Snarky

the sheer bravery. the audacity. mediocre musicians who looked like they were ugly drag queens hungover after a long night - at the start of their shows. damn. rock on.

it is hilarious how often people misspell the two things, Rouge and Rogue. So much so that both dictionary entries on line discuss the other word and its effect on each other. I am currently learning German. Why? So i can watch old German vampire movies in the original language, of course! Most of the spelling are easy, with pronunciations ....wow. German vowels and those F-ing umlauts are killing me. Especially since nearly every German language teacher explains it so easily. then you listen to a native German speaker. You start to realize the only way they are referencing it is a different version of the vowel is a slight nod to the sound and context. Even when they slowly say it the differences between men's and women's voices, and the subtlety of the vowel change can make it tough to hear. .....tangent.... But I consider myself true Red. I must hide my true color for all the badges and to punish myself with PUG teams though.

When are we getting a backpack nipple anyways?

The only secret i jnow of related to isolator is there is a Train station (i think in RV???) where one contaminated shows up. Kill him 100 times and even on live a Redside could get the badge before going Rouge.

So….my latest mad project….. I am taking my new Dark Dark Tank through all badges in Ouro. My base plan is to use build two to tailor all the enhancers and slots etc to that level range. I started with a build for 15 or less. Today I dux all Blue through 9, then switched Red. I did all Red up to 14 and the Ouro challenge badges 1-15. Tomorrow I will do Blue 10-14 and Gold to that cap as well. (All Gold, there are badges for completing all Gold). For Blue and Red it is just arcs that get me badges. I already have my build for 15-19 content in MiDs. Just got to get there Now one of the things about being an OCD completionist in games is nothing is easy. Like, are you sure you have done everything in this range before you respec? The “in game sequential” list was drawn up by someone who meant “these are most of the badges of this type, probably all, typed out in a sequence from top of the page to bottom”. Sigh, time to start another spreadsheet and list every F-ing badge. Made more “interesting” by the fact that Ouro does not always correspond to the normal level range of a contact…

When Cosmic Council was up and running they would host public events 3-4 times a year. we would all wear the SG costume. I vaguely remember doing some content once in SG gear. I am sure there must be some SGs that run in costume, or super teams. There are calls:ads from SGs with a theme to join once in a while. Any content run by such a themed SG would be, by default, a themed run.

c'mon Biostem... really? "For all powers: Increase Damaga Resistance by 33% and To Hit Buffs by 20%" Applied to Fire Blast powers. Still true. It increases all of those attributes by the correct amount on Fire Blast. Zero. Null. Hold on! Aim has To Hit Buffs! I almost got you there, admit it. But by and large (and small) you just want to look at the powers that have the enhancers that correspond to the attributes the Alpha enhances. Which it tells you. Clearly.

Even my less than complete grasp on reality is having a tough time following this and a tougher time caring. And so I give you a short paragraph of auto complete as a response: What’s funny about that statement was that the company has been working hard for years and has always been very successful in making sure people understand what they need and want and that people will always have their best interests at heart and that’s what we are doing right here in America right there on our border and the world of the world is changing so rapidly that we have been able not only to be more successful but also more prosperous than ever before and we have become a very important and very powerful and very strong and very….. it started remarkably cogent then wrote itself into a box.

1st run went from 159 defeated to 634! (this took a while, on a Dark Dark Tank lol) The greatest thing about this is every mob counts. Not having to deal with endless LB spawns really helps thanks. One more cup of coffee and I am back in to finish up.

Energy Mastery. The Endurance issues on Dark Dark are real. I have it hard fixed for 98% content but if you get drained (not as bad) or end rec nerfed (omfg) the ability to just click “ I dont need end” is priceless

i don't think so. the mob type is: Paragon Police Department Under the command of Chief Conrad Bochco, the Paragon Police Department, or the “blue shield” as they are often called, has a long established history in Paragon City.

I am standing up my new project, a Dark Dark Tank. I just got all the location badges and plaques. yeesh. So, now I am working on Force of Nature. Got all the badges except...Outlaw. 120 Police to my credit. Sigh. Is there any place to find these guys except bank missions? I've played Red a long time and most of the uniforms in standard missions are private security or RIP. Any idea or do you just farm bank missions?

I will destroy you and feed your body to the hydra heads!

Storm Blast....Moist Plop.

I get this. I joined Live after the game was already going a couple years. I was broke and stupid. Or it felt that way. It must be so much worse now. There are things you can do. 1) If you like solo play I recommend playing story arcs. All maps in CoH are put together from a large but limited number of lego like parts. Learn the shapes, the hiding places, etc. You do not need to memorize, just start to get familiar. 2) Play the same content over a few times. Whether that is a Posi 1&2 a few times in a row, or once a day, or whatever content you gravitate to. Learn that "run" and it will be much easier on a fast moving team. The skills you learn being in sync with your team will help you even in content that is new to you. 3) Learn to recognize good leaders. Running incarnate content on Excelsior? Always join a team from Confusion or Oklahoman! Granted I will join anything I need a badge for, but developing a eye for who is good can help, especially in harder content. Get a friends list going.

Yeah, roflmao. They are committed to this. They are looking for bugs and minor tweaks mebbe. But they are going to roll this out looking 95-100% the way it does right now.

absolutely. This one weakly waters your enemies corpses while your team races through the mission to the next spawn. Theme baby!

I'm looking at this set and it appears to have a weaker Nuke than Elec...which is saying something. Gotta ask, when this is on a Sentinel does it actually just damage your own character as it's main effect?

I loved Willpower on live. In the modern game with inherent fitness and a strong build? Fughedaboutit. I can easily tell you hiw yo make s Dark Melee Willpower Brute an order of magnitude stronger! Reroll this as a Dark Melee Invulnerability Brute. You will solve all the problems you are trying to address of survival in tougher content and give up nothing (in Effective terms). I am not kidding. I ran a Dark Invul for about six months on HC and for about a year and a half on live. Dark and Invul fit together hand and glove. Get a Hyperstrike build and never look back

Everyone likes to use pictures from when they were young and handsome. Give a redsider some dignity!

a vampire always appears by surprise!

Agreed. I do post here when i drop TFs. Its been a while. There is a definite theme. I join a TF and it turns out they have a low level TF cranked +2-4. It was not in the ad and they will not turn it to + 0. I do not stay in abusive relationships

You are probably unfamiliar with my attempts at humor. Many times this will be while regaling the message boards with stories about my Task Force woes. PUGs can hurt. Now today I had quite the fortunate run. I logged in and got the last spot on a pug MoLRSF. These people crushed it. (Turns out it was Task Force Junkies on Excelsior….known criminal, and quite effective) Then they offered up a MoMLTF. I stayed. Sadly Recluse started one shotting people. Ah well. Still got a Hami-o. Then we did a Tin Mage and I got Army of Neu and Midnight Dodger badges. Then we did MoSewer and MoEden. A truly grand time. I had a cup of…something warm. Then joined another random PUG for a Silver Mantis. They were a good group…. Probably love their families, have well behaved pets. …they did the SF….adequately….. okay, now that you mention it they were a tad slow. But that is okay, I’m on a Tank and can always practice herding. But…that last mission….oof. I went up top and killed everything on the upper level….gun emplacements, troops, flyers. One team member came up to help. Maybe they had no travel powers. In the first group i would hope they would not dial it up…we were badging. The Silver Mantis group… I wanted that badge but I would have dropped in a heartbeat.

I only team to badge and steamroll content for merits exper. So if some methed out blaster wants to race ahead and kill everybody on the map....huzzah! Redsiders baby, we keep our eye on the money.