Father Xmas

I remember acting as a go between, buying DOs and SOs that weren't the "Power 10" for lower level characters. Felt like buying beer for high schoolers. I remember Endurance Mods were in high demand from those taking Stamina at Level 20.

No, not as a free player. They, masterminds and controllers, are free for VIP or unlock based on the number of Paragon Reward Tokens you have, 13 or more tokens which would unlock Tier 5 for Premium Players. Or you can buy them at some awful price (looking it up ... 1200 Paragon Points for each one).

But how would one collect money to fund the production of TV shows? An international pay per view streaming model? A per month fee to access all series worldwide from anywhere like an international super Hulu+?

I tend to Timmverse my male characters; max shoulders, min waist and hips. Female characters I try to go more realistic than comic book (yes I mean the boobie slider).

Yes but then it won't be using the BBC iPlayer but one targeting the US via their BBCA affiliate. Hulu and probably all the standard US broadcast network streams don't work in Canada.

Some people forget that these series is a product that costs a lot of money to make. That the broadcast rights to these series are sold around the world to local broadcasters who won't be all too thrilled if their customers could simply stream these episodes from the US days/weeks/months before they are broadcast there. And if people there could get the stream from the US, why would broadcasters there pay to air the series in the first place?

At least the BBC finally got it right with Doctor Who by airing the newest episodes and specials in the US via BBCA, unedited, only a few hours after they are broadcast in the UK. That probably wiped out a sizable chunk of torrent downloads while raising the ratings in the US.

Why? It's the UK citizens who pay for that content through their taxes.

Sorry can't read that link, no MS Office here, but I'm assuming it's the same as this quote from the website's page:

One of the most fundamental changes to old characters is the Fitness Pool. New characters or characters that never took a power from the Fitness Pool now get all the Fitness Pool powers at level 2. Older characters that have taken at least one power from the Fitness Pool will need to respec to get the remaining powers as well as freeing up the power picks that you had used on the Fitness powers you had.

Also the Power Pools associated with travel; Flight, Teleportation, Leaping and Speed; have been tweaked significantly as to when you can get which power. First the primary "travel power" is now available at Level 4, that's Fly, Teleport, Super Jump and Super Speed, as well as the previous pair of powers that were available at Level 6. Each set has had a new power added to them and that power and the previous Level 20 power is now available at level 14 (they still require two previous powers from the pool to be able to select them).

These two changes along can radically alter how you build your character and can free you up to section additional powers you skipped till later so you could get your travel power and Stamina as soon as possible.

Lastly the Ancillary/Patron Power Pools are also available at Level 35 instead of 41.

On a personal note I have a reasonably high level Katana/Regen scrapper and I haven't really noticed any changes in their play style after the devs stopped tweaking Regen all those years ago.

There is a somewhat vocal group of posters who dislike Regen because of the number of click powers for healing which is why most of them would recommend Willpower over Regen. They do have a point if you go into "scrapper lock" you may not be paying close enough attention to your hit points to notice when you should trigger one of your click heal powers.

Also one of the most useful Katana powers for survivability is Divine Avalanche for it's +15% Def Vs Melee buff.

Yes, it looks as if there was a launcher update which can cause troubles with some firewalls due to the way to bootstraps itself for the patch.

Worse case, uninstall the launcher (not the game) and reinstall it.

The CW isn't bad, neither is CBS and of course Hulu (ABC, Fox, NBC and their affiliates). The worst problem I have with them is the problem switching streams for the commercials and then back to the show. I've had streams die during that, requiring me to restart the episode and then try to jump back to the break were it broke to pick up where it was left off.

Sometimes an actor simply doesn't want to revive a character, no mater how much money is offered. Been there, done that twice, it's over.

I think slick-philly and live-action Carl are part of a group that raid small groups of survivors, a half a dozen family units at most in size. The kind that could keep their heads down for a passing walker mob but could handle the random stray walker or two. Larger groups aren't worth the trouble attacking (cost in ammo and men) and the raiders really wouldn't want to go up against a group similar to themselves.

Think of a group of Earls but with a Jersey Shore flair.

Well he has done voice acting since his retirement.

Well if Arcanaville's data is correct, which I'm sure it is, the "average" pack contains 2.21 common, 1 uncommon, 1 rare and 0.79 very rare (very large sample size). So uncommon is as common as rare and very rare really isn't.

So a 24-pack would likely give you about 19 very rare, 24 rare, 24 uncommon and 53 common. If you ignore the fact that each costume piece can only be pulled once and then eliminated from the pool, you would pull each very rare costume piece 2.68 times, each rare costume piece 2.88 times, each uncommon costume piece 3.12 times and each common costume piece 5.3 times. So off hand I would say you have a pretty good chance of getting the whole set in 24 packs but random is random.

Sorry I don't have the tools at my fingertips to throw together a monte carlo simulation and have the time to run a large enough set of trials to get a reasonably estimate. I also don't have the statistical aptitude to create the equations to calculate the actual chances. I'm sure we didn't cover this kind of problem (radically altering odds in mid sampling) in the Prob and Stats course I took 30 years ago.

Ponytails are moe <3

I don't see any difference between Super Packs and buying cases of Magic cards back in the day so you could stack your deck with 4 of some rare. So you end up with a tub of commons so what, donate them to a elementary school and get the kids hooked on it. Very least it teaches them reading, math and logic.

As for costume exclusivity in Freedom? Try Tier 9 VIP costumes. How many points are they going to cost if you aren't close to that level? Do you already have a character or thinking of one that must have the super pack costume pieces or are you just being a clothes horse?

I found this happens if you are behind a proxy of some kind.

Same author.

So I take it nobody has read either Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter? Supposedly Natalie Portman optioned PPZ.

It's going to be more like Rick stirred up a hornet's nest. I'm betting the zombie cook off at the farm will end up attracting this other group.

So what's worse? Large crowd of dumb walkers or small group of armed, unfriendly people?