiregeek), as well as Enkili (@Vyperpunk), and possibly Genau'Goeg (@DJ
w00t), giving me 50 tank, 50 scrap, 50 scrap, and 5 slots available.

Sing out! fine tuning on scheduling is up in the air right now, so I'm open to anything but late evening on Sunday.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

(another page of a book locked in a vault)

The Village of Hidden Asteroids turns out more gifted martial artists than anyone else on Earth. Part of this reason is because of their curriculum, their
dedication to their art, and their sheer amount of hard work.

A highly secret technique of the Hidden Village is because they used handwavium in some of their martial arts dojos/kwoons/whatever. The influx of martial arts
students and teachers focused on studying and progressing in the martial arts influenced the handwavium into lending a helping hand.

Those who mastered the martial arts of the Hidden Village were often greater masters than those on Earth. It was more that the dojos gave them greater insight
into their art than anything else. This benefit only applied to the masters as one needed to work hard to gain the great insights. A student of the Hidden
Village would be at the same level of those on Earth. Those masters who did gain insight managed to create special secret techniques unique to the Village of
Hidden Asteroids.

One of their more esoteric techniques developed in this manner is a fifteen minute meditation described as recovering their strength of will and setting them
back on their way of the ninja. Effects observed so far means that it's easier for them to recover from mental attacks and are less shaken by frightening
events.

A physical technique demonstrated by a Russian version of Mighty Guy was roofhopping in which the Guy used precisely only the amount of energy needed to launch
him onto a roof. He then proceeded to roofhop all the way to his destination This appears to be a common mode of travel in the Village of Hidden Asteroids. .

Of course, the founding philosophy of their source series is teamwork. Every team when sent out on a mission has trained together and knows what one another is
capable of, and how best to combine one's abilities.The body language and hand signals of chunin and jonin are capable of carrying on a combat-relevant
conversation with someone else while talking to you verbally. This last appears to be more a function of their philosophy rather than the architecture.

Not a fanfic, but an original story: http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1]Wikihistory, by Desmond Warzel.

Two thumbs up.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.