WildClaw

I would work on reverse-engineering the bracelet, or at least try to figure out how to reset it to a different user. Then I would put a great deal of effort into finding a more suitable person for it.

If it was a gene-engineer/healing thing that would 'fix' the various physical problems I have, then I would do the superhero gig. Otherwise, we're all a lot better off if I can get this into the hands of someone who can use it properly.

Personally, I think taking Trek into a different direction would be a good thing. Note that I said a 'different' direction, not necessarily a 'new' direction.

What I would propose would be to do a series of mini-series, using the Horatio Hornblower model. A mini-series based on the Academy, followed later by a mini-series with a number of the same characters (not all of them!) as midshipmen/ensigns, followed with a mini-series as full officers, etc. Each mini-series as a stand-alone arc, and picking and choosing which characters to follow each progression onwards. Cast can change, time can progress, and there can even be long-term overall story-arc development between mini-series if the writers feel up to it.

I think it's a good idea as a starting point. Meaning there would need to be more to it that just 'a wheelchair'. In the same way that monstrous legs have multiple options, I think multiple ideas with the same pose would be necessary, especially since there would need to be bypass code put in to replace all the leg-based animations with something else.

Uhm... Let me think. Could do a old-fashioned genie with a smoke cloud instead of legs. The Snake body. I could see spider legs being tagged into the same model. That's all that occurs off the top of my head.

Actually, it highly resembles a Xolo, a specific breed of Mexican Hairless dog. Back legs slightly longer than the front, long tail, narrow muzzle, no hair or at most a 'mane' of hair down the spine like a horse has.

Or a cross breed of a Xolo with some other dog. They're not common, but they're not as rare as they used to be, and they get abandoned a lot because the alot of people who get 'specialty' dogs like this are also the kind who get bored of the novelty fairly quick and just dump them out the car one day.

Whatever it is, it's not a 'wild' animal. It didn't seem too concerned with the cage or the people nearby, and while it left when the cage was opened, it didn't take off the way wild animals usually do.

Similar to the way my main has the name 'Wild Claw', but does not have the Claws powerset. To him, it's just a good-sounding name. It does not define his abilities.

I'm likely going to be re-rolling my main, Wild Claw. He's wandered between Scrapper and Brute, MA and KM, Regen, WP, and DA, but none of the current combinations have really 'fit' the character. He's a character I've had since before CoH, so he had a relatively fixed concept that CoH seemed to have difficulty with.

With SJ added, though, I'm looking at a Regen/SJ Brute, with a few IO procs to get the minor perception and stealth boosts that would fit the character concept.

I can only vaguely remember some of it, but I swear I read something from Gygax about the show back when it first premiered. Something about the classes (and magic items) were due to the character's self-images. Thief with the invibility cloak was because she didn't think anyone paid attention to her, and Cavalier with the shield was because all he thought about was protecting himself, etc.

The first Time Travel fiction story where future things travel into the past that I'm aware of is 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' written in 1733. However this one's a bit twitchy because it's not people being sent back, but objects. Specifically letters arriving two hundred years before they were sent. I'm not sure this counts or not.

Listing the top 10 Sci-Fi shows is a bit of a boondoggle. Without a precise definition of what is Sci-Fi and what is not, and without an equally precise definition of how something becomes 'top', it's all meaningless. And I bet you that it would take a long time to come to a consensus on what is 'Sci-Fi'. Is Godzilla Sci-Fi? What about 'The Two-Headed Man'? Ooooh, how about 'Iceman'?

It would be like listing the top 10 artists, and having Picasso, Monet, Grell, and Willich all appear on the list. Without any context what the heck did it mean?

'Immersive' to me is a relatively thin band that exists between 'Uh, what?' and 'TMI'.

Not enough background, atmosphere, and in-game reveal information and the game simply becomes a puzzle game. Which isn't bad if that's what I'm in the mood to play, except that in that case I'd rather play something that is presented right from the get-go as a puzzle game. For RPGs, I want more.

Too much trivia, too often, and stuff that forces me into a cutscene that I can't skip, that's going into overload territory. Yes, allow me to find out about the NPCs/secondary characters if I'm interested, but don't forcefeed me info about their second cousin's third birthday party. If I don't care, I don't care.

Chibi!

Thanks muchly Deebs.

I noticed something odd just now. I have a toon that has an animated tail. Specifically the bioluminescent tail. When I use one of the ToT temp costume powers, the tail's still there.

It's actually kinda funny and a bit cute, but technically it's probably a bug. Anybody else notice this?

*blink* Wow.. Just... watering the owl has to be one of the coolest random pictures I've seen in while. Where on earth did you find that one?

To be honest, I would like the see what happens if William Shatner, Bill Nighy, and Christopher Walken were all in the same conversation together. The war of the unusual speech patterns.

Yeah, I started with wanting a Tanker that didn't look much like a Tank, and thought a ridiculously tall and skinny scarecrow would work. It just evolved from there to a walking tree on fire. The mind works in weird ways sometimes, but I like what it ended up as.

I was thinking, I had posted my main up here, but really he's a very boring headshot. Reddish monstrous wolf-head with a leather jacket. Wow. Excitement.

However, I have recently made an alt that is a bit more interesting to look at. So, here we go with the fiery Tattie Bogle:

Hi all,

I was wondering, is there any 'official' mention in game or in other lore sources about professional sports teams in Paragon City? Anything like a "Paragon Pounders" basketball team, or such like?

Most of the Doctor's regenerations were required due to damage, poison, etc. Other Time Lords seemed to have a more cavalier attitude towards it however.

The second Doctor said that Time Lords were "Immortal, barring accidents".

The Time Lords allowed the second Doctor to choose the face of his next regeneration, which he refused to do, so the Time Lords chose for him.

The fourth Doctor mentioned the 12-regeneration limit into canon, which got reinforced by the fifth Doctor and was mentioned by the sixth with reference to the Valyard.

Romana demonstrated the ability to control regeneration to the point of being able to 'try on' several new bodies, and duplicate the appearance of someone she had seen previously.

There were at least two sets of people in the original series that used Time Lord technology to give them unending regenerations. The scientists led by Mawdryn, and the Minyans.

The Master exceeded the limit, but kept himself alive first just through force of will and stolen technology from other advanced peoples, and then via stealing other people's bodies. He was then offered a new set of regenerations by the Time Lord Council. Then, in the new series he says he was resurrected by the Time Lords to fight the Time War, and demonstrated he could regenerate (and *refuse* to regenerate), and then later he was resurrected again, in a sort of incomplete state.

The tenth Doctor showed that you could start a regeneration, and as long as you had the right maguffin, you could abort it and 'store' the remainder of the 'energy'.

Now, the eleventh says there is no limit. I can't say he's wrong, really.

To be honest, I got the impression (from having lived long enough to see the entire old and new series from the original broadcasts), that the abitlity to regenerate was something that was instilled artifically and the 12-regen limit was more a legal and medically advisable limit than a hard and fast rule. Everyone extended beyond the 12-regen limit seemed to have serious side-effects like mutations, mental unbalance, and debilitating exhaustion.

I agree, you guys are much better at getting screenshots than I am.


I wish I could put just a touch of gray on the face to match the gray in the tail... which you can't see and I just noticed that. How did I manage to get a screenshot with the tail missing? Weird.
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