ZephyrWind

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    And for those who might have wondered where the quote in my sig, Tempus unum hominem manet, Time waits for one man, is from? It's from the 1962 Science Fiction novel and 1980 TV movie, The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything. Sadly Google now points that phrase to my forum posts, well at least until Saturday morning my time.
    Holy crap, I loved that movie. That's the movie that got me started thinking about time travel.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fire Man View Post
    Moon zone!

    ... I kid.
    I thought the moon in-game looked a little strange the other day. I told the rest of my SG (the 5 of us remaining) that it was preperatory for the moon zone

    Edit: Hah, FPARN. First in 8 years, as the game winds down
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU View Post
    I can see why you would think that, but they are *totally* different games. Even more amazing is that they managed to fit in so much stuff in such little amount of storage
    There's a really neat article (I'll see if I can find it) that talks about how they did that - essentially they used fibonacci sequences as random lookups into dataset to build their universe.

    Here we go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003...atures.weekend
  4. ZephyrWind

    So sad...

    I started saving my characters via TonyV and GuyPerfect's tool last night (side note - you guys rock!)

    I may have sniffled just a little bit. My apologies. It was my allergies, really.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TonyV View Post
    Hey all, please don't do anything drastic with your characters. Don't delete them, don't nuke all of your stuff, don't do anything that is irreversible.

    I'm saying this because of two reasons. First, as has been hinted in rumor threads elsewhere and even if it weren't a rumor it would still be possible, another studio may very well pick up this game. If so, it's entirely possible that the servers won't go dark on November 30. If that happens and the game keeps chugging along, you'll be kicking yourself for doing something permanent that carries forward after November.

    Second, at the Titan Network, we are working on tools to export your character data in a form that, even if the servers go down November 30 but we're able to revive the game in some form, will be usable to recreate your character on alternate servers if need be. If you go deleting them or deleting all of your stuff, you'll lose the opportunity to do that and, if the servers are recreated at some point, you'll have to start from scratch instead of having your characters documented in a format that we can use to re-import them unscathed.

    We'll be talking more about this as we make progress on our toolset--we're not keeping it a secret, but we're still in the process of working on it at a furious pace--but in the meantime, like I said, just please don't do anything permanently bad to your stuff.
    Damn, Tony, that is awesome. Props to you and the hardest working heroes in town, Titan Network!

    Edit: and GuyPerfect, CodeWalker, Diellian and DeProgrammer!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mad Grim View Post
    It is obvious that Dark Respite's goal is to get the entire forum drunks out of it's mind. I believe I will assist.

    This post is a slap to the face to me, the entire gaming community, and my dog. I have over thirty veteran badges and have been playing 11 months, I deserve RESPECT.. You, Samuraiko, are the hitler of posters! You are a fascist, elitist tankmage who will DOOM this game. The so-called devs should strike you down where you stand. I deserve compensation for the overwhelming MINUTES I spent reading your post! Your post violates my rights in THE FIRST AMENDMENT somehow. You, like the entirety of all updatesincluding the ones I know nothing about and was not around for, are RUINING this game for ALL of us!

    THATs it, I'm DONE! You can take your thread and shove it up your first amendment, I QUIT!

    Right after I stick around for a few more years.
    *hiccup*

    I jush read thish one post, an' I'm a lil' drunksh right now...

    By the way, you forgot:

    Anytime anyone joins the games and posts about zones being empty
    Anytime anyone re-joins the games and cries DOOM because a zone is empty
    **bonus drink if they mention ghost towns or tumbleweeds
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    The login screen could be a depiction of Times Square at New Years Eve and the forums would be discussing the number of crotches per square inch the artist rendered.

    The login screen could have nothing but Lusca on it and the forums would figure out a way to make the discussion about crotches. If we removed everyone from the login screen we'd start seeing crotches in the clouds.
    Light a candle for truth
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Pfft. Who cares about that. Turn off the volume and stare at the yummy girls in skintight outfits.

    Or the hawt guys if your preferences lean in that direction.

    True story: I know someone who was kissed by her.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PSLAnimal View Post
    In an interesting side note, I also managed to pin down the name Viagra Falls. Haven't decided on a concept yet.
    If you fight a villain (or hero) for more than four hours, do you have to contact your physician?
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy View Post
    hehehe Um lets see you forgot the

    ... I'm running this freakshow farm. I need you to sit here at the entrance while 4 of us defeat everything on the map. DONT touch the glowies we will be doing it again.. and again ..,. and again

    .... Oh heck lets see what else did they have in PI ? The demon farm.. two city blocks of COT fun. The Family Farm .. same two block different mobs (Da MOB). Actually just about anything that including at least one glowie you had to click was farmed at some point in PI and there were a couple where we just had to be super careful not to kill or agrro that ONE mob so we could exit and reset.

