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Okay, so some of you might be familiar with the Frantics' comedy sketch "Last Will and Temperament." The younger generation probably knows it from this video.
Over dinner this evening with my husband and roommate, we had the idea of retooling the classic sketch in 'honor' of our soon-to-be-late leader, Statesman.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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CHRIS JENKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW: As the executor of Marcus Coles estate, I have been empowered to read Mr. Coles Last Will And Testament.
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Well, get on with it, the bars open soon.
SISTER PSYCHE: Oh, poor, dear Marcus! Waaaa!
MANTICORE: Oh, there, there, Psyche.
MS. LIBERTY: God, how predictably boring.
MARIA JENKINS: I never worked with a kinder man.
CHRIS JENKINS: If we are all seated, I shall proceed with the reading.
MS. LIBERTY: I knew it.
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Heh heh heh heh.
CHRIS JENKINS: "I, Marcus Cole, being of sound mind and body..."
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: That's a laugh!
CHRIS JENKINS: "... do hereby divide up my considerable estate as follows. To the overly emotional Sister Psyche..."
SISTER PSYCHE: Waaaa!
MANTICORE: Psyche, darling, he's talking about you.
SISTER PSYCHE: Oh.
CHRIS JENKINS: "... who grubbed with her husband, Manticore, grubbed for everything they could get from me, and then cried crocodile tears when I needed sympathy..."
SISTER PSYCHE: What?
CHRIS JENKINS: "... To Psyche, I leave a boot to the head."
SISTER PSYCHE: A what?
*BONK!*
SISTER PSYCHE: Ow!
MANTICORE: Psyche, are you okay?
CHRIS JENKINS: "... and another boot to her wimpy husband, Manticore."
*BONK!*
MANTICORE: Ow!
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Hahahahaha...
SISTER PSYCHE: This is an outrage!
CHRIS JENKINS: "... ah, but still, you are my teammate, you have both admired my battleship, and since I no longer need it..."
SISTER PSYCHE: Oh, dear Marcus, he's too kind!
MANTICORE: Yeah.
CHRIS JENKINS: "... I bequeath another boot to the head."
SISTER PSYCHE: What?
*BONK!*
SISTER PSYCHE: Ow!
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Hahahaha...
CHRIS JENKINS: "And one more for the wimp."
*BONK!*
MANTICORE: Ow!
CHRIS JENKINS: "Next, to the alcoholic Brawler..."
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Hey, I don't want no boot to the head!
CHRIS JENKINS: "... to dear Mike, who has never worked a day in his drunken life..."
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: I'm coverin' up my head!
CHRIS JENKINS: "... I leave my vineyard and three crates of my finest whiskey."
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Really?
CHRIS JENKINS: "And a boot to the head."
*BONK!*
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: OH!
CHRIS JENKINS: "And another for Psyche and the wimp."
*BONK!*
SISTER PSYCHE: Oh!
*BONK!*
MANTICORE: Ow!
CHRIS JENKINS: "Next, to my know-it-all granddaughter, Jessica..."
MS. LIBERTY: This is so predictable...
CHRIS JENKINS: "... I leave a boot to the head."
*BONK!*
MS. LIBERTY: Uh! I knew it.
CHRIS JENKINS: "And one for Psyche and the wimp."
*BONK!*
SISTER PSYCHE: Ah!
*BONK!*
MANTICORE: OH!
CHRIS JENKINS: "This takes care of teammate obligations. And now, to Maria Jenkins..."
MARIA JENKINS: Oh, uh, I don't want nothin'.
CHRIS JENKINS: "... who took care of me faithfully these many, many years, who cared, made me laugh, sent heroes to rescue me..."
MARIA JENKINS: Oh, I didn't mind.
CHRIS JENKINS: "To Maria Jenkins, I bequeath a boot to the head."
*BONK!*
MARIA JENKINS: OH!
CHRIS JENKINS: "And one for Psyche and the wimp."
*BONK!*
SISTER PSYCHE: AH!
*BONK!*
MANTICORE: OH!
CHRIS JENKINS: "And so, to my cat Mynx, I leave my entire vast... boot to the head!"
*BONK!*
*MEOW!*
CHRIS JENKINS: "And finally, to my lawyer, who has helped me on this will, I leave not a boot to the head... but a rabid Tasmanian devil, to be placed in his trousers?!" Ooohhh!! Oh, huh huh huh huh, and, and, "... and I leave my entire estate of $10 million to the people of Independence Port so they can afford to move somewhere decent!" Huh.
MANTICORE: Is that it?
MS. LIBERTY: That's it?
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: That's disgraceful.
CHRIS JENKINS: There's one last thing for everyone.
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Cover your heads, everybody!
CHRIS JENKINS: "I leave everyone a lifetime supply of inspirations."
MANTICORE: Inspirations?
BACK ALLEY BRAWLER: Inspirations?
MS. LIBERTY: Inspirations, that's all?
