All Activity

Yeah there's lots of variables for why ticket sales are in decline, with a big part of that being movie studios are churning out crap that nobody wants to pay money to see. Trying to claim that's not a big part of it is just silly and arguing just to argue. What exactly do you think a "mother" figure is? I don't think you're grasping how strong the maternal instinct and how important a matriarch figure is in a family. Being "motherly" doesn't necessarily equate to a woman cooking dinner, cleaning the house, changing diapers and following the orders her husband barks at her. Sarah Connor is a great example. She didn't become what she became because she had an overabundance of testosterone and just liked shooting guns and blowing stuff up. She was protecting her child. That maternal instinct to protect her son was the motivation. Look at Samantha Carter in SG-1, Princess Leia, Padme Amidala. There's plenty of examples of matriarch female characters keeping the team together and standing shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts, not above them. Try looking at women who are matriarchs as something other than "shallow".

Infiltration is good for lotg if you're already in the concealment pool. Other than that it blows. It is veeeery barely better than athletic/ninja run, which it doesn't stack with. Infiltration is about 2mph more run and jump speed and about 2 feet higher jump compared to athletic. It costs .1 less endurance. Better? Yes. But I think it's junk considering it costs a power and athletic is free. I think it should stack with althletic/ninja.

Just tested it, and 3 VEAT Spiders and 1 VEAT Widow did not get the badge. Apparently it has to be an exact AT match, I wasn't sure since the Diversity badge has multiple categorization for HEATs/VEATs. We did do it with 4 tanks, can confirm only 4 needed.

This would have been infinitely better than the absolute sewage he turned out to be in Wakanda Forever. Totally ruined the character in my opinion.

A question, if you are trying to get this on a Warshade, for example, does any VEAT or HEAT work, or do you need to have all HEATs , or all Warshades, no Peacebringers?

Could be worse, the record amount of damage recorded in CoH on Live was for luring a spawned Titan to the fire and having the building explode. It does a multiple of the HP of the target, so it was, IIRC, over 100k. . . 🙂

/bind numpadenter "afk Just a sec...typing here...$$show chat$$beginchat"

I write a lot of low level arcs and I agree that custom characters are often too hard for characters under level 20 - especially when the arc has factions that are entirely custom characters. But custom characters are a big part of the fun of Mission Architect, so I try to use a few to give a story arc more flavor. For a low level arc I'll try to make the custom character's powers fairly weak; avoid giving them two attack sets, or defensive powers giving high perception. I also try to use a mix of custom characters and low level standard characters to make missions more balanced. A technique I like to use is to make a custom character that's member of a standard enemy group, then treat the custom character as a "boss" objective, like this: This spawns exactly 4 "Vahzilok Bride" enemies (and despite being a "Boss" objective they are still only "minion" difficulty); they're optional objectives, so the player doesn't have to track down every single one, but there's enough that the player will definitely see them. They are surrounded by regular Vahzilok so the player character doesn't get overwhelmed by the custom characters. This can also let you give your NPC fewer powers that award less than 100% xp without it being too noticeable, since the standard mobs will still award full xp. Another trick I use is to construct a "custom group" out of mostly recolored/renamed standard NPCs, like this: These Corrupted LARPers are actually a mix of Luddites, Warriors and Circle of Thorns. Since they are canon NPCs, they are already balanced against their respective level ranges, and award full xp. The major downside is that most NPCs are very recognizable as belonging to a particular faction, so it may be hard to get the exact look that you want by doing this. Hope that helps, and happy architecting!

