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Quote:Sorry I didn't see this until now. Thanks so much for running the Audition! The mechanics of some of the missions can indeed be an irritant sometimes, I agree.Originally Posted by BackFire
Oh wow, been a while since we updated the thread, huh?
Last week was a fun run. We played thru The Little Clockwork Who Could - Arc ID #408169 and Wrong Number's updated version of Old Dog, New Trick -Arc ID: 402429.
The Little Clockwork Who Could was more of a "Ghost in the Gears" story than the children's story I thought it would be, but was still a solid arc. And WN's upgraded Old Dog had some nice new tricks added to make an already enjoyable arc that much better!
This week I logged in to find out that MrCaptainMan is turning the big 4-0! So, before he logged out, I asked him for an arc number to play in celebration
Most of us have already played MCM's "Storming Citadel" arc from the Aeon challenge so I was glad he gave me:
The Audition -Arc ID #221240 to try out.
Note: this is part 1 of a 2 part storyline that runs 6 total missions between the 2 arcs. We ran both parts.
My feelings on them were: the story's solid and there's some great humor, but the mechanics seemed to get in the way at times.
- Mission 1's outdoor map is no fun to do an object hunt on.
- Mission 3 had an unfortunate spawn point for a destructible object that was in front of a door. The only way to get past and complete the mission was with teleport (luckily, Bubba had it).
- Mission 5's chained objectives had us running from back to front over and over on the striga boat map (ugh.)
Still, despite the mechanics it was a fun run. I really liked the custom groups in the final mission! Brawler was my fav Hope you had a great 40th, MCM!
I'm very proud to have had the MA SuperTeam run it! Cheers, it was a lovely surprise for my birthday
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Quote:I think I should just leave the next one in the box lol.Originally Posted by Diggis
I think the world is telling you iphones aren't for you.
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Quote:And how is the Daily Mail these days?Originally Posted by SiGGy
Makes a change to the Polish coming over here to steal stuff I guess. Saves on the legwork.
My weekend has since turned into a sort of comedy of disasters. I played poker last night, had a great time with my mates but got drunk enough to decide to go cycling at 5am (it was a beautiful day, but still...). On the way back into my flat I dropped my new iPhone 3GS and the display shattered into a web in the manner of a car windscreen that's had a brick thrown at it. it still works, crazily enough (the touchscreen works, swiping and selection of icons etc is fine despite the screen now looking like
lol) but I'll be getting a new one next week.
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Quote:I'm not sure you used 'sarcasm' correctly, there.Originally Posted by New Dawn
Damn Poland has petty crime too now? I thought it was heavy crime or nothing with them. Human trafficking and child prostitution and so on.
/Sarcasm off.
There was always petty crime in Poland.
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it was a learning experience.
I never thought I'd praise Steve Jobs' tendency to take control away from his customers, but after backing up my new 3GS (if Snatchy McGrab had only waited another month or so i could have got an iPhone4, dammit!), I found about 1700 of the missing photos on it. That wasn't my doing, so i guess at some stage iTunes must have thought "Ooh, photos - I'll have them!" without me realising it.
I'll be kowtowing to Steve's 'I know better' from now on and syncing EVERYTHING to my PC.
What's needed for this sort of situation is a way for a mobile phone user to be able to brick his stolen phone himself, perhaps by sending it an sms with a special code. The guy in my mobile company's shop said he'd blocked the sim so the thief would have to put a new one in to use it for calls etc, but he's still got pictures of me at my mum's barbecue etc.
And, I've just realised, my 'saved at the last level' Phoenix Wright game...gah.
Anyway, Damz, I'd backup those photos somewhere if I were you.
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OK, Even a wide-eyed optimist like me suspects that petty crime existed in Poland before this morning, but I've been utterly untouched by it until today.
Some goon ran past the cafe table I was sat at at lunchtime, grabbed my iPhone out of my hand and sped off like the Flash.
It only took me about 45 minutes to get it blocked and buy a new one, and all my apps are of course attainable again, but that's 2000 photos gone west.
I'm more bothered by the fact that my ten-year crime-free record has been broken now thatn because of losing the photos - there weren't any really really vital ones on it. Warsaw's always felt so ludicrously safe and civilised compared to Blighty.
Still, I guess one theft in ten years is still a pretty good average.
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Quote:Why would I want to buy a booster pack more than once?Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
It seems the latest fix they have done to the store.
The addons/packs now redirect to the a 'select your account' page, dispite the original (US or EU) product page you came from.
