Sirius_Dragon
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Did anybody notice that it's 15 seconds now, and not 30?
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It's really no different to the supermarkets telling us that specific other supermarkets are more expensive than they are.
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No, it's like a supermarket sending workers into the middle of the other supermarkets and handing out leaflets telling people to go somewhere else.
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For those of you who want to cheat, there's a Youtube clip of all but one quote behind the links below. Obviously, one or two of these links may not be appropriate for the younger generation, if anybody objects I'll remove them.
I've very deliberately not written the answers here, because where's the fun in that?
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Designation: Buck. Objective: Relations with women.
Food: Royale with cheese. Flavor: Tasty.
Plan: Make him an offer. Refusal: Impossible.
Your speech: Directed at me?
Show me: The money!
Elementary: Dear Watson. (Bonus points for why I'm not providing a clip for this one
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Necessity: Larger watercraft.
Admiration: Clever girl.
Gentlemen: Cannot fight here! Location: War Room!
My name: Hedley.
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How did I do? Just three words:
Villain Epics, baby!
*boogies down*
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Well it wasn't good in the first place. You end up there, and every now and then even Tim Buckley can stumble on being funny, and since a webcomic takes all of five seconds to read you just idly go there in the hope he stole a funny joke from someone else.
Then he got the idea not just that he can write, but that he's a dramatist extraordinaire and spent week after week after week after week dumping on my monitor.
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^^^ This.
It doesn't really help that I think that Buckley himself, while a very good artist, is a complete jackass. There are numerous records of incidents where Buckley's ego got the better of him scattered over the internet, and I would encourage anybody who has the time to go looking for them. -
I stopped reading Ctrl-Alt-Del after Tim Buckley made a continuous effort to ignore any criticism that might help him improve himself. He's content to fire out the same clichéd storylines and game jokes, and occasionally steal an idea from a more popular comic.
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Now you're asking... This is just a few of them, I have a lot more but these are my favourites.
True Balance - DM/DA Scrapper - I wanted someone who is pure and goodly, but wielded dark powers because I love contradiction. Ended up going with this name and making her an archaelogist and the daughter of not-so-recently deceased British aristocracy.
Sirius - Ice/Storms Controller - My real name. No, really The original version (an Ice/Ice blaster) was moved to Defiant and had to change his name to Sirius Moonshadow. The Defiant version is my only level 50, despite having this game since EU beta.
Insomnus - SS/En Brute - I had this idea for a villain who couldn't sleep, and had subsequently gone crazy over it. I came up with a young girl who was paralysed until her father used his resources to invent a powersuit that would grow with her as she grew up, with the unfortunate side-effect that it prevented her from sleeping.
Sonida - Ilu/Son Controller - Too many episodes of Bleach made me want to create a character called this (along with a villain called Negacion), and it's one of the few times that I've come up with a name first and a concept later. She ended up becoming super-fast with a sonic secondary so I could play on the word in two different ways. In her spare time, she's a special effects co-ordinator, though she does them all herself and rarely uses machinery. She wears a fedora, and looks awesome.
Kirin - WP/SS Tank - A few friends formed a Teen Titan-style group of teenaged superheroes called the Alpha League, and in order to join in I needed a young hero and the group needed a tank. As I have a fascination with mythological creatures, the name sprang into my head fully formed. She's just a teenager who loves to weight-train and punch people, which ended up with her government having her deported to Paragon for being a nuisance.
Densetsu - MA/Regen Scrapper - literally 'Legend' in Japanese. This is made slightly funnier as I chose "Legendary" as his title, making him the Legendary Legend He was blessed by the kami of the sun, Amaterasu, with healing powers, but the strength and superjump are all his own work.
Tiny Goth Chick - Dark/Dark Corrupter - One of my few joke names that I managed to make stick in my head and become a more fleshed-out character. She's actually tech origin and has a belt and gloves that transfer and manipulate normal matter into negative energy. It has the unfortunate side-effect of the exhaust fumes creating a rainbow-sparkly effect when she moves, which she hates.
Srebro - Stone/Granite Tank - Bulgarian for 'silver'. He used to be a professional footballer in Bulgaria, but mutated when his plane to America flew through a storm created by a mutant superhero, frying his DNA.
The Concierge - Mind/Psi Dominator - One of my more recent creations and part of a plot to create a character that looked like a joke until you read his bio. He's really, really, really evil. -
Katana/SR scrapper. Never met a guy who could lay a finger on me yet! Except for, you know...
Dammit, I need to remember to finish my posts a couple of sentences earlier... -
Most EBs give me some grief, mainly because I usually rest my survivability on stacking holds and immobs which don't tend to work on purple triangles
Shadowhunter is the only one in recent memory. Don't know why, but could not take that bugger down... -
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I've tried compatiblecursors 1 and renderthread 1, and both at the same time. the cursors helps with the heroes side but I'm still getting a black square on the villains side.
I can play a lot of games perfect at 30+fps. Team fortress 2, Counter strike source, WoW, Audiosurf, hell even Portal.
As for laptop specs. Yeah i'm using an intergrated intel celeron 965 graphics card. Core 2 duo processor T7300.
It SHOULD be able to handle this with no problems at all, but I can only suspect that this is vista's handy work.
This bug is really starting to annoying me because it means that I can't fully customize my characters and it takes about 5 minutes just to find the damn slider. =/
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The other games you've got in your list there I think are DirectX based... City of Heroes is an OpenGL game. If you've already got your drivers up to date, it might just be that OpenGL support for your card is not up to scratch?
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That's what I thought - I've had to stay running in windowed mode, but because I have my start menu hidden I barely notice it.
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I had issues with running two monitors, although it was limited to CoH automatically disabling the second monitor when it's fullscreen on the first.
Try disabling the other card temporarily, setting CoH to run in a window, then re-enabling it again. That worked for me... -
I'd like to throw in my two cents on this as well.
As far as I'm concerned, the "I should get it for free" argument doesn't hold water. If it's something you clearly want, then it has value, and therefore you should start expecting to provide equivalent value in either time, money or effort in order to obtain it.
So, as a veteran reward, as a paid for pack or even as a reward for doing something in game, not for nothing because you feel you're entitled to it. -
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The new hero powersets will make PvP a joke.
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Awesome! How were the new powersets when you extensively tested them in PvP? -
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It was a bit like watching the beginning of a movie where characters are introduced before hand displaying "moments" that acts as eye candy to warm up interest in the rest of the film.
Melina Swifts first section between 53 and 58 secs was the best one for me. Very well angled and very well captured but so short in time!
I think although its probably "incredibly hard" to do. I would of liked to of seen more time spent on each characters first introduction displaying awesome looking combos from great angles finishing with the long still shot on the most spectacular move a power-set has to offer.
Enjoyed the Medley and love the idea. Its a great way to remember your characters.
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Yeah, it would be hard... also most of these characters are sub-20 so I lack awesome powers
There'll be another one of these when everyone's a bit higher, and one for my villains. I have rather severe alt-itis. -
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Wasn't sure where to put this, because it seems rather less creative than most of the things here, but using Despair, Inc.'s own motivational poster creator I decided to throw this together: Appearances.
Feel free to contribute your own, or flame me for being on the wrong board - whichever takes your fancy
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For me, any time I've used Crane Kick to knock a guy off a building.
That always puts a smile on my face.