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Quote:Hopefully fond memories of the time you played.Originally Posted by DarkOasis
I figure Ive spent over $1000 on this game. As of December 1 what will I have to show for that?
It's like being in a bowling league for 8 years with a team that was never good enough to win a trophy. Hopefully you enjoyed playing with your teammates every week and just that was worth the weekly fees. -
XCOM:Enemy Unknown is turn based but has a moving camera to show the cinematic style results of your turn/action. Forgot the name of the XCOM that's a FPS.
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I remember flying my Rad/Rad Defender through Kings Row, I must have been at least level 16, since I was flying and just took Mutation.
I was flying West to East toward the tram and I notice a fallen hero in the little grassy area just West of the tram so I decided to swoop in and Rez them.
Blam-Blam-Blam-Blam-Blam - face plant right next to him.
Seems that a high level team was cutting through Kings Row and was ambushed by Malta and they didn't clean up the gun turret sitting in the tall grass.
Soon a number of heroes ended up face planted around us as the call went out for someone of reasonable level to come and dispatch the damn turret. A crowd of low level characters formed a ring just outside of gun range while a few low level scrappers/tankers with support from the defenders/controllers and blasters sniping from out on the ring tried to take it out themselves, and failed.
Eventually a 40+ level player came and quickly dispatched it but the fact this turned into an unofficial zone event, before we had zone events, with the number of heroes that showed up to try to help is a memory I will always remember. Really wished I took a screen shot of that. -
Quote:I love that for some reason. Maybe because I use to bowl a lot and not anymore but hearing the sound is somehow comforting.Originally Posted by Hercules
Not sure if it still works, but if you stand outside some of the bowling alleys, you can hear the sound of pins being knocked over. I've always wanted to be able to enter and actually see the inside.
Of course tag her twice and get a badge.Quote:Nellie in Croatoa is another one - I never knew she existed until a year or so ago. Pretty rare sighting.
No it's not a Halloween thing, they sometime hide as trees.Quote:Never noticed the pumpkin heads in the trees in Croatoa until yesterday - is that a Halloween event thing? -
Speaking of The Walking Dead, I swear some of the "wilderness" scenes were shot at the same locations to where our intrepid group of survivors ended up at the end of last season's walking dead. The small waterfall and foundation remnants look very familiar.
And it looks like I'm not the only one that spotted that. -
So arrive just above or below the planetary disk and use sub-light to approach the planet.
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The "glam cam" aspect of the game may get a bit old after a while as well as slowing down the game play but I'm definitely prefer this to the FPS take on the old game. Also the showing you what counts as cover and how much is a plus in my book.
As for the base mode, it reminds me a bit of Little Computer People or the Creatures series, looking in and watching all your soldiers during their downtime. -
I fear we will need that long to recover from the parting of the Ponds.
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Saw an article today about a 3D printer store opening in Pasadena this Sunday. Also one opened in New York City earlier this week.
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First off the massive agriculture conglomerates that supply nearly all the food here in the US would be shut down overnight without electrical power. Small time farmers and meat producers could probably still be in business however milk production will also be seriously curtailed without electricity to operate the automated milking machines.
You aren't going to feed 300 million with ox and plow. The chaos in the first few years after the outage is going to make The Walking Dead look like a vacation in Disneyworld. Mass starvation is going to make things ugly really quick.
New aluminum production would vanish overnight, it's a process that entirely relies on electricity. A lot of smaller steel smelting plants are now electric and not coal.
It'll take time to build the infrastructure needed to build down to a pre-electric society. Given the fact that no power tools will work, how do you build a steam engine from scratch? And once you have a steam engine, we're talking belt pulley central drive for drills, saws, lathes, etc for manufacturing anything in quantity. And of course you are going to need peace for that to flourish so you might start to see that starting some 15 years after the black out. -
I'm talking about nullifing locally the power dampening field.
The other doctor lady used her fancy broach to start up a computer and communicate with someone else. And it looks just like the one Dad assembled at the last second and later gave to X-Google.
Ever see the movie The Quiet Earth? Odd little Kiwi SciFi movie from the mid 80s that reminds me of Revolution for some reason. Maybe it's the "science experiment goes horribly wrong" as a possible explanation in this series. -
I would imagine if you do a demorecord and cycle through each of your costumes his player extractor script will create an entity for each costume.
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Actually thinking back I'm not sure if they intentionally tried for a comical dub or just the voice actors couldn't take the script seriously. USA's Dynaman was just over the top script wise.
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Something seems to be inhibiting free electrons from flowing beyond a certain threshold.
Of course that's the mystery. Why did Katniss Clone's Dad know the power was going to go out and why did he wait until he got home to assemble the nullifier? Why are their others who have similar nullifiers? The blackout is obviously man made but why? Secret government/military project goes terribly wrong? Eco-terrorists wanting to restore Gaia? Quickest way to stop an impending nuclear exchange? Hiding from Aliens? Preserving the electrical infrastructure due to massive continuous geomagnetic storms because the Sun went super active (opposite of the Maunder Minima)? Not sure if we'll ever find out the truth or even if it's important. -
I hope this isn't the silly dub of the series that was on TNT nearly 20 years ago. They tried for a USA's Night Flight Dynaman flavor for the dub but it was only partially successful in my opinion.
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Got the message "go see" last night when I logged in.
