OK, after the conversation Noah and A.C. have over the field-com system I put together this for open use. Rob's had a look and, other than the Sat-com stuff I've recently added after looking up some info, he felt it was OK.
Have fun.

A monkey playing.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=f662c8df87

Because, man, I know I ask a lot of tech questions. I feel guilty about that. So I'll ask a tech question and you guys ask me a question about . . . well, anything, really. Why is the sky purple? Who named all the colors of the rainbow? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Anyway: question: mIRC-related.
When the server notice: "This server is using an alternate send method, please make sure your DCC Server is active and set to port 6060. /dccserver +sc on 6060" shows up and you do indeed type in /dccserver +sc on 6060, and the screen responds with "DCC Server is on (6060,Send,Chat,Fserve)." Yet when you go to get the file you wanted it gives you the same server notice "this server is using blah blah blah" . . . What do you do? What's wrong? Why oh why oh why is it so difficult?

Damn.
Some videos and retrospective.
The following quote from a poster at the above site pretty much says it all for me:

Quote:

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Sigh. I miss him, and I probably havent thought of him in years. Superman cant just die. Not of natural causes.
I guess God needed a headliner for his Christmas show. After Steve Irwin wrestles Cerberus, Evel is going to attempt to jump right over Hell.
Should be a good show.
RIP, EK. You the man.

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((I thought I'd get some common ground for the SI group started, so we all agree on SOME of the events that led to us being in Paragon.))
It all started with Some Random Con in New York City.
After much discussion and planning, several of the players from the City of Heroes global channel, The Legendary, decided to set up a face-to-face meeting. Surrounded by writers, fans, actors and various sundry sci-fi types, the channel mates met in the lobby of one of the hotels connected to the convention center.
After introductions were passed around, they got down to a typical gabfest when a hole in reality opened before them. Well... more accurately below them. Newtonian Laws of Motion being what they were, the gathered throng of gamers began to accelerate at 32 feet per second per second into the portal. Several shouts of dismay and startlement rang out, then one-by one, they blacked out...
... and woke up in a hospital. A strange hospital to be sure. What's that structure of rings over in the corner? It kind of looks like... no it couldn't be a medical teleporter like in-game, could it? A few seconds of disorientation pass, and an official-looking person with a clipboard is standing by the privacy curtains in each ward. As if reading from a script, or a prepared speech, each of them begins....
"Welcome to Paragon City! Would you mind answering a few questions?"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Is anyone here familiar enough with British English to help me check over a few short omake (both, combined, are presently less than ten KB) to make sure I got the British characters' dialogue correct?
Or, to put it another way, I need a brit-picker for a pair of very short omake. Any volunteers?-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

Concerning Skye's character:-
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[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He's a very nice Rikti.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Officer K'Mira, formerly Chevalier K'Mira, Rikti traitor, Longbow Officer.
...
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Woohoo!
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: K'Mira has his cape!
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: yay cape!
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Grats!
[The Legendary] Atlantea: That must have been kind of weird though. I mean, you're going up against the Lost or (at higher levels if you put it off long enough) Rikti. A little irony there?
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Much irony
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: But K'Mira considers them his responsibility, at least in part
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: It was his people who created them
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He's a very moral, upstanding, and honorable Rikti.
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Gratds!
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Traditionalist, I assume?))
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: You've met K'Mira
[The Legendary] Stormgear: I have.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He serves Longbow
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Only
[The Legendary] Stormgear: ...But like...
[The Legendary] Stormgear: Why?
[The Legendary] Acyl: Chicks dig the uniform
[The Legendary] Stormgear: XD
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: always a good reason
[The Legendary] Acyl: Status: Da Ladiesman
[The Legendary] Acyl: Location: In Da House
[The Legendary] Atlantea: ROTFLMAO
[The Legendary] Atlantea: That. Is. WRONG! XD
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: pahahahahahahaha
[The Legendary] Acyl: This: Cannot Touch
[The Legendary] Acyl: Na: Na: Na: Na
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Status: Cannot breath
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: well, I gotta stop now, it's hammertime.. *rimshot*
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Baby: Ice, Ice.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Stop: Collaborate & Listen
[The Legendary] Atlantea: (Please tell me someone is SAVING this convo! )
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Salutations mes amis!
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Quit: Denied. Rational: Too Legit.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: hiya fox!
[The Legendary] Kaeda: Foxy.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: On my knees: every night, you know I'm pray
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Are we doing Rikti Pop Music now?
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Affirmative: Yes, Meatbag
[The Legendary] Atlantea: It's worse than that.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So who's the new guy that EML is bringing in?
[The Legendary] Acyl: Location: Shady, Slim, verification
[The Legendary] Acyl: Shady Slim: Request vertical orientation
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Stop before I hit my head.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oh ghod RAP
[The Legendary] Acyl: Well, see, Stormgear asked why Skye's Rikti character would join Longbow.
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Reason For Action: Because I am a Criminal
[The Legendary] Acyl: And my reply was 'Chicks dig the uniform'
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Because he discovered the truth behind the Lineage's actions, and the truth behind the war.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And when he discovered they didn't actually -care-
[The Legendary] Acyl: The Man: Keeping me down
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: the rikti are really here for our music
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And that they were just killing out of hatred, and humans didn't deserve to be treated that way
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hehe
[The Legendary] Wiregeek: Mars Needs Rhythm!
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He turned traitor, because he's a very honorable soldier.
[The Legendary] Stormgear: ...Zentraedi?
...
-- Acyl

OK, it was my fault, I readily admit that. But thanks for joining me tonight guys! That was great fun.
For those who didn't join us, we had a self insert night on Justice hero side.

And with names added:

Same time next week? Anyone else want to join?
-Cindy

It's long past the time, I think, when this could've been made a plot point, but I still feel like throwing it out for discussion just to make trouble.
Marller/Mara's seiyuu, at least according to Wikipedia, is Urara Takano. She also, by the way, voices Maria in Sakura Wars, something to bear in mind for the future. What caught my attention, however, was that she had a role in the Bubblegum Crisis OVA: "Kate."
As Bob pointed out with regard to why Doug hasn't noticed a resemblance between Lisa and Skuld's voices, it's been something like ten years for him. And he heard Madigan's voice far less than Lisa's. I thought it was funny anyway. -----
Gentlemen, it has long been my conviction that all citizens should provide services for which their talents best suit them in support of those who have been called to duty. In the case of politicians such as yourselves, that would be target practice.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

"Yes." The old man began to breathe normally. "Somehow Darth Vader with breasts is just less disturbing."
There are a few (at the moment just one but I'm sure it will grow) omake to the Shinji and WH40k story:
www.fanfiction.net/s/3920...3_Takeouts
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."