High_Beam
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On 11/1/2025 at 12:06 PM, Psyonico said:
Also saw a surprising number of inflatable costumes, mostly dinosaurs, though there was also a Cookie Monster and a Sonic the Hedgehog inflatable as well.
Yeah two of the 6 dinosaurs this year in our neighborhood were inflatables.
Funny side note, when some kids said trick or treat I tried to make the "doink" noise in game. I failed.
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My spouse and I have been living in our current home since 2008 and have always gotten an average of 50 kids annually, some years more some less (COVID was a low year last year was larger. My spouse is crafty oriented so created these hand made full scale static decorations outside, witches, pirates, this year added an Oracle. My deal is I sit out and greet the ToTers and guess their costume (and I am really good at it) which gets the kids super stoked and then they get candy, all kids get candy and plenty of it but really good costumes get more (if they are in a group I am less openly effusive) but they know. I don’t pick on bad costumes except when teens roll up. I don’t mind teens coming for candy, I respect that game but put in the effort. I mean yeah they still get candy cause its Halloween; I save the Grinching for other holidays.
Princesses were way down this year while Dinosaurs were up. Superheroes were surprisingly low with just 3 Spiderman and 1 Iron Man. Got your standard witches and such but strange ones popped this year . . . Flintstones, several. What’s next? Woody Woodpecker? Felix the Cat? We had a Fred Jones from Scooby Doo, blonde hair and ascot with his wife dressed as Velma and their like 1 year old baby (who's birthday was that day) dressed as Scooby. Glorious. Then there were the crushingly adorable little brother and sister who came as Sheriff Woody and Jesse the Yodeling Cowgirl, you can’t help but give extra candy for that. There was a kid dressed as Wednesday Addams and mom as Morticia but the Wednesday was OG from the TV show and her mom was like her daughter wanted to kick the OG vice the reboot. Now the mom was Zeta Jones Morticia but who doesn’t like sword fighting Zeta Jones right? Then a father rolls up with two young boys and one is got me torn on my guess at first, is it Bruno Mars or is it Michael Jackson from Smooth Criminal, I took my shot with the King of Pop and I was right. His brother was dressed like Michael in the Billie Jean video. Respect and extra candy was thus received.
Finally there was this couple with their son who looked to be like 16 or older who had come by not trick or treating just looking. But later they came back and after complimenting my spouse on the decorations and actually thanked us for doing the decorations and me doing the guessing and complimenting of costumes. Dude goes on to say that they have been bringing their son there since he was 4 and was now 18 and they tell us the kid is somewhat autistic but loved coming to the house to see the decorations and remembers me guessing his costume when he was super little. The dad said Adventure Time and I immediately remembered a Finn one year which surprised the dad I remembered (it was a rare costume to see) then mentioned the time when the kid was 11 that they came as a Ghostbuster and I nailed that he was Stantz not Venkman. That one I actually noted in my Facebook commentary 7 years ago.
It was very humbling and a nice cap on a very fun and Happy Halloween.
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Subject says it all. Hope you get lots of great costumes visitors at your doors and its nothing but Treats.
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16 hours ago, Six-Six said:
Stay away from Brenda. She'll say that a small penis is non-issue with her, but I'd still prefer she didn't have one.
Westpac!
Also I think its absolutely fab that someone is asking what a reasonable amount to give is. Thumbs up to you!
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17 hours ago, Jacke said:
I was about to post that one. Mother Mayhem...there's something not human about that body.
A glorious prow!
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I'm feeling this because of some alts I have.
If you spot Hard Melody or Blue Aria check em out, they are two members of Super Girl Band (that's three words, they don't want to get sued by DC), a pop-rock band themed from the 80's. Sonic sweeties with the sounds to soothe the savage beast
One's Symphonic/Sonic the other is Sonic/Sonic
But I have Pyro handled by Six Pack the Roadie . . . how'd he get the name? Two words; abbbbbbbbbbbs.
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Bravo Zulu to the hard work the HC team puts in.
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My Spouse: I am not talking to you.
Me: Not a punishment.
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1 hour ago, srmalloy said:
The pathology of the condition is not well understood, but prolonged or aggressive masturbation or sexual intercourse is believed to be one of the causes of Penile Mondor's Disease. And that's likely TMI, but in this case, too much may not be a good thing.
One word
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I want to circle back to his concept of there being such a thing as excessive masturbation, I am pretty sure that's not a thing. 🙂
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6 minutes ago, Ukase said:
Make sure you don't have a tip already. All the chaos, it could drop and you missed it
This. So many time this. 🙂
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I got a rock
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2 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:
Regen is most certainly in there for Tanks. The current version is 3.7.14 and the latest database is 2025.8.1154. If you're seeing something else you need to update the app.
Concur, same SW and DB versions and I see regen for tank.
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Also this
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Totally not skippable.
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1. I had just transferred back to the states from Naples, Italy in April of 2004. After getting settled into work I was looking for a distraction and saw some ad somewhere about the game, maybe at CompUSA. I had played the pen and paper RPGs of Champions, Marvel Super Heroes and Villains and Vigilantes for years before joining the Navy and my brother and I created these super crappy comic books to go with the adventures (this was like 1985-87 time frame) so a super hero game was so for me.
2. I love the fun I still have in playing. I tried other games when CoH shut down, Champions Online to start (meh), Eve Online, Star Trek Online, the wretched D&D Online, none got it done for me. So I literally devolved into playing toilet time games on my iPaq (yes Compaq had the lower case i thing first) like Yahtzee and Battleship and later iPad tappy tap games (no phones thought, Machete don't play on phones). Anyway it was steam revisits of the Sims and Mechwarrior until I found out about Homecoming. It is like grilled cheese and tomato soup on a crappy day, its comforting and it makes me feel good. I am stunned how well its held up, but also not surprised. It was a lightning in a bottle thing and I was just glad I was there to enjoy it then and now.
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Charlie Brown is a Mook.
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What? OMG this is interesting?
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The amateur psychologist in this threat needs to lighten up.
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Thanks @UltraAlt for the post on the how to; what a community booster. I have a tray of macros on a toon whose theme is they randomly shift between genders and use them to quickly shift. I also use it on several secret identity change gimmicks as well as aura and non-aura modes. Good stuff.
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I like this. Its a fun little bit of fluff that speaks to love of the game and of fun over balancing risk vs rewards or appeasing crowd X or Z. The absence of rewards of any tangible form other than normal XP and a little salvage make it something that you don't have to grind and repeat of all your alts. It doesn't choke up a zone or turn it into a lag fest yet still encourages teaming to defeat whatshisnut, Bladehook and also gives those who want to solo ALL TEH AVs there thing.
Plus, I will often spend most of a work day on the 19th talking like a pirate for fun and frolic so bonus.
Well done, devs. Really well done.
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Halloween / Trick or Treat (ToT) Event Macros
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Hazy brain saw condom.