Techwright

By that video's definition, I'm a geek, with traces of nerdism: IQ and obsession. Always have been. There are several sci-fi properties I've studied out pretty thoroughly. For decades, my friends referred to me in terms like "the trivia guy" because I just read and retained so much. The funny thing, though, is that I took a geek test several years ago (I think it was on website "Major Geek"?) and I only scored 38%. There's some truly serious geeks out there apparently. I'm also not a...I'd guess you'd call it a "pan-geek". I've met people who are obsessed with everything pop culture, and my mind just reels at the amount of time needed to get to that level. There are large chunks of such culture I have no interest in. Anime and manga, for example, although I was a fan of the early stuff brought to the State back in late 1970s: Robotech, Starblazers/Spaceship Yamato, etc. Curiously, my geekdom does not dramatically play out in CoH. I'd probably suggest I'm a well-informed casual player. But when I read people studying the finite details of a crafted set and how it works better for one specific controller over another, my eyeballs roll back and I risk falling asleep. It's probably the math involved. I scored reasonably well in math entering college, but other than geometry, I've never had an interest in it.

Apologies, you lost me. Are we talking billboards in-game, or something to do with the website, as this thread is about? Perhaps there's a terminology for the website/forums I've not picked up on?

Depending on the time/day, I might be up for it. I've got a couple of responsibilities to relatives that weekend, but nothing requiring my presence all the time.

I'm assuming the old link had more information than just the server/shard status since that is at the bottom of the HC Launcher?

And still you missed that spider. Depends on how well you play them.

My guess is that they're likely parked on some salt flat somewhere still waiting on the cars' computer chips. What's wrong with the 1970s? Cars, I mean. Let's not discuss the rest. My former 1979 Chrysler New Yorker drove like a dream. It was a great car if you overlooked the lack of more elegant aerodynamic designs and it's tendancy to drink gasoline like...uh...whatever drinks gasoline.

I'm still game for it, the challenge is that real life keeps making a consistent schedule for entertainment a challenge. Perhaps others have the same issue. If so, might we work something out like is done for Mastermind Mondays and Tanker Tuesdays? All-call instead of supergroup? That might help, even if it won't be alliterative. I did notice a slightly higher population gold-side this afternoon.

I do miss the cysts and voidstalker. Once I started becoming skilled at the game, the cysts were one of the few things that made me start sweating. It was frightening and exhilarating at the same time. I gather they were nerfed because people stopped putting kheldians on the team lest they encounter these, but that's just sad. Disconnect these from Kheldian presence, or make a kheldian presence like a 1% chance increase to seeing them above norm, and hopefully the team will not be so biased going forward. I likewise miss the Quant gunners who could wreck a character. These current ones shoot like they're using Nerf ammunition. As to playing them, I've only played 1 warshade, and I really wasn't sure what to do with the human-form. I really should go back and review him soon.

I've never seen an equivalent in my time on gold side. My guess is that, by the time of Going Rogue, the kiosks were seen as obsolete by the OG developers. That said, if the information could be tied to another graphic, then perhaps both the red and the green newspaper stands in Praetoria could be keyed to display the information. Alternatively, though they have posters rather than information screens these prevalent pillars in the city might do:

Where do the announcements for the theme of the week post, and when? I've seen these results for some time, but never saw the announcement of them.

If the Super Stunner is the only one they're running away from finishing, you are a lucky bug. A great many of the Penny Yin TFs I've run of late have half to 2/3 of the team bolt for the next big mob group with only 60%-70% of the Freaks dropped in the previous group. That's not counting Freak rezzes. There's a disconcerting opinion out there, based on player "posture" (that is, how they act and move characters), that finishing a group is beneath them and is for the "lesser" members of the team to deal with. In reality, it is the responsible members of the team who remain behind to clean up. I've even had one or two PYTFs where they smash through every group to the PCPD door and then are baffled why the door won't open. It's the trail of mess left behind, "teammates". If they're new, I can partially forgive them for not understanding the rez situation, but even then, finish the group off. Honestly, these people will drive me to join the I ♥️Snarky fan club. I can only hope the club has T-shirts in my size.

I'd thought the same thing when I first signed up. It was a tremendous disappointment to learn that we only had "X" number of spaces for naming and that past that point, it would start overwriting previous stuff.

Some of that stuff resets over time, does it not? And from what I recall some of the other stuff multiple people can name and it will accept each one, because the name is specific to the account.

Agreed, however, I understand that Starfield will focus on 100 star systems with 1000 planets, a comparative few, and greatly expand the possibilities planetside, while No Man's Sky focuses on the vastness of its galaxies, with trillions of planets and moons, but a minimal amount of variety on the planets. A microscopic quality focus as opposed to a macroscopic quantity focus. Unquestionably it will be a competitor to NMS (assuming it is built right. Anthem still sticks in my craw), but the differences leave room for both games to co-exist.

