Obsidius

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Time travel will require phone booths next to a Circle K.

That is all.

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Arr, nice flag ye be wavin' there, matey!

Hoist them colors high!

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Arr, gramercy for noticin me fine skills with the GIMP

Hoist the colors mates! Show no quarter!

Arrr, so many a scurvy dog I've lost me count!

"There's not been a gatherin like this in our lifetime!"

That's full of win Mantid

Ironically, when I saw this on the Community Digest, I read the subtitle as (Arctic Sun Leaves), which actually wasn't the name of the thread, but ended up being the news anyhow :/

Damn Jesse, it's going to be weird without you popping into the forums now and then with the new write-up or backgrounder.

Thanks for everything you've done for the game and community for the past two years. I think most of us have really enjoyed the body of work you've put out for us since you became part of the Co* team.

Good luck at your new place of employ, and best wishes on your continued success. I'll be dedicating my next machinima to you

Many happy returns Jesse, aka Arctic Sun!

"Yer off the edge of the map.
Here, thar be monsters!"

By Davy Jone's Locker, a curse to ye who besmirch the day of talkin like a pirate!

Don't make me run the red jack cur!

I want to see the resolution on Posi's goliath monitor

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… I just can’t be led by a guy named Floyd.

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OMG I can.

<3 Dark Side of the Moon and Brain Damage... and On the Turning Away... and Shine On... and many, many more...

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I'm rather partial to "Learning to Fly" and "Welcome to the Machine" myself.

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I should have just hinted at

"Money get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack."

Instead of my two dollars stint.

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Personally, my favs are "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Dogs of War"

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I want my two dollars!

Plus Tips!

You are incorrect!

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Yeah yeah, you and all the paperboys. Get in line

Foiled again! /e curseyou

Floyd FTW!

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Does ANYONE have Castle’s name yet?

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Um, look up:

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So there's no chance of us facing the Sushi Monster???

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Never fought Lusca?

Also...Arcanaville for the win! (emphasis mine)

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Must be Floyd or Josh. My money's on Josh.

Edit: what Ex said

Musical theater? Guys & Dolls?

Does indeed look like a younger picture of LH though.

Wouldn't surprise me, as he's listed as the Sound Tech

(My wife's major is Theater actually. She did costume & stage management, etc.)

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So what does Ex look like? And Lighthouse?

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Hmm, there was a thread with both their pics not that long ago, but it must have been purged cause I can't seem to find it.

Anyway, I did dig up a shot of Lighthouse and his "terminator eye" here

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lol trying to find a picture of lighthouse, I haven't so far, but I found everywhere he's worked in the past 10 years, where he went to school, and even what he majored in.

But still no picture

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No, that IS really Lighthouse in that link. Here's the original post by Ex Libris, and the related article

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Ahhhh, I'm blinded!!


Ex, you evil, evil lady! How dare you post a pic of Jay on here! That's considered pr0n in most modern countries!

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In celebration of next wednesday being National Talk Like a Pirate Day, Jay has whipped up some new costume concepts.

What do y'all think?

Ex

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I think that picture should be Rated ARGH!

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Hey, GFN, you all done with work? You caught up on tomorrow's work? All your housework in order? No dangling priorities anywhere?

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Will give you a full update as soon as you subscribe to my monthly services.

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Can I use my subscription to have a lighthearted topic with the devs on an interpersonal level without some guy using the thread to rant about anything that's broke in the game?

Because that would be groovy
GFN probably suffers from rectal cranial inversion <sad>

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Dear devs,
Please post on the boards more. The boards get lonely without you guys posting.
Love,
Vanden

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Dear Vanden,

How are you? Good I hope? If so, great! If not, then get well soon! Talk to you later.

XOXO,
Back Alley Brawler

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BAB,

Still taking your training to heart. Rikti are mean bastards, just like you warned me. Recluse sends his regards. Refitting base, so talk more later.

Regards,

Obsidius
Paragon Regulators

PS - Take a vacation sometime - all that standing in Galaxy must be tiring.

