Johnstone

You should have tried hover-sniping Recluse. Not sure if a fire/fire could pull it off with their range, but I've seen an Emp/Dark defender keep Recluse occupied while the rest of us took out the towers. Recluse actually ended up just standing there being angry while he got sniped.

10% of 120 is 12. You will get 12 endurance per proc. I think I got a little confused by some of what you said there, but yeah, it's 10%. My Tanker and Blaster that both (oddly enough) have 111.8 endurance each get 11.2 endurance each time the perf shifter procs. And all recovery will be based on your max end, so there will be no changes in effectiveness to either no matter what your max end is. Perf shifter proc (when averaged) will always outperform throwing End Mod IO/SOs in Stamina.

Don't you know it's against the law to use sarcasm on the interwebz?

My personal percentage of level 50's is rather low. Somewhere around 10%. Then again, I have 14 level 50's out of 135ish characters total. Lately, due to time constraints, I only really play the level 50's on a regular basis. Due to this, it would appear to a casual observer that my level 50 percentage is close to 75%. But my level 50's are rare amongst my character roster. And of those, only one of them is anywhere close to getting the final alpha slot. My inv/ss tanker is 4 shards away from getting it. Once I do, that slot will be extremely rare for my characters to have; only 1 out of 135ish. Less than 1%; that's very rare in my book. Even when just looking at my level 50's, 1 out of 14 is 7%; so that's still pretty rare.

It's not really that the slots are very rare in the sense that they're hard to find. It's that it's very rare to find a character with the slot (especially if we are talking about total character lists and are just picking at random to check if they have the very rare alpha slot).

If you want to include all of them in your signature, you could fake it by making a .png that just has text on a transparent background and type as much as you want and use the image as your sig by uploading it to photobucket/imageshack/whateveryouwant. Me, I just include a link to my paragonwiki user page since there's way too many characters in my roster.

Does a flavicon has a flavor?

There's no 'L' in favicon.

But yeah, I was upset about the loss of the original one too. I don't feel right looking at a dozen tabs of whatever the hell this favicon is. I want the old one back!

Same. On every character I've run, I just sort of run around at random knocking out whatever I can target in whatever zone I'm in (as long as it's 20+ level enemies) until I get a tip. After that, I get tips from the enemies in the tip missions as I run them. I think I've only ever had to repeat the run-around once since tips have been introduced.

But random number generator is random, so ymmv.

Same. "Altitis" sounds like my alts are inflamed. Sure, some of them are aflame, but they're not irritated or swollen. Also, I can call myself an altoholic if I have altoholism. What would I call myself if I had altitis? Altitis sufferer? I don't suffer.

And this is just completely off-topic now. Sorry.

Actually, the absolute cheapest form of entertainment is dreaming. Or maybe it'd be hallucinating from sleep deprivation? Not the best entertainment, but it requires less investment. No need to be clothed or anything. No need to drive or take a bus or walk to the library.

That's all really besides the point though.

I wouldn't call CoX the cheapest form of entertainment, but it is an economically wise entertainment choice. Given that one month of sub time costs less than a movie ticket, popcorn, and drink at most movie theaters these days; you're getting a lot more bang for your buck with the CoX subscription.

Which is why I plan to horde mine forever.

If that's a real screenshot and not something that they doctored for the article, I'm going to be quite happy. If you don't get why, take a good look at it. Stripe pattern with a t-shirt. If this is going to be possible, awesome, I just hope it also bleeds over to other patterns/combos.

You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.

Been so long since I've seen that movie.

For a little while, a couple friends of mine at school had cut their hair into mohawks as well. So when we were playing CounterStrike during a break, I had my name set as "TheFirstMohican".

My Peacebringer is based on me. I don't think I have any screenshots handy of him in his street-clothes though. And I just made a Stalker based on myself too. I've never been able to get into the Stalker playstyle before, but I came up with a pretty interesting story for my Praetorian self and figured I could try two sets I haven't tried before (Kin and Nin).

And typically, now I use the fighthawk in-game since it looks the most like my current hairstyle even though it would need the ponytail added onto it, like such:


So that's just how I imagine the Fighthawk looks. I wish they'd add a hawktail style, but considering I'm the only person I know of who has ever used that term for my hairstyle and don't know many people who share the style... It's not likely to happen.

CR's advice will work unless the album is set to private, (2short, that may have been part of the problem). I have my albums all set up as publicly viewable, so even if I link to an album instead of an individual picture, you'd be able to see it all, even if you're not logged in/don't have a facebook. If you ever want to do this, there's a little blurb near the bottom of the page that says "Share this album with anyone by sending them this public link:" and then that's followed by a link to that album. For instance, here's a link to the album with all of my profile pictures in it:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...2&l=068d2cee10
And you don't need to log into facebook to see any of the pictures.

To link to an individual picture, it's much easier to follow CR's instructions, but there is a way to link and have it come up with the FB page and show the picture on it. Easier to do CR's method though, so I'm not gonna bother posting it here as it could be confusing.

