Thank you Devs!

[Snarky]

I want to thank the Dev team, support staff, and everyone working behind the scenes in the HC community to keep the ship afloat.  And moving forward under steam!!!

 

I think I have posted a thread that might have seemed negative if you looked at it in a certain light.  Maybe even two!

 

What i want to say is that it is noticed how much QUALITY work is being done on City of Villains...err heroes?  City of X!   (This is not to say I agree with all of the decisions....it is me after all)  The steady output of top notch new content.  Stepping up to the plate to do something for Sentinels (and that is a problem not of their making to try to step in and redesign....)  The literally hundreds of other adjustments small and large.  

 

Thank you.  Someday maybe you can come over to my castle for a pint of blood?  *wrings hands and smiles innocently.

[Luminara]

7 minutes ago, Snarky said:

I think I have posted a thread that might have seemed negative if you looked at it in a certain light.  Maybe even two!

 

[Darmian]

20 minutes ago, Snarky said:

I want to thank the Dev team, support staff, and everyone working behind the scenes in the HC community to keep the ship afloat.  And moving forward under steam!!!

 

I think I have posted a thread that might have seemed negative if you looked at it in a certain light.  Maybe even two!

 

What i want to say is that it is noticed how much QUALITY work is being done on City of Villains...err heroes?  City of X!   (This is not to say I agree with all of the decisions....it is me after all)  The steady output of top notch new content.  Stepping up to the plate to do something for Sentinels (and that is a problem not of their making to try to step in and redesign....)  The literally hundreds of other adjustments small and large.  

 

Thank you.  Someday maybe you can come over to my castle for a pint of blood?  *wrings hands and smiles innocently.

As a TOTAL aside, I went to see "Nosferatu" in the cinema last week.  100th anniversary of the movie and it was great seeing it on the big screen.  LOOK, IT'S SNARKY!

[Clave Dark 5]

I suspect someone's holding Snarky hostage. 

 

Can you blink in Morse???

[ScrewlooseCohh]

40 minutes ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

I suspect someone's holding Snarky hostage. 

 

Can you blink in Morse???

 

Nah as a cynical old bastard myself I know just where he is coming from.

 

He wouldn't be half as snarky if he didn't care so much.

[DougGraves]

I just saw the patch notes and I was blown away by all of the new features and improvements.

 

Apparently I need to create a bunch more alts.  I still haven't tried sentinels.

[Ironblade]

14 hours ago, Snarky said:

What i want to say is that it is noticed how much QUALITY work is being done on City of Villains...err heroes?  City of X!

I don't like referring to the game as CoX, because there's only one way to pronounce that.

[Frostbiter]

2 minutes ago, Ironblade said:

I don't like referring to the game as CoX, because there's only one way to pronounce that.

 

Cox is a fairly common surname where I live. Welsh/English. Just sayin.

Edited October 19, 2022 by Frostbiter

[Aracknight]

[Snarky]

Another one of my threads headed to being locked!  YES!!!

[Luminara]

7 minutes ago, Snarky said:

Another one of my threads headed to being locked!  YES!!!

 

It takes more than oblique sexual references to get a thread locked.  Believe me, I know.

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, Ironblade said:

I don't like referring to the game as CoX, because there's only one way to pronounce that.

So when NCsoft shuttered the game, it made them a CoX-sacker?

[MoggieCanada]

Just wanted to add my thank yous to the Devs of HC for the latest content. I really like the Maintenance Bot for my MM Robot/Gadget and my many Sentinels can both give and take a lot more punishment.  

[roleki]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

You can totally nuke your own threads. No need for a middle man. Heck, I did it myself less than an hour ago. 

 

I have it on good authority that nuking your own threads is the recipe for blindness.

[PeregrineFalcon]

1 hour ago, roleki said:

 

I have it on good authority that nuking your own threads is the recipe for blindness.

Is that what we're calling it now? 

[Luminara]

9 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Is that what we're calling it now? 

 

Sorry, he/she meant "vision impairment".  Why you gotta be so PC, PF?

[Bill Z Bubba]

I'll play. Here's a post I made to the SG's discord:

I do have to give 'em respect from the tech side of things with what they've managed to support with pretty amazing uptime and little resources.