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This would be the case if the last 2 years have been their coffee break. CoP/Base raids were advertised features that have been undelivered, then bugged, then rescinded and remained missing for almost 2 years. The people who have paid for those advertised features have continuously asked them for an update as to the status only to receive silence. It is an embarrassment to Cryptic and to the devs, and their unwillingness to communicate just exaserbates the situation. How long should their "break" be? How much time does it take to type : "We are sorry, we acknowledge that there is a major advertised feature that we haven't implemented and fixed 2 years since it was sold." But of course, dodging their responsibilities and talking about Photo 1, 2 and 3 is so much easier.

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Level 3.
Can you make another thread in which to moan? You're not even on topic!

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Pick me up on the way!

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QFT! If you're driving from Los Gatos, could you swing by OC first?

Got room for two?

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Sorry guys, just learning to survive with one 19 month old and one two week old! Hard to get free time...

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BWAAA? There's another Statesbaby? Congratulations

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Dare I try to ask what the deal with the mystery slash command /sgstats is while we possibly have their attention? or would that just make me a bad person.

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Darn it! I keep telling you people...

.... wait, now I'm curious. /sgstats you say?

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Ok, but I can't talk about Issue 11 or beyond... but that's pretty much what you guys WANT me to talk about so we are at an impass.

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People have repeatedly asked for a clearer explanation on what the recent ignore_spammer command does. Why don't you talk about that?

People wanted a status update on Cathedral of Pain Trial and Base Raids. Why don't you talk about that?

People asked to be told whether numerous issues with bases, such as bugged Robo Surgery Units, bugged Energy Curtain, base plot costs, base item costs, influence to prestige conversion, clumsy editor and many other concerns, etc. etc. Why don't you talk about that?

If all those things are too complicated, how about simple stuff like when will the i8 badge graphics be fixed since they are missing for a year? Or the Force of Justice accolade? The missing Fabricator progress bar, or whether you still think Empath is a good idea. Why don't you talk about these?

Please don't pretend there is nothing to say, when there are many important issues other than i11.

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This post made me LOL

The kind of person who pulls out a PPT presentation full of graphs and charts during a company picnic
Now bugger off and go kick some kittens or something, Ebeneezer <grin>
The answer is 42, of course

Edit:
You don't want answers... you want HOT POCKETS!!!

HOT POCKETS!!!!!

(Apologies for stealing Liquid X's gag)

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I lose a lot of time just trying to accurately retype user names like "glkkglgk2ks" w/o errors - and I'm not even talking about having to scroll back up through incoming messages on various channels to find the spam handle again....).


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Hit Backspace as if replying to the Tell. Delete the comma, and then replace the /t with /ignore_spammer

Unless you're in the midst of receiving several tells from people and get a new one before you can ignore the spammer, this is a flawless way to replicate their name with little effort on your part.

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I really wish I could program a macro to do this; it would be quite useful

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Ok, but I can't talk about Issue 11 or beyond... but that's pretty much what you guys WANT me to talk about so we are at an impass.

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Actually, I can only speak for myself, but I would like a much larger presence of the devs in the AT forums. Inter- and intra-AT balance is an important discussion that you, Cryptic, have basically ignored since I1 or I2. Castle pops in periodically but IMO, he has not been enough.

Where we are now is nearly as important as where we are going. Give more peeps the power to talk about current issues. Give the mission team a chance to talk about current mission bugs and design problems (and successes). Give the invention team a chance to talk about current invention successes and failures. Art, powers, all the systems have current issues that players want to have dialog with the devs about, and YOU ARE NOT DOING IT.

If SOE can require its devs to be active on their boards can you not free up a few more devs as like minded as Castle to keep us informed about the current game? Just a little?

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This post is too serious. I recommend more pie in your diet

EVERYONE LOVES PIE!

Yeah, the Community Digest looked funky until this post explained what was happening. GJ Ex

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You had me up to this point:

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Don't drink. You will make bad decisions.

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I'm doomed.


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Now, back to the design grind... anyone know a good way to pick a handcuff with a mechanical pencil, a Hero Clix, and a poker chip?

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1) Snap the poker chip at the person holding the keys, much like you'd snap a bottle cap. Practice with pennies, then work your way up to quarters until you're sure you can nail your target in the forehead. Bonus points if you get a great buzzing noise when the chip zips away.

2) When the person comes over to give you a smackaround for hitting them, stab them in the eye with the pencil.

3) Unlock and scram, leaving the Hero Clix as a jaunty calling card.

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I LOL'd, esp re: leaving the Clix as a calling card.