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  so if Blizzard's announcement IS World of Starcraft...
Posted by: VladimirTherin - 05-09-2007, 06:41 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (15)

How many of you would be looking forward to playing it?
How do you think they would handle vehicles?
Might give a whole new meaning for "lfg tank"

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  Untitled Brightsky Fic #2
Posted by: Valles - 05-09-2007, 12:50 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (4)

Number One is currently existing only in handwritten hardcopy at this point, which's why you haven't seen it.
And the apartment I just moved into doesn't have any sort of internet connection, which's why I'm sitting in one of the campus labs, killing time and slowly going (even more) insane.



The displacement pod came out of Non-Time within 0.1% of its programmed location, chronology, and motion vector.
This was about as expected, which was why its coordinates had been targeted nearly a thousand feet off the ground - it it had been aimed at the surface, then there would have been nearly even odds that it would emerge colocant with the earth... which would have been rather counterproductive to the survival of the pods' occupant.
The good news was that that same person was quite capable of flying on her own. The bad news was that the sky she came out in was quite adequately crowded already, and keeping from being pasted across half of Baumton by colliding or being shot by one of her fellow heroes, 'allied' villains, or any given member of the umpty-bajillion Rikti Drones swarming about was... nontrivial.
"Whups!" she said as she dodged around the thruster-wash of the crowd of combat robots following a woman in battle armor that couldn't have been intended to be anything but purely decorative - given its coverage-or-lack-thereof - and clipped the wingtip of some surly-looking guy who was hovering in place with four counterbeating feathered wings. "Sorryyyyy!" she tossed back over her shoulder, then dropped like a rock.
Flying just above street-sign level might make her a lot more likely to attract ground fire, but it was also far less crowded and would so allow her to move more quickly.
A quick subvocalised command pulled the location of her contact from her battleglasses' long-term memory and pasted a navigation marker on their heads-up-display. A grin split her face for a moment before being surpressed - opening her mouth in flight was just asking to catch a bug in her teeth, and once was enough, thank you.
There! she thought as she twisted around a corner and into the entrance of the buried road tunnel that housed the Zone's human command post. A moment of ballistic coasting brought her in past the defenses before she 'braked', dumping speed by accelerating hard in the opposite direction. It was less efficient than many other forms of flight, but it was what she had and it worked well enough. Besides, it let he-
...her thoughts ground to a dead stop at the sight of the costume her contact was wearing - sky-blue shooting stars on a cloud-white bodysuit, with heavy silver-metal gauntlets sheathing fists and forearms and laying heat-sink plates past the jointed elbow-pieces and along the outer sides of the upper arms. The suit, and the face above it, were an image she knew as well or better than her own in the mirror.
As well she should.
"...Papa?" she asked breathlessly, completely insensate to the crowd of curious onlookers.


Cliff. ^_^
Ja, -n

===============================================
"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

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  Hypothetical
Posted by: HoagieOfDoom - 05-08-2007, 06:49 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (2)

Hypothetically speaking, what would be required for this to happen? Because frankly, it scares me.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

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  Zipang: Can anyone tell me about this?
Posted by: Elsa Bibat - 05-08-2007, 03:25 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (8)

Zipang summary:
Mirai, an improved Kongou-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most advanced ships in the entire Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF). Her crew, also one of the newest, is lead by Capt. Umezu Saburo and Executive Officer Kadomatsu Yosuke. While running scheduled training exercises one day, Mirai encounters a fierce storm that throws their navigation systems into temporary disarray. After a few minutes of recovery, the crew is shocked to discover that they've been transported back in time to June 4, 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, during World War II. Letting history take its course for this battle, they manage to avoid the conflict firsthand and make a vow to remain annonymous, changing history as little as possible. However, when the crew comes across the dying Lt. Commander Kusaka Takumi, XO. Kadomatsu's instincts to save lives takes over, changing the course of history more than he could've imagined.
Anybody watched this and any idea if it's good? Sounds interesting but I'd rather not waste time if it goes crazy ass bad.

