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  1. 9 hours ago, Living Brain 3000 said:

    unpopular opinion there needs to be a leaver penalty for people dropping in and out of leagues/teams.

     

    I agree with one part of this; that it's an unpopular opinion.  I think it's a terrible idea.  Personally, I have not seen this to be an issue and I'm REALLY skeptical that there is some huge difference between the players on Excelsior and Everlasting.

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  2. On 4/25/2024 at 5:03 PM, Shenanigunner said:

    that it's hard to trot up the GNOMON, I SAID EFFING GNOMON to get the badge, or that getting down involves any particular risk at all.

     

    GNOMON GNOMON GNOMON!

     

    To be perfectly clear, you're not running up the gnomon.  Look at a real sundial and it doesn't have the "curvy arch" part.  The gnomon is the straight, angled piece that would cast the time-telling shadow on an actual sundial.  The "curvy arch" part in Ouroboros is a decorative addition.

  3. 15 hours ago, kryori said:

    For what it's worth, I'm not saying that tanks can't manage agro.  I'm saying that they can't manage agro any better than an AT with better damage.

    I think we need to clarify what you mean by "manage aggro".

    You can't control more than 16 targets at once.  That's just how the game is designed.

     

    HOWEVER, you absolutely can have complete control over one or a small number of elite bosses, archvillains, giant monsters, whatever.  When I'm tanking, I can keep the AV or whatever from even looking at anyone else.  Can I control every minion in the area?  No, and I don't care and I don't need to.  Any team should be able to handle some minions.  The tank's job is to manage the enemies that can one-shot people or throw an AoE that devastates half the team.

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  4. 22 hours ago, Ravenplume said:

    I actually do not recognize that guy.  Guessing they called him Crow though...

     

    That's Brandon Lee as he appeared in the film 'The Crow'.

    He was the son of Bruce Lee and died while making the film.

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  5. On 4/30/2024 at 11:46 PM, UltraAlt said:

     

    I think there is a badge for killing 25 number of each spawn type.

     

    Gardener for Old School Circle of Thorns.

    I'm not sure about the others, I switched characters...

    ... switched back - EDIT

     

     

    Not every type.  There are just two badges, for 25 each, of the legacy Circle of Thorns and legacy Rikti.

    Plus the badge for opening capsules.

  6. 1 hour ago, Scientist said:

    I'm also not clear how you check these jail cells to see who you are missing?  

     

    Just look in the cells in the mission.  Of course, you would need a list of everyone who should be in there, plus you need to be able to recognize all of those enemies on sight.

     

    Alternatively, check the list before doing the mission and go through your badges/souvenirs to confirm you have done all the required content.

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  7. 3 hours ago, Xaddy said:

    So...you reach level 50. You do some incarnate stuff..grab some badges along the way. And yet, there's soo much left to do! But noone seems interested in grinding out ouro badges because..well, doing content without enhancements is just plain masochistic, and ultimately silly and pretty much stupid. Just for a badge or three? It's nuts.

     

    Personally, I think it's nuts to do it more than once.  I have every Ouroboros badge on ONE character.

     

    Of course, some people are nuts.  There's one forum-goer who has every badge on over a dozen characters - I think one of each AT.

  8. I want the name purge because 5p4rk was taken!  No, I wasn't trying to get the name Spark, I actually wanted 5p4rk because I had it on live.

    I ended up going with 594rk.

     

     

    FYI, all of the above is true except where I say I want the name purge.  I don't actually care.  594rk is already level 50 and fully tier 4 incarnate and specifically built for tanking the Avatar of Hamidon in the Underground trial.

  9. On 4/19/2024 at 1:04 PM, Erratic1 said:

    Not a complaint, but why on Earth would you want/need the same name across every server?

     

    Why not?  I have a few dozen 50's, so why not have multiple copies of my favorite?  I have Ironblade on every shard and every one of them is level 50.  Two of them are fully tier 4 incarnate.

