Scythus
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Quote:Same can be said about Calvin Scott and his psychotic minions that blow up hospitals.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Tyrant makes it impossible to view him and his stiff-armed thugs as anything other than evil
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Quote:Yeah, this is starting to irritate me. I'm like, "You silly board... I ALREADY READ THAT!"Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
And they are completely incapable of tracking what I've read, whereas the old ones were almost always spot on. I have long since given up using the "take me to the latest post" function here because IT IS WORTHLESS. It has always been worthless, and it continues to be worthless now, to the point where I wonder why read posts are even tracked when that tracking is ALWAYS wrong. In fact, I can guarantee you that about half an hour after I make this post, the boards will insist it's a new post that I haven't read before, despite being MY OWN.
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I've also noticed this. I bugged it in game after I was noticing it far too much.
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Quote:I would have simply told you, "Tab, n00b."Originally Posted by twistedlogic77
OMG this 100x. The difference is I actully do let them know in chat with a "Could you please change your bubble colour if possible? if not that's ok but it's extremly hard to see through. Thank you."
Oh dear that's what you say if you want a team to have an uproar on you or for noone to chime in on your side. Someone even got all offended at me saying "while we are telling people how to look, you're costumes ugly".
Me: "You're intitled to your opinion about how I look BUT I didn't say anything about the players costume just the bubble and I appreciate that he changed it for me so I thank him" He didn't say anything else for the rest of the TF.
Frankly I thought I was being polite enough to let that player know that their choice for a bubble colour was bothersome so they can maybe not be so in your face about their bubble.
I always have this negative fallback about players who decide that "I wanna be seen so Im going to make this power as blinding or intrusive as possible." Course not all players are like that but I'm told I'm a real b*tch most of the time in real life. I know that thanks lol -
Quote:I've only had this once in a while. Otherwise the forums load rather well, aside from the occasional, random logout.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
To answer the immediate question of "Did we really need another thread about this?" Yes. Yes we did and we do. Because this is becoming absurd.
What's going on with the forum software? Seriously. I remember when we used to complain it would occasionally log us out or maybe fail to load sometimes, and I look back fondly on those memories, because the way the forums are now is just insulting. Why? Well...
They take ages to load. Every. Single. Page I open loads for a minimum of 60 seconds, and that's if I'm luck. They just load and load and load and load, and at the end, half the time they fail to load anything anyway. I just get a blank white page with nothing on it. So I force the page to reload, upon which time it takes another 10 minutes to MAYBE load. Or, you know, maybe not. Sometimes the boards feel like there's nothing like spreading the holiday cheer like forcing me to reload a page three times and wait five minutes each.
I haven't been logged out yet, for what that's worth, but the wait times and load failures are intolerable. I've taken to setting a page to load, Alt-Tabbing back to the game, running through a few rooms and then Alt-Tabbing back to see if the forums are done loading. And most of the time they're actually not. I went through half an instance like that one time, and I'm not a speed player.
It's almost comedic how we used to complain about the old boards before the changeover, about how they were slow or they'd drop posts or whatnot, and how they didn't have all the functionalities we used to grief each other and the developers disabled anyway. And I wish we never changed over, because this forum software has been a gigantic piece of crap ever since it was first introduced, and it's been getting progressively worse and worse ever since then.
Yeah, Merry Christmas, indeed.
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Posting this was so much fun. First I waited 30 seconds, then got a blank page. Hit back, waited another 30 seconds, my post was gone. Good thing I'd saved it. Posted it AGAIN, and this time the forums loaded for SIX MINUTES before they went through. I could have watched a Zero Punctuation review in that time. -
Quote:Y'know, I'm a bit curious what Praetorian Hero 1 would be like.Originally Posted by Pedro Schwartz
Am I the only one who added 1984's Airstrip 1 as the Praetorian's Great Britain,ruled by a Praetorian Hero 1?
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Quote:That's a nice touch. Wish we saw some of that in other zones.Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Sometimes, a dust devil is just a dust devil.
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Quote:Of Odin, no less.Originally Posted by Blood_Beret
Saint Nick is an Incarnate...
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Quote:Yeah... instead it's Johnny ranting about something inane again.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
You'd think that the major topic of conversation in this thread would be, "OMG I20!!!!"
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Vahzilok's minions have never been particularly cleanly to start with.
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Quote:Well then, clearly we need to keep up the Hamidon raids in order to prevent him from evolving to the tentacled behemoth that his Praetorian counterpart has become.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Rereading Noble Savage's post, I take it to be a confirmation that Primal Hamidon is the one menacing Ouroboros - which is a better fit in the lore - and that Praetorian Hamidon is closer to that version (whenever it takes place). One scenario would be that Primal Hamidon takes X years to catch up to an evolutionary stage similar to the Praetorian version's current one. Time will tell...
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Quote:Wow, what server are you on?Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
And yet, they look better than many of the actual costumes I see in game...
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I'd imagine the reason why Praetorian Hamidon looks the way it does is because it's older. Primal Hamidon is clearly only in "larval" form.
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That knockoff packaging has been around for a while. I've seen it in other pictures before.
