Techwright

Be happy. Travel powers launch times have greatly improved since 2011.

I'm showing my age by punning off the IBM "flying cars" commercial of 2000 or so to create my title, but still, I've been watching YouTube with the 1 week filter on seeking new Homecoming videos. Considering how many were bellyachin concerned about not being able to post for two years, I'd have thought the big Y would be flooded with new material. Instead I see a handful of new works, mostly showing bases (nice spaceship base, Dacy!) and the rest of the week's posting are solo runs on other emulators. Am I looking in the wrong place? I need COH team videos to watch while my batch of work computers re-image I'm on my lunch break! EDIT: I should note that @Glacier Peak even went so far as to create a thread in the art & multimedia section specifically for posting everyone's new videos, and right now, it's starving to death.

I'm leveling up a bots/electrical at the moment and loving it. While my dps is a tad low at the moment (which may just be me and my design) my team's survivability is quite good, what with both healing and endurance recharge at my fingertips. The dps will come with time.

If I had a penny for every time someone used that old chestnut of a squirrel joke, I'd...oh look! A cardinal! 🐦

Found this on my own today when I did a search on YouTube for how many new Homecoming videos posted on YouTube over the weekend. Not as many as I'd hoped, but your's was front and center in the filtering by date. Really wonderful work, Dacy!

To be fair, the printer appears to have captured that COH...um...effect...rather accurately. One of my characters had the skin-tight spandex and was drawing one too many comments about how "cheeky", as you say, he was. Nothing I could do as it was how the devs designed the costume piece. I liked the outfit otherwise, and as he's a rather upright and modest fellow, I gave him a long cape.

Might have to get a buddy of mine to print my favorites, after seeing this. Those are awesome!

I understand the ad parts are gone, but the graphics I don't think have always been the same, at least I seem to recall some having different ones. If there's graphics, like ZomBCare, are they hardwired into the code, or can they be swapped out? I rather like the idea of posting contest winners' pictures, especially if they're made to be fictional product endorsers. In similar vein, are the theater billboards still changeable? I'd love to see an update to the movie selections. Maybe hold a competition for designing such.

Knowing Praetoria, it is probably some subconscious mind-control tool of Mother Mayhem's.

I, too, am grateful. I still remember when a work teammate told me Homecoming existed. I believe I frightened about 20 nearby coworkers in my outcry of shock and excitement. I agree, creativity is hard. I've killed several character projects, even 30 levels in, because I couldn't get all the components to feel cohesive. But we've got a forum full of friendly helps including both name ideas and costume design. Its a better choice than copying a trademarked property. As I mentioned in the OP, I've no problems with homage characters should there be enough differences that there's no ripoff. I mean, I even saw what appeared to be an homage to 1930s Superman and a really swell homage to Dr. Fate during the weekend costume contests. Neither violated the rules so far as I could tell, which meant the players took the time to think through their crafting, rather than just ripping something off. Yes, I used "swell". No I'm not a Boomer. 😛 I saw your character, too, at the costume contest, Snarky. Actually I saw him before I noticed the name, and thought, that looks a lot like Snarky's forum pic. And it was. Good show! Yes I used "good show". No I'm not a Victorian. 😛 That was home-made? They told me they got it from Elon Musk. (Still don't want the apartment complex burnt.)

Those are good points. I'll watch for alternate effects next time it happens, and I appreciate the eye-opener on tactics. 👍👍

Thanks! What petition type does that fall under? I don't ever recall having to report like that before. Exploits and Cheating? Harrassment and Conduct? General Help?

Yes, I was concerned what it might mean if they're on a team that is recorded and the video pushed to the public.

I hate to even bring this up, but I've seen a host of names of other properties in game this weekend. I'm not talking homages, where there's subtlety but a different name and enough of a different look and build that it doesn't rip off the trademark. I'm talking flat out copying the name, and using similar look and build. Am I correct in assuming the rules have not changed, and this is still not acceptable?

Honestly, even if player behavior could be modified, there are a number of pets that fire off these same abilities, and I'm not sure they can be reigned in once the fighting starts.

If you want to really go back a ways, look up the history of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. In radio, writings, TV. and later comics. You'll notice a certain last name: Reid. The Green Hornet was really Britt Reid, a wealthy newspaper owner with other investments in his financial empire. Then realize that the real last name of the Lone Ranger is Reid. (His first name has been changed up a bit over the years, but most settle on "John" the name Tonto put on the fake tombstone.) Ranger Reid had a secret silver mine, from whence his silver bullets came. The mine was maintained, in part, by his nephew Dan Reid, son of the brother and fellow ranger gunned down in the box canyon ambush. Dan inherits the mine and uses the silver wealth to found a financial empire. His son is the first Green Hornet, Britt Reid. Making the Lone Ranger's silver mine the source of the Green Hornet's wealth, and the Lone Ranger the great uncle of the first Green Hornet. The crossover connection is Dan Reid. He appears as a youth in the Lone Ranger radio show, and as the father figure in some of the Green Hornet radio show. In the 1990s, NOW comics ran Green Hornet comics. In them, they actually tied up a loose end or two rather nicely. Green Hornet and Kato of the radio series became the first Green Hornet and Kato, the WWII team. Green Hornet and Kato of the TV series became the second team, composed of Britt Reid II, the nephew of the radio Britt Reid, and TV Kato was the son of radio Kato. The radio Kato was given seed wealth by radio Britt, and returned to Japan to found a business empire focused on technology. It is his empire that provides the research and equipment for many of the gadgets and vehicles the Reid/Kato team-ups use. The comics then go on to tell their own stories with a third generation of Reids and Katos taking the mantles, the fourth generation of heroes from the Reid family. In the comics, over top the fireplace of the Reid's family room is a large painting of a masked ranger on horseback, said by the Reids to be their ancestor, the first to don a mask to fight crime. Challenge of the Yukon with later became Sergeant Preston of the Yukon on TV, was created in part by Mr. Fran Striker, who'd been behind both the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet series. It can be argued that Sergeant Preston and his dog, Yukon King might also be in the same universe, but I know of no references back and forth.