I recently re-entered Praetoria after a long absence as well, so I asked the forums for insight for archetype choice for solo play gold side, and the dominant answer was "brute". I now have a super strength/invulnerable brute working through the Loyalist story, and ambushes (so far) are not a threat.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe Far more violent than anything I've seen before regarding Kraven. There's a red-band trailer out there, too, which is surprising, because this one is more violent and bloody than I'd thought a standard trailer would be. I'm puzzled by the revelation that Kraven has powers. I thought the comics established that he was a normal human highly honed to combat and hunting, with possibly an occasional boost from rare witch doctor potions.

"Main purpose" = "he was ordered to do so", though if anyone even has a chance at fixing that sorry mess, it is Filoni.

Oh, bother...has it reached law stage? I thought it was still around the transition from hypothesis to theory.

Wait, I came in 2nd?! Progress!

I've been reading speculation of various iconic characters and famous actors making appearances within the upcoming Ahsoka. As I ponder the possibilities, one makes sense, however, and might be very organic to the story, providing closure on an important plot point in the overall canon of Star Wars. Having Luke Skywalker appear, even briefly, after Ezra Bridger is (presumably) found would serve to have a Jedi Knight, THE Jedi Knight, conduct the knighting of Ezra Bridger. I don't think I'm spoiling anything 5 years later by saying that Ezra Bridger left the Rebels series still technically a padawan, though his skills and new-found maturity at the end demonstrated he's ready to be a young knight. While it technically is not necessary for his life to proceed, a knighthood is closure, and would follow the precedent of Ezra's master, Kanan, who, with no knight handy, was knighted by the Force itself using the (apparently redeemed) Force ghost of the Temple Guard (aka the Grand Inquisitor) within the Jedi temple. There is, however, one possible counter to this: Ahsoka herself. We've seen Ahsoka repeatedly say she's no longer a Jedi, but there've been hints, and if you know the work of Dave Filoni, you know such things are never just background noise, that Ahsoka has possible embraced the Jedi path again. Hints like Clone Wars season 7 where, when Yoda questions whether Ahsoka is ready to return to the order, she doesn't say she'll never return, she says "not yet". Then there's the title of her first live-action episode: "The Jedi", suggesting not only that others perceive her as such, but that she's embraced that path again. When she's referred to as a Jedi, she doesn't counter it, like she did when squaring off against Vader. If it's true that she's finally returned to the path, Ahsoka herself may knight Ezra. But Ahsoka was also a padawan in the Order and never (previously) a knight, so how could that happen? The answer is Luke. We've never seen how these two have met, and that may be a flashback in the series. It may very well be that Luke convinces Ahsoka to return to the Order, and therefore Luke himself that knights her, allowing her in turn to knight Ezra. All highly speculative (more so because I don't read canon books or comics, and therefore don't know how things play out there), but either suggested plot point allows both Luke to make an appearance, and Ezra to receive his knighthood finally. There is, however, (heh, heh) one possible counter to all of this: Kanan Jarrus. How? Remember Kanan's knighting. It occurred in the Jedi temple on Lothal, a wellspring of force power, such that those not trained in projecting a force ghost in their afterlife may still make an appearance. Kanan was knighted by one of these. It would be a tremendous surprise cameo, but, as it's already strongly hinted that one or more Jedi temples are at play in the series' storyline, it could be that Kanan himself appears to Ezra in one of these temples, and knights him in a manner reminiscent of Kanan's own. Of course, this means that Freddie Prinze, Jr. would get to play Kanan in live action. I'll make another speculation: Filoni may bring additional characters unique to Rebels into live action. Ryder Azadi, for example, who looked so much like his voice actor, Clancy Brown, that having Clancy play the restored Lothal governor makes sense. Jai Kell or Mart, members of the Rebels at the fall of the Empire on Lothal.

Well, yes, we'll not be building the Victorian "gingerbread" look with the big wrap-around porch and backyard BBQ pit area. That is, unless the pressurized bubble is huge. EDIT: That suddenly reminds me...I wonder what the maximum piece count will be for base building. That was one of the frustrating aspects of building in NMS: both a single base limited piece count, and a character max piece count. I remember spending a lot of time having to constantly redo a base because of these.

I see this, and first thought is: "How many cats does it take to change..."

That, I think, is what the wiki means. I just reported it was there. I'll put in the link again, here.

Fringe, Warehouse 13, Eureka...just about every show running during certain years, even juggernaut N.C.I.S. I've not watched those particular episodes in years, and I still cringe at the Microsoft Surface Pro moments when everything suddenly slowed down and almost intimately watched an actor set up a Surface and start using it. Warehouse 13 had the Toyota Prius, the only car on the show everyone kept talking about, and either riding in, or standing prominently adjacent to it. I always felt that in 50 years, when the shows reach classic status, there'll be a debate as to whether they should use AI and CGI to edit out the clearly-weird "ads".

It truly should be that simple. Unfortunately, in my case, that goes back to...