Scarlet Shocker

for background check this thread: We'll be running a team on Saturday from 1pm Eastern Goldside - everyone under level 10 welcome. Do NOT bring DXP boosters please. This is a content run and we don't want to outlevel it. Server: INDOMITABLE Location: Underground Imperial. We're running the Crusader arc to its conclusion currently. all welcome - If we over subscribe we can form leagues. Ideally elemental based characters are required but not mandatory. My character is Climate of Fear and my global is @Riff See you then

very rarely. I find that for a troller there are usually better options - if I'm in the thick of it - usually that's an indication that something's gone tits up

Well I didn't necessarily enjoy the original Morb movie or that... pastiche but the fact does seem to be there's a significan't xover between the two houses given how closely their properties are connected. But my point stands. Russell Crowe is Zeus in the MCU and this guy in the Kraven movie. But Anyone in the Sony movies is legit in the MCU. And MCU has a policy of you play one character in MCU. There's no remix So... how does it pan out? I'm speculum here - but Greek myths have Zeus as a randy-as-fuck bastard who isn't above resorting to watersports (I ain't talking wind surfing) to impregnate some hapless female mortal he takes a shine to. Fundamentally Zeus is a massive rapist. Crowley's role model. Russel Crowe is Zeus in the MCU and this guy here. I suspect fowl play

This quote made me laugh out loud as I read it. I was listening to the entire thing on TMS as is my wont and I must admit I was caught up in the furore. I wanted revenge. I wanted justice. But then it really boils down to this: Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jul/02/cricket-bairstow-carey-ashes-lords Whatever else the series holds in store, we have stories to tell and it was an amazing spectacle I believe I'm right when I say that England gave away over 70 runs in extras. Had we not done so, Stokes would almost certainly been 150+ not out, which would have changed the situation dramatically. However this series ends, I am already feeling sorry for the Aussies down under on the next return leg. I think there will be fire for a long time to come

so I just found this... I've been living under a rock for other reasons... But this cannot figure in the MCU... Except and unless Kraven is a son of Zeus. Which is entirely possibly given how he liked to get his end away with all and sundry...

My name is Benjamin Andrew Stokes, captain of the English Test Team, Saviour of Headingley ‘19, loyal servant to the true emperor, Baz McCullum. Father to a way of batting, saviour to a nation of fans. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

well we managed to get a good few hours teaming in - just ranagrande and I but we went from 1-9 and we're doing the Crusader arc, and have reached Imperial City. We're reconvening next weekend (Saturday 8th) at 6pm UK which is 1pm EST - and anyone who wants to join is welcome. We're a tank/troller due so far so mostly bring anything you want and you can either roll a toon and run to that point or bring something you already have.

hey I can log in!

If I remember the next time I log in the game (don't hold your breath) I will check Feedback incoming (searches for a snail emote) 🐌 Seriously? Is this the BEST FUCKING SNAIL EMOJI AVAILABLE? WTF IS THIS? please... seriously. Fix emojis

I forgot a classic. This is all you need to know!

At first I thought you were talking about the Help chat channel but I don't actually recall using the Help window in so long I think I've forgotten it exists. Maybe it needs a period reminder pop up to say "Help window is still here!"

I am me. Nothing more, nothing less. A culmination of ecology, geology, genetics and almost 6 decades of experience. Not necessarily in that order. Live with it!

I'm BST time zone - EST +5 so if I said my evening from 8pm to about 2am - that'd be 3pm start for you guys? I have a character already rolled and waiting in the training area

sure. I can realistically only make Saturday but I'm game

I did try doing a few shouts last time I tried. I'm deffo up for it but not hopeful. When do you fancy giving it a go?

That might work... but I'd also suggest the users would need the option to turn it off too, for the avoidance of griefing/overuse which then takes us back to square one. And... would it make a difference? We've seen many leagues fail to start properly, despite people whistling and IM'g those who ignore the timer or had an urgent AFK I fear sadly there's no easy fix and the effort to do so might be vastly overcomplicating things without fixing the underlying problem.

This may add another, but unhelpful, level of complexity to the game. I don't denigrate the idea in itself but there are some issues that would need to be addressed. The UI/UX is very very old, designed for old screens when resolution was shite. And you had to get everything on it, on a 14" monitor. Even now it's often seriously had to keep track of what's going on, and that goes double for leagues. I'm an experienced player- - I've played since oughtsix with a few short breaks but I have NEVEREVEREVER been able to be 100% certain where my mouse pointer is. It is super easy to get lost, and in big teams with lots of UFX sometimes you can't even see your fucking target, let alone anything that others are saying. It can be overwhelming for experienced players, even with big screens, good GPUs and trick mouses. And then you want to ask somebody who might not be comfortable in chatting locally to say s/he's not actually sure what's going on? Hell I'm not sure what's going on in many many iTrials - they happen magically and have so many borked mechanics (ok let's reference Rock in TPN again as the prime example) that if you mention it in most other games (and this too) you will get "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB" shouted at you. This game is sadly past its best and though we are grateful to have it back it will never meet the standards of the first quarter of the 21st century. That's evolution. But we are where we are and we have to accept that it can be horribly confusing even when you think you know what the fuck's going on. So if you don't you don't have a chance in hell.

All true

I'm not getting that worked up about it! 👍

You'd be wrong - I have tried to form missions and regular events on Red and Gold and some Blue too. Your assessment of the content is unfortunately imprecise. There is some excellent content throughout the game and regardless of the actual story, few people stop to read it on a team - mostly it is about the teaming experience. There is a lot of blue content well worth doing and even the stuff that is less good still provides a useful pathway to the gems.

Here you fall into a trap of presuming that steel is the only rational material available in a fantasy game where we know we've had aliens and mages around for a long time. I think I'm right in saying that the Circle of Thorns use crystal weapons and we have other materials for swords in the costume creator too. Sure steel might have had semi-mystical properties in the real pre-medieval world, but that is a very limiting concept - made doubly so when mere player characters can already wield weapons of ice, of flame and psionic power. TL;DR - any sword can be made of pretty well anything in this game

Why would a magical sword be made of metal? Many other materials would readily substitute

I hope you'll forgive me in this instance if I take your "Nope" for a firm and very solid "Yes!" But I would suggest for the (majority of the) rest of us, it's almost certainly a non-issue. I'm sorry if that impacts the game negatively for you.

they use big computers to discover more bits of PI these days

Are you overthinking this? If you want to put your urban civil engineering skilz to the test in a gaming environment wouldn't you better spend your time in Cities: Skylines or similar?