That's okay, we'll just use AOE root, holds and sleeps just as they start to attack. 😉 I admit I am baffled by the use of sleep attacks anytime in a big brawl, start or fully invested. Since sleep is easily broken by any other attack, I've always perceived it as a tool to stop a second, nearby mob from joining the fight. And on the subject of sleep, why is it that when we sleep opponents, they wake with any hit, but when they sleep us, they can use us as a punching bag for quite some time, assuming we don't have an inspire to break the sleep?

I re-watched the series a while back after Jesse died. I'd forgotten about her, which is terrible, and I'd wanted to correct that. I did remember Scotty, but I remembered the Kari era best, probably because it was both the last and the longest. I do recall paying closer attention to the undercurrent between Jamie and Adam, having learned a bit more about their differences during the interim. It's probably time to again re-watch the series, now that we've unfortunately lost Grant. The cool thing about Mythbuster is that most of it will remain valid and therefore fresh, for decades to come. Some technology displayed or used will show as dated in 30 years, but most will have a timeless element. Besides, who doesn't love instantly atomizing a cement truck leaving a massive distorted peal of thunder in its passing? 😁

I agree with Wild Claw. The trick is, what's the difference between what the MCU did/does, and what TV refers to as spinoffs? I think it is that the MCU was the first movie group to successful attempt to do what TV spin-offs had been doing for decades. But if there is no clear separation, then several spinoff shows which swap characters from time to time, especially if they run concurrent might qualify, and not all are sci-fi. Several come to mind: The Dragnet universe: Dragnet, Adam-12, Emergency!, CHiPs, Quincy M. E., TV movie The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, and even the modern 9-1-1 share a universe. A rather interesting explanation lies here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency!#Spin-offs_and_crossovers The Cheers universe: Cheers, Frasier, The Tortellis, St. Elswhere (crossover), and Wings (not a spinoff, but same universe) The "Hooterville" universe: The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Pettycoat Junction. Several of the characters appeared in multiple series. Sam Drucker, the jack-of-all-trades general store owner appeared in all three, for example. Wild Claw bested me though with the reference to My Favorite Husband. I was not aware that it was the launching point for Green Acres. The Mayberry Universe might be another: The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and Mayberry R.F.D. as well as the reunion movie for The Andy Griffith Show. Quite a few of the secondary characters of TAGS transferred to MRFD, and a few of the TAGS characters would pop up on GPUSMC. The Bionic Universe: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, as well as their multiple reunion movies. The JAG universe; J.A.G., NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Los Angeles. Multiple stories started in one series and continued in another. The big one though would be the original MCU. There's actually a YouTube video on it:

Re-used doors get a comment from me like: "Somebody get me the name of the realtor for this place. I've got a house I'm needing to sell." Be sure to friend them on your MaskTome account.

What? the Paragon Protectors are protecting Paragon? They're not on the list.

Episode 3 is out and it's like a yin yang relationship: really wholesome and uplifting paired with some of the darkest stuff in animated Star Wars.

I've never done streaming or game video posting myself. I'm tempted to start the latter, but I've got too much RL to deal with at the moment. That said I'm hoping someone(s) will make some spectacular training videos for new players. I've been trying to get a pair of friends to join, and I realized the other day that what I take for granted comes from years of playing. The nuances, especially the variations that are unique to Homecoming, would take a ton of time to explain to friends. I'd love to be able to point them to a training series and say "Watch these, and we'll talk afterwards".

Blessed to have grown up in a town with a highly regarded Shakespearean group that did three plays a year. I just ran through the list, and I believe I've seen live performances of 17 of the 38 plays connected to Shakespeare. Many of those I've seen more than one interpretation. The group occasionally would do other works, and the one I distinctly remember was Cyrano de Bergerac. I also took two semesters of Shakespeare in college, and read a few of the works that I 'd not seen performed. Even when experienced at reading and watching Shakespeare, it takes a few minutes to get into the mindframe of Elizabethan speech, but I agree, seeing these plays is well worth the effort. If they cannot see one live, there's some good movie ones out there. Just a few to name: Henry V with Kenneth Branagh, Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, and Much Ado About Nothing with...so many people!...Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton, Brian Blessed, and a host of others.