Alpha-One

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  1. I try to be respectful with people when discussing things, but as soon as a person tells me their beliefs outweigh knowledge hard-won by science, they go into the loony-bin. Case in point: an acquaintance is convicted by faith that mental illness and psychological and neural sciences simply don't exist and are outright wrong. This person is also incredibly mentally ill and can't understand why the government has taken away her children and her husband has divorced her. Humans are weak and frail creatures and ignoring the effects of mental illness sends us down a very dangerous path.
  2. Ah the actions of an addict/dealer getting cut off from his fix/supply/cashflow in one fell stroke. Ntm the judge is a moron for not seeing thru the guy's history and intents.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MunkiLord View Post
    100 million? Really?

    Personally if I needed one buying for 2.75B seems like my best option. I can make more than that on the market in a month if I feel like putting the effort in.
    The Glad Armor proc can be purchased with A-merits with 400mil inf and 1000 merits in 20 days. That's much faster than I can generate 2+ bil inf. 20mil inf and 50 merits a day can be done in a couple hours. I just hope this kills the off-market price enough to bring these things back on the market.
  4. Hello again fellow Guardianites! A few of you may remember my weekly LRSF runs from a while back. Well, with the release Going Rogue Alpha-One has turned to the blue side. Which means many new badges and some in the form of Task Forces. To assist my fellow former villainous badgers, starting this Saturday August 21st I will be running a Task Force or Trial every Saturday @ 7:00pm EST (4:00pm PST). One minor caveat is that I am now a military aircrewman and am prone to unexpected departures. If this does happen and I am not available my wife @MrsAlphaOne or my 2I/C @Botley will be online prior to start time to advise people of the delay or cancellation. Also I will be hunting down GMs at any time, so keep an eye on Guardian and Level 50 channels for any announcements.

    21-Aug: Positron TF (Part 1&2)
    28-Aug: Synapse TF
    04-Sep: Sister Psyche TF
    11-Sep: Citadel TF
    18-Sep: Manticore TF
    25-Sep: Numina TF
    02-Oct: Cavern of Transcendance Trial
    09-Oct: Moonfire TF
    16-Oct: Hess TF
    23-Oct: Katie Hannon TF & 1st Respec Trial
    30-Oct: Sewer Trial & 2nd Respec
    06-Nov: Eden Trial & 3rd Respec
    13-Nov: Dr. Quaterfeld TF
    20-Nov: Sara Moore TF
    27-Nov: Justin Augustine TF
    04-Dec: Faathim the Kind TF
    11-Dec: Master of Statesman TF (attempt every week until successful)
    Master of Kahn TF (if required)
  5. Alpha-One

    The Expendables

    Being french, I have no clue how many more hairs grew on my chest after watching this. This movie is the wet dream of every boy raised in the 80s, and Stallone was doing fan-service to just that group.

    And my wife giggled maniacally like a crazy school girl as Crews walked the hall with his BFG.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    The War of the World aliens used ground based vehicles that were self contained and sealed off from the outside environment. They likely knew the atmosphere might be dangerous to us. The same as we know that going to another planet, any planet with life, would likely be dangerous to us... same as intercontinental travel is or was dangerous back a hundred years ago or so because of germs.
    And yet they still ATE US!
  7. Dominator: Fiery Assault: this may be far-fetched, but give Cremate and Incinerate mock Fire Sword and Fire Sword Circle animations, like Icy Assault.

    Dual Pistols: less Gun-Fuey animations, like what Malta Gunslingers already use, and an alternating animation for Dual Wield where the character twirls in the opposite direction (Dual Wield reminds me of Zoolander... HE CAN ONLY TURN LEFT!!!). Rain of Bullets could have an alternate where the bullets simply arc down onto the target area, as opposed to spiraling all over the place. Piercing Rounds could also use a less far-fetched animation.

    Martial Arts: Focus Chi: instead of the standard Build-Up animation, use the Ninjitsu fist-to-hand animation (ex: Kuji-In Rin, Kuji-In Sha, etc).

