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Incidentally, the swordfish is green and little Eunice cannot paint the small overstuffed chair. The word is "albatross." Paint the chair red. Immediately.

From a post I made in the 'Favorite Quotes' thread: Headman Swordsman: I just don't get that 'stealing candy from a baby' thing. It'd be all gummy and gross. Who would want that anyway?

And the obvious theme song for this suggestion... "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way".

My eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nussink!

I am reminded of Robert Heinlein's statement "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."

If you didn't keep tapping the junkies outside the rehab centers, you wouldn't have that problem... 😁 To keep with the thread theme: Ice/Ice Blaster - Mr. Freeze

Triage bacon? That's easy; it has no chance of survival, so it's best to eat it now.

It ranks up with how you can be beating on the end boss in a mission, and spawns in clear view of the fight just stand there -- "Look, the boss is getting his ass handed to him." "Shouldn't we go over and help him?" "Didn't he just put you on a week's KP for having a spot on your uniform?" "You're right; screw him, he should be able to take care of himself. Rescuing him from his own mistakes isn't in my job description." "Wait, did he just say 'I am invincible'?" "Shit, he's doomed now. I hear the cafeteria has chocolate cake today; let's go check it out." "I'm with you."

Heldenjager's TF/arc; the name is 'Brass Tuesday', with a level 40 minimum.

Some time ago, I put up a suggestion to have a 'vend all' option for stacks that would dump a whole stack into the AH, parceling it out into blocks of ten as necessary (greatly shortening things like dumping 100 merits worth of convertors into the AH), and the general upshot was 'you can already drag stacks of 10, it's not worth the HC staff's time to do something like this when there's so much else that needs fixing' .

It would be consistent with the theme of Arachnos' "rise to the level you can take" (particularly with the recording of Lord Recluse's speech that's on all the displays as you enter Grandville) that, if things are changed so you are able to contact Arbiter Rein for yourself before level 35, you get a different speech -- talking about how the challenges you will face are intended for someone with more proven experience than you have, but that Arachnos will let you be your own judge of your abilities and take the challenge anyway -- and have the arc's missions locked at a minimum level of 35, so if you start early, you're 'fighting uphill'.

Particularly the fact that lighting off Meteor doesn't put you in combat, so you retain things like stealth and the slow snipe.

No, it's based on, in going on 40 years as a programmer, seeing exactly this chain of "Make this change to make this one little thing more convenient!" [change made] followed by a long string of "The change does something I don't want if I use it without thinking first; fix it!" as people want ever more specific alterations that affect fewer and fewer people until the first change becomes more complicated to use than things were before the change was made.

So when NCsoft shuttered the game, it made them a CoX-sacker?

e. e. cummings says otherwise.

It's been too many years, and I've tried to forget the blotches that Harmony Gold has made of anime and their subsequent issues regarding the copyright on Macross, and HG's litigiousness over terms and images they claimed the rights to.

Which Voltron? GoLion or Dairugger XV? How can it be "the most iconic giant robot in media" if it's just two completely unrelated Japanese anime series jammed together? And now I'm mad that you seem to be one of those western fanboys who think it's all original, like the people who don't understand that Harmony Gold's 'Macross Saga' was made up of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross -- three completely unrelated anime series jammed together to have enough episodes for American TV networks to buy in syndication. For an 'iconic giant robot', you'd do better by going with Gundam; the style, maintained across fifty series, films, and OVAs, as well as manga, novels, and video games, is more widely recognized than Voltron will ever be. And if you take this comment seriously, you deserve to.

I ran into this in PI 1 yesterday, an enormous ball of MM pets with the mains set to auto heal, and no one responding to invite requests. What I saw was that they were all left on Aggressive Follow, because as soon as someone (not the cluster) clicked a door and got a trick, the closest side of the swarm would swoop out and attack, then return to the swarm. I wasn't interested in playing feeder for a bunch of AFK leeches, so I went to the TUNNEL portal and switched instances.

I see...

Along with having MM pets inherit the MM's travel power if within a certain radius of the MM, simply change the default value of whatever internal flag Null flips for enabling/disabling the effect of Group Fly on your character to 'not affected'. And while looking at that, look at what causes, when a group teleport power is used, when an MM has the teleport prompt setting turned on, the group teleport power teleports your pets to you before you choose whether or not you accept the teleport. I've seen this happening with my MMs during ToTing at the murder motel in PI.

No, my position is that prioritizing code changes based on complaints of "It's not convenient for me to have to do this; change it so these things are done for me" is poor code design practice. There are enough real problems with the code that should be fixed that "I don't want to have to click so many times" should be deeply buried in the pile.

The way they get run on Excelsior, that's not an issue. The league lead sets up the instanced MSR from anywhere and enters the instance solo or with their core team leads. Then they advertise the MSR, inviting people as they respond. The invitees can be in any zone, and enter the instance as they accept the invitation. There's no pileup in the leader's zone of people waiting for the raid to start, and no having to reorganize the league because the game shuffled the teams when everyone entered at once.

With my Elec/Elec Controller, the only problem is that they take so much longer to go down, which is balanced by the 5x XP value. Two hits to zero their End, with the AoE aura mostly keeping them there, and they're essentially neutered while they are ground down.

@DarknessEternal's request is to enable dumping enhancements, recipes, and salvage to a vendor, not into the AH. That would be an entirely different change.