Impish Kat

THE WRAP UP


Rangle's Plot: Great raid all
Rangle M. Down: thanks for a great MSR
Maxine Marauder: thanks for letting me join in the fun
Rangle's Plot: Thanks for leading Rangle
Browncoat: That. Was. Memorable. Thanks all!
Rangle Automaton: Congranglations everyone.
Rangle M. Down: and for the hilarity

Operative Recluse: Happy ThanksRangle!
Real Rangle: this was AWESOME
Rangle N. Angle: Good times.
Rangle M. Down: thanks folks. that was too funny
Photon Blast: ty for the fun
Rangle's Plot: Take care all
Rangle M. Down Under: best Raid EVER!
Real Rangle: Thanks for everyone coming out to play
Rangle Wrangler: Laughed so hard I think I lost my voice a little. lol
Browncoat: Thanks Rangle!

Criticality-D: Thank Rangle that's over...I couldn't take much more
Vulcana Arcana: ty all for the amusement ^^
Rangle N. Angle: Nice to have rangled up some fun tonight.
Rangle R Jeep: Terrific fun! That was great! Thanks for being you, Rangle! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thanks for the fun!

[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: the Mother Ship Rangle... er Raid is over.
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: thanks to everyone who came out to play. Thanks to everyone who show'd up as a Rangle..

Indigo Shade: never knew there was so much rangle :P
Rangle M. Down: guys... that was too much...
Rangle M. Down: thank you all for that.
Mister Bo'Rangles: Thank you for being Rangle
Rangled: Happy Thanksgiving to Rangle and all the little Rangles
Rangle's Plot: Take care all
Rangle M. Down:
Light Year: graet raid guy's and thx for the fun
Operative Recluse: I'm feeling a wide Rangle of emotions now...
Rangle M. Down: lol
Rangle Wrangler: Merry Rangle to all, and to all a good night! =D
Rangle M. Down Under: xD
Mister Bo'Rangles: I'm feeling a swelling in my rangle. err chest
Ain't No Rangle Plot: I told you before
Ain't No Rangle Plot: Wrap that Rangle
Ain't No Rangle Plot: Gonnorhangle isn't fun
Elgnar T. Olp: Blame it on Rangle?
Mister Bo'Rangles: Love potion number Rangle

Elgnar T. Olp: As Duncan Mcloud says, "There can be only Rangle!"

[Justice United]Buxley: Epic MSR. =)
[Justice United]Kanga Red: Ahh in my 7 years of playing this game, that was the best Raid ever
[Justice United]Buxley: Glad that what may be my last MSR was by far the best. Thanks Rangle(s)!
[Justice United]RandomIce: gee shame I just logged in - sounds like I missed a great event
[Justice United]Criticality-D: Nothing to see...and don;t believe the talk of a Rangle plot...
[Justice United]Criticality-D: gnite Justice!

((Begin MSR))

Rangle?: All hail lord Rangle!
Rangle Rising: "Why so Rangle? Not sure if Rangle?"
Rangle M. Down: nemesis is a hack!
Rangle M. Down Under: Nemesis ain't got nothing on you.. or us.. or O.o
Rangle M. Down: o.O
Elgnar T. Olp: kcahh a si sisemeN.
Operative Recluse: In Praetorian Clockwork: Srch(Rangle.db)=[No.Plot.Found]
Rangle Wrangler: My Little Rangle: Plotting is Magic!
Rangle M. Down: o.O
Rangle M. Down Under: LMAO
Rangle?: Say Rangle

[Justice United]Bo'Tanika: {25 Corruptor} say "Rangle" 3 times in a mirror.... look what happens
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: o.O

Rangle?: To be Rangle is to know Rangle...
Why B. Rangle: see what happens when the cloning machine is left on random
Lt Rangle: you mean left on Rangle?
Rangle M. Down Under: What has science done!
Criticality-D: a r angle
Rangle Wrangler: We're like tribbles, apparently. XD

Rangle's Bad Idea: Rangle's, once you pop, you can't stop!
Rangle M. Down: eh hem..
Rangle Wrangler: I... have never popped a Rangle, I have to say... O.o
Rangle M. Down: o.O
Rangle's Bad Idea: I didn't say it was a good idea now....
Rangle Wrangler: Bowling for Rangles!

Criticality-D: Hey! Where's my Honorary Rangle badge??
Browncoat: I got mine -- better file a petition.

Mud Elemental: I shoulda made a character named "Rangleberry"
Rangle M. Down: Thanks to all all the Rangle's that joined into tonights MSR. And thanks to everyon else who's put up with them..
Rangle M. Down Under: anytime Rangle

Operative Recluse: The end times -- Rangle'narock
Rangle Wrangler: I still shoulda made "My Little Rangle." Hmmm... *wonders what Rangle's cutie mark would be... XD
Rangle M. Down: o.O
Rangled: omg, a brony!
Staxxy: sounds likea question for Bo
Criticality-D: Rangling Bits?
Elgnar T. Olp: A fisth crushing the world.

Operative Recluse: Go Go Power Rangle!
Rangle M. Down Under: this league has gone to the rangles!
Rangle?: Sugar, Spice and everything Rangle
Why B. Rangle: would that be also including chemical R
Phillip Feather: Super-Rangle-Rikti=Force-GO!

Elgnar T. Olp: New time controller. "A Rangle in Time"
Rangle M. Down: he's lvl 50.
Rangle M. Down Under: he already made one
Rangle M. Down: and IO'd

Staxxy: everything's coming up Rangles and Daffodills.
Criticality-D: Snips and snails and Rangles...
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangles kepp fallin on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin red. No I'll never be one to stop rangle by complainin.
Rangle?: That's what Rangle said.

Lt Rangle: Ever read that Sun Tsu novel The Rangle of War?
Criticality-D: Or that Jane Austen novel...Pride and Prejudice and Rangles
Browncoat: The Forever Rangle
Criticality-D: Valley of the Rangles
Rangle Wrangler: Supercalifrangleiciousexpeeisdelicious!

Lt Rangle: What about A Tale of Two (Dozen) Rangles?
Browncoat: A Rangle Too Far
Elgnar T. Olp: The Fellowship of the Rangle
Mud Elemental: Apocalypse Rangle
Mister Bo'Rangles: Bridge over the River Rangle.
Browncoat: The Man Who Would Be Rangle
Staxxy: A Rangle for your thoughts
Elgnar T. Olp: The Two Rangles

Rangle Wrangler: *Starts singing* Ain't no Rangle hiiiiigh enough!
Real Rangle: omg.... I'm gonna pee my pants
Rangle Wrangler: Too late! XD

Elgnar T. Olp: Return of teh Rangle.
Criticality-D: Citizen Rangle
Rangle's Bad Idea: A Rangle Runs Through It
Mister Bo'Rangles: 30 seconds over Rangle
Why B. Rangle: the futre's so bright i gotta be Rangle

Lt Rangle: Ian Fleming's long lost work "Casino Rangle"
Browncoat: The Brothers Rangle
Criticality-D: 2001 Rangles: A Space Odyssey
Rangle's Bad Idea: Rangler on the Roof

Mister Bo'Rangles: Ranlge! Rangle! Rangle!
Rangle M. Down: my my my my Rangle Face...

Elgnar T. Olp: The Sillmrangelion
Mister Bo'Rangles: Seven brides for seven Rangles
Rangle D Prepper: Close encounters of the rangle kind
Rangle Wrangler: For the musical buffs.. My Fair Rangle!
Staxxy: Barnum and Bailiey's Three Rangle Circus
Rangle Brite: the rikti are thinking rangle rangle rangle

Browncoat: A Fistfull of Rangles
Mud Elemental: My Big Fat Greek Rangle
Rangle Brite: a few rangles more?
Phillip Feather: Never feed the Rangle after Midnight.
Elgnar T. Olp: I was a Teenage Rangle.
Rangle's Bad Idea: To Rangle a Mockingbird
Lt Rangle: Anyone ever read any Rangle Drew mystery novels?
Criticality-D: The Good, the Bad, and the Rangle

Rangle Wrangler: Gonna peeeee.. OMG!!!! lolol

Rangle D Prepper: Moby Rangle.....wait...ewwww
Rangle Brite: teenage mutant ninja rangles
Why B. Rangle: OMC is making a new song. first it was how bizare, now its how rangle
Mud Elemental: To Wong Fu: Thanks for Everything, Rangle Newmar

