Mighty

A few nights ago my wife walked into the room and said "you've been on that thing for over two hours" and proceeded to tell me everything she wanted me to do around the house.

I replied simply, "it hasn't been two hours, my mission teleport hasn't recharged yet."

This was not the response she was looking for, but it did occur to me that perhaps I had been playing too much when I find myself measuring out my life in power recharge times.

Holy crap! I don't work that evening! I could actually BE THERE!

Arc Name: The Hench Men Cometh!
Arc ID: 2519
Faction: Hero
Creator Global/Forum Name: @MisterMighty
Difficulty Level: Normal? Depends on how you play.
Synopsis: You've never met a more generic villain group than the Hench Men! Lemmings + Bad Pajamas = Justice Buffet! This is a humorous storyline poking fun at the superhero idiom.
Estimated Time to Play: Half an hour?

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They are busy trying to get the servers up as fast as possible. Every second spent writting a post about what's wrong is another second taken away from Positron trying to fix the problem. We should just be glad he said anything at all. And everyone PMing them asking what's taking so long is just wasting more time. Leave them alone to get the bugs ironed out and we'll be in game sooner.

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^ ^ Voice of Reason ^ ^

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They have a person whose job is to communicate with the community. This is their purpose for employment. If that person is helping to get the servers up, something went very wrong.

While I don't think there's much sense complaining about not being updated (mainly because people know when they've dropped the ball) I also don't think there's much point in defending them (because they dropped the ball).

Best guess, for me, would be that they pulled their community relations person to help with 'internal testing' but it takes less than 5 minutes to post an update. What's 5 minutes when we're already looking at over 3 hours?

But then again, there's THIS.

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no doom yet

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Whew. I like a little warning with my doom, so that's good.

Did anyone cry DOOOOOOOOOOM yet?

I drove into IKEA yesterday and there was a rectangular service door about two feet high and three feet wide, slightly rusted, on one of the garage support pillars. I was a little horrified to find myself wondering what badge that plaque was part of.

Wow! I think that's my fave so far. Very nice work!

Nice work, Pep! Can't wait to see her in color.

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It's kinda a bad precedent. Once you start it, where does it stop? Should SGs who have lasted for 5 years get a plaque? Players? Characters?

Recognition? Yes, earned, deserved, completely. In -this- manner? I do not think so.

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The difference being, obviously, that the event encompasses many SGs, players, characters, and, indeed, servers. IIRC; and I may be slipping because I'll be hitting the 5-year mark on April 28th and have played on Infinity, Virtue and Champion extensively which sometimes leaves me with a muddled sense of where I played what; Tanker Tuesdays have been held on Liberty and Virtue, at least, and recieves cross-server participation on Champion making it a cross-server event.

Don't slight the event for being single-server due to the game's infrastructure when players are finding ways around keeping it a single server event by either visiting Champion or holding their own on other servers.

And as for the 'slippery slope' argument... it's taken 5 continuous years of an award winning event for someone to pipe up and ask for it. How many things really fit into that category?

So... /signed.

The Hench Men Cometh!

Mission ID: 19999

Summary: What happens when you cross funny pajamas and brainwashed lemmings? That's right - meet the Hench Men, a villain group of minions determined to rule the world through superior numbers!

Can you help General Purpose stop these evildoers before their diabolical plot is unleashed? And what how in the world is Hero Man tied to all of this?

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Mission name: Deathbabes from Planet X

Mission ID: 12487

Recommended difficulty: Dunno, first real attempt

Recommended team size: See above

Background story (if you so chose to): A pleasure-bot becomes self-aware and escapes from a planet of green-skinned women not even James T. Kirk could satisfy. He hides on Earth but is pursued by these man-hating harpies. It's up to you to help him.

Enemy powers ( again if you want people to know): Hehe

NOTE: This is a humor arc. It's meant to be a parody.

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why did you release it if you like it?

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I ran out of slots before you could buy slots. I got the name like 3 years into the game or so and thought it was safe.

