DoctorDitko

I'd suggest more folks use the magical Edit button. Revisit when you've had a chance to cool down, maybe switch some hot-button keywords for less aggressive alternatives? It can also help to cite your sources. Many times searching for references has led me to see that I grasped the wrong end of the stick. I also try to apologize or retract when I've misremembered or realized I'm misinformed. I guess I draw from scientific practice when I can. It's a good model because Science is designed to be argumentative without being uncivil. Every hypothesis should be tested, every experiment replicated. Most important part of the process!

My apologies for using my in-game shorthand (empowerment is way too long to type in chat) here where more precise terminology is well worth the effort! Incidentally, I failed to mention another handy item: Salvage Storage in easy reach, stocked with the ingredients for the most popular buffs (mostly white salvage with a few yellows). Also, if you have a leftover buff with just a few minutes on it, the Station won't let your freshen it. But you can delete it from your Powers list and replace it with a new 90-minute buff. We so seldom want to delete powers that it's easy to forget the option.

I swear I only ever make a sandwich while the villain is monologing in a cutscene. Sometimes PB&J, sometimes (kaff ITF! kaff) a grilled cheese.

I thank you for the incredible cat-herding marathon this must have been. I dropped in (usually as a namesake) and tried to hit each server, and was blown away by the base designs and personable hospitality in each and every base. Just tremendous fun, thank you all! And the treats were over the top! Thanks to all for this, it made a gloomy Sunday Halloween more enjoyable than I had imagined!

Agreed with all of the above. I also like having the Base Rez Circle right next to the Base Buff Station. I can rez, buff myself vs. whatever killed me, grab some insps, and be back at the mish door all within a minute, as long as Mish or Team TP is up. Just the thing for those for special occasions!

Greets to a fellow Spam Fan! Don't you think Kind Henry is a bit more Halloweeny, though?

Thanks, guys! Blackbird found the darn thing, much appreciation! I'll pipe 'em through sort and go to town! And as far as me being crazy? The jury is still out.

Not that the two are mutually exclusive! I thought I had seen someone post such a trick, but I've searched for hours and can't find it. (My Duck-Duck-Go-fu is weaker than I thought!) I've had to reinstall some Linux boxen recently and have automated great swathes of setup with a few shell scripts, but CoH always loads a random character list, which is frankly a pain. May the gods bless Lutris, though, it certainly helps get CoH working! Any help?

I came up with a villain group called EarthFIST! who are basically more moral than the governments and corporations, and devoted to saving the world from the govs & corps. Kind of like GreenPeace if they had respect for Science. And better morals. And some common sense. They'd be out there darting idiots with COVID vaccines, pumping the contents of pipelines back where they came from, and secretly building the newest generation nuclear power plants that can run on the radioactive waste from the old nuclear power plants. (Which are real, btw. We could be using the waste with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands of years to make power, eliminating the millenia-long risk such waste presents.) That's my kind of "villain!"

Love me some FREEM!

Grats!

I tried DCUO back when I was forking out for satellite Internet, and downloading was free from 2 to 6am. My satellite-induced lag made it hard to team, so my experience was mostly solo. I enjoyed seeing the iconic characters, loved the conceit that Metropolis was always sunny and Gotham always night-time. Edited to add: I also didn't like the fact that the goal of the game seemed to be to work your way up to being a guest starring sidekick. After CoH, that seemed really limiting. My main problem, though, was the headache induced by the constant ka-CHING of the cash register, it sorta drowned out the game. To add insult to injury, the game would reward you with a *FREE* loot box... that you had to pay or grind to open. When I decided I couldn't afford the satellite any more, I didn't much miss it. I'm afraid any modern Superhero MMO will wind up with the same background noise... It just seems to be the current model.

"It isn't so." I will cave to the man only when the check clears on some mortgage-payin'-off money! If Discord follows the path of Fakebook, into destructive, Aneristic discord, not the creative, syncretic discord that is the hallmark of modern Eristic Discordianism, then they shall share their fate: The Popes of the James Branch Cabal will hold a synod, declare them excommunicated, and -- if they don't change their ways within 23 days -- declare them anathema, and forever damned. So there! Even if they change their name.

Don't sweat it, Rosencrantz! The Devs are fine with in-game allusions, pretty forgiving of in-game parodies, and will smash you with the Hammer of Justice if you call yourself "GM Kaiju." In other news, Torchbearer now has a freshly-minted Lady Mondegreen!

I hope you won't disdain handing out the occasional rock. Seriously, though, this is very generous, and sounds more fun than my other options, so many thanks to you all!

Which simply means that lots of us need to get a life! Disclaimer: I tried having a life after sunset: It's always in beta, you only get one character, and it's entirely pay-to-win. I prefer CoH.

I'm sorry to have caused a kerfluffle, or was it more of a brouhaha?* As Shenanigunner deduced, I did indeed check the forums first. In my defense, thanks to effing Verizon, it seemed to me like a fairly substantial "surprise" patch. As a Discordian of many years (yes, I install ddate on all my servers, ever since it was removed from the standard unix tools by some damned Greyface!), I admit to a bias against Discord -- seems like cultural appropriation and it absolutely pollutes searches for Discordian topics -- but in future I will force myself to consult it before asking silly questions here. Then probably ask the silly question anyway. * "...ha ha ha ha" - Firesign Theatre

Took me almost 15 minutes to download (effing Verizon!) Anybody know what that was about?

"Live a comic book with friends."

From what I recall, the choice of Portal Corp's lawn is a (possibly superstitious) belief that zombies spawn best on grass or dirt. Combined with the easy availability of Police drones if things get out of hand. Thus the League leaders sometimes spamming "Back here! Stay away from the drones, they'll steal our zombies!"

I know I've seen folks swarm up the side of a skyscraper with nothing more than Combat Jumping. Done well, it's a sight to behold! Could we arrange a mechanic to substitute for a fraction of their skill and call it Clinging? I wouldn't mind if it took learning a knack, much like TP does (or did, it's much improved!).

That's how phasing works in Star Trek and SG-1: "Why aren't we left behind when the ship accelerates?" "Why aren't we falling to the center of the earth?"

Dressing up for Halloween in why they throw us all those free Tailor Tokens throughout the year. (And it's the only time of year I feel safe wearing a blue, red, black, and gold color scheme on my favorite ex-sorceror!) Note: If you're going for radical body size/gender/model changes, the Pocket D Tailor in the Tiki lounge is your friend!

There are few things in the game that respond to/enhance the look of your powers, so definitely keep it. IIRC, MM Bots will get the boot jets if you Group Fly them, also. It's these little touches that help me love this game! BTW, I vote for the small longbow jet pack. A huge model character with a cape will almost completely hide it. And of course my bots MMs take the Jump Jets from the P2W vendor, because of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries fond memories.