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Asobi ni Ikuyo - I actually had this one on the backburner for a while since I labeled it just another generic "Alien girl comes to earth and lives with boy" series like DearS. The previews for it did not do it justice. Without spoiling too much, the series is essentially a more dramatic look at what would happen if DearS existed. An alien lands on earth just looking to play and have fun, lives with a lonely teenage geek, but in the background we have at least 3 mercenary groups/government agencies there trying to take the alien out or research it more closely. It feels a lot like watching Full Metal Panic's non-high school comedy parts and DearS at the same time, flipping between the two. I definitely am interested in finding out where this goes after the first episode.

Mitsudomoe - I almost skipped this one because in early previews of the new anime season it looked like the token Moe anime. It could not be further from that. Triplet sisters terrorize their 6th grade class. One of them is athletic and a little perverted. The other is sadistic and wants to see others suffer. The last is quiet and withdrawn until you bother her, then she's downright creepy.

The show plays out like a Moe anime version of There's Something About Mary. They try to help their teacher date the cute school nurse, so their way of going about it is to inflict a horrible crotch-al injury on him so the nurse will have to see it. And the second episode just might have the most use of snot and urine for jokes that I have ever seen.

Checking out the new anime season, I'll post what I think as I go. The first three series I watched are:

High School of the Dead - mentioned in this thread previously and I agree. Love the fact that the director unabashedly said people were most likely watching his show for fan service and zombie gore, so he decided to include both. In the span of the first episode they managed to make a better zombie movie than both Oneechanbara movies, so I'll keep watching.

Occult Academy - Weird mix of Men in Black, Ghostbusters, and a high school anime. I'm not in love with the animation style and character designs, but the little touches and references to other horror movies, TV shows, and ghost stories in just the first episode were great. I'll keep watching but so far I'd give this an average with potential to improve.

Seitokai Yakuindomo - Hands down my favorite series so far this season. It's like Azumanga Daioh mixed with the more perverted parts of Girls High. An all-girl school goes mixed gender for its first semester and the current student body already figure most of the new male students only want to form their own Tenchi-esque harems. So the student council picks what might be the only male not doing that to join them as Vice-President. The show has a very newspaper comic strip style of setting up a scene, getting to the punchline, then cutting to another scene. Very slice of life and very funny.

I actually got an email from my supervisor a few years back telling me that I personally caused her to report cityofheroes.com and the boards to IT to have them blocked for all employees of the company.

'Twas a fun email, since, for some reason, they didn't block cityofvillains.com.

I agree that celebrities that play just got a whole lot more awkward.

We know from interviews and talk on their own shows that Felicia Day, most of the cast of G4's X-Play, and others play WoW. Most of them do so in a manner where they are anonymous so they aren't flooded with guild invites and spam and stalker-y tells.

Well, if they post on the forum, that will go out the window. I can just see the "Gank Felicia Day" threads starting.

I'm going to guess that they have the right to do it in the EULA.

Will this kill WoW? I doubt it. We're going to see a continued existence of non-sanctioned forums for WoW players. And I'm sure that, much like this game, a good portion of the playerbase doesn't even use the forums anyways.

Will this kill the official WoW forums? Most likely.

Thanks! For some reason I was using %name, which I think was etched into my brain by Instant Messenger.

I'm trying to improve the dialogue between my contacts and the player and seem to be having a stumbling block re: the command to have the contact say %playername. I've never seem to go it to work. Anyone want to help someone who obviously should know this with a quick easy answer on how to do this?

Running around a good ol' Fashion Pinnacle Intern Battle Royale on Halloween with everyone in costume, me dressed up as Space Ghost, and getting blasted in the face.

Rerolling my Plot Device character 42 times on heroside, picking a build at random in CoV beta, sticking with it and finally getting it to level 50 when Grandeville opened... seconds before the server crashed.

The first time my team managed to crack the Recluse Strike Force through the awesome power of stack-cheating and aliens.

The time I ran into a battle with an AV, hit aim, build up, then fired my cryo freeze ray for some reason.

Farming the entire monkey island back when you could as a blaster using only lightning field just for fun.

Just hanging out and running the Moonstone and Hess TFs in Striga to the point where my entire team knew exactly where every door was and every glowie was going to be.

The best new anime I've found this season is B Geta H Kai, which just might be the best ecchi-comedy that includes no nudity to ever come out of Japan.

It reminds me of Futari Ecchi if retold in the style of Kodomo no Omocha.

You do get the irony that since BaBs has posted asking for a list of bugged missions to look at, all we've gotten are a handful of posts about the last mission of Numina and a lot of in-fighting attack posts, right? And that simply pointing out that a slight change of posting tone would have avoided about 8 pages of this thread that are completely useless to the playerbase is somehow a scornful offense?

Kind of shows that if you start a thread off on a combative foot, it stays on it.

Yes, I read 10 pages of Zombie Man fighting with the original poster and friends over word choices and semantics.

Thank you for proving my point.

So much of this thread could have been avoided if it was a simple "Hess and Katie TFs are bugged on live right now, here is what we encountered" post.

Instead we get a first post with a sarcastic attack title that is sure to get the forum PvPers worked up and on the defense. Then the first few posts from the people who were on said bugged TF constantly throwing out snide comments about lazy devs or undocumented changes just made the forum PvPers blood boil more.

You get more with sugar than with snark.

I have a feeling the next double XP weekend will be how I get that last infamy badge.

Just a quick update for any badge hunters stuck like I am right now:

I randomly pulled together a PUG for a ITF this afternoon in the off hours. Managed to get 7 people, I believe all to be level 50. We did the first mission without problem. Second mission someone dropped due to serious real life issues. Third mission, just before we got to the AVs, we lost two others. So it was just 4 people fighting the two AVs and the mech army. We gave up after the third mission (we were myself, a defender, a brute, and a dominator, just didn't have enough damage to attempt Romulus Warshade).

So 3 missions done. I earned 2.7 million, averging about 1.3 mill an hour according to HeroStats. We were on heroic/villainous difficulty.

I'm going to try a full 8 man team today on a higher difficulty for comparison's sake.

It worked perfectly for me.

Make sure you re-input your badge site info in the options menu, the Unstable and current versions don't share preference files.

I'm rad blast/thermal, so I definitely am one of the more sought after for RSFs.

I think I'm just going to log in and take any and all invites for any SF that comes and just play until I get blisters on me fingers.