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Exactly. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I miss the challenge sometimes, but it does seem, anecdotally, that TF participation is up. Could this be a reason?

This has a lot to do with what server you are on. We run ten or so Ship Raids a week on Justice, so many that I get bored with them. At that rate, you can get the costume in a couple of days of paying attention. We also run many LGTFs a day which generate a fair number of Vanguard Merits, especially with the triggered event.

Yes, he's always been fire/stone, but he has two builds and uses pyre in his scranker/farming/offense mode, so I can see why you'd think he was /fire. And, yes, I do remember teaming with you as well. ArwenDarkblade is one of those unforgettable names.

Elvish/color/weapon is a good pattern. TalynRedscythe. GaelaroBlueflame. JaronBlackknife.

It works.

For sure!

Computer systems were MORE expensive then and the games were unsatisfying to the point that arcades were still necessary for the hardcore gamer. And in those arcades, you could easily drop $50 on a single day when you spent time on a new game. And the arcades had game IN COLOR and not black and white or bright green and dark green.

Whenever I visit my pals in SoCal, we go to a place called Howie's Game Shack. I can play CoH all day long, on a great rig, for $9. Impossible when we were kids.

We may very well have been on an ITF together, but he's fire/stone.

There is a special place in hell for cat haters. It's full of pubescent serial killers and high school anatomy teachers.

Not true, although I assumed this was the case before a couple of days ago.

I ran a Moonfire with 7 others and got neither badge. I got pretty close on both, and got Silver Bullet killing just a couple standing around after the TF.

Moonfire surely got me a big chunk of work toward those badges, but it didn't supply enough vampires or wolves to get both without doing anything else.

Leave the food where you normally leave it. Eventually, his hunger will overcome his fear and he'll get through it. If you bring the food to him, you allow him to be scared longer. If there was real danger, that would be the right thing to do, but since it's just a projector pen, I think he'll be okay.

Give him extra love and and affection and he will come around. Cats are simple that way.

No problem. I just hope I can answer these questions well enough as I am new at this.

Area: Union City, pretty close to Hayward.
Size: 3 bedroom, 2 bath. It had a big yard at one point, it's corner lot in a culdesac so the plot kind of angles out. Most of the yard is now taken by a HUGE gameroom. It's well done and done with permit. It's the best part of the house, in my opinion.
Age: 1960? It's old, but I'm buying it from the original owners. It's in great shape.
Type: It was not a REO or short sale. It went on the market the same day I went to look at it. I put in an offer the next day. The lady is in a hurry to sell it as her husband who shared it with her had recently died and she had chosen to live in their other home. He did not die in the home, as I was assured.

Before she put it on the market, she got it appraised for 355k and that's what it was listed at, and what I got it for. My agent (I think he was the operator here) got it appraised again last week after I signed all the paperwork and it came in at 361k. I have no idea what that means or if its good or bad.

It's a quiet neighborhood in biking distance from the school at which I teach. It's old, but nice.

Does that give you a good picture of the situation?

Do you like having it in your house? Do you use it enough to make it worth your time/area/money?

I'm buying a house now with a huge gameroom that would be perfect for such a machine, but that is no small price for me, so I would have to seriously consider anything like this.

Hear, hear.

Teach that lousy good-for-nothing to come walking into Justice unarmed.

Actually, we prefer to be called 'Mericans.

Anyone who doesn't agree with this is getting neg repped, and then killed by our 'Merican peace-keeping force.

I have no A/C, but then I live in Northern California fairly close to the bay and so it never gets really that hot here. The roof is new. And the flooring, well, that will be a project for next year, I suppose.

I got a huge deal, a house that would have sold for $750k five years ago, I got for less than half of that. I figure if I can fix it up for a few years, I might be able to get a big return on my investment. And if I decide to stay, that's fine too. It has a gigantic game room addition (built to code) with a wood-beam vaulted ceiling, big enough for a home theatre and a pool table. So, staying might be nice too.

I think that is possibly because your wrecking ball is clearly a minion of Arachnos. My Big Fat Black Furball of Spider Death (he does eat spiders whenever he can) follows the HeroCon projector pen Statesman star like a loyal hero of good.

Thanks, RG. It's a big step up for me. I've been renting a dumpy little apartment for a long time saving and paying off debt for just this.