Well, it seems his "site" has either been vandalized or shut down by a zealous "anti-furry" mod from his hosting service... since I was
trying to find the Legion's Quest link from the DW Concordance and got a rather nasty shock. Site

Fwiw, the link is NSFW depending on how zealous your workplace is.
''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

I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but there's ten pages of complaints in the support forum on the website: COX is crashing on startup for a
lot of people -- either at server selection (usually upon selecting Virtue) or at character selection (if the character has an aura). Judging from the
timestamps on the messages, this has been going on for at least 50 hours as of the time I write this, with no solution in sight yet.

Naturally, I've gotten bit by it. Has anyone else?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I did a doubletake last night when I saw a Council boss make a Jewish joke as I approached. I know it was a basically random scripting thing, but still
pretty warped. He was a vamp, so it was even creepier. I think I gave him a few extra Force Bolts into the wall, just to punish him for it.

http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... cilbr5.jpgGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

Russian Soyuz capsule has a gun.

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Epsilon

Just doesn't have that musical ring to it.

Once upon a time, there was a young man who was blessed by the Kami. He was handsome, strong, and wealthy. In his youth, the Kami had offered him a single
boon. He'd been hungry at the time (it was a lean year for the entire region), so he made a contract with the spirit to provide him with a bowl of rice
and a fish, every day, for the rest of his life.




And so the man lived in his nice house on the riverside for several years, comfortably well-off, and needing to spend almost nothing on food because every
day, the spirit would bring him his fish, and his bowl of rice, and this was pretty much enough for him, so he was satisfied.




One day the young man married a beautiful young woman. They shared the nice house, and he bought her nice clothes, and some for himself as well, so he'd
look nice alongside her. They shared the rice and fish, and it was almost enough, but not quite, so they bought some extra from their neighbors. And they
were happy, and in love, and all was well.




And eventually, in the way of such things, the woman had children, first one, then another, and more. And the couple were very happy to have children, and
loved them very much. But now the rice and fish was not nearly enough, so they spent more of the man's money, buying more food from their neighbors, and
clothes and toys for the children. And most of the time, they were happy.




But not all of the time. Sometimes, there would be a lean year, when the rice harvest was poor, and the fish were hungry. The spirit's bowl of rice would
be small, and the fish would be small, too, and the couple would have to spend even more to be sure they had enough food. "Why do you bring me so
little?" the man asked the spirit, "You promised I would not go hungry."




"I promised to bring you one bowl of rice, and one fish, oh man," answered the spirit. "I said nothing about your hunger, or your
children's."




And so, slowly, the man grew poorer, as the money ran out, and he had to sell some of the nice clothes, and the toys, and the fine things he'd bought for
his beautiful wife. Eventually she grew dissatisfied, and divorced him, and moved to a big city and got a huge alimony lawsuit against him. His children went
with her, or ran off to join the army in order to make sure they would have enough to eat.




In the end he had to sell his nice house to his neighbor, and move into the hut he'd disdained for so long, in order to pay all the bills. And the spirit
brought him his fish and his rice, and he sighed, and he ate it, and was not happy.




He looked out at his neighbor's fine new house, the neighbor's happy, beautiful wife in her fine new clothes, their children playing happily in the
yard. And he wondered how they could keep it, when he with all his strength and his wealth and his gifts of the kami could not.




And so he went to look for his neighbor, to ask of the man how he managed it, and he did not find the man at first. He looked in the house, and in the road,
and in the little shop where he'd bought the fish and sold his fine clothes and jewels.




And finally, he looked out at the river, and he saw his neighbor, sitting in a small boat with his oldest son, fishing.




This was inspired by a story I recently came across that swapped Asuma and Kakashi as team sensei's, and Asuma's explanation to Sasuke of why the
Sharingan is not the ultimate power he thinks it is.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080215]Today's User Friendly

(I remember when this sort of dialogue almost required someone to say "All your base" somewhere...)

 
--
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

So, did anyone manage to get into one of the iterations? If so, what was it like? Was it worth it?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://hanzismatter.com/]Hanzi Smatter - dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in western culture

A bit drier than http://engrish.com/]engrish.com, but still fun (in a particular sense of the word)...

 
--
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

While I like International Super Teams, I also love Green Ronin's Freedom
City setting for their Mutants and Masterminds superhero rpg. Whereas IST was built on the idea "What if
Supers existed in the real world, and their actions had real consequences?", Freedom City was built on the idea "What if Supers existed, but
we lived in their world?" It's really a quaint little love-affair
with classic comics book stories, with a lot of homages to everything from Superman to Neil Gaiman.

Now, the book mostly focuses on Freedom City, USA, and it's respective superhero population, and mostly glosses over the rest of the world's events,
except for generic "the world, as we know it" notes. But I feel the setting could be, at least in certain ways, compatible with IST. The basic
timeline of world events are compatible, and the Freedom City history and characters could be added rather neatly into the ISTverse with only minor issues.

For exemple, Freedom City includes a brief "Moore Act" of zero tolerance on costumed heroes from 1984 to 1992, forcing even it's prime hero
Centurion to stop operating within the city. This times rather nicely with the foundation of the International Super Teams. Therefore, one could say
Centurion joined with IST, giving it greater credibility and acceptance amongst the American public. Then came the 1992 Terminus Invasion, which mobilized the
largest alliance of heroes ever seen, including virtually every available IST, many of which suffered substantial losses, including Centurion's sacrifice.
Two years later, the Freedom League is re-established in the city, and becomes America's premier superhero team, with only IST getting more worldwide
respectibility.

Meanwhile, IST has the full support of UNISON, the United Nations International Superhuman Oversight Network, a organization of super-agents that has more or
less replaced the old Peacekeeper corps. The various branches of UNISON deal with everything from natural disaster relief, to investigating supernormal
threats, to fighting terrorist agencies using mundane methods. In short, everything that falls between the cracks of IST is UNISON's to mop up.

In the USA, however, such functions are handled by AEGIS, the American Elite Government Intervention Service. It is a paramilitary organisation equipped with
ultra-tech equipment to deal with superhuman crime and violence. As it employs neither nukes nor super-powered operatives, it has remained relatively
untouched by the UN 1982 edicts, and are hailed as America's first line of defense against super-threats. And since the election of Republican Candidate
Buchanan to the White House, AEGIS has seen it's budget increased substantially, even with the percieved downfall of the SHADOW terrorist organization.
The former Soviet Block, Israel, Red China and Great Britain all have similar national agencies.

Meanwhile, while SHADOW is staying in the shadows, rebuilding it's forces and planning new schemes, a radical terrorist cartel known as Overthrow has
arisen to take it's place in the limelight. Under the leadership of Dominic Ashe, a European left-wing terrorist of the 1980s, Overthrow is an umbrella
group that has absorbed smaller left-wing terror organizations and formed them into a single group that has, since the 1990s, responsible for hundreds of acts
of violence: assassinations, kidnappings and bombings alike, and has virtually replaced Islamic terror groups as a world-class threat. Suspicions regarding
Overthrow's backing ranges from Red China to the South American dictatorships to ramnants of SHADOW.

...That's all I've got so far. What do you guys think?

Anyone else atching this series?

Its awesome!

Episode 6 just had something Ive been waiting for :-)

(Horo getting pissed and laying the smack down)