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No! Don't NPC me, bro!

When you flippantly throw out "broken" about everything that isn't exactly the way you want it, you're not qualified to lecture me on criteria. Like that. You've given no evidence that Fire Control is "broken", you just dig for things that you don't like and present them as evidence, as proudly as a child holding up a papier-mâché ashtray for mommy and daddy to admire. Not actual facts, just blatant hyperbole presented via loaded phrases and your typical swaggering, "You work for me" attitude. You casually disregard that there aren't any other complaints about the set, that you're the only one struggling with it, because it doesn't fit your delusion of it being "broken". You adamantly ignore that you could just unslot that KB->KD IO and use Bonfire as it was designed and intended to be used, as a KB power, because that would give you the extra control you want, hence nullifying your claim that the set is "broken". You refuse to acknowledge that Fire Control was never supposed to be control-heavy, because then you'd have to admit that it's not "broken". And in a final act of desperation, you dredge up a change made nineteen year ago, a change that didn't deter anyone from playing it, and wave it around as if it were a leaked memo from the Oval Office. Case in point. Bonfire is working properly. You don't like the way it works, and you have one response to anything that you don't like: "BROKEN! SO BAD! NEEDS FIXED!", a one-note horn you've been tooting for so long that the only person who takes you seriously is you.

I laughed for hours last night. I'm still laughing. I'm sorry, man, but that line just put the most vivid image in my head, of you and a Freak tank stopping in the middle of the fight, staring in confusion as the rest of the Freakshow horde chase your team around in circles while Yakety Sax plays over the P.A. system. And then you and the Freak tank look at one another, both of you shaking your heads in embarrassment. "Um... ain't dey supposed to be chasin' my crew around?" queried 8R34K3R? "Yeah. They're..." Snarky stops, trying to figure out how to say it nicely, then exhales in a gust of resignation. "They're kinda stupid." "Hey, don't worry 'bout it. Some of my boys ain't da brightest bulbs on da marquee. Look, why don't we go get lunch while dey figure out what dey're doing?" "Okay. Yeah, that'd be okay." Snarky glances back at the reactor, then shrugs. "Can we go someplace dark? Maybe that restaurant on Robertson, the one that serves kaszanka?" "Oh, I heard 'bout dat place. I been wantin' to check it out, but mosta my guys won't eat nothin' if it don't come from Kap'n Kraken or City of Gyros. Ya think dey got a booth big enough for me?" 8R34K3R flashes a surprisingly friendly smile, his eyes widening with anticipation. "They do, actually. And their menu is pretty good, lots of choices. They've been doing a multi-cultural fusion thing for the last couple of years, interesting stuff." "Hey, fusion, I like da sounda dat." You both wander out the door, chatting and grinning, while the chaos behind you continues, the reactor's warning hoots steadily growing louder, but still not loud enough to drown out the music.

I thought he said, "God shave the Queen."

That was Issue 5. And Fire Control remained the most popular controller/dominator set, despite having fewer hard controls than other sets. For nineteen years. You're not going to find gold ingots in a humanure pile, no matter how frantically you scrabble around in it.

And then there's door number 3: build well enough not to need Hasten. All of my dominators have 155%+ global +Recharge, and that's only from IO set bonuses. If you're not making the game work for you, you're working for the game.

With Cat5. But not until after the third or fourth date.

Bonus points if you Rickroll the entire forum that way.

You have to stop typing in all caps, sunshine. Every time I see the thread title, I think it says "REST AND HAM" and wonder what you've been smoking.

I like the clothing-optional rides. Boobs do interesting things when gravity is variable.

Limit what someone can say in one post, they'll make more posts, or post .jpgs of what they want to say with as many words as they feel they need to say it. Limit how many posts someone can make, they'll make more accounts. Limit how many accounts someone can have by IP or e-mail address, they'll find ways to get different IPs or make new e-mail addresses. When someone is determined to speak, they'll find a way to be heard. And the more restrictions imposed, the more people will fight, even if they wouldn't otherwise, even if they don't feel that it affects them at all. Such a limitation would also encourage more direct, less polite responses which would lead to more strife, less open discussion and a loss of the friendly, relaxed attitude which has always been at the heart of the Co* forums. Rather than encouraging the poster to write a detailed reply, a limitation of this nature would promote shorter, more aggressive tones. A reply such as, "Over my dead fucking body, you fascist piece of shit", for example, rather than the paragraph above, would fit within a theoretical character limit and express the same sentiment, but it wouldn't be friendly, or informative. It would not result in discussion or spark thoughtful discourse, it would only incite conflict. As I've said many times in the past, this isn't a road we want to travel. It's one way, and the destination is a desolate, ruined place where nothing grows and no-one wants to be.

That's not ambient occlusion. It's depth of field (blur) and bloom (lighting). Ambient occlusion adjusts the lighting in shaded areas, like corners and alcoves, to make shadows look more natural.

No Spankyland? I feel as bad as I did the first time I used Envenomed Blades.

Can't chew on your victim's organs if you don't have teeth. FOR THE LONG PORK!

I've been playing since the old days and I've never received a Merit Reward point. How many points do you need for one reward merit? Are other benefits accrued with Merit Reward points, like frequent flier miles, or free trips to Spankyland?

Okay. @Snarky, you're one of my favorite people on the forums, because you have a sense of humor. You're easy-going, not full of yourself and you never seem to have your panties in a wad over meaningless shit. I've always gotten the impression that I could team with you and play the way I do, knowing that a lot of my antics and general play style would irritate you, but you'd laugh about it instead of going into a tizzy. Also, proofread, bitch.

Domination has a 1.32s animation time. Powers don't begin recharging until the animation time has elapsed. At 123.75% global +Recharge, the recharge time for Domination is 89.39s. 89.39 + 1.32 = 90.71. It's always worked that way. ~126% (the lowest theoretical amount is 125.75%, but it's impossible to achieve that, as there are no combinations of set IOs and/or buffs which give that total. 126.25% is as close as you can get) has been the minimum global +Recharge for perma-Domination since Issue 5. It's never been numerically possible to achieve perma-Domination with less than that, so you had some other source of +Recharge active on those two dominators, @Outrider_01. Empowerment station +Recharge (20%), Offensive Amplifier (15%), teammates buffing you, something.

That would explain why they're on every street corner.

I'm glad no-one's mentioned the snack bar and open keg in the center of the portal yet. Wouldn't want that secret to slip out. Ah, damnit. Now I'll never be able to get to chocolate waterfall.

You're a doodyhead. Also, your mom.

My nomination goes to the Way Better Than @Jimmy cat who hangs out with my Dark/Martial dominator. He's the real player, I'm just his wing-person. Yeah, I have to do all of the hard work, but it's worth it for the opportunity to spend time with him. Thanks, little buddy, for allowing me to be your pal. Love ya.

They're bucketed by level and direct match (Acc/Mez, for example, is just seen as Acc/Mez by the AH, even though there are five different specials which boost Acc/Mez). If you look at the Endoplasm HO at level 48, for example, you'll note that the number listed, the number of bids and the recent sale prices are all identical matches with Graviton, D-Sync Binding, Synthetic Endoplasm and Calcite of the same level, but examining different levels of Acc/Mez specials shows different numbers listed, bids and sale prices.

The support ticket window only accepts 512 of those letters. The chat window is limited to 255. You can't deliver a detailed, informative bug report that pre-emptively answers all possible questions and gives all of the necessary information about your computer, your character, the powers you had active, the location, the circumstances and other things with 767 alphanumeric characters. If you want a bug to be addressed, being prepared to answer questions and give more information is the right way to approach it. Being obstructive, refusing to post a bug report, refusing to provide details, refusing to answer questions, isn't helpful, and if that's to be your approach to reporting bugs, you probably shouldn't bother to report them at all. @GM_GooglyMoogly, this thread is pointless. Lock it.