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That's 'O Fortuna' ( Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) from 'Carmen Burana' by Carl Orff.

You will see this any time you are standing on a spot where the area to your NE is significantly lower than where you are standing. Watch the invasion spawns -- both zombies and Rikti -- and you'll see that they spawn NE of you, so if you move in that direction to fight them, the spawns will move NE as the invasion goes on. This is why the Portal Court fights in PI drift toward the drones. What this means is that if you park on a ledge or roof on the N or E edge, or on the War Wall on the S or W sides of a zone, the spawns will be at your physical level NE of you, and will fall away to the ground. I've watched this happen with a character parked in the SE corner of the hospital roof in DA.

I think they're referring to the recurring requests to amend the respec process so that, instead of having to completely redo your build, you can select individual powers and slots to be re-allocated.

Bio Armor didn't come out until after Power Customization, so you can at least color it to look like something else. Stone Armor users were stuck being partially covered in brown glop (loosely stone textured) with optional glowing green crystals (depending on which toggles you were running), so you were stuck running around looking like you were covered in говно.

Today, 10/3, in an unusual bit of insight on the part of an NPC: [NPC] Gravedigger Brawler: Is it halloween already?

I get convertors with some regularity from mobs as far as -10 to me, and occasionally from whacking the odd purse snatcher in AP (which would generally be -20 or more), but I don't whack the purse snatchers often enough to make a proper statistical sample. Update: I got a convertor from defeating a level 14 Clockwork boss as a level 45 Corruptor, so you can get convertors from mobs at least as far down as -31.

Some time ago, I thought about suggesting a change that would have any street encounter where you defeated mobs threatening a civilian -- attempted purse snatching or whatever -- to give a reward of 1 inf even if the character would not normally get any reward (i.e., for being too high level, or with a 2x XP boost active). 1 inf is a negligible reward, but it does represent the fact that you're out in public defending civilians. Because I couldn't think of a good way to match it for redside or goldside, I stuck the idea away until I could come up with a solution that worked for each side.

You have to be careful with that, though. The game has an interesting quirk connected with curing one mob in a spawn. When you cure one, all the others in the group aggro on him simultaneously. If they happen to be all shotgunners, they will draw and fire at the same time, and the game stacks up the shotgun blast sound to the point where it is physically painful. Once everyone has their weapons out, though, it spreads out, so it's only the first shot, and only with shotguns.

Since going through Perez Park curing the Aberrant Rectors doesn't advance the count for the Finder (defeat Lost bosses) badge, I expect that you're correct, and the cure just removes the Lost mob, replacing it with a civilian mob.

Yes, well, talk to Empowered before you start bitching.

PVP Online nailed it back in 2004:

Better to have it hidden behind a keybind than to have an icon sitting in my task bars highlighting the inability of my fellow players to remember the command or save it somewhere they can find it. 🤨

I set that up as a key bind months ago because I was tired of typing it; it's in the default custom bind file I load for all my characters.

That's a Collom lune, measured in words, not syllables, and invented by the poet Jack Collom as a variation of the Kelly lune, invented by Robert Kelly in the 1960s and having a 5-3-5 syllable pattern. Hardly comparable to the history of haiku, which evolved in the 1600s from the opening stanza of renga poems (first recorded in 711AD) to become standalone works, being renamed from hokku to haiku by Masaoka Shiki in the late 1800s. Collom's variation came from misremembering the pattern for a lune, and became its own variant that is currently more popular than Kelly's.

You don't like the 'poo tanker' look? I remember that being one of the japes about the powerset back before power customization. 😉

CoH supports Unicode for foreign languages that don't use the ASCII alphabet (originally, I believe, for the abortive Korean release); each Unicode character is 16 bits wide, so each one used in a background eats two characters worth of the space available.

The second sentence is correct, but the first one is poorly written. Regular and Superior ATOs/Winter-Os count separately for set bonus determination, since their bonuses are different.

There are enough people for whom the 'head bob' seen in most first-person games causes vertigo that virtually every FPS and MMO that has head bob includes a setting to disable it. Or the people who have problems with VR because of the disjoin between what their eyes see and what their inner ear is telling them.

The mask itself should not be that difficult to add to the face options, with the ties being made a head accessory. Making them flutter as you move, like capes et al., would be more difficult.

I'm not sure if it's a typo per se, but the Bone Snap Acc/Rech recipes list the following salvage: Luck Charm Enriched Plutonium Scope Enriched Plutonium is a rare salvage component; the standard through the recipes is to list required salvage in rarity order -- first common, then uncommon, then rare -- it should be listed last. The other Bone Snap recipes have the normal salvage order.

Admittedly, it's a one-time-per-zone occurrence, but it's still annoying to enter a zone for the first time and have your current 'target' be redesignated by the game to be the detective assigned to you for that zone. Can the behavior be altered so that you only get the automatic "here's the detective" (or broker, for redside) waypoint if you don't already have your police radio/newspaper? If you already have your police radio/newspaper, then there's no point in visiting the detective/broker until you've built up enough completed radio/paper missions in the zone to get a safeguard/mayhem, so resetting your waypoint to point to them just distracts from what you're doing.

It’s just a very early attempt to proactively account for future level cap increases -- this way, they wouldn't have to update the level range for decades...

It was also used somewhat ironically, as when Philipp Gothard von Schaffgotsch, the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, appointed the composer Carl Ditters Amtshauptmann of Fresenik; because the post required a noble title, he was sent to Vienna and given the title of von Dittersdorf, making him Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf -- loosely the equivalent of 'John Smith of Smithtown'.

Actually, it was also used as a toponym, indicating an individual's place of origin or residence -- for example, 'Hans von Duisburg' was 'Hans from the city of Duisburg'. 'Von' was a nobiliary particle, indicating the nobility of a family lineage, not a specific rank; 'freiherr' was the approximate equivalent of 'baron' -- someone with the rank of 'Ritter' might, if they were considered to be deserving of more than just Ritter, but not Freiherr, could be given 'Ritter von' as a title. This last was also adopted for orders of merit -- non-noble recipients of the Military Order of Max Joseph or the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, for example, would be granted this title.

That's a misquote of the original -- "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and he'll sit around in a boat all day drinking beer." 😉