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1) If you could create a gonzo 80's-like cartoon show (My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, Gem, He-Man, She-ra, Thundercats, M.A.S.K., Silverhawks, Dinosaucers, or Bravestarr, as examples), what would it be and why?My Little Slaadi: Friendship is Chaos with some of the writers & animators stolen from Rick and Morty, Steven Universe, MLP:FIM, and Adventure Time. C'mon Hasbro, get WotC to loosen the IP strings so you can sell tons of slaadi figures and moichandizing.
If using slaadi fails, maybe Pathfinder goblins or kobolds could be the central characters?
2) If you could create an anime of any kind that you'd like, what would it be and why?Like Tron, only it's Freehold sucked into the anime equivalent of Sigil, and he can freely travel/adventure into all the other anime worlds.
WITH MORE NUDITY!
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1) If you could create a gonzo 80's-like cartoon show (My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, Gem, He-Man, She-ra, Thundercats, M.A.S.K., Silverhawks, Dinosaucers, or Bravestarr, as examples), what would it be and why?Pathfinder the cartoon. Staring a group of iconics (likely the core team from the comics), with other iconics coming on as guest stars. Come up with a good recurring villain, give them a handful of goblin henchmen...instant classic.
2) If you could create an anime of any kind that you'd like, what would it be and why?A second season of Outlaw Star, because I love that show.
join me on my crusade!
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I'M BACK ONLINE AT HOME BABY!!!!!
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So here's what happened.
I got into it with my cable company/isp due to the fact that they essentially forgot about me THREE FULL MODEM GENERATIONS AGO and I had been puttering along with pathetic internet for the past 8 years. They apologized profusely for this, and after some flirting with the cute girl in the service center, they THREW IN A ROUTER FOR FREE. My old router was at least 12 full years old if not older. After a brief moment of panic when nothing was connected(it turns out they need to essentially turn it "on" from their physical headquarters no matter what lights are blinking on the modem in my house), and I'm back online. Even better is that I discovered that my old desktop, which I thought had stopped working for internal reasons, was actually simply lacking a power cord that I conveniently/mysteriously found in a drawer in my desk. So now I can use my old h-game machine again(though I plan to get a new desktop before the year is out)! Which now has a direct wired connection to my new modem FOR EVEN MORE H-GAMINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and oh yeah, posting on here.
Now that I've gotten back online and everything seems jake with the internets, what antivirus programs are big nowadays?
I use McAfree.
I used to use Norton, but they got so big they began slowing down my computer by itself... like virus.
I've heard there are better than McAfree, but it's fast and works well for me.
I've heard bad things about McAfee taking over your computer...And even worse things about Norton.
REINSTALLED XWING ALLIANCE!!!!
Ugh. Both of those programs are evil and getting them off of a computer is worse than getting rid of a virus. If it can even be done. :/
I usually use avg cause I'm a cheapskate. My husband paid for some fancy antivirus program for his computer and I hate it because it's very needy and if it doesn't get regular attention it crashes everything and I have to troubleshoot. Again.
I think I am going to make a serious go of the XWAUpgrade forums package.
I use a club, which can get expensive, despite just being a big ass fallen branch
I have long had a problem with how my favorite starfighter, the Y-Wing, has been portrayed in the X-Wing series of games.
I know the Y-Wing is slow, and it's near suicidal to put it into most dogfighting situations beyond a Tie Bomber, standard Tie Fighter or a poorly piloted Tie Advanced. I understand that the programmers are all X-Wing(and Tie Advanced/Defender)fanboys. I GET THAT. However, there are serious balancing issues with the game on the alliance side when you are piloting anything other than an X-Wing. The Z-95 headhunter and T Wings in particular need help, but it's the Y-Wing I'm concerned with. I do not want the Y-Wing to be perfect. I don't want the Y-Wing to be invincible. I DO want the Y-Wing to more accurately reflect the stats it says it has in the game with respect to the hull strength, and in the fiction with respect to the swivel-based ion cannons and the improved targeting computer.
Had I my druthers, I would have the Y-Wing be capable of defensive fire for its ion cannon(I am willing to accept that the advanced defensive fire where the ship just constantly fires upon a selected target may make the ship too powerful for a starfighter and may take away from the Corellian Stock Freighters) and be able to lock missiles on a full kilometer farther away than any other ship and be able to attain that about 5 seconds faster. That's really all I want.
Ugh. Both of those programs are evil and getting them off of a computer is worse than getting rid of a virus. If it can even be done. :/
I usually use avg cause I'm a cheapskate. My husband paid for some fancy antivirus program for his computer and I hate it because it's very needy and if it doesn't get regular attention it crashes everything and I have to troubleshoot. Again.
AVG is what caused this whole mess in the first place by freaking out over a youtube video!!!! And it was nigh impossible to uninstall!
