Thunderfire

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Wikis are very popular, very versatile, and very powerful. But wikis are a hammer - and not every problem is a nail.

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Sig'd (not here, but I frequent a number of tech forums)

Not strictly a bug; merely an oddity, but one that might warrant attention:

I made a toon on Test with the new Bikini top w/ skin. With I8 rolled back to test the pre-download, she's completely topless. I know it's a narrow window of opportunity, but since any 8-year-old can get Test running, it might be something to prevent in future rollbacks.

Language is viral. It's the way our brains work.

Languages evolve. A language that no longer changes over time is dead and destined for the history books.

These two facts are interrelated.

I've taken up "toon" because I like it. I've even started using it while playing PnP tabletop games. Some of the other players reacted negatively, but I just rolled my eyes at them and kept it up. Now they're starting to use it, cursing my name when they catch themselves.

As I understand it, PvP uses something very like the Giant Monster rules that take level differences out of the To-Hit check and scale damage to the level of the target.

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NO OFFENSIVE POWERS?

i wouldn't go that way especially if you get your henchmen gobbled up.

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Naw, that's workable. Dr Negatron, my Robo/FF, has no attack powers except Forcebolt, and she kicks boot hovering stealthed over the battle.

But the pistol powers? I couldn't bear skipping them, at least until pistol blasters or scrappers show up. I've got all three on Nacht, my Thugs/Dark, and I have a ball mixing it up with the boys.

I would definitely enjoy playing these sets together. Thanks for the smile.

Off to go roll an Electric Melee/Storm Summoning Corrupter!

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Remember when Banana Split was more then an ice-cream (1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana 4)

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UH OH! TONGO!!

You might be an old gamer if...

...your first D&D campaign was played from the Chainmail rules and 5 notebooks of mimeograph copies.

...you kept game-save files on an 8" disk.

...you had a CLOAD subscription.

...you lost computer privileges at school when no one could stop the secretary's daisy wheel printer from spewing out random Villains & Vigilantes characters when you miskeyed and ran 1000 iterations instead of 10.

...if you know what a daisy wheel printer is without having to ask an old gamer.

...you've ever hand-wound RAM (OK this was extra-credit for an engineering class).

...the first harddrive you ever used had 40 pounds of refrigeration gear built in.

...and you saved a D&D campaign setting on it.

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[...]"Easy Way" to get your Aura.

[...]

3. Get your DE in Creys. Go for the DE Swarms. They are inside the door to the right and middle. Basically if you get the monkeys above, head straight in till you hit the water.

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I prefer to get my DE in IP. They hang out on the beaches of the Terra Volta island and are just barely high enough for a 30 to get a few xp. That should be faster than a herd of even-con or higher swarms, given the stacked slows you'd have to endure.

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[...]it'd be like loading bullfrogs into a pickup.

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Now I can't get this image out of my head.

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**Dont sit on the rock and milk HOs by just running in on the "single strike" phase before the hold-phase.

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Actually, if you've never done a Hami raid before, don't do anything but run up for your one shot. Watch the Broadcast and Request channels. Learn what's going on. Try to identify the team leads for your specialty and approach them later about helping out in a future raid.

Never doing anything but run up for your one shot makes you deadweight, but trying to contribute without knowing what you're doing or not in concert with the raid teams makes you a hindrance. It will actually take longer to kill Hami with your "help" than without, and Hami raids are already boring enough.

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[...]a friend of mine and myself put in a petition to have "the finger" added as an emote[...]

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Yeah. /e curseyou just screams for an extended middle digit.

[grumble]Stupid Comics Code Authority[/grumble]

If this were a less PG-13 environment, I'd be willing to run a TF to get access to an emote like that.

Hey, prestige emotes. Hmmmn...

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When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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QFT

Similarly, when the tank, whom you just watched go safely AFK while auto-taunting Rikti bosses, rounds a corner and immediately starts backpedaling, don't just blindly barrel around that same corner. It's probably worth a moment of your time to stop and find out what's up.

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Wow. Can I quote you in my sig?

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Feel free.

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When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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QFT

Similarly, when the tank, whom you just watched go safely AFK while auto-taunting Rikti bosses, rounds a corner and immediately starts backpedaling, don't just blindly barrel around that same corner. It's probably worth a moment of your time to stop and find out what's up.

I don't mind 133t so much. It's relatively easy to read with the right state of mind (relaxed and detached, almost meditative), though it strikes me as too much trouble to actually type over real English.

The problem is the people who use it. Not satirically, mind you; I found "I will r0XX0r your b0XX0rz!" damn funny. I'm talking about people who literally think they're communicating with it. I find that once you get past the pseudo-jargon, they actually have nothing useful to say* or are simply stupid.

There, I actually came out and said it. It's not 1eet; it's the morons that use it. 133t doesn't make you stupid. Stupid makes you speak 133t.

Countdown to post-deletion begins now.


* Rule #5 from Niven's Laws for Writers:
"If you've nothing to say, say it any way you like."

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I have to go along with the "don't invite me to a team while I'm in a mission" snag.

I received three - three - that's right, THREE tells asking if I wanted to team while fighting the same Elite Boss with my 15 Brute this morning.

Distracting me while I'm fighting an EB = Not Good.

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I've got /tl Fighting! bound to numpad_0.
(might be /lt, I'm away from my gamebox)

Which leads to:

Don't let your cat near your keyboard while playing. Mine has sent that /tell for me a few times.

