DreamWeaver
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Yay puppies! <3
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TBH I'm with the Warden Resistance types: freedom, by force if necessary, but not at any cost. Staring into the abyss, stares back into you, whosoever fights monsters must avoid Lady Gaga references, that sorta thing.
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Wait, wait, hold up... where's my Orbital Lance power? Will it be in Alpha slot? Can I unlock it? Could it be bought as a temp???
Need this badly. If only so as:
- I can annoy my mate/playbuddy Lance
- I can legitimately say "nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." -
Would that be the one that I couldnae take any more, Cap'n?
...what it's like reading their forums right now (clicky). -
Just tried to log into NCSoft Account management to post a support ticket but it kicked me out and then shut down for maintenance... o.O
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Likewise. Get to character select screen, select character screen, Enter Paragon... nada. Error: no mapServer connection.
Defiant, Zuk and Vig all work fine so it's not a local/PC issue. -
It's either Han Solo or Captain Mal.
Either way: Achievement Unlocked: EPIC WIN. -
Still doesn't beat the original Scottish chip shop treat...
Deep fried Mars Bars. -
...not to mention Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher themselves?
Though they've also had a crack at Batman's World's Greatest Detective title... (clicky) -
Quote:...now available in packs of 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 or 42...Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
This is from the Oven Station:
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Brain's inventions worked perfectly... his plans for what to do with them, not so much. (Breaking into Fort Knox, for example, was easy... being defeated by the mere subatomic weight of gold and the strength of the average mouse hits hard.)
I also owe Brain for the best mark I received during my French degree for helping me disprove Barthes' theory of comedy... Narf.
Quote:Necessity being the mother of invention, Mr. Scott can knock up just about anything you need whether it previously existed or not. Reactor parts, experimental weapons, whale tanks, bows and arrows, Scotty can figure out how to get the impossible done in 20% less time than he's quoted you.Originally Posted by DarkGob
He didn't invent anything. -
Quote:Originally Posted by RosaQuartz
Yeah, Villain-side contacts are wildly varied. Only a few I can think of are mustache-twirling.
...would you be thinking about Westin Phipps with that comment?
If they let you make moral choices on ordinary arcs, Mr. Phipps would have been fed to the Arachnoids quite some time ago. Gradually. -
Quote:Classic plum tart: (aka tarte aux pruneaux):Originally Posted by ebon3
or tarts
Pastry:
250g plain white flour
50g caster sugar (or fine-grind demerara)
pinch of salt
50g COLD butter, cut into small cubes
150ml COLD water
Filling:
1kg plums
150g ground almonds
50g sugar
200ml single cream
1 egg
(optional) vanilla extract/orange flower water
(optional) kirsch
Kick off by making the sweet short pastry. Sift together flour & sugar, then add butter a bit at a time rubbing in with your fingers till it's all gone in and you get a consistency like fine sand. (Helps if you chill the bowl too.) Gradually stir in the water in a thin stream and work quickly into a pastry dough. Cover with clingfilm and leave to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Or just skip the hassle and buy a brick of sweet short pastry. Up to you.
Stone and quarter your plums and soak in the kirsch if you're using it,draining it along with any other excess juice before use. Preheat oven to 200 C (Gas 6). Roll out the pastry to line a 22cm/11" pie/flan dish and gently stab the pastry all over with a fork. Scatter the almonds evenly over the base then pack your plums evenly into the pie.
Beat the "liason" ingredients - sugar, cream and vanilla extract/orange flower water if using - together then pour into the tart to a few mm below the top of the crust. Transfer to the oven and finish pouring to 1mm below the top of the crust.
Bake for 40-50 minutes until liason has set. Serve cool with whipped cream and a dusting of icing sugar.
Oh, and if you offer any self-respecting English person Earl Grey who isn't from London, involved in media/fashion or otherwise hideously pretentious, you are openly questioning their sexuality,efficacy and personal/sexual prowess and should prepare to be mocked.
Yorkshire Gold is the business, sweeties, but Twinings English Breakfast seems to be the only half-decent one recognised worldwide. -
Quote:When you've had to cut a friend out of a liquid latex outfit in a club bathroom with EMT scissors, being VERY careful not to nick anything or pull out a piercing, you realise that there needs to be a balance between sheer fabulousness and practicality.Originally Posted by Lazarus
Ummm, do we even want to think about the bathroom issues?
Well, just a little bit.
PS: Oddly not as bad as the piercing/chainmail leotard/chinese ring trick interface incident. -
No Agatha Heterodyne? SCIENCE DEMANDS JUSTICE!!!
Also missing:
Montgomery Scott
Abigail Sciuto (if we're counting programmers)
Artemis Gordon
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Dr. Frank N. Furter
Dr. Emilio Lizardo
Dr. Clarke Savage
Buck "Buckaroo" Banzai, PhD
Professor Branestawm
Professor Calculus
Professor Utonium
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Mayor!
