Siolfir

Throw me in as a maybe. I can't guarantee anything, though - my dad's in town for work and I may be meeting him for lunch if his schedule permits.

Shouldn't it be called a lurch?

Or have I just been reading too much skinhorse?

My personal favorite was this one:

But... but... ice cubed just rolls off the tongue better!

At 3am EST on December 1st, I'm most likely to be asleep.

If I am - somehow - still awake, I'll probably be reading.

I may log on earlier, set up someone in Atlas Park using flashback to prevent a connection timeout, and then go to sleep, though.

Still no refund here, either. I'm going to give it a couple of days to show up, and then complain. I'm hoping it's just the normal delay with a credit card return and I won't be forced to file a ticket.

I mean yes, I did remove the card from the billing information already (back in April when I realized it auto-renewed before I thought it would) but they should be able to find the transaction information and reverse it - we had to do that at a place I worked before.

Best of luck, and enjoy the time with the family.

And in a completely selfish note, hopefully you'll end up right back with us again after November - so make sure that job hunt takes a few months!

• People who insist that <insert type of play here> is evil and/or wrong, no matter what type it happens to be (PL, farming, PvP, "must herd", "must steamroll", etc.). If you don't like to play that way, great. But shut up about it to the people that do.
• Idiotic mob AI that can't follow you. Doubly so when you're trying to lead the only Knife of Artemis in the whole faction that can't see your Stalker when Hide is active to the mission door.
• Mobs that get outside map boundaries (through KB or spawning) on defeat all missions.

Most of the on-topic answers are going to end up sounding the same, but in an incredibly transparent attempt to bump my post count, I'll echo a lot of what others have said.

I'll also point out that no, pre-i13 PvP was not identical to PvE - although it is a heck of a lot closer than it is now. Unresistable damage and, for Defenders at least, unresistable debuffs are a large chunk of the old differences; now it pretty much is an entirely new character. I've also had mostly positive experiences with the PvP community here. Yes, there are a few people that are annoying, but most of the people have been friendly both inside and outside of the PvP areas. From my experience, I'd say that there are more jerks per capita in the strictly PvE crowd than the PvP players - but in a selective memory sort of thing you just kick them or leave the team and forget about them in PvE and talk about how great the community is while you remember that one person that one time might have killed you while you were trying to get a badge in a PvP zone for life.

As for disliking PvP because it got some powers nerfed for PvE - specifically Energy Transfer - there was literally no logical excuse to change it due to PvP concerns on July 9th of 2008 while already working on the i13 PvP changes (i13 went live on December 2nd of that year) that would have made the fast activation time be a hindrance in PvP performance. With the separation of effects, IMO any of the powers that were changed due to PvP concerns should have been rolled back as part of i13. That was the whole point in separating the effects, after all.