Bayani

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Good morning willnova. Have a donut or a cookie...

*Slowly he sways back and forth from the webstrand leading to the ceiling.*

Anyone got some scissors?

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Weblines are pretty tough actually. Flexible but strong as steel cable. It'll evaporate in an hour.

*borrows Spider-Man's web-shooter and hits Fedor with a webline, then attaches him to another line from the ceiling*

There.

Oops. >.>

shhh! He's thinking! *points to the steam coming out of Cap's ears*

What's Aion?

*hands virus a cup of extra bold Newman's Own blend and goes back to figuring out a strange puzzle*

Nice work. Though I think the spirits on the left and and right could've been a different color. They seem to blend into that background wall so it loses a bit of pop.

Couldn't wait to start the new Rookery thread hm?

*sips his Newman's coffee and blitzes through work email*

I've requested that folks who mentioned/used my character without my expressed permission change their entries but I haven't edited other people pages.

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Emgro it is far too late to back pedal now. You must hide and arm yourself, it's going to be like a zombie apocalypse! Cept they will all be women, with torches and curling irons!

You must be working from home hmm Yuri?

*With a hop and a bounce he pounces on Madisen and musses her hair mercilessly.*

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Backpedal? Never. I do not retract my statement, merely explain it. I have no regrets!

*stands pompously in the middle of the Rookery, cape blowing in an artificial wind from an oscillating fan plugged into the Iron Rook*

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Hrm.

*discretely takes down his "Advanced MS Excel Certification" Award and slips it into a desk drawer*

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Insurance companies are the worse than the mafia. At least when you pay the mafia they prevent things! Insurance doesn't prevent anything AND they don't pay for anything.


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Well, Healthcare's a pretty tough issue these days as I'm learning by working for a company who's mission is to help doctors manage their finances and get timely and correct payment from the insurance companies that they bill. Insurance doesn't prevent anything, that's true. Insurance is a financial tool that helps customers manage risk and ensure that if god forbid something were to happen to you, you wouldn't have to pay out of your nose to remedy the situation.

Common sense would dictate that in a fair system, doctors would get paid for keeping you healthy. The current system however rewards doctors by the procedure. And it's been very difficult to change that because these insurance companies and some doctors are profiting greatly from the way the current system is (pay-per-procedure) and they have very powerful lobbyists to protect the current system. It stinks really but there are folks out there looking to make a serious change to healthcare reform. Not just by universal healthcare (which I don't feel will solve the issue as money just doesn't pop up out of nowhere). The crazy costs of healthcare are partially mired in how doctors get paid for their services from insurance companies. One of the ridiculous things about the insurance companies is that their invoice processing is still being done by the same software platform and infrastructure they developed in the 1960s. As a result, they don't communicate on a timely basis with doctors regarding rejected invoices and force them to jump through all sorts of hoops to get their invoices paid. That means in turn, doctors have to hire more staff and spend more of their time dealing with the crappy details of running a business (getting paid for their work) rather than focusing on you, the patient. That in turn leads to higher prices on healthcare because the cost to stay in business for doctors increases and more doctors are saying "screw this" and leaving medicine entirely.

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best thing i could make was this.

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Right. All we needed was another Thor's Assassin piece.

Don't you guys ever draw somene else ?






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Well it's usually either TA or some toon with serious t & a going on. Maybe you need to make a Spinolita or something.

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>.> I wasn't aware I needed a specific thread or reason to post fluff.

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If it keeps the fluff out of all the other threads, I'm all for it.

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That would require most of the fluff posters to A) be on Virtue, B) get along, and C) agree to consolidate it all into once place.

Statistically unlikely.

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Carlin's ideas about stuff/crap apply to forums as well. If a post is yours or your friends'...it's content. If it's someone else's, it's fluff. Meh. There are alot more pressing things to be concerned about than forum fluff.

Oof. Harsh.

*still awaits football season and the return of Tom Brady*

I always thought that Invincible's new look is rather modern with it's dark blue and black. Invincible's original costume was iconic and awesome with black and gold splashed with a little blue. I wouldn't say it was a Golden Age look though/it's way more stylized and sleek. The Golden Age characters had brighter costumes with alot of red, blue, and gold. Even Batman's costume was a very light grey and bright blue.

