Skyhawke

Synapse always feels like a double edged sword to me. On one hand, if you get on a good team it can be done in @45 minutes and for the number of merits (50?) you get, it's well worth it. Especially if it's the WST. On the other hand, a mediocre or worse team will make that TF very very painful and long. I've seen both sides of the coin and every time I've had the "They need to shorten this" thought, I remember the flip side and go back to "Meh, it's fine" train of thought. If it was shortened, though, definitely lower the merits accordingly.

Ice Melee/Electric Armor Brute. In Praetoria, I was a god almost from the get go and as I leveled it only got better. Good hp? Check. Full energy resists (what's Praetoria's favorite damage type?) before level 10? Check. Ice Patch to stop ambushes (heh) cold? Check. Once I finally left Night Ward, the high faded to just being pretty good...but man, in Praetoria that build was unstoppable.

I googled "cottage rule", got the following AI definition and now I really want a cupcake from a church bake sale... In Virginia, the "cottage rule" refers to the Cottage Food Law, which allows individuals to produce and sell certain non-perishable, homemade foods directly to consumers without needing a commercial kitchen permit. This law provides an exemption from standard food establishment regulations for specific types of food items.

I'd be down if they were even con like other event foes.

Found the culprit.

*More Incarnate stuff unlocked *More on the Coming Storm *Eye beam customization (think things like lightning vision or fire vision) *New MM pets *Super strength for Scrappers *Pimp hats

This sounds like the beginning of a Country song and I gotta admit, I'm intrigued.

Love me some soft french rolls. 🥐

Finally got around to some housekeeping so these are now free: Cryo Fighter Galvanic Dynamo Sundered Ion Gold-Spider Silver Carapace Widow Azure Captain Ironsights Darke Tide Frosted Isotope Kineto Scorch Crimson Recurve

Think? 😁

Gotcha covered.

Montague told me I cured that lot. What else is he hiding from us?

Arachnos Agent Jenkins. That mofo has had a story arc!

My wife teaches ESL during the weeknights online so those nights are pretty free for me. I'll weave some COH time during the week, usually a couple hours in a night a night or three a week. On the weekends, it's never the same thing twice. I've finished everything I thought I had to do, sat down, logged in and immediately had to log off because I thought I'd finished everything...until someone proved me wrong. I've also sat down on a Saturday morning and played until the evening.

For a thread about positivity:

I just wish Fold Space would pull melee players in with it. Nothing quite like jumping into a mob, right about to click your aoe aaaaaaand "where'd everybody go?". If I got pulled along for the ride and my aoe hit the enemies, that'd be spiffy. As it is, it ruffles my jammies more often than not.

I have too many alts and get distracted way too easily to ever be rich in this game. I'm more of a middle class level. I'm not broke at any time, but there are times I have to watch spending until I can build up a nest egg again. I don't play the market (other than just selling orange and the rare purple drops, prismatics and turning merits into enhancers) but I do okay. If everything was free, yeah it'd seem cool...at first. It'd get boring fast. I do enjoy finally being able to finish off a build fully. It's a sense of accomplishment. Sometimes, I think the 1%ers forget that even though they just snap their fingers and are fully kitted, the majority of players are not in that space. Put me down for keeping the status quo.

I usually turn my nose up at the "Hey, here's a really cool and established character, but young and just starting out. Enjoy!" trope. However, this intrigues me.

Aaaaand now I have a mental image of Snarky on a team with that person and just spending the whole TF licking everyone and it's now stuck in my minds eye. So, thanks for that.

Why? Who's looking for my precious temp powers?!?! Not that I have any or a problem or anything! (yes I do and yes, it's a problem 😆)

Or at least Carp Melee.

A Starbucks on every. single. corner.