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How in the name of pickled fish nipples did this go from "Here's what the average player population looks like over time" to bickering about names? Y'all motherfuckers crazy.

"I injected Granny Smith apples with a growth serum and ate it, and now I look like Shrek!" is fine. "I was caught in a nuclear explosion that turned me into a giant dude with anger management issues, but I'm taupe and sparkle like @Snarky when he's playing baseball!" is fine. "HULK SMASH!" with a giant green dude is not fine.

There was too much to explain. I summed up.

Sarcasm is more entertaining than telling someone directly that they're an imbecile, a liar, a contemptuous little shit-biscuit, etc. As for fear... a shocking number of people think apostrophes are "sentence seasoning", believe spaces between words are optional and couldn't defeat kindergartners in a spelling bee. What are they going to do, adamantly misspell words? Aggressively fail to punctuate correctly? Vehemently use poor grammar? 🙄

The Corbusian. The Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust, A.K.A. Geoff.

Responsible people who witness criminal acts and behavior monitor the perpetrator while they wait for the authorities in order to ensure that further criminal acts or behavior can be witnessed and reported. It's civic duty, not "cringy". Reporting criminal acts and behavior is a good thing. Or were you under the impression that theft is a good thing to do or have done to you? Stalking implies harassment, intimidation and/or the intent to conduct illegal surveillance. Keeping an eye on someone who has done something illegal, while awaiting authority action, is not stalking. Giving @cranebump shit because he didn't look the other way is ironic, because you're sticking your nose in someone else's business to tell them to mind their own business. Guess you should've followed your own advice.

Aggro limitations were relaxed some time ago. You can aggro everything on a map, and as long as you're within range, all critters beyond the previous aggro limit will use ranged attacks, and move into melee range or become "locked" on you if/when you defeat critters. You can't hold that aggro if someone else is attacking (or if you move out of ranged attack distance (they don't follow)), but you can definitely draw all of the attention you want, and if you're not careful, more than you can handle. Any further aggro limit changes would be pointless without correlating changes to AoE target caps, and that's not happening. Also, your poll sucks the sweat off of dirty yak scrotums. It's a poorly disguised attack aimed at both players and the HC team. Stop being a cunt.

That one Hellion who shows up in City Hall once in a while. Whatever reason prompts him to be there, it's either going to be something more earth-shattering than anything we've seen... or the most hilarious series of fuck-ups imaginable. Fun either way.

You have a parasite. Sit back, relax and enjoy zombification.

Remember to protect your investment!

Remember to title all e-mails, "Spank me, Sugar Daddyata". Also, repay the favor by dropping low level common IOs on him when you see him in Pocket D! HE LOVES THOSE! 😁

Don't know. Never done Penelope's task force. But there is at least one Ascendant Archon, and all boss rank Ascendants (Archons or named) have Detention Field (now... don't remember when that was added, but it wasn't in their repertoire when the game was on the original servers). Dimension Shift allows players to enter the shifted area and continue fighting, so it couldn't have been that power. It's possible that it was a player using Black Hole, but if that had been the case, @Techwright wouldn't have been the only one speaking up, since that tends to piss off teammates en masse. That exhausts the possible options for time-out powers, and between Black Hole and an enemy Detention Field, the evidence points to Detention Field. As to how even a single Ascendant could keep doing it, Detention Field is on a 120s recharge, and Ascendants have that dickbag self-shield+regen+recovery move, so if the battle went on long enough, one Ascendant could use Detention Field several times, once every 2 minutes. Pro tip: mez those fuckers. But it's more likely that there was more than one. Even if they're limited to one per spawn, my read on the situation suggests that there was chaos, multiple spawns pulled or aggroed, and several Ascendants would be possible in that scenario. Our boy was on a melee archetype or sentinel (Energy Aura), so higher aggro modifier (2.5-4), which means more aggro. Wouldn't be all that hard to piss off two or more Ascendants and find oneself playing "Who dropped the soap?" with them. The toggle drop could only have been a result of Super Stunner rez. @Techwright mentioned three Energy Aura powers, so it's a safe assumption that he was comparatively safe from Freakshow ranged attacks which drained endurance. Even if he were doing the task force at native level, those toggles that he listed, by themselves, would've been sufficient to ensure that most of those attacks would've missed. Maybe bad endurance management... but he's been around long enough to know how to take care of his blue bar, so I doubt that was the cause. That leaves only Super Stunners.

