The_Texan

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Some of my personal favorites include Kerbey Lane and Trudy's, both of which have locations within just a few miles of D&B. I'll be at work Friday night, but if there's a pre-meet meetup Saturday I could probably show up.

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Doubt I'll be able to go, but just wanted to mention that Trudy's kicks [censored]. Of course, Austin is kind of like the G-Spot of the Texas Nation and anyone that gets the opportunity should head on down.

Freebirds is so many levels above Chipotle that it really can't be debate. I can get Chipotle here in Dallas, which decreases it's value as cuisine exponentially. Barbacoa is best from La Tapatia (just ignore the cockroaches) or from specific street vendors around Todd Lane. As for rice or anything else for that matter, I suggest a tiny little place on Tillery south of Oak Springs about 6 blocks. I forget the name, but it's on the east side of Tillery across from a church. You may need an interpreter since they don't understand if you order in English, but breakfast from there is as close to Heaven having a drive-thru as we may ever see.

Also, I once witnessed a fist fight over whether or not Ripley could wield a lightsaber. This stemmed from an argument over whether or not a light saber could kill an Alien from the movie. The matter was never settled.

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Ran it for the first time yesterday. Successful in right around 3 hours.

Team:

1 Stone/Stone Tank
1 Inv/SS Tanks (me)
1 Dark/Dark Def
1 Ice/Fire Blaster
2 Rad/Rad Def
1 Kin/? Def
1 Fire/Kin Trollers

1 Shivan and 1 Snow Beast both used on Recluse
1 Shivan used somewhere else as well, but can't remember when.

Edit: Forgot to mention 4 members had leadership - quad-stacked Tactics probably had a wee bit to do with us beating and holding Mako so easily. I think I only missed him 3 or 4 out of around 30 or so attacks. I also have FA, Rage and Inv, but everyone seemed to be landing attacks consistently.

I thought the toughest part for us was the vines. The lack of true damage (ie: unbuffed or mob not debuffed) mattered here, but fighting all of the AV's was really easy. Mako took the longest to kill. We pulled him, but Scirrocco and GW came also. The Stoner stayed with them while we took out Mako (I think some Imps were with him too). He died once as did I once he went down and GW put a collar and ball gag on me. But Mako didn't run hardly at all. I know that he was held/immob a good part of that time and saw him frozen by the blaster a few times as well. Not sure exactly what kept him held, could only identify the Ice easily. After Mako, then GW and Scirocco didn't take long. Maybe 5 mins for both combined. Then Black Scorpion we just bumrushed. We took the towers out ( I got a little screwed up and went after Recluse at the beginning like an idiot and died). It took about 20 mins or so to take out the towers and Recluse. Really helped that some had done the TF before, and one of the Trollers had Group TP and we could just get past a lot of stuff and go straight to the mission objectives.

The biggest issue for us was several people having lag and performance issues. I turned off all sound and dropped my settings so that everything looked like a really crappy Anime flick from like 1974 and still only managed better than 10 FPS on the last 2 missions. When in IP or PI I was getting 20-25. I haven't seen many complaints about Framerate in this thread, so I assume that it was specific to me and a couple of others on our team and probably had more to do with our rigs. I was getting between 1-4 FPS in the first 2 mishes and was basically useless to my team for those.

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I just read this whole thread, and the thing that sticks out at me is that I haven't seen Breakin 2 since it was in the theater. Beat Street either for that matter. Maybe TNT or Spike TV can get a marathon going or something. Does anyone know if I can get like a Breakin' Box Set on DVD? I won't comment on The Good Doc talking about Drops Harder while Positron is twiddling at his desk, that would be RUDE.

Also, I'd like to be able to invent a barn for our SG base. Just seems like a good place to store the farmed IO's. And maybe some evil frothing chickens too.

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As for being able to mitigate the End Crash, that sounds like a bug.

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dammit...look what we went and did