    --- don't forget what the entire DFB trial is based on to begin with. Show up in Atlas Park and just start broadcasting "LF Sewer team" until you wound up racing through the sewers to level 6,7 or higher.. then head off to KR to do Radios. Hey at least the DFB has a Hospital and trainers we can use. Back then if you entered with 3 powers you exited with 3 until you could finally train. Oh and the easiest way to exit.. run head first into a huge mob and die. LOL
    also:

    --- Herding all the wolves in an area into a dumpster and nuking the tar out of it, rinse repeat.

    --- My personal favorite, when Hydra goo monsters in the Abandoned Sewer Network used to give out max int (65535) exp and inf. My first character hit 6 million inf killing those things. SIX MILLION! I thought I was such hot stuff I had to call my brother and tell him how much inf my character had. Nowadays, if I drop 6M inf on my way to the AH, it costs me more in time to stop and pick it up, so I just leave it
  11. ZephyrWind

    Hey gang

    Well, well, well. Welcome back, SuckerPunch.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    "Hawt" works just as well.
    I was thinking "AWESOME" myself, "hawt" makes me....throw up a little in my mouth.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Statesline:

    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=248924

    Things get good from post 9 onwards.
    "Good" is not the word I would have chosen
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    I just don't understand the YouTube zeitgeist of taking completely unrelated video and soundtrack and putting them together (or, in this case, characters from a movie animated to an unrelated song). I mean, it's a nice video, but any set of characters could have equally fit. Actually, characters from a movie where there were bad romances would have fit. But it's like:

    Here's the space dogfight scene from Star Wars with Sound of Music's "Lonely Goatherd."

    Here's Buffy and Angel's love scene to the Beatles's "Yellow Submarine."

    Here's any scene from Harry Potter to a song picked by the roll of a d100.


    I mean, if there was some connection from the visual to the soundtrack, it would make sense. But I just don't get it.

    Also, it ticks the heck out of me when I'm searching for the actual unadulterated clip of a video and I get a thousand hits of nonsensically dubbed over visuals. (And don't get me started on all the false hits that come from brain dead 'response videos.')

    /endrant
    Sounds to me like someone needs to get those darn kids off his lawn
  15. Let's see - we were living in North Carolina for the first time, so it was 76-77, so I was 7 or 8 years old [yes, I'm THAT old](we moved around so much I remember my aged based on the house we were in).

    My dad brought me some giant-size comics, I remember Fantastic Four with a reprint of "This Man, This Monster" and the Superman vs Flash "Race of the Century".

    I think I learned to write in cursive from one of the FF stories where they have to all vote for a new leader and they each vote for themselves. Sue's ballot was in cursive handwriting, which fascinated me for some reason.

    Shortly thereafter I had $0.25 burning a hole in my pocket and I bought the issue of Teen Titans that introduced Duela Dent, aka Joker's Daughter. I remember not knowing how to pronouce "Titans" and saying "tit-ans" (short "i"), much to the amusement of my parents.
  16. The sheer amount of nerdrage that would explode from these boards if they ever tried to implement this means I have to vote 'no'.

    Without making Origin-based ANYTHING where they are not essentially the exact same thing with different special effects (at which point, why bother to differentiate them?) would mean that one of the Origins would then be 'better' than all the rest and being unable to change your favorite character's Origin would drive the vocal minority to an apoplectic fit of truly epic proportions.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fire Man View Post
    We were unable to reproduce this with all variations of the power. De_monique, if you (or anyone else) have info on how you got the power to expire in real time instead of in-game time, please post the steps here or feel free to PM me.

    Thanks, much appreciated!
    Fire Man, eh? A fellow Aberrant player, perhaps?
  18. I have successfully run a CoH campaign using the Hero system. It was more complicated for me as I had to translate everyone's character into Hero and build all the villians, but for the players it was streamlined enough.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    If it was "only in America" it would be a cocktail frank stuffed in a beef hotdog stuffed in a kielbasa stuffed in bratwurst wrapped in bacon dipped in cheese and then deep fried.
    That would be truly awesome. The turducken of dogs!
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
    And just like that, I have my new sig. Thanks, Hyper!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nericus View Post
    Still, hope to see them in a future movie. Maybe even Richard Ryder as Nova Prime.
    I SO read that as "Richard Pryor as Nova Prime"
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Diellan_ View Post
    The Custom Powerset is around $9300, might be wor-

    Wait a minute. Over 9000? God.
    I don't get it...
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ShadowMoka View Post
    Yeah I hear if you have no clue about that, it's a wicked scary spoiler. Kind of a shame pop culture killed that scene.
    There was absolutely nothing scary about it. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and my brother and I looked at each other like "duh...no kidding, of course you are."
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by 2short2care View Post
    Not to mention that he had no respect for woman, even his wife, if you were a good looking woman and you wanted to be on an episode of Star Trek, well rumor has it you had to sleep with him, I know he is not the first man in Hollywood to pull that and his wife was kinda derp to stay with him, if she knew he did that.
    I find it a little hard to believe that he was hitting the "casting couch" all that often for the original series. It just was not that popular when it originally aired.