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Ok, since I last posted, I have been able to complete this mission on my E3 blaster that was having so much trouble on it. I switched my Insp load. I was going in with 16 purples and 4 heals. I could avoid most of Honoree's hits, heal a bit from the ones that got through...and never do enough damage to defeat him before my purple insps ran out. So I loaded up with 12 purples and 8 reds. I popped 4 purples and all 8 reds, then started wailing on Honoree. I kept popping the purples and a couple of minutes later, he was down. Yay!

I also had some trouble on this with my soft-capped MA/SR scrapper. She would do ok...until Honoree got one of his massive Total Focuses (Foci?) through my DEF. One hit would knock me to a sliver of health and any lucky shot after that meant faceplant. I ended up using the same strategy as my blaster: pop a buttload of reds and go to town. Again, it worked. Yay!

Next I'm going to try my TA/A defender. That should be fun....

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down there Metaltalon. Don't you think you might be rushing things a bit?

Let me help you out here, Coin. They are all absolutely hideous.

You're welcome.

America: Land of the Fearful and Home of the Craven (formerly Land of the Free and Home of the Brave).

I... But... Why... Gaaahhh!!!

Ah, damn you Lucas! You blew it all up! Damn you to hell!

Although an Orson Welles action figure would be pretty sweet, I have to admit.

Oh, nice find. Thanks for sharing.

Ok, I liked this episode overall, and think it is a good ending to the first season. My observations:

1) The brain scan of the "zombification" of Dr. Jenner's wife. That was cool. RL tech like that doesn't exist at all, but still cool to see how it works. I find it hard to believe with that kind of equipment Dr. J didn't find out more than he did.

2) Dr. J's whisper in Ricks ear. Yeah, I'm pretty what he said is something I posted in a comic spoiler pretty early on in this thread. Not a bad way to get the information out there.

3) The opening flashback. Very nice, one of the better parts of the episode IMHO. Answered the question of how the gurney came to be in front of Rick's door, which I had wondered about. I think they are actually taking better advantage of the Shane character in the TV series than Kirkman did in the book.

4) The building explosion: Well, I have to say that the special effects budget would have been better spent by having more zombies throughout the show, paid for by saving the money on this shot. It just looked so fake. My wife commented, "That was a very efficient explosion." I was thinking the same thing. With a fuel-air explosion, it seems to me that all of the party should have been killed, being as close as they were.

Like the comic, this series has me on the edge of my seat, sorry to see each episode end and eager for the next. Very much looking forward to next season.

I wasn't "doubting" you, just pointing out a possibility. You know, trying to help, like YOU asked us to. Given your ******* response, I hope you never find out what this is, and it steals all of your personal info to boot.

Enjoy!

Highlander...2? I've seen Highlander, and Highlander 3. I always thought it was strange that they went straight from 1 to 3, but hey, it's Hollywood, right?

However, there is an approximately 2-hour gap in my memory of early November, 1991. I have absolutely no recollection of what I was doing during that time. It's weird...


THERE IS NO HIGHLANDER 2!!!!! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING LA LA LA LA LA!!!

Linky

So I didn't even know about this, but there was a rumor going around that Nolan was going to include some unused Joker footage from "The Dark Knight" in the upcoming Batman flick, "The Dark Knight Rises". In a recent interview Nolan put those rumors to rest, saying that any remaining footage of Heath Ledger as the Joker will not be in the new Batman movie.

All I have to say is, GOOD! It would have been a cheap stunt rightly viewed as trying to profit off Ledger's untimely demise. If I had heard this rumor before seeing this article, I would have dismissed it as patently false. Nolan seems way too smart to do something like this.

One process can hook into a second process and in process explorer look like it's part of the second process. So, just because you're seeing those entries under CoH doesn't mean they are actually *part* of the CoH client.

This looks like some sort of screen capture software.

Have you gone through your installed programs to see what's there?

What the hell is that?!?! How did that dang thing get in here?!?!

Don't put your lips on it!!!

<farnsworth> I'm sad now. </farnsworth>

Some of the things I love:

Knockback.

Confuse powers. Whenever I Confuse a Tsoo Sorceror, I giggle like a schoolgirl when he starts healing me and Hurricaning the other Tsoo away from me. Equally fun is Confusing an Embalmed Cadaver and watching it blow up the other zombies. KA-BOOM. Hee hee heeee....

Getting that little butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling when I jump my character off of something tall and fall towards the ground. It doesn't happen every time, but sometimes it just looks SO REAL that I get that feeling, like I'm on a roller coaster or something.

Knockback.

Being the last person standing on a near teamwipe, especially if I survived against impossible odds.

Getting a really cool name that I can't *believe* was available.

Knockback

Dying to the last mob at the end of a fight, only to be rezzed when I level up as the mob dies from DoT. It's only happened to me once, but it was sweeeeet!

All the other awesome people in the CoX community.

Did I mention knockback?

I ran this mish several times with an E3 blaster last night, and could not defeat Honoree. First I was on +1/x2, so I dropped it to +0/x1 and still couldn't beat either EB. Then I dropped to -1/x1 and loaded up on Def and Heal insps. I was able to defeat Holtz, but it took all my insps. Exited the mission, restocked on insps and went back. Honoree handed me my ***, even though I was soft-capped on defense *and* had Force of Nature on. I wasn't doing enough damage quickly enough, so I stocked up on purples and reds. I got Honoree down to about 1/2 health before I ran out of purples and was smashed. I tried 16 purples and 4 reds, and I still couldn't damage Honoree quickly enough to win. I would pop 4 purples to soft cap defense and a red. No dice. Even popping Aim and Build Up whenever they were available wasn't enough.

I use common IOs, with all my attacks having 2 or 3 damages in them.

The portals were no problem, just sniped them and took out the Rikti, then pulled the EBs one at a time.

I guess I'll just have to keep slogging away at it until the random number generator gives me a lucky enough run to win.

Here's some of my thoughts on Dr. CDC.

1) Agree with Frogfather: I got the impression the guy was despondent from long isolation, feeling like he failed and possibly thinking he's the last person left alive.

2) I don't think he infected himself. Whatever that stuff was he spilled was VERY corrosive and he didn't seem to be in pain, so I don't think it burned his skin.

3) As to why he said "Go away," well, I believe anything we can come up with for that is pure speculation. Anyway, my pure speculation is that he has something to hide. I'm guessing that he maybe killed someone to keep them from leaving and possibly letting zombies in. Or he killed someone to extend the food supply (not cannibalism, just fewer mouths to feed). Or maybe...maybe...TS-19 (the destroyed tissue sample) was from someone he infected before and he's afraid he'll do it again, or that he'll be found out.

4) From #3...why *is* the CDC empty except for this guy? I'm guessing there are at least a few hundred people who work there, counting all the scientists, clerical staff, maintenance, etc. It seems that SOME of them should still be there. More than just Dr. CDC, I would think.

My home computers are named for who uses them (i.e., JohnsPC, JanesPC, etc.).

At work I have named our 2 main servers Brainiac and Ultron

The PCs on the network currently sport names like Batman, Thor, IronMan, GreenLantern, Flash, Magneto, Cyclops, SpiderMan.... Luckily my boss is a comic book geek too.

Whenever there are network issues at work, I tell everyone it's just a big crossover "Crisis" event.

Well, the Broadway musical, "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" did, last night at its premiere. The show was marred by technical glitches, including the Spider-Man actor getting stranded, hanging above the audience in a harness while stage-hands tried to grab his ankle and haul him down.

Linky to the article

Also, $140 for a ticket?!? Really?!?!

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