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Angeliscar

By Angeliscar,
Posted on: 2008-03-03 07:25 in Freedom

 

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Mr E-Man’s semi-regular & mostly useless information post #368

The Rise & Fall of Caligula: Part Two of Two

More murders, orgies, betrayals, debauchery, gods, emperors, incest, madness, brothels & deifications..

Please Note: Subject matter may not be suitable for all readers.

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Caligula
one of my all-time favorate BBC series right up there with Dr. Who

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Glad you liked it Hell - the Penthouse films version (as shown in the video clips) has always been one of my favorites.

So Hell, when we were running the RSF last week, Jamie (Dark Ambriel) remembered asking you the burning question (a long time ago):

"Why is your name Hell Jumper when you fly?"

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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When I read that I could only think of [i]The Right Stuff[i]:

The Right Stuff Clip 7 Astronaut Selection
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Why are you doing this to me?

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New Global: @American Decoy

�You are hereby promoted to Tiglath_Pilesest� - Squez

�no, you rocketed past ddx. you got LIGHTHOUSE -evil musak-� - DDH_Hamenopi

 

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When I read that I could only think of The Right Stuff:

The Right Stuff Clip 7 Astronaut Selection
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Why are you doing this to me?

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ouch

I am happy to report that my tests were not...that intense...

...although the needle to the back of the neck was a bit painful (he had to switch needles twice because he couldn't get the first two in far enough) & the one in my hand is still throbbing!

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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Mr E-Man’s semi-regular & mostly useless information post #368

The Rise & Fall of Caligula: Part Two of Two

More murders, orgies, betrayals, debauchery, gods, emperors, incest, madness, brothels & deifications..

Please Note: Subject matter may not be suitable for all readers.

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Caligula
one of my all-time favorate BBC series right up there with Dr. Who

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Glad you liked it Hell - the Penthouse films version (as shown in the video clips) has always been one of my favorites.

So Hell, when we were running the RSF last week, Jamie (Dark Ambriel) remembered asking you the burning question (a long time ago):

"Why is your name Hell Jumper when you fly?"

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Well E, that is a long story that I will try to shorten up. I got into this game because of my son, he saw it on G4 (when according to him it was a good show) and he knew I would like it.

At around the same time there was a Comic Convention in town ( Philly) and we talked to States himself who was pushing the game there. They had a version of the game there to try so we did and he was right I really liked it.

Anyway we purchased the game and after he set up his toon it was my turn and while playing about with the maker I had to come up with a name. Well I am (or was) a serious player of Halo and in fact was reading the novels at the same time. As those who know… know Master Chief was part of the military called the Hell Jumpers because well they would Jump into the Hell of battle much like today we house helicopters.

So the old light bulb came one and the name Hell Jumper came to mine. Ok so that’s the name portion, then went I was building my toon I was such a noob I made all kinds of mistake ( you know picking an archetype that nobody back then wanted ( Stoner),4 slotting brawl, putting one of each enhancement in each power, NOT taking stamina ( did take the toon to 50 with out it ) and making a costume out of electricity when my build was kind of a fire mode ) but I always felt that a hero should fly… you know Superman. and so right now all but 2 of my toons have fly. My Fire/fire Tank has SJ and I just respected my Ice/Kin Corr to SS from fly an now I run into everything not moving and sometimes even those

So anyway that’s the short version... the thing is my son MY OWN SON laughs at me to this day... when I am playing and he comes home ( he will graduate from Full Sail University with a degree in Game design in June. . Im thinking if he works for NCSoft he I will one day find my builds with all purples and 2 billion in cash... but that’s for another day) he will shout out “Hey dad how’s that flying Jumper doing” must be poor parenting.

Anyway I missed Jamie asking me the question or I would have said you’re not the first… and he won’t be the last…

That, my friend is the short version…lol

 

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Mr E-Man’s semi-regular & mostly useless information post #368

The Rise & Fall of Caligula: Part Two of Two

More murders, orgies, betrayals, debauchery, gods, emperors, incest, madness, brothels & deifications..

Please Note: Subject matter may not be suitable for all readers.

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Caligula
one of my all-time favorate BBC series right up there with Dr. Who

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Glad you liked it Hell - the Penthouse films version (as shown in the video clips) has always been one of my favorites.

So Hell, when we were running the RSF last week, Jamie (Dark Ambriel) remembered asking you the burning question (a long time ago):

"Why is your name Hell Jumper when you fly?"

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Well E, that is a long story that I will try to shorten up. I got into this game because of my son, he saw it on G4 (when according to him it was a good show) and he knew I would like it.

At around the same time there was a Comic Convention in town ( Philly) and we talked to States himself who was pushing the game there. They had a version of the game there to try so we did and he was right I really liked it.

Anyway we purchased the game and after he set up his toon it was my turn and while playing about with the maker I had to come up with a name. Well I am (or was) a serious player of Halo and in fact was reading the novels at the same time. As those who know… know Master Chief was part of the military called the Hell Jumpers because well they would Jump into the Hell of battle much like today we house helicopters.

