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mas·och·ism /ˈmasəˌkizəm,ˈmazəˌkizəm/ noun The tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.

It's file replacement or unending audio assault. Go to this thread, scroll to the bottom of the first post and download the file on the LEFT. It's named silence.ogg . Make a copy of that file (you'll be using it a lot eventually, so keeping the original intact saves time) and name it glow5_loop.ogg . Go to the directory where you have Co* installed, navigate down to the directory named data. Create a new directory in data, name it Sound. Create a directory in Sound, name it ogg. Create a directory in ogg, name it Powers. Drop glow5_loop.ogg into Powers. Launch the game and proceed to beat your head on the keyboard when you hear Minerals' incessant whine and Brimstone Armor's constant sharting. But you won't hear Crystal Armor, so mission complete.

I use pool attacks on several characters. On the original servers, I played a Kin/Elec defender who used Air Superiority/Flurry/Jump Kick as her attack chain. Pool it up. They work just fine.

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The Defense is the same for both. If slotting them for Defense would be what puts you at your total Defense goal, then they're worth it (example: you're at 44.3% +Def Smashing/Lethal/Energy, and you would like to soft-cap versus those damage types, then slotting for Defense would help you achieve that). Otherwise, slot with a LotG +Recharge, or a Stealth IO, or the Kismet +ToHit, or the Shield Wall +5% Res (All), or the Reactive Defenses scaling +Res (All), or any combination of those, and leave it at that. Hover, you can slot for +Flight/Movement in addition to the globals/procs mentioned, but if you have Evasive Maneuvers, you probably won't find it necessary. CJ provides plenty of +Jump Height without slotting, and enough -Friction to allow you to slide up the tiniest incline by holding your Jump key, so it also doesn't need any additional slotting.

And why is Harken dead? Because the AI goes into full moron mode every goddamn time it encounters stairs. Or ramps. Or curbs. Or pebbles. Two weeks ago, I spent twelve minutes watching Aurora Peña run around in circles, jumping onto a pipe, falling to the ground, running up a ramp and jumping onto the same pipe. TWELVE FUCKING MINUTES. I just watched Harken run to the stairs leading down to the floor in that stupid office map, turn around and run away from the stairs, run back to the stairs, et fucking cetera until the building exploded. It's almost 2022. I know we're a nostalgic bunch of folks, but the Daikatana AI has to be shelved. I'm tired of this shit, having to swallow failure when the reason for that failure is bad design, not because I'm a bad player, or because I made a mistake, or because I wasn't trying hard enough, but because the AI is shit. 98c3dd17-788a-464e-b178-880a1dfe1ff3.mp4

I think we're all winters in this thread, because we're freeze to have fun. But maybe we need a polar to decide.

The difficulty adjustments were supposed to be limited to the new SF... but they did add some new critters to certain existing groups, and expand level ranges of critters in other groups, and it's possible that something slipped in without a patch note. Test at default difficulty, though, just to see what happens. If you're still knocked around at +0, there's a bug in either the IOs you're using, or Grounded, or possibly both. Singularity still shows only mag 6.231 KB in Repel (which uses KB, not Repel) in City of Data (and both Family boss versions appears to be numerically identical to the player version, implying that it's the same pet), so a single Singularity shouldn't be doing that with two +KB IOs or Grounded. But if you're being spiked by two Singularities at once, and they both trigger a Repel activation on the same server tick, mag 12.462 KB will break through IOs and status protection. The scrapper shouldn't be seeing two Family bosses in a spawn at that difficulty setting, though, unless it's a hostage-guarding spawn (those typically have two bosses) like the ones around Aurora Peña and Noble Savage (those are Council, though, no Singularities. just an example of two-boss spawns at lower difficulty settings). Of course, theoretically, it could also be related to the anti-rubber-banding changes they made, if they tweaked how server ticks are processed, but that's unlikely. Test it some more, please.

I just started Roy Cooling's arc this morning, ran into a couple of Family bosses who summoned Singularities and they didn't knock my Ice/Stone brute down. Level 29, +0/x3, only Rooted providing KB protection. Are you running at higher difficulty settings, and were Family bosses or foe-summoned Singularity bosses in the list of critters who were tweaked to be more challenging?

