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Well, IIRC, he needed skin contact to do it. So basically, it only worked on people who were already about to bleed to death anyway. And it gave him hepatitis, too, presumably.

Is the DVD complete? IIRC, the VHS release had scenes removed to time-edit it down to a usable length.
If that problem isn't present on the DVD version, I'll have to grab it up...though my old tape will probably still be my treasure.

I still have the VHS tape I used to record that off TV. It's kind of my personal treasure.

A couple of the pieces look like they really should connect, to my mind. Particularly the one partial ring that just...stops right around the where the shoulders would be ending it, were it a few inches further forward.

I agree with you that it's probably intended that way. But I also agree with MisterD that many would probably look better properly attached.

The "let's ruin everything that was cool about i18" arc started more like 1½ years ago with i19, and its climax doesn't really inspire a lot of excitement.

Praetoria sort of ended up as a washout, and "these new alien invaders who are totally powerful n'stuff" just don't really excite me. I've given up expecting the game's story to win me back anyway, but the game aspect of it remains mostly solid...I just need something with a little more "oomph".

But since you already paid extra for it, there's no reason to fix it, now is there?

Server slots are nice. That's what kept me from dropping for the longest time. I have something like eighty different alts at this particular point in time, and I always seem to have a plan for a new one. But I've bought so many extra slots over the years that I still have access to around half of them even now, and figure that since I'm not playing my 50s anyway most of them can stay "retired", leaving me to narrow down considerably fewer, to the point of relative painlessness.

Base access was a bit of a "d'oh!" for me, just because I had a personal SG I was using for storage and didn't realize just being in an SG didn't mean I wouldn't still have rent paying and base accessing privileges. I'll probably resubscribe when the mecha suit hits, just to get access to that and while I'm at it, move my stuff to market and mail storage.

I'm not necessarily saying that there aren't gestures of good will extended to VIP players. Simply that those gestures are, from my personal opinion of value, at least, not worth the investment for the most part. Part of me would really like to be "won back", to be honest; heck, I think the fact that I still lurk around these boards is proof enough I do have some level of interest. I'm just not sure what it would take at this point, in part because so many other "freebies" of negligible value to me have been put out there.

I'm finding myself in a similar position. As a premium with my tier 9 vet status, the only thing I miss out on almost nothing. Incarnate content I hate so much at this point that I can't really say anything other than I can't say how much I hate it, the new zones and SSAs don't appeal to me as stories, and so all I'm really losing out on are the occasional VIP-free powersets and costume sets...but since I actually end up with an extra eight bucks a month I could hypothetically spend on store stuff, I still come out ahead.

I've actually been trying to think, lately, of things that would make me want to re-sub in the long term. I do kinda like the mecha suit, based on the shots I've seen, but even that, I only have to subscribe one month to get. Granted, I might be seen as an extreme case, but personally, I think the whole premium thing is pretty sweet. It's VIPs who are getting the bum deal in terms of value.

"Potential for" implies they aren't already.
That's the real twist. The Battalion are the good guys who are going to help our characters fight back against a bunch of time travelers who they can control Earth's fate.

Fair enough. As mentioned, I haven't played DA (and am not likely to any time soon), so I haven't seen said justification. I'm not sure "unrepentant nazi murder-fiend" pales in comparison to "probably broke at least 73 rules of time travel FOR SCIENCE!", though.

And yet, McDreamy recruited folks like Protean and [insert your villain character here] and maybe others that I don't know about because I didn't play the new DA?

Boys are wizards. Girls are witches. Problem solved. Ultimately the only real difference involves whether or not the staff has straw (or similar) bristles on the end.

Why can't it be both?

Given that they're referring to the donut shop, that's still a tad hammy, I've always thought.