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Quote:Classic Hollywood physics.Originally Posted by Mandu
Crossbow bolt that lifts a charging guy off his feet and throws him backwards.
I think at that point he was just the nameless barkeep.Quote:Super combat guy who lets some kid easily get a knife to his throat.
To be fair it didn't look like anyone was living there. The poisoned hooch was a nice touch.Quote:The Goldilocks squad being surprised that the three bears actually showed up when she fell asleep in their house.
Where's the freaking steam engines? Or an old diesel engine, baring fuel supply problems. As for bikes, if that part of the US in anything like my part, not a lot of adult sized bikes sold anymore. Plenty of kids/tween bikes but I rarely see an teen/adult on a bike anymore and when I do, 9 out of 10 times it's a Armstrong wannabe in spandex and I imagine those bikes won't do well on unimproved/decaying road surfaces.Quote:Where were the freaking bicycles?
While it's relatively easy to make gunpowder, I imagine the kind you would want to use reloading modern ammunition is much more difficult to make and supplies of the good stuff have been used up after 15 years (or is being horded for major battles or for high officers only). I also imagine older guns like a Winchester riffle have been seized by the various militias. Remember owning a firearm is a hanging offense in Monroe land.Quote:Muskets?
As for other points people have brought up. There were fat people in the 1800s as well. X-Google's "job" seems to be teacher so I don't expect a lot of field labor on a daily basis. I assume he's around to do something when they find a computer that'll boot up with the anti-electric field nullifier on.
The Uncle Scrapper's battle was humorous. You would think that at some point the militia leader would try to retreat and regroup once 2/3rds of his men were killed instead of fighting to the last man.
Pretty Militia Boy is probably Monroe's son, actual or adopted, so he's trying to impress daddy while having second thoughts on the brutal dictatorship of the militia. Plus he and Katniss Clone make such a cute Romeo and Juliet.
I'm surprised that Hot Doc and Katniss Clone have such nicely styled hair after 15 years. Obviously some hair stylists with 100% all natural organic hair products survived the great power down.
Best character so far, besides Uncle Scrapper, is the Former Insurance Guy. Reads a lot like The Operative from Serenity. -
Quote:Well that explains why it was available.Originally Posted by Scythus
Actually, people might really be thankful, as "Jolly Roger" isn't spelled with a D.
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So last Monday and replayed on Wednesday was the latest attempt by a network to recapture the success of Lost, NBC's post-apocalyptic drama Revolution.
So .... did anyone else watch it? What did you think?
Hello?
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Quote:I'm Father Xmas and I approve of this message.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
But let's not ******** each other: If you piss on someone else's hope, you're an *******. If you take pleasure in other people's pain, you're an *******. If you're ok with that, so be it, but don't cry about it when people explain that you're being an *******.
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A little late to the party, like always.
This is my very first character. Got the game, patched it to Issue 1 (which took a very long time on dial-up), picked a server and rolled a scrapper for the friends that introduced me to this game didn't have a melee character for the team, and leveled up a bit. Unfortunately I remembered the wrong server they were playing on.
So, with apologies for squatting the name on Virtue since August 24th, 2004, my first character Jolly Rodger, a Broad Sword/Super Reflexes scrapper.
Once they told me of my error in server choices, I had to roll a new character over on Victory. Since this was during the time before the Marvel suit and there were plenty of "homage" characters running around and I wanted to see if I could duplicate a particular character I created Agent Kei ...
as in Kei of The Dirty Pair. She's a Martial Arts/Super Reflexes Scrapper.
Jolly Rodger is still Level 8 after all these years and Agent Kei is Level 28, stopping some time before Issue 9. -
Quote:Only e-mails I ever get from them in the last few years were the "someone signed onto your account, if not you write" ones. General announcements and such, don't remember when I stopped getting them.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
For some reason I'm -not- getting these emails from NCsoft...
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Bye Z-man. Best of luck on whatever you do next.
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Problem is advertising costs money and it's not all that cheap.
Why do we see WoW ads, because it has over a billion in revenues every year. If they set aside a mere 1% for advertising, that's more than this game had last year in revenues. And from what I can tell, it's normally recommended to have an ad budget in the 4-8% of gross revenues.
So NCSoft did the cheap way to advertise, press releases and granting of interviews to MMO gamer sites. They may have even taken out web ads but I would have never known since I've run with adblockers since they were first introduced to Firefox and Chrome.
How much did it cost them to run the GameStop Going Rogue promotion? How about the Razor promotion? Do you think they're free? When PC gamer magazines all went online and then folded into the main site (RIP CGW/Games for Windows
) they couldn't run conventional print ads anymore. The two major comic book labels had their own MMO plans for years so I can see why they couldn't advertise there. It costs a lot to get bodies on the ground with booths at the major comic book and game cons.
And the hurdle of convincing people to spend $15 a month to play the game you just spent $30-50 on really limits the number of people you can hook even when the first month is free decreases the conversion rate (people who buy / people who've seen the ad). And that low conversion rate relative to the ad costs could be used as an argument to gut the ad budget of the game. -
Quote:Problem is Verne, Dumas, Wells and other writers wrote a number their best known works first as serials for newspapers and only later publish them collectively as novels. The were contractually obligated to fill X amount of space so yes they did get a little wordy.Originally Posted by bpphantom
Jules Verne was a terrible author whose stories are both rampant with Mary Sue's, and overflowing with extraneous text.