Techwright

This thread is dangerous. In addition to your contribution, I've also seen words referencing "pasta" and "grit(s)", and another word that looks like "hamhock". 😋 Joking aside, thanks @Nerva for bringing this to everyone's attention!

I've not seen the new Spider-man film yet (hope to on my days off next week), so pardon if I don't say something in alignment with what happened in it. So happy What If...? is not some sideline project but will be integral to the live MCU. Glad Mordo is back. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor, so I'm hoping the writers are up to the challenge. Wondering what a certain obsessed, solitary What If...? person will do if MCUniverse Christine is spotted. Where exactly is Wanda? That's not the area where we left her. Two words: Double Dragon (again tying to the What If...? series) One might think a one-eyed tentacle beastie is Shuma-Gorath. Yes, one might be wrong: (spoilers)

Episode 6 dropped, and did you see those words on Disney +? Not "Series Finale". One can always hope. Well, I'll get in the spoilery chat, but this was one fantastic Christmas...er...wrap!

"90's era"? Be sure to give her lots of pads, pouches, and pockets. Lots of big, oversized, Rob "I make EMT tactical trousers look wimpy" Liefeld pads, pouches, and pockets.

only if there's a 50/50 chance that puddle actually hides a deep pothole...

Push it a bit farther. Load the hero event notification and villain event notifications as well (dark magenta color?). I can't tell you how many times this past month I logged in, looking for something to do, only to have a notice go up in 10 minutes that a Nemesis invasion had just ended in a different zone. I would have immediately gone to an event had I known a notice had gone out earlier.

Chills, man. I don't even have the best headphones and still it stood the hair on my neck. Now if only these guys would partner with the London Symphony for the orchestral parts. Posted two weeks back on YouTube.

That's why there are medical teleporters. 😉

Does Steam not have any truly free games on its system then?

With the revelations of this thread, does this make spotting Rikti ships the game's version of Hidden Mickeys? Anyone else notice how easily we slip into referring to what is only identifiable as a British police box as a T.A.R.D.I.S. ? I say "we" as I'm guilty, too. Just struck me as weird.

Details, details. At least he wasn't misogynistic about it. 😛

I'd managed to purge that one from my memory until I read your comment. Ugh! Thanks for the memories. 😣 For me what broke it was the "surprise" visit by the First. David Bradley is a wonderful actor, and did great justice to William Hartnell in the biopic, but for the actual show, the script they handed David was a terrible blight on the character of the First Doctor.

Ooooo boy. Where to even begin with that one. Maybe with the extremely fake red hair wig, then running the second half with a butch haircut on the character whose hair is her one notable power. I did feel for the actors. They must have been dying inside working with such flimsy material. Inhumans deserves a complete reboot. From what I remember of the comics, it can be an interesting group of characters, but that show handled it worse than that early '90's Captain America (which got a complete overhaul eventually). If there's one good thing I can say about Inhumans, it was that the show made me aware of actor Anson Mount. The man has serious talent. Black Bolt can't be an easy character to portray. You have to reach deep within any pantomime training you have, and possible have a love for old silent movie actors, to compensate for being as mute as that character is. As trashy a show as that was, Anson still managed to show some skill. I was very please to hear he'd been cast as Christopher Pike in Star Trek. Pleased enough to watch the second season of a Trek show I'd considered probably as bad as Inhumans. Also...that was an interesting read @ThaOGDreamWeaver.

I was in Staples in our southern state city just this past weekend and saw several color variations on that exact model. One of them, the red one, did indeed have the disintegrating faux-leather. It was so bad, I was surprised the store had left it out as a show piece.

Umm...surprise?! 🤣

Is this going to mean an increase in the lockboxes of Star Trek Online?

I'm seriously impressed...or rather, that gang was.

I prefer to identify as "Legacy". Actually, as to not using PW as Aurora_Girl mentioned, I wish Google search would get a clue. I've typed in "City of Heroes Homecoming Wiki", or variations on that, on more than a few occasions only to have all the old stuff pop up first.

You know, I've no idea of the degree of coding involved, but I'd love to see the full script of Ascendant play out in the local chat with the character near Posi in Steel Canyon maybe once every 13 or 15 hours. Not too often lest it annoy people, and on an odd hour so it gradually works around the full clock so that it doesn't matter what part of the world you live it, you'll eventually have a chance to experience it.

Apologies, was not aware of that. I'd been working on the understand since it premiered that it was a holiday event. Well, two feet in my mouth. Thanks for the correction.

First off, this is a shameless plug for visiting the Winter Forest zone. I've recently come to realize several players are unaware of it. It's a work of art: a changing borealis, ice slide, skating pond, comet, Christmas gazebo, hot tub, etc. There's a base portal, trainer, P2W vendor, the TUNNEL system of course, a Pocket D portal, general vendors, crafting tables (in the vendor hut), a tailor, candy cane rewards vendor, and an Auction House guy, even Null the Gull is hanging out at the vendor hut. But as I mentioned down in the art forum, its real treasure is the collective of the characters of players who've passed on. It can be access via the TUNNEL system found near many transportation hubs, like the train stations in Atlas and Talos Island. Look for the swirling gold disk with NPCs guarding it. There's also a portal to it from within the ski chalet in Pocket D. Just go down from the two dining areas, and look for the mine door entrance across from the restroom (loo? WC?) doors. Second, a question for those in the know: Can the Winter Forest be used as a launching point for trials like Incarnate Trials? It might be a nice change of pace to do them in the WF during the holiday season, if that is possible.

That's the Winter Forest. In addition to the access point noted by @Glacier Peak you can access it via the Tunnel System, those glowing swirly things next to several train stations (I suspect they're redside as well, but I don't recall where. Maybe the ferries?) EDIT: The Tunnel System only offers access during the during the holiday season. The rest of the year, you'll need to use the wood-in-rock door under the ski chalet in Pocket D. If you've never been, I recommend visiting. I wish more players knew of it. There's vendors and an auction house guy there, but the real treasure is the characters of a number of players who've passed on.

Holiday lighting

I understand what you're saying, but I for one, have long wished to do things like turn off the healing and damage numbers. In the center of the mothership raid, those and a host of swirling powers in the center of disk make visually figuring out what's going on quite difficult. I've asked around, repeatedly, and no one seems to know the exact toggle, if there is even one. Having the ability to toggle any of these things would be quite helpful.