In 30 days time, I'll be slipping into my 30's. (I'll be 31 on October 3rd). I invite you all to come and celebrate with me on Sunday October 1st on Virtue Server, in Pocket D, the Supergroup Base, on a badge hunt or just on missions in general. And the evening of October 2nd on infinity Server , same deal.
No presents but your presence.
(Bob, I'd love it if Peggy could join us. And whoever else has spouses or SO's -significant others, not single origins sheesh! ;-) bring them along too.)
-Cindy

In order to play this video, I need to install either a new piece of software or a new codec. Media Player Classic knows how to use external-to-it codecs, and thus should be able to play anything, so why should I clutter my system with software for one video? I don't want to install a codec pack - I've had bad experiences with them in the past.
So... anyone know where to find the codecs necessary to play an "MP4 file, using H.264 and AAC video and audio compression", and just those codecs?

-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

Surprise surprise.
I'm coming back to CoH.
On a whim I ressurected my very first CoH character, with some new things I've learned along the way. If you see an MA/Regen Scrapper Sisial in game on Virtue, that's me.
On the Villain side, also on Virtue, I'm bumming around with an Elec/Elec Brute named Requiem Rosered.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

As mentioned over on General/General, I recently got a box of 10 "AIC Heroines" figures. I'm selling off three duplicates: Pretty Sammy from Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (I've already promised first refusal on this one to Morganni), Iczer-1 from Iczer-1, and Akari from Battle Athletes. These are the standard figures, not the "re-paint" ones with translucent hair. The figures are approximately 11cm (4.5") tall, and not in scale to each other.
I'm asking $US10 each, plus the cost of whatever shipping method you specify - this is close to my cost for each figure (including customs). I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. If you don't want the box, I can put the figure in a bubble-mailer and mail it as an envelope; if you do want the box, it'll have to go as a small parcel, which costs more. I've kept three boxes in good enough shape to re-glue closed.
As already mentioned, I've promised first refusal on the Pretty Sammy figure to Morganni. If I don't hear from him by Tuesday morning, I'll assume he doesn't want it. For either or both of the other two, first offer to buy for each figure received at robkelk -atsign- gmail -period- com takes it or them.

-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

From the description, it's intended for before Issue 8. Hell, I'd get it just for the character slots.
pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p30635.htm

Features:
Exclusive in-game bonus items!
Jump Jet Prestige Power
Pocket D VIP Card Teleport Power
Exclusive Hero and Villain Costumes
Full versions of both City of Heroes and City of Villains
DVD bonus digital items: City of Heroes comic books, Prima Issue 7 Strategy Guide update pack, movies, game trailers, screenshots, and more!
Exclusive two-sided poster featuring Paragon City and Rogue Isles maps
Twelve character slots per server (four additional character slots)
All content updates including Issue 7: Destiny Manifest
NCsoft game trials and other offers
First month of play included

Followed on the official boards with this post from Cricket:
boards.cityofheroes.com/s...ost6347680
"Sooo. erm. yeah. Surprise!
The Good Versus Evil Edition is *not* a hoax. This is very real, although we have not yet announced *any* details as of yet. These details will come in all due time. "
"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

About halfway through a mission, this goit starts sending me tells.
[Team]pooler: somtimes i feel i've got to
[Team] Jackie Marie Frost: Pooler, please feel yourself on your own time.
pooler: you would enjoy that
[Team]pooler: you have a panty line jackie
Jackie:: Not particularly, no. Narcissists do not make sensitive lovers.
pooler: yeah but i do
Jackie:: That is not what the graffiti in the ladies washroom says.
pooler: i wrote it not to seem cocky
Jackie:: That smacks of desperation.
pooler: i hate when guys play as women
Jackie:: No, you hate it when people are wittier than you are. It must happen quite a bit.
pooler: what
Jackie:: Should I have used smaller words?
pooler: nothing you need be made privy to
Jackie:: You have the sophistication of a manhole.
Jackie:: If you are going to try and match wits, at least put in an effort.
pooler: i heard thats not the case with you
Jackie:: That is your retort? For shame.
pooler: its a improvisation
Jackie:: No, Improvisation contains wit.
pooler: being a chick requires a v
Jackie:: You shall have to do better than that.
[pooler: i bet your a guy trying to pick up desperate guys here
pooler: weren't you on to catch a predator
Jackie:: Ask my wife, she's on this team.
pooler: she said yep and your package is small
pooler: she said she needs a real hero
pooler: one with a ponytail
Jackie:: Sorry, she is educated and only goes for guys with great big vocabularies and the ability to use the shift key.
pooler middle fingure
pooler: you can think that
pooler: i bet she is so bored
Jackie:: I can think period, which places me well above you.
pooler: this is almost entertaining
Jackie:: No, it is tiresome, a battle of wits with unarmed person bores me.

Sometimes the Circle of Thorns transform people.
Sometimes they do it to themselves

When engaging, nothing beats a full frontal.
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

Well, Mighty Solaris called together a Coalition meeting tonight just for a get together and I decided to make the trip. It was an interesting affair and I know of 3 other groups allied with the Liberty F.O.R.C.E.
Solaris is calling a weekly meeting on Thrusdays in Pocket D. He asked me to spread the word and to try to get as many of us down there as we can get.
I plan on attempting to be there as much as my work schedule allows. Can I wrangle some kind of Coalition Liasion from this? Just wondering.
Here's a picture of the massive group

When engaging, nothing beats a full frontal.
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

Oh, and before I forget, last night I was paged by a guy who invited Looney Toons to a team in a way that was so perfectly roleplayed that I felt guilty about turning him down. (So guilty, in fact, that the next time I play Looney, I'm planning on looking for him to offer help.) I mentioned him on the group channel, and it turned out that Wide Receiver had teamed with him before, and .Silhouette was in a team with him at that very moment. When we explained the level of RP he was doing, the suggestion was made to invite him to the group, and a request to see the query was made.
Well, the last I heard he was in discussions with at least .Sil over group membership, and I forgot to relay his messages to me. I'm correcting the latter now, thanks to a chat log:

Quote:

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[Tell]Renn Highsight: ::An awkward teen's voice comes over your Comm:: Um, Mr Looney Toons? There's some bad men that my sister says need to be arrested. Can you give us a hand?
...(after I turned him down)...
[Tell]Renn Highsight: Oh... um... ok... See I told you he wouldn't want to. Kharos told me! ::Renn seems to be talking to someone apparantly in the background::

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I suppose it's the combination of still being sick, sorta, and being very short on sleep (Peggy worked until midnight last night, and needed me to pick her up from her job -- a round trip of over an hour...), but I had a thoroughly weird idea for a themed supergroup that I wanted to throw out to folks.
A Dada/Surrealist supergroup.
Call it something like "The Pink Wombat Stretchers", make characters with names like "The Eructent Structure" who wear costumes which are the result of the "random" button. And roleplay it completely in the public channels -- which means all public dialogue would be completely incomprehensible gibberish or non sequiturs.
It might make for the occasional entertaining break from the serious Legendary stuff.
So, sound fun, or am I just spacing from illness and lack of sleep?
-- Bob
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