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I missed this due to RL and such, but it sounds like it was laggy fun. My only comment would be that I hope the Devs consider coming to other servers (and not necessarily for events) to play their characters alongside other server's heroes. I've always been advocate of seeing the big names out and about, and this was such an occasion.

I take it of course, their powers were equivalent to that which they were fighting? And was there an actual Cole sighting?


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What was the green laser? I had RL commitments, so couldn't attend.


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I had to share this, because as soon as I heard you could have a flying cloud as an aura, there was no other choice.

For the English and Australians out there, you know who this is, but to the rest of you I present King Monkey from Monkey Magic! Made in 1980 and dubbed with no translated scripts, this was often a hillarious and downright entertaining way to learn about Buddhism.

Anyways, here's a nice montage of flying clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1zP...eature=related

A nice cloud chase (and yes, I want the cloud summoning emote! I've done it since I was a kid! ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJDI67VQFo&NR=1


I hope you enjoy.



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Wow....that's scary stuff. You stay safe over there, you guys.


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I could be wrong, but I'm going to add that the profanity/copyright filter seems to be hitting up Clue Descriptions now? I had no prior issues with this, but as soon as I moved ahead to try and test my arc, it cropped up. But the editor itself was saying 'No Errors', but I couldn't move ahead to actually testing.


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According to the last report I read, Sony are down 171 million US from these attacks and delays in implementing games for release and related online services. At the very least, I know for myself as a casual customer, I don't feel comforted by their supposed assurances.


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Count me in as another 'why isn't the train leaving?' victim....

I remember starting off heroside and of course immediately seeing poor innocent citizens being harassed by nasty gangers and so I rush to the rescue with my terribly cliche SS/Inv tanker (surely that's the only thing you'd be! he foolishly reasoned) and rescue the citizen. I get the obligatory 'thank you' text and....

...they run off!

I decide at that moment for some reason the mission has now become 'escort the citizen to safety', not having realized they are invulnerable to damage, but apparently have the common sense of a housebrick. I chase them across the road to where they enter a door building....and I try to follow.

It's locked! What the?

It wasn't until I saw someone else do it and the citizen run unharmed through mobs to another door that I twigged that this wasn't your average open world game where everything that moved was targetable.

To quote Robin Williams: Oh idiot moi.



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This is tragic. The whole Three Stooges thing was played out by the early 1950's, and anything after that was just the remaining actors trying to eke out a living on past successes.

This is a mediocre idea at best.


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Ah, but none of you have mentioned the other thing....spoilers ahoy!




When Linda was cradling her photo and talking to Rory, the photo was of Amy as a pirate....and then it reverted back to the real Linda's picture. I had to rewind and watch that again to make sure I wasn't seeing things....I have no idea what that means...is time spilling over? Reality? The proxmity to a time traveller?


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Catching a bus home from gaming and watching all the rapture fallout (aka rain) on the wet streets.

Australians would just watch the rapture, shrug their shoulders and consider it a day off work. Plus, pay rise!


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That's because we have our army of mutant kangaroos and drop bears.


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...well, if anyone was man enough to do it to Vince, it'd be Macho.

I can only echo the sentiments said here already; I grew up and was a teenager in the 80's the heyday of Hogan and Savage...Wrestlemania Four and Five was where I got to know the wrestling biz and as much as I was a Hogan fan, Savage's athleticism and physicality was a standout in the crowd of musclebound guys who only knew about five moves. He even made Ultimate Warrior look good.

And my favorite memory of him is from his retirement match with said wrestler; it was a compelling match, where I bought into the 'everything is on the line' storyline. But the aftermath with Miss Elizabeth reuniting with Randy and the whole thing being sold with an incredible heel to face turn without a word being said still grips me. Watch any video of that moment (they have it up on wwe.com, but also check for longer versions), and the crowd is totally and utterly into it. And the crying, the standing ovations and the emotion of the moment is something you just can't fake. People wanted to see it and they cheered their hearts out, bless them.

As I've said before, Gorilla Monsoon summed Mach up best that night. 'He's a man. A man's man. The Macho Man.'

Damn right.



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Awesome, Australia is a neutral territory.


....what's Flashpoint?



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I can see the argument for including a sash belt for men, and I'll be amongst those asking for it, just out of the sense there's no good reason not to include it for men. As for the bow ties and dress/bustle parts as well as the colors, well....I have to think that that's thematically appropriate. That's not invalidating people's desire to want the options to do other than what's there, but the very look and concept of Victoriana/Steampunk is pretty specific in nature.

The genre (which is an invention unto itself, really) is grounded in the Industrial Age and never was bright. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is, as evidenced by the car, late into that period and more associated with the 20's and the flapper period along with the shift into petroleum over steam. Steampunk is a melding of the Victorian ideal and aesthetics of the period more than anything else. So you get men in suits and ties (nearly always), being dapper whilst wearing brass and steel (the concept of coloring them would've been offensive to some, let alone even concievable) and women wearing corsets and bustles.

Again, I'm not denying the desire to want to have the options, but this has always struck me as a genre where the gender lines are very clearly drawn. I'd want a skirt style like that for males included in some sort of Tribal/Native pack. That being said, the jackets and shirts shouldn't be denied to women because of the 'female adventurer' archetype of the period.

I'm sorry if I'm being particular here; my main influence from this period was Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Doctor Who, to a lesser extent.


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Congrats to Arcanaville and other voices of reason speaking up here. I wouldn't want any of the naysayers to be shareholders in say...investment funds, for example.

'Oh no, we're down in profits for the quarter! We should sell and get out now!'

To quote a WWE wrestler called the Miz: Really? Really?

America has exceeded its gross debt limit and there are countries all around the world still suffering under debt. Greece is just shy of going bankrupt.

I think I can see a lot of reasons why sales might be just a touch down....I don't need to be an economics expert for that.

Doomsayers are doomsayers, no matter what. Let NCSoft handle their finances, you handle yours and ne'er the twain shall meet.



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Hi everyone.

I'm not a base builder myself, but I did want to offer you guys some encouragement here because my SG has base builders, and like you guys, they do a lot of amazing and unsung work with the tools they have.

I got the okay directly to say this, by the way....I was talking to Beastyle post-Coffee Chat yesterday morning/afternoon and I asked him pretty much point-blank about this very issue. Now, he is bound as is TheNet from saying anything about bases, but please be assured they are reading the threads here a lot and Beastyle himself has made some overtures to speak on your behalf. Don't ask me how this played out, because that's all the detail I got.

But they are listening, even if they can't answer you. I wouldn't even post this if it wasn't true, and several people, including Arbiter Fabulous were there to see the exchange with me asking about this. I did ask also about using existing art assets to include into the base system, and I was told this was noted down and would be enquired about.

I know this isn't a lot for you, but they haven't abandoned you, I swear. They've even been going to bases on tours and seeing your work.

Don't give up hope, guys.



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