BlackArachnia

Originally Posted by Chyll

<aside> I wish everyone was able keep from cluttering threads that appreciates all aspects of the stories and character opportunities in the game like this was some sort of PvP arena.</aside>

Originally Posted by sleestack

I have a friend who had an ulcer last year. He was treated with antibiotics, no surgery required. I don't believe his ulcer was bleeding, but what Lothic said is indeed true, many *stomach* ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection, specifically Helicobacter pylori.

From this link: http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hpylori/




Regardless of the cause or treatment you may receive, my thoughts and well wishes are with you.

Originally Posted by Veritech

they're not exactly rebooting things over and over. one would assume a reboot would be something like the Ultimate titles, or the 1st Crisis for DC. this is really more of a relaunch of an old title with a new team. (so me saying the last H4H reboot was a misnomer, it was a relaunch as well) the problem isn't with rebooting characters, it's in trying to do new things that are just gorram horrible, and worse is the knowledge that if something doesnt work out that it's essentially going to return to the previous status quo. there are few changes i can think off the top of my head that have lasted more than a few years lately.

(of course, atm, i say this knowing im looking forward to the upcoming Superman:Earth One GN)

Originally Posted by Ironik

Anyone have experience with this?

I ask because I may have one. My hematocrit level (the amount of red blood cells you have in your system) dropped to 21, which is in the danger zone. My doctor told me that at 18 people are generally flat on their back unconscious... or worse. So I was lucky they caught it through happenstance. I spent Friday night at the hospital getting a transfusion and I feel 100% better, but if I'm bleeding internally as they suspect, I'm not sure how long this will last.

The two potential causes are a bleeding ulcer or leukemia, which are super fun choices. They're pretty sure it's not leukemia, for which I am immensely thankful, but I need to return to the hospital tomorrow for multiple tests and to get scoped inside and out, top to bottom. (I think you know what I'm trying to say.)

Just wondering if anyone has info or advice.

(I did a self-examination and I'm pretty sure my lack of blood is not caused by vampires. However, if I start posting only at night, you'll know something's up.)

Originally Posted by Ironblade

These words do not mean what you think they mean. If we juggle things around a bit, you'll have part of it right. People did 'exploit' MA missions and so they had to be adjusted.

Some exploiting involves farming, some does not.
Farming can be exploitative; or not.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Show of hands: how many people who face gigantic ambushes are set to +0x0? I'm asking, because this is something the game defaults you when the character has not had his or her difficulty altered since creation or the introduction of the new difficulty setting.

It SHOULD act like +0x1, but maybe it isn't and is instead getting occasionally tagged as something else? As a general rule of thumb, I always try to set my difficulty manually, even if I'm just reaffirming what a character is created with, just to avoid doing this. I'd suggest people who face absurd ambushes try that and see if anything changes.

Originally Posted by Veritech

oh yes, because why piss off a few at a time when you can torque the entire fanbase at once? if a reboot looks anything the Ultimate titles did, then at least on the bright side, i can spend what im spending on Marvel on video games.

Originally Posted by BrandX

He seems to be more upset that it was in 3D. They do have 2D showings he could of gone to.

That said, yes, just as well to see it in 2D.

He also gets the last bit wrong, though I could understand why, I didn't recognize the actress (its the same one) from #2. I'll blame it on the hair color though.

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

The big red ball wouldn't work because physics items like a free floating ball aren't shared over the net. This could possibly be coded without doing the shared physics engine part of things.

For example:

You have the soccer ball animation playing & a "pass" temp power appears in try, you target someone and hit "pass." That person gets a timed prompt, and if he accepts, the game does an attack animation that appears as a "pass" to the recipient, then the recipient starts the soccer-ball-playing animations.

You probably couldn't make it a fully-fledged soccer game, but you could have some simple guessing mechanics to make it fun for those waiting moments. Give the passer a 3 pass animations "" and make the receiver pick one. If he picks the same one, he gets "whacked" by a ball that bounces out of view... the sender gets a point. If he picks the others, he successfully catches it and can "pass" it to another (or return it). You have a simple "killball" game for a small team to play while waiting for people to assemble for raids, based on basic "shell game" mechanics and non-physics animations

Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan

All I know is I am "The Man Without Beer!"

Originally Posted by ResidentBaka

It's called a laptop

Originally Posted by Bystander

I've played a fair bit of Deadlands, and if it was more like that I would have zero problems with it. The way they're describing it though it's a damned collectible card game.

Originally Posted by Bystander

Ignoring the 4th ed/3rd ed/etc debates, I was excited about Gamma World.

Then I read this article. Everything's done with cards? That you have to buy ******* booster packs for? What. The. ****.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Well according to the writer, becoming Frankencastle was essentially Frank's "punishment" for biting off more then he could chew by taking on super powered criminals and not sticking with the street level criminals. I doubt it was ever intended to stick but it sure did a great job of killing the book and tarnishing the character far worse then when he was an agent of heaven, sometimes referred to as Zombisher or the Spawnisher by fans.

So, let's see now...Frank has been an angel, and most recently an undead-Frankenstein imitation. Now he just needs to become a werewolf for awhile and then later get bit by a vampire and lose just enough blood to become a half-vampire like Blade for awhile.

Also for those that wonder how old Frank should be now in mainstream MU books since he is a Vietnam vet and been around for some time, the writer of Frankencastle has stated that the bloodstone will restore his body to full health and make him a 30 year old again. While in the Max Punisher its been stated that Frank has been in action for over 30 years and the Max books do not have the sliding timeline that the mainstream Marvel books have, thus Max Punisher should be in his mid 50's, possibly pushing 60.

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

Everquest used to do this kinda thing pretty frequently.

Many of the zones had toggles a GM could trip to trigger zone-wide events, like the sky turning blood red and all the normal zone creatures changing to zombies & skeletons. GMs could also spawn most monsters and take control of them to rampage around.



-np