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  Nerdcore FTW
Posted by: Herr Bad Moon - 05-07-2007, 10:30 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (2)

Who knows what kind of powers this would give, I just figured Doug would be deligted with rappers that are big huge geeks.
Battlesong by Deltron 3030
Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy
Sounds like a good way to build up my infamy
Soon as Automator sent for me
We headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy
(Yes may I help you)
Remember me
To escape a global panic we had to intercede
(Oh you're here for the battle forms)
Yeah can we get them for free
(I'm afraid not you'll have to pay the entry fee)
It was worth a try when we first arrived on mercury
Gravity adjustment must then
Step up contestant
Number 12, I was 13 he started bursting ammunition that wasn't working
His rudimentary technical abilities couldn't kill me
Knocked me for a loop
But I can still breath
He had the crowd going by appearance
Here comes the anticipated interference from his squad and guards
I bust back with on slough of Hydrothermal clod that burnt they're third eye
The out num but I come with heat & trigger a massive explosion to the beat
They hit me compressed air
Left my chest bare
My sonic stun gun takes em out by the next snare
We won the bout just as the oxygen tanks were running out
so we're back to the ship
Pull a map from a blip
Manipulate the cursor
Recharge our essentials set the coordinates then flow
Through a trillion miles of space with style embrace
Next stop Pluto to rock these new flows
Atmosphere methane be strategic like a chest game
Leaves this mc with chest pains
I had to battle a shadow in his black life form
He dazzled me added 3 points to his score
Engulfed my microphone with darkness added 3 more
The panel started to roar
I had to find the core of his power
He stretched his text causing me to black out
It took my DAT out
I couldn't back out
It took out the sound man I'm taking a pounding
I bust out an accupella that's astounding
Project a uni-beam through his spleen
Pulled out my x-ray cannons to disintegrate the phantom
It's not fine my cell structure ruptured
His form will get bust up into clusters
Shadowy masses spread to the greater darkness of outer space
Now I'm placed 1st among artist
Serve due more space travel
Computer
(Yes deltron)
What have you
Next destination
The colony of Sicilia an earth colony
This is appealing
Hyperspace
With mic in place we was off breathing frost
in a void thinking what if we had lost
Ha
Entertain an ignorant thought
Land Ho, Sicilia we entered the port
Fill out a few forms then we meet our challenger named qusar
(No matter who you are I'll handle ya)
He's a real charmer
I threw on my pla-steel armor
He wants to absorb the talents that I worked so hard for
A bitter hard core
I busted a few shots and opened him like a car door
He was a quadruped, four arms
He hit me with four fore arms made of bronze
I said Automater play the song
(You got it)
Was the theme
Made a slight alteration in my scheme
Set him up with a condition beam with his double team
Leaned toward his dome piece and reamed the back of his neck
With a cranial disruption siphon
Squeezed out his brain like juice
Like a python---------------
-Jon
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
The population density of Wyoming is very low, but that doesn't mean the people there aren't also out to kill you.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

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  Burtterfly -- death in 90 seconds
Posted by: itsune9tl - 05-07-2007, 09:47 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (3)

Quote:
Ay, iyaiyai,
Ay, iyaiyai,
A-a-a iyaiyai
Where's my samurai
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Where's my samurai
Where's my samurai
I've been searching for a man
All across Japan
Just to find, to find my samurai
Someone who is strong
But still a little shy
Yes i need, I need my samurai
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Where's my samurai
Where's my samurai
I've been searching in the woods
And high upon the hills
Just to find, to find my samurai
Someone who won't regret
To keep me in his net
Yes I need, I need my samurai
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky


Dance Dance Revolution Lyrics
Summons a wakazashi (Japanese shortsword). The hilt is wire wrapped in the mentioned colors, and bears the kanji for Butterfly. Once summoned Doug can use this to perform an Iajutsu strike that can't be blocked. The sword remains untill used, at which point it fades away.

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  I hate having to bludgeon people into doing their jobs.
Posted by: Morganite - 05-07-2007, 07:55 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (3)

