Frostbiter

I had to do a bit of internet sleuthing but apparently the drab tones of the 70's and early 80's were a result of everyone still being dizzy from the color explosion that was the 60's. New technologies and materials in the 60's led to much cheaper bright colors that were novel. (Also: drugs and hippie culture) By the late 80's, early 90's the earth-tone trend had reversed again. From my short dive into interior decorating in the modern age, "russet pheasant" is making a big comeback.

I've only ever read Shogun. From what I understand the other novels are set in different times and places with the theme always being European involvement in Asia. There are some reoccurring characters but they are self-contained stories.

Based on the Best Selling 1975 historical fiction novel by James Clavell; Shōgun is set in 1600 Japan. With the death of the Taiko, and his heir being only 11 years old, Japan is ruled by a council of five reagents from the five most powerful clans. Portugal has established trade with Japan through the discovery of the Straight of Magellan and the Catholic Church tightly controls that trade with Japan and uses it to enrich itself and meddle in "local" politics. Japan stands on the brink of war as the five reagents scheme and plot amongst themselves. A mysterious English ship is found adrift near the fishing village of Ajiro, setting into motion events that will change Japan forever. I just finished watching this series and I cannot recommend it enough. The production, writing, acting, and story are all top-notch. I've read the novel and seen the NBC miniseries growing up. In fact, I watched it with my dad and those are some of the best memories I have with him. I still have his copy and like most copies that have survived to a certain age, it has collapsed into two separate but equal length halves. The novel is kind of infamous for doing that. Seriously, it's 1210 pages long. Worth reading, before or after you watch either of the series available. If you like Japanese samurai movies or historical fiction, you should give this version a try. If you do watch this, please note that there are two versions. An English dubbed version, where the spoken Japanese is dubbed, and a subtitled version. I recommend the subtitled version as it adds a little more depth to the main character and story. Edit: Forgot to mention that you need the Hulu/Disney+/ESPN bundle if you want to watch this on Disney+.

This is hilarious in so many ways. One of them legally actionable.

Whatever happened, and I'll be the first to admit my ignorance on the years between 2012 and 2019, let's just bury any hatchets we may have and be grateful for what has returned.

I don't. I'm a butterfly dreaming I'm a man.

"One or more participants were high." It was me! Just kidding. I don't do teams.

All the office buildings were designed by Nemesis so that he could replace the workers with automatons. Hard to notice strange behavior when just working there drives a person crazy.

There's more than meat, potatoes, and beer? Huh.

That's....a post alright. I'm just going to drop out of this thread now. Although I do have to ask; is there a form I can fill out before I can ask you to come in and defend me or is invoking you enough?

From my point of view, that poster threw something I said back in my face after we had already discussed it. If I'm wrong about that, someone please explain why they brought it back up to me a second time. If they don't want to discuss something I did, they can let it lie.

Not in my book, no.

I hardly need your permission for anything. Let me ask you a question. What did you intend by bringing it up a second time, in response to me specifically?

I know this is an open forum, you still brought it up a second time by yourself, out of context. Which is why I still don't believe you.

Fair enough. Thank you. I'm aware of what I asked and who I asked it of. It wasn't you.

I don't believe you. You went out of your way to mention it.

I don't have a dog in the name purge fight. I got my name on server I wanted and as my global name, anything else is largely irrelevant to me. Although I'd hardly call that name not being available on the three most popular servers a fluke. If you think I did something wrong with trying to get my name on all the servers, know that that isn't what happened. I tried to roll my Live character on a HC server three different times before I got it on one. The other server I have it on I took so that I'd have a server I could transfer to just in case. Not saying I wouldn't have if it was possible, just that someone beat me to it on 3/5ths of the servers.

How desirable is the name Frostbiter? Even I have to admit it's not the best name I could have come up with. It was my first hero on the Live servers that I made to just try the game out and it stuck. Be honest, how desirable is it really?

Please. As has been covered already, one or more people went through the old forums and reserved every name they could.

Have you tried PUGing it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_starch

Coffer of course.

I already knew I didn't have to justify myself to you, that's why I didn't. Explaining anything is a courtesy. We aren't talking about real names here. But if I wanted to transfer to another server, I should be able to do that without having to worry about keeping the name I've played this game under for years.

Why would someone else need a name that I clearly use as my own and have since 2005?

I had the misfortune of only getting my namesake on two out of the five servers. So if you see a Frostbiter and it's not Torchbearer, that ain't me. And no that isn't a complaint. There's a middle ground here somewhere and as soon as I find it I'm laying mines and declaring it a DMZ.