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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arbegla View Post
    I havent noticed, but do the pets do any animations on their own? like attacking (for 0 damage, like snowballs) or anything? Or do they just kinda stand there and look pretty?
    Just the latter, though I have to say that the former would be a lot of fun.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    Indeed. And the costume isn't as overpouched as the military pic, but rather closer to the Liefeld "aesthetic".
    Really? The only pouch on that costume that I didn't wear in my time in the military was the one up by the shoulder that you think is silly. Everything else seems pretty standard to me. So strikes me as more realistic than Liefeldesque.
  3. Hmm. So not only does this not effect me at all (not being an astrology nut) but only one member of my family and I'm apparently born under the sign of the Terminator.

    Yay?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Inazuma View Post
    Hugo Weaving could play a villain in his sleep.
    And he has before. Or at least that's the only explanation I can figure for Reckless Kelly anyway.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
    Now I'm disappointed.
    Just like everyone who goes to see Transformers 3 will be. Hey-ohhh!
  6. Not really all that bad I don't think.

    I'm still a little dubious about the film, but the outfit itself isn't really that bad.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    I think the extra buffs control what happens when there is Suppression. With Fly, you drop down to Hover speed. With the Temp Fly powers, you drop down to negative fly speed which is essentially rooting you.
    You'd think something like that, but unless they've gone and changed that aspect in the last little bit that's not it. Until the respecs that we got with the last issue I had one blaster that had an equal amount of slots in both fly and hover and had them slotted with the same number (and type) of IOs. When fly would suppress it would consistently be slower than hover.

    I'm not sure if it suppressed down to base hover speed or not, but it was significantly slower than my slotted hover.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueMetal View Post
    (2 stand alone fantasies, Mistborn trilogy, 4 YA novels, Way of Kings and he's currently working on the last of the 3 Wheel of Time books he was contracted to finish.)
    Also in case you didn't know he's writing another book in the Mistborn world. It's set years after the end of the trilogy, has a different set of characters and is currently titled The Alloy of Law. I'm still holding out for his writing more books in the Elantris or Warbreaker worlds myself though. Yea sure they were stand-alones but such open ended ones.

    You'd think for someone who's so prolific they'd be a bad writer, but not so much really.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberRod View Post
    However, were they not supposed to release Incarnate stuff every month? Where's December's stuff?

    Where?
    I don't remember anyone saying that. I do recall them mentioning the possibility of releasing some stuff in between issue releases, but even that was mentioned as a possibility instead of a promise.

    Of course, if that was sarcasm or something I'm apparently just too tired to 'get' it at the moment.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smoque View Post
    1) Have yall ever run into "gamers block"?...i guess thts whats it called
    2) If so, how did u get over it?
    Yea, it's certainly happened to me. Too much of anything eventually leads to burnout of some form or another. What's always worked for me in the game's I've played over the years is to just take some time off from gaming and then come back with a more 'fresh' mind.

    Back when I played for several hours most days I'd have to take a couple weeks off every other month or so.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by graystar_blaster View Post
    Are you Mrs Swanson? My 3rd grade english teacher or just a gramer cop? I fear grammer cops there usually ^%$)'s
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    The word should be "they're".
    I dunno. I just figured that they feared them at their third grade school and they just wanted to share that with the rest of us.

    ....
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chyll View Post
    Ah, nice reminder. Bacigalupi is firmly on my reading list after I read "The Wind-Up Girl". "The Ship Breakers" was entertaining, though not nearly as good. I still need to pick up his short stories.
    You can download the two stores he's done in the Windup Girl setting from the publisher's webpage for free. Along with a couple other nifty stores and at least one book that I know of.

    The book's very weird and I think worth reading actually. It's titled Grey and it's by Jon Armstrong. It's fairly unusual (professional ironing as a sport for example) but fun.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pinny View Post
    Even a blaster with sets that don't have aim/build up?
    Sets that don't have aim/bu generaly compensate for that by somehow buffing acc or to-hit. Take devices' targeting drone for example.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Leet came up in a discussion about how it's use in conversations between players is generally frowned upon because the people using it are usually rude and immature and are using it to get around profanity filters. The fact that there is an NPC group that uses it wasn't relevant to the subject being discussed.



    I'm sorry if you missed that.
    No I caught that part. Heck Ii even quoted a nice chunk of that in my post. I wasn't attempting to further that line of conversation, merely to point out a bit about the game that I've always found entertaining to a new player. Maybe I shoud have said, "Just an aside here," instead of, "Just a note." Since that's what it was.

    In any case, if someone's never heard of leet before, don't you think it's at least worth mentioning that an enemy group in ghe game makes somewhat extensive use of it? I mean I guess not, but I did, so there you go.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    And exactly how often are you receiving Tells from NPC's?

    The last time I played the NPC's only had preprogrammed responses that they said when you got within range of them. That's a far cry from trying to have an intelligent conversation with another player.
    What does that have to do with anything? 'Leet' came up and I thought it was an interesting note that we have an enemy group that uses a fair amount of the stuff in its in-game dialogue.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet.

    7|-|15 15 L337 5P34|< (Translation: this is leet speak)

    IM speak is used by text messaging and is the shortening of words to as few as one letter.

