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How about selling a .25 cent 12 hour license in packs of 60 that automatically activate one after the other once purchased?

Exactly. The teacher was the one that failed because he wasn't "listening" to what the author was communicating because the teacher was drowning out the message with the static of his personal pompous assumptions that he knows better than the author what the author meant.

Yeah. People making rants rarely let the facts or the truth stop them.

I'd have to check all of my accounts but I'm pretty sure I still have characters that I never bothered to respec into inherent fitness cuz they play fine without it.

/This

Well in the book we never were given any examples of human / bug interaction where the humans were unarmored, so can we truly estimate the physical strength of the bugs in the book?

Oh really?

Then I guess the scene on Klendathu at 1:02:08 where they blew up the two giant bugs shooting plasma at the ships in orbit the infantry threw fuzzy bunnies at them instead explosive warheads.

And I guess we didn't see the scene on Tango Eurilla at 1:13:14 we didn't see fleet fighters using an air strike on bugs that were on the surface.

Or the scene at 1:15:20 where Rico fires a shoulder launched Nuke into a bug hole.

Or the scene at 1:17:08 where Rico jumped onto the back of a giant bug, shot a hole in the carapace, and threw a grenade into the hole.

Or the scene at 1:34:20 where Dizzy throws a grenade into the mouth of the bug that's crawling up out of the ground inside the outpost and kills it.

So the infantry did in fact have those weapons available and used them, but because the guy making the film was an idiot with an agenda, he portrayed them as using the weapons sparingly with idiotic tactics.

The devs never said that we would never get power customization.

The truth of the matter is that the devs said that they would like to add it to the game but they didn't have the time or resources to dedicate to creating it at that time. As it turned out it was years before the the company hired enough people to work on the dev team so they could work on giving us power customization.

The devs also never said we wouldn't get water blast.

The closest thing you can point to the devs saying something would never be added which was later added is Inherent Fitness where ONE dev said that he'd rather get rid of Stamina altogether than make it inherent.

Not going to happen. Incarnate content is one of the few items that is deliberately locked behind subscribing to the game. If they give all the content away for free then no one is going to subscribe. If they lose the subscriptions they have two choices. Shut down the game, or switch to a pure "Pay to Win" business model which will drive away their most loyal customers and force them to shut down the game.

Do it as a christmas musical?


Rudolph the Red Nosed Cultist
had a few insanities
and if you ever saw him
he'll be chanting with great glee
Cthulhu fthagn Ia - aa
He is sleeping 'neath the foam
as he stared out the window
through the bars where he made his home
Then one foggy moon streaked eve
Cthulhu came to say
Rudolph with your mind so brave
won't you be my eternal slave
then all the other cultists
join Rudolph the mighty high priest
has joined Cthulhu in his lair.


Over the River and through the Woods
To the Plateau of Leng we go
We hope that someday
we can finally say
that we saw the god on the slooo ope
Over the River and through the Woods
To Kadath so cold we go
Nightgaunts pull the sleigh
to hurry their way
past the Shantaks O, we hooo ope
Over the River and through the Woods
I fear that we've gone too far
the Gods don't condone
a mortal at home
farewell those who listened this far......


God Rest Ye Scary Great Old Ones
God rest ye scary great old ones;
Let everything dismay.
Remember Great Cthulhu shall rise up from R'lyeh
To kill us all with tentacles
If we should go his way.

CHORUS
O tidings of madness and woe, madness and woe
O tidings of madness and woe!

In Yuggoth an din Aldebraan
The Great Old Ones were spawned
Imprisoned by the Elder Gods to wait for eons,
Enticing humans to release them,

Chorus

An arab said: "That is not dead
Which can eternal lie,
And with Strange Eons even death may die."
The Great Old Ones will rule once more
And all will be destroyed.

CHORUS


Victims roasting on an open fire,
Deep Ones ripping off your nose,
Mindless chanting 'round the funeral pyre
And folks strung up by their toes.
Ev'rybody knows how festive open wounds can be;
You'll go crazy at the sight.
Tiny tots with their eyeballs aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know Cthulhu's on his way;
The beast is rising from the depths of dark R'lyeh.
And ev'ry mother's child is gonna cry
And beg for mercy and pray quickly to die.
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety two;
Although its been said many times, many ways,
"Barra na zu absu."

No, I'm making my own point. None of the "weapons" that were mentioned would have been of any use. Power Armour was the only weapon that gave the humans a fighting chance. That's why the infantry scenes looked stupid.

Zwill left himself wiggle room by saying "should be" instead of "will be", so it's possible they won't show up today at all.

There are badges for completeing the side missions "x" number of times as well as an accolade for getting all the side mission badges.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Safeguard_Missions

Anyone subbing can use the 400 point stipend to claim super packs regardless of what teir they have unlocked. Tier 9 VIP's just have an extra option to get them with Reward Tokens.

I suspect you're not the only one that's glad you sub runs out next month. j/k Can I have your stuff?

Nothing is stopping anyone from only claiming packs with their monthly stipends. That how I got my black wolf.

And I don't care what the Prems think. Having to pay for the packs is one of the consequences of not subscribing.

Did you actually watch the movie or even read the book?

The bugs don't live above ground. They live thousands of feet if not miles below the surface.

Armored vehicles are useless because they

1. Can't fit down the bug holes.

2. They are deathtraps on the surface because the bugs can easily tunnel underneath them creating traps for them to fall into where they can easily be destroyed.


Drones can't go down bug holes because the twisting and turning through solid rock and earth blocks all communication transmissions.


Air Strikes against what? The bugs live miles underground. Air strikes are only effective if the bugs can be tricked out onto the surface. They only come up to fight infantry.


Explosives. Did you miss the scenes in the movie where Rico blew up a huge bug the size of a house with a grenade? Or when they fired a nuke down the bug hole? Or when they rescued Carmen from the Brain Bug they were carrying a warhead?


The whole point of the Mobile Infantry in the novel was that everyone was in Power Armour. They didn't need armored vehicles. Each soldier was a tank all by himself. A tank that was launched from space to assault a planet from orbit like Airborne Rangers. A tank that could "jump" hundreds of meters at a time.

Only infantry (in Power Armour) had a chance of rooting their brain bugs out of their underground nests until more powerful weapons were invented.

ROFL! Sorry but it will take a lot more than "you and a few others" not buying packs to end the profit they are generating for the company.

The people that "gotta have it now" have always and will always outnumber the people who have patience.

That's the trick. You have to be able to divorce the book from the movies and judge the movies on their own merits.