Ironik

If that's them then they are porting over some of CoH's ideas. I participated in some of the earlier design discussions but I didn't follow up as a year or so went by.

Is City of Steam the MMO by former CoH players? I've lost track.

I have endless screenshots of sunsets and sunrises over Paragon City since the earliest days. I've always really liked them.

But then I'm a photographer and videographer and thinking about light comprises at least half of my waking thoughts. This Spring I had my attic remodeled as a guest bedroom and the existing bedroom turned into a walk-in closet, and I was sad to lose the south-facing window in that room because of the superb quality of the light there.

I would think if you're going to create a feeling of permanence to the world, then large changes to that world (like saving or losing the Atlas statue) should depend on events. That way everyone experiences the same thing and sees the same results of their actions. I think that would promote a community feeling.

So perhaps you start off as the protector of a neighborhood, where your actions determine what it looks like, and every once in a while you get called up to defend NYC or LA or whatever. How you do there determines what rewards you get, and you're asked to protect a larger area until you eventually become the defender of an entire city, but it's a smaller town like Manchester or Dayton and every once in a while you have to go save Chicago or London.

Not sure how that would work vis a vis Arcana's system other than making "your" town the single-player experience while the big city becomes the shared server experience. And maybe you can travel back and forth regardless of events, just to keep you tuned in to all the other players. That way you don't *have* to play with anyone else if you don't want to, but you can see and talk to other real people in between going to instances in the big city.

I've been dealing with my disappointment by fighting hobos in the park.

In more positive news, the transient population in my area has plummeted.

Nice.

I was at the bookstore today because that's fun for me (surprise!) and I ran across this book by comic book writer Paul Tobin, Prepare To Die!.

Unlike other recent superhero books like A Once Crowded Sky which come across as stilted and a little too cutesy for its own good (Ultimate's sidekick is PenUltimate? Really?) when I leafed through them, Prepare to Die seemed a bit more hardcore. I did land on a few pages that had sex scenes which I'm not a fan of -- they tend to bring the story to a screeching halt because authors (and filmmakers) never seem to use the scenes to do anything with plot or character -- but the action scenes I browsed through more than made up for it. I got it, so we'll see.

Using the Time and Date Calculator, 3,003 days ago was June 4th, 2004.

3,042 days ago was May 16th, 2004.

My oldest unplayed character at 3,003 days on Freedom. Even with leap years, this is 8.2 years old so she was made sometime in June of 2004. Back in the early days, I created a whole host of "Miss American" characters from different eras, intended to team up via time travel. (I was anticipating the MA or something.) "Ms. American" is from the mid-1970s. Even with leap years, this is 8.2 years old so she was made sometime in June of 2004.



My two oldest characters on Virtue, however, are Sea Devil and Ancient Astronaut. I created Sea Devil in anticipation of water-based powers (or an underwater zone) and AA because of the mention of the space station and moonbase, two things I was eagerly anticipating. /em sigh

I've teamed with members from DOIDD with my primary Justice character Capt. Blood. Some good times and good teams.

Brilliant.

FPAAW.*




*First Post After A Wizard

Yep.

People might think the "jumping through various games" idea is too derivative of the movie coming out called Wreck-It Ralph.

The last one is good, but I'm sorry to be the wet blanket who thinks they're all too in-jokey to play as real ads.

You've captured the hero peeing in his tights perfectly.

Speaking of 3D printing, here's something I stumbled across today that makes the entire industry worth it: Beauty and the Beak.