I've had dsl service with qwest for some years. It works quite well, but every now and then I get a problem where, after I've had the computer shut down, the dsl won't connect.
I was impressed with their technical support those early times, who quickly and efficiently determined what the problem was and fixed it. I even learned the name for the procedure which always fixed the problem - "bouncing the connection".
(I later found out that this process has the unfortunate side effect of disconnecting other people with dsl service in the same area. Unfortunate, but not enough to justify me or anyone else having no dsl at all for an indefinate length of time. Besides, windows can automatically reconnect and most processes will be none the worse for wear.)
More recently, they've had more hoops to bounce through, and I've tried to be understanding about this. They always got to the part of the test that determined that, even when my computer was unplugged and disconnected, their system showed me as connected, and therefore they needed to do something about that.
Today, there were more hoops, but they never even got to that set. The troubleshooting process I was presented with seemed to be predicated on the assumption that I was on a dial-up connection, not DSL. I've even had times where the dsl worked where I had no dial tone, so having a dial tone is not really a meaningful indicator here.
I started gently suggesting that bouncing my connection, which had worked so often in the past, might be a thing to try.
Some more hoops. At this point, I was still trying to be understanding.
Then the next thing... well, I'm not certain exactly what she wanted me to do. It might have been switch the cables that were plugged into the modem in case they were reversed. Which is pointless, because no one has touched them in over a month, and if they were it would not have worked yesterday. It could also have been try connecting the modem to the jack through a different cable. Depending to the extent on which this was carried, this might either be possible but take a really long time, or just be impossible. (One of the cables involved here is over 30 feet long and was custom-assembled by my dad, and cannot be easily replaced.) In any case, I was still getting a dial tone and using that line to talk to her through all these cables, so I didn't see what this would accomplish.
I became more forceful about the idea of bouncing my connection. It may have been around this point that she went from consistently pronouncing my (very simple) name correctly to consistently mispronouncing it.
Finally, she came to the conclusion that my modem was old and I probably needed a new one. As it happens, I'd like a new one, but that's not a viable option at the moment for several reasons. I'd had enough of this, and asked that how about first they bounce my connection and see what happened.
Now, I'd been informed a bit earlier that she wasn't allowed to bounce my connection herself. Okay. So get me someone who can. She repeated that she wasn't allowed to bounce my connection.
THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU TO GET SOMEONE WHO COULD.
After being on hold some more, she came back and said that she'd talked to someone who could bounce my connection. And lo and behold, it worked. Mind you, it wasn't really over until she got me to go to a particular website, since I don't seem to be capable of telling definitively that my internet connection is working, despite all the things that don't get cached I run.
All in all, I'd say it took about three times as long as the next lengthy call I'd had with them.
What happened to the nice people I talked to just a couple months ago, who helped me figure out a problem that actually *was* my own stupid mistake? And both before and since have fixed the problems that weren't?
Bleh.
-Morgan is going to post this to her lj too, since it's a good excuse to use a userpic that I haven't before. And since I spent a lot of time making it, it's about damn time."This continuity is now a Princess of Darkness crossover."
"... They're all going to die, aren't they?"
"Yep. Popcorn?"

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  P.S.I. - PPD Special Investigations (New SG ^_^)
Posted by: MechaDeuce - 05-07-2007, 07:34 PM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (27)

Greetings, folks!
Well, I don't normally do things like this, but I had to...
After barreling through the Brickstown Safeguard mission recently and noting the presence of PPD psi-cops, I was inspired.
(Yes, *another* alt - keep quiet in the back there! =P )
Ahem. Anyhow, I created my own psi-cop character, and after some playing around, the final version is a Mind/Kinetics controller named Lt. Psychokinetix. (Bio and picture to be posted later)
Now originally I tried to get her into the Legendary, but we appear to be full up there. Inspiration struck again, and I've got my own cop-themed SG now:
P.S.I. - PPD Special Investigations
And yes, the title is a bit of a pun, and a bit of a homage to C.S.I. I had to do it, honest! [Image: wink.gif]
Anyhow, if anyone has a cop or related theme-type character and wants to sign up, let me know. [Image: smile.gif]
Later!
Bert V.V.
skyknight@sentex.net
(P.S. - Hey Bob! Wanna set up an alliance? [Image: smile.gif] )

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  Question
Posted by: Terrenceknight - 05-07-2007, 08:37 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (3)

I wish To add my 2 bits to the legendary pictures, but will freely admit I'm not so computer saavy..who am I kidding, you'd have better luck with a monkey at a typewriter than with me doing anything more than surfing the net and playing games *grins*
But to make a long story short, I don't know the first thing about putting images up on the board, I would appriciate advice on how to do so.

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  Insect Wings on villain side
Posted by: crimsonsun - 05-06-2007, 02:29 PM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (3)

So my little brute Type C found a set of these, but I really don't want'em. So I thought Id offer them up to you guys, preferably for a set of Tech Wings, Piston Boots, or Rocket Boots...[Image: faveosig.jpg]

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