Bill Z Bubba

Mine never nags me about my game time, but she won't touch the game either. I've even tried to get her to make a character for me just to get her into the character creator, but alas... no.

She's got her books and I've got my games. And her books.

If the cost of allowing a -1 setting is that we won't be allowed to increase the difficulty of TF/SFs, then that cost is too high and the -1 should be removed from the game.

If you have characters that can't handle +0/x1/No/No difficulty due to build choices or whatever, that's a great time to start utilizing the dual builds feature.

That last one, however, I can't disagree with enough, LX. I have stopped bullies from bullying myself through violence. I have stopped them from bullying others through violence.

Sometimes, violence is the Only language a person will understand.

You can't reason with a rabid dog. You have to put it down so that it can't harm anyone else.

You scare and sadden me, Sam. But it appears that the feeling is mutual, so I'll leave it at that.

That said:

Sam,

A lot of people will be disagreeing with you on that post.

I'm one of them.

If someone breaks into my house to take my belongings, they die.

If someone attempts to do harm to myself, my wife, my child, my dogs or even my evil cat, they die. Yes, my family members' lives outweigh the worth of someone else's life. My dog's life is worth more than some fool that has chosen the thief's life.

That's the extreme case of when I feel it IS my right and duty to play judge, jury and executioner.

It goes wider than that, however. I'm all for vigilante justice. Mostly due to the fact that I lost all faith in our legal system and those that uphold it ages ago.

Quite frankly, Sam, I find that our society has become the pit of uselessness that it is BECAUSE far too many people think like you do. It IS our job as members of the society to police our own. It IS our job to rid ourselves of behaviors that are detrimental to our society. It IS our job to shout down the tinfoil hat brigade and spit on the zealots that would do us harm and attempt to take from us our freedom to live as we see fit as long as we aren't interfering with the way they live.

It's when one chooses to act in a way that interferes with the rights of others that they give up the right to exist freely. As soon as that happens, someone like me will step in to show you the error of your ways.

It is my place to fix the world. At least my tiny corner of it. And for as long as there is breath in my chest, I will continue to fight against those I find wrong the moment they bring their BS into my part of the world.

I'd play a spines/ice brute.

I am of the opinion, especially in light of how the DPS tweak equation unfairly affects brutes more than scrapeprs, that the DPS equation should be tossed out.

Unfortunately, I have yet to come up with a solid enough argument to get that changed.

Sam, you make baby Jesus cry daily. You should be ashamed of yourself. Take more drugs.

Don't ya love it when someone attempts to neg-rep you but can't because their rep is too low for the system to consider them worthwhile?

I sure do.

Before I-16, I liked running TF/SFs at 5th diff. It was fun. It wasn't a cakewalk. The rewards were good.

Acemace, you're very wrong in your opinion. Is it unreasonable for me to ask for a salary that is in line with the job I'm doing? Is it unreasonable to accept that to lose 10 pounds I need to eat less and exercise more?

No, neither of those stances are unreasonable. It's also not unreasonable at all to expect X reward for accomplishing Y task in a game when that standard has already been set within the game.

I disagree with this change. I find it a sloppy workaround for a problem that should have been dealt with in a more logical way before the new difficulty settings went live.

Standard difficulty TF/SFs are boring. Expecting someone to increase their difficulty without comparable rewards is idiotic. At least when we do it in Ouroboros we're doing it for a badge.

Quite frankly, your "correction" of the post comes across as trollish and nothing more.

And I say this as someone who generally enjoys your posts.

It would almost be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and sad.

Moot point. Got verification that suppression can't be changed to where it also suppresses endurance.

Does anyone really want to pay for non-functioning dam-res shields * 3, inky aspect and orbiting death while blasting in nova form?

The questions is.... could we talk the devs into allowing specific powers to remain functional while in the forms?

I'd dig dwarf form if I could have IA and OD running.

Thank you. The bad part of my brain started working.