This line popped into my head on the way home from work last night, and I just had to share it. It's spoken in the manner of someone sincerely trying to figure out the world they live in, like a not-presently-being-obnoxious child asking a question of a parent.

"Friend Computer? What is a friend?"

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/07 ... ons-online

I haven't been playing CO since about Janurary, but here's hoping that this means it's finally getting more then new vehicles and timed events. This game needs story content badly, and Neverwinter and STO show that Cryptic knows how to do that.

Just sent you an email re: Fenspace...
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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

Razputin, from Psychonauts, is a hero who is all about helping people with their deep, emotional trauma (and seeing deep into their souls at the same time).

Seems like he's ripe for any number of possible crossovers - as long as there's a maguffin on the other end to pull him in.

PMMM has, in its wishes, a maguffin of almost infinite versatility - and it certainly doesn't lack for people with deep-seated emotional problems.

Seems like something could be done with that.  A fair number of somethings, really.

Hey - anybody want to post designs and explanations for their character's Nemesis?  Feel free to add a pic of the Hero of the Nemesis as well. 

(Edit: Since nobody else seems interested in replying to the thread, I'll just post whatever else I've got for archival purposes and we'll call it a day. Changed the title of the thread as well to reflect the personal nature. You want to post your own Nemesis? Go make your own thread. Geddouddahere! )

Latest Nemesis I created is... Uhm... Yeah. Sorry. Couldn't resist. ^_^

Just what it says on the tin. If you don't have these two games yet and you wanted them, NOW is the time to get them! I just picked up both for slightly under $13.00! 

...f2p only, of course, so I've created and deleted several characters trying to find a class I like - basically the norm for starting an MMO.

Which really makes me feel sick, because if there's one strength of the PnP Champions, it's that it is blessedly free of classes and levels. On the other hand, most casual internet gamers would consider working through the Hero build system a significant barrier to entry, and having levels you go up by is familiar, as is a level cap vs. a point limit. Still annoys me that I'd have to pay real money to get anything but the seven or eight most basic archetypes, particularly since none of them are quite what I want to play. The ice blaster/tank (Glacier) and mage (Grimoire) aren't too far off overall, though I'd prefer beam FX for their attack powers. Anyway...

I was going to include the (dinky) images the character creator saves of my favorite two iterations, which look like they'll be what I choose between for a main, but ImageShack is being a bitch and I can't log in, so you'll have to make do with descriptions. Due to a marginal computer to run the game on, I usually pick the least populated instance when there's a choice, but perhaps one of you will see me.

Czyyk'thzz is, well, Cthulhu basically. Pale mint green with darker teal membranes on various fins and the dragon wings, the Beehive Hairdo part colored to blend in with the skin for that classic huge oblong octopoid head, and the "tentacles" face accessory, hands and feet. She's (I generally do all-female video game characters, even if they're eldritch horrors from beyond I still preferr staring at a woman's ass for hours on end rather than a man's) the ice tank, and wears arms and leg nands plus a belt/swim briefs and shoulder mantle with the Arcane patterns in sanity destroying orange, purple, and lime. Her name is pronounced as if you were saying "check this" at the same time as "shake the ice," though with limited human vocal equipment the closest you're likely to get is "chayk thee-iz" or thereabouts.

Steamhex is much easier to vocalize (well, her hero name anyway... her civilian name pre-conversion is Czlyydwr, "sell ya a door." She's originally welsh, though neither of those names actually mean anything as far as I know in any language.) and is all done up in brass and steel with copper bits or bright purple gems here and there (the Robotic head, arms and legs on a Circuitry patten torso with the half-armor chest layer part, none of the cash-shop Steampunk Cyborg bits) plus a shiny black top hat and a black half-cape with purple lining, sometimes switched for the Tech Stealth jetpack and an equally shiny black skullcap. Obviously, she's the Grimoire, since I already covered the Glacier character.

A distant third possibility is Crimson Crescent, a twin-lightsaber using melee-type (can't remember the actual class name - Unbound? I thought it was something with a D - obviously a Jedi ripoff, though, or more accurately Sith given the whole black default costume and combat orientation) with a maroon and medium grey half-armored suit, which has a bright red visor and trim stripes to match the sabers. I prefer to keep enemies a bit beyond arm's length, though, and it's a pretty generic looking costume, so this is unlikely.

Any n00b advice or tips to hand out?
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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

Anybody else having occasional MASSIVE lag trying to reach these boards? Or timing out without loading? I'm noticing a lot of that the last few days. 

Why the hell was chapter 11 of DW2 the fifth most-viewed page on my website in May?  554 hits -- almost the same as the site's top page.  And none of the other chapters come even close.
There must have been something people were looking for last month that pulled up that page on search results by mistake.  That's the only thing I can think of.
Apropos of nothing, looking at the rest of the list of most-viewed pages is amusing for the large number of obviously automated attempts made to find files and directories  that could be hacked but which simply don't exist on the site.  Stuff like "signup.php", "registration_rules.asp", "/member/reg.php", "/user/password" and "wp-login.php".  Keep tryin', boys, maybe one of them will spontaneously evolve out of random electrons and you'll be rewarded for all your honest effort. 
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Took a few photographs while wandering around Trim Castle. Some of them look pretty good

It's an Anglo-Normal building, dating back to the 12th century, with some renovations in the 13th century. It was occupied until the 17th.

Walking around it, you really have to feel sorry for the poor sods who were annoyed with the occupier.

Gatehouse

Curtain wall

Moat, near River Gate

Castle grounds

Strange coloured sky over Meath countryside

Barbican Gate

The Keep

Again

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