Shortspark

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Issue 15: Revenge of the Fifth.

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Also known as Pinnacle, the morning after.

Go for a Twilight vampire. SS/INV brute. Sparkly!

Why did they bother? What was the point? They brought a mission that was giving too much reward into line with the others, so that people get uniform rewards no matter what mission they do. How is this insane?

Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls... forever

I'm fully in agreement here. I don't want people coming after my arcs if I leave negative feedback and accidentally offend them.

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The ends always justify the means. Whenever someone trots out that cliche it means they don't understand what they are talking about, or are using examples when the ends were undesirable in themselves and the means were moreso.

To use your example

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To use an exaggerated version: "All my human experiments that left thousands maimed and dead was a good thing because it got me into field of legal medicine."

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Net result overall negative. The means as always are part of the ends.

Now going into the more typical usage.

"Our heartvalve cured 95% of the people it was implanted in but 5% suffered significant side effects and there was 1% death rate associated with its use"

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The ends do not always justify the means. To justify something means "to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable". Continuing Zombie's example, the result (me getting into health care) is not worth the cost (maiming or torturing thousands). It may lead to me becoming a good doctor, but that is not worth the intentional pain to others. It is not just, right, or reasonable. The two would be interlinked, yes, but the end result does not outweigh the things that got me there.

Your example doesn't apply, because each person would have the choice to undergo the surgery or not. If the choice was involuntary, then it becomes a question of ends and means. And ultimately, that's a question of ethics.

Bringing this threadjack back on track, I'm all for farming as long as it doesn't lead to negative effects on the rest of the game. Farmers help keep the market flowing as they create excess salvage and recipes they don't need. They add necessary influence to keep the wheel of commerce turning. Farming is a good thing, as long as it doesn't lead to nerfing.

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Well, took an hour, but finally got to submit the CC info page before that security image expired.

*dons his wizard robe and hat*

/see if anyone gets THAT reference

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...That's actually one of my character's battle cry.

His name, oddly enough, is "a wizard".

Nah, can't use just the emote. Just tested it in game.

That combo actually looks pretty awesome IMO. I know it's unlikely, but I really hope they let that be.

They'll want to sell as many of the boxes as they can before they put it online. They're manipulating the market and limiting supply so we buy the standalone pack at $10 "buy it NAO!!1!" prices.

...And it's incredibly effective

In today's news: NC Soft surpassed popular MMORPG World of Warcraft today in total income due to a server error in the online store. When asked about this discrepancy, developer Floyd "Castle" Grub had this to say:

"What money? There's no money here. Now I've gotta pack for a vacation tomorrow, leave me alone or I'll nerf Regen again."

We'll continue to follow this story throughout the day.

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Wings and a Magic Bolero...is this a bug?

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Post a pic? That sounds interesting.

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What the crap, it charged me twice and gave me two codes even though I only bought one

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Buy a second account?

To be serious, try contacting Customer Support. They'll probably be able to help. If they're not swamped already, that is.

And the NCSoft Store collapses under the strain...

EDIT: I got that error, but my card was charged. So I think it went through. Careful you don't accidentally buy 10 magic packs...

JOY!

I have a character named "a wizard" who seems like this pack was custom-created for. I've already put his costumes as close to these costumes as possible. PLEASE let me give you money for the pack!

9:00 AM on west coast now. Magic Booster please?

Yolu got all the blazers and suits with Day Jobs, as well as some new pants and shirts. Not exactly the most heroic unless you're Accountant Man, but still something.

Oh crap PWNZ leak

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/signed to the prompt idea

And really, "Make rest of the team a ham sandwich" would be just as good of a power. Probably better, really.

Group Fly is probably my least favourite power and is abused about as much as it's used to good use, in my experience. Well, 'trying to put it to good use' anyway.

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Anyone who has [Make rest of team a ham sandwich] gets an automatic invite to my team. I love me a sammich.

Extremely happy about this, you just saved several heroes from the "Deleted monster".

I'm loving this diary. Please, continue!

With the advent of the Valentines' pack, you can now have a tuxedo buttcape and a normal cape at the same time. Enjoy!

I am Batman.

Heh.