PlasmaWarrior

It's very simple, Nuprin, my friend.

I R NINJA! FWWWAAAAAAHH!! /e kata

Also, for any and all who would like to give the maze the ol' college try, I highly encourage it. It's a ton of fun and, of course, a brief glimpse into the mind of a brilliant (and mad?) base designer. Nup put a great deal of thought and work into constructing this labyrinth and it most definitely shows! Try it! You'll like it! And if you beat my best time of 16 minutes, Nup will DOUBLE the prize money!

You've got nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain!

*ninjavanish*

This is happening to me every time I try to start the game now, on my Vista laptop or my XP desktop. Getting really, REALLY annoying. Any chance there might be a fix in the works?

Happy birthday, Karo!!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!

I had a great birthday that was only made better by the fond well-wishes you guys sent me on the forums here and on Facebook.

And Frog, that win was ALL Floorman and his awesome dice rolls. I felt like I was just a spectator along for the ride.

Count me in! I'll even bring my Dad along for the waffley, bacony goodness I've heard so much about.

Whose lame***** brain-dead idea was it to change the server downtime from 6am - 8am MST to its newer and more $%^&* frustrating 4am - 6am MST?

4am is the exact middle of the time I'm usually playing at night, and it's also pissing off our Aussie friends, for whom the new downtime falls at 9pm. It's a global game; have some global concern, will ya?

And what's with this Tuesday downtime bull$%^?! As if f%$#ing up my Friday and Monday mornings wasn't bad enough, now you're screwing with my days off?!

On the upside, this makes jumping ship for another MMO much easier... c'mon SWTOR, hurry up already!

Awesometastic, Brax! Keep up the amazing work!

1) You coming?
Yuppers! And I'm bringing my dad again as well!

1a) If yes, banquet menu ok?
I don't see why not.

1a1) If yes, which banquet items appeal?
Supremo seems to be a good balance of flexibility and price, though I'd be willing to upgrade to Glorioso if the occasion calls for it.

1a2) If no, what do you propose we do instead?
Sushi went so brilliantly last year, I wouldn't mind a repeat.

1b) If no, are you weenie-ing out because you THINK you can't afford it?
Not only can I afford it, I insist, as I did last year, to cover the costs of at least myself and my guest plus gratuity.

1b1) Does the wording of my question above change your answer?
Hehehe, nah.

1b2) If no, what the heck is wrong with you?
That's what *I* wanna know!

2) Anything we MUST have (even if not on the banquet menu)?
(I figure we might have some leeway in this regard as omissions cost the same as some included items.)
Frankly, even after looking over the menu a few times, there's nothing that really springs to mind. I think the banquet will cover it quite nicely. Although, I do plan to visit the Buca we have locally here in Phoenix to see how it is, and if there's anything I see there that we'll just *have* to include, I'll be sure to drop you a line about it.


3) Preferred dining date/time? My planned default is Friday Oct 23, 5:30pm which will hopefully allow us to dine without rushing to get to whatever Niv might be putting together on Friday.
Sounds fantastic! Let's mangia!

HeroCon Tickets: Check!
Hotel Reservations at the nearby La Quinta Inn for $55/night, saving about $150: Check!
Transportation to, from, and all points in-between: We're working on it!

So, who's willing to chip in toward a plane ticket for some random attendee who otherwise can't make it this year? I can't do that sort of thing *every* year by myself...

Dammit, I always miss out on all the fun while I'm resting up for work...

GJ guys! Hopefully I can get in on another try sometime soon.

I am genuinely shocked that this is still

Dammit, I knew I should have checked the forums in the past couple of days! >.<

Happy Belated Birthday, Kaiser!!!

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Of course I get it! I friggin' started the

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Cops in Michigan protect — and serve doughnuts

CLARE, Mich. – "Cops & Doughnuts" is more than a punchline. It's now a bakery in Michigan — owned by nine full-time employees of the Clare Police Department.

The newly renamed bakery opened Wednesday, offering doughnuts, cookies, muffins, brownies and bread. It also has mugs and T-shirts bearing the "Cops & Doughnuts, 100 Percent Cop-Owned" logo, and phrases including "You Have the Right to Remain Glazed" and "Handcuffs and Cream Puffs."

Officer Al White says the officers were concerned when the Clare City Bakery's owners decided to throw in the towel. The 113-year-old bakery would have become the sixth empty storefront in Clare's three-block downtown.

The officers were on hand for the grand reopening but have hired a manager and will employ local students as staff.

Link to store's website

Noted from said site, it's not just 9 members of the local force, it's ALL nine members of the local force.

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And also on the subject of the boys in blue, this one didn't even have time to finish his doughnut before this happened!

NYPD rookie makes arrest moments after graduation

Fri Jul 3, 12:42 am ET

NEW YORK – A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started.

One of the NYPD's newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden.

Officer Dariel Firpo, 23, was leaving the midtown Manhattan ceremony when he saw a 79-year-old man being robbed of his wallet and thrown to the ground by a mugger, police said.

The mugger tried to run away, but Firpo caught him without incident, they said.

"Officer Firpo made us all proud," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "He's off to a great start."

The man Firpo arrested, Jeffrey Grant, was being charged with robbery. Grant, 47, has 48 previous arrests and was just released last week from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., after serving time for a robbery conviction, police said.

Grant, of Manhattan, was in custody late Thursday and couldn't be contacted. The name of his attorney wasn't yet on record.

The mugging victim was treated at a hospital for a broken wrist.

Firpo's feat "may be the fastest police action upon graduation in department history," said chief police spokesman Paul Browne, who was at the graduation ceremony for the class of 250 new officers.

