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  IMPORTANT - If you're using private messaging...
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 06-20-2022, 10:24 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (3)

... and you have a gmail account: Google is bouncing emails from the board with the following error:

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If you're relying on an email notification that you have new private messages, it will not reach you.

This also applies to thread subscriptions as well -- if you have a gmail address, email from the board will not reach you.

The url in the message does have information about how to prevent this which I am reviewing, but it's not going to be an instant fix.

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  2 pics + 2 pics = Images 22
Posted by: Norgarth - 06-19-2022, 08:40 PM - Forum: Archived Image and Video Threads - Replies (301)

old thread is old

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  Possibly-useful threads, down the line
Posted by: robkelk - 06-18-2022, 07:35 PM - Forum: My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character - No Replies

Things that don't individually need to be sticky at this stage of the chronicles, but need a single sticky as a group because we don't want to lose track of them.

Much like DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths and its sequels, the old version of the story still has a large number of elements that affect the replacement version. Pre-retcon and mid-retcon planning threads - some elements are now off-limits, others aren't:

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Photo [Fun] Image thread 2
Posted by: robkelk - 06-17-2022, 08:28 AM - Forum: The Attic - Replies (27)

New thread is new. Old thread is mainly pre-retcon, but has some posts that we can still use.



Starting off the new thread with a new character: Garnett Iwasaki. She's the very first building manager in the post-retcon Metacontinuity.


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A recent college graduate, Garnett didn't get the business-admin job she wanted in Tokyo (so she'd have ready access to the newest anime when it came out). Instead, she ended up taking a chance on an ad that turned out to be for the position of manager and local guide for the Masaki residence.

We're still writing her job-interview story as of this posting. So far, she's reached the Masaki residence and met Aeka.

EDIT: Oops - the other writers wanted her to wear earrings. I'll need to fix that.

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  It was 50 years ago today...
Posted by: robkelk - 06-17-2022, 06:31 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - No Replies

...that five people were discovered and arrested in a particular office in the Watergate complex.

Which kicked off a process that resulted in televised Congressional inquiries and ended with a Presidential pardon.

The more things change...

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  utility (conjure mundane clothes) Thrift Shop by Macklemore or cover
Posted by: classicdrogn - 06-16-2022, 06:20 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - No Replies

le original by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis:

link

Future Sunsets (formerly King the Kid) version with mostly sung lyrics:

link

Now that it's been off the charts for long enough that just hearing the opening bars doesn't induce rage at hearing the damn thing AGAIN, I have begun to appreciate just how fun and upbeat this one is, even in the original spoken word form. I don't remember what Doug's opinion of rap is, but ISTR sung lyrics being a requirement for his power, so I did include the cover version as well. If my memory is spotty (how unexpected  Angel ) in this case, well, perhaps one version does them fancier or as an instant disguise but is only temporary, or something along those lines?

In any case, my idea for the primary effect is that it (at least nominally) transmutes implausibly small amounts of valuable material into large amounts (as in breaking conservation of mass, by enough to have trouble carrying everything at once by the end of the song when starting from one or two pieces of semi-precious stones/metal/etc., an armload of hides or similar trade goods, or a handfull of low-denomination currency) of mundane clothing, in styles that are (mostly) appropriate to the local area in terms of climate and fashion except that they're in cuts and colors that were popular between fifteen and fifty years earlier, and occasionally have a bit of wear and/or a smell to them as if they've been in storage ever since. There will usually also be one or two items in the pile that are glaringly out of current styles and season as well, but not so much that they can't be passed off as quirky and unique, and at worst if their eyes are watering from gaping at your Hawaiian print shirt with neon purple monkeys and yellow bananas on a background of teal green with black circuit diagrams, they weren't looking at your face or paying attention to what you were carrying...

Man, I miss my circuit monkey shirt. I dress like a goth these days in all blacks and greys; a bright accent color piece or two might help raise the mood a little, and really we could all use as much of that as we can get.

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  Charge d'Affaires - Staff-elec Broot
Posted by: Foxboy - 06-16-2022, 11:51 AM - Forum: Build Advice - Replies (5)

This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.2.17
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Charge d'Affaires: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Staff Fighting
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Precise Strike

  • (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
  • (3) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
  • (3) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (5) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
  • (5) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  • (7) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
Level 1: Charged Armor
  • (A) Aegis - Resistance
  • (7) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (9) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
  • (9) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
Level 2: Lightning Field
  • (A) Synapse's Shock - EndMod
  • (11) Synapse's Shock - EndMod/Increased Run Speed
  • (13) Synapse's Shock - Damage/Rechage
  • (13) Synapse's Shock - EndMod/Recharge
Level 4: Guarded Spin
  • (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
  • (15) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
  • (15) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
  • (17) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (17) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
  • (19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 6: Eye of the Storm
  • (A) Obliteration - Damage
  • (19) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (21) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (21) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Damage/Knockback
  • (23) Kinetic Crash - Recharge/Endurance
  • (23) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Knockback
Level 8: Conductive Shield
  • (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
  • (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
  • (25) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (27) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
  • (27) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
Level 10: Staff Mastery
Level 12: Static Shield
  • (A) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
  • (29) Impervium Armor - Resistance
  • (29) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  • (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Recharge
Level 14: Combat Jumping
  • (A) Defense Buff IO
Level 16: Grounded
  • (A) Resist Damage IO
  • (31) Resist Damage IO
Level 18: Serpent's Reach
  • (A) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (31) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (33) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
  • (33) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
  • (33) Devastation - Chance of Hold
  • (34) Sudden Acceleration - Knockback/Recharge
Level 20: Lightning Reflexes
  • (A) Run Speed IO
  • (34) Run Speed IO
Level 22: Mercurial Blow
  • (A) Analyze Weakness - Defense Debuff
  • (34) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  • (36) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (36) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Defense Debuff
  • (36) Hecatomb - Damage
  • (37) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge
Level 24: Super Jump
  • (A) Jumping IO
Level 26: Innocuous Strikes
  • (A) Multi-Strike - Accuracy/Damage
  • (37) Multi-Strike - Damage/Recharge
  • (37) Multi-Strike - Damage/Endurance
  • (39) Ice Mistral's Torment - Endurance/Slow
  • (39) Ice Mistral's Torment - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (39) Ice Mistral's Torment - Chance for Cold Damage
Level 28: Energize
  • (A) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  • (40) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
  • (40) Numina's Convalesence - Endurance/Recharge
  • (40) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
  • (50) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
  • (50) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 30: Spring Attack
  • (A) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage
  • (42) Overwhelming Force - Endurance/Recharge
Level 32: Sky Splitter
  • (A) Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage
  • (42) Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
  • (42) Unrelenting Fury - RechargeTime/+Regen/+End
  • (43) Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (43) Unrelenting Fury - Damage/RechargeTime
  • (43) Unrelenting Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
Level 35: Power Sink
  • (A) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Accuracy/Endurance
  • (45) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
  • (45) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Recharge
Level 38: Superior Conditioning
  • (A) Endurance Modification IO
  • (45) Endurance Modification IO
Level 41: Physical Perfection
  • (A) Endurance Modification IO
  • (46) Endurance Modification IO
  • (46) Healing IO
  • (46) Healing IO
Level 44: Power Surge
  • (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
  • (48) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
  • (48) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
Level 47: Focused Accuracy
  • (A) To Hit Buff IO
  • (48) Endurance Reduction IO
  • (50) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 49: Energy Torrent
  • (A) Damage Increase IO
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Brawl
  • (A) Damage Increase IO
Level 1: Sprint
  • (A) Run Speed IO
Level 2: Rest
  • (A) Healing IO
Level 1: Swift
  • (A) Run Speed IO
Level 1: Hurdle
  • (A) Jumping IO
Level 1: Health
  • (A) Healing IO
Level 1: Stamina
  • (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  • (11) Performance Shifter - EndMod
Level 1: Combo Level 1
Level 1: Combo Level 2
Level 1: Combo Level 3
Level 24: Double Jump
Level 10: Form of the Body
Level 10: Form of the Mind
Level 10: Form of the Soul
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  One international border dispute solved - without a shot fired
Posted by: robkelk - 06-13-2022, 07:34 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (3)

The Globe and Mail: Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say

Apparently, the official announcement is scheduled for tomorrow.

Assuming this happens, the precedent has been set.
/me looks at Russian troops in Ukraine

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Photo Belated realization
Posted by: Sofaspud - 06-11-2022, 10:23 PM - Forum: The Legendary - No Replies

With the new unlocked shoulder options, I can finally make Defibrillator's costume have the right emergency lights!

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  Just saw this on Quora, and immediately thought of Doug
Posted by: Vulpis - 06-11-2022, 02:47 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth - Replies (2)

Like the title says..
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d...43ad4e6-lq

teal deer version, it's a bunch of hypothetical reactions of muggleborn (or half-bloods) coming to Hogwarts from the non-wizarding world.

(On a side note, I'm guessing that Doug is never going to end up in the World of Darkness and bump into the Technocracy? Because it seems the missing element in the GUT he describes is that he treats magic and science/technology as different things, rather than the latter being just being another 'tradition' of the former... See Clarke's Law, the corollary, and the Florence Ambrose commentary....)

Edit: Gah, thought it was one picture with the whole thing, not just one portion. What I wanted was in https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-...-have-seen
third one down (as of this posting), by Finch Darcy.

Edit2: Or maybe better, first entry in https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-stra...re-popular

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