Rangle M. Down: Planet of the Rangles...
Ain't No Rangle Plot: Rangle? Rangle! Rangle? Rangle! Rangle? Rangle!
Lt Rangle: The Grapes of Rangle or The Rangles of Wrath?
Rangle's Bad Idea: The War of the Rangles\
Mud Elemental: Attack of the 50 foot Rangle

Real Rangle: ROFLMAO

Rangle Wrangler: Ranglezilla!!
Browncoat: A Clockwork Rangle
Mister Bo'Rangles: lAVERNE AND rANGLE
Criticality-D: Plan Rangle From Outer Space
Browncoat: Apocalypse Rangle
Why B. Rangle: mettalirangles
Criticality-D: Forbidden Rangle
Elgnar T. Olp: Brokeback Rangle Mountain. Maybe not.
Rangle M. Down: A Rangle of Their Own.

Rangle Wrangler: The Rangle Strikes Back!
Mud Elemental: A Serbian Rangle
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangle came from Outer Space
Rangle's Bad Idea: A Field of Rangles
Rangle Wrangler: Or Return of the Rangle!
Rangle M. Down Under: well, this does seem a bit like the ... 'clone wars'

Mister Bo'Rangles: To kill a ranglebird
Mud Elemental: Children of the Rangle
Operative Recluse: THIS EVENT TOTALLY NEEDS -- RANGLE MERITS
Rangle Wrangler: The hills are aliiiiive, with the sound of Raaaaangles!
Staxxy: dances with Rangle?
Rangle M. Down: the Phantom Rangle?
Lt Rangle: Rangle of the Opera?
Browncoat: Rangle vs Rangle
Operative Recluse: What could you buy with Rangle Merits?

Rangled: From Here to Rangle
Rangle M. Down Under: One Rangle To Rule Them all!
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangles of the Carribean
Rangle's Bad Idea: Sex, Lies, and Rangle Plots
Staxxy: Rangle Imposible!

Mud Elemental: The Heart of Rangleness
Rangle M. Down: Star Trek, the undescover Rangle?
Elgnar T. Olp: The Good, The Bad, The Rangle.
Why B. Rangle: harry potter and the rangle plot
Mud Elemental: The Princess Rangle
Rangle Brite: hello my name is rangle, you killed my rangle prepare to rangle

Rangled: It Happened One Rangle
Rangle N. Angle: Big Trouble in Little Rangle.
Maxine Marauder: One flew over the Rangles nest
Staxxy: The Lord of the Rangles
Criticality-D: A Hard Day's Rangle

Elgnar T. Olp: Rangle the movie.
Criticality-D: Rangle of the Living Dead
Lt Rangle: Oppa Rangle Style
Mister Bo'Rangles: The Lion the Witch and the Rangle
Rangle M. Down: Army of Rangle!
Mister Bo'Rangles: Klatu Verata Rangle!

Staxxy: NO RUNNING DAMMIT!!!
Staxxy: Thank you!!
Staxxy: It's from the Princess Rangle

Phillip Feather: The World Only Rangle Knows.
Why B. Rangle: THIS IS RANGLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Rangle Wrangler: I don't think I can safely do spaceballs.... XD
Browncoat: Six Degrees of Rangle
Criticality-D: The World According to Rangle
Rangle's Bad Idea: For a few Rangles More

Lt Rangle: GOOD MORNING RANGLE-NAM!
Rangle R Jeep: The Rangles must be crazy
Rangle N. Angle: I find your lack of Rangle disturbing.
Rangle Wrangler: Saving Private Rangle? Or are we saving Rangle's.... ? O.o
Mister Bo'Rangles: Life is like a box of Rangles.
Lt Rangle: What about a bowl of Rangles?
Rangle Wrangler: Ranglegump?

Elgnar T. Olp: The Ring of the Rangleung
Rangled: The Maltese Rangle
Criticality-D: New Wave Rangles?
Why B. Rangle: NANANANANANANA Rangle-Man!!!!
Rangle N. Angle: The Dark Rangle Rises.
Ain't No Rangle Plot: RANGLE ME THIS BATMAN!

