Techwright

You reminded me of one of my favorite laughs from recordings of the old "Allen's Alley" weekly radio comedy sketch. If you're not familiar with it, popular radio comedian Fred Allen would "walk" an "alley" of the big city, knocking on back doors and interviewing several quirky neighbors about a weekly topic. The greatest of these comedic characters was Senator Claghorn, a Deep-South Southerner forced to live in the North and forever a comedic blowhard about how much he loved his southern origins. ("When I'm in the North, I'm in enemy territory!", "I'll never attend a game at Yankee Stadium", "Down South we got two states: South Carolina and North Carolina...North Carolina...why couldn't they've called it Upper South Carolina...and why do we have a South Dakota up North?") You've likely already known his character as it was cloned to create the popular Looney Toons character, Foghorn Leghorn, right down to the accent and comedic timings. That out of the way, Allen was interviewing Titus Moody, a plain-spoken, salt-of-the-earth, retired farmer. Moody began his reply, "Well just yesterday, I was talking to Senator Claghorn...the foreigner next door..." Brought the radio audience to tears, it did. I'm sure it was invented by coalition of greeting card companies, florists, and candy manufacturers.

Did they happen to mention a wash treatment for destroying the poison oak oils in clothing? The potentials for hurting oneself on poison ivy, oak, sumac, or giant hogweed are great enough that I'm surprised it isn't standard training in elementary school to identify for avoidance.

I just finished reading all the previous amount of the thread. I've a cathedral of pain-sized headache now. I'm going to go lie down.

Just clearing another possibility: Are all the capacitors on your equipment healthy? No signs of swelling or leaking including dry, crusted leaks? While I usually hear of these causing sudden shut down through general usage on the computer, I can see a scenario where one or two programs stress a bad capacitor just right to cause the shutdown. Of course, if you're playing other games that cause greater stress, but without result, that may negate the argument. Do you have access to another power supply? That is, can you borrow one of equal or greater power for a day from a friend? Swapping it and testing might identify or eliminate the suspected part. Is there anything else running in the background, like Steam client, if you routinely play other games? I point Steam out because I recently had some sudden power-off problems on my 7-year-old rig, and traced it to Steam running in the background even when I was not using a Steam-based game. I've made sure it was completely powered off, and haven't had a problem since. Some reading on the web revealed that mine was not the only computer affected by Steam this way, and it might be related to older equipment. I've got a new rig to build Thanksgiving weekend.

A knife show of Red Caps A patch of Fir Bolg A rwawaraaah of Tuatha de Dannan

This has such a strong look that it feels like it has the potential to be COH's answer to The Wasp, especially the friendly, feisty version in the animated "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" series. Too bad the game does not have shrinking powers.

I'd been focused on knocking out the Echo Galaxy badges with my homage to serial movies sci-fi, when I suddenly realized how fortuitous this one was:

Nice work & excellent balance of color & shade. I'm guessing you're using Spectrum, but as it is supposedly a single-color feature, how is the 2-toned blue/magenta look achieved? EDIT: Ah, nevermind. I'd always worked under the assumption that spectrum was single color, but experimenting now, I realize it can be a subtle 2-color selection.

I believe it regarding the mosquitoes. My father comes from neighboring Minnesota, and the skeeters there are monstrous.

My baloney has a first name it's... X IT'S TAKEN??? Drat! Umm, how about 0scar Meyer? X 0scar M3yer? X Oscar_Meyer? X xxxOscar Meyerxxx? X xxx0zkahr_M3y3rxxx? X ...Weiner Whistle? ✔️

Zemo's about to get a chance at supervillain redemption. He's the villain of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and from what I've seen, he'll be closer to his comic book counterpart. Here's hoping they don't super glue his purple balaclava to his head though. I always felt that was a really ludicrous concept in the comics.

You say that like it's something new. Let us speak of "Captain Marvel".

I used to be a Scout, and was often in woods or farm fields, and have never had a poison ivy problem. That said, my very good friend, an Eagle Scout, merely looks at poison ivy and breaks out. In his terms he has to "dry out" the rash, so he was always using something that dried it out, like witch hazel or alcohol or vinegar (cider, I think). There used to be a specific soap Scout shops sold for dealing with poison ivy, oak, and sumac, but I've forgotten the name. Lest you're jealous of my seeming immunity, I got a taste of what it's like the day I moved railroad ties in the hot sun, and had no idea about creosote. Wipe the sweat from my brow often, just to make the experience truly miserable.

I'm surprised the cats didn't lunch on the spider. I can't keep cats because of severe allergies, but I watched one of my sister's cats just devour a spider crossing the carpet. As I'm also severely arachnophobic, Taffy became my new favorite cat. Also, my favorite comics are ones with Garfield hitting spiders with newspapers... especially the ones that get in a repeat shot. Thanks, but if I need live indoor creepy crawly control, I'll get a couple of geckos.

You are quite the optimist, aren't you?

I'm now wanting every article of the painter's costume available at Icon.

Let us know when that happens. I'm not sure I have any active on Torch, but I'd love to have a version of my energy/energy blapper with the KB unleashed.

Oh, that. Naw, that wasn't viciousness, that was folks trying out your new aggressive savage melee.

There is an option for "masks with hair". The "masks" in this case, function more like patterns on the face. Here, I'll visualize it for you. The line that reads "Demise" in this snapshot is where you'll find the masks. Note that the head is set to "Standard". Tiaras for the male model I'm drawing a blank on right now. I can only think of two: one is basically a sweatband and part of the hair selections, and the other is the winged headband. Not really what you're after, I think, but if you want to take a look, its found under "Detail 1" when generally covers features on the upper half of the face/head. It's possible I've overlooked something really obvious, as I don't work with that look.

Must have been H. P. Lovecraft's birthday.

On Excelsior I've now snagged Ice Maker, and for an ice/fire character I was surprised to snag FreezOr Burn.

You've got 3 on the list that should be water-based GM's. We could really use a few more in game. Currently, we've got Lusca and Sally, and I don't really consider the latter a true GM. There are others that can operate in water, such as the Kraken and occasionally Jurrasik in Crey's Folly, but to the best of my memory, that's it. I'm pretty sure the red side lacks a water-based GM, so the potential for 3 would be a welcomed sight.

Such a fun film, and Sean Connery sings! The banshee never bothered me, but the Wicked Witch of the West? I hid behind the consol TV. And if I was honest, approaching Lusca still makes me a tad nervous after long ago hiding...where else?...behind the consol TV when the giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attacked.

It's not really scenic, but I was very impressed with a fellow player's avatar in the original game. At the time, we didn't have all the costume options and creativity we do now, and I'd never seen anything like it. If this belong to any of you, kudos to you:

Well, since you brought it up... I figure a Sonic Control set partnered with a Time Manipulation set ought to do the trick.