So the old light bulb came one and the name Hell Jumper came to mine. Ok so that’s the name portion, then went I was building my toon I was such a noob I made all kinds of mistake ( you know picking an archetype that nobody back then wanted ( Stoner),4 slotting brawl, putting one of each enhancement in each power, NOT taking stamina ( did take the toon to 50 with out it ) and making a costume out of electricity when my build was kind of a fire mode ) but I always felt that a hero should fly… you know Superman. and so right now all but 2 of my toons have fly. My Fire/fire Tank has SJ and I just respected my Ice/Kin Corr to SS from fly an now I run into everything not moving and sometimes even those

So anyway that’s the short version... the thing is my son MY OWN SON laughs at me to this day... when I am playing and he comes home ( he will graduate from Full Sail University with a degree in Game design in June. . Im thinking if he works for NCSoft he I will one day find my builds with all purples and 2 billion in cash... but that’s for another day) he will shout out “Hey dad how’s that flying Jumper doing” must be poor parenting.

Anyway I missed Jamie asking me the question or I would have said you’re not the first… and he won’t be the last…

That, my friend is the short version…lol

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Heh - well then, I was mistaken...I had thought (and told her) that you were originally a jumper, but you respec'd into fly when we first did the Ruladek the Strong TF (way back when) and decided to keep it that way.

The stuff of legends...

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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Mr E-Man’s semi-regular & mostly useless information post #368

The Rise & Fall of Caligula: Part Two of Two

More murders, orgies, betrayals, debauchery, gods, emperors, incest, madness, brothels & deifications..

Please Note: Subject matter may not be suitable for all readers.

[/ QUOTE ]

Caligula
one of my all-time favorate BBC series right up there with Dr. Who

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Glad you liked it Hell - the Penthouse films version (as shown in the video clips) has always been one of my favorites.

So Hell, when we were running the RSF last week, Jamie (Dark Ambriel) remembered asking you the burning question (a long time ago):

"Why is your name Hell Jumper when you fly?"

[/ QUOTE ]

Well E, that is a long story that I will try to shorten up. I got into this game because of my son, he saw it on G4 (when according to him it was a good show) and he knew I would like it.

At around the same time there was a Comic Convention in town ( Philly) and we talked to States himself who was pushing the game there. They had a version of the game there to try so we did and he was right I really liked it.

Anyway we purchased the game and after he set up his toon it was my turn and while playing about with the maker I had to come up with a name. Well I am (or was) a serious player of Halo and in fact was reading the novels at the same time. As those who know… know Master Chief was part of the military called the Hell Jumpers because well they would Jump into the Hell of battle much like today we house helicopters.

So the old light bulb came one and the name Hell Jumper came to mine. Ok so that’s the name portion, then went I was building my toon I was such a noob I made all kinds of mistake ( you know picking an archetype that nobody back then wanted ( Stoner),4 slotting brawl, putting one of each enhancement in each power, NOT taking stamina ( did take the toon to 50 with out it ) and making a costume out of electricity when my build was kind of a fire mode ) but I always felt that a hero should fly… you know Superman. and so right now all but 2 of my toons have fly. My Fire/fire Tank has SJ and I just respected my Ice/Kin Corr to SS from fly an now I run into everything not moving and sometimes even those

So anyway that’s the short version... the thing is my son MY OWN SON laughs at me to this day... when I am playing and he comes home ( he will graduate from Full Sail University with a degree in Game design in June. . Im thinking if he works for NCSoft he I will one day find my builds with all purples and 2 billion in cash... but that’s for another day) he will shout out “Hey dad how’s that flying Jumper doing” must be poor parenting.

Anyway I missed Jamie asking me the question or I would have said you’re not the first… and he won’t be the last…

That, my friend is the short version…lol

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Heh - well then, I was mistaken...I had thought (and told her) that you were originally a jumper, but you respec'd into fly when we first did the Ruladek the Strong TF (way back when) and decided to keep it that way.

The stuff of legends...

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The good old days.. besides fly I also had TP Friend and would TP the travel challenged from island to island

 

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Hm. Put Tamerlane next on your list. I wrote a little treatise on him a few years ago and astounded some peeps on how deep his history was, and how much it's glossed over in modern histories.

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For Turg...

Mr E-Man's semi-regular & mostly useless information post #373

Tamerlane in Four Parts

Beginning with Tamerlane by Edgar Allen Poe (Part One of Two)

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*waitin' on the expository* Poe's good, but looking forward to your breakdown of his character and history.

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I'm sure to disappoint...that's why I lead with Poe.

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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Good write-up. It always makes me laugh when people hail Rome or Greece as being the centers of the world's greatest empires, but people always forget about Asia.

BTW, saw your Myspace pic. How're you liking the Touch? I'll give you my impressions after you give yours. I wouldn't want to sour them. XD

 

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BTW, saw your Myspace pic. How're you liking the Touch? I'll give you my impressions after you give yours. I wouldn't want to sour them. XD

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I hate trying to do reviews; I often miss vital points of interest.