Firpo, who graduated from Lehman College in January with a degree in political science, said he wants to focus on community affairs while working in the nation's biggest police department.

"I'm really trying to stick in the community," he said.
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I made my first arrest within a few minutes of me being admitted to Paragon City, but I set that mugger on fire. I guess that doesn't count. <.<

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from teh website (too lazy to link):

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Q: Will everyone be the Captain of their own ship?
A: Yes, but you will have to earn the responsibility and skill to command larger and more powerful vessels. Remember, in Star Trek as well as naval tradition, whoever commands the ship is the "Captain," even if it is not your current rank.

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Q: Can I play something other than a Captain like a Doctor or an Engineer?
A: Everyone is a Captain, (remember, if you command a ship, you are automatically a Captain), and you will command a crew, but that does not limit your role. Your character will still be able to choose from a variety of career paths, such as Engineer, Tactical Officer, Doctor, Science Officer, etc. Your career path is your root, and will affect your skills, and how you command your crew. Consider Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher, Worf and Kathryn Janeway. Picard was an archeologist and diplomat, Crusher was a doctor, Worf a security/tactical officer, and Janeway was a scientist. Each eventually chose a career in command and became ship captains. This does not mean the game will limit your ship choices based on your profession – far from it. The examples are simply an example of how the game design was inspired.

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Timeline included to show the current movie but therefore talks about Romulus being destroyed and Spock sent back in time (ugh):

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How do Star Trek Online and the new movie interact, and where does the timeline diverge?

*diagram that makes your heart break*
In the movie, two characters travel back in time from the year 2387. When Nero arrives in the year 2233, he disrupts the time continuum, creating an alternate reality from the point of his arrival. Star Trek (the new movie) takes place in this alternate reality. This is explained in the film in a conversation between Uhura and Spock on the bridge of the Enterprise.
Star Trek Online is set in the "prime" Star Trek reality. This is the timeline of the five television series and the first 10 movies. It is the world in which the Gorn attacked Cestus III, Kirk fought Khan in the Mutara Nebula, Picard explored the galaxy, the Federation fought the Dominion War, Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant and Captain Archer and the crew of the NX-01 showed us how it all began.
Events in the movie that happened in the prime timeline (the destruction of Romulus, and the disappearance of Spock and Nero) have affected STO. You can learn more about the aftermath of these events in the Path to 2409 and in STO itself.
So how can the movie and STO be in different realities? When working on Star Trek, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman referenced the theory of quantum mechanics, which allows for the simultaneous existence of parallel timelines and universes. Parallel universes are self-contained, separate realities that exist as a consequence of different choices and outcomes. This concept was explored in the TNG episode "Parallels," in which there were thousands of alternate timelines (and thousands of Enterprises!). It also is seen in the Mirror Universe, which is a darker take on the world of the Federation.
There are many, many stories to tell in the prime universe. The fallout of the destruction of Romulus and the upheaval that causes in the Alpha and Beta quadrants creates storytelling opportunities that we at Cryptic didn't even imagine when we first began working on STO. We're excited by the possibilities, and fans should be as well. The best is yet to come.


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Double ugh. To try and insert Archer's timeline into the canon is even lamer. Time travel is such a weak plot device that the writers for Star Trek may as well make N.C.C. 74M3-0H Shark with Captain Fonz at the helm. The only other storyline that was destroyed more thoroughly is NBC's "Heroes".

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I think... I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
And I was looking forward to this game, too, dammit. Then they go and [censored] it all up for me.
GJ, Cryptic. Epic fail ^2.

My beef is simple: According to the Federation Space RPG's official wiki, among other sites I've searched, the Romulan star, Eisn, is identified as a G9 star. A G9 Star, according to this table, is listed as being 0.8 solar masses, 4/5ths the size of our own sun. And since the minimum mass for a star to go supernova is 1.4 solar masses, there's no way Eisn could ever go supernova and destroy Romulus.

I therefore DEMAND that this abomination of a movie be expunged from the Star Trek canon since the scriptwriters can't be bothered to do 10 minutes worth of research to make sure their story holds water among FORTY YEARS of legacy.

*polishes his Geek Badge of Honor*

It's not much, but I'm tired. Link

It would be nice if, before server maintenance is run again, developers of City of Heroes were to repair global messages warning of an imminent shutdown. That is primarily why this issue has been posted in this forum. Please refer to an original post by COTCaveHater in which he states what was broadcast by [Admin] just prior to the

I blame the

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And singularities that collapse upon themselves.

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The Star Trek MMO is thataway ------->



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Meh. I wanted to just be a red shirt that died on every mission but it looks like you *have* to command a ship.

And the new movie has really turned me off the franchise.

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I pray to whatever deity might be up there that the new Star Trek MMO will have absolutely NO reference, inference or acknowledgement of the new POS film. If it does, I'm not touching it with a ten meter cattle prod. [censored] that.

Also, from my understanding, it's not that everyone *has* to captain a ship. They give everyone the option of commanding their own vessels so that being a captain doesn't necessarily have to be earned by years of service with the particular space-borne fleet of your choosing. Sure, it's based on the idea that when you're the pilot of a shuttlecraft, and you're the only occupant, you count as captain... of a shuttlecraft... but hey, you don't have to stay on your piddly little shuttle forever. You're allegedly given the ability to serve as officers aboard your friends' ships as well so *they* can play captain, send you down to the surface of an exotic planet and get mounted by flying rubber vomit.

I was wondering what the deal was with the temp powers we received during the TF I ran. They didn't seem to do much of anything, even when a number of us used them on him at once. Of course, I didn't ask what others had gotten since I just assumed it was kind of like the powers you get in the Sewer Trial. *shrug*