Tenzhi

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  1. Tenzhi

    16 cores anyone?

    No animals were harmed in the making of those flops.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
    A level-5 possessed dude with a magic dagger is probably pretty damn mighty, elite, and terrifying to a normal person, which - bear in mind - player characters aren't. Even the really gimpy ones.
    Normal people can push around 50+3 Incarnates like they're cardboard standees. I doubt they're particularly terrified by Thorn Wielders.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Clockwork Legs.
    Are nice, but still don't allow for the asymmetry you can get with the Robotic Arm categories.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LordAethar View Post
    For my scrapper, I use Shirt>Mesh texture (instead of tights that the slightly poofy look you get from chainmail and its accompanied padding).
    I often end up using tights with Mesh simply because pieces (sleeveless robes/jackets, skirts, certain shoulder pieces, certain chest details, etc.) that I want to use on top of the maille are only available with tights.
  5. Tenzhi

    City of Sewers

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy View Post
    I KNOW some people are still using it into the 30s but honestly I don't see how that is faster than running TFs, etc.
    I've never been on a TF that was over (successfully) in about 15 minutes.

    ---

    I prefer to passively acquire teams. There was a time when that happened regularly without me doing anything, followed by a time when it happened regularly if I set my flag to 'Looking', followed by a long time of not getting many teams because rather than using the search all the erstwhile leaders seem to want to do is broadcast "Level x team LFM", or else expect you to have joined one of an array of arcane chat channels in order to LFM/LFT in an even more uselessly restrictive manner. The DfB allows me to passively acquire a team, if only for a brief mission. I would certainly like a larger variety of such trials.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AmazingMOO View Post
    Of the many bugs plaguing this release of CoH, the one that makes me the saddest is the Knockback bug.

    It appears that someone dropped a decimal point when figuring knockback, causing all knockback to be scaled down to (almost, but not quite) zilch.
    On a particular powerset/AT? Because Gust and my Sonic KB cone were working fine on my Storm/Sonic Defender when I played earlier.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Anyways back on subject, this little experiment failed big time
    It did? Did something crash after I finished playing earlier, because it seemed to be doing just fine.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    Coif!
    Indeed. And if they were going to use a dumbed-down term for it, it seems like "hood" would be more appropriate. Unless they're doing something silly like a maille skullcap.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    They're under Monstrous Legs.
    No, he's talking about Robotic Leg categories like the Robotic Arm categories, which would allow for asymmetrical selections, particularly of the upper leg.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    What you choose to believe or disbelieve isn't relevant. The devs aren't responsible for your fantasies and unrealistic expectations.
    I swear that I heard Geoff Peterson say "In your pants" at the end of that.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Puritans just didn't know how to have a good time - they didn't even like Christmas
    Christmas is largely a bloody annoyance. Of course, that annoyance mostly occurs on the days leading up to it.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frost Warden View Post
    Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to break out of his action guy roles, with comedy movies like Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Junior and Jingle All the Way. None were very commercially successful, so he went back to sci-fi/action, with Eraser, the 6th Day, and End of Days.
    True Lies did pretty well, I thought.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
    Isn't that just [Rocket Board]?
    Nope.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    Not even a Senior discount?
    Not even an adult diaper costume piece, or a hoverround travel power.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mental_Giant View Post
    Thursday is the usual maintenance window, but big batches are on Tuesdays.
    Fair enough. I don't pay close attention and just assume that they'll take the servers down whenever it will annoy me most.
  16. Isn't Thursday when they usually do patches?
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Spectral_Ent View Post
    Apparently some of that is an illusion due to *spoiler*s involvement.

    Why would an illusion fall on its butt and dust itself off before vanishing though? Just looks really buggy
    I figured it was an artifact of them changing from one version of her to another, kind of like when you shoot a Lost with the curing wand and sometimes you'll see the Lost you shot run off while fading out and then the citizen model appears.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    But it *was not* about being somehow feeling insulted for no good reason. It was about being treated unequally.
    Six of one and a half-dozen of the other, I'd say. To treat someone unequally is to insult them.
  19. I wonder if they'll get Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise to do cameos...
  20. I suppose it's too much to hope that his dull comic strip will rest in peace as well... like as not they'll just keep reprinting it.
  21. How about Leo diCaprio's recent role as Hoover? Of course, he's moved steadily away from his 90s fluff-headed pretty boy image with some really good roles along the way, so it's a less shocking change now than it would've been. Still, an oddly cast role that has me mildly intrigued by a movie I'd otherwise be wholly disinterested in.
  22. I'm all for more options, but I like the current alternate Jab animation far more than Brawl's animation. Not least of which because it actually looks like a jab.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arilou View Post
    Actually, Ms. was re-adopted as a way to refer to women whose marital status was unknown eg. in formal letters.
    Like I said, to appease idiots who thought "Miss" was insulting (because of its attachment to marital status, as I also mentioned in passing), but were fine with the abbreviation for the same word as said by a drunk person.
  24. Tenzhi

    Convert a DFBer!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Benchpresser View Post
    Sorry.. but if you're running DFB past 15-20(and that's really pushing it).. you're wasting your time. The TF was designed for new toons up to level 8-10, that's it... anything past say 20 at most and either the player is too lazy to do anything else or just wants to rush to 50 for all the shinies- and that type of 50 I don't want anywhere near me on a Trial.
    I queue up for it because it's a passive way to get into a team activity while I'm doing other stuff solo (though it tends to limit me to street sweeping). There was a time where team invites poured in with some regularity if I just set my flag to Looking, but that time is past.

    And even at level 27 or so, with Patrol XP a DfB run can be the majority of a level's worth of XP. Hardly a waste of time. And unlike most TFs I've had the displeasure of being on, the DfB is pretty short which makes it better for me. I wish there were other missions to LFG into at higher levels, but until there is I'll continue to queue up for DfB when the invites aren't coming.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kyriani View Post
    Well... technically speaking Doctor and Dr. are the same thing... Miss and Ms. however are not. Miss denotes an unmarried female. Ms. denotes a female whose marital status is unspecified.

    The more you know!
    "Ms." was an abbreviation for "Miss" that was adopted in the 70s or early 80s with a slightly different pronunciation in order to appease idiots who thought "Miss" was insulting but who were fine with the same word said by a drunk person and written as an abbreviation with a period. They should have at least pushed for it to be written without the period, or to be written as "Mz." short for "Miz". Or, better yet, just accepted that "Miss" need no longer be attached to marital status.