My graphics card seems to be having major issues with the heat that CoH makes it generate, and I expect that I will not be on the game very often for a while until I replace it. Bob, sorry about the repeated bouncing on Saturday; it just kept locking up on me. Y'all have fun; I'll see you when I can get it up and running.Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
http://www.lrgames.com
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

My account ran out this past Friday and I don't have any money to re-up it until at least this Friday. Bummer.
Just a bit of poor timing, really. Got a good job working for Verizon Fiber Optics. Pays VERY well. Good options and benefits.
And JUST in time, too. My funds had run out. I am down basically to the "ramen, ramen, and for a change of pace, ramen!" selection for my diet. the rest of my money goes into the gas tank to get me to and from this weeks training classes.
But Friday I SHOULD have a nice hefty wad of cash available to aleviate all my woes! And I can re-up my COH/COV and WOW subscriptions!
Just thought I'd mention though, that I won't be _completely_ gone though. A friend of mine has an account that he hardly ever uses anymore. He's being very good about things and said "Sure, you can use it!" So for now until Friday, if you want to find me, look for "Vigdis Brightblade" on Virtue. Broadsword/Invulnerable Scrapper.
Yes, the name is an homage to Gryphon's UF: SOS. I may recreate her on my own account with a different name. I REALLY liked how the outfit came out. And I'm having fun with the broadsword. Heh. ^_^
-Logan
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"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
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Stop Watching Anime and Go Outside, to the Avenue Q song There Is Life Outside Your Apartment and 35 different series (including Kodocha and Risky Safety (Edit: And Ogenki Clinic, so it's likely NSFW)). I haven't downloaded it yet, but it's from Doki Doki Productions - Tim makes good AMVs.
There's the animemusicvideos.org version that members can download, and the (probably lower-quality) YouTube version...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

An acquaintance of mine just gave me ~11.9 *GB* of songs- most of them classic,to one degree or another. We're talking about 6,700 potential power songs here.
Sounds like I've got my work cut out for me...Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...

During the social at Pocket D last night, Seventh Sister of the Liberty F.O.R.C.E. suggested that we might want to try to organize a large-scale RP event between our groups. She asked that I try and find someone willing to liaise between us and them (as will she) to make the arrangements.
Is anyone interested in trying to set something up?
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

I am pleased to announce the recruitment of a new member to the Legendary -- Bladestryke, a L2 Katana scrapper whose other important details I didn't learn.
And please welcome Bladestryke's player to the Legendary community -- the near-legendary-himself Bert Van Vliet, aka "SkyKnight", author of The Bubblegum Zone and other fine works.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Can't get to it.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

This is a mod that can be added to your City of Heroes datafiles. It replaces the texture maps for various pieces of art in the base and office spaces in the game. Here, check out our base lounge seen through the "eyes" of Lora'Lai with the mods on my system.

Pretty nice, eh? Just want to stress that this is NOT something you will see if you don't have the mod on your system. You'll just see the normal generic artwork. This is client-side only. But if you do... Wow! Classy!
Here are some shots taken of various pieces throughout an office map mission.
Art 01
Art 02
Art 03
Art 04
Art 05
Art 06
These are just a sample. There are more, and a few I don't want to spoil for you. They're really quite cool when you aren't expecting them.
If you like, I can email you the files. Or you can go here and thank Electro for his fine work!-Logan
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"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
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I haven't enforced the 120-day rule in a while, but as has been noted in another thread, we're running up against the 75-member limit. So while I was on tonight, I checked the roster, and I am nominating the following individuals for removal from the group:
Aegis Sanctuary -- 230 days inactive
Silvery Silhouette -- 122 days inactive
(I hate to remove Aegis, as she was the first person I recruited for the revived Legendary and is still technically an officer, but she's been gone the best part of a year now...)
Queuing up for potential removal by the middle of next month:
BU-33CTP -- 109 days inactive
Nanaki -- 102 days inactive
If any of these characters are yours and you don't want them to leave the team, please tell me here and if at all possible log in to them to reset their inactive counters.
Otherwise I'll be removing them right away, or whenever their time comes.
Thanks.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Wow,what a busy day in Paragon this has been already.
Linky
The last time anyone put the words Marvel and Cryptic together in a new article waswell, the two parties announced that they had settled all litigation related to the suit Marvel filed against Crytpic Studios in relation to the game City of Heroes. Throughout the battle between Marvel and Crytpic, there were fans who suggested that the comic publisher and game studio needed to put their differences aside, and focus on creating a kickass massively multiplayer online game, a la CoH but set in the Marvel Universe, and using Marvel characters.
Fans who suggested that are getting the last laugh today, as it was announced at X06 that Cryptic will join Marvel and Microsoft Game Studios (their partnership was announced last summer) in developing a Marvel Universe MMO for both the Xbox 360 and Windows platform, and will allow seamless play for players on either system.
For us, this is a very exciting announcement for multiple reasons one of the first is that the Marvel Intellectual Property is universally recognizable, Frank Pape, Senior Director of Business Development, Microsoft Game Studios told Newsarama. We believe that it transcends the boundaries that currently exist on cross-platform on the two different audiences that you seem to find on both platforms. We believe that this can transcend that, and bring a new, fresh experience to the players on the MMO space on console, and Cryptic is our first choice, and the best choice we could have possible made to develop this game. Were very lucky to have had them sign on to develop the game. Theyve had a great track record in delivering MMOs such as City of Heroes and City of Villains both highly rated and highly successful games; as well as having games developed in a very timely fashion.
While the parties declined to discuss how former legal sparring partners turned into business partners (We call it water under the bridge, Pape said), it was suggested that Marvel and Microsoft were pursuing Cryptic.
There has been a very vibrant discussion with trying to get Cryptic to sign on as the developer, and both Marvel and Microsoft were very interested in having them become our partner, and thats been going on for many months, Pape said. The deal was signed a couple of months back, and now were ready to announce it to the world so everybody knows what they can expect to see out of the Marvel MMO. Its been going on for a while these things take time, but its time very well spent.
(more at the link)"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will RogersGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers