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The thing that has begun to strike me as weird about these celebrity deaths is, when I was a kid watching these sitcoms, all of these actors were oooold. Now I look back and though I still think of the characters as older than me, I realize that when The Jeffersons first aired, Sherman Hemsley was eight years younger than I am now!

R.I.P.

Did freebie items get the axe again? I don't recall seeing one since the tri-corner hat the first week of the month.

Edit - now that I think about it, I vaguely recall there being something else maybe offered for free the week of the 10th, but nothing last week or this week.

I've been on vacation a lot this month, so I might have missed an announcement about this.

I don't know if it's been posted yet, but I just realized last night that Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) was in Alien 3.

Yeah, with this Wednesday being my first day back in the office after two semi-consecutive vacations, I was swamped and didn't get home in time to log in at our regular time. Things should be back to normal by next week, I hope.

I've honestly been a little... indifferent about the game lately, but I would like to get Merc to 50. After that I'll almost certainly take a break from regular, formal teaming for a while. At least until winter boredom sets in.

I may be able to make it if it is early afternoon-ish. Let me know.

If it's a date and time I'm available, I'll join you. My formerly red badge toon still needs that badge.

...and no news of NCSoft/Paragon Studios/CoH involvement?

Really hoping this isn't an indicator that the company won't be there, or that there won't be a Meet and Greet. I will be sad if it is.

Hey guys, I think Bull said he was out of town for work, and I wanted to let you know I'm going to skip tonight too. I just found out that one of the cats I care for tested positive for feline leukemia and had to be put to sleep.

I should be around and more in the mood to play next week though.

I knew PvP wasn't for me when I first went into a PvP zone several years ago with what was then my strongest (and therefore most fun to PvE) character. I had no intention of PvPing as I was only there for the badges, but when another PC approached I figured, "what the heck, let's see how this goes."

Now my character wasn't touch enough to solo GMs or even AVs, but that aside there was little in the PvE game that gave me any trouble. That said, I got off exactly one attach and lasted roughly 10 seconds against the other player. Since A) I play this game to have fun and that was the exact opposite of fun, and B) I don't want to make a job out of this game, and becoming successful at PvP is a lot of work, I don't PvP.

As a matter of fact, I missed out on playing this game for the first three years it was out due to a mistaken impression that the whole game was PvP, and I had no interest in that. It wasn't until I learned in late 2007 that I was wrong that I finally picked up the game.

So, in short, as others have said, there are no changes to PvP I can think of that would get me to participate in that aspect of the game.

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I agree with a lot of what was said here - it was an entertaining movie, but it was also rife with plot holes and unanswered questions. I'm hoping someone will make a sequel that explains things and ties up the plot threads.

Also, the inconsistancies with Alien and Aliens bothered me, but maybe those inconsistancies were intentional since this was supposedly not set in the same universe as Alien, which is just annoying given all the similarities.

My biggest complaints are the change in location as well as the change in form of the creatures. However, maybe there is an explanation for this we just have been told. For one thing, the planetoid featured in Alien and Aliens was designated LV-421, but the planetoid Prometheus landed on was designated LV-233 (or 223 I forget which). I supposed this could be a way of showing that either...

A) The Engineers were conducting bioweapons experiments in more than one location, and the experiments on LV-421 were focused on the xenomorph form we are more familiar with. The pilot of that ship, which was carrying thousands of xenomorph eggs, died while taking off and the ship crashed.

or,

B) When the xenomorphs (the ones we're familiar with) got loose on LV-233, one ship managed to take off, but crashed on LV-421 when the pilot died. The pilot was infected with a queen embryo and she was the origin of the leathery eggs in the ship on LV-421.

Saw this today (and it's only available today), and thought it would be perfect for those of you who love the Titan Weapons set...

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/overkill

He's damn lucky he wasn't wearing a hoodie.