Also,


You're not the only mohican here, GhoulSlayer. Although, mine is currently too long to spike regularly. In fact, I think I haven't spiked it since that picture was taken(which was Oct 26 2009). I also think it hasn't been cut since that pic was taken either. The sides get shaved every month or two, but the hawk(hawktail as I call it considering the style now) has been growing for quite some time now.

And all this just made me realize that I have 23 albums on facebook. One of which is that profile pics album, one of which is from a nature hike (aka no people in it), one of them is various random pics that I posted on my wall, and then the other 20 are all my 3D work. Craziness.

Do we actually have any confirmation that the borders of the US in Praetoria were the same as the borders in Primal? What if Texas were a whole lot bigger in Praetoria? The area that is Mexico City in the real world could have been a Texan city in Praetoria. Never know until we get confirmation.

I believe that what I said must be being read wrong. I do not assume that anyone is a pervert. I was trying to say that people should not assume that others are perverts when they have anthropomorphic characters. That's it.

Personally, I'm quite happy about this pack and plan to use a variety of the pieces. And I don't plan on discriminating against anyone for their choice of costume.

Yeah, I'm familiar with the program used. Well, not too familiar, but I know what it is as I have seen it described on the minecraft forums.

And I wasn't referring to making it blocky, more about what details to keep in. Should I make it like the first, second, or third head in this image: http://www.rickymujica.com/post/joli...rogression.jpg ? Or in between 2 and 3? Also, that's not my work. Just a quick google search to get an example. My work's at www.ediblepoly.com if you want to see what I can do.

And no, GG. Usually I don't take requests, but DF is doing something I like with it. Considering that I'm currently using educational software and it's illegal for me to make a profit from it, this means that anything I do for someone else will be gratis. So unless I like what's going to be done with my work, I'm not gonna be handing it out.

If that's what you got out of what I said, then you're reading it wrong. I was saying nearly the exact opposite. That just because I have an anthropomorphic (anamorphic is something else entirely btw), this doesn't mean that I'm a pervert.

Since you're combing two of my favorite games... I'll make you one. How detailed would you actually like it? I assume it'll have to be less than 128 minecraft blocks tall for it's final version, yes? So less detailed than the in-game model? The less detail you want, the faster I'll be able to have it done. Although, I probably won't get a chance to do it until Saturday. School comes first and all that.

For the purposes of my additional tips, when you duplicate for the shadow layer; don't move either layer around on the canvas. Just drag the shadow layer under the art layer in your layer window and cease worrying about its placement just yet.

Bonus bonus tip: To more quickly blacken the shadow layer, Ctrl-click on that layer's thumbnail and with black as your primary color, hit alt-backspace to quickfill the selection, which thanks to ctrl-click will be the pixels containing your image information. In some cases, this won't fully convert everything to black due to anti-aliasing around the edges of the art. If it happens, just press alt-backspace again and you've still spent less time than opening the Hue/Saturation/Lightness window and adjusting it there. A ctrl-shift-U can be helpful here too to desaturate the image in case there are any stray colored pixels that didn't get picked up somehow.

Bonus bonus tip: If you Ctrl+T, and then right-click on the image and use "perspective" and "scale" you can get a more geometrically precise shadow. Use scale to adjust it vertically, and then switch to perspective to alter the horizontal. Then right click it again to go back to the free transform mode and use the ctrl-clicking of points if necessary to adjust the shadow's attachment to the feet. If the feet were close to the edges of the box, this likely won't need much adjusting.


A Gaussian Blur applied to the whole shadow isn't quite the most accurate portrayal of how shadows work. A real shadow will be crisper the closer it is to the object casting it, and fuzzier the further away it is. The best way to accomplish this in the least amount of time (we don't want to have to go in and use the blur brush for this) is to duplicate the shadow layer again. Apply the blur to this new duplicate. Then using a large(and by large, I do mean large, we're talking around half the size of the shadow's height) eraser with hardness turned down to 0, erase the bits of the shadow closest to the feet. Then go down to the first shadow layer, the crisp one, and erase the bits of the shadow from the head area. And you'll still want to adjust the opacity of each layer. Just be sure to leave the area closest to the source darker and crisper. Another way to achieve this, in probably a faster fashion, is to use the two layers in conjunction with layer masks, but that process, while faster to execute, is harder to explain.

Hope you don't mind me adding tips and bonuses to your tips.

As for my own tip/trick. If you're working in photoshop/gimp/whathaveyou, every once in a while flip your image horizontally and vertically (first horizontal, look at it, then vertical, look at it, then horizontal again, look at it, then vertical again to get it back to original orientation). I know, you just set it back to normal. That's not the important part. The important part is looking at it. When you're working on a project and staring at it for extended periods of time, all the errors and slight imperfections get lost because you get used to looking at them. When you look at the image flipped, these "minor" things will figuratively jump off the screen at you and you'll wonder how you could have missed them. This is really just more a tip about drawing though and not some technical thing. But if you're not doing it, then you should start.

I prefer "privy ledge"... Not as a way to spell privilege, mind you.