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U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
*sniff* That made me tear up a bit. We're still #1! -
I did a Google search on Droid X vs. Droid 2 and found this comparison, it seems pretty good:
http://www.tested.com/news/droid-vs-...id-family/690/
From what I can tell, either choice would be a good one. There are pros and cons to each, but overall they both look pretty capable. I have an Android device (HTC Aria) and I really like it. -
Wow, that was brilliantly done. Bravo!
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Some I was thinking about have already been posted, but here are some others:
Novels
"Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand", by Samuel R. Delaney
"In the Ocean of Night", by Gregory Benford
"Hellburner", by C. J. Cherryh
"The Difference Engine", by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
"Wave Without A Shore", by C. J. Cherryh
"Hunter of Worlds", by C. J. Cherryh
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K. Dick
"More Than Human", by Theodore Sturgeon
"Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", by Philip K. Dick
"A Scanner Darkly", by Philip K. Dick
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", by Philip K. Dick
"Now Wait for Last Year", by Philip K. Dick
Songs/Albums/Bands
"...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps", song by Jethro Tull
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jane's Addiction
"Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town", song by Pearl Jam
"In One Ear and Out Your Mother", Soundgarden's music publishing company
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Patton Oswalt on Nick Nolte as Han Solo (Warning: NSFW language)
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Maybe the 12 babies were scattered when the plane exploded, and they were found by the Freedom Phalanx. But some of the babies are evil and some are good and nobody knows.
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Cats give Morbo gas.
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Quote:Maybe the zombie tank driver can help him out with that.Originally Posted by PowerStream
For his sake I hope he can start that tank up! lol
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Oh man...that looks GREAT! looks like it has a pretty high production budget. I am so stoked for this.
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Quote:Man, that thing just has "massive accident with multiple deaths and mutilations" written all over it.Originally Posted by Obsidius
They're working on it some weird mass transit ideas already.
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The Architect from the second and third Matrix movies.
Galactus from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
>.>
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M. Night Shyamalamadingdong -
Quote:And...soylent green is made of SOY beans and LENTils! It's green because of artificial coloring! (Note: the movie Soylent Green is based on the book 'Make Room, Make Room' by Harry Harrison. In the book, Soylent Green is made from soy and lentils, hence SoyLent.)Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Enriche is Soylent Green
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Quote:Shadowy Presence, I find your lack of usefulness...disturbing.Originally Posted by Kelron
"The usefullness is strong in this one"
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Quote:Sorry. I've been suffering from a severe case of Rationality for about 45 years now. Most of the time the medication (Dr. Jose Cuervo's Patented Rationality Remover and Margarita Ingredient) takes care of it. Looks like I need another dose, stat!Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Hey! None of your common sense and rational explanations here buddy. This here be the Internet, and we don't cotton to your kind of babble round here. So take yer explunashuns an git out!
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For the tl;dr crowd: 1-20 content in Praetoria is necessary on release of GR so new players can have something to do in the new zones. Endgame content is much less important *right now*, because the focus is on getting * and keeping* new players *right now*.
Of course the devs concentrated on 1-20 content rather than endgame for this expansissue. Think about it...they had a new expansion and issue coming out, and they could either include the 1-20 Praetorian content, or the Incarnate system for endgame. They are hoping that GR brings in new players. By definition, new players do not have level 50 characters. Thus, endgame content would be of no use to new players, until they reached 50. Also, while we vets can probably run through the 1-20 Praetorian content in a short time, newbies most likely won't. We all know how to slot enhancements, how to use Wentworth's, where the train stations are and how to use them, how and when to get a Raptor Pack, etc., etc. Newbies don't know this stuff, and that will slow their progress through the early levels. I know it did for me, and we didn't even have most of the stuff I mentioned when I was a newbie. So 1-20 content is likely to last any new players more than long enough for the devs to finish the Incarnate system and implement it well before any new players reach the level cap.
