So.
Halloween event starts tomorrow.
Can we discuss trick-or-treat groups? =)
Seriously...I read the Legendary global channel MoTD - and it says there's a tentative SG trick-or-treat session Sunday on Infinity (edited after Foxboy's comment)
At least, I think that's what it said. I'll edit this post if I got it wrong.
Buuut...well, that's no good for me. The time's not right, and the characters I really want the reward (ie, extra costume slot) for are over on Virtue. Soooo...anyone game for that?
So...if folks are doing Infinity on Saturday...then...
Virtue server, Friday evening, maybe? The earlier the better, for me, but I'll still be good if we start around 6-7pm Eastern. I'm thinking heroside, but red is fine too.
I've got Syndesis (50), Superball (38 ) , and Space Mage (26) heroside, plus Obsolete (29) and Coordinator (20) for the villains.
Mind, 's not a hugely pressing issue, since I figure it's gonna be easy to find pick-up-groups for this, and the event'll be running for a while anyway...but it'd still be cool to get together.
-- Acyl

Yep. It's that time of life again.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

The bottom and middle trays hold my Human form attacks and shields and these 3 macros. The Human macro turns on Gravity Shield automatically when switching to it.
/macro human "powexec_toggle_off Dark Nova$$powexec_toggle_off Black Dwarf$$powexec_name Gravity Shield$$goto_tray_alt2 3"
(Tray 3 has miscellaneous human powers, temps and Shadow Recall)
/macro nova "powexec_name Dark Nova$$goto_tray_alt2 4"
(Tray 4 has your Nova powers)
/macro dwarf "powexec_name Black Dwarf$$goto_tray_alt2 5"
(Tray 5 has your Dwarf powers)
So when you press Nova, you shift forms and Nova powers appear in the top tray. Same with Dwarf. Press Human to go back to normal with human powers in the top tray.
I'm still trying to figure out how to add Shadow Cloak into the Human macro. Both GS and Cloak won't activate at the same time in that macro.
Global: @Jimmy Amp
"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

... a while (call it a year, maybe two) ago, I was playing Suikoden IV - despite the games many faults, there were bits and pieces in there that I found genuinely interesting. I finished the whole thing twice, getting all the 108 Stars on the second run-through, and figured that one day when I'm sufficiently bored I might take up the task of novelizing it (yes, I know it's been done professionally already, call it a private flight of fantasy) and including all the little things I felt were somehow missing. Like romance subplots and the hero's personality - because, as much as I liked the guy for some reason, even I have to admit that he didn't have much of one.
Sadly, nothing ever came of it. The desire was briefly rekindled a shorter while ago, when I was beating Suikoden:Tactics where the guy makes a reappearance if and when you load an SIV savegame with all 108 Starts present.
Now I'm in the process of playing through Suikoden V, and while I'm not all that far along I can already tell it'll be a helluva lot more fun than IV was - and not just because of the general consensus that it rocks.
So, I've riddled me up a little ditty during some spare time ...

Grandville, Rogue Isles -[ap] The hero known as Statesman, along with the rest of the Freedom Phalanx was defeated today in Atlas Park in Paragon City, Rhode Island, by a group of Villains led by Lady Nogitsune of the Infamous.
An opening salvo of Ballistic Missiles softened the do-gooders up, as twisted radioactive mockeries of human life began to thrash the brave heroes of the Phalanx. Then, the various superpowered villains got their own hands dirty. A slight glimmer of hope was dashed when the villains suddenly withdrew leaving only Positron and Citadel standing.
Hope was short lived, as the villains returned in force and subdued the remaining heroes.
Positron in a later interview expressed concern at the theft of eight items he called Synthetic Hamidon Origin Enhancements.
''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

Hey guys, just thought I'd let you all know that I've overhauled my Wikispaces page. Changes include a dedicated page for various projects in the works and links to my LiveJournal and DeviantArt pages.
Having those linked will help because people can use the LJ to see how I'm doing on a roughly day-to-day basis and I'll be using DA to showcase work in progress because there peole can easily give feedback (or at least e-mail me comments).
So, check it out. It may not be much now, but hopefully I'll be able to cultivate it into something grand. ^_^

