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There is also this. Fitness powers were AWESOME fillers for "I don't know what I want yet, slap a power in" times.

My filler powers now tend to be Concealment selections: "ughhhghh, what do I want... well, I guess it's time for Stealth."

I'm not.

I can.

I don't.

My main already has Empathy (no med pool necessary), she doesn't take much damage (no fighting pool necessary), she already has recall friend and leadership. Shall I continue?

These characters are still viable. "Viable" did not change meanings after Issue 19. Does this character operate the exact same way before and after I19? Yes? That makes them viable.

Jump kick is not terrible now that you can interrupt the second flip. If you don't have 60mo vet, and you want superjump, jump kick is viable. Combat Jumping is a more popular choice, but that doesn't mean jump kick is a stupid choice.

No, and okay.

Thank you, Ironik, for this link. There are three other "sister" articles with equally compelling, heartbreaking images: during, aftermath, rescue (Ironk's link comes "next" in the "series"). The heartbreak is immense. This disaster is just astoundingly horrific, and sometimes I just can't handle it. I sat here and cried as I looked over these images, because there is nothing more I can do to help these people and their devastated country. I have given every penny I can afford to (I'll be living lean this month and next due to it), and I am left with nothing else to do.

However, I am amazed by the strength most are displaying (and do not begrudge the weakness others are showing). Katz from YokosoNews, who I've linked in the tri-view news feed in the first post, keeps saying, "Don't donate if you can't afford to. Save your money. Instead, come visit Japan next year when we are recovered." And amazingly, I don't doubt that a good portion of the devastated area will be recovered by this time next year; the Japanese are resilient if nothing else. Maybe not everywhere, and probably not to the level that it was pre-quake, but well on its way.

What is this I don't even.

*stabs eyeballs* You could get a seven year old GeForce FX card and get rid of that 8-bit theatre look. (You'd step up to, like, 16-bit theatre!) They're like fifteen bucks on eBay.

Gaussian has a green bookmark (minor) and Virginia Hoffman has a blue bookmark (major). The differences in the icons in game, especially on higher-resolution monitors, even for normally-sighted people, is completely unnoticeable. For colorblind people, they are essentially the same color.

Minor arcs used to be shown with a red book, and major arcs were yellow books. This was immediately obvious to normally-sighted people, and the majority of colorblind folks would see them as two different shades of brown.

No one knows why this change was made (with or sometime near I14, IIRC); no one was requesting it. Completely out of left field.

GLOBAL HANDLES WILL NOT BE CHANGED TO EU____.

Login names will be changed to EU____. This is not something that is visible to anyone who is not looking at the player's login screen. This should, of course, be no one but the player who is logging in. Why should ANYONE ELSE care about your login name? Why should you care about two extra letters tacked onto the beginning of your login, which honestly, should not match your global name anyway! (What kind of security is that?)

Global handles will be changed to the character you first log in as, as if you were first joining the game, or as if after a global wipe. If you log in your character GryphonButtmonkey after the merge, your global name will now be GryphonButtmonkey. If there is a North American player whose global name is GryphonButtmonkey, your new global name will be GryphonButtmonke. If there is a NA GryphonButtmonke already, your new global name will be GryphonButtmonk. This will continue until you have a unique global name.

Anyone whose global name suffers from collision will get a free global rename token. Feel free to attempt your original global name; chances are high that it's not taken by a NA player unless it's a common name/word/phrase or you made a NA account with the same global, or, rarely, someone took it out of spite.

The books have a colored bookmark that is barely visible. One is blue, the other is green. Or, for some people, one is brown and the other is brown.

If you're going to link to a news article, take care not to change the article's name with fear-mongering words. The article's title uses "suspends", not "abandons". The two words are completely different and inspire totally different emotional and rational responses. Japan has NOT "abandoned" Fukushima Daiichi.

Isn't there a common saying that people with brown eyes are full of ...poop? *cheesy grin*

(Don't kill me, Ironik; there's these things called jokes and I like to make them!)

This is not a word(phrase).

The actual word you're looking for is "sidekicked".

There is no section for "world news" - but horrendous events like the Sendai earthquake have always shown up in General, and the mods have consistently allowed them to stay as long as it stays civil.



Including foreshocks and aftershocks, Japan has suffered over 100 earthquakes in the last week (the vast majority in the last two days). The majority of them are over 4.5 Mw strength. No one knows when the plates will settle down, it could be DAYS. This scares the **** out of me.

No one knows when power is going to come back for most of the people who are out of power. Gas (gasoline and natural gas) is having trouble getting through to stations. Food is already starting to become scarce, perishables are going bad. Fukushima I and II damaged reactors are still having trouble cooling, still with ongoing partial meltdowns, though some of the undamaged reactors with no issues will be (or have been already?) powered up again. It's going to be raining soon (landslide danger since the soil has been loosened by the repeated earthquakes), even snow further north, getting colder and colder through the week - and so many homeless, and even so many with homes out of power.

So many thousands and thousands of homes and businesses are utterly destroyed. So many lives lost, and so very many more missing. Every time I put more than a moment's thought into it, my heart just...breaks and I can't help but cry. I have donated to two organizations EVERYTHING I have beyond what I need to live, but it's not enough. I'm so afraid that it will never be enough.

Yes, but a lot of people are freaking out that "a nuclear plant exploded". It didn't. Well, technically, I guess it did - but it wasn't a "nuclear explosion" - it was "just" some hydrogen, which damaged the building/containment, but no nuclear explosion occurred. The plant was in official meltdown status already, even before the hydrogen explosion. (Not full-on "omg poop hitting fan we're all gonna die"; there are "stages"/"degrees" of meltdown.)

I am glad. I hope everyone finds their missing people. This is just...so far beyond tragic.