Also, it would have been pretty damn stupid to make a whole new SIDE to the game, roll it out and say, "Look at the new Praetorian zones! Aren't they beautiful? Of course you can't actually DO anything in them, because we were working on endgame content rather than content for the whole new part of the game we just rolled out." -
Quote:I'm one of those. Found both CoH and CoV Collectors Editions at BigLots!, but they were only $10 each. Bought one of each for me and a friend. Of course that was about 2 years ago, so I don't know how much luck you'll have now.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
If you can find a store such as BigLots (I think that's the name), I seen posters say they found the CoH CE there for $20. Considering it comes with a month's playtime as well as a badge and a new cape type, that's a good deal if you can find it.
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Quote:I'd love to see this as well. And as for balance, I think it is vastly overrated. Just get in the general ballpark of "balance" and leave it at that. Sure, there will be people who will find the "best" power combinations and be all "uber", but I don't do that (it's booooooring) so I really don't care. Just make the game content varied enough so that characters of different power levels can progress. Not all character have to be equally powerful (or weak as the case may be). The Joker is severely outmatched by Superman...and that's ok.Originally Posted by Soulwind
I'd still like to see a "true" character customization system similar to, but hopefully less exploitable than, the old PnP Hero system.
Something along the lines of:
Base Power (single target ranged, single target melee, aoe ranged, pbaoe, self, team, etc)
Primary Effect (damage, buff, debuff, etc)
Secondary Effect (damage, buff, debuff, etc)
Animation (various types selectable for each pe/se)
Coloration
Emanation Point (hands, head, eyes, torso, feet, weapon point)
Special Effect (various, things like selecting the weapon, wands, after-glows, etc)
A balancing nightmare of course, and unlikely to ever be implemented, but that's what I would ultimately hope to have someday...an actual PnP-type free-form SuperHero game correctly translated to an online experience. -
Shadowy Presence makes my Praetorian Scrapper with Organic Armor look really, really cool when it's turned on. And it...well...ok that's all I've got.
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Quote:Originally Posted by StormSurvivor
See, these are the kind of things that I buy boxes for. As the EU isn't getting one, I think I may have to get an american one shipped by someone for me. My CoH and CoV boxes have looked lonely for weeks now.
The manual wouldn't do you guys any good, because it's printed in American not European, so you wouldn't even be able to read it. Sorry.Quote:Originally Posted by Dante
Ditto. I still love reading mine sometimes, you learn all kinds of things.
But then the EU doesn't need anything like that apparently. Because we're too 'internet savvy' and all that. :P
Would be nice if they could be available for digital download though.
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I don't have enough faces or palms to /facepalm as much as this requires.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hero_of_Steel
...Sub-Zero Arctic Stations...Quote:Originally Posted by Primal
What can I say, I dig Arctic bases...Quote:Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
My vote also goes to Watchmen's would-be ubermensch and world savior Adrian Veidt for his Antarctic retreat, Karnak.
*sigh*
What's a super-villain to do?
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I would have to say some of my favorites are the "pocket-universes" from Philip Jose Farmer's 'World of Tiers' series of novels. An entire country for a lair, like Doctor Doom? Bah! Small potatoes! A space-station the size of a moon, like the Death Star? Hah! Laughable! An entire world, like Darkseid's Apokolips? Nothing more than a child's tree house. Give me an entire UNIVERSE, designed to suit my whim. Now THAT'S a lair! -
Quote:The only thing we're ignorant about is how you got to be so very, very wrong about this. Do you have one of those new-fangled electrified Wrong Machines? What you posted is not above our intellectual level, it's just flat out incorrect.Originally Posted by American_Angel
Now that's funny. Anything in the game is content, friend.
As to the rest of you, you act like I insulted a family member. And most of you clearly are not getting what I'm saying, so it's clear ignorance is strong among you.
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Quote:Not since I dreamed about her last night.Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
...for that matter, anyone seen Troy Hickman's "Disturbing Grandma" lately?
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Quote:Yeah...$43 + S&H + Tax = waaaaaay too expensive for a $10 flash drive and a $3 plastic toy.Originally Posted by ObiWan
Man, those are cool, but dang those are some small memories.
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I was going to say something about this guy being stupid for going to a fortune teller in the first place, but hey, her fortune-telling skills seem to be pretty accurate.
He should have just clicked the button to decline the fortune, duh.