Looks like we're taking advantage of the move of "cranky" to Politics to try and hammer out the "What's the real deal about Haruhi anyway?" question - since it seems that setting up the flame-shielding might be appropriate, and it looks like there are some increasingly ugly cracks in the "CADU" philosophy. Those who wish to weigh in should probably wander on over and weigh in. Those who wish to avoid the potential unpleasantness - well, we'll try to come back with an answer everyone can live with.

Disturbingly well made fluff coming out of 4chan's /tg/ boards:
www.ikwiki.com/Vril_World_War_II

I'm suffering from near-terminal altitis. I have, at last count, um... 22 characters across four servers. Most of them are below level 10, most will probably get very little lovin' from yours truly.
Problem is, I can't seem to find one that I don't enjoy playing. Arrgh!

So. Should I continue to spread myself thin? Or, should I pick one or two and focus, focus, focus!
I guess my question could be re-worded as: is there REALLY that much entertaining stuff in the higher levels that I should try to get there quickly, or am I okay taking my time?
Thanks for the input, folks!

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

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Here's my playlist for getting into a Fenspace frame of mind. What's yours?

Space Truckin', Deep Purple - "OP theme"
.strange, Son of Rust - (note prefix dot) biomod theme
Fly (Walking in the Air), Nightwish - for the dream of flight
Eskimos and Egypt, Rammstein - really really fast cars song
The Extremist, Joe Satriani - no excuse is ever needed to include Guitar no Kamisama
The Final Countdown (2000 Remix), Europe - energetic space flight song
Future Girls, Smile.dk - futurist/fast cars song
Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf - exploration song
Magic Dance, David Bowie - Handwavium theme
No Limit (RM Remix), 2 Unlimited - another exploration/'wave song
Sample In A Jar, Phish - for the all the 'wavers rolling their own
Ship of Fools, World Party - another one for the 'wavers rolling their own, and sometimes getting a crit fumble...
Speed King (US Album Version), Deep Purple - fast fast cars song, again, plus the repetition of "See me fly!"
Surfing with the Alien, Joe Satriani - Like I would leave this off?
Wierd Science, Oingo Boingo - another Handwavium theme
You Get to Burning (full length version), Martian Successor Nadesico soundtrack - Nadesico with its Gekiganger fixation is actually a pretty damn Fenspacey series to begin with, so it seemed apropos. If I had a copy of "She Blinded Me With Science" it probably would have displaced it, though.

- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

... mentioning I'm working on, in fits and starts? Well, one of the concepts from the beginning has been to have it PG-equivalent with a Triple X add-on pack... I'm not so sure this is a good idea any longer; I mean I'm not sure I've got the right mental attitude. I was working up a Pervert Pack erojutsu side quest, based on getting critter names that are varients on "bukakke" from the generator... I stated from the concept of "Tentacle monster bukkake/breeder fest" and ended at "Tentacled alien tribe's once-per 5yrs. fertility ritual, that the player is an UTTER HEEL if (s)he doesn't have a female character participate in." It's the literal opposite of mindless sex, a human character needed to take part so the natives don't have to use a juvenile pouch-bearer, who's still small enough it would cause brain damage as her pouch swelled with spawn; becoming the tribe's Mother-Priestess also has it's own advantages and a couple of follow-up quests for kick-ass rewards. That's... that's PLOT! ... and Role-Playing! So not the point of the Pervert Pack! Worse, it all plays out like something from National Geograpic, a cultural experience with side lessons in Boka'kai mythology and biology. Actual erojutsu would be relegated to the trials of eligibility before hand, rather than an villiage of tentacle-rape monsters to fight all at once. Okay, so there's random encounters in the surrounding area for that, but that's NOT THE POINT!
Um, actually, I've lost the point entirely. POINT! Heel, Point, come on Point... (whistles)
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Now, as a counterpoint to my earlier post in the Fenspace thread:
Perhaps the greatest thing about Fenspace is its collaboritive nature. From what I can tell, people are actually getting along with each other quite nicely, respecting other people's "toys" and working together to make a collective narrative. No shouting or whining. It's, well, it's fundamentally democratic in the best sense of the word. (A lot of credit for that goes to MFnord, I think, who's a great moderator in that he moderates moderately in a modest manner).
It's also an incredibly liberating intellectual exercise, particularly with handwavium. It's a lampshade-hanger, a story cheat, but it has just enough rules that everyone can play with it and then come up with different ideas.
It's also positive about the future. I know that some people think from my last thread that I am a gloomy guss that looks upon happiness with a baleful glare, but no, no! I am a happy, optimistic person filled with glee and joyful expectation about the future. And so are a lot of people in Fenspace and it shows. (It's like Star Trek, really, before the mid-seasons of DS9. Great stories from Moore et al. but against the remit of Star Trek, which was, at its heart, Secular Humanist Utopian Fiction).
It also has a lot of restraint from the writers. Nobody's a Superman Scientist With Mastery Over All He Surveys. It has a lot of genuine characters filled with humanity.
Haven't really changed my mind about my earlier points, but I did want to provide this flipside here.
-Murmur
(Man, I'm posting a lot lately)

What is an ODT file? What program do I need to open it?
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www.mongoosepublishing.co...ng%20Cobra

Okay, I haven't figured this out yet, so I'm asking here. The sets of special, named enhancement inventions that give you extra bonuses as you collect and install them -- do they all have to go on one power, or can you scatter them about?

-- Bob
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