Tripp Hazzard

If you can land and stay on top of the Atlas Blimp for more than thirty seconds, you will unlock a special travel pool powerset.

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@Tripp Hazzard, primarily on Champion.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

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Whenever I start to feel old in this game I shall come back to this thread and revel in my fellow fogies. Lol this thread makes me feel young at 31 but the Nostalgia was great. And to the guy who named all the G1 Transformers, you rock. I actually went out and bought all three seasons on DVD... I'm such a dork. Anyways forgive me for skimming but some that might have been mentioned...

-Remember the Challenger Exploding.
-Wanted to be Wonder Woman when I grew up.
-Literally jumping up and down as you got a Commodore 64C
-Wanting Mathew Broderick's computer in War Games.
-Wishing aliens would come recruit you for your awesome arcade skills (The Last Starfighter)
-Thinking that it was perfectly reasonable for Kirk to get alien booty on a weekly basis (granted re-runs )
-On the same note thinking that big foam rock looked /really/ real and that poor ensign who's name you never caught.
-watching the animated Star Trek series.

And many many more.

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Then what am I? I remember:

The Apollo 1 Capsule fire

Wanting a Flying Sub

Paying $125 for a 4-function calculator. And $25 6 months later for a Commodore Scientific Calculator to replace the 18" slide rule I used for functions the $125 calculator couldn't do. (I still have both the Commodore Calculator and the Sliderule. Although I realized recently I no longer remember how to do anything but multiply and divide on the slide rule.)

Being thrilled by the scientific accuracy in the space scenes of 2001.

Being completely hopeless at Pong.

Watching Kirk get his smoochies first run. In black-and-white.


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@Tripp Hazzard, primarily on Champion.

Yes, cats can swim. But I'm still not going to try to take a bath with one.

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Can we replace the whole thing with a BSOD?

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@Tripp Hazzard, primarily on Champion

Rule #1: Have Fun!

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@Tripp Hazzard, primarily on Champion

Rule #1: Have Fun!

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50 messages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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63 messages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.


[That was too full of awesomeness not to copy!]


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"The casual player plays to play, the hardcore player plays to win." -- Rigel Kent

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This holiday themed enhancement set is a Universal Travel Power enhancement set that will work in all travel powers and is only available during the winter event

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Only during the Winter event? How are these gained? random drops activated during the event? Purchasable with merits? Candy canes?

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Well, last year, they had a Jingle Jet temp jetpack, good for 30 days, purchased with Candy Canes.

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Rule #2: If you're violating Rule #1, do something else!

"Boxie"

But you gotta put floppy puppy ears on him.

(Yeah, it's an OLD reference . . .)

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Excellent!


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I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Love the whole thing. One problem, though, is the Terminator Badge.

The day/night cycle on the Moon is 28 days long. Even with the game's accelerated clock, that's still going to be hours between chances to get the badge. Perhaps it should have some additional benefit to reward the luck/persistence of being able to get it?

I hope we get a moon zone some day. Seeing the Earth hanging in a fixed position over some Lunar mountains would be so freaking COOL!!!

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Wow! Well done!

This is great. I certainly hope it continues (without Solos' attempt to be "clever", of course).

Wow. Even though I actually only interacted with you once, your constant informative and responsive posts to the community in general make it feel like I'm losing a friend.

Go in safety, return in joy.

Be sure to uninstall and reinstall City of Heroes/City of Villains after each Issue for maximum game performance. Failure to do say may affect response times.

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You all massively fail for not posting this idea yet (except Ex Libris)

Reporter MUST be one of the day job options.

Edit: Also, I don't think the Architect would work, at least not with the SG base as the location; as it stands, if you log out there, you are booted back out the main portal.

Now, NEXT to the base portal on the maps might work.

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Was thinking reporter as I was reading. Suggested location: next to a newsie.

I have one of those systems that lag badly during an invasion, but I still love them.

Keep the invasions.

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Steve's not here, man.

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That's, "Dave's not here, man!". Steve never factored in to that skit... >_>

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Sorry, haven't watched the scene in a while. Was thinking the wrong name, clearly.

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[/ QUOTE ]LOL! I bought a boxed version to get my starting serial number, so this might have actually gotten me!

"Wow. Since when did we have to do that? And what about all the people who bought it online? Waitaminnit . . . ."

Congrats and welcome back! One person's absence CAN make a difference!

Defeat 100 purse snatchers to unlock the "Woman's Purse" costume part.

On the internet, no one can hear you fart. (Unless you're on teamspeak.)

Jumping in again 'cause this is something I'm familiar with. Tiffs are indeed huge, but usually compress very well, with no loss of image quality.

JPG, for those who don't already know, compresses the file by averaging out adjacent pixels so it can store less data to recreate the image. This can reduce the sharpness of transitions, and introduce "artifacts" where there are significant color changes. The higher the compression ratio you save with, the more it reduces the image quality. But the real kicker, as far as I'm concerned, is that it repeats the entire compression calculation every single time you save the file. Create an image and save it as jpg, the whole thing gets manipulated and you lose some of your detail. Make a small change, and save (not "save as", regular plain "save"), and the entire image gets processed again, even the areas that didn't change, stripping out a little more quality overall. Even on the highest quality setting, it still does this, just not as drastically as on lower quality settings. That's why it's called a "lossy" compression method...because you lose a little bit of data every time it's saved.

(There is a "lossless" JPG algorithm, but as far as I know, it's not used anywhere, because it produces the least amount of compression. It's certainly not available in any of the currently publicly available programs.)


Tiff also offers an internal, lossless compression nowadays, that most software can handle just fine, but the safest route is exactly what Foo said. Save it without compression, then zip or stuff it. (Or tar it, I guess, if the recipient can handle that.)

I guess I should have said "some of your other local print shops".

I've been in the printing industry for over 20 years, so I'd suggest you try some of your local printing shops. Call around to find one that does digital output, and has no objection to more mature content. (I assume it's "R", not "X" from the "naughty" description. "X" would be more difficult to find, but not impossible.) Find out what digital format they want (they can probably take it as is).

Take a printout with you to confirm they have no objection, and so they can be sure not to output it while there a troop of kids in the shop.

Regardless of whether you find a local one or use an online one, remember there's a definite chance your output(s) won't be the only ones. A good shop shouldn't make unauthorized printouts, but people are people. I've worked in the printing industry for over 20 years, and it does happen.

Be aware (if you aren't already) that JPG reduces the quality of the image every time it's saved, so avoid opening and resaving the image as much as you can if it's JPG. Copying and/or sending it is fine. It's whenever you hit "Save" or "Save As" that it does the damage. Even the highest quality setting reduces the quality each time, it just does the least damage.

And if you're not already aware of them, you should find the Girl Genius comic website.

Go. Towards. The light.

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And no, they haven't handed out freespecs for *every* power change. For example, they are not handing out a freespec for the Gaussian Unique fix.

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lawl! guess we needs to edit this one....

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Actually, it turns out they are...but only to the people who have multiple Gaussian Uniques slotted.

I can't find it now, but I saw a post that they had written and tested code to identify and notify everyone with one or more characters with more than one slotted, and that they were going to give a respec to each of them.