There was a thread of conversation on the Legendary channel about Duke Nukem recently. Even more recently, I found this
page, that puts the whole Duke Nukem Forever fiasco in perspective.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

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

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/11 ... misquotes/]Darth Vader tops movie misquote poll

I'm surprised what placed #4 wasn't higher...
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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

I will spare people the litany of pain and cursing that was 2 attempts at the trial, and instead impart what lessions we have learned (others feel free to tack
onto this list)

General notes about team builds:

You need two people who can rez, cause your going to be dieing a lot. And i'm not talking about the medicine pool here. Real un-interruptable rezzing. (Or
Recall friend and a medicine pool is ok)

Having more than one tank is also good, but make sure you have Psi resists (mind raping hydra did bad things to everyone, slightly less bad things to Ruff)

Recall friend (or summon team) is a godsend here.

How we ran the arc:

1) Beat up 100 ritki (easy!)

2) Get to the trial door (easy for some, frustrating for others)

3) Make our way down the shaft and pick up crates as we go (a little frustrating, but doable)

4) Clear out the ritki guarding the 4 generators, but DON'T kill the generators themselves.

5) Pull the mini-kraken away from Hydra and pound on them

6) Kill the tentacles (Lts first, as they spawn the minions). Standard powers work here, but plasma guns make it go faster. Ruff was happily nomming them.

7) take out the generators AT THE SAME TIME.

7a) Assign 2 people to each generator (per compass directions) that is their generator, they always deal with that one.

7b) beat each generator down to ~1/4 health, and WAIT for the leader to give the go ahead

8) once the generators have dropped, everyone with a particle cannon swarms the hydra and hurts it as much as possible.

8a) those without particle cannons try and keep those with them alive, as firing it is about a 30 second animation where you can't do anything.

9) one the generators are back up, kill the ritki that were summoned.

repeat steps 7-9 as needed untill you run out of time or kill the hydra.

oh, and most importantly: you need a leader that will LEAD, and a team that will FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. This can't be stressed strongly enough.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

http://www.fanfiction.net/movie/Star_Tr ... 0/0/0/0/1/]Gentlemen, start yer engines.

So far it's mostly shipfic, divided between the Old Standby of K/S slash and Spock/Uhura. I count one "omg self-insert pops into the ST universe and falls in love with Character of Choice" fic so far.

Only one crossover has been posted & listed, a xover with Digimon. Go figure.

Watch this space for details; the fic count should increase as the weeks go on.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

Behold, a theoretical 'unlimited non purple' build for BS/Shield.

As of this time yesterday, I received my Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems, and am now (probably) permanently out of the educational system.

Now I have to enter the real world...

This is so brain breaking I just had to share.
It proves how dirty your mind is.
Song of the Count
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

So, my new brute is looking to be quite the interesting AoE monster once she reaches 50, which I expect to happen sooner rather than later. As such, I'm looking for experience from those of you who have 50 shield wielders for what works, what doesn't, and if I'm making some enormous errors in her slotting.
Objectives:
- Reika is designed primarily as an AoE machine, making use of the multiple AOEs available to Shield and Elec to do as much damage in as wide an area as possible.
- Survivability is nice, though I'd prefer to be able to take a hit as well as dodging one. Reika's not a /SR, after all.
- The inclusion of Stealth into her build is purely for concept reasons, and droppable if there's a good case for replacing it with something else.
Below is the blank slate of her powers progression as I see it being by level 50. The slotting is left pretty much blank because I have absolutely no idea what to do with it.

It's been a long strange road. But Lora'Lai has FINALLY dinged 50. My 5th 50 and my 4th level 50 hero.

Got a few screenshots of the moment. This was on last night's ITF - the successful one.

First off. Some preliminaries:

Oh god. Someone call the fashion police, we have a drive-by eye searing in-progress!



The above "gentleman" was wandering at high speed around the staging area.

Next is right before the moment.



LEVEL 50!!!!





Thanks all for having me along and being there!

So we were doing some PVP on Wednesday. The final match that I had time to participate in was a team match. Cyberman 8, Purrfect Shield, and Glass Lass. Versus
Nogitsune, Sachie and Lady Valiance.

How did my team do? Heh. We pwned. In fact, Cyberman 8 annoyed Nogitsune rather badly. Really badly. So badly that she whipped out her ULTIMATE powers of
darkness.



(So what really happened? It's actually funnier, really. We were on the Eden Cave Trial Map. Glass Lass laid some -Fly debuff on Lady Valiance. And she
fell though a hole in the map!

Well, Purrfect Shield had Valiance on "auto-follow", so he speeds through the hole right after her.

Sachie had Shield on "follow", so she followed him in and down.

And Cyberman 8 had Sachie on follow, and... well.

It was a Conga Line of FAIL. ^_^

Well Shield laid the beat down on Valiance, and she respawns up top. Then Sachie finishes off Purrfect Shield, so he goes back up top. And I put the finishing
moves on Sachie so she goes up out of the hole as well.

There wasn't anyone left to put me out of MY misery. Oh cruel irony!

In truth I was simply laughing so hard at what had happened (and making sure I got the above screenshots) that I COMPLETELY forgot the /stuck command and/or
Self-Destruct until it was too late to do anything about it.

Anyway, thought you guys would get a kick out of seeing what it was like from my "unique" perspective. ^_^