yeah, like the title says, gonna be in and out for a little bit.  Now its not that I'm on vacation or anything, i just did a big CPU upgrade and am working the kinks out of the system, reinstalling my games, etc etc.  So, if you do see me on, NO team or TF invites please, atleast until i mention otherwise (this means you, Terr!)
Dren
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I don't normally start political threads here, but I think it's important enough I'm gonna start one now.
http://www.salon.com/2012...birth_control/singleton/
Dan Savage, it's time to redefine the word Rick now.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Quote:The Development Team is currently working on a resolution for the issue of "yearly" Veteran Reward badges not being granted to any players. Once a fix has been completed and tested, it will be made available in a future patch to the live servers. 
Please keep posted to the City of Heroes message board and website at http://www.cityofheroes.com for any updates to when a fix will be implemented.  

Ok, sorry if this should be appended to an existing topic. But I'm on my mobile device (only reason I realized it was happening) and looking though all the existing topics would take far too long.

In the last post in our current pony thread i get sent to:
(linebreaks inserted after the equal signs to prevent this post from mangling page layout)

http://www.theregister.co.../01/03/rip_bob_anderson/
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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

From the RPG.net forums. I can regognise a scary amount, but can't be assed.

Romans are the flavor of the week for the WST so to any who are interested in picking up some notices on their incarnate toons or gobs of xp on their non 50's Post your intrest and available times on this topic!
 As it stands I'll be looking to form one tomorrow evening sometime around 7 Mountain time/9Est.

by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin (Snort).
Okay.  Wrong film.  Let me try again.
The lovely wife and I just got back from seeing Tintin.  Wow.  That sound I heard in the theater was Pixar loudly shitting themselves, because someone has made an animated movie on par with their efforts.  This is easily the best action adventure film I have seen in the last 12 months (saying this year would undermine it somewhat) and one of the best pulp genre movies to date.  Oh yes.  Pulp.  The hero may look to be a bit of a nonce, but he handles himself in a fight with the aplomb of Charles Bronson and is hard, tough and competent without the accompanying chest thumping or monologue by a doomed villain on the can of whoop ass that was inadvertently opened.  This film is a labor of love, with superb detail on all of the environments; and a reverence for the source material that would do a young earth creationist proud.
And it is not a kid's film - though you can bring kids.  There is enough flash, pirates and wild chases to keep them on the edge of the seat.  The violence is understated, but it is real.  Punches hurt and bullets kill; even if blood is not sprayed about like an unfortunate porn genre simile.  The swordfights, of which there are several are the second best I have seen in the last twelve months (beaten out by a hair's breadth by 13 Assassins) - and one particular lethal move is so skillfully carried out and animated that it is easy for the neophyte to miss.  There are genre films that don't pay as much attention to fight choreography as this film did.
The 3d is nice.  If you like 3D you will enjoy it - if you don't, you will tolerate it.  Most of the time, the immersion is so good that it will just flow past you as part of the narrative; which is where it belongs.  Transparent.
One complaint.  The previews.  Some soulless douche-canoe who is choad deep in Oedipal bliss decided to create a full length version of The Lorax.   I now know what my childhood being raped by rabid midget thalidomide clowns looks and sounds like.

Having just found the 'Sector General' series of novels by James White, I would like to motion for some sort of larger hospital to be available in Fenspace.
Perhaps even opened by fen of 'Sector General'.

The relatives left an hour ago, the dirty dishes are cleaned up, and Dick Clark's been put to bed.  It's time to wish the forums a happy new 2012!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.