Nethergoat

as others have said, hells to the naw.


I had an issue where I accidentally created a whole new account when CoV came out. I played CoV on that account and didn't think much about it, until they came up with the Vet Rewards program. Suddenly all that sub time had a purpose, so I went up the corporate food chain to see if there were a way I could get 'time played' on my original account applied to my accidental new one.

No dice.

So I abandoned my CoV account and went back to my CoH one.
Picked up a copy of CoV for a couple bucks on Amazon for the serial & haven't looked back.

Which is why there's a longer than 1 year gap in my vet badges...I 'lost' roughly another year on that alternate account.

I think this set qualifies as Gratuitous Nerd Abuse.

I'll be filing a report with the FDA.

My potent Hand Wave Technique is more powerful than any discontinuity reality can throw my way!

welcome back!

the diary in my sig may prove helpful (or at least entertaining).

I roll with Avast, Malwarebytes & Spybot.

wait, how can Water Blast save them from going bankrupt when that's what super packs were for?!?


=P

I've enjoyed the whole series.
Yeah, the first two-three are quite a bit stronger than the later entries, but it's still the best sustained effort on a long fantasy series I've ever read.

The later books may not be as terrific as the earlier ones, but if you like the characters and want to find out what happens to them they still get the job done.

Ok, finally got in a Summer Event run the other night.

Overall it was fun although I personally am not a fan of Casino Heist style gameplay- usually anything that requires me to read something and follow instructions to complete ends up being a dismal failure and just frustrates me.

In this case it was magnified by some weird situation where we only had three people on our team- I used the LFG queue and when we appeared in the lobby one of our teammates, uh, wasn't on the team. His name was white (?) and he could talk to us in /local but he wasn't on the team and we couldn't invite him.

So we carried on alone.

I took HITTER, which seemed to be the most straightforward.
I'm not sure if I did us any good, but we ended up in our 'hideout' fighting a big ol' pile of baddies, which was fun. I was on Burn Rate, my fire/fire blaster, and she had ample opportunity to ply her AoE's.

After a while a purple boss showed up, and we eventually whittled it down- I was less useful here, as she's got exactly two single-target attacks- my basic Fire Blast & Fire Sword. End was an issue with my AoEs and I'd burned through all my blues already.

Then ANOTHER purple boss showed up, and this was a total slog. We were all out of everything, and our tank was self-sustaining so it was just a matter of time. I actually ran off into a corner of the room and hit Rest at one point- got SO TIRED of waiting for my blue bar to fill up enough for an attack. Burn just isn't build for a long slog against a hard single target.

Anyway, finished it off eventually.
It went okay, and I can see it really appealing to a certain type of player, but that player isn't me.


On to the second, and IMHO much more fun episode, TIME GLADIATOR!
Reminded me of a fun mission in that big fantasy MMO in a gladiator pit.

Gameplay was more my speed- no fiddling, just waves of enemies to plow through plus a parade of bosses with their own weird abilities. It was a pretty terrific fight- we had a couple of deaths, but the vet rez came in handy. The waves were challenging without being overwhelming, and the bosses were tough without being discouraging. I spent pretty much the whole battle down below half health, but only faceplanted once. Great fun.

As it was my first run through I didn't really have a handle on what any of them did, it was basically just a frenzy of attacking and running away. But fun, and that's my only demand on the game.


One unfortunate thing was I got a tell in the middle of the run from someone who wanted some market advice- "are you Nethergoat from the forums?" Which hardly ever happens, and I always enjoy spreading the market gospel, but there wasn't really any breathing room in the trial and they had to log off before we finished. Kind of a bummer, as I spend more time in-game just hanging around messing with the market or sightseeing with my son than anything else and usually have plenty of time to help folk out with stuff.

Anyway, sorry about that, unknown chatter!
You just caught me at a bad time.

So I got one of the IOs and just stuck it in base storage- it was time to log off and I didn't want to just toss it on the market without sniffing around a bit to see what the deal was.

just logged in fine using Opera, of all things.

Good luck!

great idea for a doc, looking forward to it.

spotted my favorite lowbrow entry so far hanging around Atlas last night:


R. Kelly.

I just like that we've reached a point where asking "do we have too many random events?" is a question that doesn't trigger instant uncontrollable laughter in the forum population.

Phipps by a country mile.