CHRIS JENKINS: That's all.
MARIA JENKINS: Well, what type is it?
CHRIS JENKINS: Boot to the head!
*BONK!* *BONK!* *BONK!* *BONK!*
ALL: OW! -
Where's the video? Come on, come on - if we're slobbering on the keyboards just from some text and a few graphics, we'd be squeeing ourselves into unconsciousness with an actual trailer!
*stands outside the Creative Services team's office in Seattle*
Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepl easepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease...
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Aw, crud, I missed the Ustream! I was busy working on a client's video and got wrapped up in it and...
*sees the Chinese outfits*
O. M. G.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
I still listen to the in-game music, but there are certain tracks that I've associated with the game and wanted to use for vids... they include:
Madeleine Casey's "To Save a Soul" Carnie arc - Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Karnevil No 2" ("Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside...")
The Lady Grey Task Force - Christopher Franke's "The Battle of the Line" from BABYLON 5: IN THE BEGINNING.
The Imperious Task Force - Vangelis' "Light and Shadow" from 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
And Rock now comes with its own aura... Moss.
This aura, however, does not work when the travel power Roll is enabled.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Per Posi on Twitter:
Quote:When I asked about Synapse:@Samuraiko BAB thing is explained fully next video, was cut for time in this one
So I'll forgive them for now.Quote:@Samuraiko again, time. He gets a nod next ViDoc, I believe
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
They forgot Synapse!
And does anyone else think they kinda rushed Psyche?
And yes, Numina is a ghost/astral spirit. Regardless of that picture of her doing her Hamlet impression.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
And they forgot Synapse! WTH?!
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
That SEEMS to have been it - since I did that, I ran back to back ITFs plus a bunch of running around with no problem at all.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Getting the accolade "Profiteer" on my Mercs/TA Mastermind, Profiteer.
(I had the character name LOOOOONG before the day job thing was invented, so when I saw that was a possibility, I just HAD to get that.)
Then there was getting "Positron's Ally" on Sorina Tavarisch...
Michelle
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There's the stickied "Fan Videos" thread - it might still be there...
I'll see if I can turn it up...
EDIT: Well, I found this... it's on a Videos page with several other COH vids available for download.
Michelle
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Quote:*grins*Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I'd say one of the problems is that some of the devs seem to have their own ax to grind on Statesman and likely Jack Emmert himself. So when the player base began making cracks about him, the Devs began including the jokes in-game making his character just that much worse.
I'd say let folks like Troy, BlueBattler, and Samuraiko write him to start.
You just liked it that I had a petite little superheroine call him a wuss in front of the creme de la creme of Paragon City at a charity ball because he wouldn't dance with her.
But thanks for the faith!
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
TJ - got your PM, am holding onto it while I test a couple other things first.
Newchem - I've done the repair/consistency check and no dice.
HOWEVER...
It dawned on me that I have a custom login screen... which appears whenever I zone. If THAT somehow got corrupted, that might explain it. So I deleted the folder that info is stored in. Ran an ITF last night - zoned multiple times without issue. Will test this theory some more a bit later.
(The reason I got to thinking of that is because it's ONLY on my live server, not on my test or beta installs.)
Michelle
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Okay, so I doublechecked the monitor drivers - my ViewSonic came with a disk so I popped that in, good to go there. My Soyo, however, didn't come with one, nor can I find drivers ANYWHERE online for a MT-NI-DLYM1998 Soyo monitor (I LOOKED). So it's the usual plug n play drivers for that.
I re-ran COH Helper and came up with this change in the monitors:
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
Monitor: ViewSonic VA2231 Series
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1920,1080
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6899)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7240
Driver Date: 11/9/2011 6:53:20 PM
Driver Language: English
Monitor: ViewSonic VA2231 Series
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1920,1080
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6899)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7240
Driver Date: 11/9/2011 6:53:20 PM
Driver Language: English
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Seems that it's applying the same thing to both... AGAIN... only this time it's applying the ViewSonic info to both monitors. Grrr.
At any rate, since COH runs on the ViewSonic monitor (my primary), we'll see if that helps.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
UPDATE - this only seems to happen on the Live server. I was on Beta for over two hours, zoning hither, thither and yon, and not so much as a hiccup. Any ideas?
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Just because it's one of my favorite anime of all time, and I would love to see it on an HD TV in Blu-Ray...
SAMURAI 7.
ESPECIALLY the opening battle... just... wow.
Michelle
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The # of RMTers you see in Help varies greatly depending on server population. I primarily play on Justice, and on average, I see maybe one or two a day in the Help Channel anymore. I report them as spammers the second I see them (it's a dropdown function - click on their name, select Report as Spammer, and voila - they are a) added to your ignore list, and b) an automatic notification is sent to the GMs).
The GMs do use these notifications and shut down accounts, plus they continue to improve their own internal filters to catch them or even prevent them forming accounts.
