House on the Hill by Kamelot featuring Simone Simons
(Lyrics are on the video)

And the hill, is a hill of swords...
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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

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3041

It opens with some kids asking their uncle what he's brought them from the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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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

Something I've been using for a while, and thought since it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here, I'd bring it up in case it was handy.

Probably the best research tool for Evangelion there is. Better than the Evageeks wiki. There's a fair bit to wade through to find the individual episode writeups, but they're worth it because they're pretty detailed and touch on a lot of interesting background details. Also including extended universe material, AU material and fanfics in the final two threads

From RPG.net
First. Up to TV Episode 10

A full index of all six threads can be found Here

There's also an estimated timeline Here

It's come in handy more than once. Like giving me the name of the town the Tenth Angel obliterated.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

So, apparently, Roger Ebert passed away yesterday. Bit of a bummer, that.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

And has been for about a week or so. This time it's a little more serious. He's resting comfortably right now and he's alert and awake etc when he's not sleeping. He feels pretty good, compared to how he's been the last month. 
But tomorrow they're going to use a catheterization procedure and try to put a stint in one of his heart vessels. This is riskier than normal because it has calcified deposits.  

On the positive side, the doctor doing the procedure is supposed to be the best in the region with this. Also - if some of those deposits loosen and break off without the vessel rupturing, this particular vessel is not going to his brain, but the opposite way, so if some clot forms, it's not going to give him a stroke or anything. 

But what it boils down to is - either things are all going to go fine tomorrow and he'll be home by next week, or the blood vessel will rupture and he'll be dead on the operating table. 

I've already had "the talk" with him tonight that I didn't want to have in case of the worst happening. I'll be there tomorrow to see him with my brother before he goes under. 

Those of you who believe is such things, send a prayer our way? It sure couldn't hurt any. 

I've always been a "have to see it for myself" kind of person. So I loaded up DCUO last week, and started in on character creation. I've also found that you can't really judge these games until you get to the "premium" level, which is to say, you've dropped more than $5 on the game, and thus unlocked most of the commonly-used options. So I picked up the Green Lantern DLC, and built on that.
The character I built is basically a kind of homage to the Animated series. A kind of what-if, exploring what you'd get if the Star Sapphires built their own version of Aya, the AI nav computer which developed personality, and eventually wound up in a rocky relationship with the Red Lantern, Razor. I went in, knowing that a lot of people and reviewers have panned it over the last few years, and that it's got a more console-y feel than other games.
My impressions so far are that it isn't that bad. They've made some good choices for the VA's. They clearly drive this offering. Adam Baldwin as Superman, Kevin Conroy as Batman... Those two have pretty much clinched their respective characters for the last while, and using them has really driven the feel that the player is in an extended Justice League episode. I haven't heard enough of the Wonder Woman VA in the past to know if it's the same woman, but I suspect it is. She plays the character well, although I did sometimes feel like she talks like she's got a steel rod shoved up her backside. She needs to loosen up a little.
I just recently finished a Titans storyline, involving the summoning of Trigon. They didn't used any of the Teen Titans VA's from the cartoon, which would have sold it for me, but that aside, the characterization was pretty good. Although the latest rendition of Starfire is somewhat more adult, they don't have her parading around in the thong and a smile she was wearing for a while in the past.
On a character creation note, I recall somewhere that the options for defining character looks were limited, and while they weren't as massive as CoX, they weren't bad, either. The three-color setup is a tad annoying, but it also prevents garish color nightmares I've seen. It also prevents unfortunately the kind of character I saw once upon a time in CoX named "Cuppycake Gumdrop." An inspired rainbow-colored sprite who flew in a dazzle of rainbow light. I don't know how many creative substances her creator had taken before making the character, but it was truly a work of art. I'm not sure if DCUO would allow a creation that inspired.
I'm still in the mid-teens, so nowhere near level cap. I like the power selections, which although cater to the console control scheme, are fluid enough with a mouse that I can chain attacks fairly effectively. The Lantern powers are varied, and allow me to tailor a character with Lantern powers as I like, without feeling like I'm being railroaded into specific power choices. The ability to pick up "iconic" abilities and tack on abilities used by heroes across the DC spectrum to my build is nice. It lets me add a few abilities not commonly found in the standard build. I picked up a GL-based shield early on using Iconic powers. When I level up enough to get the shield through the GL powers list, I'll respec and drop that in favor of something else.
That's something else I liked, actually. Respeccing is fairly cheap, game-wise. So far, anyway. I have no idea if the costs can eventually rise to the point where a premium player couldn't actually cover the cost without paying a subscription fee. I'll have to discover that along the way. But in-game currency is common enough if I spend wisely that I can always make enough to cover my needs.
So far, I'm actually moderately impressed with what I see. I may pony up for the Lair option, and see what a personal fortress looks like when tricked out. I like the fact that these lairs offer special bonuses to people who invest in building them up. Everything from stat boosts to the ability to call in an orbital strike. Plus henchmen on command, and the ability to summon a sidekick. I'm probably going to enjoy exploring that one.
So, all that said, is there anyone else here who also plays in that game? I wouldn't mind seeing what teaming looks like in-game, if there's others.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

I came upon this in a roundabout way, but it looks like the Culture author has inoperable gall blader cancer.

See http://friends.banksophilia.com/

I was thinking just now that with a bit more effort than I'm willing to put into it at this point, a possible April Fool's article would be the discovery of a "Godzilla particle" at one of the high-energy research labs, so called because unlike normal matter when it encounters an anti-Godzilla particle only the anti-Godzilla particle is destroyed. "You can't really create or destroy anything when you get to this level, only change its form," one researcher noted, "but with Godzilla particles, you can only hope to survive how it changes you."

Something like that, anyway.

Right now my mind is occupied with a (mecha) hand-held maser cannon gunpod for the wooly end of the Flashback 1942 tech tree - it has a folding dish to protect the operator, possibly two if I want to parody the sniper railgun from Macross F, but I'm trying to figure out how to make something that looks like a film scratch energy beam in 3d.

FOR SCIENCE!
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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

Has anyone used this writer's utility site?  Or know someone who does?  Is it worth the time necessary to enter stuff into it?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay, to start this new iteration, here's something special. You may want to read this article, which has this video embedded in it. 
Behold "The Philosopher".

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.