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*click* *buzz* *thunk* <file SNARKYCOMEBACK13.TXT not found. Substituting GENERICOBSERVATION23.TXT>

Your mother must be so proud of you.

They're spacesuits. When you're out in vacuum, you can't simply unzip and take a leak. The necessary plumbing takes up some space.

That happens when you have random users as beta testers; if you have software with a known range of functions, you can set up a testing protocol to exercise them all. I've participated in several of them testing new versions of the medical information system the DoD uses for military hospitals.

However, the programmers are often the last people you want doing testing; because they know how it's supposed to work, they don't do the stupid things. I know that I still miss things, and I've been doing software development for more than thirty years. Just today, I had to go back and fix two function calls in a routine that I had sent to NH Lemoore to install; I'd moved all the needed functions into the routine itself so it could be standalone, but neglected to change the function calls so that they referenced the local functions, not the ones in the utility routine.

Getting "QUEUED ON VIRTUE 353 of 182" would have been more epic, though.

Hmmm... The route I'd try would be Thorn Tree » VG base » RWZ » Peregrine » FBZ » Chantry » Faathim; the longest part of that would be the flight from the entrance to the Chantry to Faathim.

It is very dark. If you continue, you might fall into a pit.

Whenever I did the Wheel of Destruction arc, every time I took things to Azuria, I'd say in local "I'd like to have these put under 'Will Call' for the Banished Pantheon" just to see the reaction of any other heroes that happened to be in the room...

She shows up as considerably more blowsy in the BAF cutscene, though...

And I was just thinking earlier, when I bought the Imperial Dynasty set, how I would set up the market code so that if you bought enough pieces of a set to exceed the cost of the whole set, it would automatically change your purchase to the entire set. It would only work properly if you did it all at once, though; making it work incrementally over time would be harder. But still doable.

No, for theming, I think it would have to be the third mission on the Katie Hannon TF -- the one that's a tunnel map dressed up with all sorts of Underhill improvements.

So you've been playing the character using a known exploit, and one that the devs have said that they intend to fix, and now it's just so horribly unfair that they are fixing it, because you've gotten used to getting away with the exploit?

I would argue that Tesla falls under Technology, given the readiness with which he would demonstrate his devices again and again, and the number of them that we use every day without thinking about them -- AC generators and motors, synchronous motors, radio, telecontrolled devices, and more.

There; fixed that for you.

It was also a good place to go hunting green CoT bosses for arcane salvage; Luck Charms have always been a pricey item at the Auction house, and with a little care you could enter the Hollows from the Skyway City door and hunt CoT until your salvage filled up, then go back to Skyway City and then to either Talos or King's Row to dump anything you didn't want on the AH, repeating as necessary. The rework made it much harder to get a decent return for your time, as it thinned out the CoT -- replacing virtually all of their spawns east of the river with Trolls, and many of the spawns west of the river with Outcasts and Trolls -- and made bosses much rarer. And bosses became much rarer overall; the Hollows used to be a decent place to hunt Outcast, Troll, CoT, Lost, and Igneous bosses for their respective badges.

Couldn't it have been handled as plates simply by skinning it as alternating strips of visible/transparent polys? Or doesn't the mesh support that fine a detail?

And it works the other way, too; my father was 6'4" tall since he was 12, and I hit 6'5" at 15 and stopped there.

I'm going to have to see if I can find one of the screenshots of the end phase of the old-style Hami raids; back before the buffs would stack or have a counter, I remember having two rows of nothing but AM buff icons... and still only being able to use tier-1 powers every two or three minutes. I measure horrible lag against the old Hami raids; CoH has gotten bad sometimes, but nothing quite that ugly.

Reminds me of the joke about Pokemon trainers....

"Pikachu, I choose you!" *FLING* *flop*
"Ummm... Maybe we should start putting air holes in the Pokeballs..."

It also goes back to Jack Emmert's original concept that you would get most of your enhancements by trading with other players, not buying them from the stores. This premise was immediately shot in the foot by the fact that the stores would sell SOs for several tens of thousands of inf apiece, while the trade window would only let you trade a maximum of 10,000 inf at a time. So if you wanted an SO that a store would sell for, say, 25,000 inf, and you found someone with one who would sell it to you for 22,000 inf, it took three trades, with at least one of you having to make at least one trade on trust that the person you're trading with would complete all the trades rather than running off either with most of your inf or the enhancement.

And give us back the pulse rifle model from beta (Mercenary rifle Mk II, IIRC); yes, if you had it out when your character went into the 'hands on hips' idle stance, you'd stick the middle of the rifle inside your midsection, but as I see it, that's a failure of the 'enter idle animation' code to not put away any weapon you're holding, not an issue with the weapon... and the standard pulse rifle it was replaced with looks immeasurably lamer.

...unless it's early enough in an arc or trial that the team leader has to go back to the contact to get the next mission, and then only if you can train/buy&slot while they're visiting the contact.

What -- you're cancelling the Ultra-Super Mega Packs? Noooo....