Translucency isn't a costume or animation or GFX setting, it's a mechanic. If you look at any stealth power in City of Data, you'll see something like 10% Translucency for X seconds. You don't see entries for changing power colors, or using different animations, but you do see a power def line for Translucency. Here, for example: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pool.invisibility.stealth&at=blaster +85% Translucency for 0.75s They had to use the Stance system to create two degrees of visibility for Stealth (Concealment). They'd have to do the same for every power with Translucency, or create copies with different Translucencies and hook them in as options when selecting powers (game presents Sneaky A and Sneaky B instead of only Sneaky A, and selecting either locks the other out). Even with workarounds like that, it wouldn't be user-selectable variability, it would be X% or Y%. Related: the lower the percentage of Translucency, the less visible the character. 10% Translucency is nearly invisible, 85% Translucency is only faintly transparent. Also related: Translucency seems to be a direct call to the OpenGL Blending setting, and is applied to the character hit box, not individual costume pieces or graphical effects.

Council Attendant Detention Field followed by Super Stunner rez endurance drain.

Which task force?

There are few or no laws prohibiting the use of information garnered from illegal or unethical pre-existing research, but from everything I've read, it's strongly discouraged in the medical community. Like, "No, we won't peer review that paper... oh, and we just might revoke your license and ostracize you. And report you to the authorities. And the WMA. And NATO." discouraged. You can find some examples of people trying to use such information, and the results of those attempts, if you poke around. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation is a good place to begin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/release-data-unethical-experiments As can be seen in the American Medical Association's opinion, even setting aside the ethical implications, such information is generally considered to be unreliable and of questionable value because it's rarely obtained through proper science, meaning the tests weren't conducted in a manner which met falsifiability requirements, failed to account for all variables and weren't properly documented. If such research can be reproduced through proper scientific method and ethical testing (this is option C), it's permissible as a reference. That doesn't happen very often. Most unethically obtained medical data is pseudoscience, mad science and/or skewed "proof" of a biased or scientifically questionable theory. It's almost never of any value, and in the rare case where it can be useful or worthwhile, the method by which it was obtained taints everything based on it and use of that research is considered to be dismissive of the horrors the patients experienced, which, itself, is a violation of medical ethics. Most medical professionals will actively search for a reason to discount the research if it involves violation of patient rights, violation of medical ethics, torture, abuse, et cetera, and they usually find that reason. Doctors just don't want to be associated, even tenuously, with torture, grotesquery, murder and patient abuse. Nor should they, as it presents a picture diametrically opposed to the care-giver and healer, and using immorally obtained research data definitely portrays a lack of regard and concern for patient rights, feelings, and even their very existence. People shouldn't and wouldn't trust medicines or surgical techniques created from research which involved torture, abuse and/or murder, or want such used on them due to the connotations with said atrocities.

Snarbie Girl. Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbie. 🤣 Snarbie! 🤣

Hey, who did that doll with one shoe character a couple of years ago? Find him and get some tips!

LeVar Burton referred to Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax, DS9) as Action Barbie because she was thrilled to do her own stunts and fight scenes. The Barbie that can kick your ass is the best Barbie, as far as I'm concerned. This looks more in line with @Snarky's schtick, though. And that concludes my interest in, knowledge and awareness of Barbie... unless they make a SHODAN Barbie.

Not bad. It has a flow to it, expressing the Vogonity of the writer please don't blow me out of the airlock.

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