Father Xmas

I get logged out when I get a forum hiccup, when I have trouble fetching a thread.

So you had to look up jingoism too.

There are a couple of powers I skipped from my primary/secondary that could be useful or taken earlier. Also could take another power from the ancillary power pool. I'm more concerned with more powers but same number of slots.

Would you except diet advice from someone called Snickerdoodle?

Let me put on the asbestos suit and get the fire suppression gear ready.

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It's not like he fought off a wild animal or a mugger or took a bullet for his wife. He swerved to avoid a car that crossed the median. Depending how close they were when the other driver crossed the median he may not have thought of anything other than to try and avoid the collision.

Yes it was a terrible tragedy. Yes the other driver should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But I think people are reading into this a lot more than they should. He was trying to save both himself and his wife, he only partially succeeded.

If the rolls were reversed, if his wife was driving and swerved but only enough that the husband survived, it wouldn't be the same story. She wouldn't be cast as the noble hero, it would simply be a tragedy.

Now where did I put those Space Shuttle heat tiles?

There are actually a couple of questions here.

Is anime/manga art style and tropes displacing traditional western comic book art style and tropes?

Is animation ruining comic books sales?

One of the reasons for the rise of awareness of manga art style and tropes is video games. We've had decades of Asian produced video games exposure. That rubs off on the collected psyche of gamers. And while certain genre of games are more Western, years of Pokemon, Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, etc. have exposed us enough that their particular art style, story telling style and tropes that they are now simply excepted into the greater whole.

The most recent anime/manga invasion began in the mid 1980s but surged in the mid 1990s. We started to enjoy animated shows with continuity. We felt that this was new, different and interesting. The stories flowed differently than the Hasbro based toy ones that were dominating cartoon blocks at the time. This added to the attraction, new and shinny always beats out same old, same old. What also helped was simple economics. It was cheaper to redub an already animated series than pay for one from scratch. Again, like with video games, the increased exposure to anime art style was absorbed into the collective animation/comic psyche in the west.

As for the animation killing comic books, that's simply the I'll watch the movie rather than read the book argument. It's becoming more prevalent these days than when I was young simply for two reasons. First you can consume video of your choice a lot easier now than then. Portable devices that can play recorded movies and TV shows. Streaming video sites that you can get to with any browser. Kids no longer have a stash of comic books in their tree house in their backyard anymore, they get streaming video over the home wifi on their iPod Touch.

Second we here in the Americas and Europe have the luxury of getting a manga and it's anime series after it was all over, generally at the same time. In Japan the manga came out relatively slowly and may have been completed before the very first episode of an anime version was broadcast. It wasn't a one or the other choice for fans who already read and owned the manga. But here, why pay $12-15 a volume when we can simply watch the series now for free or close to free?

Is it Japan's fault that they frequently make 50-100+ episode animated series based on popular manga? Also in Japan new comic series is the norm, not simply based on previous characters. Sure there are staples like Gundam and Lupin III but the majority of comics and animated series are new, not based on 40-50 year old characters. Name a "new" popular A-list character from DC or Marvel that was created in even the last 10 years?

I'm a leaf on the wind"

Never had /bug reports show up in my support center, just /petitions.

But you aren't at your ideal weight yet so cut back on the calories.

Check with your Doctor first.

Try a stationary bike for cardio if walking is a problem.

Grazing (lots of small meals) can help but you really need to watch the amount you eat.

The majority of netbooks use a single core with hyperthreading Atom CPU running 1.6-1.7GHz. It's about 1/3 to 1/2 the CPU power of a low cost laptop. Most only have 1GB of memory.

Windows 7 Starter has a three open app limit (with exceptions).

Most have 10", 1024x600 screens, only 1GB of memory and relatively small, slow hard drives. However there are a few that have larger 12" 1366x768 screens.

The Asus Eee 1201 has one of these larger screens, an nVidia integrated graphics (which is a lot faster than the standard Intel integrated graphics), 2GB of memory and Windows 7 Home. What you lose half your useful battery life, gain a half a pound, an inch or so around and costs $125 more than one of the smaller ones.

Benevolent Dictatorship

"This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.

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We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.

This concludes the broadcast from World Control. " - Colossus

Had a merc mastermind back during the CoV beta called Major Domonatrix. Soldier garb, mask and gloves waist up, fishnets and stilettos waist down. Wished we had a riding crop back then.

You may want to copy and host your avatar yourself, just in case all those GIF files go bye-bye one day.

In zone/mission bandwidth is well under 10Kbytes/sec except during mosh pit conditions like zombie/rikti raids where there are a large crowd of players and critters bashing it out.

On the bright side you can send a private message (PM) to one of the customer service crew, theOcho or Avatea, and ask for your forum name to be changed, give three options. You can use the "Members List" link at the top of the page to see if the name(s) you would like to change to are available.

Well there are codes handed out as prizes and swap at cons that can give you a Halloween costume permanently, you are probably seeing players with them running about.

Edit: That's right, when day jobs came out they added a bunch of costume pieces so you could do a decent Paragon policeman.

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/sonic-screwdriv.php

Here, this may cheer you up. Scott Pilgrim animated GIFs.

Yea, just noticed those posts in the Dev Digest. The funny thing is it finally occurred to me that Brawl, Sprint and Rest are inherent powers. For some reason my brain got hung up on AT inherent powers when I heard the word inherent.

So the only real "problem" would be scrounging up slots and doing a respec on every character I've taken at least one fitness power on so I can get the entire pool.