Scarlet Shocker

So this gets to the nub of my question, which I asked in a very flippant way to encourage silly answers but it kinda bugged me (but not in any way enough to lose sleep over) Let's get past the "timeywimeyballofshit" meme because that's probably better known than Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (personally I don't get either concept fully) But the whole Mender/Ouro thing is you keep going back and forth in time - and I do admit this proved to be an incredibly inventive solution to a player problem. That problem was that it was impossible to revisit content you'd outlevelled without exemping on somebody else's team. So this is a great solution and I'm not criticizing it in any way (and those of you who know me know that I will if I feel it doesn't come up to snuff.) But it's more a thought experiment - if time is as fluid as the Menders (and many actual physicists) tell us, then surely the badge should be awarded within random parameters and awarded to reflect that - because if time is mutable it's possible I spent several million years talking to Mender Roebuck, getting rid of the dross I'd picked up from the last mission - but weeks had passed down in Grandville and Atlas Park I guess my basic gripe is that the badge doesn't actually respect the awesomeness of Ouroboros sufficiently and needs something better. I'm not suggesting a title change - but something to reflect that you're about as powerful as any time lord you care to mention in any universe. So long as you're constrained within the bounds of Paragon, the Isles or Praetoria. I'm thinking out loud a bit in a bit of down time - but it's an interesting intersection between known physics, philosophy and game life.

What happened to the files that they needed their tails removed?

I just picked up the U2 Satnav super cheap. I thought I'd got a bargain, but it turned out to be completely crap. The streets have no name and I still haven't found what I'm looking for!

How do they know?

Servers are fine... just sometimes they get a little melancholy

@Riff checking in!

Welcome to the over 50s club where crotchety old gamers go to fade away.

your toggles continue to be activated so that when you stop using the carpet, they function again, without having to re-toggle. No you can't make it fly faster - if you want to go faster a) scream or b) use a regular travel power somebody made a mod for the hoverboard on live I believe, that would change the texture locally. But it would look the same in game to all other players. I don't know if such a mod exists for the carpet

I'm going to be completely serious for a moment because you genuinely made me consider something I'd not until reading this. In anything like a real world situation what I did to Hassan could be considered real abuse. And if the boot were on the other foot and somebody with immense power suddenly started following me around, I'd be positively terrified. Doubly so if the authorities were known to be on their side. So maybe you're right. Just maybe I terrified him and he led me there to save himself. He could have just asked me to stop following him though. Not a peep.

Now I'm wondering why you'd follow them like that and... Well let's just say all my psionic characters are reeling in disgust. 🤣

The entire concept has merit! 🙃

Just before Sunset, Zwillinger came to Defiant and he was followed by one of the support GMs and there ensured about 30 minutes of mayhem including Clockwork King superleaping through Atlas Park and Hamidon's big orb appearing, and plenty of other stuff. It was one of those rare game occurrences that we treasure. I'm pretty sure a lot of passing pedestrians began to dance, waving their arms in the air and moonwalk so... yes they can if they so desire. But your example sounds like normal NPC behaviour I suspect

Wrong game mate! 🤣

I needed to test something quickly so I generated a character and zoned straight into Atlas. Easy enough and then Real Life(tm) started to distract me somewhat, as I was running around. With limited attention, I latched onto Hassan, who was taking a stroll in Atlas Park. It was the middle of the day, and the sun was shining. Thankfully, for the first time in ages, it wasn't raining in Atlas Park. Hassan was about 45, give or take, reasonably well dressed, probably working in one of the few office blocks that hadn't been devastated by the Council, Clockwork or similar. He was quiet, unassuming, not terribly talkative to be fair, but polite enough. He raised his hand to acknowledge me and continued on his way. So in my semi-distracted way I decided to follow him using the F key. Nothing unusual in that I guess. We've all done that before I'm sure. But in this instance it was different. As I went about my other Real Life(tm) related business I was able to watch my screen as Hassan and I took quite an extended constitutional perambulation across the open vistas of Atlas Park. And I have to tell you I was very pleased that I did. It gave me something that I'm not sure I had known before, a "snail's eye" view of the city from the perspective of one of the most put-upon characters in the game; the Pedestrian. It also allowed me to marvel at the architecture of the city, discover a couple of nooks and crannies heretofore unseen, and kick Hellion arse while Hassan continued his aimless meanderings. I observed my display as one might observe a more interesting screen saver for close on 30 minutes until Hassan, clearly bored with my unhindered stalking, led me to a large group of Hellions and that character has since gone to the realms where pixelated characters go when they cease to be. He waved politely as I collapsed on the ground, struck down by mortal wounds, and wandered off, unlikely to ever be seen again in that iteration. But during our little excursion I was able to focus on t he city rather than the foes, the mission, the badges, the things that usually preoccupy my time in our beloved urban metropolis and just take a view driven by someone else and that was not simply relaxing but refreshing and gave me a greater appreciation of our environment. I recommend it to you all. Perhaps we should initiate some walking tours around our fair demense.

danke sehr

"said Snarky to Mrs Snarky as he turned out the lights!"

were you cut off in your prime perhaps?

It's about how we label updates generally.

Thank you for pointing out it is only possible to drop stuff when gravity is actually present

Gravity is a myth. The earth sucks https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_0_q_gravity

I is disappoint. I had expected an polemic on the way that 21st century large pharmaceutical companies were not necessarily being seen to work in the best interests of wider humanity but it's burned to shit in an agricultural conflagration

So yesterday's update was pretty damned big and comprehensive. I've not actually had an opportunity to check it out and see all the goodness but the reading of the patch notes took best part of the evening... I guess they typed slowly. It seems to me that this update was larger than a lot that even dropped on live and certainly one of the largest since sunset so far as I can tell and yet it was one page out of seven of the current issue, I27 I get micro-patches, stuff that contains important updates, be it in content, QoL fixes etc get called pages but with the 6 previous pages and this, surely there's more than one issue here. I'm just thinking that with pages and issues things are gonna get confusing here, especially when referring to the issues/pages of the magnitude of I27 as it's seeming to be. I think my fundamental question is what do we think an issue is these days? On live it was always a big update, often coinciding with an important game occasion. Personally I compartmentalize game memories within issues - when things changed and updates that happened, stuff that improved game play in some way but I must confess that the years aren't always as kind to my mnemonic systems as I'd like, so I'm not always recalling with the sharpest clarity. I have a reasonable collection of Trade Paperbacks (TPBs) which I use as guides to remember my favourite stories and I see a direct analogy here. But what we had drop yesterday was way bigger than many issues, especially I15 which was the smallest live release IIRC, and bigger than most others pre-GR I'd argue. I understand why the move to pages took place but is that going to be the norm from here on in? Is there a case for having volumes as well as pages and issues (for example there's a good case to say the aforementioned I15 could easily have been I14.5 or I14 volume 2) I'm not complaining in any way, but I'm curious as to what the imagined publishing path moving forward is envisioned to be, doubly so as we are now official. And yes, I know somebody's gonna say it so getting in first:* *looking at you Healix

Oh Noes! 20 year old game that went away and we were so happy came back progresses and we no like!