Staxxy: It happened one Rangle
Rangle?: Rangle, once you pop the fun don't stop.
Rangle's Bad Idea: Rangle and the Masters of the Universe
Lt Rangle: New Rangles on the Block? Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh RAN GLE
Rangle D Prepper: Rangle 2 Electric Boogaloo
Criticality-D: Let it Rangle

Rangle M. Down: did someone mention Clash of the Rangles?
Mister Bo'RanglesThe unrangleables
Rangle Wrangler: Night of the living Rangle(s)!
Rangle N. Angle: Rangle Trek Into Dorkness.
Browncoat: Guess Who's Coming To Rangle?
Why B. Rangle: who's harry rangle

Rangle Wrangler: Laughed so hard I think I lost my voice. XD
Rangle M. Down: lol

Mister Bo'Rangles: Hairy potter and the half blood Rangle
Operative Recluse: When Harry Met Rangle.
Rangle M. Down: When Rangle Met Bo
Rangle's Bad Idea: Dirty Rangle

Browncoat: I Am Rangle's Spleen.
Phillip Feather: The Day the Earth Stood Rangled.
Elgnar T. Olp: Walk like an Egyptian, by the Rangles.
Why B. Rangle: Being tim rangle?

Rangle M. Down: you guys are fricken awesome!

Staxxy: The Rangle always rings twice
Real Rangle: Rangle's a Beach
Mister Bo'Rangles: Curse of the Rangle,
Mud Elemental: Being Rangle Malkovich
Lt Rangle: Rikti Pylon and the Holy Rangle
Criticality-D: Rear Rangle
Rangle D Prepper: weekend at Rangles

Mud Elemental: haah
Elgnar T. Olp: Can we call Guiness book for most Rangle puns?

Rangle M. Down: The Rangle Identity.
Mister Bo'Rangles: Gomer Rangle . . . Golleee.
Why B. Rangle: orosuko-rangle
Mud Elemental: Neon Rangle: Evangelion
Staxxy: My Neighbor Rangle
Rangle Wrangler: Rangle bears, plotting here and there and everywhere... XD

Vulcana Arcana: Rangle And The Hendersons?
Mister Bo'Rangles: The dukes of Rangle
Elgnar T. Olp: They call me Mr. Rangle.
Ain't No Rangle Plot: Frank Capra's "This is your Rangle!"
Why B. Rangle: rangle moyo
Criticality-D: My Cousin Rangle

Browncoat: 20,000 Leagues Under The Rangle
Staxxy: Rangle's Delivery Service
Rangle's Bad Idea: RangleRock!
Mister Bo'Rangles: Mutiny on the Rangle
Real Rangle: Mister Rangle's Neighborhood
Mud Elemental: Full Metal Rangle

Rangle Wrangler: Rangle the duck!
Ain't No Rangle Plot: 20,000 Rangles Under the Sea?
Mud Elemental: Dr. StrangeRangle
Elgnar T. Olp: Wreck it Rangle.
Lt Rangle: Ranglewing Duck
Why B. Rangle: gotta catch them all ...Ranglemon!!!
Rangle Wrangler: I choose you, Ranglechou!

Rangle M. Down: Rangle-doo, where are you!
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangle in Wonderland
Criticality-D: Saturday Night Rangle
Rangle Wrangler: Willy Wonka and the Rangle factory
Staxxy: Rangles in the OUtfield
Elgnar T. Olp: The Wizard of Rangle.
Criticality-D: Singing in the Rangle
Rangle's Bad Idea: Unnessicary Rangle
Why B. Rangle: ranglema
Vulcana Arcana: Rangle Em HIgh
Browncoat: Rangle 451

Rangle M. Down: ROFLMAO

Mister Bo'Rangles: Late night with Rangle
Why B. Rangle: iron rangle
Rangle Brite: the outlaw josey rangle
Mud Elemental: The Boston Rangler
Elgnar T. Olp: The Rangle... Once upon a midnight dreary...
Staxxy: Super Rangle Brothers
Lt Rangle: Rangle Who
Browncoat: The Rangle on Elm Street
Why B. Rangle: captain ameri-rangle

