Father Xmas

Ironic how it's available just before the game's apocalypse.

Well it may be a valid point from a Korean's POV.

Worked with a visiting Korean back in the 90s and he absoluted detested, and made no attempt to hide the fact, that he had to report to a woman and follow her instructions here (he was doing a language and interface port of our product). He also wasn't overly fond of any of the female developers either. Or how the male developers seemingly accepted working with women who were considered their equals or superiors.

Again this goes back the the culture clash mentioned at that glassdoor site. A strick one directional hierarchy may be the norm, where the orders come down from above (Korea), there is no discussion and any feedback is looked at (by Korea) as openly challenging your superiors.

Here's a few pictures

First Black Pebble



Dog with a jet pack on it's bum. That's so wrong. This is when he wasn't being unconventional.



Don't really have any pictures of the event itself, it was a tad chaotic but I did take a few pictures after the event.





I tried to take a few pics with the UI on to get everyone's names



But someone ... granted everyone all the badges which stuck me with a seemingly endless series of dialog boxes and reward notifications just when I was trying to take these pictures. Nice idea, just bad timing



I think sometime during this, between clearing all those dialogs and trying a demorecord and doing screenshots, I ended up charging right at Michelle/Samuraiko/Dark_Respite. Sorry lass.

Ask Titan nicely to make a Culture board.

Sorry I charged at you Michelle, was trying to turn on the demorecord and slipped out of chat mode and well R is run ... plus I had the camera all turned about to look at the group so left was right, right was left ... and so I Leroy Jenkins at you.

Someone released a Pony patch for World of Tanks that replaces the random battle dialog with MLP ones. Video of it during play is found here

They opened the Beta to all shortly after the closing announcement. There's a guide on how to quickly install the beta (scroll down to the Installing Beta section) and you can copy characters to it with the Character Copy Tool.

I was hoping for even a little Doctor Who in-joke like her other aliases. Oh well.

Well I/O shows reflect hard drive requests and it's ilk like having your AV program scanning the data as it's being read. Also since the gauges auto scale having the gauge max out isn't all that informative. Is the overall system I/O chart or did you do a properties on the cityofheroes.exe file and look at it's graphs on I/O?

It's possible that the game's files are on a spot of the drive that is temperamental and requires retries or the AV program is getting choked up and the game crashes because the whatever it's trying to get isn't available in a reasonable period of time and it doesn't know how to handle it. If you were only looking at the system chart then maybe some other task is tying up I/O and again the game doesn't know how to handle it well.

And you are still under the misnomer that the games population was 150,000. Before Freedom the subscription base couldn't be higher than about half that number. Since Freedom didn't do much of anything beyond the first quarter after it was implemented in the terms of revenue, it didn't really matter if the population was 150,000 if half of them weren't spending any money at all on a regular basis.

Warning, sappy nostalgia ahead. The first of several goodbye posts.

Over the years I found myself spending more and more of my time on the forum here, this particular board, chatting about anything from movies to TV to anime to novels from science fiction to fantasy to zombies and everything in between. Oh and comics.

I hadn't had such a place to immerse myself in since I graduated from college back in the mid 1980s. I went to a college that was primarily science and engineering with a smattering of architects and hockey players. It was nerd/geek central. For instance, this is considered to be a clever school T-shirt.



Go Engineers! (Emulsify them! Emulsify them! Spread them into a thin film over the playing surface!)

Still you could find a spectrum of nerd/geekness from passable normal to what would be called a Sheldon today. I tended to echo locate others of my ilk by shouting NEE! loudly into the dorm hall and listen for the replies. I knew a girl two years below me who kept all her clothes in a footlocker because she used her closet to hold all the Science Fiction and graphic novels. She was an old old school Batman fan, hated the 60s TV show for ruining Batman. She also introduced me to Camelot 3000, A Distant Soil, Elf Quest and graphic novels in general. She also introduced me to Dune. There was another girl who was in my class that was a big Heinlein fan, I never read Heinlein before then. And another girl, this one from Hawaii, introduced me to Johnny Soko and his Flying Robot and some cartoon show called Starblazers. Other people introduced me to Doctor Who and Blake 7. I found still others that love Kaiju and Tokusatsu films of the 70s as much as I did. Gerry Anderson fans, Trekies, video gamers were all present in enough numbers to strike up a conversation at any time in any room full of people. Name that Star Trek episode in 5 seconds or less was a popular past time when it was projected on the big screen down at our student union. We only had the original series to worry about so it wasn't that hard. Yea, we were a school of serious geeks and nerds.

As I find myself getting older and older, I also find myself increasingly surrounded by people who are the polar opposite in likes and taste to those I knew in college. While I still keep in contact with a few college friends, it's not the same as seeing them daily 9 months out of the year. It's tough to talk about all the new stuff in an hour phone call every month or three. But here, here it felt like being back there again. A simpler time of AD&D and Starfleet Battles. Of Atari 800s, TI 99/4A, CoCos and Sinclares. Of Tempest, Battlezone and SubRock 3D.

If anyone knows of another place where I can go and chat about such an eclectic list of off topics please chime in. I know I going to go into withdrawal Saturday.

And for those who might have wondered where the quote in my sig, Tempus unum hominem manet, Time waits for one man, is from? It's from the 1962 Science Fiction novel and 1980 TV movie, The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything. Sadly Google now points that phrase to my forum posts, well at least until Saturday morning my time.

You so need to post pics over on Titan if it ever snows there before Christmas and you build some snowmen around them.

Thanks, I should be there in my Father Xmas persona.

Yet another gaming site I hadn't heard of before, I think Australia based, has a parting article about CoH. It showed they hadn't played much or in a while or blue side.

Ten lessons that other MMO developers must learn from the death of City of Heroes

Is your event Wednesday for Incarnate only?

Dropship Down

The previews of next week shows she has a very soft side. Sadly you might just lose that next week as well.