Zappalina

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  1. Zappalina

    Skype......?

    and there's nothing like being in a call with Guill when he has all of us on his external speakers and then his girlfriend calls and we all start screaming Pass the lube
  2. Zappalina

    Skype......?

    I like the mouth breather's and ice chewers on skype. Makes me giggle. Skype is fun especially if you know the people you're on the team with. There is a microphone mute button. You can also keybind that. Took a lil bit to figure out but you have to bind two keys together for that in options. Like mine is Ctrl Z.

    Yes people will hear everything in your background. I like it though because if someone laughs about something or has a side comment I actually hear those instead of never hearing it. The sound quality is so much better than T.S. Vent's is pretty good but it's the constant ding-dong every time that someone joins the vent server, it can get annoying. If someone does something that is annoying like has a dog that barks all the time or coughs into the mic a lot, or has children being loud in the background or has loud music, I just ask them to mute their mic usually people are good about that.

    It's also good for task forces. That's when I like it the most unless I'm with sg/coalition members or people I know or team with on a regular basis
  3. I got this from another forum. But it's so funny.

    Alright, here is an interesting forum game, You post a picture of something, then the next poster has to post a picture of something that will beat it/win over it.

    Please use common sense when looking for pictures(no porn, overly-violent, etc)
    To post pictures type [ img ] picture link [ /img ] just with no space between brackets.

    Ill start it off
  4. Welcome back! and I hope you're enjoying what's left of summer
  5. 60% Explorer
    60% Achiever
    47% Socializer
    33% Killer
  6. 1) Got the Isolator badge.

    2) Visited every zone in their half of the game.

    3) Charged Lusca, solo.

    4) Got lost in Perez Park.

    5) Used /em batsmash in the last mission of "A Hero's Hero".

    6) Popped a few purples and a few reds before charging Sally.

    7) Get lost in your SG base at least once. (even if you're the base designer)

    8) Had their picture taken on top of the Atlas Globe

    9) Led their team into a complete team wipe

    10) Led countless sewer teams from AP all the way to KR.

    11) Asked someone to drop an Ouro portal for you.

    12) By any means, hit the ceiling of a zone and fall all the way down

    13) Been asked to fill in a space for bigger mob spawns, and flat out rejected due to rage.

    14) Gone on a Mothership Raid and get confused about what numbers the pylons are.

    15) Become enraged at the Tagteam of Death: Sapper and Gunslinger.

    16) Made a joke about Nemesis Plots.

    17) Pants Lord Recluse

    18) Have contacts that have absolutely no missions for you because you already outleveled them.

    19) Asked how to get a jetpack.

    20) Been flattened by a purple minion.

    21) Had his/her picture taken standing on top of City Hall in AP by the flag.

    22) Volunteered for the Positron TF without really knowing better.

    23) Attempted to solo a Rikti dropship.

    24) Tried to kill Fusionette with Arbiter Sands' drones.

    25) Fallen OFF the globe in Atlas Park.

    26) Wondered why, when doing a cape mission, the Omega Team time capsule is in an abandoned lab somewhere under a cave in Perez Park.

    27) Done laps around the Argo Highway in Talos hunting for Banished Pantheon masks.

    28) Deliberately stood on the tram tracks and tried to get hit by a passing train.

    29) Landed on the Blimp and Promptly fall off.

    30) Hung out in AP under Atlas and his globe.

    31) Entered a Costume Contest.

    32) Called a contact just to check in some 10-15 levels later.

    33) Went into The Hive alone and promptly exited five seconds later.

    34) Changed their costume at least three times before they got a second costume slot.

    35) Actually tried to do enough Meg Mason missions to get to a story arc.

    36) Held a costume contest.

    37) Hit some minion off a building with a knockback power.

    38) Grabbed the Atlas Medallion.

    39) Became Old-Fashioned in Faultline.

    40) Added more slots to Brawl, Sprint, and/or Rest

    41) Gone through every emote on the emote list in rapid succession

    42) Get lost in Striga (where's the entrance of this *ù%$£µ Council tunnel)

    43) Cursed when you found the map you were on was the cake-layer room.

    44) Mapserved RIGHT WHEN YOU WERE FINISHING THAT MISH THAT TOOK FOREVER.

    45) Yelled at a trainer for just standing there during a Rikti or zombie invasion.

    46) Droned a Paladin in Kings Row.

    47) Went to Bloody Bay for some Shivans and prayed no villains/heroes were there.

    48) Prayed the villain/hero didn't want to fight when they spotted you in Bloody Bay.

