BreakneckBecky
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Also keep your eye out for any of the boxed editions you don't have (Good V Evil, Collectors, CoH, CoV, etc...) if you see them cheap (and unopenned) as you can use the free month from each seperate edition of the game. For a while Job Lots was selling the CoV and CoH Collectors Editions for between $6 and $10 depending on the store and the time.
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Test 2. Went to Victory and didn't see anything even vaguely similar. Weird.
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Just logged into Justice and tried a couple different characters, and I did see a little bit of lag of hesitancy or latency...not sure what the correct term would be. Wentworths was empty, and there seemed to be no other issues but purchases and bids would occasionally hang for up to 30 seconds (mental count, not timed...therefore likely closer to 20-25) I noticed no lag in travel, loading, or zoning and the synch command didn't relieve the issue. Next step...try a different server.
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The person below me is cast into THE PIT OF KILLER CHEESE CURLS!
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Quote:I suspect it's because deep down they know they're not bad enough to save the president daughter.Originally Posted by Haetron
I actually custom made that image and then someone neg repped it as immature
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Quote:Not if he stole all your cookies and hid them in that holeOriginally Posted by Haetron
Darnit, I was prepping this guy for the big leagues.
now he's just gonna starve. 
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Quote:I do understand where you're coming from, but in general if you're having to go past multiple rookery threads to get to the thread you were looking for, it's been dead for a couple of days at the least. Of course there's adding a thread to your favorites, but that only works for one you know you'll be looking for and not spur of the moment "where did I see that" situations.Originally Posted by Reiraku
Unlikely at this point. If social groupings worked a bit differently, there could be a Rookery sticky at the top of the Virtue threads with updated links to daily threads in an open social group, but that's still one more hoop to jump through.
I honestly don't think that casuals would or should be put off too much by a singular thread. After all, it's not the size that matters. It's how you post it. Still, that's one or two more people that might have posted otherwise. I'd just rather that the alternative didn't come at the cost of having go through that many more threads to find a particular non-Rookery one. -
Or maybe to post more pictures scavenged from the torn and tattered carcasses of the internets he's devoured over the centuries.
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Quote:An interesting idea nonetheless. It could possibly limit casual visits (downside for the pro-Rookery side) and I'm not sure if the mods/forum admins would even be interested or capable of making such a change.Originally Posted by Reiraku
I suppose the answer to both of our problems would be to have a sub-sub-forum within Virtue that could house a "Rookery Thread" with subsequent daily threads linked inside.
Of course, I'm not sure if that would be as inclusive as is wanted. It might only be one more mouse click, but that can often be enough to stave off interest. -
Is this the part where we start saying they're doomed?
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Quote:Indeed, and if the Rookery were a continuing, almost chaptered piece like Soaring Valor (Is it back yetOriginally Posted by Reiraku
Not to contest the content of the threads themselves, but more to the effect that multiple threads can cause. In one example, some of the writers here will put up a new chapter to an ongoing work maybe once a month (sometimes less) in a single thread. When it comes up in discussion in other places, I'll recommend said work to a friend. However, if they are unable to find it and I go to try and provide them a link, then I'd like that experience to be as time consuming as only absolutely necessary. Again, this is just one example.
Now, if there were just a solitary Rookery thread, I'd have no problem at all. Hell, I'd probably post in it now and again.) instead of a daily check in and overall social club/bar/Fraggle Rock on far too much LSD and Meth then it would make much more sense to centrally locate it in a single thread. Unfortunately the Rookery is almost Sitcomesque in its need to reset...it's not really a place where lasting fiction is left, or if a story is written there it's usually just linked for a more enduring location.
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Quote:*Runs by dressed as a Shoggoth and gives the NekoKitteh a hug before sliding under the sofa*Originally Posted by NekoAli
OH MY GOD THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
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HI!
Ok, so here's one thing about the Rookery threads...they are indeed fluff, but they are fluff that also involves some in and out of game substance. Inside the Rookery threads we've planned SFs/TFs Teams SGs/VGs the current static team as well as general advice on builds, runs etc...we also use it as a birthday thread, general advice (such as the Dread curse of Pogos poisin ivy a few weeks back, and several different times when those who've had life long insomnia offer advice for those new to not sleeping as examples) all rolled into one place where we meet regularly (in a virtual sense). The reason for a daily Rookery thread is basically to make sur eit's not a 300 page monster and therefore at least a little more welcoming to anyone new who may want to just join in. As for Rookery threads drowning out more useful threads, if the rookery threads are left for dead at the end of the day and new threads are started, they'll fall off the front page...if they're still there (aside from the occasions when someone pops in late to finish off a conversation) then it means not enough new threads are coming along to knock them off the front page and maybe instead of complaining about the Rookery you could add to non-fluff part of the equation. At last check about half the threads on the front page of the virtue forum hadn't been touched at all today (not counting the stickied threads) so worrying about the signal to noise ration on such a stagnant medium seems...odd to me. It's not like anything's rushing off the front page, and it takes a single post to get it back up into the light...so keep what you want alive.
Hope that was relatively comprehensible...a bit overtired and overcaffinated at the moment. Also, Haetron...the pictures were forged of 100% win, especially Cobra Commander stabbing Nick Fury. -
Quote:If that were possible the northeast portion of the United States would be a barren, unihabitable wasteland.Originally Posted by Elysienne
Great, now I'm going to die from overexposure to pointless sarcasm.
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Quote:Now Now Count Logan, turn that frown upside down!Originally Posted by Count_Logan
*Feels grumpy*
*Obliterates generic planet with DOOMSDAY Blaster*
*Still feels grumpy*
*Drop-kicks a puppy*
*Feels better*
*Gives him a large facial inversion device based on experimental black hole technology, the testing of which resulted in countless civilisations destroyed and a great many sad-eyed orphans created who will inevitably form a rebellion that he can later put down* -
Quote:Well, most mad scientists aren't evil...just misunderstood by the fools and stuff. but if I were ebiler I could steal a roboBecky instead of making one, end result still = no going to work for me.Originally Posted by Pogothulu
BECKY!!!!! Why you saying Im evil for???
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I think I need to be eviler and geniusier so I can build stuff like pogo...then I can build a roboBecky to go to work for me and I can go back to bed. Or under the sofa for a nap pile with the Neko kitteh more likely.
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Quote:You forgot somethingOriginally Posted by DArtagnan
yes yes join the socity, join use, be one of use. Mawhahaha
*Hands over a black opera cape and twirling mustache*
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Mostly cuz no one ever remembers to feed to puppy or lock the fridge
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There's one post a day. Aside from the occasional mispost or someone just picking up a comment on from the previous days, the only reason there'd be 2 or more Rookery threads on the front page is because there's nothing else knocking them off. If there were more Non-Fluffy posts filling the board they'd be knocked of page one much faster, so the logical thought would be to post something non-fluffly in another thread thus burying the fluff thread you dislike AND not bumping the fluff thread you dislike back up to the top...at least that seems the most reasonable thing to me at the moment, but I haven't eaten or slept in far too long, and am a bit sick.
Either way, to each their own, and may the brain weasels take the hindmost.
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*stealthily hugs everyone good morning, like the fuzzy, sparkly ghost of a shadow of a hug. Thus is the way of the ninjafairykitty*
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Artichokes names sven
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*fares well, which turns out quite fine considering was driving the cab that took the count to the Rookery. Retires to shiny island while telling constant tales of the wonderful, and very nice person who made it all possible*
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But Neko...it's neither a fairy, nor a kitty. Also it lacks cyervelocoraptor bits to really put it over the top.
And a cheese cannon!