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Sadly the highest I got my BS/Will is at 35 just able to enter. But I'll be working tomorrow (today) anyways
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-groans discomfortingly before sneezing in a huge plume of sugar powder-
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Look at Blade's face. He's got the whole look, "It's just another day on the job." And then thing you know pretty-boy Edward is stuffed into a vase and buried six feet under with Bella who was stabbed repeatedly and chopped limb from limb, held together with duct tape ^_^
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And now for something completely different:
Disturbed! New CD Asylum. I can't wait to hear all the tracks! -
Me, I blame Babylon 5. Well no, I'm glad I got into it when I did and shows like it. Screw teenage drama shows!
Now they got some Vampire-show inspired by Twilight no doubt.
Let me tell you about my thoughts on Twilight:
I think that sums it up about my opinions on vampires.
Contrary to belief, Vampires do sparkle... just before bursting into ashes! This is True Blood's failing achievement for me... they shouldn't burst into red colored string cheese and seaweed; what the hell?! -
Teenage drama shows, want none of I sure don't. Shudders and drowns himself in some cream-soda concoction mixed with some Mt. Dew Voltage.
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And here's another tune for theme-song lovers: Live to Win by Paul Stanely.
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Quote:Yup, I concur. I can also understand how it came to be but simply watching the metagame evolve and shift after each balance change to any particular factor that becomes important to the trial assessments.Well here's what happened:
Rewards.
When IOs were introduced, you got a chance for "one of the good ones" to be dropped at the end of a TF. Almost immediately, people started looking for the shortest TFs to play and how to do them the most efficiently. Eden and Kattie Hannon became immensely popular for this reason, they could both easily be done in under 20 minutes.
So then the devs turned around and introduced Merits. They took away the chance for a reward drop and instead assigned a point value to every tf and storyline in the game, based on inherent difficulty and average completion time. Katie and Eden were no longer worth a reward roll, so people stopped doing them, instead focusing only LONGER TFs with higher rewards and finding out the best way to complete them in the shortest amounts of time.
Shadow Shard Tfs are still considered not worth it due to length. Khan and the New Posi are too short to give decent rewards. The ITF, which stymied people at first, can now be blazed through for a random roll with just a little left over. A good team can do the same thing to the LGTF and STF and get a good time/merit ratio.
And so now that's what people are used to. They want a reward for the time invested in doing a task, and they want their reward as quick as possible.
I wouldn't say it's so much though that folks want their reward as quick as possible. More like they want a reward that's worth the effort. At least, that's the ideal-way. -
Definitely a homage.
Charisma, suave, and professional. That's how I try to capture the essence of Dante in Seraph. He has a strong sense of moral justice and uses what he was born with as means to get the job done. -
I only have one Mt. Dew Voltage left T__________T
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Quote:I think that's also what shortened the TF times, with the achievements for getting TFs done under a certain run; the metagame has developed a strategy.My suggestion...kill all on the map, don't take short cuts, and maybe even play it with substandard builds!
Doc Q still tends to take quite a bit of time.
LGTF can take awhile if you kill all instead of letting rescue targets die or teleporting everything about.
But I can't really admit that's a bad thing either. Some people just don't have the luxury to be on the game for twelve hours strait on certain days, so spending an hour to get that one TF they've never done before or just had poor luck with maybe the only amount of time they can spare. -
I wish, I can't wait to see more TOR and Brink stuff emerge from this event.
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Omega Soto, it looks familiar. Were we doing Tips yesterday in a full team? :P
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Well I did it, with just under 30mins to spare before work. >_<
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Even two years ago I don't recall a single TF taking an entire day unless you count Storm Palace which I personally never managed to get through because people would keep LDing or something.
It's not the length in my opinion that makes the epic feel, but the action that takes place. ITF is fun as hell. -
St. Martial's Casino, that was a good looking place with so much potential.
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Since I can't sleep, Voila Seraph's inspiration in all his red glory! :3
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-watches the bouncing, looks around and goes to take a step but hesitates- "Heeeey... what the hell is this?"
Anyways I'm off now, rest time bubye. -
Good morning everybody, unfortunately today is my work day. Ooo what fun =/ Least I don't need to close but still....
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More:
1) SKing down no longer prohibiter the use of powers you got at later levels.
2) With toggles on getting held or slept no longer detoggles your toggles so you can keep toggling. -
I'll be thinking about it. Just need a toon who'd fit the bill just right.
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Praetorian version theme: Hard rock Hallelujah by Lordi
Paragon Themes: 1) This Moment By Disturbed 2.) Archtype
by Fear Factory.
Universal Credits theme: M4 Part 2 by Faunts (AKA Credits to Mass Effect).
Archtype: Broad Sword / Willpower > Stalker ][ Broad Sword / Willpower > Scrapper
Age: Unknown (allegedly 1800BC)
Biography: Half Breed, son to a mortal father - offspring to a vile demoness. Found floating down a river in bundles of cloth, a woman fetching water at her and her husbands river spotted the object and was quick to investigate. As she pulled back the cloth she was immediately captivated by his silver eyes that lacked pupils and the evidence of white strands of hair on his forehead. But when it came down to it, she herself could not give birth to a child. Considering him a gift from the gods, she called him Seraph.
Through his years growing up, Seraph lived the illusion that he was as happy as could be with his adopted father and mother, despite how the father didn't quite treat him as a child of his own; with good reason. During this time period, generation or two following the exodus (when Heaven and Hell take their feud off the mortal plain and into the spectral one), demons roamed the world freely defying the celestial agreement Lucifer and Michael agreed upon. Like any wild life, demons scoured the lands they claimed as territory in search of food or breeding purposes but in truth a dying set of species as time progressed. At the age of seven, Seraph's home was struck by a rogue pair of ravage demons who were searching of food. His adopted mother and father were killed with his father trying desperately to defend his own wife; they both fell and Seraph became exposed to the horrors of being on his own. He too was struck immediately only to rise a day later completely healed. The only evidence of his wounds were blood stains and his torn up shirt.
From that day for Seraph walked the Earth as a traveler, quick to pick up a sword and began practice. Through the ages he would become renown as a demon slayer, and as things that go bump in the night began to hide in the shadows; Seraph's name only became known to those aware of the paranormal. His skills with the blade were so exceptional that he could balance the kinetic force into the tip of a blade, that simply impaling someone wouldn't pierce skin but actually push them back. And throughout his history Seraph would delve into literature at random periods, be it caught in a photo or a story detailing his journey as he accompanied Beowulf early in his sailing mission. Now days however, Seraph runs his own shop, a secrete to the general public but there if someone should have a problem. Seraph fights to preserve man kind's existence by simply keeping them from being aware of the creatures and cults that go bump in the night. \
(Praetorian and Paragon stories are roughly identical with the exception of each individual either of the versions met. There's a bit of wax-on-wax-off scenarios but otherwise he always stands for what he believed in which was universal between Prime and Praet.))
And that pretty much sums up his side of things. -
Ok so apparently if I play in window mode I can take print screen shots
So here's Seraph who I changed a bit. Originally I had the trench coat but I rather like this new look: