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Fans bid farewell to life-size Gundam statue https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240401_22/ Fans of Japanese anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" have gathered in Yokohama, near Tokyo, to say goodbye to a life-size statue of the robot after which the sci-fi series was named. About 1,500 people attended an event on Sunday night to mark the end of the robot's display at Yokohama Port. The 18-meter-tall figure has functional joints. Since its display began in December 2020, the robot has become a symbol of the port. The display period was extended twice, with more than 1.75 million people coming to see the figure. The series's chief director Tomino Yoshiyuki said Gundam resembles a large Buddha statue, and building it was an engineering experiment. He said he is grateful for the huge staff who helped realize the project. Gundam moved its fingers and legs one last time. Visitors applauded when fireworks were launched and 1,000 drones aligned to form images of Gundam and other characters of the anime in the sky. An 8-year-old boy from Yokohama said the figure is impressive and he wants to see it again. A university student from Niigata Prefecture said he was deeply moved, and he wants Gundam to be shown again. The robot will be dismantled at the port.

Fans bid farewell to life-size Gundam statue https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240401_22/ Fans of Japanese anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" have gathered in Yokohama, near Tokyo, to say goodbye to a life-size statue of the robot after which the sci-fi series was named. About 1,500 people attended an event on Sunday night to mark the end of the robot's display at Yokohama Port. The 18-meter-tall figure has functional joints. Since its display began in December 2020, the robot has become a symbol of the port. The display period was extended twice, with more than 1.75 million people coming to see the figure. The series's chief director Tomino Yoshiyuki said Gundam resembles a large Buddha statue, and building it was an engineering experiment. He said he is grateful for the huge staff who helped realize the project. Gundam moved its fingers and legs one last time. Visitors applauded when fireworks were launched and 1,000 drones aligned to form images of Gundam and other characters of the anime in the sky. An 8-year-old boy from Yokohama said the figure is impressive and he wants to see it again. A university student from Niigata Prefecture said he was deeply moved, and he wants Gundam to be shown again. The robot will be dismantled at the port.

He has a heart made of mustard. Statesman has met his match.

Suppress doesn't solve the problem. /macro fx0 "noparticles 1" /macro fx1 "noparticles 0" noparticles does!

People really need to understand that they are ruining other players play experience. I really hate all-white FX. It is just rude. My eyes can't take it. They might as well be shining a spotlight at my eyes intentionally. you might see some trying to sell you on supressfx and what not, but that isn't going to do it. what you need is /macro fx0 "noparticles 1" /macro fx1 "noparticles 0" The first one turns the particles off immediately. The 2nd one turns the particles back on, but it doesn't return them completely until you zone. You can't see your effects either, but you definitely can see the enemies on most teams. Warning: there are still some FX you will see. Warning: when the particles are turned off, you can't see the bubbling goo in the last part of DFB. (One would think that you wouldn't have to turn of VFX in there, but sometimes ... someone just has to make all their powers as white as possible! My eyes! argh!)

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Winter_Lord https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Winter_Horde I know they aren't around all year long*, but the Winter Horde does seem to be an ice-based faction. *Unless you put them in AE missions. Then you can fight them any time of year.

After I read what the others had said, I tracked this down on the wiki "Defense Tags and Stacking Defense bonuses carry tags as well, to specify what styles of attack they work against. Each Defense bonus applies only versus attacks whose tags match one or more of its own. There is one additional type of Defense bonus called Base Defense, or DEF(Defense), which applies against all attacks regardless of tagging. Every time an attack is made against a target, the game checks the target's total Defense bonus against each of the attack's tags separately. Once the game has those separate totals, it uses only the best one in its calculations that determine whether the attack hits. The important result of this rule is that, for any given attack, Defense buffs only stack when they all have one of that attack's tags in common. However, for attacks that have multiple damage types (e.g., Cold and Smashing), only the defense for the damage type which makes up the majority of the power's damage used in the calculations. Example: Deflection Shield gives a Defense bonus against Melee Attacks, Smashing Attacks, and Lethal Attacks. Glacial Armor gives a Defense bonus against Energy Attacks and Negative Energy Attacks. A Tanker with both these buffs is ambushed by a nasty Council Vampyri who tries to hit her with Siphon Life. That power is tagged as a Negative Energy Attack and a Melee Attack. Our Tanker will only be protected by one of her two Defense buffs. Lucky for her, it will be whichever is larger." - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Defense

Phase shift is better used in advance. I can't remember if it has interrupt time or not at this point (it has been nerfed a couple of times), but you can't use it when you are mezed. I alway carry one column of resist effects insps on squishies. I'm thinking if you are able to nuke everyone in a mob, you will probably have enough time to get into phase shift if you click it immediately. That being said, I've never tried it. Other characters the are phase shifted can attack you. (at least as far as I know, but it has never happened to me) You are invulnerable to attacks from non-phase shifted characters. I only ever used phase shift on a katana/super reflexes scrapper that I had before the sunset. When I used phase shift, I used it along with invisibility (which is no longer part of the concealment pool) to stealth to the end of missions. Back then, phase shift lasted much longer as well. I don't have an characters on Homecoming with Phase Shift yet. "Although this power is a toggle, you cannot remain Phase Shifted for more than 30 seconds, even if you still have Endurance." - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Concealment#Phase_Shift Enough time to get away, but not enough time to stealth with it to the end of a mission in one shot.

Well, it sort of says what it is. Melee defense only defends against melee attacks (oddly enough, some attacks that seem to be melee are actually ranged attacks) Ranged defense only defends against ranged attacks. FX based defenses say to Fire, energy, etc. Only defend against that damage type (not regulated by being ranged or melee). If an attack is a ranged fire attack, both ranged defense and defense vs fire would stack. Same for melee. You can get defense vs AoEs as well. I'm unsure if that stacks with ranged and melee, but it would stack with say defense vs fire.

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Defiant_Barrage:_Recharge/Chance_for_%2BStatus_Protection (Unique) This enhancement adds a chance to boost your status protection against hold, disorient, sleep, immobilize, confuse, and fear effects for a short time. This effect will trigger approximately 3 times per minute. Its minimum proc chance is 9.5%, and its maximum is 90%. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Winter's_Gift (unique) Two enhancements increases Fire and Cold Resistance by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Immobilize effects on you by 6.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Hold effects on you by 6.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Stun effects on you by 6.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Sleep effects on you by 6.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Fear effects on you by 6.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Confuse effects on you by 6.25%. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Impervious_Skin:_Status_Resistance/Regeneration (not unique) This enhancement grants a global 7.5% reduction in status effect duration, which may be stacked up to five times to provide a maximum reduction of 37.5%. This enhancement grants a 25% regeneration rate bonus for 120 seconds. When used in a click power, the effect is granted every time the power is used. When used in a toggle power, the effect persists until 120 seconds after the toggle power is deactivated. When used in an auto power, the effect is always active. This regeneration rate bonus is unique and non-stacking. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Leaping#Acrobatics While this power is active, you are very nimble and Acrobatic. You can avoid most Knockback effects and are resistant to Hold effects. You must be at least level 14 and have two other Leaping Powers before selecting Acrobatics.

Is the way that I would always go. ... because "they" always think that what made the comics popular isn't as important as "modernizing" and "selling" the movie to a general audience. I would seriously like to see a classic comic movie done with everything from a series of comics done as it was done in the comics. Keep all the scripting and action from the comic ... and, then ... add in extra embellishment and dialog. In general, I have this feeling about retcons as well. The original were popular because the readers enjoyed them. Back when I was actively seeking out comics in the early days (early for me at least) -either on the "Hey, Kids! Comics!" or in a comic book store -, there wasn't polybagging, hologram cards, multiple covers, restarts to sell issue #1's, etc. Comics sold because people were interested in the story, characters, and/or the cover looked cool. To me, there seems to be far too much "adulting" of superheroes in movies ... and, it appears, in comic books in general these days (if not, simply deconstruction which to me is a juvenile attempt at "adulting" superheroes. It is always easier "to tear something down" than it is to "build something up") The flashy colors in comics were to promote sales which were targeted at adolescents and not adults. X-men under Chris Clairmont was highly targeted toward pointing out the prejudice of people toward those that are "different", how those that are "different" deal with that prejudice, and how that prejudice against those that are "different" is a villain that has to be confronted. [Coming back to insert this: In effect, how as a "nerdy" kid that reads comics am I to deal with the dressers, jocks, and bullies in the "in crowd"? - aka how do I deal with being an outsider (mutant)?] They tried to handle this in some of the X-men movies, but I think they were off-target because they "think" they know what's "better" than the original. I do think that the X-men movies were enjoyable and some of the better superhero movies out there (However, I have not enjoyed the handling of Dark Phoenix in the movies. Far too truncated and far too retconned for my tastes ... Dark Phoenix was a slow-boil thing in comics. plenty of foreshadowing for a long time before the ultimate solar system - if not galaxy spanning - confrontation.) I didn't really know where I was going with this, but it seems to be rounding out to pointing to a storyline with Sentinels in it. We have seen the advancement in Kaiju films - the technology can do a good job on Sentinels at this point. I would definitely think a Sentinels storyline should stretch out over at least two movies. 1) so that the first one can have a cliffhanger and 2) so that the VFX (hopefully, used properly for abbreviation purests) could be used over the course of 2 or more films for budgetary concerns.

There are plenty of missions in the AE that aren't farms.

It hasn't been turned on (for renaming) as far as I know. I don't think so. It doesn't appear that any servers will be merging but added instead .... another shard of the multiverse to inva.... I mean visit...

The "new"/non-origin starter arcs/contacts for heroes suck as far as I'm concerned. Twinshot is the worst.

Scrapper - Katana/Super Reflexes w/ Force of Will and Leadership equipped with the VK-99 Event Horizon

... the area of the City where I'm gaming with friends.

I have been using game controllers to play City of Heroes since I started playing just before the drop of episode 2. I have always used Logitech controllers and used their profiler to set the controller to act like a keyboard. Here is my thread about my use of the Logitech F310 and how I set up that controller. The setup works very well for me and it might be helpful to look at my setup when setting up defaults for controllers. Also, if you are setting up for controllers/joysticks I would make sure to make one setup for the XBox controller and one for PlayStation controllers. I don't use either, but those seem to be one one most likely to be "ported" over for use. I don't believe either of these have a default profiler system that allows them to be set to operate like a keyboard. I included in my post is my setup file for the Logitech F310.

Most of the time. Most of the time. I'm digging through to find the costume parts that work best of the character conception. Am I trying to make character concepts based on using parts that I haven't used before? Rarely. Rarely. Sometime I make a character because I want to use a powerset, and I didn't really pre-plan a character concept. And I mean rarely. I think I have only done this once. I randomized until I found something cool - not so many times as I remember - and then used that as the base and changed costume parts. I can't remember, but I think that time I even make the character name after I made the costume and/or changed the character name to more meet the character's costume.

Yes. Buy it now! Buy quickly ... even at a inflated price ... it's there for the taking ... just do it!

well, I have 2 problems with this. 1) If it is going to show something I need on the character screen that isn't there, it would be more important to me to know if the character needs to level-up or not. 2) I think it would cause massive delay and a strain on the system to have to draw additional information out of the character database and display it on the character selection screen. If I really need to know how much a character has, I can track it on a spreadsheet. I have general cap of x influence on a character, any more than that goes into email in 500M infl emails to myself. If a character doesn't have enough extra to load a 500M infl onto an email, then I just email what they have extras - next character, pull that less than 500M infl out and then rollback what extra that character has into an email and repeat until 500M infl. Then I draw from one of those emails when ever I need loot which is mostly on a new character or if I'm going to buy a bunch of card packs.

The Yin in Fauleline https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Penelope_Yin_(Faultline) is a 15-19 contact that you can get from Jake Temblor https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Jim_Temblor You will probably need to level-lock (turn off your XP gain) to avoid out-leveling getting her as a contact and to run all her missions. The others already explained how to get to https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Penelope_Yin_Task_Force

Nope. I do other things. I may spend too much time logged into THE CITY and digging through the forums, but the time here is and in-game is enjoyable to me. Then it sounds like a good decision for you. I'm glad that you came to that conclusion for yourself. It isn't necessary to try to drag people along with you in order to reassure yourself that you are making the correct decision. yeah, that sounds pretty boring. I wouldn't be playing any more CoH if that was all I was doing either. Go find your bliss. It will be good for your soul.

Origin contacts! When they started funneling during the last years before the Sunset, they stopped directing new players to the Origin contacts in City Hall in Atlas. A lot of the Origin stuff is left out of the contact selection if you don't follow it and get the next Origin contact. An origin contact will give you two Origin contact choices part way through their arc that are not the same origin. At the last level or the level after their last contact level (for missions) they will/can offer you another origin contact of the same origin. If you use the wiki to check out contacts, it will list what origin they are if they have one. You can solo a lot of the Hollows, but it more fun with a team. Perez Park is great for street fighting with a team. And I second running the Striga arcs. Croatoa is fun as well.

I guess you did not "say" but you admit posting someone else's comment that included it in your post. As I understand it, they did not post that in the forums. You posted that comment in the forums. I feel insulted. I pointed that out. Again. I'm done with this. Please don't bring my name up again. You bring up some interesting things about bases, but I can search for information if I need it. I feel best to un-follow you at this point and to do my best to avoid the Base Community in general.