So, things we learned on a redside trip of blasting Nazis to hell:

- A team consisting of 4 masterminds(Bots/FF, Bots/FF, Bots/Dark, Mercs/Dark), brute(Elec/Elec), corruptor(Rad/Rad), and Bane Spider is....sliiiiightly unfair
to everything in firing range.

- Said team can drop Nossie in under 5 minutes, at full AV rank.

- Das Bunker is not used so much to isolate an AV as for hilarity as an AV runs in, to be confronted with four fully upgraded sets of minions. "O HAI.
*ZORCH*"

- Requiem's minions are a pain when you spawn three sets of reinforcements in about a minute because you're KILLING HIM THAT FAST.

- At the end of the day, a five AV task force, even if it's short, should be difficult to get a finishing time of 56 minutes, 47 seconds.
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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."

Here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

For those not int he know, Marianne Mac Hine was the first toon I built when I got my COH account in April of 2006. She's an axe/invulnerable tanker. She
finally amde it to 50! WHOO! Thank you everyone who helped her get there. Here's the story:

She had been in the middle of a mission in Cimerora, bashing Romans and saving Sybils when the call had come over the music on her MP3 player. She always
found that dance music when fighting was a great workout, something about the number of beats per minute. The call had interrupted North Starz Remix of
Moonlight Shadows, but that was ok, she could rewind. "Marianne here."



"Congratulations Marianne Mac Hine - " oh great, a telemarketer - "you have achieved your level 50 Security clearance." Slam, Gash,
Swoop. "Ms. Mac Hine?" The voice sounded tentative.



"Fighting, call me back later." She hung up and rewinded.



Marianne stood quietly and stoically along with a long line of other who had also achieved their Hero of the City award and were waiting for the
presentation ceremony by Statesman. She looked out t the sea of faces in front of her.



There were Bella and Morgan, Min and Wide, Felspar and Avon Ti, Meredith, Marcus and Space, and Margaret, her family, all centered in one spot; members of
The Legendary, right next to them - Vyperpunk, Enynn, Syndesis, Leafstyle and with them Zoe Dexter who had been in the mission with them when The Call had
come; and there, in the shadows, two figures that she could not see clearly. One she could guess was Mace. The other, she wondered if it was the Fortunata
Black who had been in with them on the fateful mission.



Fateful - snort. The sybils were saying they had known all along that the group was on it's way. Of course, the Romans hadn't been listening. Did
they ever?



She was able to smile and say a few inane words to Statesman when he shook her hand and pinned her medal onto her sash at her shoulder, but her eyes never
left the crowd. He wasn't there. She didn't hear anything that Statesman said after all the medals had been handed out, but it was probably a very
similar speech to the one she heard when Min and Morgan had been in this position. Marianne wondered if Statesman ever got tired of doing this. She guessed
it could have been a lot worse. She turned again to scan the crowd.



He wasn't here. There was no familiar body type, or hand gesture, no familiar tilt of the head, no familiar walk. Her heart sank a little bit. She
hadn't come right out and invited him, perhaps she should have. She held back a sigh as she followed the oher heroes off the stage. As they were milling
around the bottom of the steps she thought she heard one of them say "I'm going to DisneyWorld!", but she wasn't sure. Her? She'd go
home and sleep. Even the party in Pocket D didn't sound all that fun right now.



She accepted the cheering congratulations from her friends and said she'd meet them at the party. She waited until most of them had turned away from
her before she started heading for home. She had just walked off the City Hall grounds when she heard it. A familiar footfall, a familiar voice.
"Marianne?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og3YLkw6pGo

funniest video I've seen in quite a while.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

You know you're a mad scientist when...you're fiddling around with ideas for a stun gun for your robot dog, and you realize you've come up with an
idea for a beam weapon....

*chuckles wryly* I was trying to figure out how to do a stun gun so I could build a version of K-9 for Fenspace. I thought it might be possible to do a taser
sort of setup, but how to conduct the charge to the target? Then I got to thinking - a forcefield could probably be set up to conduct a charge. So set up a
field/holoemitter to do a beam (which gives you your nice ray effect) and have that conduct a taser charge to the target.

Fairly simple, so doing a version of K-9 was a go. Then I realized...if you do a small version, what's to stop a much larger version? It's not like you
need any major setup for it - just need a capacitor to store LARGE amounts of electricity, a very strong holoemitter to do your conductor beam...and ZAP.

So - who likes Lightning Cannons? I'm not quite sure what effects it would have against spaceships, but unless they're specially shielded against
electricity, I imagine it could fry systems, at the very least....possibly a lot more. It seems like something Tesla and I might've come up with.

Just so you know, I'm trying to be fair here. My personal policy is not give in to ODS (Obama Derangement
Syndrome, as opposed to B(ush)DS). I have my bias of course, and I'm going to be critical of Obama, but I'll try and keep it to things he actually
does, rather than things that he is anticipated to do. No wild conspiracy theories here.

That said, I think in terms of foreign relations, he may already have shot himself in the foot. And that's not good for the country as a whole. And
I'll bet you that the WAY in which he shot himself is something you didn't even think of.

To wit -

Remember this story?

Drudge reports:

Quote: Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking
out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.

"Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel," a top Bush source warned.

"BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY," splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting "people familiar
with the discussion."

The two met at the White House in private, without staff.

"Bush indicated at the meeting that he might support some aid and a broader economic stimulus package if Obama and congressional Democrats
dropped their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia," claimed the TIMES. . . .

The ASSOCIATED PRESS quickly followed with details of the conversation, citing "aides who described the discussion on grounds of anonymity, citing
the private nature of the meeting."

Bush advisers view the leaks as an effort to undermine the president's remaining days in office.

"Senator Obama may not be familiar with a long-standing tradition of presidents holding their private conversations, private," a senior adviser
explained to the DRUDGE REPORT.

http://www.nytimes.com/20...ef=slogin&oref=slogin

I believed the claim that she didn't know that Afirca was a continent not a country without any actual evidence.

I'm sorry.

I still hate her and everything she represents, but I'm sorry I bleieved this one rumor.

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Epsilon

Don't bother trying to go there today, as some has hacked the bass server to redirect it to another site.

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Epsilon

Now what do I do at work?

There's a http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php? ... ostcount=1]Munchkin Quest demo scheduled for there and then. There will be giveaways.

Note: not "Munchkin" the card game, "Munchkin Quest" the board game. They're different...
--
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

At least, it does in Japan. http://www.variety.com/article/VR111799 ... Id=19&cs=1]According to Variety, Universal Pictures is buying Geneon from Dentsu. No word whether Geneon USA is included in the deal...
--
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