Checking... Seems normal. I have a KD->KB IO in it, though, so it might be doing something I'm not seeing.

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It started as a flurry, but it snowballed.

Some people don't like puns. Not even cube puns. Just doesn't crystalize for them. They're snow fun, and they give punsters a frosty reception. Sometimes they respond with a blizzard of remarks, other times, they're chill enough to drift on by without complaining.

Knew I wasn't crazy. Well, yes, I am, but what I meant was, I knew I remembered this being possible, I just couldn't recall the format. Might put this to use with Infiltration. Maybe. Blue caves might make me regret it.

It's Christmas, @0th Power, it's the time of miracles, so be of good cheer... and watch Die Hard again. Karl, hunt that little clip down and get me those quotinators.

For those not in the know, it all started here... and then it snowballed. Meme away. It's funny... I thought I'd be remembered for my TA and Archery guides, or for my acerbic wit(lessness), or even for treating archetypes like off-hand suggestions, if nothing else, but no, my thunder is stolen by a nerve-damaged nipple. I suspect that my epitaph will read, "Had a bad nipple, tried to play it down/died a boring death, nipple got a crown."

Obviously, me. That was why I posted that line in a thread titled, "New Badges for things I was going to do anyway". But it's not twice per level. Plenty of content, lots to do even after hitting 50. I don't restrict my failure to levels 1-49, I go all the way.

He says that to the Aryan dude after he uses the circular saw to lure him into position for an ambush (on the floor of the building where all of the construction supplies are being temporarily stored. "Drop it, dickhead. It's the police." The first thing he says to Hans is, "Oh, I'm very sorry, Hans, I didn't get that message. Maybe you shoulda put it on the bulletin board.", when Hans grabs the radio and says, "I thought I told all of you I wanted radio silence" after hearing the radio broadcast signal *kssshhhhhhhhk*. That's just after McClane "waxed" Marco and Tony and used one of t. He says, "Hi there" when he and Hans have their first face to face meeting (Hans is checking the C4 on the underside of the roof, hops down and encounters McClane holding a machine gun in his face). Hans dissembles, adopting a "California accent", and momentarily convinces McClane that he's one of the hostages.

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Big Damn Hero - replacement for the Spelunker badge, for rescuing the fortune teller. She's a witch, but she's your witch. No-one Makes It On Their First Try - attempt to jump from one skyscraper to another, fail miserably. What a Wonderful Smell You've Discovered - spend 100 hours in sewer missions. It's All In The Wrist - replace your origin power with the natural origin power Throwing Knives. Institutionalized - hear Morgan Freeman narrating everything when you're playing. Walternate/Fauxlivia - run every mission and arc involving alternate realities. Only Mostly Dead - respawn at the hospital 100 times. Take This Under Advisement, Jerkweed - deliberately set off explosives in a building. How Hard Can It Be? - hilariously screw up while attempting something impressive but completely out of your bailiwick. They're Comin' Outta The Walls, Man! - trigger 100 ambushes. It's Bigger On The Inside - make a base. If You Ain't Cops, You're Little People - retire all clones, doppelgangers, replicants or other copies of your character, in the entire game. Saved Ferris - spend 100 hours in missions after mission completion. I Can Do This All Day - finish a fight with no endurance and 1% health. Anál Nathrach - use special costume toggles to deceive foes in 100 missions. Spared No Expense - play to 50, spend all merits and inf* on best-in-slot IOs and sets, complete all T4 Incarnates, and finally accept that the concept was horribly flawed from the outset. You've Got Me, Who's Got You? - rescue 100 hostages. Where's Francis? - go on a rampage.

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Shotguns can fire 1 ounce slugs up to 1200'. Expected distance before dropping below acceptable velocity for a clean kill, about 300'. Buckshot can be accurate and lethal up to 75'. Of course, varying the grain count and the weight of the slug/balls, the shape of the slug, the wadding for the balls, or using a sabot can significantly affect the trajectory, range and muzzle velocity, including allowing for farther shots, greater precision and more force retained by the round over a longer distance, but that's custom work, typically by enthusiasts who make their own ammunition. Factory-produced slugs and buckshot shells will conform to the above specifications.