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The desk is done and in place! WOOO!!!

Thanks, everyone! I'm really really pleased with how it's coming out. I will post a final shot or two once it's in the condo and everything's on it. For now, here's the hutch part with a couple of coats of poly. It really brings out the grain in the wood.



I have several orders pending from friends for more desks, but I don't know if I want to go through the hassle of using rough lumber again anytime soon. However, I might make myself a couple of large bookshelves to replace the ones in my office/gaming room next year.

And Phan, the closest I could come up with using the materials I had are a couple of places for hidden surge protectors. Maybe my next project will be a little more potentially lethal.

So I haven't been around much lately. Mostly I had been traveling more than usual to cover for a co-worker in another part of the country. Even hen I was home, I was distracted. Partly waiting for new content, partly trying CO (and not liking it), partly distracted by Majesty 2, but mostly working on a new project.

Some of you might remember the desk I play at:



Well the desk has been falling apart. It's particleboard, and I had to take it apart and reassemble it when I moved into my condo. The keyboard drawer falls apart every few weeks, and I got a new computer with a larger case that sits just to the right of the monitor in the above picture. This leaves me with less room, and it bugs me.

My parents have been storing a pile of rough cut cherry wood to use for something, but they could never decide what. I asked if I could build a new desk with it, and they figured that would be as good a use of the wood as any, plus it would make a little room in their shed. I bought a sheet of cherry plywood to use for most of the desktop.



It took awhile for me to get the wood planed to a uniform thickness, but I got it done with the help of a friend. That alone took most of the summer. Once it got planed and joined my father and I would get a little woodworking done on weekends and weekday afternoons. This is the final unfinished result.



It's an 8'x7' desk, with two drawers on each end. I've started putting coats of polyurethane on it to finish it, and it's looking fantastic. After that I'll just mount the drawer handles, disassemble it into five pieces (done by design so that I can move it as much as I want), toss out the old desk and move the new one in! Woo!

Kat knows too much.

Or at least she thinks she knows too much.

Or perhaps I think she knows too much...

Or maybe I think she thinks she knows too much...

Or maybe I think too much.

First, welcome to City of Heroes and the Justice server!

There are some ridiculously fast ways to level in this game, but that tends to create players who don't know how to use their powers most effectively. The best way to gain levels as a new player is really to run missions, not AE teams where you sit around and rely on higher level characters to annihiate easy mobs for huge XP.

There are still people who run teams for missions, just ask around in the broadcast channel. Good luck, hero!

I like them with fava beans and a fine chianti.

Kali, your cited factual information is no match for Kruunch's devastating one-two punch of anecdotal evidence and m4d p0w3rl3v3ll1ng 5k1llz.

I have a level 29 Plant/Kin controller named Hyperponic that I'd bring if a spot is available.

I have traded in my old JFA for a new fuel efficient 2010 model.

Where's my Cash for Clunkers money?

93% Explorer
53% Achiever
53% Socializer
0% Killer

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100% Lady Killer

And once you accept that X is closer to characters like Atom Smasher than it is to those like Superman you'll see that Tankers are already pretty much doing their job. But we all know that will never happen; you won't be happy until Tanker damage exceeds that of any other AT in the game, simply due to your kryptonian fixation. This thread is merely the most recent evidence to support that statement, since you refer to doing base damage as 'hitting like a girl' simply because it's less than what other melee classes can do.

Personally, I think Statesman was in error in that favorite quote of yours, and am glad he's no longer associated with this game. I don't feel Tankers need to one- or two-shot everything in the game simply because Superman could do it -- if he let himself go. And interestingly, in the JLU clip you love to post where Superman does let himself go, he still doesn't actually defeat Darkseid.