Dynamo-Joe

Sometimes you just have to find the right spot to stand your character in. There's quite a few spots like this in the game. This one just happens to really work for Azure Dupree, both in terms of lighting and in thematic terms. It's the "Pirate Bar" in Pocket D upstairs, naturally. 😆 You just have to fiddle around with positioning. The lights over the bar in the Pirate bar work well for this. As you noticed. Also - for some other spot lighting in different locations it sometimes helps to NOT have the super detailed lighting of Ultra mode engaged. Sometimes the less detailed lighting of a step or two down from that works better! Try it and see!

Cyberman 8: How do you suppose that Malta gets those Titan mecha inside of office areas? How do they fit through the doors? Lil Blue Midnight: Maybe they build the mechs inside? Fumar: shrink ray tech MURD3R B34T: Amazon delivery, put together like Ikea furniture? Dom-: front door duh Cyberman 8: IKEA Mecha. I like it. MURD3R B34T: Woo I win! Fire Frau: Step 97: Insert gun D into slot B and fasten with bolts 9B... Fumar: ha! Lil Blue Midnight: The SARbot. TechnoMagi: Uh Boss. We're out of Bolt 9B's Fire Frau: Be sure to read the ten pages of safety instructions in tiny print first. MURD3R B34T: Oh God that sounds horrible. Imagine putting it together wrong, and the two go to combine and just explode or something. Cyberman 8: Hans, set up the Draagbare Mecha Uitpakken Dubbele Unit! MURD3R B34T: The *BIG* Draagbare Mecha Uitpakken Dubbele Unit Cyberman 8: Where are those blasted size 9A Allen wrenches!?

So this is just a Winterized variant of an existing costume. But I thought it was worth posting. For reference - this is Captain Azure Dupree with her normal gear. And here is her version of an arctic outfit - which serves as a complete winterization as well as snow camouflage.

I really enjoyed Dispatch. The story and writing is absolutely BONKERS good! There's a handful of extremely minor nitpicks or potential plot holes one could worry about if you were so inclined. But the breezy, casual way the story drags you in and allows you to JUST HAVE FUN with it makes any such concerns effectively non-issues. (Kinda like how in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home you COULD nitpick the entire premise of the whale plot, the time travel angle, Scotty trading transparent aluminum for plexiglass and Chekov DEFYING the "Chekov's Gun" principle by leaving a klingon communicator and phaser behind on the aircraft carrier Enterprise (!!) but look - just ROLL with it and have FUN! Cause everybody else surely is!) Look - it's a SUPERHERO story. And it's a FUN superhero story! Remember when superheroes were FUN??? Right? This is a real classic treat and whichever choices you make you'll wind up having a GRAND time! And - even the actual DIspatching itself - the management aspect of managing Calls and sending out Superheroes to deal with them - even THAT is fun! BTW - Team Blazer all the way with me. I LIKE Invisigal. But I don't want her DRAMA, I just want to HELP her. Give me the kind sweet, slightly goofy classic superheroine with the statuesque figure. ( BTW - does this place even HAVE an HR department? 😅 )

I'm a bit of an amateur Historian. Of the two World Wars and the MASSIVE technology curves involved with them. Of the revolutionary period of American history. (the ABSOLUTE SHENANIGANS that Benjamin Franklin got up to with ladies of the French Nobility could be an entire subject unto itself!) Japanese history. A bit of Chinese. Oh - I'm also a connoisseur of automobiles and aircraft (kind of dovetails with the whole WWII period) I also love science fiction works that create entire fictional future histories in themselves. Battletech is a favorite. As is the Third Imperium setting of Traveller. Also Legend of the Galactic Heroes. And the Universal Century setting for Gundam. And I'm A linguistic historian. Ever met someone who constantly asks "Hmm... I wonder where THAT word came from?" Now you have.

Gigantic explosion and fire consume a building. Then mechanical steps are heard. And THIS thing comes striding through the fire like the mecha equivalent of the Balrog in the Mines of Moria...

Look - let's face it - the effects just were NOT there at the time. But if they HAD been... whoa...

That's an excellent point!

Damn. I guess we're all out of the 50s, 60s and 70s celebs and stars for the most part. Now we're getting into the 80s and hitting the childhoods of kids who grew up in that era with the heartbreak. (I consider myself partially a child of the 80s. I sort of straddle the line. Graduated High School in 84. So really - my childhood was mid 70s through mid 80s.) The Hulkster came to prominence in the 80s. I've never been into wrestling. But even I know the really big names. And he was the BIGGEST. The LOUDEST. And the MOST AMERICAN. Even a non-fan of wrestling like me couldn't help but notice the larger than life persona. How perfectly over-the-top Hulk Hogan was. It was a style. A mood. The 80s was the loudest, most over-the-top decade of America. And Hulk Hogan was one of the LOUDEST parts of it all. And one of the most American and Patriotic. That almost seems out of place these days. And it's sad that it should be so. First the Prince of Darkness - Ozzy Osbourne. Now Hulk Hogan. And Malcolm Jamal Warner earlier. This has been a week of heartbreak. I too have heard this stuff comes in threes. Are we done with this for at least the next month or so?

Addendum - I learned today that when Ozzy had his genome sequenced (because of course he did), they found that he had a number of previously unknown mutations, including one that gave him a much higher tolerance for alcohol. So yeah. Add "Mutant" to the list of Ozzy Osbourne's traits. As if we didn't already suspect that all along.

3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025 I wasn't the biggest fan of the OZ. But as the years went on I respected what he'd done more and more. Not ALL of it. You don't get a moniker like "The Prince of Darkness" and NOT have a dark side. He screwed a few people over here and there. But the music industry as a whole tends to do that. So... yeah. That happened. More to the point. As Razor points out in the following video - no one - absolutely NO ONE. Ever remotely SOUNDED like him! EVER. One of God's own prototypes. Too fast to live. Too weird to die... well - at least until now. And Keith Richards gets another "Hey look who I outlived!" on his running tally.

Can confirm. Just found that spot as well. I wonder how long that's been there?

This song popped INSTANTLY into my mind while reading this!!

Apparently the following video is a follow-up on the one I posted the link to - here: New Video: