Snickerdoodle

If we do end up with bushy tails, I'm hoping really hard for a skunk pattern. My skunk doesn't look right with the tails available....

Let's see, I got shoes, a gift card to a clothing store (sharing that with the hubby, was a combined gift), maternity pants and shirts. Got more than I was anticipating, so I'm happy.

If you are able to play together, leveling pacts are really fun. Making concept characters and keeping them the same level so that the duo story follows them is always a plus for me. However, if you and your significant other plays at different times, it can be a little annoying (in my situation, at least). Example: my hubby and I have a higher level pact that we love, so we made another one recently. He works in retail and during the holidays works crazy long hours. This has caused us to rarely play together, although he has been playing his pacted toon. This has caused me (early pregnancy+work=too tired to play usually) to have a higher level toon that can't afford enhancements.

Coastal South Carolina here. Rain...rain...rain....flooded backyard...cold....no snow

First it was because my boyfriend and I shared an account and we didn't have enough slots for all of our alts. Then my now husband and I bought a second computer, so now we can play together.

My husband plays with me and actually got me interested in the game to begin with. It's so nice having someone to talk to about powerset combos and the like...

My hubby manages a Gamestop and has met a few people around who play, but not on our server. As for friends, we've gotten two of ours to try it out, and they both liked it, but had to stop for different personal reasons.

It's also happening in AE arcs. Did an arc that belonged to a buddy of mine last night, difficulty was set at +2, X1, at level 50. We ended up having to wittle down the health of 2 AVs that were set at level 54.

**Edit: the AVs with the higher levels were custom. He had Numi in there, and she was the correct level.

Some stuff I try when I make a new character is seventhsanctum.com's hero/villian name generator, thesaurus, or a translation website (lots of cool names in German from everyday words). Or, just try something that's a little odder than normal. I had no problem making my Feral Ballerina a few weeks ago...

Mine said Delune...

...and skunk tails.

Well, my hubby originally had a different name as the handle, then we got a second account specifically for him. The original account (now mine) had the global @Poppa J, which was his main when we started. I, being a girl, found it odd for people to call me Poppa all the time and changed it to Snickerdoodle. No, I have no idea why. But I like cookies, though I've never had a snickerdoodle. I eventually just changed my forum name to it for continuity's sake.

Mwahahaha....at least you know your buddy had an interesting sex life.

Server: Pinnacle
Location: South Carolina
ISP: ....it's a local place, so I dunno.

I've had some problems with lag. Nothing major, just big fights seem to make me start rubberbanding or having that whole click-a-power-but-it-doesn't-execute dealie, but take my vote with a grain of salt, as I have recently found many, many.....many Trojans on one of my computers.

All I want is a poofy tail. I don't care if it moves. My skunk looks weird. Please give me a poofy tail!

My stormie's psy blasts are going light blue. *waits patiently*

I had never even really grasped the concept of what an MMO is when I first started playing. Lessee....some of the things I did...

Zoned into Skyway at lvl 5-ish without realizing it. I then got scared and ran down an alley, only to be one-shotted by a troll.

I had to have my hubby (then boyfriend) explain in depth how enhancements worked, even after looking at the manual and doing the tutorial. Then he had to explain again...and again....

Ended up staying on blasters and defenders for a while, because I was nervous to get in melee range.

Never took a travel power with my first character I got past level 20. Also never took stamina.

Loved the Hollows so much, I tried to keep finding teams in there past level 20 on the same character...

Needless to say, my husband was very patient with me, and now I play more than him. I like helping new players to the best of my ability, although when they start possibly asking procs and percentages, I direct them to someone else...

I have been leveling up my troller and just got Maria Jenkins as a contact from Unai whatever-his-name-is. When he introduced her, his status bar thinger had reached the first line in it. He also gave an option to choose one (or two?) other contacts. Just figgered I'd throw that in there in case it's any help.

And if you do have to do some of Unai's missions, there's like four in a row that's nothing but "Click 20 glowies in an outdoor mission." I went through most of his arc within an hour.

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This pretty much. Gamestop employees are judged not by their usefulness, but how many pre-orders, magazine subscriptions, and used titles they can sell. The first because if is effectively a scam, as many stores will not actually hold your copy, keep your pre-order bonuses to themselves unless you hound them (most people will not), and generally operate on the assumption that you will totally forget about your pre-order and give them $5 for effectively nothing.

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My hubby has ran a Gamestop for roughly four years now, and he's never hoped that customers forget about reservations. And yes, they hold the copy up to weeks after the game is released. It is only after the automated number calls to remind them (and I personally have had that number call me more than telemarketers), the store calls repeatedly, and the customer still fails to come get the game, that they may sell it if they're sold out (and even then I'm not sure they sell it).

And, even if said reserve isn't there for whatever reason when the customer comes to pick it up, their five or however many dollars aren't gone. It's under their name that they have money up to put towards a purchase or whatever.

It sucks if some of the stores are actually doing that to their customers, but, if so, maybe that manager should be reprimanded for training his employees like that.

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Oh...and at the one store when I was buying it, the cashier remarked "hey, you know Champions Online is coming out soon, right?" As if I was loco for wanting to buy CoH.

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Just to go on the cashier's side for a second, the employees of those stores for the most part rely on preorders and the like for their hours. Chances are, he was just suggesting a game that you could potentially give him a reserve for that is in the same genre as COH.

It's one thing to have someone who is newer to the game, it's entirely another to have to explain to a lvl 40+ character how to get to zones that are listed in the train system. I and my SG/VG mates are fine with answering questions, explaining the game, etc. to the best of our ability....but the experiences some of these people on this thread are explaining is ridiculous.

I'll be the first to say it took me a long time to learn some of the aspects of the game. This was my first MMO, and honestly, sometimes I still have questions. That makes me even more reasonable with people who don't know some things. But if I invited someone to a higher level team and they didn't know how to find a mission door by waypoint....that's kinda sad.

The pet stories from our pets are short, but each of them came to us from being unwanted...

The oldest we have is a Skiperke (sp?) and beagle mix. She was originally a husband's gift to his wife (no idea who the people were) for Christmas. As soon as the wife saw her, she didn't want her. My husband, then just a friend, adopted the little black puppy. The puppy came to be known as Butters, and, even though she didn't like me when I moved in with my husband at first (can we say chewed up bras?), she is now almost 7 years old and and still kickin'.

On to the cat. My husband was moving furniture for a used furniture store and a customer who sold all their furniture to the store was moving. Her cat had a litter of kittens who had all been adopted, save for the one faded orange one with extra toes. She was planning on dropping him off at the local animal shelter because she couldn't take any animals with her. I got a call that day from him, telling me to expect a surprise when he got home. When he arrived, he handed me a little scrawny kitten...and I immediately fell in love with him. He became Lemmiwinks, and is the most spoiled 13 pound cat I've ever seen.

Last, but not least, is the most recent addition. I was really wanting to get a dog and was thinking about going to the animal shelter to get one. My husband told me no, that my dog will come to me when we're needed. I pouted, but understood. A few weeks later, a friend called and said two puppies had been abandoned on a neighbor's doorstep, and asked if we would like one. We told them we wanted the girl, and the next day was given the little black ball of puppy that would come to be known as Gur.

These three animals have become our children. I couldn't have asked for a more eccentric group of house pets.

I know it's been said a lot, but I feel for ya, man. My husband and I had to put down one of our four pets (or children, if you go by how we treat them) last year and I still miss her. In her case (13 year old cat), she had a tumor at the base of her ear and went from a fluffy 12 pound butterball to a 6 pound cat that couldn't hold herself up within a month.

The best thing I can tell you and that I tell myself about my cat is that you gave your dog a life that many animals end up not being able to experience....be happy for that.

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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for murdering a child.

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