TheMercurial
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I was reading Jim Butcher's Summer Knight, but in light of recent events I'm switching to Ray Bradbury for the moment. Making my way through Golden Apples of the Sun right now, though I've an itching to go to the used bookstore and find a copy of Dandelion Wine.
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Marvel, 1996: "Let's relaunch a bunch of our characters in a fresh continuity with the likes of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld in control!"
DC, 2011: "Let's relaunch all of our characters in a fresh continuity with the likes of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld in control!" -
I'm no Pancreas, homeslice!
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I know the commonly-used name is "Fluffy," but Dark Servant will forever be "Smokey" to me.
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Goofiness aside, I see where you're coming from, Marcian. Matt Smith doesn't invalidate Patrick Troughton, Zach Quinto doesn't mean Leonard Nimoy never was Spock, and in no way does Rob Zombie's effort erase John Carpenter's "Halloween" from history.
Of course, you're free to like the remakes, too. Except Zombieween. -
*shrug* I liked Phantom of the Paradise better.
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Quote:In heavy syrup!Originally Posted by Flarstux
Cling peaches! -
Flying Spinal Surgeon Punch!
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Nice parallel to the Season 1 cliffhanger.
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Apropos of nothing, but I always loved that little bit of synchronicity when an actor appears around the same time as his or her name shows up in the credits.
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Quote:Have them team up with Kung-Fu Miss Marple and I'm sold!Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Well, to be honest, I think a lot more people would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if it didn't have Sherlock Holmes' name attached to it. It wasn't a GREAT movie, but it was basically a comedy with action, so as a base movie, it was decent.
Now imagine if it was, instead, about a war veteran cyber super soldier Hercule Poirot, accompanied by Grandmaster of magic and the occult Arthur Hastings, and together they battle Mecha Godzilla on the moon. Wouldn't that have gone over so much better? -
Quote:That was pretty much my experience, too. I noticed my powers weren't hitting/using too much endurance/took too long to recharge, so I slotted accordingly, rather than all damage, and it worked for me. So, by the time ED came around, that was something I was doing already, so there really wasn't any major adjustment to my playstyle.Originally Posted by Ad Astra
None of my characters were affected by ED. I was still so new to the whole MMO thing, that I hadn't even really been on the boards, so I didn't know you were "supposed" to 6-slot Damage, etc. It made more sense to me to spread it out and try to improve various aspects of my powers, rather than be one dimensional.
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Sister Nova and Sister Nebula are both based off the same physics student who accelerated herself outside of time and space in the '70s. Neither are the real deal, but neither know what exactly happened to happened to her.
Sentai-themed Phantom Pink is unaware that the rarely-played sixth-rangeresque Phantom Sigma is her long-lost brother.
During a base lockdown, La Paloma had to share a room with Sheryl Flynn. Wackiness ensued. Sheryl will still sometimes complain about how she had to room with "that bird girl". -
Quote:The second one in that pic was the Doctor voiced by Richard E. Grant from the animated "Scream of the Shalka" webcast on the BBC site. Until the new series, he was considered the "official Ninth Doctor" despite the webcast being his only appearance.Originally Posted by Cowman
Well, the first one is actually Rowan Atkinson. He played the doctor (along with a few others) in a comedy short about the Doctor trying to retire and settle down. It's called "The Curse of Fatal Death". Check it out on youtube; freakin' hilarious.
I'm not sure about the second one, but the third is Peter Cushing. He played the Doctor in two American-made movies where the Doctor was a human inventor, not a Time Lord.
Also, you might be interested in checking out The Chronic Hysteresis by one of the Radio Free Skaro guys. He's been going over all the episodes from the beginning (using telesnap reconstructions for the missing episodes). He's up to the start of the 4th Doctor now, which just might be my favorite "era" of the show. -
At work right now. Just seven and a half hours to go...
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Quote:Yikes, it's been ages since I've had to run one of those. Talk about a blast from the past. Are the simultaneous clickies still around, aside from the Cavern of Transcendence?Originally Posted by Kelenar
One thing I'd suggest is to check out villainside, if you haven't already. It's not perfect, but it does mostly avoid many of the problems outlined in this thread: hunt missions, excessive inter-zone travel, hidden kill-alls, simultaneous glowy clicks, fed-exes...
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Quote:I don't think it's as absolute as that. It seems more like there's a spot where they intersect on the Venn Diagram of Gamer Behavio(u)r. People can "farm", say, a Freakshow mission (such as by the old reset-and-repeat method) for the xp, but just as easily farm it the same way because they want the drops. The two activities aren't mutually exclusive, but neither is one totally inclusive of the other.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
no.
Power leveling is going for exp.
farming has nothing to do with exp.
But, back to the OP, no, the devs did not intend for farming and powerleveling to happen. It was going to happen anyway. So, the devs put effort into shutting down the more outrageous and exploitative farm/PL methods. -
Quote:That? Is brilliant.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I'm an admin on a busy sports forum and every so often I drop my post count back to 0, just to mix it up.
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Quote:True story: I was a co-leader of a RP group for some other game. We had our own forums, and another co-leader, who also served as admin for the forums, manipulated his post count to start at "1337" as a joke (it was almost funny back in 2001), while most others were still in the double digits. I asked if there was a way to disable the post count totally, since we were a smallish group on more or less equal standing and didn't really need it, but my request was turned down. I quietly stopped using the forums after that and "forgot" my password, and left the group some time later. At least on these forums, when people pad their post count, they do it more or less honestly.Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I'd prefer post counts and registration dates to either be removed totally, or hidden in some way - like you can hide other info on your profile.
Regarding the topic, I don't really mind the rep system. I tend to choose my words carefully, so I rarely post unless I feel I have something of substance to say. Because of this, I have low post count and low visibility, and little reputation to speak of. And I'm okay with that. -
Quote:Shucks, at this point I'm just playing devil's advocate...'s advocate... But, still, you have to pester someone with an o-portal to open it up for you first. Or, y'know, run one of the time-travel arcs that give you the badge. Again, I don't condone either method, because, to me, being on a farm team sounds about as exciting as a double feature of Andy Warhol's Sleep and Empire.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
For a newbie it does take effort, for a vet: Takes no effort at all to get to PI.
Never said I was a pro-farmer btw.
EDIT: Doesn't take effort for anyone who is the right level to get the oroborus portal also.
Are all AE farmhands required to fight on the team? Is this a thing that other people can confirm/deny? Because I saw the term "sponging" elsewhere in regards to this, and as I said before, I dunno how it works.Quote:And fighting in a farm takes more effort than door sitting. Sorry but doesn't matter how you spin the definition. -
Quote:I didn't bring up travel time. I brought up effort. It still takes effort to even get to PI in the first place. Not that I condone that method either.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
You can go 1-50 by zoning to PI and standing in a farm forever being done by a fire/kin.
Your point?
EDIT: Ridiculous to bring up travel time in a game where everyone has super powers and the oroborus portal.
I apologize for my unfamiliarity with the ins and outs of the farming community. I didn't realize there were set rules for all of that. Any other pro-farmers care to chime in to corroborate?Quote:Point is most farms will kick you if you don't fight in the AE. Not so much in PI farms of old. So I think being forced to FIGHT in most AE Farms is more effort than door sitting. but you must be using some "special" definition of minimal. -
Quote:You can go from 1-50 without ever having to take the train to leave Atlas park. Looks like minimal effort to me.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
This is false. Most AE farms involve the ENTIRE team FIGHTING.
If you want to talk about minimal effort, fire/kin running an entire map solo, while 7 other door sit---now THAT is minimal effort. If anything AE farming is anything BUT passive or minimal.
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Quote:By "passive" I mean something along the lines of "with minimal effort", which AE farming certainly falls under. Sorry if my intention wasn't clear. That's what I get for trying to make it as a notable quotable.Originally Posted by Calash
If that is the case and Hunting vs Farming is the difference between Active and Passive then EVERY single AE farm mission is actually a Hunting mission until it is used in this mysterious "Passive" way.
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I think Chase pretty much nailed it upthread in regards to farming versus hunting. Hunting is actively seeking rewards, while farming is passively seeking rewards. Running the whole Freaklympics arc once because you like fighting Freakshow isn't farming, but resetting the same Freakshow mission 20 times over because of the "good xp" is. Heck, I get frustrated if I have to restart a mission once because I didn't finish it before.
As to whether farming is "desirable" or not, I look at it this way. If I ever got around to writing a book, I wouldn't want people just rereading one page over and over just because they think that's the best bit. I want them reading the whole thing. Likewise, if I had written game content, I would prefer to see it explored rather than exploited.
I personally don't report farms because I'm too dang lazy and I mostly avoid AE (especially in the "hot zones" of Atlas and Cap), but I have no quarrel with those that do. I find the idea of farming to be repetitive, boring, and a little on the shady side. Sure, weekly TF runs with SG-mates is fun, but clearing out the same Boomtown portal map without clicking the glowie, then resetting and doing it all over again is dull dull dull. There's a reason why I sometimes jokingly refer to farming as "the f-word". -
Consequently, I found a use for the "Turn Signatures off" option.