DoctorDitko

No, and dammit, I thought I'd seen everything the game had on offer! Thanks, and I'll keep an eye out!

Me, too! Champs just cried out to be a computer game, and the wasted opportunity still stings. An artist friend and I pitched a computer game that was a pretty shameless Champs ripoff: Electric Heroes. No takers, because "No one plays superhero games!" Uh, maybe 'cause there weren't any good ones? (I still remember reviewing Superman for Game News. >shudder<) CoH is as close as I've ever seen, but Champs didn't have the rails. You could make gloriously unbalanced characters, like a guy who was indestructible and... nothing else. He was a proto-Tick without the mightiness, but a similar attitude. Such fun!

Wow! Just... Wow! I had no idea we had it so well. I have a friend who bought a lifetime subscription for DC Online, so I tried it and thought they were greedy. They are amateurs compared to that evilness! The few things I liked about DC Online were the voice actors -- IIRC Kevin Conroy (the one, true Batman) voiced Batman -- and the idea that Gotham was always in nighttime and Metropolis always sunny. But they gave you "rewards" that required money to unlock, and the costume stuff was much as you described. Ugh! I have never found a game that made me feel super-heroic as much as COH does, and Homecoming made it all gooderer!

Yeah. Jack had an unresistable nerf-bat auto-attack. He was an opinionated game dev, and apparently one of those guys that's great to know IRL, but turns into a were-asshat online. The game was vastly better after he left (at least until monetization and micro-transactions infested it). But UltraAlt is 100% correct, Jack's most heinous crime was taking Champions, an amazing, organically balanced, possibly Turing-complete*, TTRPG -- it's main weakness was that it cried out for a computer to handle its laborious mechanics -- and turning it into the abomination that was Champions Online. That said, Statesman's death, like Superman's, was very poorly handled. Want to see it done well? Check out the death of Thor versus Jortmangandr in Walt Simonson's Thor #380! Now that's how you kill off a hero! * I never met a comic character it couldn't model, and at the very least, I once wrote a virus in it.

Excellent! And good on yaz for finding your strategies. I have ADD, and I generally find watching videos almost interminably slow; I'd much rather read than wait for someone to get to the point. But, say, learning a card trick is better to watch than describe. We all have our preferences, but that doesn't mean that all students fall into one of four categories like D&D character classes. It's best to tailor the teaching to the subject matter rather than pigeonholing the students. Here's a guy who can plead the case much better than I: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-learning-styles-myth/ Hell, pigeonholing people is almost always a bad idea. We're all special cases, and, as far as I know, very few of us are pigeons!

Wouldn't be the first time teachers taught utter BS! (I work at a university, and not long ago I overheard a professor spouting the discredited "there are Visual, Audible, and Tangible learners" hypothesis. What is true is that actual experience -- doing things themselves -- drives home lessons better than any form of presentation.)

Not as far-fetched as it sounds. The yo-yo, like the boomerang, was originally a hunting weapon. (I used to live in the Philippines, and they made sure we knew it every year in school. They were roughly the size of a dinner plate, IIRC. You hid up in a tree and waited for some animal to walk under you, then >whammo!< walked the dog on its head!)

Hmmm. Mine mostly fall into Magic or Tech. That said, to my mind, Batman and Superman would both be Natural origin, Bruce through training and Clark through being a perfectly normal Kryptonian. Although Batman does verge on Tech, depending on how far along the Batman <--> Iron Man spectrum he is with his current creative team. (Batman Beyond? Could make a case either way.) And a pet peeve is Mutants. You don't mutate when exposed to radiation, dammit! You either get sick and die or your DNA is damaged and your kids are the mutants!

Wait, there's another way to get to Cimerora than by using the LFG teleport? Who knew? Yeah, I have several characters with the AH teleports left over, but they might as well not have them: I can't bring myself to "waste" the unique, irreplaceable powers. Silly, I know, but back in the old days when I really knew my way around the City (I was unemployed for a while, and the $15/month was my entire entertainment budget) it was a valuable part of my "get there fastest" strategy. Oh, and I eventually found out you could buy and sell stuff at the Auction Houses, too! Such a deal!

