Zengar

While we are using the greek word "Ouroborous" for this, I don't recally greek art stylizing images in this manner. Of the top of my head, I'd say Aztec or Norse would be more likely with both Quetzalcoatl and Jörmungandr being depicted as unending serpents. Admitedly, neither culture used the lemniscate so this is either a confabulation with something else, or I'm headed of down a wrong tangent. The third Reich did study a fair amount of Norse mythology, however, and attempted to combine some of it with science, particularly with theories like Welteislehre that seemed to provide a direct conection between the two. Medieval artists also tended to sylize things greatly, so the idea of this being alchemical also holds water.

If I had to guess with just this to go on, I'd either go with a reborn 5th column, or an alchemicly powered Blood of the Black Stream.

Edit: Or something having to do with Nemisis. I admit that it could be far simpiler than I made it out to be, and could just be a stylized infinity symbol. I don't have anyone the right level for the renewed Rikti Warzone, so I didn't know there was a bunch of stuff about him in there. Time to get cracking with my highest level non-50.

Just to add my experience with credit card companies to the list, I recently moved far enough that I had to change banks. With the new account came a new credit card, so I decided to switch over everything from my old Capital One card to consolidate all my statements (and because I never really liked capital one anyway). For some rason the bank flagged to one dollar test transaction that NCsoft uses to make sure it's a valid card as possibly fraudulent. Luckily (VERY luckily, from the looks of this thread) there was no difficulty whatsoever in calling them and getting it cleared up, but I've played many different MMOs and a lot of them use that mechanism and this hadn't happened before. For that matter, I've changed credit cards for payment with NCsoft before without this happening. The customer service rep said that it was likely because they hyper-scrutinize everything in the first month you have a card, but if the intention is to get a feel for what a person's legitamite purchasing habits look like, it seems a little odd.

I suspect that this is like the current US airline security regulations: general awareness of identity theft has reached significant levels. Therefor they must be seen to be doing something visible to counter it, whether or not it provides any actual protection. On the cross country flight over here I noticed a couple of ways to completely bypass the added features since 2001, and I've always wondered why no-one worries about the use of ceramics and plastice in the making of knives.

I would guess (from my marginally informed perspective) that 90 percent of the time a single uncharacteristic transaction is not a sign that a card has been co-opted by someone else. I know that almost everything that I put on my card is a one time purchase. I far perfer to have any regular bills go to my checking account, since one way or another that's where the money's coming from anyway.

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The observations that minion 7th Gen Paragon Protectors count less than boss PPs - has this been a false measurement or an exception?

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I seem to remember that for a while female Paragon Protectors weren't counting for the badge at all, resulting in wildly varying opinions as to how many were required. That might account for the false measurement, it certainly does a good job of explaining why my main doesn't have the badge yet. I've beaten up enough of them that if it was just a sliding scale of value I would have gotten it already, but I went through that story arc a while ago and haven't been playing her much recently. (level 38, and out of missions aside from warburg. When I play her, I have this horrible tendancy to pick up as much debt from taking on things that are just a little too hard, as I pay off by defeating them)

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ha ha -- he has a whole cd full of metal songs. Imagine him crooning Jim's Morrison's line "there's a killer on the road..."

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My personal favorite was "Exit: Light. Enter: Night. Take my hand..." but I think Metallica always sounds best berformed by someone else. Now the song from that CD that gives ME the shudders is the on that lends its title to the album: "No More Mr. Nice Guy"

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What you listen to says a lot. Hit "random," "shuffle," or whatever you have on your music player currently, and list the first ten tracks that play. And prepare for belittlement!

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Well, I suppose I'll play this silly little game. At least it gives me a reason to go through and make sure my ALL playlist in fact has only songs I like on it (song I don't like, obviously get an invitation to leave my hard drive). Lets see what comes up, shall we?

Shuffle up and, hmm it certainly is random, isn't it:

1) "You Belong To Me Theme" Lords of Acid
2) "Back in the Saddle" Aerosmith
3) "Popcorn (Techno Mix)" Hot Butter
4) "Say You Will" Foreigner
5) "Harden My Heart" Quarterflash
6) "Celestial Soda Pop" Ray Lynch
7) "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" Charlie Daniels Band
8) "It's My Life" Bon Jovi
9) "Burn In [censored]" Twisted Sister
10) "Unrelated Thing" They Might Be Giants

Well, since number 10 is so appropriate that some might accuse me of stacking my playlist, let's try this again:

1) "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" Poison
2) "Overture/Work Song" Les Miserables
3) "Janies Got a Gun" Aerosmith
4) "Special Moments" Lords of Acid
5) "Give It to Me Baby" Rick James
6) "In Love With Dying" [censored] Surfers
7) "Welcome to My Nightmare" Alice Cooper
8) "I've Been Thinking About You" Londonbeat
9) "The Chainsaw Juggler" The Four Postmen
10) "Peaches and Regalia" Frank Zappa

Huh, I don't think Aerosmith or Lords of Acid make up that much of my collection, I guess a copy of Musicmatch Jukebox from 5 years ago doesn't have a very random shuffle.

Ashira, Based on Protector.

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Let me rephrase what I said above, (and maybe Positron can answer this if he's still watching)
Statesman said, "the effectiveness of your Enhancements are capped to the level of effectiveness of that weight classes' Enhancements."
What is a Lightweight's enhancement?
If it's a SO, then yes there's probably an imbalance. If a it's a DO, then there's no problem - a 22 only gets is an edge during PvE.


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My guess, and it is only a guess, is that with this weight class topping out at level 24 and the first SO being level 25, SOs wouldn't be part of Lightwieght. I'd want to hear it from a Dev before I said so anywhere else though.

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The technology was widely used with Half-Life2 as well where a polygon surface essentially behaved like the viewport for a camera and basically rendered things in the world twice. Once for the world itself and once for what the viewport was displaying.

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The problem with that, as far as I can tell, is that the inside of the arena is an instanced zone seperate from the zone the screen would be in. And the arena's are in high traffic zones already, so adding the screens might choke computers that were already suffering lag before the player came into view of them.

Personally, I love the idea of the roaming cameras, as long as you have some way of respawning them if destroyed