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It's not ogre the top.

Melee attacks have a limited range for very specific reasons related to game balance. Status effects have set magnitudes for very specific reasons related to game balance. DoTs/debuffs/buffs have pre-determined durations for very specific reasons related to game balance. And enhancements do most of this anyway, within the balance framework, and exist explicitly for the purpose of doing exactly what you're suggesting. All of the inspirations you propose would throw that balance horrendously out of kilter. I think it's a bad solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Use enhancements. That's what they're there for.

I'd have to say that it was the general lack of progress displayed over nearly a decade that put the kibosh on the successors. None of them were showing any sign of a live release before Co* was brought back, after all, so it's not like Co* being back changed anything.

Or... Miracle Whip you. 😁

It's nebulous.

A sandwich just isn't a sandwich without the tangy zip of Miracle Whip.

Get out of my mind. OUT. NOW.

Considering that we live in a time when practically anything said or done is bound to send someone into a tizzy because too many people have become reliant on having someone to "protect" them from the horror of having to mature emotionally, and we're dependent on nanny states and Internet police to guard us from imagined and perceived offenses, instead of growing up and letting the meaningless, petty stuff slide, I see someone acting as a hatpin aimed directly at the over-inflated egos of everyone, including himself, to be heroic. At the head of a global broadcasting network which reaches over a billion people, he'd be the perfect anodyne to a lot of our juvenile snowflake stupidity. And entertaining. Besides,

Cats are obligate carnivores, the apex land predator (barring humans, of course). Human beings are not only larger, but are easily identified as carnivorous predators by cats (the eyes give us away. front-facing binocular vision). So yes, blinking indicates to the cat that you're not going to hurt it. It can see that you're not sizing it up for a potential conflict, or meal, because you're breaking eye contact. The look away at the end is especially reassuring for the cat. You speak cat well. 👍

Cats experience fear and respond to it accordingly (being small mammals, that typically means hiding until the perceived danger has passed), but they don't have panic attacks in the same way that we do. Panic attacks result from over-thinking situations, responses, behaviors, et cetera. Cats don't over-think anything (and yes, they do think, and learn, and are intelligent), they never would've evolved to become the top land predator if they had nervous disorders and experienced fits of paralysis or breathing issues every time they stopped to consider the possibilities in front of them. What your cats are experiencing is perfectly normal transitional anxiety. They're in a new home, with new people, and cats... well, they like things to stay the same, and things aren't the same right now. They'll adapt. You'll adapt, too, by learning to understand them when they're communicating with you (body language, eyes, ears, tails) and responding appropriately when you know what they want. Time and patience. Speak softly when they're near. Give them pets and scritches when they ask, play with them when they're playing (or encourage them to play, with something crinkly, or a stick/fishing toy, or even something as mundane as making faint scratching noises with your fingernail), but don't go out of your way to force them to accept you. The cat decides when it's time for interaction, but don't distance yourself from them (unless they're explicitly warning you not to touch them). Very few human-cat relationships are "love at first sight" situations, most develop the same way human-human relationships do. Learn to hear their voices (again, body language, eyes, ears, tails (vocalizations tend to be... punctuation, rather than primary communication)) and interact on their terms. Either in this thread or in another, I talk about May, one of the two cats I have now, not wanting to be picked up or held when I first met her and brought her home. At this point in our relationship, if I leave the cabin, she's standing on the love seat when I return. If I don't pick her up, she launches herself into my arms. That change came over the course of about eight months. I didn't try to desensitize her to her aversion to being held, I didn't make a single attempt to coax her into my arms, she decided that she was ready. I gave her affection, I played with her, and I gave her the time she needed to trust me. That trust was worth the wait. With time, patience and learning to understand what an animal is saying, you can develop a rapport with any animal, even wild ones. Cats go out of their way to make it easy on us... apparently, we make great pets.

Fund foster homes for abused and molested children. Provide grants for dementia research, cystic fibrosis research and cancer research. Build a cat rescue village. Buy the BBC and hand it over to Jeremy Clarkson. Begin colonization of the moon and Mars.

Whichever group worships fictional aliens and stages naked protests. If I'm going bad, I'm going big. And bat-shit crazy. In the buff.

There are a few Arena pet badges with no progress text, only a placeholder counter like that. 100 Sky Raider Force Field Generators would be my guess. Edit: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Hero_Gladiator_Badges#Independent_Gladiator_Badges Those. You can isolate which one it is by defeating one relevant foe of the appropriate type for each badge and checking the counter.

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Repel with a tesseracted magnitude.

Repel with an inverse magnitude.

Carnival/circus strongmen were the original inspiration for the external underwear. Tights were added for color and modesty so the comics could be marketed to children.

Blubmarines? BLUBMARINES!

Taxi driven by a slender, brown friend. Dragon who bonds for life when it hatches and can go between. Motorboat. No, the other motorboat. Vroom vroom motorboat, not brown chicken, brown cow motorboat. Heli-carrier. Marbles. Lots and lots and lots of marbles.

Major pluses to living in Paragon City: All citizens have super strength, above and beyond what even Incarnates have. Pesky heroes interrupting your daily stroll with a fight on the sidewalk? Move them. All citizens are invulnerable to all damage. Hug that giant octopus! Meander casually in and out of burning buildings! Smile and wave as highly toxic radiation passes through you harmlessly! All citizens can phase shift at will. Locked out of your apartment? No problem! Worn out after the walk to work and anxious to reach your office? Take the straight path, right through the walls! Cute neighbor taking a showe- wait, no, don't do that.

You tying one hand behind your back and proceeding to split a cord of wood, versus someone else tying one of your hands behind your back and you proceeding to split a cord of wood. Difficulty is difficulty. Having someone else impose the restriction on you doesn't magically legitimize it, in any way.