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How many are a concentrated source touching your ear? I don't hold a lamp to my head, nor do I a television. Don't you recall the old cautionary about bringing up children near power lines? The cell phone is putting out just as much energy as that powerline and you're putting it right next to your skull!|
Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm afraid that if you're that scared of UHF signals doing something to your brain, then you'll be terrified to know that those radio waves are being used just about everywhere else as well. Simply refusing to use a cell phone won't help you one bit. If you're serious about not being touched by radio waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz, you'll have to move out into some extremely remote location (or better yet, deep into an underground cave) and encase yourself in a Faraday cage (with very thick walls of metal). You must also bring no device with you that generates an EM field of its own (translation: nothing electronic). So, no electric lights; you'll have to make do with gas lamps. So make sure to bring plenty of kerosene! You'll probably want an ample supply of oxygen as well.
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And, in the end, they're effectively a portable Robespierre.
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but, but, how else will you gain superpowers?
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Well, Hover got "fixed" and Lightning Storm got "fixed" after what, four years and some change? The worst part of it was the indignant finger-pointing that "Everyone KNEW they were bugged" and they were therefore "exploits" that went on in the forums afterward. Wait, what? But "fixed" they got.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
But I've been using it for years while Hovering so either the flavor text is wrong (like that never happens
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Moral of the story: Do not rely on it being a "bug they won't bother fixing."
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P.S. Having to summon a "floating" Vet Pet on the ground makes no sense regardless.
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"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Originally Posted by Scythus
How many are a concentrated source touching your ear? I don't hold a lamp to my head, nor do I a television. Don't you recall the old cautionary about bringing up children near power lines? The cell phone is putting out just as much energy as that powerline and you're putting it right next to your skull!
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Originally Posted by Mouse_Man
My pet peeve, not that anyone asked, is that the memorized recipes in the recipe windows are opened by default every time I check my recipes. Those trees really should default to closed when opening that window.
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Also...
- The buff-pet veteran power can only be summoned while on the ground
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
- When base building, the game assumes you've double clicked (probably due to lag) and jumps your character to the ground position, just when you are trying to adjust a vital piece in your elaborate creation, and thus drags the piece away from its position and completely ruins your perfectly set up camera angle
- Rage crashing just as you jump into a vast group of mobs
- Hitting for next to no damage during rage crash, then immediately its back up and you can do damage, you miss.... TWICE!
- Accuracy during the early levels (pre 25ish) - City of Failing Eyesight?
- the word "Miss"
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- the word "Miss"
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- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
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Originally Posted by Scythus
The cell phone is putting out just as much energy as that powerline and you're putting it right next to your skull!
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What? A cell phone with a small, light battery is putting out as much energy as a power line hooked up to a major power plant and supplying an entire city? What kind of cell phones are you using?
It doesn't matter how close you put the thing to your ear. You live inside electromagnetic fields every moment of every day, unless you live out in the woods. Everything electronic puts out an EM field, and it doesn't matter if you put it to your ear or look at it from across the room. Your cell phone's radio is powerful enough to reach a comm tower outside of your house, through your walls and through surrounding buildings, and it broadcasts that signal in all directions. It doesn't matter if you're next to it, across the room or in the next building over. You're inside its broadcast radius.
Even if you don't own a cell phone, your neighbour probably does, and it's transmitting its signal straight through your head. Right now, in fact. If you have a wireless router in the room, that's broadcasting straight into your head. That satellite dish your neighbour has? It only picks up a broadcast that's coming down from space anyway, which means a satellite is currently broadcasting straight into your head right now. Do you have a GPS in your car? Same deal. Do you have a wireless mouse or keyboard? They're broadcasting into your head.
And on top of that, everything electronic broadcasts an EM field just by working. And those EM fields tend to not really decay by all that much over space. So it doesn't matter if you hold your lights to your head. They're broadcasting an EM field inside your head either way. It doesn't matter if you watch your TV from the other end of the room. It's broadcasting an EM field inside your head, unless you're watching it through solid lead or a large water tank. In fact, older cathode-ray tube TVs are basically emitters aimed at the screen, and with you on the other side, those are emitters aimed AT YOU. Those speakers you hear sound out of? They broadcast some serious EM fields, too. Hell, you get blasted by electro-magnetic waves FROM SPACE all the time just doing nothing.
I mean, sure, if you want to be afraid of these things, then I really can't argue with that. But to single out cell phones when they're one of the smallest offenders is just... Unreasonable.