I've often thought about something like this. I think as a solo project it would totally blow. Imagine playing a Rad/Storm or Poison/Thermal or somesuch. That would be awful to solo even with the use of Nemesis Staff, Blackwand et al. It would absolutely wreck bosses but somebody else would need to do the damage. The only way to make those characters viable would be to susbstitute a couple of primary powers for attacks of a similar style. One would also have to ensure that a primaries and secondaries could not be the same. A Storm/Storm would be not only chaos - and aside from the point that Steamy Mist wouldn't stack with Steamy Mist the thought of popping Freezing Rain down twice in short succession would ruin the gameplay for anyone even interested in a challenge. I do love the idea but it would need a massive amount of work to make it viable; hence I doubt it has legs. The development and balancing time to make it work would be a huge diversion even for a professional development team let alone a group of volunteers. Having read the OP's subsequent explanations that's basically a detuned controller - higher (de)buffs/support than a controller and weaker control than a controller - that doesn't add much to the game. It's just a weakened Controller with a quirk. Again, lots of dev time for no real aim. Now if you wanted a new AT that brings something really interesting to the game, how about a tanker set allied with a control set... Dark Armour/Darkness Affinity anyone? How about Willpower/Plant? Again, they offer some interesting grooves but would need lots of work to make happen. Something like that would allow a character to get up close and personal, but wouldn't give the control required because it wouldn't have the de/buffs to take on strong foes when solo. Sentinels provide some insight into this - they have had a long and interesting journey but have required a lot of work to come good. The concept is interesting but I think the case needs to be made better.

WAS USING SANDBOXIE FOR 10+ YEARS WITH NO ANTI-VI OR ANYTHING ELSE NEEDED. IT WAS FREE... NOW ITS OPENSOURCE, AND STILL FREE, AND STILL USING IT ON MY WINDOWS LAPTOP, AND ALSO RUN LINUX ON OTHER LAPTOP. Sandboxie-Plus | Open Source sandbox-based isolation software

A few more... Finna McCool (Sword/Shield Scrapper): https://suno.com/song/cbdc1ed4-feef-4b46-be5a-4df9fd34e22a?sh=V3jHf1LmM5677QmI First (Dark/Dark Dominator): https://suno.com/song/265396fe-236a-4dca-8efa-0ff0d1535d28?sh=4OKnN6ETg4aCLL2T Hot Spell (Fire/Thermal Controller): https://suno.com/song/4725ccd0-c0d6-4c4b-bc41-2572d4cc3fda?sh=VqnTmRPAARsCj2PI Lucky Girl (Staff/SR Scrapper): https://suno.com/song/520607bc-e55d-4484-9c61-314419ae5824?sh=JfMqsW7OJASWqexJ

As it turns out, I do have a Star Wars theme for next week, since it's close to May the Fourth. 🙂 Here are themes for May: 3 May - “May the Fourth be with You!” - Abandoned Sewer Trial (Mairenn MacGregor, Level 38-50) - Star Wars costumes (Jedi/Sith), appropriate AT/powers (a lot of powers could qualify). 10 May - “Forged in Fire” - Beast of the Mountain (Virgil Tarikoss, Level 15-20) - Melee weapon powers (e.g., swords, hammers) or fire powers - Blacksmith and Firefighter costumes 17 May - “Rikti Infiltration” - The Lady Grey TF (Lady Grey, Level 35-50) - Rikti costumes with matching weapon-based powerset (We postponed this one last time for “Red/Blue Wedding.”) 24 May - “Lite Brite” - The Sky is Falling (Admiral Sutter, Level 20-40) - Spectrum Body type (other costume elements are fine, but the spectral body should be visible). Everyone picks a different color. Any AT/powers. (I’ll be out of town for this one.) 31 May - “Mutate This!” - The Kheldian War (Moonfire, Level 23-28) - Professional-Grade Gene Alterations with Radiation/Radioactive, Bio/Nature, Poison powersets; appropriate costumes.

This is a much better guide than the others Ive seen and used here, well done! Any other guides you might be working on?