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When pulling, DON'T TARGET THE BOSS! If we wanted to fight the entire spawn, we could have just gone to them.

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/signed
/sealed
/delivered

DO NOT get upset at me or my SG for thinking outside the box.

Some friends and I decided to try an experiment, an all-Controller SG. When the first of us hit 10th level, I was tempted to call the SG The Controller Discussion Group, because we would herd together and lock down 2-4 spawns of mobs and then chat while our DoTs killed them, occassionally refreshing our AoE holds. We were scary, but there were only seven of us, and our Illus/FF invariably wanted to invite whatever appropriate-level toon we ran across. This one Scrapper we invited was distinctly nonplussed at our team composition. At first he wanted to invite a healer, despite a full team and being the odd man out in a theme-costumed team all from the same SG and named Yce the Mystic, Bern the Mystic, Durt the Mystic and so on. He shut up about heals when we hit him with 3 single-target heals and four buffs in the space of 2 seconds, but he never stopped complaining about wanting more ATs on the team as we strolled through the mission destroying everything in sight. The only times he took any damage were when he got in the way while we were herding and when he ran off to aggro a spawn of his own and faceplanted. After that last he sulked "SEE?!?" and quit.

DO NOT say things in chat that would get your butt kicked in real life.

"Hmmn... if I said this to someone bigger than me on the playground or in a bar, would I shortly regret it? Why yes!! I think I would!"

RU girl IRL?
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RU girl IRL?
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RU girl IRL?
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RU girl IRL?
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Y dont U answer?
If I pretend you didn't ask, then I don't have to get upset and call you stupid.

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A SG mate got really fed up with that type of thing.

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To the community's credit, that kind of garbage seems less prevalent. I made a new toon last night, clearly in the mostly-nekkid school of costume design (tiger stripes with matching skin color and leather accessories). I was being checked out by one toon in particular (you know the signs, come up close and spin 360), so I turned and popped claws at him. *SHENK* He ran to the corner of the room and executed the cower emote. I gave him an /em goaway and ran off to my mission.

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His latest female character is named "imreallyafathairyguy".

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Heh. The only person I know IRL that has done this is female. She made up a rather repulsive personal profile in her Background and she refers would be lechers to it. They go away fast.

Thus:
DO NOT make gender assumptions.

Do not follow my female toons around making lewd commentary. You will not be rewarded with anything resembling sex. You WILL have to explain to your mom why you need her credit card again so you can make a new account after I /petition your booty.

(How do I know this? Read on.)

When you get back into the game with a new account, DO NOT send a /tell to my toon stating:

"U STUPID <bleep> U GOT ME BANNED!!!!!!"

I wonder if his mom let him use her credit card a third time.

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Do not send tells to folks asking them to join your team when they are in a mission.

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Indeed. What is up with that? I find it rude to try to get yourself invited to a team especially when the team has 'enough' players and are in a mission. If the team wanted more players, the leader would have looked and sent invites already. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive but this behavior irritates me.

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I agree with you, but I was actually talking about the reverse. I'm running a mission solo and receive a tell asking me to join someone else's team. (Probably because you can't blind invite folks in missions.) I think its pretty arrogant asking somebody to drop what they are doing to come join you. If they are polite and specific about what they are doing, I will usually send a tell back saying that I am in a mission and will contact them when I am done. If its the usual "wanna join mish team", they will be ignored.

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I've seen both ends of this spectrum while playing the same Scrapper. A couple weeks ago I got this /tell:

"Sorry to bother you while you're busy, but our team desperately needs some DPS. Are you interested in some 32-ish missions?"

That was great. They were patient enough for me to finish my mission (10 minutes), and we had a great team with Global Friends made.

The next day, I got the following /tell:

"healer?"

Mind you, I was playing a Scrapper named Ultra Fist, so I made the obvious guess.

"No thanks, I don't need a healer."
"no are you healer?"
"Only in the most obscure sense of the word."
"what?"
"I kill them before they kill us."
"cool what set is that come out of mish i invite"
/em faceinhand

Do not bother me while I'm scrapping. I mean it.

Do not run 3 rooms ahead of my Stone Tanker/Brute, aggroing all three rooms, and starting screaming for help. I can't get to you in time, and you will die.

Do not run 3 rooms ahead of my Illus/Emp Controller, aggroing all three rooms, and run back to me screaming for heals. I will put up Superior Invis and let you die.

Do not bother me while I'm Scrapping/Bruting. I mean it. If I get out of hand, back off and let me die.

When you see my Fire Blaster hit a few damage inspires, Aim, Build Up, and triple-damage-slotted Blazing Bolt, and then fail to check my target before firing your long-recharge single-target super-mez, do not complain when your target dies with a big ol' 700 flying over his head.

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What is a "spam healer" and how do you convince one to heal you?

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Easy. They heal spam, so convince them that you are spam. Saying "RU h33lz0r??!?" should do it.

My box does not say Collector's Edition, nor did I order or pay for a Collector's Edition, just the regular $50 preorder. But my box is bigger than I expected, about twice as thick as a standard game software box, and I got a Ghost Widow heroclix. I don't recall being promised any clix, and a look at bestbuy.com (gamestop.com is blocked here at work) doesn't list a clix as being included. Maybe that's where some folks' 7th fig went?