If Queen Beryl decided to brainwash Tuxedo Mask, wouldn't she try to do the same to Doug?

It's been compared to The Blair Witch Project but I don't think its quite the same beast. Unlike Blair Witch
the movie doesn't rely on a "twist" to make it more entertaining. They pretty much spell out the plot in the first ten minutes, and the whole
thing relies on steadily increasing suspense to hold you.

Unfortuneatly it has the same problem that Blair Witch and Cloverfield did.
Namely anyone who is dedicated to filming events like this nonstop comes across as an asshole and, thus, we don't really sympathize with the protagonists.
Which is too bad, since the story relies on you giving a shit about the poor couple. That said, the final thirty minutes is quite well done.

Maybe not worth seeing in the theatres, but once it comes out on DVD rent it and watch it with the lights out.

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Epsilon

Ok. This is actually a couple of years old and you've probably seen this already. It's really fun and strangely (for me at least) evokes a late sixties
sound and

sense of fun. In other words, it's quite silly and doesn't give a damn about it. ^_^

Ok Go -
Here It Goes Again (The Treadmill Video)

What I find REALLY impressive though was this SPOT ON duplication of it by some high school age kids.



What's really fun is listening to all the high school girls SCREAMING like they're at a Beatles concert. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

From the "Nyarlothep Is Getting "Her" Own Anime" Thread on rpg.net which has drifted into "What if Howard had written Sailor
Moon?"



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Epsilon

"You're scaring me, Mag," Terrence commented from his perch on the reception desk as he watched the other man work. Mag didn't pause in his
efforts, but his ever-present cigar twitched from one side of his mouth to the other as he heaved another large crate off the teleport pad, hefting it to his
shoulder in one smooth motion.

"Why?" Mag inquired as he vanished down the hall towards the medbay, his voice betraying none of the effort of carrying his load. Terrence waited
while a rushing sound, almost like water, drifted down the hall. After several minutes Mag returned empty-handed and took up position near the platform
expectantly.

"You're hauling around enough crates to feed an army," Terrence pointed out. "If they were food, I mean. What are you doing?"

Another crate flashed into view. Mag hoisted it, then brought it over to the reception desk and dropped it unceremoniously next to Terrence.

"Take a look," he offered, drawing deeply on his cigar and frowning momentarily as he visibly recalled it wasn't lit.

Terrence shrugged and wedged his fingertips under the top, prying it loose with the sound of nails protesting as they were drawn out of wood. He blinked down
into the box.

"Mag."

"Yes, Terrence?"

"Are these...?"

"Yes, Terrence."

"For god's sake, man, why?"

Mag reached down into the crate and drew forth a handful of little blue objects, letting them trickle through his fingers. "Do you remember what time of
year it is?"

Terrence frowned. "Fall?" he hazarded.

"No! Well, okay, yes," Mag admitted, "but that's not the point. It's almost Halloween."

Terrence blinked and frowned, staring at his fingers as he ticked off days. He looked up. "Okay, but what's that got to do with anything?"

Mag clamped the lid back on the crate and snorted. He lifted it to his shoulder and started for the medbay. "Remember last year, 'Unca
Terr'?"

"... oh. Yeah." Terrence winced. Another crate flashed into view.

"That'll be the greens," Mag called, his voice echoing down the corridor. "Be a good forklift and bring them back here?" Terrence
shrugged and did so.

"Don't you think you're overreacting a little?" he asked as he entered the bay. Mag was perched on a stepladder, shaking the last few blues
out of the crate he carried into a cavernous hopper feeding into a dispenser at the bottom with a large "HELP YOURSELF" sticker pasted crookedly
above the lever.

Mag popped his neck and crunched the empty crate into a trashbin. "Let me ask you this, Terr," he said, removing his cigar and habitually tapping
the nonexistent ash off. "How many more catgirls do we have hanging around here than we did last time around?"

Terrence thought about that for a minute as Mag took the crate of greens from him, repositioned the stepladder, and began filling the other hopper. He cleared
his throat.

"Sooo... I'll just go get the other crates..."

"Thanks, pal, you're a saint," Mag replied cheerily as he shook a green waterfall into the dispenser.