Rangle Wrangler: The trouble with Rangles!
Rangle?: How the Rangle stole Christmas
Rangle's Bad Idea: Rambo: First Rangle
Real Rangle: RangleRama
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangle 7 the eye of the Rangle
Staxxy: The Cat in the Rangle
Rangle M. Down: Star Trek: the Search for Rangle.
Lt Rangle: Rangle part 6
Rangle Wrangler: The Ranglenator!
Rangle D Prepper: Rangletar

Browncoat: A Rangle Grows in Brooklyn
Criticality-D: 12 Rangles
Rangle's Bad Idea: Young Rangles
Elgnar T. Olp: A Rangle Brown Christmas.
Why B. Rangle: tales from the dark rangle
Mister Bo'Rangles: Rangleiens
Rangle N. Angle: Plan Rangle From Outer Space.
Rangle M. Down: Miracle On Rangle Street

Browncoat: The Lost Rangles
Rangle Wrangler: Lost in Rangle
Browncoat: Rangle With A Vampire
Why B. Rangle: mr. rangle's neighborhood
Rangle?: Rangland
Rangle's Bad Idea: Rangleocritity
Criticality-D: 101 Rangles
Rangle Brite: last of the ranglehicans
Elgnar T. Olp: Shake, rattle, and Rangle.

Lt Rangle: It's time to put on costumes, it's time to fight the fight, it's time to kill the Rikti with the Rangle Plots tonight!

Criticality-D: Rangleworld
Mister Bo'Rangles: the lone rangle
Rangle Wrangler: The little merrangle?
Mister Bo'Rangles: The lost city of Rangle

SHIP RAID

((assembling))

Browncoat: It's like every Rangle from every dimension is here...
Rangle N. Angle: And me!
Rangle N. Angle: Don't worry, I got an angle!
Operative Recluse: That explains the Portal Corp Tips mission I just got -- titled: Rangle 'em Up

[Justice United]Bo'Tanika: {25 Corruptor} Rangle Raid!
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: ship raid. come join in the rangle'd mess
[Justice United]Bo'Tanika: {25 Corruptor} It's a Rangled Web we weave

Criticality-D: Is there a St Rangle?
Rangle A. Redhead: not likely
Rangle M. Down: highly doubtful...
Lt Rangle: there was a suggestion for one
Criticality-D: just askin =)
Rangle?: Rangle Superior
Mister Bo'Rangles: A Nun Rangle? Now that's scary.
Rangle M. Down: that would be a bad habit
Real Rangle: It would never work
Criticality-D: Nasty habbit
Mister Bo'Rangles: Mother Ranlge Superior of Our Ladies of Perpetual Kickass.

[Justice United]Ophidian: the one time there IS a "Rangle Plot" and LSK isn't online
[Justice United]FelinaSharpclaw: we challenged aeon to a fight....we won
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: there are no such thing as a Rangle Plo... er sigh.. well. there is one, but I'm not involved..
[Justice United]Criticality-D: Notice how LSK and the Rangle plot are never seen together...
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: lol

Ain't No Rangle Plot: And the thing Rangle doesn't want to hear now?
Ain't No Rangle Plot: ARE YOU MY DADDY?
Rangle Wrangler: lolol
Rangle M. Down: highly doubtfully
Rangle's Plot: Anyone seen Rangle?
Rangle?: If LSK could see us now!
Rangle?: What happened to Rangle Brite?

[Justice United]FelinaSharpclaw: jeeeze rangle, your mom must be superwoman. 25 rangles
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: no comment.
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: we don't talk about my Mom....
[Justice United]Ophidian: does that mean Rangle's mom has got it goin' on?
[Justice United]Winged One: o.o
[Justice United]Gwilthor: Isn't she OUR mom?

Mud Elemental: okay, so how many of you are actually a bunch of level 1 Rangles Wannabes?
Rangle M. Down Under: lvl 20 here
Rangle's Bad Idea: Guilty, last minute add.
Criticality-D: Its a Rangle pl-athon!
Lt Rangle: 13 here, was going to level him up but then the game dying announcement hit
Rangle N. Angle: i made a Rangle, got her to 20, and then cheated by importing one from another server.

[Justice United]Criticality-D: MSR...help pl a Rangle...many available for adoption...
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: my mind is a Rangle'd mess right now..
[Justice United]Ophidian: Why do i hear a Sarah McGlocklin(sp?) song playing in the background?
[Justice United]Winged One: *chants* One of us... One of us...

Operative Recluse: ok. here's my battle cry.
Operative Recluse: For Arachnos and Lord Recluse!
Operative Recluse: But... till the end of the game, I will change it...
Operative Recluse: For Lord Rangle and the Plots!
Real Rangle: sounds like a band

[Justice United]Vampy: Noone told him about the Rangle Sever, yet, right?
[Justice United]Vampy: mt
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: say WHAT????
[Justice United]Winged One: I'd have it filled in 20 minutes. XD
[Justice United]Bo'Tanika: muahahahaha
[Justice United]Vampy: NM, It's a secret.
[Justice United]Criticality-D: Shh...don't tell them about the secret...

PALLY

Real Rangle: off to hunt Pally
Mister Bo'Rangles: Jez fololow the rangles
Rangle N. Angle: But i am one.
Rangle R Jeep: Beep Beep Rangle Plot!
Rangle N. Angle: *follows self gets confused*
Rangle?: Going to take down Paladin's in North KR.
Mister Bo'Rangles: But which one is the real Pally? there's so many ranfgles and Pallys
Dios de Cucarachas: Dear lord... these Rangles are packin' some heat!
Real Rangle: so many Rangles... so little time.. =p
Dios de Cucarachas: Obviously, the Rangle Consortium is engaging in a turf war wtih the Clockwork! What can this mean??
Criticality-D: nothing good can come of this

[Justice United]FelinaSharpclaw: Rangles just pwned 2 pali's in 3 minutes flate lol
[Justice United]Buxley: Can the Rangles do a managed by-out of NCsoft corp.?
[Justice United]Rangle M. Down: I wish...
[Justice United]Criticality-D: hey...I can dream! =)

Rangle M. Down: ship riad?
Rangle?: Freedom, Virtue, Justice, Rangle
Rangle M. Down: lol
Rangle Wrangler: YES!
Rangle Wrangler: I agree with wreacking havoc on a MSR> lol
Rangle M. Down: kk.
Real Rangle: head to RWZ
Warboss: It's a PLOT!!

Screenies


Rangle Ambush




A League of Rangles




Ranlgle's Ritki Raid






ETA.... one more...

The Rangle Plot Roll

A few reaction shots...sorry for the crappy camera phone quality...



The Bemusement

"Huh? What's going on here?"





"It's a PLOT, dear. Get it?"

The Realization ....






The screen is full of Rangles...

As many of you know, Bases were kinda my thing for a while... so...

I think I'm gonna have to call shenanigans...
Red Names pullin' our legs.

okay... I'm going to go out on a huge limb and share something with you (and consequently everyone else here) that may offer a little perspective...

I am the product of an emotional and physical abuser.
Namely, my mother.

Not many people who know me now would ever guess it, as I am now a fairly well adjusted and generally happy person.

But there was a time when I was a very, very, very angry young lady.

The emotional abuse began rather early, I can remember very specific moments from 4 years and on. It escalated as I got older. By the time I was 8, I was taking the brunt of a lot of crap. By the time I was 12, Mom and I were physically fighting worse than cats and dogs.

We went to counseling at my father's insistence (my parents were divorced, and I had asked to come live with him). The problem was, my mom would spin the truth and the counselor never believed my side of the story. This of course, did absolutely nothing to instil any confidence in authority figures.

Of course, all this turmoil had an effect on my attitude toward others. I would wear a "happy face" when necessary, and I excelled in my academics; but I had what a lot of folks would call a huge chip on my shoulder. Some might even say I was a bit of a bully. I was angry and disdainful of others my age, and only had a few close friends... my trust was a difficult thing to earn.

There came a time, finally, where I decided to take control of my own life.
One night, at the age of 14, I awoke to find myself standing in my bedroom doorway, facing my mother's bedroom across the hall, with a knife in my hand and a fury blazing in my mind.
No joke.
Scared the crap outta myself. I cleared my head, and spent the next several hours mulling over the implications of this event. I came to the conclusion that if I stayed in my environment I would inevitably turn into something/one I did not want to be.

The next morning, I told my mom that I was going to talk to my dad about moving with him at the end of the school year. I did not tell her why (to this day she does not know about that night). She kinda blew it off, as the school year didn't end for a few months yet.

Then came Memorial Day weekend. We packed up and traveled with my aunt and cousins for a weekend in the desert, near some hot springs where another aunt lived. It was a family outing we'd done for several years. But that year... things exploded. Mom and I got into a major blowout, and she became so infuriated that she attacked me, was literally choking me, and my aunt had to pull her off.

I was on a plane the next weekend.

I ended up staying with my grandmother, as my dad was just not ready to handle an angry teen. It was the best thing to ever happen. Gran'ma had just the right amount of patience.

It took nearly a decade for me to recover from a lifetime of hell. It was not always an easy road. It took a lot of venting, introspection, and re-orienting. It took the idea that I had to take control of my own formation, that I couldn't always be blaming my past. At that point, my mistakes were my own. It also took finding trustworthy people who had patience and humor to learn from. And eventually I found Rangle.

Eventually, mom and I came to terms.
It wasn't easy.
I had to step back, and view things from her perspective (which was its own kind of hell). And we eventually had a very emotional conversation wherein she apologized and admitted that she wished she had handled things very differently.

We now accept each other as individuals who have traveled their own rough roads to their own respective destinations.
I try to apply the same acceptance to everyone. They are individuals with different histories that make them unique (for better or worse).

I think of it like a tree.
A tree does not get to choose where it grows, or what grain it has.
But a carver or carpenter can take that tree and determine how to use it. Whether that be to create a beautiful carving, or a sturdy piece of furniture, or a support beam in a house, or whatever...
At some point in your life, you quit being the tree and become the carver. Working with the grain of your own life, you determine your own shape.

In choosing your path, remember:
There is no going back, there is only moving forward.
If you do not move forward, you will drown in the quagmire of your own stagnant emotions.

I agree with some of the other's suggestions; find a focus that transforms your negatives into positives.
For me, it was theatre. In theatre, I was able to express a very wide range of emotions through my characters.
For others, it might be writing, or painting, or sports, or ... games like CoH.

Peace
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So... Rangle Plots™ are illegal?
Doesn't that make the plotting even more necessary, and therefore more likely to be real?
After all, one wouldn't need to plot if it was something that could be done openly.

Empty coffee pots are the result of a nefarious Rangle Plot™

September.... zip
October.... zilch

Something's wrong with this picture

Rangle must be plannin' to go out with one 'elluva bang...

I don't have any char's on Victory, but in appreciation for you work with the PERC in promoting bases.... A very Happy Birthday to you, M. Pistacio.

Why not do the rallies "round robin" style? set a 3 hour (or more) time slot for each server?
Might have to spread them over a few days, but that may benefit for advertising it amongst globals and supergroups.

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Thanks very much for the step by step, Arcana.
I understand now the answer to my last question. No servers needed for playback.

One more dumb question...
If I want to play back Base B after I've altered the shortcut to play base A... is there an easy way to do that?
or do I need to alter the shortcut to reflect the path for Base B (and every subsequent file I wish to view)?

Also... errm... how to I go about recording and converting the playback for other medium, as you seem to have done for your demo?
Or was that an original demorecord on beta with the camera disconnected?
IOW, does the new camera feature only work in playback mode, or does it work when making the original recording?

Or, am I just over-thinking the whole thing? lol
Maybe I need coffee...

Thanks again.

And BP... this is really really really kewl.
Now I wish I'd looked into doing a little more with the demo feature over the years.


ETA: Yah, I realize that was more than one more question
*starts up the coffee maker*

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This is super awesome.

But...
errr...
I have a confession to make...

I have never ever ever ever used the demorecord feature.
Okay... just once... but I never actually played the file back...

So, errrmm... how do I do that?

More specifically, how do I do that on beta?
Do I just copy the demo file into the beta folder?

And... when I "playback" the original demo, it... loops? or does it start looping and re-recording when I disconnect the camera?


I'm sorry if these questions seem dumb, demorecord always intimidated me.
But I would love to have a record of at least a couple of my bases.

Also, I'm confused as to how these recordings would be consistently re-playable if the beta servers go *poof* one day.

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