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  1. ebon3

    Fast Five

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    I can see this as being fodder for that movie physics site, but overall I found it enjoyable.
    Yep, and as much as I like to hate the F&F fanchise, I enjoyed this flick. Maybe because it was less about the over thetop street racing scene. Although they did give it its obligatory moment.

    Also I wonder how much Dodge paid for product placement in the movie?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    It's already in New England.
    You wouldn't know it from the geography, weather or culture though.


    .
    Weather amd gepgraphy aside, that sounds like any place that has a huge military presence like my AO, the Hampton Roads area of Va.
  3. Got another sub for pinnacle (sigh... wish I had an L50 villian but my highest level bad guy is L29)



  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by McNum View Post
    In any case I really hope Sony has learned a thing or two about network security and customer relations from this.
    Thats some funny stuff right there, yes sir! As much as I like my PS3 I doubt it.

    I use those Walmart debit cards for just such a case. Granted, there is a monthly service fee, but the crooks can only make off with so much cash and my other finances are protected since it isn't directly linked to anything important.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Ya, Dubliner was the name of it.
    It sounded like it, Costco has a good buy on Dubliner if you have access to one.

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    There was a method of making a soft cheese that I saw on, iirc, Good Eats. Something like take buttermilk, add some lemon juice to it, cook for a bit, then strain through cheesecloth. I know that's not the real recipe, but it made for a decent homemade, spreadable, cream cheese style product.
    Yeah, lemon juice will get the milk to curd in place of rennet, but I think its only suitable for something like cream cheese rather than your regular hard cheeses.

    One of these days, I'm going to do the whole yogurt cheese thing from scratch with goat milk. I've read a few articles and the hardest part seems to be maintaining adequate temperature for the yogurt culture.

    Hopefully the effort will be well worth the result when I get around to it.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Necroposting...YAY!

    I had an epiphany tonight...or an unreasonable facsimile at any rate...

    I tried goat's milk cheese tonight. It was unbelievable. The furthest I've gone in the cheese department in the past was some block parmesan and asiago (tend to be a pre-shredded mozzarella and cheddar kinda guy) and the occasional harvati-type that comes with Hickory Farms-type stuff. But this stuff was just plain wow. Soft and creamy and it reminded me of a semi-sweet wine in terms of taste. It was a LOT sweeter than I thought it was going to be. I figured it would be more on the sour/tart side than anything else. Combine that cheese with deer salami and honey mustard and that was a good meal right there.

    Also tried an Irish cheese. It was a hard-style and reminded me a lot of parmesan. Still good, distinctive tasting, but very much in the parm category.
    Both are good, we sell the Dubliner brand at work (Irish cheese) on a regular basis and a variety of soft goat chesses - the tastiest of which has some fruit jelly in it.

    Yogurt made with goats milk is pretty good (and I beleive keeps longer) as well. Especially if you can find yogurt made from whole milk instead of the omnipresent low fat and 0% stuff.

    Which reminds me, you can make a sort of soft cheese from yogurt by getting a quart and mixing in a teaspoon of salt then placing it in some cheese cloth or coffee filters and letting it drain over a 24 hour period (then another 8 in the fridge)
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    With continued unemployment, and the continued decline of average wages and wealth of the middle class
    Shhhh... wouldn't want folks getting the wrong idea what with those fancy consumer indexes saying inflation doesn't exsist, and pay being essentially frozen for the past 15-30 (depending on how you look at it) years by euphemistically calling a COLA a pay raise

    Anyways back to the doom forecast
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Ya mean like this place? Which actually exists.

    http://www.silohome.com/id22.htm





    Now put the zombie home on top of this place and we have a nice fortress.

    Of course the zombie house needs just a few changes.

    1. Get rid of all the sliding doors and windows except for the drawbridge.

    2. Where the hell is the concrete moat? Two of them in fact. One around the house itself and another just outside the property walls with another drawbridge.

    3. Double the height and thickness of the property walls, and put a third floor on the house. And add some ramparts like Castles have.

    4. The roof should have room for Windmills and solar panels for power, a helipad, and greehouse for growing plants.

    5. Wherever the place is located it should have an indoor well sunk for a secure fresh water supply.
    Y'know, I would totally do that if I won the lottery.
  9. I dig it! Great costume btw
  10. ebon3

    New zone?!

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    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Tyrant plans to wipe out every single superpowered person on Primal Earth.
    Heh, my main villian would find that to be to its advantage, hoping Tyrant suceeded while also hoping it would expend a great deal of Tyrants power in doing so leaving my villian in a position to destroy Tyrant leaving itself as the most powerful living primal.
  11. I would like some added pop with a skill system similar to DDO 'cept all super hero-eee
  12. ebon3

    Death penalty

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Could do it just so the player gets a random salvage or inspiration from the enemy. Doesnt have to be evil

    ::runs in:: Hey make that random rare incarnate drops of all types and I'd actually take the time to do a PvP build :: runs out before I learn what bludgeoned to death really means ::
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Major Deej View Post
    Hey, you got any Bald Eagles you'd like to shoot and maim while you're at it?
    Completely off-topic, but that recently really happened not far from my AO. Somebody sure as hell shot one out of the sky.
  14. Seems kinda cheesey for some reason, but Freida Pinto (Phaedra) has convinced me that I must see this!
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    But if Charlie Sheen is winning why can't the FloatingFatMan win as well?
    Its a well known fact that FloatingFatMen do not have any tiger blood, ergo, they can never win. FloatingFatDudes can however haunt your dreams.

    So when they drive your sister bat crazy, I suppose its a win by proxy.
  16. I weep with tears of joy! My favorite anime in the history of ever!

