Zombie Man

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It'll be a nice day when people regard individuals as just that instead of representatives of some larger group that they may be a part of.

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Sounds like you have a dream.

CoH = Caverns of Heroes.

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Wow, someone earlier said it took them a week to get a rejection letter from Paragon Studios? It took me less than 8 hours.

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Did they give a reason why you were rejected?

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If the gentleman in question is one of the environmental artists then he is either Don Pham or Ryan Roth.

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He's neither. I asked about him because I thought he was someone else who still works at Cryptic Studios and was told he was "John, one of our environmental artists".

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Hmmm... there is no longtime employee named 'John,' at least no 'Johns' that came over from Cryptic. There is a John Hegner hired in the first quarter of 2008 who is listed as a World Designer, but, I've seen a pic of John Hegner, and he's not it (the picture is too small to make a positive ID of who is the actual John Hegner in the group shot).

Of course, there are other recently hired folks for whom I have no name and he might be one of them. They've had a job position open for an Environment Artist for a long time, since Aug of 2008 and haven't taken it down yet. It's possible they wanted more than one and only filled one, so, they left the posting up.

The banning of any one using words with three double letters in a row. That's the future of CoH.

R stands for Radioactive.

Matt has let his alter ego of Positron go to his head and he's put all the programmers in radiation suits to contain their energy.

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I'll close with a line I've come to adopt when discussing this subject: Spider-Man don't have no travel suppression!

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Funny, every time I see a blow land on him he gets knocked into a wall or his webbing is cut and he falls on his butt. Not much traveling happening when one is sitting on one's butt rubbing one's half-dazed head making wry comments on how surprisingly strong/quick one's opponent is. In that regard, Spidey is the posterboy argument *for* travel suppression. It would be hard to think of a worse example for the point you want to make.

Besides, webbing is a slow travel power to begin with, laterally. It seems fast because of all the simultaneous vertical movement, but you don't really travel horizontally very fast, especially if you're not going to take advantage of a full 180 degree arc with each swing. If Spidey wanted to go the length of a city block and managed to web the top of a 20 story building to swing on, I could walk it faster. If anyone's seen a Foucault pendulum, you know that's true.

Lord Recluse.

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O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')

O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')

O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [DevconDefaultDB] C:\Windows\system32\READREG /SILENT /FAIL=1 (User 'SYSTEM')
O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [DevconDefaultDB] C:\Windows\system32\READREG /SILENT /FAIL=1 (User 'Default user')

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To those more knowledgeable than I... why are there two of each? And should any of them really be running?


To the OP: You still have Water Effects and Desaturation turned on, turn them off.

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Brand New Job Posting: Windows PC Tech I


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Oh, great. THAT is a job I actually happen to be qualified for!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Foot in the door.

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Updated labeled group shot of Paragon Studios.

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OK.. Where's Ghost Widow? Is she the one holding the camera? Or is she the one ducking behind Graham West?

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Ghost Widow wishes to remain anonymous. So, I'll never out him or her. And I hope everyone else respects his or her wish on this.

I'm not even going to say who's dating whom.

Brand New Job Posting: Windows PC Tech I
Location: Mountain View

Description: NCsoft, the world’s largest independent developer and publisher of online computer games, is looking for a self-starter to provide desktop support to internal users at Paragon Studios in Mountain View, CA.



Job Qualifications:

· Exceptional customer service skills with a passion for learning.

· Ability to communicate effectively with end users of varying technical knowledge on a regular basis.

· Demonstrable experience with building, repairing and troubleshooting PC hardware – Desktops and Laptops.

· Demonstrable experience troubleshooting and maintaining Microsoft Windows XP & Vista

· Demonstrable experience with Microsoft Office products.

· Understanding of basic PC network troubleshooting.

· Demonstrable experience setting up and troubleshooting printers.

· Experience with Macintosh systems a plus

· Experience with consumer-level & Gaming-level PCs a plus.

· Experience with, knowledge of, and troubleshooting of Gaming Video Cards..

· Ability to work and accomplish tasks with little supervision.

· Experience in an Enterprise environment a plus.