Title says it all, eh? Well there's a little more explanation about what went down to offer. (And I want to show off ^_^ )
So... a couple of weeks back, my COH/COV account went dark. No money to pay it. Same thing happened with WoW a couple of weeks earlier than that. I had JUST gotten a new job and hadn't gotten my check yet.
A friend of mine had an account that he wasn't using at all, for now, and was just keeping the payments up against the time when he felt like getting back into it. (He's been sucked almost completely into WoW and has discovered a new game called RF Online.) So I asked if I could use his account in order to "stave off withdrawal". He said sure, and I made a temp character on his account over on Virtue name Vigdis Brightblade. I even mentioned as much over here.
Anyway, with my own account paid up again, I decided yesterday to delete Vigdis from my friend's account and recreate her on mine on Virtue server. Got Minuet Mac Hine to help in the transfer of some funds from her and from Lora'Lai in order to make things a little easier.
Since I also had since gotten the "GVE" in-game items upgradfe to my account, I decided to upgrade Vigdis' outfit some. As follows -
Original Version:

New Version:

I was getting lots of tells and general comments on the coolness of the outfit, so when I was running through Atlas on my way back from a mission and heard the call for a new costume contest, I figured, what the heck?
I won Grand Prize, 500,000 Influence!!!
That on top of the 100,000 Influence from Lora'Lai means Vigdis won't be hurting for funds for a LONG time! Sweet!
I can't wait to see what that is going to look like with a long red cape!-Logan
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"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
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an ancient pice of fanfiction whose name I can't quite recall. I belive it was Gamma or some other letter of the greek alphabet which probably isn't very helpfull.
It was a crossover between Ranma and star trek and I think other series also showed up but I can't recall.
I recall it being somewhat good but then I also recall it dimly to be one of the first fanfics I read so my memories are probably misleading. I do remember it being huge though.

Another barch of stories I tried lookin up but which disapeared are fire's stories (Vengance 1/2 and so fotrh) does anyone know where he mobved to?
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Hi there. My name is Saotome Ranma. You probably remember me from my many adventures back in the late 80s and mid 90s, but I'm here to talk to you about something else. Something very close to my heart.
Every year, many people suffer from cases of TCBS that go completely unnoticed. TCBS, or Takahashian Circumstantial Blindness Syndrome, is a disease that keeps victims from spotting key facts about the world around them that are completely obvious to other people in their lives. Sometimes this is funny. Sometimes it's tragic.
We here at the Saotome Institute for TCBS Studies are devoted to identifying, counseling and treating cases of TCBS. Because seriously, I'm tired of being groped.
It's a long task, and a difficult one. But for the price of one volume of Manga you could make a vital difference in the life of a incipient Akane, or even a potential Kuno.
Give today. The eyes you open may be your own.

But I don't have the energy to search for it and I'm curious as to what our little slice of the game's overall community thinks.
So. What powersets would you want to see added to the game?
Most of mine, whether oddly or not, seem to be heroside, for scappers or tankers... which is apropos, as that's the lion's share of what I play.
So, the simplest on my list would be the exception to that rule - Pistols, as a Blaster set. Yes, the exact same sort that Thug/* Masterminds carry. Only, you know, with trick ammo and such. Explosive rounds, trank darts, etc. Gun Kata, anyone?
Next easiest to add would be Greatswords, as a Tanker secondary power. Sort of like what Lost Headman Swordsmen already carry, only reskinned and with expanded animations and such.
More complicated, requiring building animations completely out of whole cloth, would be a new Tanker Primary: Shield. Y'know, big flat metal round thing. Stops bullets and such just dandy. Maybe you can throw it, certainly you can conk some inconvenient so-and-so over the head with it.
Finally, trickiest and likely to be the most fun for those who think like I do, Scrapper primary: Two Swords. Which'd be exactly what it sounds like.
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"