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I hate Steel Canyon contacts that send me to Skyway City and Skyway City contacts that send me to Steel Canyon. I also hate that I can't dangle these contacts from rooftops by their ankles while singing, "Got no joy, got no phone, got no missions in this zone! Now it's your turn to fly, oops you fell out of the sky!"
Dev teams doing everything short of stating categorically that an issue will be released on a certain day, then not releasing it on that day?
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Originally Posted by Melancton
Well, Hover got "fixed" and Lightning Storm got "fixed" after what, four years and some change? The worst part of it was the indignant finger-pointing that "Everyone KNEW they were bugged" and they were therefore "exploits" that went on in the forums afterward. Wait, what? But "fixed" they got.
Moral of the story: Do not rely on it being a "bug they won't bother fixing." |
If the Devs ever bother to "fix/nerf" Hot Feet to somehow only work when we are on the ground I'll either adapt to it or stop using it. There wouldn't be much I could do if the Devs wanted to ruin my enjoyment of that power. On the other hand the Devs could also just rename the power "Hot Cloud" (like Choking Cloud) to more accurately reflect how the power -actually- works.
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Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
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Things that bug me: "Souvenirs" were pretty clearly supposed to be actual items that your character picked up during an arc. The name of the souvenir is the name of the item. The description starts with "This item reminds you of a story, a story you like to call.... Title Of The Arc."
Most souvenirs for new storyarcs follow this convention, but the ones introduced for the Hollows/Striga/Croatoa storyarcs are just the title of the arc and a description. What, did I stuff "Flux the Outcast" into my Vault of Heroic Deeds between "An etched Clockwork piece" and "The PsychoChronoMetron"? Does he just sit there all day and tell me about the time we had an adventure together whenever I ask? How am I holding a "Piercing the Veil" next to my "Freakalympics gold medal"? THIS MAKES NO SENSE ARGH.
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Things that bug me: "Souvenirs" were pretty clearly supposed to be actual items that your character picked up during an arc. The name of the souvenir is the name of the item. The description starts with "This item reminds you of a story, a story you like to call.... Title Of The Arc."
Most souvenirs for new storyarcs follow this convention, but the ones introduced for the Hollows/Striga/Croatoa storyarcs are just the title of the arc and a description. What, did I stuff "Flux the Outcast" into my Vault of Heroic Deeds between "An etched Clockwork piece" and "The PsychoChronoMetron"? Does he just sit there all day and tell me about the time we had an adventure together whenever I ask? How am I holding a "Piercing the Veil" next to my "Freakalympics gold medal"? THIS MAKES NO SENSE ARGH. |
Loth 50 Fire/Rad Controller [1392 Badges] [300 non-AE Souvenirs]
Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
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Badges: They need to be listed in a much more user friendly way. Even alphabetically by type would be an improvement to the mishmash we have now.
Recipes: I've MADE THE LOST CURING WANT! I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER! Get it off of my list or at least get it out of the way.
Temp Powers: Why so many? They just take up valuable recipe space.
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Something's that's bugged me for a long while has been, of all things, box cover art.
On the City of Heroes box, you've got Statesman, Sister Psyche, along with a dozen or so other heroes charging.
And you know what? If you think these guys look cool, you can make them! or at least something reasonably close to them.
On the City of Villains box, you have Lord Recluse producing his minions from his armpits.
And you know what? If you think these guys are cool, too bad.
Can I duplicate Ghost Widow's costume? No. Can I get something close? Nah-ah.
What about Captain Mako? Sorry. Something close? Out of the question.
Scirocco? Nada on both accounts.
Black Scorpion? Nope.jpeg
What the hell? And it's six issues before I'm able to even make myself look like any of the mooks behind the four Generals. Oh, and Lord Recluse is right out.
Hell, even with GR's cover we have ONE character we can make something close to (Dedemona, though there's only three if I recall).
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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It's not just that they attack while phase shifted - it's that powers that definitely left your hand while they were VISIBLE won't hit them if they phase shift in the travel time. That's BS.
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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Illusionists attacking from Phase sucks and has always sucked; I will agree with that one.
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Something's that's bugged me for a long while has been, of all things, box cover art.
On the City of Heroes box, you've got Statesman, Sister Psyche, along with a dozen or so other heroes charging. And you know what? If you think these guys look cool, you can make them! or at least something reasonably close to them. On the City of Villains box, you have Lord Recluse producing his minions from his armpits. And you know what? If you think these guys are cool, too bad. Can I duplicate Ghost Widow's costume? No. Can I get something close? Nah-ah. What about Captain Mako? Sorry. Something close? Out of the question. Scirocco? Nada on both accounts. Black Scorpion? Nope.jpeg What the hell? And it's six issues before I'm able to even make myself look like any of the mooks behind the four Generals. Oh, and Lord Recluse is right out. Hell, even with GR's cover we have ONE character we can make something close to (Dedemona, though there's only three if I recall). |
"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."
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Oh, it's worse than that! Those old CRTs actually emitted X-Rays. The tube's glass actually contained with a certain amount of lead in order to retard how much of that actually leaked out. And unlike radio waves, x-rays are ionizing radiation, which meant it could actually do some harm.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
...In fact, older cathode-ray tube TVs are basically emitters aimed at the screen, and with you on the other side, those are emitters aimed AT YOU...
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According to Wikipedia: "CRTs can emit a small amount of X-ray radiation as a result of the electron beam's bombardment of the shadow mask/aperture grille and phosphors. The amount of radiation escaping the front of the monitor is widely considered unharmful. The Food and Drug Administration regulations in 21 C.F.R. 1020.10 are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0.5 milliroentgens per hour (mR/h) (0.13 µC/(kg·h) or 36 pA/kg) at a distance of 5 cm (2 in) from any external surface; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit."
And now you know!!
Statesman's lazy eye on the loading screen has been bothering me for years. Sometimes I put the little spinning circle over it and laugh at him.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
There are two things that bug the bejeebers out of me. When I enter a door and proceed to bubble/buff/interact with a teammate or pet and the damn reticle of whatever is behind me is so big I click on that first instead.
Second thing I hate is how target next cycles. If I target something in a group and it ends up being the farthest thing from me in that group, the next target is something 0.75 miles away in the next map. Now, reassure me dear devs, is that how the word 'next' operates when the mechanics of the game apply taunt, or any other Targetted AoE function in applying the 15/16 max spawn count for GDF/ED nerf AoEs that gimped controllers and tamed tankers?
Triumphant Defenders Forever
Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
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What? A cell phone with a small, light battery is putting out as much energy as a power line hooked up to a major power plant and supplying an entire city? What kind of cell phones are you using? It doesn't matter how close you put the thing to your ear. You live inside electromagnetic fields every moment of every day, unless you live out in the woods. Everything electronic puts out an EM field, and it doesn't matter if you put it to your ear or look at it from across the room. Your cell phone's radio is powerful enough to reach a comm tower outside of your house, through your walls and through surrounding buildings, and it broadcasts that signal in all directions. It doesn't matter if you're next to it, across the room or in the next building over. You're inside its broadcast radius. Even if you don't own a cell phone, your neighbour probably does, and it's transmitting its signal straight through your head. Right now, in fact. If you have a wireless router in the room, that's broadcasting straight into your head. That satellite dish your neighbour has? It only picks up a broadcast that's coming down from space anyway, which means a satellite is currently broadcasting straight into your head right now. Do you have a GPS in your car? Same deal. Do you have a wireless mouse or keyboard? They're broadcasting into your head. And on top of that, everything electronic broadcasts an EM field just by working. And those EM fields tend to not really decay by all that much over space. So it doesn't matter if you hold your lights to your head. They're broadcasting an EM field inside your head either way. It doesn't matter if you watch your TV from the other end of the room. It's broadcasting an EM field inside your head, unless you're watching it through solid lead or a large water tank. In fact, older cathode-ray tube TVs are basically emitters aimed at the screen, and with you on the other side, those are emitters aimed AT YOU. Those speakers you hear sound out of? They broadcast some serious EM fields, too. Hell, you get blasted by electro-magnetic waves FROM SPACE all the time just doing nothing. I mean, sure, if you want to be afraid of these things, then I really can't argue with that. But to single out cell phones when they're one of the smallest offenders is just... Unreasonable. |
http://www.rense.com/general63/FACTS.HTM
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...e-brain-cancer
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569465,00.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/devra-..._b_585992.html
Well, look at that Sam, you're wrong again. Excuse me for not wanting to bake my brain.
By the way, I don't own a car and I have a hatred for GPS anyway since it's nobody's business where I drive. Oh yeah, and no wireless mouse or keyboard either.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Ones designed by Rob Liefeld?
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Tee Hee!
We can't organize our character lists, you know, by most recently played, or level, etc.