Basilisk

A dangerous pastime, I know...

However, as I was coming into my apartment this afternoon, two ideas struck me.
Fact 1: The Rogue Isles are currently home to the Radio and the Television.

Fact 2: Praetoria is currently governed by a strict, authoritarian government.

So, I have decided that Praetoria needs to introduce a new contact- The Computer. If it doesn't, I'm afraid I shall be very disappointed.

Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.

Resistance? So you're revolting against the current system? Not exactly conductive to a powerful government, wouldn't you say? Ohm certain that you could send Emperor Cole a wire, and he'd be over like a bolt to see how he could make you and all of your fellow resistors happy.

I'm sorry... I just couldn't help it.

Well, I've gone on record as saying that I hate the invasion events because you're basically pushed into participating when it comes up in your zone. You can push back, by switching zones or what have you, but the zombie invasions get a great big /rolleyes from me when I get that event message warning when it's in the zone that my mission is in.

That said, though, the banner event is exactly what I think a zone event should be. You can take part if you want, or completely ignore it without being harassed if you don't feel like participating. Plus it's actually fairly fun if you've got a group that has some idea what they're doing. There are issues with the greater mystic aspect, and how it rewards players on its defeat, but if you run it a few times, you're going to get a piece of it eventually.

I've basically done all I want to with the Halloween event by now, but I wouldn't say I'm ready for it to be done. Well, maybe with the zombie invasions....

I wouldn't mind an option like that.

In the meantime, though, if you're running Firefox, you can try Zombie Man's board skins. Also, I think if you're running Ad Block Pro, you can go in and just block the image from showing up.

More options are always good, but there's a stopgap measure in the meantime.

Well, I've introduced a few people to the game, and we still play together. However, since moving to Lethbridge, I've been pretty well alone in my CoH habit.

About two weeks ago, though, I was down at the Dairy Queen by the University, and two of the clerks were mentioning things like "The Next Big Thing" badge. I would have taken the opportunity to ask about it, but my order came up, so I just headed off.

Also, I know one guy in my Dramatic Narrative class who used to play, but switched over to CO. Clearly, he's mad. I've kept a suspicious eye on him ever since.

If they do, it's probably a very rare occurence. Seems to me that the 5th Column tend to spawn +1 relative to the council, and usually in larger groups.

• Scirocco is not interested in old "Simple Plan" or "Dashboard Confessional" CDs
• Or any other emo bands, for that matter.
• I will not use Ice Mistral to keep my drinks cold while at the Giza.
• I will not try to convince newbies that over the winter they cover the Giza with snow and make it into a ski hill.
• My current threat level is neither "awesome", nor "super awesome".
• Synapse did not get his powers from a tragic experiment involving far, far too many "Chocolate Blasted Hero-Os"
• Similarly, Positron does not enjoy the smell of his own farts so much that he made a special suit to enjoy them.
• Under no circumstance should I confuse Lord Recluse with the other Spider-Man.
• I am not "too sexy for my toggles"
• I shall never convince Vernon Von Grun to remake the BeeGees with real bees.
• While defeating DE rock and crystal monsters will cause smaller versions to form, defeating DE plant creatures does not result in the creation of sentient decorative topiaries.
• Lord Recluse does not sound like Bobcat Goldthwait when he takes off his helmet.
• I will not ask Capt. Mako why he didn't choose the name "Admiral Nurse Shark" instead.
• Capt. Mako is not delicious with some light breading and chips.
• Jumping off the top of the Grandville tower to try and squish an arachnoid is not considered a surprise attack.
• ... Nor does it work.
• ... Nor am I allowed to scream "death from above" while attempting it.
• It is really, truly, and completely unnecessary to shout out "boing, boing, boing" when using the jump packs and/or super jump.
• NutriPaste is not to be used as a universal bonding compound.
• Malta are not willing to "settle our differences with a jaunty musical number"
• Neither are the Knives willing to do the same with a game of Twister.
• Arachnos is not to be referred to as "The Dark Side", and we do not have cookies.
• You cannot grab one of the mu mystics' bindings, pull it sharply, and expect them to go twirling across the room like in cartoons.
• Operative Jenkins begins to get really sick of hearing the Leroy Jenkins bit after the 35th time... Today.

I'm torn on the issue. On the one hand, having the bosses spawn more frequently does have its advantages. On the other, there are times where they're just more trouble than they're worth. For instance, I had a mission yesterday before class, and had 20 minutes before I had to pack up and head out. I figure it's fine to run through one more mission. Like most of my characters, I was running at +0/x2, and since it was a scrapper, I figured it would be a nice, fast breeze through the mission.

I was wrong in the worst way. Nemesis mission. Virtually every spawn, and by which I mean there were only about 2 or 3 spawns that varied, in that mission was one Fake Nemesis and a minion. Naturally, I'm trying to keep them knocked down so they don't get that PFF up, but I only have one KB power plus my nemesis staff so a number did get it off. I didn't get through that mission in 20 minutes.

I don't mind fighting bosses here and there, but that is just too much. Admittedly, it's a particularly egregious case, but I've seen a heck of a lot more bosses on average in lower difficulty settings. The result is a fairly large jump in difficulty/ time consumption between +0/x1 and +0/x2 that doesn't mesh with the smoother progression that there used to be when adding one player to the team.

Another alternative, if the devs were reluctant to put a full insp vendor in the hospital, would be to add something equivalent to the AutoDoc. There, you can only buy greens and blues, though I would assume that they would remove the insp selling functionality. Then, you would have the basic "patch you up" insps readily available, but if you wanted to get the really game-changing ones, like purples, you would have to hunt down a contact or other insp vendor.

Hehe. I'm a pisces, and I have to say that this horoscope couldn't be any more wrong if it were specifically written to be the polar opposite of me. I play mostly tanks, brutes and scrappers, and do a damn good job of it (the word "psychotic" does get bandied about some days), I hate playing the defender unless it comes with a heavy offensive boost, like traps/ or TA/, and by and large, I don't give two @*#&s what people think or if they're happy with my playstyle. Given that I mostly solo, it's not a huge deal anyways.

I'd say I'm sorry to ruin the joke, but I'm really not.

Unslotted, I think it's something like 1% for the first and 0.5 or 0.6% after that, but you get pretty good defence numbers with large mobs and slotted for defence.

Long story short, I would go with both.

Signature character be damned. I would kill for Silver Mantis' spines. Even something similar, with the large, curving blade/spines from the arm would be sufficient.

Unlike her cousin Peter, Janice Parker encountered the unfortunate fate of being bitten by a radioactive cinderblock.

Oh, and also:

"Emily, dear, I think you took your parents a bit too literally when they asked you to 'make something of yourself.'"