Quote:Paragon City isn't a safe place.  Its streets are cluttered with purse snatchers, drug dealers, gangs, homeless mutants, zombies and air pirates.  Nearly half of its neighborhoods have been leveled by cataclysms, natural and otherwise.  Hardly a month can go by before it's invaded by interdimensional shock troops or giant snowmen, and a day cannot pass without the mayor being kidnapped by ninjas.  Either due to its malfunctioning nuclear reactor or the daily plots to poison the city's water supply the median IQ in Paragon is slightly higher than that of warm Jello.  Which is probably why even though all its ills are indicative of deep social and economic problems, rather than demanding international disaster relief or even more sensibly leaving the place to the monsters and moving to somewhere more peaceful (like Sudan or the West Bank), the citizenry have decided to combat their problems by legalizing vigilantism. 
-- Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante, February 2005

I meant to post this a couple days ago, but forgot to...  Something weird happened with my email earlier this week -- over the course of several hours I received about a dozen emails that were months old -- one almost a year old -- interleaved among my normal traffic.  I know these weren't copies of stuff I had received, because there was at least one personal message that I know I hadn't received before and would have responded to had it showed up in October when it had been sent.  Several others were listings from job boards, ranging from April of last year to January of this year.  There was no rhyme or reason, no pattern, to the selection. 
So... has anyone else had anything like this happen to them?  Anyone have a clue what might have happened?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

That was an assualt on the senses. And I mean that in the worst way possible. It was too loud, too bright, too busy, too stupid... ugh. The fight scenes lacked any coreography, the set-pieces looked more like something out of a bad music video than anyplace interesting (they have rocket train tracks, no, not a rocket train, a train track held in the air by rockets, seriously wtf?), the dialogue was bad, the plot was terrible, the SFX looked weren't even very impressive. The plot "twist" might have mattered if I gave one fucking damn about any of the characters.
There was one line that encapsulates the movie: "Don't let your mouth write cheques your ass can't cash."
Blerg.
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Epsilon

A moment of whimsy when working on something else and looking for a break.


(Edit by Bob:  Added NSFW tag to subject line.)

You folk can call me Katrina - or Kat - or Cat - or... you know what? Just call me, and we'll figure it out from there!
Anywho, I'm Kat, an old-time Roleplayer, off-and-on-again writer, and character creator extraordinaire obsessive. I'm also big on MMOs, like City of Heroes. Among countless others! The folk in the Legendary global channel nudged me here... and, well, here I am! They've been an absolute pleasure to settle in with, even as a Supergroup non-member, so I've come here mostly to pester them further take my enjoyment of their company to new heights.
It's a pleasure to meet all of you!

I don't know how much waiting and hoping y'all were sending in my direction, but there's more Buckaroo Banzai and the Terror from the Shadows content. It's not yet finished, but it's drawing ever closer.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

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

Hello. I finally got that new computer I was looking for last year (AMD Athlon II x2 250 Processors, 4 GB RAM, Radeon HD 6570 video card) and the thing is giving me occasional notices to prepare an emergency backup on either DVD or thumb drive. I started the process but cancelled out when I realized that the backup requires almost 12 GB of space. While some thumb drives come that big (at about $40), are there any DVD's that actually hold that much info? If not, why does it even offer a DVD as an option?
Also, I did buy StarCraft II (love it). The thing came with two guest passes (7 hours or 14 days, whichever comes first). I already gave one to a friend, but if anyone wants the other one, let me know. It also came with a pair of World of Warcraft passes, but I figure that I'll use at least one of them. Does anyone know if I can use both myself to run a single character for twice as long?
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

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It's free, it's legal, it's awesome.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

My dad's okay, he just cricked his neck wrong looking up at a ceiling leak and got a bolt of pain that dropped him to his knees. It was just severe enough pain, we took him to the ER.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Hey, Mikey! I think he likes it!
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."