Then again, I am NOT aware of technology issues really. Maybe it really was that the router/modem needed to be fixed. I honestly don't know, and I need to find a way to educate myself without putting my netbook at risk.
Ugh. Both of those programs are evil and getting them off of a computer is worse than getting rid of a virus. If it can even be done. :/
I usually use avg cause I'm a cheapskate. My husband paid for some fancy antivirus program for his computer and I hate it because it's very needy and if it doesn't get regular attention it crashes everything and I have to troubleshoot. Again.AVG is what caused this whole mess in the first place by freaking out over a youtube video!!!! And it was nigh impossible to uninstall!
Then again, I am NOT aware of technology issues really. Maybe it really was that the router/modem needed to be fixed. I honestly don't know, and I need to find a way to educate myself without putting my netbook at risk.
Well, without being able to play with the system a bit, I don't know what the root cause of your problem is, program or hardware. But a quick google search for free antivirus programs brought up the names Avira and Avast. Both seem to have good reviews. So that gives you a couple of non AVG options. If you're not running Windows 8, AVG might not be the best choice anyway. It's designed to work with that OS for the most part. Can work with others, but best with Windows 8. Which is what I have on the only PC I have left to worry about. I use an iPad as my primary computer. This makes my life simpler and lets me only have to swear at other people's infernal machines. :P
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Awakening first, then 2. Hope you're enjoying the series. :)Just finished Dragon Age: Origins, after ~55 hours. Halfway through the credits, the music switched from haunting Celtic music to "This Is War" by 30 Seconds To Mars. Talk about tone whiplash.
And now... on to Origins: Awakening, or straight to Dragon Age 2?
I quite liked Origins, but I did notice a few glaring issues:
1. The game is padded like hell. One playthrough is 50 to 60 hours minimum, most of which consists of slogging your way though similar-looking rooms filled with the same three or four enemy types. Which brings me to...
2. Combat is monotonous, and most of the game is combat. I played a mage, and every combat encounter played out basically the same. Follow these steps until everything is dead:
- Find biggest target, then cast Death Hex, Misdirection Hex, Curse of Mortality, and Affliction Hex on it.
- Find weakest target, then cast Virulent Walking Bomb on it.
- If you're surrounded by melee fighters, cast Mind Blast. If you're being shot at by a bunch of archers, cast Death Cloud.
- If the largest target isn't dead yet, cast Crushing Prison on it.
- Spam Arcane Bolt at the closest target until everything dies.
- Repeat several hundred times, then win the game.
3. Mages are essentially broken. Especially debuffers. Extra-especially debuffers who also took Arcane Warrior. According to the stats, by the end of the game, my character had been dealing around 50% of the total damage for the party. That's half again what the archer was dealing, and WAY more than the party tank.
I thank you and I think I will go with Avast on this one. It is what my wife's old laptop used before it finally died(due to hardware/I-didn't-think-this-through!-type stupidity on the part of the devteam that created the laptop[seriously, who makes a laptop that will literally DIE once the webcam stops working because it's a part of the processor?]- NOT a virus), and it always updated and caught things regularly. I think I'll pick it up after I've finished downloading what is, apparently, the correct ultimate craft pack for x-wing alliance(the other one was fake/old/caused the program itself to never open?).
Awakening first, then 2. Hope you're enjoying the series. :)Just finished Dragon Age: Origins, after ~55 hours. Halfway through the credits, the music switched from haunting Celtic music to "This Is War" by 30 Seconds To Mars. Talk about tone whiplash.
And now... on to Origins: Awakening, or straight to Dragon Age 2?
I quite liked Origins, but I did notice a few glaring issues:
1. The game is padded like hell. One playthrough is 50 to 60 hours minimum, most of which consists of slogging your way though similar-looking rooms filled with the same three or four enemy types. Which brings me to...
2. Combat is monotonous, and most of the game is combat. I played a mage, and every combat encounter played out basically the same. Follow these steps until everything is dead:
- Find biggest target, then cast Death Hex, Misdirection Hex, Curse of Mortality, and Affliction Hex on it.
- Find weakest target, then cast Virulent Walking Bomb on it.
- If you're surrounded by melee fighters, cast Mind Blast. If you're being shot at by a bunch of archers, cast Death Cloud.
- If the largest target isn't dead yet, cast Crushing Prison on it.
- Spam Arcane Bolt at the closest target until everything dies.
- Repeat several hundred times, then win the game.3. Mages are essentially broken. Especially debuffers. Extra-especially debuffers who also took Arcane Warrior. According to the stats, by the end of the game, my character had been dealing around 50% of the total damage for the party. That's half again what the archer was dealing, and WAY more than the party tank.
Dao has main character power level issues that were discussed up thread. Some people love being that powerful, others find it annoying.
Dao has main character power level issues that were discussed up thread. Some people love being that powerful, others find it annoying.