    Claws: Eviscerate: something akin to Broadsword: Disembowel, a nasty upward strike.
  8. I'm gonna attempt this for the first time this weekend. Any strategies or pointers for handling Hami? We usually just speed run and don't care about deaths, but that's the only spot that has me worried.
  9. I must see this movie.

    My wife wants to see it too.

    Is it ok for her to watch this testosterone fest?
  10. Stupid Amazon won't sell MP3s to Canadians *shakes fist with rage*
  11. Guardian was happenin' this weekend, had 6 to 8-man teams going practically non-stop, mostly in RWZ.

    Aftermath:

    The Pain Fairy (Dark/Pain Corr) lvl 24 -> 50
    Dust-Mite (Arachnos Crab Spider) lvl 24 -> 37

    also helped the Mrs:

    Rogue Ivy (Plant/Thorn Dom) lvl 41 -> 50
    Techno-Valkyrie (Shield/SS Tank) lvl 22 -> 50
  12. Just the opposite. The ONLY badges that need a team are the healing, TF/SF and related Master badges. Everything else can be done solo.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sister_Twelve View Post
    ...Fairuza Balk...doing Silver Mantis.
    Dirty DIRTY thoughts!
  14. I like to imagine Hardcase having Ralph Wiggum's voice. Such a weenie.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow State View Post
    I'm not entirely certain why but my first thought was of an Alley Vyper.
    That was my absolute favoritest acshun figure when I was but a wee Joe. And now I have a new costume idea for my DP/Traps corr.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pepsiman View Post
    *run around wif dual phaser pistols*

    o_o

    *keep running*

    *pew pew*
    *Snipes Pepsi with scoped disruptor rifle*

    QAPLA!
  17. Alpha-One

    And I'm done

    Tonight Alpha-One, my main and badger, got Immortal, badge number 616. That's officially the last badge I can get, not counting vet badges. It took almost 5 years to get them all, now I have to wait for Issue 17 and Going Rogue for MOAR BADGEZ!!!
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Shouldn't take you more than 10 days (give or take a few) if you farm it AFK. That's what I'm working on right now. Got a level 54 CoT Guide in a radio mission smacking me with his scimitar for a little over 100 damage per second.

    If you have a pocket healer on a second account, you could have two or even three of them attacking you to earn the badge much more quickly, but one is about as much as I can handle solo right now.

    ((Just to be nice, would you mind shrinking that image down some? It's a tad large. ))

    Oh, and gratz on finishing the Day Jobs!

    Edit: Oh, and in case you haven't AFK farmed before (which would surprise me since you've got Empath already), the slash command "/maxinactivefps 1" is your friend.
    On a MM with all the +HP accolades... certainly felt like it'd take forever before the badge fixes. I'm experimenting with Rikti Conscripts to see what I can handle while AFK.
  19. ...LRSF, BSF and ITF

    Today at noon I received my final Day Job and Accolade badges, for a total of 614.



    Now that I'm retired, I think I'm gonna go waste a couple months farming the last two epic damage badges before Going Rogue goes live.
  20. RIMC is still around and I don't think I broke coalition after you left. Botley and I tend to play mostly with Psychosis and TC too and still run regular RSFs (and ITFs and LGTFs).
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler View Post
    Reminds me of an article I read this weekend about "Escalation of Commitment"
    Hmmm, and that would explain why I've playing this game for 5 years
  22. Did you train to 30 before this happened? If you didn't the contacts won't talk to you til you do.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talen_Lee View Post
    Good for you. For my own involvement in this conversation, though, I'd much rather you address my points (conceptually narrow, would need to be jiggered to avoid causing redraw, wouldn't work like existing pistols work, further adds to an archetype that doesn't need anything at this point, overlaps with 'weapon' mastery, and has less conceptual or interpretive depth than other ancillary options) than just iterate a wish-list of powers you'd like to have.

    Can you?
    One name:



    DEADPOOL

    Dual Blades/Regen/Pistols

    gimme mah Dual Pistals APP nao
  24. Alpha-One

    Villain Hami?

    Darn, I'll be on the road all weekend so I'll miss this. Good luck to you all.
  25. Ninja Run is... the best booster pack power EVAH! Thanks devs, awesome work all around.