Mental_Giant

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  1. Now that we all agree that Super Rares will take 1,024 shards to create, can everyone admit that Mental was totally right about this a month ago?!?!

  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by VoodooCompany View Post
    Woot. Went better than I expected. And now I owe Mental a LRSF for his stalker
    Which makes this all worth my while!

    Thanks for setting this up, Voo. I've only succeeded at this once before, but this was a pretty smooth run.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster View Post
    My brutes need the badge for the accolade.
    So does my Stalker.
  4. Look at that! Two Corrs, a Defender, a Rad 'troller, a Stone brute for tanking... looks like we have room on the team for some Stalker action! Whadaya say, Voo? Let's do this!
  5. Glee is a repeat, so I'm IN!

    I'd love to bring my Nin/Regen Stalker, who has never completed LRSF, but I have a Cold/Cold Corr, DP/Dark Corr, Demon/Dark MM if those will work better.
  6. SB is a Universal Good, but that's no excuse for pestering someone about it.
  7. Nerd rage... subsiding... but I have a headache.
  8. Mental_Giant

    An "I Quit" Post

    I quit, but came back for the new Halloween mission.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
    Hurrah for Kindle on my Android. I'm currently rereading Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson on the bus thanks to it (his other books don't seem to be on it sadly).
    Snow Crash is the only Stephenson book on Kindle? That's a crime! I'd at least expect Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, and Anathem to be on there.
  10. Recently I finished Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy... excellent philosophical fantasy series.

    Currently I'm reading Flashfoward, the book the ill-fated ABC series was based on. The story is interesting, but I can see how they had to punch it up to make a TV show out of it.

    Next up is the 2010 Hugo-winning The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Sounds like an interesting take on a dystopian future.
  11. I may be biased as I was a survivor of a 4 hour Tin Mage attempt on a PUG last week, but I find myself agreeing with Sam and Johnny. We certainly weren't an optimized team (one Empath, no tank, no buff/debuff to speak of) but it was brutal. I'm sure it was way more than 144 deaths (we wiped on Director 11 about six or seven times) and we couldn't get past Neuron in the (I hope) final mission.

    Challenging content is a good thing, but I would hope that we get completely new enemies for this. Praetorians routinely get beat to a pulp in Tina's arc, and now they're godlike? War works seem like epic enemies and that makes sense, but Malta and Praetorians feel unnaturally powerful.

    I would like to see Battalion show up. They were supposed to be an enemy group that was beyond powerful and you would need special enhancements (Alpha boosts, maybe?) to take on. Here's hoping we see them later on.

    On a side note Sam did seem to enjoy the LGTF I ran on Saturday.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Then he should shut the **** up about finishing the next book. Stop getting your fans' -- your PAYING CUSTOMERS -- hopes up and then have a failure to launch. Take some Author Viagra and get back to work. This isn't an impatience thing, this is a "he will die before he finishes the series" thing. Me, I don't care any more, I'm done with it. One good book out of four isn't enough to keep me interested.
    Paying customers can buy the book or not. GRRM has made some mistakes in over-communicating in the past, but that doesn't justify people screaming at him to finish a series he started before he dies. The books will come out or they won't, and if he does pass before he finishes then the publisher will just hire someone else to finish them. I bet GRRM has better notes on his series than Jordan did on WoT.

    Since GRRM is not your *****, you don't get to complain about how and when he talks about his work.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amy_Amp View Post
    5 years between books. Endless rumors of it being near done and yet no book. Known health issues. At his current rate we are looking at a kind estimate of 15 years. He's 62 now. I'll hopefully assume he gets off his butt and finishes it and then kicks back and simply does editing for the Wild Card series and other stuff. I'm just saying that I and others are taking a wait and see approach in terms of this series being actually finished by him.
    I think a lot of people (not including you on this), need to remember: George R.R. Martin is not your *****.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amy_Amp View Post
    Same thing happened in the Wheel of Time series. The author got long winded and it extended beyond what was the original target number for books in the series.
    Did Jordan have an original target? It seemed like once the initial four book story arc was done he was content to go on forever.

    I see GRRM as the antidote to Jordan. Yes, he's gone on one book more than he originally planned (so far), but at least you get the idea that he knows where his story is going and he isn't adding arbitrary new characters and plot lines like Jordan did.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Veritech View Post
    i am less enthused for the project now after reading Game of Thrones,
    You didn't... like Game of Thrones?

    /eyetwich
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by VoodooGirl View Post
    I got sick last during the run of LGTF I was on Salty Soup & Jello DO NOT MIX.
    We didn't end up finishing that run. Clearing the Mitos took a little longer than usual, and they people starting logging until it was just four of us left. We finished clearing, but the Tank logged after one unsuccessful attempt on Hami.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Progressman View Post
    It always seemed like an odd name for the center of an evil organization...
    Because Superburg was taken.
  18. I think the spoiler you're talking about way too much information to give Rick at this point in the story, but who knows? I think it's obvious that the writers are playing with the fact that readers of the comic have a lot more information about the story than they normally would.

    I think both possibilities would require secrecy: the first because it's a personal matter for Rick (that his wife is pregnant but not by him), and the second because Jenner would only want the nominal leader to have the information to prevent the group from falling apart right then and there (obviously he was willing to let the group crisp with him, but when he saw they were going on anyway he wouldn't want to sow the seeds of their destruction by making that revelation public).
  19. This is going to be amazing.

    I have no idea how it will be received, but I'll be happy as long as they do GoT justice and I can buy the season on DVD.

    If they have the ratings to support another reason, that's just gravy!
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Frankly if what the Doctor whispered into Rick's ear was something along the lines of "Your wife is pregnant" I'm going to be pretty annoyed with this show because that would be a completely stupid thing to whisper. The Doctor wouldn't bother to waste what was effectively his last dying thoughts/concerns to Rick over something so mundane and silly. He would have absolutely no idea that her being pregnant was a "secret" thing between Shane and her and while he was checking for the zombie pathogens he's not going to be wasting any time with paternity DNA testing.
    I look at it this way: a pregnancy screen isn't out of the question in an ELE situation. Sure, Dr. Povitch is going to die, and he thinks humanity is doomed, but he might be curious if this nascent community was already starting to reproduce, even in the face of zombie apocalypse.

    Who's to say this is a secret between Shane and Lori? Neither may know (I don't know how it plays out in the comic), but Povitch does know that Rick is not the father, so that's why he'd whisper it to him so that Rick can make the choice about what he does with that information.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frogfather View Post
    Well except for the Shane part. Most likely it would just be "Your wife is pregnant and some other mumbo jumbo"

    Just my thoughts
    He got blood samples from everyone. He could easily have run a paternity test to rule out Rick, and then just for kicks he could have checked the other men to see if they were the father.

    I just thought of something... his real name wasn't Dr. Jenner... it was Dr. Povitch!

    This was the spoiler I was alluding to earlier.
  22. So what did Jenner whisper to Rick?

    My guess is it was <spoiler from comic book>.