My first character way way back in Issue 5 was a Fire/Fire Blaster, and I tried to solo her by street-sweeping, and it was horrible. I do remember watching with envy as an Energy/Energy Blaster took on a Council Lt in Steel Canyon and knocked him down the street while obliterating his hit point bar. Shortly after, there was my Elec/Elec Blaster who I did get to 50, mainly by solo street-sweeping, and had a pretty good time doing so. The big difference, of course, is the active defence provided by knockback or Tesla Cage. Fire Blast is rough because it doesn't have any hard mez at all. You've got Positron Cage to help out. Its easier these days of course. Grab Plasmatic Taser from the P2W vendor. This gives everyone a good AoE hard mez for the early levels, as well as an extra AoE with good damage. On a Fire Blaster you could keep using this all through your career. Use IOs, Fighting, Manouvers and Hover to get capped defences to Ranged first, then other positions. I've done this on a few Blasters (including a Fire/Atomic) and it rocks! Or try to get to 32% Defence, so a small purple pill caps you. Lean on your crowd control powers in primary, secondary and epic pools to become a sort of reverse Dominator - mostly damage with enough mez to keep yourself alive.

No spoilers, but The Well is a welcome return to form.

Yeah, been reading lots of BS with that app for a long time now. I've been using Webroot as our secondary for years, but the more robust Defender gets, the less I feel like paying the tiny bit that I do (per machine) for WR.

You have to check out the Angel base as well, and see if you can find some of the hidden surprises!

a /whereami and a screen shot would be very helpful the next time, because i am not entirely sure that the first mission is in a fixed place each time. were you also able to eventually enter the mission, were any other of your teamates not able to enter?

Okay, thanks. I have no idea what it was like before so thanks for explaining.

AI gone wrong

Bizarre response. Try putting some thought into this - in the real world, Jeff Bezos (billionaire) launched William Shatner (92 year old actor), Katy Perry (singer) and his own girlfriend into space. Who gives a shit if he didn't design the rocket? He still did it and that's real life. You've got Elon Musk designing ships capable of sending real life people to Mars. But a super genius doing it is somehow not believable.

Bizarre response. If "modern audiences" were getting what they want from Hollywood and buying what movie studios are selling, then Hollywood and box office receipts wouldn't be in decline. Bizarre response. No one other than you is suggesting that Sue Storm is June Cleaver sitting around the house baking cookies, making Reed dinner and doing the laundry. That's not her character. Neither is her character being the leader of the FF and the boss lady, which she is rumored to be in this film. If that's the case, then that's diverging from the source material and the character that the built in fan base is familiar with. This isn't rocket science to understand. Bizarre response. Yes, Ellen Ripley was a mother in the first film. Watch Aliens again. Nice attempt to deflect though. No question Sarah Connor became a bad ass to protect her son. Bizarre response. That's complete bullshit. I've no issue with strong female characters. You seem to have a real disdain for anything feminine about the maternal instinct. That just shows you're very shallow and narrow minded and can't grasp that female characters asserting their maternal instincts doesn't make them "weak", "shallow", "boring", a "shit show" or whatever other bullshit you want to call them.

These are beautiful in a really haven't ever thought like that before way and oil painting inspired ones are my favorite, but they're all dark and beautiful. and the song has similar parts of Dido's song Thank you in it, good vibes.

I just installed Bitdefender Free rather than chuck £100 at it.. It doesn't have a firewall so I uninstalled it. Then I discovered the Bitdefender Agent would not uninstall as Bitdefender VPN was installed. No way to uninstall Bitdefender VPN without having Bitdefender Free (or paid) installed to uninstall it so I reinstalled Bitdefender Free again to uninstall Bitdefender VPN. That is all I need to know about Bitdefender Free, I would imagine that the paid version is the same rigmarole. What a cojones ache. I'll be returning to Avast Basic which I used 2 decades ago and never had any issues with it:- FYI - https://www.avast.com/en-gb/avast-one#pc I used to use Malware bytes too and I'll be complimenting Avast with that once again. That should be reasonable FREE protection from hackers who want all of my valuable cat pics.