Fleeting Whisper

Um... DUH? Unless given a reason to assume otherwise, the random number generation is probably std::rand in every computer program you use (or similar, if the program isn't written in C/++). IIRC, std::rand is an implementation of the Mersenne Twister on most compilers. If you look again at the link you provided, MT19937 has a period of 2^19937-1. The pattern you think a player might look for is 2^19937-1 numbers long. Even if everyone on the server is simultaneously farming -1/x8 24 hours a day, it will take months (at least) for the pattern to repeat. And that's assuming all of the players are helping to churn through the RNG pattern at once, and then how does this mythical RNG tracking player know the results from everyone else? (Edit: I'm also assuming particle effects are either precalculated 'random', or are calculated with a noise function on the graphics card)

I would post the fully-expanded decimal representation of 2^19937-1 here, but it's 6002 digits long.

MT is not cryptographically secure, but it doesn't need to be. Your recommendation for a hardware RNG would lead to feasibility for implementing a CSPRNG in the game based on the entropy of the input from the hardware RNG, but again, CSPRNG is way over the top for random numbers in a video game.

And that's exactly the intent of Going Rogue.

I think you're recalling Death, from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather:

Death: Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Warburg nukes can hit 20 targets.

I see what you did there

Specifically responding to the bolded part:

The meaning for the various colors were in the patch notes. So really, they told everyone who bothered to find out. Sure, they could put it somewhere in the game, too, but then the old colors were never explained either.

I've gotten the first two healing badges on my Rad/Dark... using only Vengeance.

There can only be one STRONG AND PRETTY!

Your costume idea has been suggested many times before, and we've got a little bit of it with Robotic Arms upper body and some of the patterns.

I don't understand what you're trying to say with your aura suggestion, an example would be helpful.

Also: bō, not bow staff. Kon (the Chinese term for the same weapon) is also acceptable. You can also include the jō (bō is a 6-foot staff*, while jō is 4-foot), and the hanbō or hambō (3-foot)

* Technically, it should be 5.965ft (181.8cm), as the weapon is more formally the "rokushakubō", or six (roku) shaku (unit of measuresment equal to 30.3cm) bō

Hey, as far as I can tell from the people at my local gaming shop, the WoW CCG isn't doing too bad.

To be a little bit serious, I think the OP is in the context of the Barracuda SF, in which case only Scrappers and Stalkers get the Power of Captain Mako, to set off the Fail Safe devices.

That's funny, because in almost every case where someone has attempted to codify natural rights, it's been different from the previous attempt. The closest thing to being universal is the right to "life", though that's often written as something closer to 'the right to attempt to keep your own *** alive'. Then, of course, various cultures have laws which relinquish your 'right to life', via a death sentence.

Hey, according to John Locke, the third natural right is property, not "pursuit of happiness". Thomas Paine claimed that everything is a natural right, and laws are meant to remove those rights; everything excluded from the law is kept as a right.

Definitions of inalienability aren't even necessarily consistent, especially with regard to the subjects of relinquishability, salability, and transferability. And some people don't even agree that there is such a thing as an inalienable right (see: Edmund Burke).

And if awareness is the decider, what about the people who say that non-human animals and plants have natural rights as well?

Nuu!

Die in the middle of a massive battle, so I can PBU > Vengeance > Fallout without having to teleport your corpse.

Power Build Up is designed to be a combination of Power Boost and Build Up, since Defenders only get Aim. PBU adds +damage and +tohit on top of the PB buffs, which is part of the point.

Of course, links from the updater only open into Internet Explorer. For bonus points, in Windows 7 you can uninstall IE without any repercussions. And if IE is not installed, guess what happens when you click a link in the updater...? Nothing.

I've never seen /gmotd fail to function. Perhaps when it failed for you there wasn't a message set in the first place?

You can't make a second copy of the same Alpha power anyway (unless you consume it to make a higher-tier power in the same tree).

Aside from your own unwavering dogma, what makes you claim this?

You have a surprisingly narrow view of the term 'dictator', especially in the light of this game's Greco-Roman influences. Dictator was a standard governmental position in the Roman Empire, until Julius Cesar abused his power. Tyrant wasn't a pejorative until the Hellenistic period of Greece. Throughout history, there have been many tyrants/dictators/despots who were looked upon favorably by their people and the surrounding ruling states.

Even as late as 1860, Garibaldi was a benevolent dictator in Sicily. Add alternate histories in an alternate dimension, and judging Emperor Cole becomes so much more shortsighted.

I'm also running Nerve on my Thugs/Dark. Getting Nerve Radial also brought my henchmen up to ~46% def, so that helps too.