DoctorDitko

Am I the only one who thinks shortguy's voice sounds an awful lot like Death*? * ("The Turtle moves!")

I just wonder what they do when the basement gets full of Down elevator cars! (And the attic full of Up ones, of course.)

This! Even a modest set bonus to movement can make escorts a nightmare!

A couple of points I haven't seen mentioned: Paper/Radio missions give you a certain amount of choice of opponents. Story arcs often award a handful of Merits upon completion. Bonus: Mayhem missions, available redside after completing enough papers, are some of the most fun things to do in the game!

Hmmm. You may be right about the War Walls. As for lazy? Keep in mind this was a tiny development team compared to the WoW army of creators. Nut you are spot-on about Mayhem missions! Once you get "Lord Schnauser" as a contact, you can come back at 50 and run them all, in order if you like! Brilliant fun, and if you get all the explore badges, it satisfies the requirements for one of the stat-boosting accolades, in the most fun way! Here's to more Mayhem!

Stealth kill alls are the worst! The War Walls, simply, were there for the age of dial-up. There was no practical way to load a larger area via 56.6K modem. As far as geometry... sigh. I had a lovely Stormie who was enjoying terrorizing the Cimerrorans, almost entirely steamrolling, and then rogue Romans started getting stuck in walls. A lot. Even TP foe wasn't of much use. Now that Fold Space is a thing, I should get that and see how useful that is. It would be great if that solved the geometry issues! Still and all, love the game. And the fact that it was once optimized for dial-up makes it quite playable even on the shitty end of my Verizon Wireless "home internet" service.

I have a macro: /macro BOSS quit$$dialogyes (Not that I spend a lot of game time at work, but that's the traditional name for the function.) Sometimes at lunch I log in to check my auctions, etc. AFAICT, it's pretty random. I can log in, check /AH, and log out several times in a row, without moving, and the time will vary, usually between instant and ~15 seconds. When I get a 30 second countdown, I can cancel and try again, and usually get a shorter one. This is all without moving my character. TL;DR: I think it's random.

Snarky, you probably won't see this if you're already in torpor, but don't go! We have the proverbial large assortment of morons, but very few incisive and witty commentators.

Yep. Check out Englehart and Rogers' run. Classic.

Welcome home, Victory! I just spent a very enjoyable evening running DFBs well organized by People's Hero 22. Victory folks seem friendly and affable. Good addition to the HC family!

Thanks for the heads-up!

Damn, those are good names! You guys play them to live up to their names, please!

I can't speak to the Offense or Defense categories, but I've been maining a Plants/Nature toon, and it's got insane levels of Support. Seriously, as an Ill/Rad from before it was meta, this character has CRAZY buffs and debuffs. Would you kindly publish to https://arxiv.org so we can attempt to replicate your results?

Silly you! It's Nemesis all the way down!

Just rename it "Sentinel Trainee" and get on with it!

So, you believe in the Moon? HA!

"I'm full of tinier men!"

Back when it cost money, I absolutely let my kids make characters on my account. I did the logging in, though. Paranoid from 5.25" floppy days!

The really horrible thing was, this started when it was still against the rules to use the Internet to make money. Didn't take long for that rule to go away. Money tends to do that.

Anyone else miss the day of FREEM?

OH! You reminded me of another another April Fools Day when the devs announced they would be replacing all sound effects with text, like POW, BIFF, BAM, etc. They didn't, of course, but they gave Brawl the FREEM fx and all the knockback a power could take. Atlas golf was never sweeter. C'mon, Devs, gimme some FREEM!

At least some of this gets better if you pick a different font. On live, I think I renamed my favorite to match Montreal -- or whatever -- and I was one of the few who could tell the pranksters SG "Parallel Illusion" apart from each other. I enjoyed the prank, but loved my namesake using the "light of truth" to tell them apart. It's easier to change fonts now, but Cryptic did us all a disservice by picking a font that had identical capital I, lowercase L, and numeral 1. I suspect the reason chat has more characters than names do is down to the database they used for *ahem* characters.

So, only really good Kheldians? Good luck!

Oh, you kids! I remember when getting the cat-on-your-shoulder was a big deal. I also fondly remember the April Fool's day when the huge crowd of Baby New Years that were following you would end up dead in a pile behind you when you zoned. "Take your Kid to Work Day" took on a whole new meaning. Good times.

Search him out on the forum. He's what a billionaire IRL would be if they weren't composed of 90% [expletive deleted].