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Quote:That would be rather awesome.Originally Posted by Durakken
I'm hoping that the mega corps realize all these channels are nonsense, and just condense to an on demand type thing where channels are not ran by corporations but rather it becomes something like Netflix and Youtube >.>
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Quote:SyFy had nothing to do with SGU's production, strawstuffer.Originally Posted by Rodion
This sums up the core of the problem.
SGU was doomed from the beginning because it would surely alienate the vast majority of viewers. The strikes against it:
Quote:- It's a rehash of Lost in Space.
- And Lost was a rehash of Gilligan's Island? Please, the two are barely similar.
That sounds like opinion.Quote:- Too many characters are unsympathetic whiners.
Considering that budgets are tight these days, finding a way to incorporate only one set is a boon for those paying.Quote:- It's a glorified reality show. This was probably its biggest selling point to the network execs, because almost everything happens on that one set, and that makes it cheap. The constant battles between regulars might make for inexpensive production, but it just makes someone who liked the previous series want to toss the whole bunch of them out the airlock.
I liked it. I like dark stuff.Quote:- The show's themes and characters are almost uniformly dark. Viewers of the previous two series liked the mix of drama, space opera, self-deprecating humor and heroism that typified the average Stargate episode. The studio execs (or the producers) apparently decided that they wanted to "shake up" the franchise and make it gritty like BSG or Lost. Big mistake.
And in those other shows they had the optimal teams. The poor sots on Destiny; however, were poorly prepared for what they ran into. Considering that I found the first "the Wraith are coming to kill us" season of Atlantis rather similar in that unprepared vein is one reason why I latched onto that show as well.Quote:- The characters had, up until the very end, no control over their own destiny (pun unintended). People who like Stargate want characters that take charge and act (more or less) unselfishly to accomplish a common goal, or at least make progress toward that goal. Everything was always a dead end. I watched the second season out of abstract interest, but my wife gave up because it all seemed so pointless.
Quote:- Making Rush, one of the two main characters, an egotistical mad scientist who didn't give a damn the consequences of his actions was a huge mistake. Making the other main character a murdering son of b*tch was similarly a huge mistake. They couldn't forgive each other those sins: how can viewers?
Truth.Quote:SyFy doesn't give a damn about science fiction. -
Wow, SyFy, you suck.
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Yuck.
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Quote:Cointext again: "Nearly" isn't all. Did you flunk English class or something?Originally Posted by Ironik
It's ridiculous that you talk of context when you ignore her earlier post when she talks specifically about how she plays. Her "ubermegasoloer" can take on nearly everything, so if it runs into something it *can't* handle, then there's a bug.
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Quote:No, what happened is she didn't make her point clear.Originally Posted by Ironik
You're misreading it.
Edit: IOW, What you think she said is not what she meant.
If she had said something like, "If I can't get through a mission on my elite soloer, it's usually because of bugs." That lays the blame squarely on actual bugs.
What she says instead is; however, is "then there's a nasty bug" which is a declaration that assumes because something was hard for her, it must have been a bug. See how the proper wording changes context entirely? -
Quote:Oh really? So try reading this and tell me that it doesn't declare anything she can't beat a bug.Originally Posted by Ironik
What is wrong with you today Scythus? None of what you said Mirai said did she say. You're the one twisting her words. I don't know if you have complete and utter comprehension fail or you're doing it deliberately to provoke a fight, but I admire her restraint in talking to you, which is akin to talking a not-particularly bright brick wall.
Seriously, context is everything and it frankly looks like she was declaring a challenge beyond her skills as a bug.Quote:Originally Posted by Mirai
If I can't get through a standard mission with my ubermegasoloer, then there's a nasty bug that needs to get fixed. -
Quote:Inaccurate. We're saying you shouldn't be afraid of using the team function if something seems to be beyond your abilities solo. Nice way to construct a strawman.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Why are people so obsessed with forcing other people to play their way? As far as I see it, the 'i like to solo' crowd are simply saying 'give us the option to solo things', and thr 'teaming is good' brigade are saying 'make it harder! Make teaming the ONLY way!'
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Quote:Because frankly that's what the context of what you wrote implied.Originally Posted by Mirai
What?
Seriously, what?
I specifically said bugs. I meant bugs. You're the one who decided that bugs meant difficult content, not me.
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Quote:Again, you're saving face by changing details since only now did someone (you) mention +8 lieutenants.Originally Posted by Mirai
I think you're confusing me with somebody else.
I don't insist that I should be able to solo any EB with any character without trouble. In fact, I have characters that don't solo any EBs. Meanwhile, my best EB killer has never faced an EB she couldn't kill. The reference to the bug thing was specifically with my top soloer, and the bugs in question didn't have to do with EBs at all. -
Quote:Hard EB =/= +8 Lieutenant.Originally Posted by Mirai
I really have no clue what you're going on about. You complained about people who want to solo everything in the game, and I pointed out the silly extreme. I have no idea what details I would be trying to change.
Hard EB, period =/= bug.
If an EB is actually too hard for you, it's okay to ask for help. Your insistence that you should be able to solo all of them without trouble regardless of the character (as face it some EBs are easier on some builds and harder on others) and declare it a bug if you find one beyond your abilities is already a silly extreme.