Melancton

What, did it make you cold??

It gave ME a fever!

Hear, hear.

I particularly enjoyed the characterization of these two contacts. Laura smiles in a wry fashion, Graham is jumpy egotist... very, very nice touches in stories that are self-contained and add some additional flavor to some under-utilized villain groups.

I was also appreciative that there were options that did not require a darkety-dark resolution when choices were offered. Not having played every possible branching option, I presume there are d-d options built in, but it was refreshing to have choices that were more Silver Age than Tim Burton.

What Ironblade said.

*throws up hands in frustration*

/stevemartin

So it's a profit deal!!

/stevemartin

Now it all makes sense. I keep thinking of malware as just being a form of griefing... causing misery just to cause it. These folks are certainly upping the ante.

The guy behind it is probably that Nigerian official who now needs my help smuggling all of his loot out of his country.

I got hit with this going to a CoHTitan page I had used hundreds of times before. The Faces opening apparently allowed a number of other pages to send the toxic payload to those going to the page and it ripped through every layer of anti-malware protection that I had. Tony V was very upfront and timely with updates about the efforts to fix things.

The irritating part of such odious behavior is that it used to be that you had to go to a "suspect" site or click on a link for these things to happen, but apparently there are bots in China and elsewhere that continually search for internet sites with vulnerabilities and attach their evil payloads to them.

It took a fairly potent cocktail of additional anti-malware to rub the infection out, but I have been all-clear since. CoHTitan is typically very careful; stuff happens. I do not blame them and Tony's efforts and communication were well-received on my part.

What I do not understand, though, is why these particular malware infections take the form of an "ad" for anti-malware scans, etc., that encourage you to click on a link for various services. At that point, your computer is thoroughly infected and slammed... why do they need you to further click on a link? It is as though they have zapped you with a lethal dose of radiation then encourage you to drink this "medicine" which is actually poison. I freely admit I do not understand the mental pathologies of those creating the malware, but this certainly seems like overkill.

Alas, my "Six Slotted For Damage In His Nuke" Blaster back then was Electric Blast. I kept waiting for the "kills everything outright" part, but what happened was that after the baddies quit shaking, I was making my co-pay at the hospital again.

I have since rolled Blasters to 50 who probably would have killed everything outright, but I never got to enjoy Blaster Godhood Back In The Day. I did get a pretty cool screenshot of about 200 of Chimera's ninjas chasing a tank as I hovered above, though, before those days, too, passed into history.

And yet I don't really feel I was cheated, since I have never conceived of my heroes as being all-powerful Superman types, but rather more like Spider-man: very formidable, but hardly all-powerful. And I also enjoy teaming and figuring out how to interact with the other heroes on the team to solve particular problems. Usually the team is happy to let me Wormhole the Nems out of the Multi-Platform Room of Death into the hallway with my Grav Controller, unless Leeroy Jenkins is playing. Leeroy just is not happy unless he can rush in willy-nilly and bludgeon everything without a second's thought and always walk away smiling.

Not me. That is why I am fond of Ice Slick and Freezing Rain and my Elec/Time Controller who can slow the baddies down and/or put them to sleep while draining them of all their power. It is not always 100% effective, and that is the challenge. How do I solve the problem if solo, or how do we leverage the team's abilities to solve the problem? That is a big reason I am still here 7 years later.

*ninjas silently enter EU_Damz' domicile*

Chance to Stun or -Damage or -Defense or ALL THREE would make a great deal of sense for Ice Slick. The other problem is that Ice Slick cannot take ANY IO sets. I Proc the heck out of Freezing Rain, which also has great debuffs in addition to the slippery stuff, but Ice Slick gets nada.

My first 50 is Ice/FF, who got to enjoy Multiple Jacks for 3 days before ED went active. I also have a 50 Ice/Storm and am leveling an Ice/Time, so I really concur that Ice Slick could use some love, because the Immobers are gonna Immob, so at least let Ice Slick debuff or something like Freezing Rain does.

Shouldn't you be ordering Omega Wolf to come in early to get that done? Rank hath its privileges, right?

*the assembled masses roar their approval*

Well done, Sirrah.

It is striking me more as:

"Let the name of Moses be stricken from every building and every monument. So let it be written; so let it be done!"

Come on, guys...

So much about "Who Will Die?" has given me this exact reaction. It is just sad.

I would hope this is just one of those things they just did not think through too carefully, because so much of this looks really, really bad.

Well, Macca Armour simply annihilated everything from early 1963 to mid-1970. I think it is the only other left-handed set besides Katana.

So they all count, plus one to grow on?

I am chagrined to see DN be sent to An Undisclosed Location, but we do loves the Chapeau'd Kitteh.

Wait, how many drinks should everyone take here?

Pretty much how I understand it now to work.

My points for this month should roll in early next week, so I shall be watching how the Staffers are doing. I don't play Melee much at all, but this could be good.

Back in i3, I was such a newb that the only way I could start a team was to go to the Hollows and ask the other players I saw standing near Wincott. When I got a team invite from someone I could not see, I would ask them How On Earth did they see me to ask me. After a number of "looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears" responses, a kindly vet explained Search.

I enjoy seeing all the costumes and reading the bios (not too many of those, it seems). Some times you just cannot form a team (you know it's a bad night when even Blasters turn you down ) so seeing a group of heroes in a venue is a nice touch when I see it.