Job Duties include, but not limited to:

· Give NCsoft employees excellent on site customer service.

· Setup end user Desktops and Laptops, including Windows configuration and application installation.

· Troubleshoot end user PC issues: hardware and software.

· Setup and troubleshoot printers.

· Track and document tasks via issue ticket system.

· Possible overtime required.

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I wonder if this means Jimmy the IT guy is getting a minion?

Check your leaked email folder.

While 'alignment' might be a better fit, 'faction' is not used improperly.

None of these things will ever happen!

Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

<ul type="square">[*]CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
[*]HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format &gt; Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.[/list]
Also, while in the game, type this command in the chat line:

/netgraph 1

in order to see the health of the network connection.

Turn off Water Effects, Bloom, and Depth of Field. ATI don't play that game (with those effect enabled).

Check out this thread, Common Solutions &amp; Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

<ul type="square">[*]CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
[*]HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format &gt; Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.[/list]

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Heya folks. I've already reported this bug, but figured I'd post it here.

I logged in my WS who I had forgotten was in the middle of an AE arc to join a Posi TF being started by my SG-mates. They were reforming to include me, as they had just started when I decided to join. So they quit and reformed, threw me an invite, and I was able to join successfully (without quitting the arc). Strange thing was when I joined, it showed an active mission: the first mish of the Posi TF, even though we hadn't restarted it.

We started up the TF, and on the way to the first mission, I noticed in the middle of my experience meter rather than the typical "TF" symbol, it was the "AE" symbol. Strange. So I enter the mission... and my client locks up. Fire up task manager, kill it, and restart the game. Once loaded, I discover the game booted me from the TF and back into that AE arc. Team had to quit the Posi and reform to get me back in.

Moral of the story: make sure you quit your AE arcs before anyone tries to invite you to a TF.

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And I found out that if you do get invited to a team and you have a AE arc up and quit the AE 'TF', then you'll wind up quitting the team, too.

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Hey hey hey buddy! Stay on task here! What does that gentleman do?!

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He's an Environmental Artist, which I believe puts him working with Melissa "War Witch" Bianco.

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War Witch is more into environmental design than art. She places spawns and writes dialogue. Environmental art creates the 3D world with 3D modeling, meshing, and texturing.

If the gentleman in question is one of the environmental artists then he is either Don Pham or Ryan Roth.

Updated labeled group shot of Paragon Studios.

Names to the faces in the group Paragon shot.

As many as I could make out. I'd do better if:

1. Some of the faces weren't half obscured.

2. The picture wasn't so low rez and grainy.

3. People who attend meet&amp;greets and cons to see the devs actually took pictures of devs and remembered who it is they took a picture of that's not severely underexposed and is not endless shots of themselves having breakfast or photos from the car on the way to the con.

Castle's missing and I don't think Ron Friedman's in the picture, either.

I'm glad they're taking a new one. Hopefully better posed and higher rez and they warn everyone to 'dress nice ( )'.

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Who's the African American fellow and what does he do??

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He's responsible for the game's funk.

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LMFAO, oh I did enjoy that No but really... what does he do? Lol

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I've never seen him before in any of the Cryptic/NorCal/Paragon/HeroCon pics before. If he was in one of those pics, I certainly would have remembered because, after all, he does stand out because he is.... tall.

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Who's the African American fellow and what does he do??

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He's responsible for the game's funk.

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They also still have 12 openings.

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/shameless plug for openings at Paragon Studios

...as an fyi, we have hired qualified applicants from our player-base for open positions...


&lt;edited to reflect "open positions"&gt;

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Just out of curiosity, how many people do you have actually writing the game. I'm currently enrolled at Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in game design and minoring in creative writing. Only a freshman, but I got my eye on you guys...

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If you mean writing and designing missions and content, then:

Matt Miller (lead design)
Bruce Harlick (writer)
Joe Morrissey (writer, bible keeper)
Melissa Bianco (World Designer, NPC dialogue)
John Hegner (World Designer)

John and Bruce were hired just this past year.

Check out this thread, Common Solutions &amp; Posting Guidelines


Then post the results of these two programs:

<ul type="square">[*]CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
[*]HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format &gt; Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.[/list]