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  10. On 4/16/2024 at 6:20 PM, Sanguinesun said:

    Vinegar, ketchup, gravy or curry gravy with your chips? 

     

    Don't get me started.  My girlfriend keeps finding the weirdest potato chips.  The most recent find was 'Basil Pesto Potato Chips'.  I can't even.

  11. 12 hours ago, Snarky said:

    Evidently, the leader was not happy with my performance either, they picked me and another soul out of the team lineup after completion to inform us we have been "Blacklisted"   They did not say why.  Not sure why they mentioned it.  Just do it, leave me the F alone.

     

    Oh no!  Stupid and incompetent team leader has blacklisted me!  How can I go on?!?!?!

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  12. 22 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    Duly noted.  I refuse to give up "fungible", however; it's the right word!

     

    19 hours ago, Monty Haull said:

    Fungible:

    being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account.

     

    Yeah, that comes up occasionally in economic news.

    "We're going to boycott Russian oil!"

    "That never works, because crude oil is fungible."

    "What?"

  13. On 4/15/2024 at 11:54 AM, Xaddy said:

    So, maybe I said something I was supposed to. Not real sure. Someone said something to me, irritated me, so I let 'em have it. 
    Now, they say I'm "reported".

     

    Well, let's establish some context here.  Anyone who actually tells you, "Reported" is, at the very minimum, a drama queen.

    At worst, they're a total a-hole but we don't have enough evidence to establish that.

     

    On the few occasions that I've reported people (either for racial slurs or truly vulgar profanity), I say nothing to them and file the report.

    Then I block them, since it's clear they are of such a small-minded nature that they could never utter any words I would find of value.

     

    Edit:  On a side note, I've had people tell me "Reported" after I either criticized their inappropriate behavior (but not bad enough for me to report them) or kicked them from a task force for the same type of behavior.  I don't know if they actually did report me and don't care.  At any rate, nothing ever came of it.

  14. 13 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:

    Torchbearer. Skyway City. On a debugging league.

     

    Suddenly a pigeon swoops down, grabs my character, flies him up to the top of the map, and drops him.

     

    Oh, it's a pigeon?  To me, it looked like a little hat with a propeller on it.  I guess I should have zoomed in for a closer look.

     

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  15. 21 hours ago, Andreah said:

    Tartar doesn't have to be a horrendous mess like the example here to cause it either -- even small amounts of it provide places for bad things to happen. 

    And this is all 99.9% avoidable in a minute a day.

    To be fair, it takes a little longer than one minute.  An electric toothbrush is far more effective than a manual one and the built-in timer say 30 seconds per quadrant so two full minutes of actual brushing.

     

     

    3 hours ago, Ukase said:

    I recall the topic of dental care coming up in grad school. A friend of mine was dating a nurse, and apparently her schooling involved reading about the various efficacy and impacts of certain toothpastes. She suggested we avoid Close-up.

    Consumer Reports did a review of dozens of brands of toothpaste and concluded that Colgate's regular formula was the best you could buy, primarily because it has crushed seashells in it for a bit of abrasiveness.  It was "measurably" better, but not a lot better.  After that, it was something like a 20-way tie for second place among all the toothpastes that use the maximum amount of fluoride allowed by law.

     

    So, they said if you want the absolute best, use Colgate.  If cost is at all a concern, use Costco's Kirkland brand since it was in that 20-way tie for second place and is far cheaper than any other toothpaste of similar quality.

     

    My dentist recommends brushing twice a day with a different toothpaste for each: Colgate because it's the best, and also Arm & Hammer because it's one of the second-best and one of the least abrasive toothpastes on the market.

     

     

     

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  16. On 3/29/2024 at 7:24 PM, Glacier Peak said:

    Go to the Vanguard base. Look for the tunnel to the motorpool. Go down the tunnel and look for stacks of containers and cobwebs on the ceiling. Look behind that.

    Seriously, how the hell does the first person even find something like that?

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