Downside, USD is cheaper for me, so basicly my EU accounts are even more expensive
HOWEVER, the system does NOT check if you already upgraded your account with a certain booster (its shown in your payment list as 'perk'), thus you can buy the mutant pack 10 times in a row (and pay for it), upgrading the same account 10 times in a row.. and the system doesnt warn you about it.
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Thank you.
I also found another solution by dint of being impatient and unconcerned about potentially wasting money. I clicked the 'Buy now' link for the European version, and was taken to a page where i had to choose my account. Since I only have one account, the US-server one, when i clicked it, the payment switched to dollars and (I assume) I bought the US version of the pack and not the EUR one. Ingame, the pack works.
Which to me is an idiotic way of doing it. Why they even specify EUR or US versions on the initial page when the next one automatically detects which version you want to buy is utterly braindead. Idiots.
But that's a way to do it, anyway.
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It took me ages to compose that thread title lol.
I tried to buy the Mutant pack just now, but even though i play on the US servers and have been able to buy US versions of every other CoH/V software dl and extra pack, the store page i get directed to only has EUR versions of the mutant pack. Things like the actual CoH game etc still have the 'US version also available' link underneath them, but not for the mutant pack.
Anyone else living in Europe but playing on the US servers have this issue, and have you found a solution if so?
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Quote:That's very nice to hear.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
You'ld be suprised at the increase in welsh speakers in the last few years. Over penarth/dinas powys side, i'ld say the majority of people here are able to ALMOST speak fluent welsh. Took me back quite a bit because like you said, i too was under the impression hardly anybody spoke a word of welsh.
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Quote:Agreed, but that's not why I quoted you.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I'll say it again: Set the filter to not show "Work in Progress" arcs by default.
I second the idea that an unfinished Clave Dark 5 arc is still better than 52,000 other arcs!Quote:
The Clave Dark 5s of the world probably don't want you playing their arc yet anyway...and the other 52,000 arcs are mostly stuff you probably don't want to play.
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Quote:With a possible Argentina match after that glorious victory! After trouncing Germany and Argentina, England will be well prepared for the possible Brazil game to come after that!Originally Posted by EU_Damz
So its official, Germany V England in the first knockout round.
Well i can see the headlines now!!!!
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Fluent in English, 2 phrases in Welsh (I'm one of the many non-Welsh-speaking Cardiffians), tourist French and very basic conversational Polish.
And I know one swear word in Maltese.
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Wales is definitely a country.
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I thought this was a big hand for England!
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I've had a recurring problem for a while, which is that during CoH's night cycle, the screen is very dark. If i adjust my momnitors settigns so that it's acceptable, when I'm viewing a word file for example, the screen is painfully bright.
Someone ingame suggested using the CoH gamma setting, so i did and that produced a nice effect at nighttime, but i just noticed that the gamma setting also affects my desktop as well. I play in a windowed mode.
Is there any way i can get CoH to brighten up without affecting anything other than CoH?
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Quote:This.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
dragged by your teammates to run like heck through groups of hostile enemies, made to feel like you were holding the team back if you had no idea what the hell you were to do or have a slower computer, and basically it was a massively unpleasent experience.
Scale TFs so they're duoable.
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Quote:I read it as "Fortune, Go! My wife killed..."Originally Posted by Felderburg
I saw this thread title punctuated as "Fortune go: my wife killed" at first. I couldn't tell if it was a positive thing that fortune had swung that way or not.
It sounded tio me like a hero was desperately telling his partner, another hero named Fortune, to get outta there, because his wife had murdered persons unknown.
Best typo in years, IMO. Up there with the game going to the Americans etc.
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Quote:There's a male waiter in my local restaurant who is really camp. And married to a woman. He's really camp. Should i describe him as ''gay acting'? Or 'camp acting', even?Originally Posted by New Dawn
No people here need to chill out. They're just words. People can use what words they like. Seems to be that it's "it's alright for some to use "straight acting" and not alright for others". What is "straight acting" by definition changes slightly wherever you go. For many young people it's simply not acting camp and we have gay comedians to blame for that.
Graham Norton is camp. Alan Carr is camp. Lucas is camp. Chris Colfer from Glee. They're camp and it pays the bills. If they were to act straight then they probably wouldn't be so successful.
Camp by definition is more insulting than straight acting. Straight acting is a preferable word for me to use than "normal" and there is no need for me to say that as in "what's popularly accepted as normal around atleast 70% of the world" as people get my meaning.
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I'm proud to be Welsh, but I'm supporting England in the World Cup as Wales isn't in it, and as far as I'm concerned, Welsh, Scots, English, we're all British.