Who would be the 'official' person who recruits people into Riot6.1? And does anyone here play them?

asking because I;ve got a couple of paragraphs floating about in my head for SSgt Shortimer's intro, and I need to bounce some ideas off people...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

"So there's this mission,
right?"
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

So, after the latest stint in AE, I realized that, as effective as Largo was as a walking buff generator, I could probably do somewhat better. Also, that I was
sick of Teleport as a travel power, but that's another story.

So I didn't take a chisel to his build. I took a chainsaw, swapping out power choices and generally exploiting set bonuses to attempt to address the main
points of weakness in his current build.

The points I'm looking to address here are:

1. Endurance. MMs may not NEED endurance, but I've finally gotten sick of not having it, so this build is meant to allow me to do stuff while running all
my toggles, etc. etc.

2. Boring Invincible Gameplay. Largo's gameplay style is very much "sit there and buff the bots while they kill everything", and while that's
fine, I felt I could adjust it so that I can actually do something WHILE buffing the bots and the bots are killing everything. This ties into #1 above.

3. Synchronization. This is mostly the reason I dropped the GW Patron toggle in exchange for the ranged cone. Defense is Largo's stock and trade, so an
attack focused on To Hit Debuff would benefit him and everyone around him.

Admittedly, this build dropped Resuscitate, the Teleport pool entirely, and Vengeance, so Largo's now a much more solo-centric build as compared to Clank.
While he still has utility (Aid Other, the shields), he doesn't have powers that don't really benefit him if he's not teamed at present.

Anyway, tl;dr, here's the build.

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.601

http://www.cohplanner.com/


Click this DataLink to open the build!

Maximilian Largo: Level 50 Technology Mastermind

Primary Power Set: Robotics

Secondary Power Set: Force Field

Power Pool: Leadership

Power Pool: Flight

Power Pool: Medicine

Power Pool: Fitness

Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Villain Profile:

Level 1: Battle Drones

• (A) Blood Mandate - Damage/Endurance
  
• (3) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Endurance
  
• (5) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (9) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (11) Blood Mandate - Damage
  
• (34) Sovereign Right - Resistance Bonus
  

• (A) Devastation - Chance of Hold
  
• (39) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (39) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (40) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (42) Entropic Chaos - Chance of Heal Self
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (3) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (5) Gift of the Ancients - Defense
  
• (13) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
  
• (37) Gift of the Ancients - Run Speed +7.5%
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (7) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (7) Gift of the Ancients - Defense
  
• (15) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
  
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (9) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (11) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (13) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
  
• (37) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (15) Blood Mandate - Accuracy
  
• (29) Blood Mandate - Damage/Endurance
  
• (29) Blood Mandate - Damage
  
• (33) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Endurance
  
• (34) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Flight Speed IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  
• (17) Defense Buff IO
  
• (17) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Miracle - Heal
  
• (19) Miracle - Heal/Recharge
  
• (19) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (25) Miracle - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (46) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (21) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (21) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  
• (23) Kismet - Defense/Endurance
  
• (43) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  
• (23) Doctored Wounds - Heal
  
• (25) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  
• (42) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (46) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Flight Speed IO
  

• (A) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (27) Blood Mandate - Damage/Endurance
  
• (27) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (31) Blood Mandate - Damage
  
• (33) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Endurance
  
• (34) Blood Mandate - Accuracy
  

• (A) Miracle - +Recovery
  
• (43) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
  
• (43) Miracle - Heal
  

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
  
• (31) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (31) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (46) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (33) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
  
• (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  
• (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
  
• (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
  
• (40) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (39) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (42) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
  
• (45) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
  
• (45) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
  
• (45) Dark Watcher's Despair - Chance for Recharge Slow
  

• (A) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (48) Trap of the Hunter - Immobilize/Accuracy
  
• (48) Trap of the Hunter - Endurance/Immobilize
  
• (48) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Endurance
  

• (A) Ghost Widow's Embrace - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (50) Ghost Widow's Embrace - Accuracy/Hold/Recharge
  
• (50) Ghost Widow's Embrace - Accuracy/Endurance
  
• (50) Ghost Widow's Embrace - Endurance/Hold
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

I found this during a random browse:

Wolf Puppet

Life-size, yet.
''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

This is so intensely, mind-blowingly, ecstatically FUCKING COOL!!! I can't find enough FUCKING EXPLETIVE ADJECTIVES to describe how GODDAMN COOL this is!!!

Doctor Who theme - on TESLA COILS!!!



My mind, she is blown...