New on Virtue, founded by Skye: a villan group composed entirely of evil alternate versions of the Heroes of Paragon City, whether pulled in by Portal Corp,
cloned by Science Gone Mad, or whatever.

Membership so far is Skye's Blitzartig, a Nazi Synapse; Stormgear's Knight of Malta, an alternate Infernal (a Malta op with Bat'Zul bound within
him); and my own Pizarro Statesman, inappropriate duplicate of Marcus Cole driven by the insane desire to conquer Peru.

In the remote chance that anyone has any slots left free on Virtue, we hope you'll join us. Feel free to create duplicates of heroes we've already
got, too -- the more alternate Statesmen the better.

ETA: A little variety in powersets would be good though. As it happens, we're all Elec/* Science Brutes. o.O;

--Sam

"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!"

right here: http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_update12.html

Light on details and big on hype, but if half of what it promises... yikes.

For me, the key points (not that I'll be able to make use of them anytime soon, with my leveling rate, but still):

* Epic archetypes for villains -- 'bout time

* Powerset proliferation -- could be good, could be very very bad, I dunno

* Hollows makeover -- THANK YOU

* Roman-style costume pieces -- this is the Nift.

So. Issue 12. Hoo boy.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

One can see online videos of two ads for Calorie Mate starring Kiefer Sutherland, parodying the style of the show "24." As always with popular
American actors in Japanese comercials, the result is rather entertaining.

(Found via Desumatic).

--The Twisted One

So, everyone mark your calendars, sometime in October there will be a little Darkling running around. OK, not running, flailing helplessly possibly.

Yes, Rev and I are pregnant. Me more than him, but he's co-operating nicely.

If you're sending happy thoughts, focus them behind my belly button.

-Cindy

The man gave us "THE ROCKETEER" and helped us all rediscover
Bettie Page has put on his rocketpack and soared away for the very last time.

Excuse me. After Gary Gygax, and Janet Kagan, and Jeff Healey this past week and a half, I want to send a memo to God:

"Lord? All due respect, your holiness, but would you tell your angel of death to switch to FUCKING DECAF
ALREADY???!?!?! "

"I"m serious! Tell him to put DOWN the fucking scythe and just WALK AWAY for a week or two, OKAY?? Or go to
fucking Havana and whack Castro for some FUCKING BALANCE okay? Would you do that? Please?"

I really want to just cry, damnit...

Well, it's been done for various other fandoms, so why not? What've y'all seen in the way of interesting fanfiction about the Inner Sphere or
Clans? Particular props to anything that moots or voids the WizKids 'reset' or involves bitchslapping the Word of Blake but good.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

Hey, all! This is Steph, informing you that we are once again, having computer troubles. T_T. I'm starting to think my computer hates me alot. -So-! Until
it's fixed, we're a no show. Had to use a libary computer to contact you so you know we're not dead. Hope to see you all soon! Bye!

Signed,

Steph

With,

JC and Mitch somewhere around here...

Yuku isn't adjusting for Daylight Savings Time. (I'd hoped that would have been one bug that got left behind on ezBoard... )

Edit: The "Use My Time" feature near the bottom of the page is also not adjusting for Daylight Savings Time.
--
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

Some of you may recall my posting this picture last year...



I can now state two things. Konpeito is indeed potentially addictive (despite or perhaps because it is almost pure sugar), and my Stellvia DVDs are going to be
keepers and not sold or traded any time soon.

A good ending, despite leaving the details of one of the story elements (the mysterious ships) only ever so partially answered. I think Vandread I & II
shall be up next...
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

Seen on the Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... ntious-moi]Preposterous job title of the weak (sp)

Exactly what does a "Metaverse Evangelist" do, anyway? It's a job at IBM, so it (probably) doesn't have anything to do with fanfiction...
--
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