His and JMD's run on Justice League was epic. Way to redeem a book that had fallen as far as it had! ("Justice League Detroit?" What were they thinking?!")

A friend who knows well more about the market than I says there are currently extensive attempts to manipulate it. Someone who never took an economics course, and has more inf than int. (Not me; I'm tied at best!) So, I guess we can soldier on, posting and buying stuff at a proper price, or say "Screw it!" and win by not playing. Person-to-person trades and base storage still work, and I don't know about you, but I have a bunch pf Brainstorms to burn!

Oh, does it rez, too? I hadn't noticed. Agree it's a contender for best power.

Almost always the trinity of Panacea, Numina, Miracle in Health. (Although I enjoy the irony of slotting Health for more Stamina!) At least a Performance Shifter proc and Endmod in Stamina. Maybe a slot or two extra if I'm on a toon without many Auto powers. But yeah, ever since ED (don't they have drugs for that now?), six-slotting seems overkill.

I bow, defeated, and retire before superior wits.

Ha! Well, I just got Gobsmacked on Torch!

I prefer to have my taskbars on the left hand side, vertically. With landscape monitors, horizontal screen real estate is plentiful, while vertical is rare and precious. My new work PC came with Winders 11. Which I promptly moved to the hard drive (Thanks, Clonezilla!) and installed Fedora* to the SSD. I pretty much only boot W11 for monthly patching, but the inability to move the taskbar to the left side irks me every time. I would have just deleted Winders entirely, but then Microsoft would have won by getting paid for a license that was wasted. And I might want to play a game at work sometime, after all. * Because I'm a Red Hat CentOS Rocky Linux admin.

After Chris Chibnall's paranoid secrecy, its a huge relief to have RTD2, with his column in Dr. Who magazine, his flagrant showmanship, and his boundless enthusiasm. Will he run through most of his good ideas in the first couple of seasons? Probably. Will he deliver two-parters where the first episode is fantastic and the second is... an episode? Check. But: Will he make DW interesting again, even for folks who aren't dedicated Whovians? Absolutely! I'm looking forward to it. PS: The BBC just announced they'll be streaming (what survives of) all 60 years on iPlayer. (If only they knew someone who could animate all the episodes that survive only as soundtracks!)

The most fun I had on a TF was an ITF I led, advertised as "World's Slowest ITF." Wound up with a mellow, quippy crew, some of whom even became friends. I'd say your runner was a rude, stubborn jerk! But the whole damn world seems to be suffering from a plague of rude, stubborn jerks!

Only Tornado needs KB-KD these days, Lightning Storm has it built in now. But for Tornado it changes a spaz into a meat grinder.

/suppressclosefx 1 /suppressclosefxdist 300 Will do a lot more good. Turning off/down particles helps a friend of mine, especially combined with the above. Graphics card settings can help, also. Play with brightness, contrast, and gamma to see if any help. Expert tip: There is a utility called Reshade that will allow you to perform post-processing to graphics the game developers never heard of. It's not the easiest thing to use, but it gives you another method to control what you see. Good luck! My migraine-afflicted friends have managed to make this game less triggering, I hope you can as well. And... Welcome Home!

If you ever notice I'm on, send me a tell. I'll gleefully join you -- mostly on Torch these days. I do love building characters who can handle the foes others cower from!

Go to PI, set your diff as high as it goes, and play Malta radio missions. Dark Astoria works as well. The Ditko Zone (aka Shadow Shard) has a different set of challenges, but is worth a try. Might not be the greatest challenges in the game, but they'll give you an idea of how the high-end challenges go. (Please don't solo Hamidon, it summons the nerf-herders.) I have a knee-jerk disdain for folks who do all that in PI, except they only face Council. (A joke at that level!) Then they complain about how easy this game is.

Always. But sometimes not from the Travel Pools. For any magic-themed character, I find Mystic Flight irresistible. A decent Fly, with built-in Teleport? Sign me up!

Costumes in the bedroom.

I feel obligated to point out that pirates, as the opposite of ninjas, have the inverse relationship. One pirate is a party (think Captain Jack). A boatload of pirates is a disaster (think the Black Freighter). (The Pirates of Penzance gets a pass, because Gilbert and Sullivan.)