First let me say, that this is my initial foray into the world of PDA phones & I have had the HTC Touch since November.

Overall I like the Touch. It has some problems & quirks and I certainly could have gone with something less expensive, but I liked the size compared to some of the other PDA phones from Sprint. It is barely larger (width only) than my old Samsung phone.

Battery Life: Less than spectacular (I get about 2-3 days on a full charge). I found that turning off blue tooth when I am not actually using it helped quite a bit and is easy enough to do with just a couple touches.

Bugs: Like with the update to Live Search is annoying. (There is a way to edit the button using a 3rd party program, but I haven’t done it yet.)

Freezing: The screen can freeze on occasion requiring battery removal to restart.

Internet: Works fine for me.

Sound: No problems

MP3: works well, but I would rather have the music button start media player (there is a way to change this as well using a 3rd party program). Also, if you wish to forgo using headphones, the built in speaker has pretty good sound quality.

Camera/Video: works well from what I have used of it so far – nothing spectacular picture wise (2.0 MP). The camera button placement can be better. Camera can be turned on during phone calls or just picking up the phone.

Speaker Phone: personally, I hate speaker phone conversations (from either end of the conversation), but I have used it a couple of times while waiting for someone to pick-up & it seem ok to me.

Voice Command/Voice Dialing: I was disappointed that Microsoft Voice Command wasn’t included – I am not crazy about the included voice dialing software & I will probably purchase MS Voice Command in the near future.

Touch Screen: Sometimes can be finicky, but works ok for me

Touch Keyboard/Keypad: I like these & I have no problems not having a physical keyboard. The xt9 functioning works quite well and the keys are easily usable even with my fat fingers.

Phone as Modem: Not sure if you use/need this, but this works quite well (with the purchase of PdaNet from Junesfabrics). I sometimes travel to locations (ok mostly my mother’s house) that have no broadband internet service (seriously, I can’t even steal bandwidth from anyone). Using the phone as modem on these occasions, I get pretty good/stable internet service – enough to play CoH/V without much of a problem.

Anything I missed?

Wall of words…I know

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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Voice Command/Voice Dialing: I was disappointed that Microsoft Voice Command wasn’t included – I am not crazy about the included voice dialing software & I will probably purchase MS Voice Command in the near future.
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Touch Keyboard/Keypad: I like these & I have no problems not having a physical keyboard. The xt9 functioning works quite well and the keys are easily usable even with my fat fingers.

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These were the two reasons why I ditched my Touch after 3 days actually. Yes, the form factor is quite nice; it feels good in the hand, it's a nice net-tethered PDA, yadda, yadda.

But as a PHONE, the visceral experience was awful.

I like being able to finger-drive a phone number w/o having to look where I'm typing. Key nubs permit that. This phone doesn't; you have to be looking at it for you to get any accuracy on your dialing.

The absence of Voice Command? WTH were they thinking?! Every phone I've had for the last four years has had some iteration of it! I even tried recording voice tags (which, btw, you have to do for EVERY ENTRY... so it's not just "Mom", but "Mom Home", "Mom Cell", "Mom Work", etc. I have 300+ contacts...)

I think the clincher for me was when I was stuck in traffic, had my Bluetooth headset on, and spent TWENTY MINUTES trying to call one person, and the Touch absolutely NOT getting it right, even with there being only 2 recorded entries on the frickin' phone! I didn't even go home at that point; I drove right to Best Buy and wiped it for a refund immediately.

Got myself the new RAZR V7. Not my phone manufacturer of choice (I prefer Samsungs), but it had a keypad, and I could use Voice Command immediately.

As I said: Great gadget. AWFUL phone. And when you're buying a mobile phone, the "phone" part of it is integral to me.

 

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PFFF "touch" this, "razr" that bah humbug I say.

I went out an' bought me a metro son.
It opens, then closes. I kin call me some peeps, or not, it don't matter. Voice dialing? HA! They just recently let me text (an' I'se been txtin the mess outta people, ask Fyre).

I don't need me nothin fancy, just somethin gangsta.

Then again Metro didn't help me much in my lay ova in Denver ...

 

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Hey I understand what you are saying. It is definitely not for everyone.

Sent from my Touch

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd

 

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.. looks at prepaid, verizon phone....
... looks back at pic....
.... looks at prepaid, verizon phone...

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"I don't wonda what Rose is like in RL, I just imagine she is a catgurl an' wish I could cyb0r wit her. "
- the legendary J-man

Silence!!! I kill you!

 

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lol

...to both of you...

I will definitely be getting MS Voice Command - what you described has happened to me as well (not for 20 minutes), but even a couple of tries can be annoying.

And with MS Voice Command, you can manually dial the phone by voice as well. (no need to look at the numbers at that point).

Mr E-Man ~ Mr E-Villain
XBL GamerTag: il Radd