Hyperstrike

Okay, I think the e-mail of inf costs a few inf.

I've tried sending the entirety of a character's inf stores before and had it tell me I don't have enough inf.

But when I send like 100 inf less than total, I wind up with less than 100 inf.

One thing I'd like to see. I'd like to see the mez protection brought by Dwarf actually clear mez timers. This way if I'm held as a human or nova, I could double-shift and not still be held.

Not sure how that'd affect balance. But it'd be nice during really nasty, chunky fights to be able to toggle human, hit my double heal/+HP, then swap back without having to worry that my human form is going to have an unexpired Hold take over.

Emberly hit it on the head.

Welcome to the game!

Also, here's a good bunch of links to get you started.


Paragonwiki: If you want to know about something in the game, it's here. Period. THE reference for the game.

Mid's Hero Designer: An absolutely ROCKIN' tool for planning out builds ahead of time. Play around as much as you want and never waste inf. The standard format for sharing builds on the boards.

Titan Sentinel: A nice little tool for tying into the Titan City Info Terminal project at http://cit.cohtitan.com. But the MUST HAVE feature of this program is that it allows you to actually export your LIVE build from the game into Mids. Even if you don't use CIT, this is more than enough reason to create an account and download this program.

Vidiot Maps: A nifty map overlay that's critical for badge hunters. Direct link to the Sourceforge Page.

Well you have my sig.

Essentially what I've done is used TinyURL (though you could use any URL shortening service) to shrink the URLs and and image locations down.

Second, I've put the text in images. While, technically it's bloated the amount of bandwidth the text requires (each of the images in my sig is 5-7K apiece, 45K of text would be monstrous), the images are really quite small and load rapidly.

I could probably shrink them down to about half to 1/4 of their current size, retain legible text and cut the bandwidth even more.

Granted, I probably should have THAT many images in my sig. But, as I said, they're small, rapid loading, and my service provider keeps my site up pretty much for 4 9's. In the overall scheme of things, the formatting of the sig conveys lots of data, doesn't really impact the reader's surfing speed, and actually fits within the tiny sig space allowed to us.

Reset to something CoH-related.

Okay. Saw the midnight showing.

It wasn't bad. And it's nowhere NEAR a 20-something percent on Rotten Tomatoes bad.

No, it's NOT "The Dark Knight Returns".
But, as far as being a decent superhero flick, it's fine, though it's playing a little on the Dangerously Genre Savvy side.

Visually, the film still has the "Hey look! CGI BACKGROUND!" compositing problem. But most of the time there's enough action going on that it distracts the eye away from it. Most egregious were the Oa shots.

As for acting, it was okay. As I've said, not DKR, but hey. Reynolds needs some acting lessons though. He's like Keanu Reeves, except his "thing" is "Smug Snarker" instead of "old stoneface".

The story itself could have used a little tightening here and there and the first fight scene with Hector Hammond could have been pruned a LOT. But it conveyed just about everything it needed to. Both for hardcore GL'ers and for people who've been dragged into the movie by the aforementioned.

Was it worth $10? Well, I dunno. Had a raincheck from Thor that I used. Still, had that not worked (some shows don't accept rainchecks opening weekend), I still would have paid for the ticket, even knowing what I know now.

1: That's not Hyperion. That's Dr. Spectrum (the jewel on the back of his gloves are a dead giveaway).

Well, I'm going to go see it. I'm an old-school comic book nerd and GL's trailers haven't been so horrible that it doesn't get an automatic "You will buy ticket NOW".

What I'm expecting.

Due to the basic color palette of the movie (black and green) and the fact that we're going to have a lot of heavy-duty CGI, plus the fact that this film is also debuting in 3D), we're going to see a rather underlit film.

This is a Ryan Reynolds film. So snarky will be the watchword for humor in the film.

It's an origin story. But they're also trying to impart portions of the overall current mythos. So expect it to be a mash-up that doesn't really conform to either the canon origin story OR the mythos particularly well.

Also, as the speed of plot varies wildly between comics and movies, I expect the film to be rushing over certain points which don't push the film forward (but are important for GL back-story) and plodding through things that don't mean much to the overall GL story, but push the movie forward.

In short, it's probably going to be a mess of a film. But I go in with both eyes open on this.

Okay, I agree. Your wife is MOST awesome.

Congrats on that badge. I don't ding 38 for another month and a half.

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I'd like to see something in line with one of the Gravity hold/immobs as a large PBAoE Judgement. It wouldn't necessarily hold/immob, but they'd rise up in the air for a sec, take a metric ***-ton of damage, and then drop.