    49) Tried to land on a car and ride it

    50) Visited Recluse's Victory

    51) Accidentally hit the auto-run while fighting/typing

    52) MT'ed into a global/supergroup chat channel

    53) Visited every detective/broker whenever they entered a new zone.

    54) Sold a highly coveted recipe to a NPC vendor.

    55) Had an argument in broadcast.

    56) Been knocked off a building by a foe with a Knockback attack.

    57) Got a Scientist stolen off them while going for nukes.

    58) Attempted to solo an Arch-Villain.

    59) Complained about how slow the Heavy Robots are in Recluse's Victory.

    60) Met Sally. (darn it! now I HAVE to make a char named Harry,lol)

    61) Attempted to press CTRL-3, pressed WINDOWS-3, and accidentally end up launching Firefox (wait for Windows 7 those who haven't).

    62) Started a shadow shard TF at 10pm.

    63) Won influence off a newbie using the /em dice7 command.

    64) Cursed yourself for not starting the toon early enough for the 1-year anniversary badge.

    65) Stumbled across a couple ERPing in local on a rooftop.

    66) Ducked behind an AC unit so you could spy on 65).

    67) Bound the "slap" and "smack" emotes to 2 keys so you could have a slap fight with your friends under Atlas.

    68) Sniped a level 12 boss from two blocks away.

    69) Found a "real" mission door outside of the AE.

    70) Rolled a Luck of the Gambler and gave a "woot", only to notice it was an Endurance/Recharge.

    71) Spammed a Spammer

    72) Joined a global channel

    73) Wandered aimlessly thru the woods in PP.

    74) Steamrolled thru PP collecting "Defeat X" badges for Hellions, Skulls, CoT, & Lost Rectors.

    75) Visited Icon in Steel Canyon by running across the zone at level 5-6 just because the colors weren't right.

    76) Visited Icon by standing at the AP tunnel entrance broadcasting "Pls TP me to Icon".

    77) Learned that visiting Icon In Indy Port is much easier for a level 5-6 character.

    78) Had a spawn of purples from someone else,descend on you and promptly were kissing pavement as you were running to the train in talos or bricks.
  7. Zappalina

    RANT!!

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    Why do you not just hang up after you tell them who you are? or are you not allowed to hang up? As in "sorry ma'am you have dialed a wrong number you have called Flight operations have a nice day". *click*

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    And if I did so, would I be able to come here and rant for the amusement of all?

    I think not!

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    We've looked into this one. Apparently the AI reacted funny to the phase changes. Currently the AI thinks everyone is a valid target, even though it can't actually deal damage.

    Code is looking into it, and Bab's might be able to do something to make them a lot more transparent. That should make it much more apparent that the targets are phased out.

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    I'm kind of working blind here as I don't know what this originally looked like or when/why it changed.

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    It looks like the animation that gave it the gravity look, as in going down towards the ground. is now whirling upward at their feet instead. or something like that it's changed a wee bit tho, and I'm not sure if that's exactly why.

    That and their used to be a kind of 'coating' look over the baddies that is changed to just whirling vortex looking thingys at their major body points like joints/head.

    Also I don't ever remember the bad guys moving around like that, it was kind of like they were locked.
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    What changes should we make to avoid this kind of bad NPE?

    If you were going to change things about the zones, what would you do?

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    I'd move AE to hazard zones. Perez Park. Faultline, Dark Astoria Crey's Folly, RWZ, etc.

    Zones that are level dependent on being able to enter.
  10. Zappalina

    RANT!!

    Why do you not just hang up after you tell them who you are? or are you not allowed to hang up? As in "sorry ma'am you have dialed a wrong number you have called Flight operations have a nice day". *click*
  11. Zar all of them tiny hineys and humongous...
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    Am I the first to mention Doug the Troll?


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    He had the greatest costumes.
  13. His name and general location can be gleaned from that article. I just don't understand if the man has had death threats why in the hell he'd want that to come out.

    As far as his Essay at least he got some attention for awhile. but zzz... Oh and I found a typo in it :P

    and how frickin bored would he have to be or whatever it is that motivates him, that someone would want to tp foe people for hours? For a year long study in R.V? Dood unplug and get some sun!
  14. ooh I forgot my friend JJ he makes theme'd character's like Floppy Ears of Doom is one it looks like he has a dead bloody rabbit on his head and his bio goes along with it. His stuff is funny and it's great. I think one of his other costumes is a big evil pink bunny LOL