The first four minutes of the USA match was awesome, but now I'm feeling a mixture of depression at our boys' mediocre play and anger at them for not being better. We used to be inspirational and even if we didn't win we were entertaining. That Algeria match was awful. It was like watching a bunch of cretinous amateurs shamble about the pitch. Rooney's comment about the fans at the end was fairly mild I thought, but he should know that the reason they were booed was that they simply aren't doing their damn job.
Miracles may happen, of course, but they need to start playing like a team and less like a spontaneous Sunday afternoon kickabout in the park with strangers.
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Quote:I'm going to take your last sentence in the spirit in which i hope it was meant. I've been playing for 6 years and I don't yet think the Canon content is stale, I've recently been playing through the 'new' Issue 17 arcs, and they're good. However, as an MA writer and avid player of MArcs, I do recommend you play some of the arcs in PW's list here. Think of it as supplemental or alternative to the Dev-created stuff.Originally Posted by GreenFIame
Maybe You cool Cats Should try lvling outside of AE, there a world of Awsomeness out there and beside I believe the Normal Content Story Arcs Award better Award/xp after finishing...It just a thought, I don't mean no harm with this statement.
I'm sure all the MA authors who post regularly in this forum have their favourite Dev arcs as well as AE ones. I certainly do.
The arcs on this list that I've played have been really stellar, give them a go and you might be pleasantly surprised. The dev content will still be there, after all.
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Quote:Because hetero is the de facto norm at the moment and homosexuals sometimes feel the need to raise awareness that they exist and are normal people just like everyone else (but are denied human rights that heteros take for granted) by having harmless entertaining parades here and there.Originally Posted by New Dawn
People don't go about advertising heterosexual pride through cities flashing their wares and so on and so I don't get it with homosexuals who do that.
What's this got to do with the price of fish? At some stage they want to express their sexuality, right? Otherwise, what, are they celibate L, G and Bs? Lol Unless you're straight, you can't act straight all the time. Maybe one day they'll want to get married to their loved one, and if they can't, that gay petition or march on City hall might start to look attractive.Quote:
I've got friends who are L, G and B in RL and they're all straight acting so that you wouldn't know unless ya ask them.
Yes, this of course goes for all the straight ERP vampire catgirl Virtue Pocket D crowd tooQuote:
The server is cross continental, people of all ages could play at all hours and so as long as things are decent everything is fine.
You're lucky in that you have a socail group seemingly composed of straight people, lesbians, homosexual men and bisexuals of unspecified gender. Why this hasn't given you a more tolerant outlook is beyond me lol, but just imagine for a second you were the only straight person in a crowd of homosexuals. You might want to seek out some straight people as well, not necessarily in order to get some going, but for the same reason that cat-fanciers join cat fancier clubs or that global chat channels in this game are rife with chat about random stuff not connected to the game - we're all CoH players here, but we also have other stuff going on. I can't say 'Uh-oh, i got serious GF aggro last night' to a co-worker who knows nothing about MMOs, but I can to people ingame who are total strangers apart from the fact that they share this game with me. We're all part of some niche, after all.Quote:
Why anyone needs to make a social, sexual statement in a computer game though is beyond me.
Being homosexual is neither more or less about 'pulling' than being straight is. This question has no relevance here.Quote:
Is the game a pulling tool?
That person is not G, then, is he.Quote:
Do you find that straight players run away? I've known a G person who led a successful and largish SG of mainly straight ppl and now they're happily married to a woman, go figure.
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I didn't get anything, and I actually bought Aion and played it for the first month (horrible disastrous /facepalming near-miss of a game. To paraphrase either Ford Prefect or Zaphod, 'looked like a fish, moved like a fish. Played like a cow.')
I was gutted, cos it's GORGEOUS.
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ROFL I've just seen the tag someone's given this thread!
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Quote:Is that you in the pic, Turg? I pictured you a bit different, tbh.Originally Posted by Turgenev
Heya vikings,
I'll be headed to Reykjavik in a few weeks, and I was wondering if we had any Paragon natives in the area. I'm looking for good eats, good drink and good times with me an' my wife (honeymoon!), but if there's anyone local who'd like to quaff some local brew while I'm out there, I might (mind you, honeymoon) be able to set off a few hours for some relaxing chat.
Post here or PM me if you're interested in helping me appreciate your city and country, and understand your awesome language ...hich, unfortunately, reminds me of this:
See you in a few weeks! Kveðjum!
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