GR and Other Future Thingies

I'm going to have to see if my video card can handle the new options. It's a couple of years old now, so I might have to make an upgrade. It's interesting how they're theoretically handling the markets. It takes away my idea of "smuggling" stuff from one side to the other.

My day yesterday, even though I know you don't care.

Work was full of dealing with rude customers. Then I had to go and take my horse to her new owner. I had been talking with the new owner for a good long time, and every time I had talked to her I said that Stardust needed to have time to adjust to the new place before she rode her, and that does does best with other horses around her to make her more comfortable. SO. I take her there, and new owner really likes her, blah blah blah. We sign the sales contract in which I had stated that because of the fact that I have no time, no money, and no real desire to own a horse anymore, that I would not be able to take Stardust back in the case that it doesn't work out, but I would be more than happy to work with her to find a new owner. New owner signs the paperwork, I sign it, and we have a witness sign it.

I say goodbye to Stardust, and we go on our merry way. I get all of my stuff from the barn I was at, and go to my parents' house for a couple hours to visit. I leave, and there's two messages on my phone from the new owner, saying that she went for a ride, and Stardust bucked her off. Second message says that damn me for putting the "won't take her back" clause into the contract, and she didn't really read it when she signed, and if I didn't take her back, she would shoot Stardust with a 12 gauge.

So, I call her back and ask what was up, and as she's explaining, she did EVERYTHING that I had told her not to do with her, including not giving her any time to adjust to the new place, she rode her without anyone around in case anything went wrong, and didn't ride her with other horses so she could draw calm from them. I TOLD her she would need time to adjust, but she completely ignored me. So now I have to figure out a way to get Stardust back, I need to find $300 for hay for the winter, or I need to find $250 to have her euthanized.

So no, I'm not taking ribbing very well from anyone today.

And I'm taking the fire option for the bullets or whatever when it is released. Because I think it would look cool.

I'm so sorry to hear that Viv. Stardust probably didn't like the lady anyways.

Back from my jack there...

I'm really pleased at how we're getting the shadows, water, and reflection upgrades. The audience's reaction was pretty priceless. I can just imagine how the more water-based zones are going to look with the new water/reflection stuff. Very cool.

Viv, I have to go back to that post. you should not have to take the horse back. The woman signed off on the contract, and she's the wench for not reading it through and knowing the implications. Considering you have her signature to buy Stardust, and writing out that she would abuse the animal (a criminal offense), you have the upper hand morally and legally.

I would want to get her to a new owner as well, since the woman is obviously a wench and would mistreat Stardust (threatening to kill her shows she doesn't give a rip and knows you do), but you shouldn't have to pay to keep her in the meantime.

Good luck with it no matter what.

And seriously, Pol/Suckerpunch, if someone obviously doesn't want to be ribbed, let it go. Viv obviously jokes around most of the time, but we all have days where we can't take it so well.

Anyway, back on with my OP. Not sure what to do with the ammo for the dual pistols... we'll have to see what the secondary does. It might be as simple as fire doing more ticks of damage, ice slowing, toxic lowering resists, and lethal lowering defense, but who knows, it might be more complex. Might go with ice for the look, but we'll see.

I do like the graphics upgrades, it will make things more immersive, and kind of make things seem new again, even if you're on a map with the same layout. But it's interesting, CoH is quite pretty already. You don't notice it if you have everything turned down, but I was rather amazed when I upgraded back in January... everything looked amazing. Water already looks good to me. And I had no clue Night Widows etc. had a metallic sheen to their armor: I thought it was just matte! Crazy.

Also, the damage split for the exotic ammo is 70% lethal, 30% special (fire, toxic, cold)

I just saw the movie "Equilibrium"

I'm making a duel pistols character as well.

Gun Katas ftw!

I'm going to make a Duel Pistols Corruptor based on the ghost of Aaron Burr.

I'll probably make a Dual Pistols character as well.

MG, that was hilarious. Oh, and I'm still wondering how you know it's going to be 70/30 for the damage. I also wonder if the regular ammo Dual Pistols will get a slight damage buff to compensate, as in about 80% of content they will be facing resists of some sort.

Pol, I'm not saying you should walk on eggshells. Act like you usually do... just adjust if someone says don't go there. My friends and I rib each other plenty, but there are times when we can't handle it, and we back off then. That's all I was saying.

Niv, I still wish KB did some type of damage in this game. There was a game for the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox called X-men Legends, and I loved playing Colossus. You could throw out huge punches, hitting one guy in front, hitting other guys behind him, and knock them all back, doing further damage to those behind them. Awesome stuff.

KB is fun and visceral, but something like that would be really make my day.

Apparently there is going to be an electric control at some point as well, which is nifty. I hope they get an Elec APP for heroes at some point as well... would work nice for my Controller and a few other people.

And yay for Victory. I got negative repped for a typo earlier in the thread! My only negative rep is from fellow Victoryites, too. I love you all!