GuyPerfect

Here's two salt shakers. One's so you can take a grain with Sam's complaints, and the other is for you to pour into your eyes so I can laugh at you.

By the time you outgrow the T rating, you can no longer be tried as a minor. I know the sight of tossing 3D cartoon characters in a dumpster might be too gruesome for 19-year-olds, but it isn't likely to change the rating.


Well, you did knowingly work for Dr. Graves. If you're going for the dignified route, street sweep to level 5 and go work for Mr. Bocor as your first contact.

Guiding by landmarks, that's the location of the new area, but geographically (read: XYZ coordinates), it's actually smack dab between Nebula District and Constellation Row. The roads don't line up exactly (since the zone was gutted and redesigned), but it's pretty close:


It's worth noting that the statue of Galaxy Girl originally faced to the east, but now faces south, presumably to get a better view of the destruction.

When you're fighting the Giant Shivan, you're just north of the grassy area in front of Freedom Plaza. Or, rather, with the cardinal directions all screwed up, you'd be just east of there. The statue was mostly obstructed by an attention hog just as I took the picture, but the following images are still aligned:


Afterwards, I opted to be teleported into the Longbow safe zone, which as far as I know is just a different combat phase from the Arachnos safe zone. In any case, the statue is still visible from there if you jump over to the left:


Relative to the statue, if that can be considered canon, then the crater you're standing in with that safe zone is the exact former location of Cygnus Medical Center.

Later in the game, when you do Twinshot's or Dr. Graves's arcs, you end up in an instance of Galaxy City ravaged by meteors. It takes place in the northeast corner of the zone, and you can see some direct demolition between that map and the actual Galaxy City:


However, the west edge of that map is within spitting distance of the hospital and Yellow Line. There's just a big building in the way, distinctly not as destroyed as the same area apparently was in the tutorial. A little demo editing to move the camera to the other side reveals something interesting:


When Numina was lamenting the loss of the hospital in Galaxy City, I'd assumed it got squashed by a big alien rock, but as we can see here, it outright skipped town. Where did it go? It truly is lost!

The Architect Entertainment building suffered a similar fate, much to Dr. Aeon's dismay. There's a building at its location near the Arena, but it's not the AE building. Plus, that skyscraper immediately in front of the Yellow Line seems to have moved forwards 50 feet or so, so perhaps the Shivans can teleport buildings?

I'm using the OSI definition, which funnily enough happens to say something to the effect of "the Network layer of the network model is about how networks communicate." You may not encounter many people who identify that each interface on a router connects to a network or subnetwork, but then again, does anyone really know what that machine is called that Zamboni makes? (It's an "ice resurfacer," should anyone feel like being clever)

In any case, "network" used to describe chunks of a system separated by routing is quite common among those who design and maintain those systems, and the students I was observing were being fed quite a contradictory definition. To me, it's equivalent to saying food comes in tin cans, when they're in fact usually steel. It makes a significant difference should someone need to decide what to make a can out of at some point.


It's generally a bridge that acts as a NAT switch with a LAN switch on the other end. But it's definitely not a router; you'll never find a routing table inside one of those unless it actually has multiple WAN interfaces. That's the point I was trying to make.


If your office complex funnels all of its traffic through a drop run by a local telco to get to the internet, you're not an autonomous system (which is registered with the same people who do IP addresses). The people you're paying for internet access are the people whose autonomous system you're plugging into, even if they don't manage any of your equipment.

Whatever the case, that's not what a network is, despite people calling it that.

As a certified networking specialist (CCNA if you care), I was sitting in on a computer concepts class at the local community college when they were talking about networking. Those poor students were required to remember the definition of "network," which was something along the lines of "all of the interconnected computing devices under a single administration."

"Network" as a technical term describes a data-link broadcast domain. You use switches to expand a network, and you use routers to connect networks. That is to say, if you "have a router in your network," you actually manage more than one network. All of the interconnected computing devices under a single administration can be called whatever you want it to be called, but if it's connected to the internet, they call it an autonomous system.

Furthermore, that box in the garage between your home "network" and the internet is not a router. It's a bridge with a switch attached. Bonus points for being a wireless access point and/or DHCP server.

So next time you talk about how you "have a router in your network," consider that you might just have a bridge on the edge of your broadcast domain.

I don't have one because I don't want one. In fact, I'm pleased to take Fly at level 4 now, kthx!

I'm going to go so far as to say that the mission content in Port Oakes and Cap au Diable (as well as the rest of redside) isn't really in need of updating. They did it right the first time, unlike most of blueside.

Then check the board history, or do a search in this board for the word "best" and you'll find more farmer recommendations than you can shake a stick at.

If it's like Tesla Cage, they can buff the damage for Controllers and Dominators. (-:

Edit:
I mean Tesla Grenade

I'm gonna have to say yes to that one. Lord Recluse attempted to secure a future where The Web sapped every hero in the entire world of their powers and allowed him to take over. The plan failed for the same reason the Keyes Isle one did: player characters (not local governments) stepped in to stop him.

If anything, the characters we create are more powerful than Arachnos. But Praetoria certainly has some work to do.

Arachnos overpowered the IDF and nearly destroyed Keyes Island. Just sayin'.

Isn't that already the case? |-:

(The correct answer is yes!)