Luminara

I wish you the best of luck in shutting me up for any length of time. I28 won't be out until 2072, if I have to stop posting for it to happen. 😜

According to your account, some of the people involved decided to change direction without informing the rest of the team, and brushed off your concerns when you spoke up. How long it might have taken if it were being run fast, or how long it was going to take as a defeat all, is secondary, as I see it. The primary issue was, in fact, the lack of communication. There should've been a discussion, in group chat, so the entire group could weigh in and, if anyone chose, opt out. If it happened to me, I would've taken the time to one-star everyone involved, drop them into my ignore oubliette and keep a hand-written note on the table next to my laptop to remind me to shove them back in that dark hole if I hit my limit on /ignore. You're a more tolerant person than I am, commendably.

I'd really like to see a story arc in which Nemesis gains control of the Nictus. And created Nemecysts. HISSING purple doom crystals. Need! I also wish Confuse weren't such a restricted mechanic. It's the one thing I want on every character, especially in the post-40 game when you're constantly facing enemies with great buffs, like Vengeance and Accelerate Metabolism. The chance to Confuse in Interface -> Cognitive isn't really effective for stealing buffs, frustratingly.

It was intended as a humorous reference to our government's surveillance program, and the fact that I live in an off-grid cabin in an under-populated rural location, which, in conjunction with purchasing (or attempting to purchase) restricted goods, would attract the FBI's attention. I've got two cats and a forest full of animals to keep me company, and they do a remarkable job of it. Even if there are no restrictions which prevent me from owning a firearm, I won't allow myself to have one. I don't always think clearly when I'm stressed, and I've made certain judgmental errors in the past which indicate that it would be unwise. A crossbow is sufficient for my needs, and safer.

I'm lonely. The only company I get is when the FBI stops by for a "chat". 😞

I wanted OPHELIA for my Robotics/Radiation Emission mastermind. Operational Platform (Heuristic Experiential Learning Intelligence Algorithm). I settled for 0PHELIA. I've never had to resort to using a numeral in place of a standard alphabetic character before, opting instead to find another name, but I'm actually okay with this. It's a bit more thematically appropriate for her, seeing as she's a machine. But I was surprised 0PHELIA wasn't taken, as obvious as it was, and on Everlasting.

I either don't spend nearly enough time staring at my thighs, or this issue doesn't occur with any of the costume parts I typically use (skirts, toga). It's sad that Verizon is such a terrible provider. I could be logged in, thigh-gazing right now.

After 48 years, I finally know my place in the world. I'm a shower. That's why I go commando. Which means I'm not only a shower, I'm also a shower. A man did, and showed them on television, and they blurred it. I don't remember who, or when I saw the program (it was several years ago, maybe on the Discovery channel), but it was in Las Vegas.

/suppressCloseFx 1 turns off the glowy gunky stuff. /suppressCloseFxDist X determines how far you have to scroll the camera to see the glowy gunky stuff (try 20 if you have the camera right behind your character).

If I could acquire some C4, very small detonators and springs with the right tension, I could make explosive arrows for my crossbow by packing the inside of the arrow with the C4 and spring-loading an electrical contact to the head, triggering the detonator. Obviously, it would require extensive testing to ensure that the arrow explodes when it hits a target, rather than when I pull the trigger, but that could be performed with LEDs and a smart phone camera. Oh. Um... We need more Roman/Greek costume options. One toga, one skirt and two cuirass' aren't enough. It's difficult to create distinction within a thematic concept without sufficient costume diversity. The Barbarian options are okay, but it's a stretch to match them to the Roman options. I might have to make the next Sister beat up bad guys half-naked.

I'm imagining little smiley faces tottering around, squinty eyes like they're fighting epic constipation, tongues hanging out like starving cannibals... and lots of FREEM!

They were on close-out! 80% off!

You're intelligent. Cobbler something together.

*presses button* 😲 Oh. That... wasn't supposed to happen. If anyone had any relatives, or dinner reservations, in Krasnoyarsk Krai, around the middle of 1908... sorry. Really, sorry. 😳

3 slots in Hurdle... he's making a play for my throne. *arms the Lumiversal defense grid* Tell him to bring it.

Are you... Tony... Stank?

You chose Savage because it has the most AoE, didn't you. I've been thinking the same thing. Another Sister might be in the works. 🙂

Fertile, reliable and the source of power for the most fascinating culture in history? Shh. Don't tell anyone. I'm in disguise.

Orangebagel is already down there. And we haven't managed to permanently evict the current residents, so we'd have to tolerate snoring demons and gassy Air Thorn Casters. Pass.

Eh. Too much foreplay, you have to start over too often and it wants to quit halfway through (endurance issues). Size doesn't matter if it can't stay up, or needs a lot of extra attention to stay up. Smaller, more frequent, and lower maintenance is more pleasurable in the long run. I can do this all day. TW can't. 😏

The New Gods. Kirby worked both sides of the fence. He created numerous characters for Marvel, but he also created The New Gods for DC. Darkseid, Highfather, Orion, Apokolips, the entire Fourth World concept came from Kirby. He laid the foundations for some of the most popular and well-read stories DC has ever had. In more specificity, your comment brought to mind New Genesis, the home world of Highfather and other new gods. Highfather and his pantheon resided on a floating platform city over the world of New Genesis. Neither am I. Poverty and collecting comics are mutually exclusive. But I am a fan of numerous comic book characters, I enjoy reading about them when I can, and I find the history of comic books and the people involved to be fascinating (it's modernized mythology, essentially, and i'm fascinated by the mythologies of different cultures). I couldn't spend money on comic books, but I could spend time reading about them and their writers, editors and publishers. They'll have to come through me to get to you. 😉

Ask Jack Kirby.

It's a gold mine. No, it's a placer deposit on a gorgeous sand bank with glistening nuggets lying in plain sight. Enhancement conversion is a huge equalizer, and the biggest key to making inf* on the market. Once you figure out what sells, and presuming you have converters to burn, people throw inf* at you. The comparison between lucrative now and lucrative six months ago is really just drops in the bucket, and it's actually a boon, even if you're trying to make a profit, because it also means you're paying a little less for the things you can't acquire through conversion of typical uncommon and rare IOs. The ceiling might be lower, but so is the floor. That said, I also play solo and focus on story arcs, so I'm rarely hurting for merits. A bad streak of conversions, or being too impatient to wait another hour to fill an enhancement slot, that's really all that slows me down on making inf* or kitting out a character with "the best".

They had a big boost in understanding and manipulation from Rikti tech. Portal technology isn't vastly different from teleportation, the way it's portrayed.

Force field technology, the emergency medical teleportation system, everything going on at Portal Corp., most of the advanced science shown to be part of the foundation of the game world was reverse engineered from recovered Rikti technology. It wasn't available for use during the reconstruction.