    And this will go good at work with the daily gunships vs. gundams which is better battle. My buddy at work was to young to have caught Starblazers when it was on TV.
  17. Thanks , and just for sake of completeness, I'll add my server (even though you got it through the link).
  18. Ohhh... hey a chance to pimp my main guy WarMain (L50 nrg/nrg vigilante blaster, Pinnacle, @ebon3)

    Arno Achilles Stone was born January 3rd, 1969 to Mary and Walter Stone at the M. Harvey Medical Center in the Founders' Fall district of Paragon City and from an early age it was apparent that Arno possessed a keen intellect and a natural predilection toward things mechanical. As a child, Arno was able to build fairly complex mechanical devices scavenged from a variety of materials found around his home. By his teens, Arno had an uncanny grasp in several disciplines of engineering and by the time he had completed high school was considered a prodigy. Arno's college years were no less productive as his insatiable drive for knowledge and inventive genius allowed the young Arno to surpass his peers and teachers.
    During Arno's time in college, he had invented and patented several new technologies and used the gains from his inventions to provide the startup capital for an engineering firm. During this time Arno would meet the love of his life, Samantha Smith, who worked as a paralegal for his father's practice. The attraction was instant and mutual and despite a long courtship, the two were married after Arno had successfully matured his small firm into the much larger Advanced Cybernetics and Dynamics Industrial (ACADI).
    ACADI's primary business was in developing ultra high performance materials and processes for use in advanced prosthetic devices of all sorts, from artificial limbs to sensory replacements. The company also branched out into several other areas of engineering, including working for DARPA in the development of powered exoskeletons. ACADI had prospered until the rikti invasion. While the primary business was more important than ever, Arno also realized that the resources of his company could also be used to help stem or eliminate the rikti threat. After the war, Arno leveraged his company's relationship with the government to acquire research projects based on captured rikti technology for both the military and civilian sectors. The act did not come without consequences as one of ACADI's chief rivals, Crey Industries, took notice after their monopoly on captured rikti tech was lost.
    Initially, Crey complained bitterly and sought legal action in an effort to prevent Arno and ACADI from carrying out their program. When that failed, Crey offered to buy ACADI from Arno with the promise of a healthy fortune. Despite the offer, Arno remained faithful to his employees and his business. After which Crey again made an offer and again Arno refused. Ultimately Crey began an illicit campaign to undermine ACADI itself, force Arno out and liquidate the business gaining its contracts and developments for itself.
    The plan like the offer proved unsuccessful, forcing Crey to step up its actions against ACADI which resulted in a manufactured publicity stunt between Crey's own Paragon Protectors and the Freakshow. The effort was staged near the ACADI campus in Independence Port and was designed to heavily damage the property and create several casualties. The plan proved partly successful as property damage was kept to a minimum, however the latter part of the action had proved incredibly successful as Arno's wife had been caught in the crossfire and sustained severe injuries which resulted in her death while Arno watched helplessly from a distance.
    Almost immediately after, it was made known to Arno that the event had been no accident and that it wouldn't be the last unless Arno capitulated. A grieving Arno instead choose to again take the huge conglomerate on in a more direct fashion. Retreating to his private lab and the advanced concepts and research division of ACADI, Arno pooled the best minds and resources of his company to take a previous program to a new level. Arno reopened Project: WarMain (the original internal codename for the powered exoskeleton DARPA project) and in less than a year had a working model that had completely eclipsed any previous work. The effort produced the mark one alpha powered exoskeleton dubbed "WarMain".
    Arno had originally planned to don the armor and go after Crey directly, however the Outbreak riot proved a more immediate threat. After helping the authorities in the riot, Arno realized he didn't have the skills or talent necessary to take Crey on directly. Instead the fledgling hero decided to take to the streets of Paragon city in an effort to hone his skills and perfect his armor.
    While unable to put an end to Crey Industries and its illegal operations, Arno in the guise of WarMain has been an ever present thorn in their side, setting them back on several occasions, including the personal capture of Countess Crey herself. Ultimately, Arno realized no measure of personal revenge would bring his dead wife back. Instead Arno as WarMain works with other heroes and his company in an effort to make Paragon City and the world a better safer place.

  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amerikatt View Post
    I have run about 60 successful Trials with Amerikatt (non-shapeshifting Peacebringer), and the best I have gotten have been Rares. My experience has been mostly Uncommon rewards, with Commons actually being offered significantly less than the Uncommons....
    Your experience mirror's mine on the BAF trials with my nrg/nrg blaster.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    If all 8 on the team had it, would it be possible to herd and defeat all the patrons on the STF in one round of attacks?
    Methinks folks should get out and see what kind of crazy stuff they can do before its fixed. I was joking with my nephew earlier and he said wouldn't it be crazy going on the scrapper forums with another AT saying "yeah I solo'd a pylon in 30 seconds with ion judgement "
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gruumch View Post
    I picked it up the second day of i20 before I had heard it was bugged because it fit so well with my EM/Elec Brute. I definitely like the amount of damage it does but I won't mind when it gets fixed.
    Mine was a thematic choice as well, but all the same, it has been a fun power to play with outside the incarnate trials. Raising it to T3 has knocked 2 minutes off my map clearing time which makes me wonder how fast a full team with the power could clear the map?
  22. I had a kill all rikti mission handed out by Borea set a x8/+1 and it took all of 13 minutes to wipe the cave clean.

    Using LRM + ICJ + ExB (Explosive Blast) made for some really fun moments outside of the Lambda and BAF trials
  23. I noticed this on the Lamda trial, my first play through netted some pretty good stuff, my second playthrough where my group split up to much and my blaster got seperated inside the base to my silly preoccupation with defeating one of those tubes instead of laying the smack down on Maruader netted me much less.
  24. Heh got a work around by installing the old CoV copy of the game, well at least I got an interface slotted and I'm about halfway though getting my judgement slot opened