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*imagines @lemming with a bunch of Bone Daddies floating around him*

I started having trouble sleeping when I was four years old. I'd wait until my parents were in bed, then sneak into the bathroom and read all night. I'd do that for three or four days in a row. When I slept, it was erratic, sometimes I'd nod off in the bathroom, sometimes I'd fall asleep in class. As I grew older and had to factor this in with having a job, I "dealt" with it by taking night shift work whenever I could and sleeping when I had to. Lost a couple of good jobs because I couldn't manage my sleep properly, too. It took almost 45 years to resolve the problem. I rarely allow myself any caffeine after 3 in the afternoon now. I have two cups of coffee when I get up, and I have two cups at 1 in the afternoon to stave off the mid-day nap ambush. Even with the early afternoon coffee, I'm close to dozing frequently, but I'm not laying down for a "quick nap" and waking up four hours later any more. If I can't shake the sleepies in the middle of the day, I get up and do something, anything, to stay awake. Sleeping in the middle of the day makes it harder to sleep at night, so I don't let myself do that. I spend a lot more time doing physical things than I used to. I work at three farms, a grocery/general store, and sometimes help a friend with catering (it sounds like a lot, but i only work a few hours each day, rarely more than 20 in a week), and all of them require physical exertion. At home, I cut and split my own firewood, bring water up to the cabin, go for walks in the forest or work on improvements to the cabin. I'm not constantly working, I spend a ridiculous amount of time playing games, watching movies and reading, but after I noticed how well I slept after getting out and doing things, I started making it a point to spend enough time every day doing something physical. My lifestyle probably isn't directly comparable with yours, but the point is, I found that physical activity helped settle my sleep schedule. Instead of being tired because I was bored (mind-tired), I became tired because I was exerting myself (body-tired), and that's the kind of tired that makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep. Go jogging, or even just walking. Work out. Swim. Start a kitchen garden. Stress played an enormous part in my insomnia. I have social anxiety disorder. Going to work stressed me out. Going grocery shopping stressed me out. Ordering a pizza stressed me out. A big part of why I live in this cabin now is because I couldn't live that way any more. Not being in a constant state of anxiety has definitely made it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep. Find the stressors and deal with them. Have sex. Or masturbate. Getting your rocks off is scientifically proven to improve sleep. So get your swerve on, even if it's with Rosy Palm and her five sisters. Make sure your bedding is comfortable. Most people don't think about their bed, the blanket(s), the pillow(s), they just use what's at hand and assume that's all there is. If you're not comfortable in bed, though, you're not going to sleep well. Try a firmer or softer mattress. Add another pillow, or take one away. Another blanket, or just a sheet. Sleep naked, then fully clothed, and figure out which gave you a better night's sleep. Maybe just flip your mattress, it could be all you need to give you some good sleep. Loneliness can kill sleep as much as any other kind of stress. If you're sleeping alone, get a body pillow. Or a love doll. Just having something to throw a leg over, wrap an arm around, snuggle up against, can make it easier to sleep, and we don't all have a spouse or SO to do that with. No shame in taking door number two. I'm broke, I'm cold, I need a bath, but I'm going to sleep like a boss after I post this. Right now. G'night.

The Secretary of Defense would be legally permitted to recall Sam Wilson to active duty. That's not a comic book trope, it's a real law, so despite Wilson being retired from military duty, he's in the same boat as Rhodes.

This doesn't sound like a costume toggle, it sounds like switching between two costume slots, same costume items on both, one set to maximum height and the other set to minimum height.

Gives you that temporary base where he hangs around, waiting for you. Even puts it on your map. In other words, he shows you where the G-spot is.

Kinetic Melee with 2x animation times.

This would punish players for other players' mistakes, underpowered builds, lack of teamwork and/or inexperience. It would also open a door for griefing (deliberately getting teammates killed so they'd be debuffed or forced to rez, pulling large groups and abandoning teams, kiting over-leveled foes onto heroes/villains in open zones), and critically devalue numerous powers. Only an idiot would put something like this in an MMORPG.

That's what she said.

Minors aren't allowed in Fort Trident. Longbow's last Take Your Child To Work Day... didn't end well.

Spinning Strike has a base 16 second recharge time. Cryonic Rounds, the attack in question, has a 15% Slow. 16 * 1.15 = 18.4 In order for a power with a base 16 second recharge time to be require 44 seconds to recharge, the character would have to be hit with ~275% -Recharge. This would require more than a dozen +4 Council Marksmen hitting. (15 * 1.44 (purple patch)) * 13 = 280.8

A level 39 character fighting enemies which cap at level 20 would experience 0.01% of the effects of the enemy debuffs. Consequently, it would require several hundred NPCs attacking simultaneously to reduce a level 39 character's recharge times on the order of magnitude described. So this player is saying that he somehow found a way to bypass the aggro mechanics and herd every Outcast in the entire zone, multiply them by about 10 in order to assemble a sufficient number of the described foes to cause the claimed effect, and negate the purple patch which reduced their hit chance to 5%. I say ban him for using exploits.

Just having a little fun with the misquote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok_(video_game_series)

That's exactly how it should work. Healthy social interaction is NOT drawing invisible lines around ourselves and exerting Herculean effort to stay inside those lines. That's not socialization, it's voluntary imprisonment. It's living in fear and lying about who you are, and that's not good for you or the people with whom you're engaging. Someone else drawing the lines and telling us when we're crossing them is what gives us license to be honest, to be who we are and say what we really need to say. It's more disappointing to see people apologize for having an opinion, beg forgiveness for disagreeing, dissemble and prevaricate about how they feel and what they mean, bend over backwards to avoid crossing the imaginary boundaries they've constructed for themselves. I'd rather be surrounded by honest assholes, and be an honest asshole, than cowards and liars whos personalities are entirely dependent on the prevailing winds. My warnings were for being myself, and you're goddamn right that I'm proud of them. They say that I have the courage to expose my true personality instead of hiding behind a façade, and explore the boundaries of what's acceptable rather than constraining myself to the limits I would otherwise impose on myself. This is me, in all of my magnificence and my flaws, naked before you and with my head held high, unashamed.

I've had numerous warnings, with and without warning points, for being aggressive, insulting and rude. I'm still here. And you're folding because you got a slap on the wrist?

***** Buttest!

There are scripted flight responses to certain events or combinations of events. Taking more than X damage in Y time, being debuffed and taking damage, X% of spawn is defeated, inability to affect PC, et cetera. If a set amount of Threat is generated before the script reaches a flight response trigger, they won't run. That's the only exception, and the Threat has to be pre-existing. Taunting a runner doesn't work. NPCs also look for a way to reach the PC, if the PC is out of range of their attacks and they're not set to Prefer_Ranged, which can emulate a flight response if the pathing on that map is particularly poor.

You can't even properly truncate "because", and you expect anyone to believe you wouldn't have problems using powers properly if you were allowed to swap your primary/secondary on the fly? Pppppppfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt.

He has at least a few level 50 characters. If he didn't, he wouldn't have logged into a level 50 character which hadn't been Incarnated yet and complained about his Incarnate progress being reset. More than once. Pretty sure he's using his unique and special math when he states that he stops at a certain level.

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