Grrr! I released Lobsterman and someone snatched it up, apparently.

Well played, Lobsterman. Well played.

I had it as a ring-back tone but people stopped calling me.

I changed it to THIS and now strong boys don't kick sand in my face at the beach anymore.

I went old skool.

Hehe... this thread was old. Now it's new again.

Also, THIS. That's right.

Thanks! Got it working!

What are you guys using to get the porter beacons where you want them?

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Mr. Mighty
Global Contact: @mistermighty
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Science
Super Rank & Super Group: Captain / Legendaries

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Replace the "O" with "bed". It's an old proverb handed down by ancient samurai that red-headed chicks are closet freaks.

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So, for best performance I need to put mine in the closet? I just want to be sure before I go and do this what with all the potential legal ramifications of untying her from the wall, possibility of escape, etc.

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When I was a kid, all that macho dad stuff made me laugh

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When I beat my sister's boyfriend's [censored] down the front porch and into the street over a penetration joke, all his en vogue apathy and ignorant disbelief that family members will resort to violence made me giggle.

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I'm sure your sister thought it funny too. But probably not. That leaves only two choices for your daughter to bring home. The first: a eunich who will acquiesce to your every whim or 2: the rebel, biker, drug dealer who possesses their own firearms.

Maybe it never occurred to the guys that the girls also want to get laid? I remember my first job, we had a lady working there who was about 80 years old. She used to tell us how well we have it now. One of her favorite lines was, "When we wanted to have sex we had to get married."

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With my aggressive lesbianization program, the two choices above are not the only ones on the board. I'm hoping my daughters brings home other girls. Then we'll have something in common and something to talk about. Otherwise, it's all maxi-pads and prom dresses and I only know how to take off one of the previously mentioned things.

As for the girls wanting to get laid all I can say is "nah nah nah I can't hear you cause they're my girls nah nah nah." I plan to live a long, rich life of absolute denial. Pregnancies? We'll name the kids Jesus and be done with it.

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When I was a kid, all that macho dad stuff made me laugh

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When I beat my sister's boyfriend's [censored] down the front porch and into the street over a penetration joke, all his en vogue apathy and ignorant disbelief that family members will resort to violence made me giggle.

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...requiring some increased boyfriend defense methodologies...

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If you haven't developed the "touch my daughter and you die" look for her future prospective suitors, you should start practising. It's a father's prerogative, after all.

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Always be sure to be cleaning a Shotgun with a box full of shells nearby when the boys visit.

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My current plan is to meet the kid at the door, point the shotgun at his crotch and say, "touch her with that, and I'll touch that with this." I'll also be passing out business cards with the dictionary definition for "eunuch" on it.

4 kids.

Gwyndalyn - 10 years old
She's taller than most of the boys her age and thin. Blond hair, sharp wit, and started writing "books" when she was 5. So far, she's the smart one.

Thoryn - 9 years old
The kid will drive a 4 wheeler at full speed into a pond just to see if he can get it to skip. No tree is too tall to jump out of. No surface is too hard to smack into. I'll be surprised if he's still walking when he turns 18. At the age of 4 he unbuckled his own car seat, hopped into the driver's seat of the minivan, and slammed the thing into reverse backing down a hill and into a water pump...

Ethan - 5 years old
Ethan was born during Hurricane Isabel with the hospital power going on and off like a nightclub strobe. He's a builder. Favorite toy: Magnetix. He's as tall as a 7 year old, build like a linebacker, and uses his size when he wants something someone else has. He also has a nasty habit of trying to dance with every girl he sees (he's half Colombian, mom's a salsera).

Luna - 1 year old
Luna's labor lasted 20 minutes from the first contractions to the final push, which was push #2. She is already manipulating every adult in a 10 meter radius with her giant saucer-like eyes. I'm afraid this one is going to be a hottie requiring some increased boyfriend defense methodologies. She's spoiled (thanks to the grandparents) and knows how to get what she wants through a combination of determined screaming, cutesy looks, and a wierd scrunch-face that dad cannot ignore. She melts me.