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*smacks tags repeatedly with hydrospanner*
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...resistance is tasty. Your examples please? -
Congratulations, new follower of the great Temple of Jobs. Collect your robe and inner light of truth from the mystic monks of Genius and then get hold of these:
EPIC WIN:
Earn XP, "loot" and levels for doing RL stuff. Not just damn good fun, actually the best To-Do List app I've had on my phone and handles repeated events, phone calls and daily to-do's much better than other's I've run into - though it could use an alarm function. And I just scored a Tattoo Of Incarceration!
DISTANT SUNS:
Superb astronomy app - the author also "pings" you with news about cool stuff that you might want to look out for like asteroid storms and other phenomena. Perfect for those moonless nights when the police scanner's quiet and your informants aren't calling. Lite version works just as well.
LIGHTSABER UNLEASHED (aka Lightsaber Free):
If you have nieces or nephews, you'll know why.
iEXPENSEIT
Keep track of how those pennies roll in... and out. Potentially rather depressing.
BJANGO JOBS
One for anyone who works for themselves - makes an auditable record of how long you've worked on a job. (Not that you can't alter it afterwards... *cough*)
GPS V-COCKPIT
Interprets your GPS readout (so it works as a GPS reader) and phone alignment (so it works as a spirit level) as a cockpit screen and also tracks time, elevation and speed. Plus it makes aeroplane noises. Great fun for sitting next to nervous first time fliers on RyanAir/Southwest.
VOUCHERCLOUD
Not sure if this is UK only, but works out where you are based on GPS and then offers you free stuff. You don't even have to print the vouchers.
FOURSQUARE
Hideously addictive territorial warfare game disguised as social networking app,which frequently spills over into real life violence as two nerds duel at dawn for the right to be mayor of Starbucks. Now also offers vouchers and competitions.
PEGGLE
...will eat your life. I've had friends and kids borrow this for two minutes to try and not give it back till the battery was drained.
Other stuff:
- Lonely Planet City Guides (keep an eye out for their regular sales & giveaways)
- Twitter For iPhone (formerly known as Tweetie 2)
- Bump
- Skype
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Quote:The Good Captain had this to say:Originally Posted by BlackSun17
Oh....
Looks like something cool is coming down the road for us.
...could the world please now acknowledge the greatness that is Fillion? kthxbai.Quote:NathanFillion: My Venture Bros voice work started in a studio in Hollywood, and ended with hooking Chris McCulloch to a shock therapy device.
EntityFlux: @NathanFillion Sweetness! My Uncle Steven voices Dr. Orpheus. #VentureBros
NathanFillion: @entityflux then I'm a fan of YOUR UUUNNNCLE STEEEEVENNN. (in Orpheous voice.) -
Quote:Not if you write for the Daily Mail. Then again, they barely have enough time as it is with hating immigrants, estate agents, the French, Americans, people who live outside London Zone 3 and are therefore possibly close enough to be contaminated by the French or wear bones through their nose, comedians, LGBT people, the French, and anyone who isn't Diana Princess Of Wales (RIP).Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You do realize that in order to hate a movie you have to see it at least once.
...so they don't really have enough time to watch the movies in question. Neither do a lot of critics who just watch the EPK clips, form a thoroughly biased opinion against it or pick up their paycheck from the PR company and just write "BEST. FILM. EVER."
Was that too much? I can never tell. -
Quote:No, that was Elvis.Originally Posted by Veritech
wait, are they somehow saying that Teddy Roosevelt didn't roam the lands as a mercenary warrior, slaying monsters, bedding women, and eventually ruling his own kingdom?
By Crom! BULLY!
Incidentally, he's been working as a freelance demon slayer for the FBI since '77, but is currently taking time off to record new material with Lady Gaga. -
Quote:Gallifreyan Universal Standard Time. Probably.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
What time zone?
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Quote:o.OOriginally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Or wake-up in a cell which DOESN'T belong to the police...
That's generally uh-oh time -
I have three PPD-based toons (well, two and one RCMP employee who came down to help her brother investigate their father's death, for reasons that don't need to be gone into at this juncture.)
It'd be interesting to see a Hero MM type toon, though, based around similar structures:
- Detective (Tier 1: Cop/Cop/Medic, Tier 2: Ghost Recon: Tier 3: Shell)
- Longbow (Tier 1: Minigun/Rifleman/Flamethrower, Tier 2:SpecOps, Tier 3:Nullifier)
- Elementals/Angels
- Soldiers (pretty much as Mercs)
- Soldiers Of Fortune (Tier 1: Reporter/Vigilantes, Tier 2:Loony pilot/Himbo, Tier 3:Fool-Pityer)
- Scoobies (Tier 1: Werewolf/Secretive Librarian/Comic Relief, Tier 2:Conflicted emo-vampire / Psychopunk-vampire, Tier 3: Uberwitchynerd)