McBoo
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Happy Birthday Juggertha!
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Forgetting?
As sad as I would be to lose memories of the people whom I love and care for I have to agree that forgetting oneself is far more devastating. Folks usually have pictures and documents to help jog your memory about where they fit in your life but no external stimuli will give you back your sense of who you are.
Star?
I'd go with movie star here. Then I could see about getting a part in a comic book related movie or use my millions to produce a decent Wolverine film!
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Quote:I absolutely love that name! It's simple, evocative and rolls easily off the tongue! Kudos to you Starwind!Originally Posted by Starwind
Here's a great name I love if it's not taken...Chalkline.
Well - I think it's a great name anyway
Pyro - your not double-dipping in...the POOL?!?
Are you?
And just because I think that "hero on the cheap" represents an interesting challenge as far as costume creation is concerned I give you Chalkline....
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The new Valkyrie II home defense unit from Honda! Protects your home and doubles as a teppanyaki chef for dinner parties! Christmas is right around the corner folks!
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Dibs called earlier and said he couldn't make it so it looks like you're couch surfing Pyro.
Yes, I am in a silly mood, why do you ask?
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Quote:Everything is bigger in Tibet, despite the cold...Originally Posted by Caemgen
I bet the other 1,999,520 live in Tibet... Seinfeld was big in Tibet.
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Statistically speaking 1 person in every 454 in America is named Jason. That is roughly 473,000 of the English speaking people in the US based on a 2003 census.
There are also approximately 218,000 people in the US using the surname Alexander so there could plausibly be somewhere in the neighborhood of 480 people named Jason Alexander in the US alone.
Of course the chance of someone reading the name and associating it with one of the 479 possible Jason Alexanders that did not star in a popular prime time situation comedy are fairly slim.
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A few possible names:
Knifeshade
Mr. Chalk
White Guardian
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Prison or Coma?
The coma would be too jarring. A complete loss of 10 years of my life would be far too traumatic in my opinion. Also I would be more than happy to spend 10 years in prison if I could choose to be 3 feet taller assuming that the increase includes a proportional increase in muscle and bone mass. Who is going to mess with an 8'11" giant?
Taller or Shorter?
Hmmm, I have a character that is 3'6" tall with superhuman strength. It would be kinda cool if I was only 2'11" tall with the same body mass as I have now but with denser muscles and bones making me much, much stronger like Puck of Alpha Flight fame. Still I think I would rather be taller. At 8'11" I would be the new world record holder for the tallest man in the world and tied for the tallest man in history!
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Thanks for the kind words folks!
Here it is more complete with an attempt at some shading and a few details.
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Happy Birthday!
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Thanks Kheldarn!
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Here's what I came up with:
From what you said this is someone with very little money (college student with a job) and the suit itself doesn't need stealth capabilities since he can rely on his natural gifts.
Based on this I came up with something that looks as though it could have been cobbled together on a budget from thrift stores, hardware stores and sporting goods stores.
The suit itself is white leather because good guys wear white and it ties into a possible ghost motif. It is reinforced with aluminum plates sewn into it as makeshift body armor. The goggles are night vision capable for the inevitable times that people kill the lights to level the playing field and the gloves and boots are also white leather covered by aluminum reinforced sports pads.
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I got inspired the other day to do some sort of artwork. It's difficult not to so do when surrounded by such fine examples each and every day. Now I have no real drawing ability so I used the tools in Paint to come up with the following:
It's not much but I'm really rather proud of it!
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Very cool! Nice work LJ!
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Quote:But these are MAGIC bees.....Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
Superman, cause then I could fry those bees before they even try... and also they'd never be able to penetrate my kryptonian skin.
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I would opt for case B. I'm not a fan of the neon look for PCs. It just seems like so much fluff to me and in my mind a PC is supposed to be built to work well rather than to look good.
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Quote:Yes, I read Marty's idea and took the next step. I stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as I could and before I even knew what I had I uploaded it and posted it and Foo slapped it on his sig line....Originally Posted by DarkEther
Now you see what you've done??!!
It was either that or genetically engineered dinosaurs but I was feeling lazy...
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Very cool! I just want to know how Jean Luc wedges himself into that armor! It's got to chafe something awful!
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Quote:Mosquitoes, the itching would drive me crazy but I have a slight phobia about stinging bugs like bees, wasps and hornets due to a couple of childhood incidents.Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
New question (you can always answer any of the previous at anytime):
WOULD YOU RATHER BE...
A) BITTEN BY 50 MOSQUITOES?
or
B) STUNG BY 3 BEES?
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Superman - I'm far too disorganized to be Batman.
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Grats Foo!
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Quote:I am glad that you enjoyed it and I have to thank you for inspiring me to write again! That is the most that I have written in quite a long time and I had alot of fun working on it.Originally Posted by GrayHuntress
McBoo - Your story was amazing! And great job capturing the personality and contradiction of Gray: she completely believes the ends justify the means, and yet she also struggles with a crisis of conscience that sometimes make it seem like that mantra wouldn't be entirely accurate (but it is with her). Thank you for sharing your creativity with us; I loved reading my character
Thank you Caem. The other concern is always how well your work will be received. I've done some writing on a couple of PBeM RPGs so I know that people can be very protective of their characters. Honestly I debated deleting the post completely the next morning for fear of upsetting Huntress so I'm relieved to see that she enjoyed the story.Quote:Originally Posted by Caemgen
That truly was a really good read! And it's cool to hear he got her personality down pretty well... That's always a concern when someone is writing anothers character.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Its technically part of early or late-stage field testing (in MMOs and especially this one, closed beta is more mid-term field testing and open beta is more late-stage field testing). Any time field testing is used as part of the implementation testing process, there is a way to provide feedback to quality control. Its not technically a component of the quality control process, but its an input to it.
Fair enough, the Training Room represents a powerful tool for data mining based solely on the sheer number of "testers". I suppose it's just a question of the consequences of missed bugs. In my line of work we can't really field test anything because field testing would require a production release and at that point we are literally messing with other people's money. In the case of CoX no one is going to file suit or revoke PCI compliance because the latest software revision caused some costume clipping issues.
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Quote:I guess it's a question of how you define quality control. I work as a software regression tester\deployment analyst for a financial services company. In my job quality control is something that can be defined and measured. Processes are set up to insure that every new software release is developed, tested and released in a predictable manner with a minimum of mistakes. Following these processes results in the release of a quality product.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Which basically means that, yes, they do go through slightly less QC, but it's a necessity due to the nature of the packs.
In my mind the Training Room test server is not something that fits into that model. The game developers have no way of controlling the testing that goes on in the Training Room even during closed beta. They can put out release notes, specify areas of priority, ask for feedback and data mine but they can't make the players follow a testing regimen or report bugs. While I appreciate the fact that more testing is always better than less testing the Training Room server represents an uncontrolled environment that in some cases provides second hand, possibly incomplete data. As such the testing done on the Training Room server can not be considered part of the quality control process.
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