[Bill Z Bubba]

5 minutes ago, Krimson said:

I'm pretty sure I forked out $600 for new glasses less than two weeks ago. Really sure. Hard to forget spending that much. 

 

Try zennioptical.com. Got 3 pair with different RX for $80.

[Shred Monkey]

46 minutes ago, Krimson said:

I'm pretty sure I forked out $600 for new glasses less than two weeks ago. Really sure. Hard to forget spending that much. 

 

I used to buy cheap glasses because what kind of stuck-up arrogant nose-in-the-air jerk spends $500 on glasses?   Then a few years ago, it occurred to me, there's literally no one purchase I can think of that I use more then my glasses.   I now go straight for the good frames, pick out the ones I like best, and then add all the extras.  I don't regret it at all.  Glasses problem 100% solved.

 

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by Shred Monkey

[DoctorDitko]

3 hours ago, Krimson said:

I'm pretty sure I forked out $600 for new glasses less than two weeks ago. Really sure. Hard to forget spending that much. 

 

3 hours ago, Krimson said:

My prescription is so strong that I had to change from polycarbonate to a substance that didn't even exist last time I got glasses. Bargain stores are not going to help, but thanks. 😄

 

I have used Zenni for years. They're not a bargain store, but a factory mail-order biz using hi-tech manufacturing, and cutting out the middle men. My titanium-framed, progressive bifocals, with clip-on lenses for sunglasses, night driving, red/green 3d movies (not kidding), and polarized 3d, were ~$120, delivered in a week or so, and have been my favorites. They have plastics with varying indices of refraction, depending on your scrip, and an AR app that lets you upload a pic for a virtual try-on.

The only catch is you need to know both your scrip AND your inter-pupilary distance, which some docs/glasses shops try to keep secret for just this reason.

(Then they order your glasses from Zenni, and mark 'em up!)

Not a shill, just a very satisfied customer.

 

 

Edited October 20, 2022 by DoctorDitko
clarity

[Ironblade]

21 minutes ago, DoctorDitko said:

I have used Zenni for years. They're not a bargain store, but a factory mail-order biz using hi-tech manufacturing, and cutting out the middle men.

Absolutely.  My brother has titanium frames, bamboo frames and other types from Zenni.  Their glasses are really very nice.

 

However, I'll also point out that they CAN be extremely inexpensive.  I have a simple prescription and, to check their quality and the accuracy of the prescription, I bought the cheapest glasses they sold in order to leave a spare pair in my girlfriends car in case I didn't bring mine and need to drive her car.  The prescription was exact (as far as my eyes can tell).  They look dopey and don't fit very well but they were *** $12 DELIVERED *** and are absolutely fine to sit in her car if I should need them.

[Arc-Mage]

4 minutes ago, Krimson said:

I don't have to lean to read what I am typing anymore, so that's worth price of admission right there. 

“lean to read”

[PeregrineFalcon]

3 minutes ago, Krimson said:

I'm very near sighted, so I have a couple of options.

Same. I have to have progressives so that I can see far away and computer screen distance and close distance for reading. Plus a blue coating to help with the eye strain of staring at a computer screen for 8 - 12 hours a day. Recently went to get new glasses and they asked me if I wanted to have lenses of unobtainium, or whatever it's called, instead of polycarbonate. They're lighter and tougher they said so I said "Sign me up." They really are thinner and lighter than my old lenses.

 

The fun part was during the eye exam when they told me "Lean into the machine until the red disk turns green, then it'll take the readings." And I was like "Hey. So, remember when I mentioned that I'm red-green color blind? Yeah, the disks look the same color to me."

 

The only bit of good news is that, since I'm getting older, my eyes tendency to become far-sighted seems to have slowed my eyes from becoming further near-sighted. At least until my retinas detach from the back of my eyes in a few years. Yay!

[Bill Z Bubba]

1 hour ago, Krimson said:

The place I went to is wedged in between where I work and a legal weed store

 

Nice.

 

I'm so far-sighted that the lasik guys laughed at me when I looked into getting it done. Apparently it's total lens replacement or nothing. Thus... three pairs of glasses. 1 for driving\normal living, 1 for computer work, 1 for reading.

 

It sucks. Tried bifocals, didn't care for 'em.

[DoctorDitko]

The progressives aren't bad, once you learn to focus by looking up and down.