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As a singing teacher I don't teach people to sound American.

However, I do usually have to change the vowel sounds produced when singing and speed up the consonants.

Take the simple phrase 'I love you'

If I were to say it like I sing it you would hear ' Islay View' That is Islay as in the Hebridean Island which might not help if you don't already know how to pronounce that...

1. Well, I would certainly be interested.

2. I would say at least a base if not a base and a global channel.

3. I would even say both hero and villain (it allows at least 2 people the chance to either lead (if there is that much demand) or be in charge of base construction)

4. Union (just because I happen to play there) but it might be interesting if it were Defiant as I would effectively be starting fresh there.

5.I vote Lady Arete for Supreme Leader


...what do you mean there was no 5?

Tell you what, you can all join mine seeing as I am now the only one left in it!


I actually like this idea and would suggest that the name/theme would be an out of game reference to the EU. As for magic/tech oriented... why not both? With that many members, as Lady Arete says, it wouldn't take long to get a massive base which would have room for separate tech and magic areas and even *gasp* defined rp room(s)!

Or would the every thing to everyone approach just mean that everyone would end up dissatisfied?

Ooh, bloodbowl! I love that game!

Used to play the original table-top game in my (much younger) youth.


Oh, wait, yeah. Hawt g/f. Whoot!

Can I get off the naughty step now?

Yaay.


Now, onto the important things...

1) is she a hero or a villain?

2) is she hawt?

3) do you have any pix?

4) apparently you have to ignore questions 2 and 3 and I have to go sit on the naughty step for a while...

PPD batons are also wielded in the same way at times

Oh, and I have found that Sands of Mu sometimes animates as brawl

I levelled my latest hero by running all the TF's with the remainder of the levels being completed by running as many story arcs as I could find.

I then ran every arc in Ouroborous.

I am now doing the same with my villain.


And, yes, I am a [insert ridiculous amount of time] vet.

The one SF that I have found myself going 'that doesn't feel worth it' is Virgil Tarikos.

Whenever I have taken part in this it has taken 1-2.5 hours and that is with stealthing when practical, most notably using the midnighters visage to click all the glowies to summon old batty.

I am aware that it CAN be speeded however I have never taken part in speed runs (probably because they are far more infrequent now due to the relatively poor rewards) and don't quite see how it could have been done in such a short period of time as I have heard it was/is. I have been on a team where the second mission alone took almost an hour! Yes, that was an abberation but it is experiences like that and the general feeling of lack of reward that has led me to the state where I just don't take part in that SF at all any more (excluding the first time in order to get the badge).

From my own point of view the disparity is only irritating when I want to earn enough merits to purchase a particular recipe red-side as it takes me far longer to earn the required amount without changing the way I enjoy playing fairly dramatically.

After all that I don't have any ideas as to how it should be changed (or even that it definitely should) which leads me to wonder whether I should even bother to post it...


...but I have written it now so why not...

My favourite 'kicked from the team' story was from a long time ago.

Team leader had recruited 2 /kins to aid his recovery. We entered the mission and he demanded that he is kept double speed boosted. any time this double speed boost dropped for even a second he would start berating us. The fact that he continually charged away from the group that the rest of the team was fighting to go aggro a new group that he could then leave for us didn't make this task easy.

It came to a head when he told both kins how terrible we were because we weren't able to do our single job.

'Just keep SBin me'.

So we did.

Constantly.

Repetitively.

Without respite.

He kicked both of us.

We had, however, prepared for this and waited outside the mission for all the rest of our former team-mates to appear after they had quit and invited them to a much more pleasant team where most people were double speed boosted for the vast majority of the time.

While I have always loved the idea of 'detective missions' there hasn't yet been a suggestion that, to my mind, would be practical in the long-term.

Having clues to mission doors is all well and good, but it doesn't work after the first time and, as people have pointed out, many won't even bother with it that first time and will either skip it or look up the answer. There would have to be so much of it that by the time you have finished it all you are likely to have forgotten previous puzzles and, if there were that much of it, it would likely become more of an irritation that a challenge.

If there could be some kind of variable, repeatable and above all non-tedious way of having some form of detecting or puzzle-solving I would be all for it. For the moment, however, I don't see anything that would be satisfying rather than plain bloody annoying!

An interesting survey; I do wonder about two juxtaposed questions.

Do you think games are getting more violent

followed by

do you think increased violence is caused by greater graphics

(I forget the actual wording)

how can you answer the second question if you don't agree with the premise of the first?


Good luck with the dissertation

*Adds voice to the crowds of welcome back calls*

What do I get if I say Rangers will win?