I actually decided this a few days ago, but I've found myself mysteriously distracted recently, can't figure out why...

In any case, a small announcement:  the title for the Sailor Moon Step has been set:

Drunkard's Walk S:  Heart of Steel


Thank you, thank you, you can now return to your business.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

For those who hadn't heard, Adam "MCA" Yauch died today of cancer. He was 47.
This bums me out a bit. The Boys have been part of my soundtrack since high school, and MCA is only about 6 years older than I am. So, without further ado, let me kick it one time for the Boys from Brooklyn.


Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

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

And had this to say!

Quote:[Admin] Nemesis: *TAP TAP TAP* Is this thing on?
[Admin] NCsoft_Hit Streak: Okay, who gave Lord Nemesis the mic?
[Admin] Nemesis: FOUL CITIZENS OF PARAGON CITY AND THE ROGUE ISLES! COWER IN FEAR OF THE ONE TRUE LORD NEMESIS?
[Admin] Nemesis: I WILL TAKE MERCY ISLE AND PARAGON CITY HALL!
[Admin] Nemesis: BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
[Admin] Nemesis: No, my FEARSOME army will not play "76 Trombones" SO STOP ASKING!
[Admin] Nemesis: My SteamPowered Computer Crashed...
[Admin] Nemesis: BEHOLD MY ARMY OF FAKE NEMESIS...NEMESES...NEMESII....WHATEVER...FAKE MEs!

Quote:[Admin] Nemesis: I DID NOT BRING PONIES WITH ME TODAY, SO STOP ASKING FOR THEM!
[Admin] Nemesis: I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT THIS IS APPROPRIATE NETIQUETTE FOR WHEN YOU ARE INVADING A CITY
[Admin] Nemesis: AND YES, NEMESIS READS VIRTUEUNITED.
[Admin] NCsoft_Hit Streak: I'd like to know, how you fit all this brass on a submarine.
[Admin] Nemesis: MY SUBMARINE WAS DESIGNED BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO PACKAGE IKEA FURNITURE...VERY ECONOMICAL.
[Admin] Nemesis: AND YES...THAT DOES MEAN THAT IKEA IS ONE OF MY PLOTS...MUUUUAHAHAHAHA!
[Admin] Nemesis: DEFEND YOUR FAIR CITY HALL HEROES OR SOMETHING AWFUL WILL HAPPEN TO IT!
[Admin] NCsoft_Hit Streak: Villains! I challenge you to FIGHT HARDER! Mercy Isle is under brass siege! 
[Admin] NCsoft_Freitag: All your Brass, are belong to Nemesis.
[Admin] Nemesis: WHAT IS A SHOUTOUT AND WHY WOULD I GIVE ONE TO ZACHARY? IS HE HELPING ME IN MY INEVITIBLE MARCH TOWARDS CONQUERING ALL OF AMERICA?
 [Admin] Nemesis: I'M SORRY...LORD NEMESIS IS NOT READY TO HAVE YOUR BABIES...CONQUERING THE WORLD IS DIFFICULT ENOUGH WITHOUT HAVING TO LUG AROUND A DIAPER BAG AND PACK-N-PLAY....

Quote: [Admin] Nemesis: BAH! You pathetic weaklings bore me! I now leave Virtue and return you to your Catgirls and bracketed chat! UNTIL NEXT TIME VIRTUE!
 [Admin] NCsoft_Zwillinger: Well done Virtue...but be ever vigilant...something tells me he'll be back at least a few times this month...
 [Admin] NCsoft_Zwillinger: Time permitting...and if his meeting calender doesn't get filled.
 [Admin] NCsoft_Hit Streak: Good luck Virtue! You should have plenty of brass for doorknobs!

I just stumbled across this in the forums and intend to test it out tonight.

Quote:/bind F1 "inspexec_name Gift_of_Energy$$inspexec_name Second Wind$$inspexec_name Take a Breather$$inspexec_name Catch a Breath"

Bob, I was idly reading the FAQ again (as you do) when a thought struck me while reading the mana question.

How would you (or Doug) categorise things like Nanoha style Linker Cores and Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night) Magical Circuits? Internalised Nodes for the linker cores, or dammed Ley Lines for the magical circuits?

Are there any extensions or add ons you'd recommend to protect my privacy in Firefox? I already delete cookies, cache and history on exit.

Two Aussies finally answered that burning question of what would win a chainsaw or a Katana...
The winner of the debate in this occasion the chainsaw, with one extremely mangled arm and the loser a Katana with a cut finger...
see:
http://www.dailymail.co.u...opped-SAMURAI-sword.html
(Open question though if sword was a Katana or some other Japanese sword though...As well as how skilled the swordsman was...)
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."

"As swift and sure as our victory over the Axis in WWII, War-Bonds returns to battle a new kind of threat which harries all those who cherish freedom and peace!"
I've never really focused on playing a Blaster before. I've experimented, but never inhaled. But looking to make a defensive/offensive build, I settled on this. I know this will be expensive as all get out, but I'm wondering what people think? Effective? Crappy? Did I miss something?
Help and constructive criticism welcomed.
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.956
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
War-Bonds: Level 50 Science Blaster
Primary Power Set: Dual Pistols
Secondary Power Set: Mental Manipulation
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Pistols

• (A) Decimation - Chance of Build Up
  
• (15) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (15) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
  
• (17) Devastation - Damage/Recharge
  

• (A) Devastation - Chance of Hold
  

• (A) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
  
• (19) Apocalypse - Damage
  
• (33) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
  

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  
• (5) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (7) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  
• (7) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (34) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (34) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  
• (34) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  
• (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold
  
• (13) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold
  
• (13) Lockdown - Recharge/Hold
  

• (A) Freebird - +Stealth
  

• (A) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  
• (17) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff
  

• (A) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Recharge/Chance for Fire Damage
  
• (19) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (39) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Damage/Recharge
  

• (A) Touch of the Nictus - Healing
  
• (21) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing
  
• (21) Touch of the Nictus - Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration/Recharge
  
• (27) Accuracy IO
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (25) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  
• (25) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  
• (27) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (31) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (40) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  
• (40) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (40) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  

• (A) Coercive Persuasion - Contagious Confusion
  
• (29) Coercive Persuasion - Confused
  
• (29) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Recharge
  
• (31) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Endurance
  

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
  
• (31) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (43) Obliteration - Damage
  
• (43) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (43) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (50) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (50) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (36) Karma - Knockback Protection
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (46) Obliteration - Damage
  
• (46) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (46) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (48) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (50) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (42) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (48) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  
• (3) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  
• (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Miracle - +Recovery
  
• (9) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  
• (9) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (11) Performance Shifter - EndMod
  
• (11) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
  

Okay, here's the concept:  completely innocent comments that, when delivered to the wrong metafictional character, could get you killed.  Or lectured.  Or turned into an avocado.  You know, whatever.

So, to start things off:
"Dude, what HAPPENED to you?"

1.  "I Friended Nanoha Takamachi on Facebook."  (yeah, I know, I already used this one, but it's too good not to use again)

2.  "I used 'Ignorance is bliss' in front of Twilight Sparkle."
2a.  "Twilight asked me to tell her about the book I was reading.  It was 'Farenheit 451'."

3.  "I invited Utena to a toga party."

Note: Die Anna was the female player-driver in original Carmageddon, who had a faster but lighter and less armored starting car than Max Damage. I posted the first stanza on a whim on one of the Carmageddon boards, thinking perhaps to start a thread of automotive carnage-themed doggerel.

Beat Poet Die Anna Wrote:Mary had a little Lambo
Its fenders ran with blood
and every race that Mary ran
she killed whene'r she could.

Beat Poet Die Anna Wrote:You've heard of Mary's little Lambo
You've heard about her wicked ways
of killing her opponents off
That way she'd always win the race

But did you know? She crashed her Lambo
Piled into a cement wall.
She won't be winning any races
Bloody Mary took a fall.

She was in the pole position
Nine behind her, grim and mean
Had their pedals to the metal
Took off as the lights turned green

Like a launching Saturn rocket
Like a bullet from a gun
All ten engines screaming murder
That was how the race begun.

There, along side Max's Junkyard
started they on level straight
then caught some air, but coming on hard
was a turn too sharp to make.

Coming at the speed of slaughter
Mary tried to turn, to drift
moving faster than she ought'er
should have braked, thrown a down-shift

Not for her, the cautious tack, it
has no place within her heart
Now her funeral's closed-casket
weighted with some old junk parts.

Still, it was a bitchin' Lambo
Still, her winning streak was long
Dead yet she is now immortal
Mary lives, enshrined in song.