Overall, the design's pretty clean, but I think another color would work well as LightSlinger mentioned. Or adding a costume piece that would be a sort of trademark.

*stumbles in, yawning* What a crazy [censored] week of work. What's crackin', folks?

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I have a question. What is the point of having more than one monitor? Seems to be a common theme here. What do you use it for?

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I use it primarily for work. It's super-helpful with spreadsheets and writing; using one window for internet-browsing or source material and the other for your work. It saves so much time when you have to cycle through windows less. I can also play games in windowed mode and chat with someone on AIM or look up ParagonWiki when I'm stuck in CoH.

Also...multiple pr0n streams running.

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Heh, I honestly did not know that.

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Yeah, the blade's always suppose to be facing opposite of gravity so it's not biting into the scabbard.


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Well it's more of a feng shui sort of thing. I do wear headphones though so yeah, I don't like people sneaking up on me. And the only way people would make money off my art is to ransom it back to me. It's not worth all that much on the open market. Who wants art of a character no one knows about?

Bayani's Desk

Over the desk is a picture of Black Cat/Spider-Man reproduced by Charlie Vess and signed by Stan Lee and a frame of 9x12 photos signed by 6 members of the cast of Farscape. (D'Argo, Chiana, Xhaan, Chricton, Aeryn Sun and Scorpius if anyone's curious).

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Ooooh, wall swag! Yeah, my walls are a little nekkid : p I have a nice framed H.R. Geiger poster I should get around to hanging, I mean, I've only lived here for a year now >_< Oh yeah, your second link is the same as the first one.

And oooooh, Farscape ^_^ I did not get back to her booth to get it signed, but I did get a picture with "Chiana".

Fanboy! Or troll, or wookiee, whichever you prefer >_>

I should have it framed, I am sure there is room for it on my new desk ; )

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Oops....Fixed.

Hm. another person who has a mouse on the desktop but the keyboard stowed underneath. I get uncomfortable if my hands aren't on even levels when i'm working at the computer.

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Nice! I might borrow that layout. though I prefer to be facing the door. I don't like having my back to the entrance of a room. >.> Hrm. The walls look a bit bare too. Needs m0ar art!

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Hah, you sound a little paranoid there. Must have people after your arts ; )

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Holy crap, I can has ur stuff? Oh wait, you weren't quitting.

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>_> Wait, now I am a little paranoid myself...Hmm, well any which way, moving this desk in to the other room will take care of that. When I get the AC set up in that room, I won't have to worry so much about the ungodly amount of heat my machine puts out in the summer >_<

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Well it's more of a feng shui sort of thing. I do wear headphones though so yeah, I don't like people sneaking up on me. And the only way people would make money off my art is to ransom it back to me. It's not worth all that much on the open market. Who wants art of a character no one knows about?

Bayani's Desk

Over the desk is a picture of Black Cat/Spider-Man reproduced by Charlie Vess and signed by Stan Lee and a frame of 9x12 photos signed by 6 members of the cast of Farscape. (D'Argo, Chiana, Xhaan, Chricton, Aeryn Sun and Scorpius if anyone's curious).

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Muh! I can get behind this thread!

Just bought a new desk back in April ^_^

Out with the old.

In with the new!

I have a lot of open space now, and I am thinking of moving the desk to another room now. I need to fit a scanner in there, and dig my tablet out of whatever moving box it is still in. Might get a printer, just because that seems like something that should be on a desk >_>

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Nice! I might borrow that layout. though I prefer to be facing the door. I don't like having my back to the entrance of a room. >.> Hrm. The walls look a bit bare too. Needs m0ar art!

neat!

Well should be interesting that's for sure. Having played a more traditional hero for over five years, it'd be kinda fun to play a more mercenary-minded character.

*flips open a cooler and grabs a Harpoon IPA* one more day and I can relax...The past 8 days have been really really tough. In CoH terms, it's sorta like bringing a semi-regular MMO player to the game and asking them to roll an empath and get the character to level 50 in under a week to do a MoSTF. How's everyone else doing?