I played through the game about halfway as a warrior, and didn't have nearly the same issue. Warriors are pretty balanced, but combat is even more monotonous. For console players like me, it basically boils down to assigning your three most powerful attacks to your hotkey buttons and then mashing X, Y, and B until you win. The mage has more (though not much more) variety.
On another note: enemy AI is spotty as hell. Sometimes melee combatants will fight intelligently, other times they'll let you pull their kite string past your archer for several minutes. And other times, they'll stand stock still in their starting positions while you cast a Death Cloud through a closed door and watch them fall down dead in perfectly straight lines.
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Happy Pi Day! We'll be visiting the local pie shop and eating a wedge at 9:26:53.
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I should probably go to sleep by now... Oh, look, sun is rising...
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Hah! Plebeians, I don't use a virus protection program because memorizing your task manager integral processes and keeping an eye on your installed programs is easy.
=P
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Hah! Plebeians, I don't use a virus protection program because memorizing your task manager integral processes and keeping an eye on your installed programs is easy.
=P
Don't forget to check your registry daily for suspicious changes.
Hah! Plebeians,
It... it's like you know me!
Blargh.
My tonsils decided to choke me in the morning.
:(
Hah! Plebeians, I don't use a virus protection program because memorizing your task manager integral processes and keeping an eye on your installed programs is easy.
=P
Prole, not pleb, here, if you please! ;)
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So here's what happened.
I got into it with my cable company/isp due to the fact that they essentially forgot about me THREE FULL MODEM GENERATIONS AGO and I had been puttering along with pathetic internet for the past 8 years. They apologized profusely for this, and after some flirting with the cute girl in the service center, they THREW IN A ROUTER FOR FREE. My old router was at least 12 full years old if not older. After a brief moment of panic when nothing was connected(it turns out they need to essentially turn it "on" from their physical headquarters no matter what lights are blinking on the modem in my house), and I'm back online. Even better is that I discovered that my old desktop, which I thought had stopped working for internal reasons, was actually simply lacking a power cord that I conveniently/mysteriously found in a drawer in my desk. So now I can use my old h-game machine again(though I plan to get a new desktop before the year is out)! Which now has a direct wired connection to my new modem FOR EVEN MORE H-GAMINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and oh yeah, posting on here.
Now that I've gotten back online and everything seems jake with the internets, what antivirus programs are big nowadays?
Awesomesauce. :) I use avast, and haven't had a problem with viruses since using it, despite all kinds of internet usage. I, and the IT friends who directed me to it, highly recommend it.
Hah! Plebeians, I don't use a virus protection program because memorizing your task manager integral processes and keeping an eye on your installed programs is easy.
=P
I use firefox myself.
Blargh.
My tonsils decided to choke me in the morning.
you still have those?
Me, I still have my appendix. And I have never had the chicken pox, which worries me.
Ha! Tonsils, appendix, full head of hair, and all teeth still intact here.
(My left cheek goes numb really fast in the cold due to some frost damage when I was 2 or 3, though.)
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The mast is original, too, for that matter. Some of the oars had to be replaced after a wild night's looting, though. And the sail's been patched up a few times (darn fire arrows).
Taking care of some directx shenanigans...
Swing and a miss. XWA just doesn't start, not with the fancy darksaber stuff added on at least.
Still getting that dxgi.dll file missing error despite reinstalling directx. Hm.
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I use firefox myself.Hah! Plebeians, I don't use a virus protection program because memorizing your task manager integral processes and keeping an eye on your installed programs is easy.
=P
Me too. Only because I dont want Google to be the overlords of every program I use. Ha!
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I just don't like Chrome's layout.
I've had to take time with every subsequent Firefox release to change it back to the old layout format because it gets more and more like Chrome with each release.
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Pi day celebration success! French silk and white chocolate cherry.
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I've finally got a synth.
Now I need a shiny cape. And a helmet like the one on the front of 'Argus' by Wishbone Ash. Then I will be MOAR PROG THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE EVER.
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NO CAPES!!!
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yesterday in my county a wolf was killed by a car on the autobahn, the first wolf here since 150 years
it happend 9km/5.5 miles from Steinau an der Straße, that is the town the Brothers Grimm grew up,
it is not known if the wolf was big or bad or both
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yesterday in my county a wolf was killed by a car on the autobahn, the first wolf here since 150 years
it happend 9km/5.5 miles from Steinau an der Straße, that is the town the Brothers Grimm grew up,
it is not known if the wolf was big or bad or both
Huh. I wonder where the wolf wandered in from.
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We had a brown bear that somehow managed to get on Cape Cod (despite and enormous canal making it an ersatz island). Before they caught him he made it way up into the Cape proper. First bear we'd seen in hundreds of years.
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Trying to get musicians to respond to e-mail messages is like trying to herd cats on meth.
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Trying to get musicians to respond to e-mail messages is like trying to herd cats on meth.
Like?
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KEY LIME PIE FOR TODAY