    DIS iz IM spk

    Y dun U PL me 2day U noob lol




    The general consensus is that the people that use those two forms of communication usually turn out to be immature jerks. Now that doesn't always apply to everyone. There are some people that are roleplaying a character but you can tell them apart because the jerks will insult and mock you if you mention that you have no clue what they are saying.
    Just as a note here, the in-game enemy group known as Freakshow have a tendency to 'speak' in, or even have their names in leet. For example, t3h S00p4rFr34k! (exclamation point being part of the name)
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    For all around epic space opera with interesting premises and characters i'd recommend the Revelation Space books by Alistair Reynolds and the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks.
    So I'm going to second Banks as a good author. He does occasionally do some odd stuff that doesn't completely work but it's still usually written well. It also occurs to me that he also has a book that you might enjoy called Feersum Endjinn. It's not available as an ebook though unfortunately.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starflier View Post
    Magic Kingdom of Landover Series by Terry Brooks - always enjoyed these books about a depressed lawyer who buys a magical kingdom out of a Christmas catalogue.
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    Originally Posted by Knight_Marshal View Post
    I had no idea there were more books in the series. I read the first two or three a long time ago.
    Yea, the series has certainly grown hasn't it. I've got to say that while I'm generally not the biggest fan of the Shanara series (I honestly always find it a little too dry for my taste) I did very much like the three Magic Kingdom books I read a number of years back.

    I've also found I have a tendency to like books that have author blurbs from Terry Brooks on them. Always find it weird that I can be so 'meh' on most of his books but very much like the ones he 'recommends'.

    On that note you might actually want to check out The Warded Man. It's a book about a world where demons were released some centuries ago. Since then humans had been basically fighting a defensive battle, and have mostly fragmented into small countries and forgotten most of the big magic that really helped fight the demons. I just noticed the second book's been out for a bit and picked it up for my Nook ... but it's a bit early to tell you if it's any good or not.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    For this you want Robert Charles Wilson. Specifically, give both The Chronoliths (if you can find it) and Spin a try. Talk about man getting trapped in the machinations of creatures he can't comprehend... wow, yeah.
    See now, I certainly liked Spin, but I didn't pick up a Lovecraftian vibe from it in the slightest. I mean yes technically, unknowable alien intelligences working here on earth, but it had a very strictly sci-fi feel to the whole deal as opposed to Loveraft's fantasy/horror take on the whole thing. Like the whole event was something to be figured out and overcome as opposed to something unknowable and to eventually succumb to.

    I mean, it's a good book and I can see why it won the Hugo, but if you read it expecting something along the lines of Lovecraft I expect you'd be a little disappointed. That said, I haven't read its sequel Axis, and that might get more into that territory I suppose.
  20. Well, since you did just get an e-reader first I want to direct you to the Calibre E-book program. It lets you take txt, pdf and several other formats you usually find text in online and converts it into any number of formats you can sideload onto your kindle. Then there's inkmesh.com which is a very easy way to find all sorts of free promotional e-books. Sure most of the ones they put out there are pretty lousy, but sometimes you'll find some real gems. Also remember the Baen free library. Bunch of free books from good authors under the Baen imprint that you can use calibre to convert into a format you can read on your kindle.

    All that out of the way, the best book that meets your criteria that I immediately think of is sadly not available on the Kindle, but if you really do like the whole Lovecraftian/paranormal thing I'd suggest you give it a look at some point anyway. It's called The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes. It's not perfect by any stretch, but the few people I know (including myself) who also liked the whole Lovecraftian thing all rather liked the book. And hey, if you're going to have a book with an unreliable narrator, at least they manage to tell you upfront that they're an unreliable narrator.

    Notable if you like the whole 'Lovecraft' thing is the author Brian Lumley. Most of the stuff I've seen of his outside of that Necroscope series is pretty heavily Lovecraft influenced. Heck, he even has a book called The House of Cthulhu. I can't really recommend him as I've not read anything of his outside of a couple of the Necroscope books (which weren't bad I guess) and that was about ten years ago.

    You might also try doing a search amongst for the 'new weird' subgenre of books. I've not read a lot within that genre, but the couple I have (such as The Somnambulist) are very reminiscent of Lovecraft and the whole Weird Tales sort of thing in general.

    As far as world building goes, my current favorite world-builder (who also happens to be a fairly good writer to boot) is Brandon Sanderson. His most recent (non Wheel of Time) book, The Way of Kings, is easily one of the most solid and entertaining fantasy novels I've had the pleasure of reading in the past few years. It's the start of a terribly long series though so you might want to hold off on picking it up. He does, however, have a free downloadable version of his stand-alone novel Warbreaker on his website which is also kind of a fantastically fun fantasy novel. To be honest, pretty much all the rest of his books are good reads in one way or another too, but Warbreaker and The Way of Kings are the two standouts in my opinion (and one of them is available for free to boot). Also notable about the guy is that his website has a ton of stuff on it. Scenes he had to edit out of the books for space that he still liked, a lot of annotations for most of his books, and even a couple draft comparisons for Warbreaker.

    Edit: I can't believe I forgot this book, but An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe. It's a massive homage the old pulp stories heavily dosed with some Lovecraftian themes. If you like the old pulps like The Shadow (an actual historical figure in the novel) you'll most likely enjoy it at least somewhat.
  21. If we're throwing out fantastic mashups here I'd be remiss in not mentioning Sweet Dreams of Seven Nation Army. And if you can't figure out what two songs are being used there shame on you ... just shame on you.

    Also fairly awesome is this mashup of Annie Lennox songs.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex View Post
    Not me I read it in Oprah Winfreys voice.
    Did the post remind you to look under your seat where you'll find the keys to your brand new car?
  23. That aura is part of a separate pack from the Magic booster pack. It's called the origins pack and it comes with a number of auras and capes. The Magic booster pack comes with everything listed on this page.

    Edit: Curse my slow typing!
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Riley_Delacroix View Post
    Anything with a rich color palette and lots of small details looks good on blu ray.
    Along those lines I'm going to suggest The Fall. It's just a stunningly visual film. Moreso through it's incredibly sparse use of special effects.

    Anyway, on the off chance you want to see a trailer. Here.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demobot View Post
    YES! Snagged a Twitter code!
    Same here. I'm quite pleased too especially since I usually never get notice these things in time.