But the single best way to get them to stop?
Stop using their services.
(This is not meant to accuse the OP - this is a blanket statement.)
When the RMTers realize there is no money to be made here in COH, they will go elsewhere, because their ROI (Return on Investment) in COH will suck versus what they could be making elsewhere.
So report them, then ignore them. Teach other new players how to do the same. And before long, we'll be back to our virtually RMT-free environment once more.
Michelle
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Good news for you, Lothic:
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY will be playing nationwide starting January 6, 2012.
Which means I get to go see it again.
Michelle
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Quote:*perks her ears up at the word "documentation"*Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Hey guys,
We're back in the studio and working hard (I promise!). That being said, things may be quiet for the first week or so as we're getting back in the groove of things. Don't worry, we're not sleeping, we're just buried in documentation! (12 month Community plan won't write itself...no matter how hard I will it to)
Aside from that, hope everyone had a great holiday, got everything they asked for, ate lots of good food and broke at least 1 of there resolutions by now. As for me, we bought tons of Legos, you know, for the kids, and we spent tons of time putting them all together...you know...for the kids.
Their birthday is coming up and something tells me they'll be getting that giant Lego train and City set...
What?
-Z
You rang?
Michelle
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Finally saw this on Saturday. Absolutely brilliant. A very subtle film, but it works.
(When we first got to the theatre about 20 min early, it was virtually empty. By the time the previews started, it was PACKED. And this for a 1pm show on a Saturday in downtown Bellevue.)
Michelle
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Since the last major patch for COH (and ONLY since then), there's a chance that when I zone in or out of an instance, the screen either goes black or freezes on a frame, hangs for a few seconds, then crashes to desktop (leaving me logged in, and it takes abysmally long to get back in the game). This happens regardless of character, zone, or server.
99.9% of the time, it gives me a message that it's related to atioglxx.dll (1 time it said there was an error with CityOfHeroes.exe).
Everything worked FINE before the patch, so I went after the usual culprits:
1) Repaired the game files. No dice.
2) Updated video drivers to 11.12 after cleaning them off with Driver Sweeper in Safe mode. No dice.
3) Went back to 11.9 (what I'd been using when this first started, with no problems) after cleaning off 11.12's drivers with Driver Sweeper in Safe mode. No dice.
4) Ran Anti-virus check, Anti-Malwarecheck, and Process Explorer to make sure all looked good. No problems, so tried playing again. No dice.
5) Went back to 11.12 after cleaning off 11.9's drivers again with Driver Sweeper in safe mode. No dice.
6) Started experimenting with the usual suspects of in-game graphics settings (antialiasing, occlusion, etc). No dice.
(One note about the system info below - it says I have two monitors, both with max resolutions of 1600x1200. That's wrong. My primary monitor's max resolution is 1920x1280, my secondary is 1280x1024.)
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at January 3, 2012 09:35 (-08:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.111025-1629)
System Manufacturer: americanfuture
System Model: 122-CK-NF68
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 2814MB
.Net Memory Report: 1909MB out of 2814MB available
Page File: 3669MB (1033MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD2500AAJS-00VTA0) 20606MB out of 238464MB (8%) free
E Drive: (SAMSUNG HD203WI) 1025064MB out of 1907726MB (53%) free
D Drive: (Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6899)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7240
Driver Date: 11/9/2011 6:53:20 PM
Driver Language: English
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6899)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7240
Driver Date: 11/9/2011 6:53:20 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: SB Live! 24-bit
Driver File: P17.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0514
Driver Date: 6/15/2007 9:47:26 AM
Sound Device Description: ATI HD Audio rear output
Driver File: AtiHdmi.sys
Driver Version: 5.00.40001.0009
Driver Date: 7/20/2007 5:40:10 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: EVGA
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 122-CK-NF68
Motherboard Version: 2
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: Nvidia - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20080122000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1080
3D Resolution: 1920x1080 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: 8x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: High quality
Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.600
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 1.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\HybridUI\LoginScree n has 1 file
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Powers has 75 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 40 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\City has 1 file
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\V_COV\Bases\Bases_Asian02 has 32 files
.\texture_library\WORLD\V_COV\Villian_Lairs\Arachn os\Monitors has 4 files -
I saw Beastyle earlier today in Pocket D and asked him if WWD5 comes out tomorrow. He said no.
Then again, Beastyle has a history of yanking my chain coz he thinks it's funny...
Michelle
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Quote:I'm curious, then... how would you change it? What would constitute an improvement? Greater rewards? Different mechanics?Originally Posted by SupaFreak
I don't know how many cents I just posted, but you can keep the change.
Michelle
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Quote:http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/media_...ic_archive.phpOriginally Posted by OmniNogard
Maybe Prometheus didn't care who got the power and just wanted them to go away?
Anyone have the download page link to the comics, never got around to reading them yet. I can't seem to find it (might due to fact im just waking up).
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite