PsychoPez

Shotenfreude. Originally an AR/Traps corrupter, rerolled him as a TA/Psi Defender, will probably reroll him come I16 as a AR/Psi defender.

His description is a transcription from a certain song from a certain musical involving puppets.

This thread http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=183872 is where I'm trying to address at the very least the colors, so the user can set them how ever they want. Other functionality tbd.

So I love some things about the new forums. Something I don't like about the forums are how it looks. The colors and the large background image, however, I'm not so crazy about.

I've been putzing around with Greasemonkey for other things. Greasemonkey, for those who don't know, is a client side scripting process that allows users of various websites to change the look and feel of the site to their whim.

I've not had much chance to play with it, though, and figured creating a script to change the settings of the forums would be a neat little test.

Here's an image of the site normally: http://www.greenjournal.net/images/unalteredCoH.png.

Here's an image of the site after messing around with Greasemonkey for an hour: http://www.greenjournal.net/images/modifiedCoH.png.

I took out the background image, and the header image, and changed the pale blue-green color scheme to a brighter blue on black background.

The power of Greasemonkey is that if and when I make this script useable to the world (ie - you folks) you can change these colors to what ever you want as well, or make what ever changes you want.

I'm no HTML guru, a lot of my code is copied and pasted from various Greasemonkey tutorials, so I'm sure there's improvements to be made. And as this doesn't change anything on the server, only how certain html elements are presented in your browser, this, to my knowledge, doesn't break any permissions on the CoH fourms either.

I will keep people updated if there is any interest.

Baby's first Pez will be in the mail in about 5 years, when she old enough to have one.

Until then, gratz!

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Love the DJ badges. Hoping I can pull off the earn them all in one day feat...

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I've got an alt working on that just for the sake of a "fun experiment" but I'm not worrying about that for my main badgers.

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So out of curiosity, what is this whole "earn all the Day Job badges in one day" thing? Does it involve rotating a toon through all DJ badge locations until the progress on each one is just a SLIVER below 100%, and then doing a DJ badge location "tour" one day and logging out for short periods of time, only long enough to receive that badge before repeating the process in the next location?

If not, then I'm mystified by the whole thing (and in any case I'm kind of confused as to why "doing them all in one day" [which you really aren't, actually] is significant...).

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That's excatly what it is, get everything to 99.99% then spend a day earning them.

As for the reason for doing it? Because it's giving an otherwise mundane task a life of its own? Because it's just fun? Because I like spreadsheets? Because I can?

It's going to take the same amount of days to get the day job badges, if I'm doing them all in one day or if I earn them sequentially. If you're going to do something, why not do it with a bit of style?

And, I really am earning them all in one period of 24 consecutive hours, even if it requires 220 * 24 hours of setup.

I just hope they announce any new day job badges before I decide to get them all. I'd hate to go through all the effort to earn them all in one day, only to find out there are some more to earn.

Love the DJ badges. Hoping I can pull off the earn them all in one day feat...

Activating certain Tier 9 shield powers for melee sets.

Absorb Paining someone to suicide. (I've done this, just to get a dead body into the Pocket D once)

Pain field base defense? I thought it would actually hurt even the sg members, but I forget....

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Figure out what? That when you bid on things then go to chat this is very reproducible? Or that movement keys also show up?
Where do you use movement keys? In the non editable sections.
There was never an indication that the non editable section was the big missing piece.

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Let me guess - you've been working in software development for 20 years?

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Yeah, it seems that Fitz should be hired by Paragon to fix all their bugs, which will free up time for all the other devs to focus only on new development.

Thank you for your efforts, Fitz, you singly handedly will improve the game leaps and bounds.

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Sorry. The new character from I16:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/goingrog...strom_bio.html

His story (until the end) reads like a mix between the Wolverine and Iron Man movies. It's a good read, but it seems like they would have made more of an effort to not sound so much like another well-known hero.

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The comic world is so populated with well worn tropes that it's very hard not to trip over a few. Almost every character has the "It's like character A and character B combined, but with power C instead of D."

This is true for:
CoH/V canon characters
Marvel characters
DC characters
-insert your favorite Indy publisher- characters
-insert character you just made yesterday-

Positron_CoH - 7:10p EDT

"If you all are nice, I might have even more info to share tomorrow. (That's the 16th right? I need to check my calendar)."

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didnt you know the devs are all

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Clearly forum user Gr33n was murdered mid-post. Why his killer(s?) decided to press the post button before leaving the scene of the crime is a mystery.

It's the devs! They're the killers!

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I just thought that Candlejack came and kidna

The mini maze in TV.

Heck, half of the hidden nooks and crannies in TV are a joy to find and explore.

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didnt you know the devs are all

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...are all what?

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Positron said on twitter that promised July news updates are coming this week.

http://twitter.com/positron_coh

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On one hand...damn this stupid twit fad!

On the other, *glee,* thanks Pezzie!

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I know, how dare a dev try and branch out to the newest emerging form of communication...the nerve.

Don't worry Thanny, I'll keep ya informed on all the Twitter going ons.

Positron said on twitter that promised July news updates are coming this week.

http://twitter.com/positron_coh

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And if all goes well we get a revamped Shard. Somebody needs to be taken out back and beaten for those TFs.

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Well, really, just the first one. The others are average to above average...(I mean really, how often do you get to work for a god to kill another?)

Who/what the coming storm is? The guy Red side who has you break into The Midnight Club that looks like Rularuu.

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This isn't directed at you BaB's, but you guys gotta get your house in order.

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THIS! Also, good to know that using /bug means absolutely nothing. Note to self: give up on /bug.

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One thing where /bug can be useful is situations where location or various game states might be part of the issue, either in fixing or triggering the bug.

They've said in the past that /bug captures a lot of values and game state data when it's submitted. It may take a while for said data to churn through the process, but 2+ weeks from log to dev and 30 seconds to replicate is a lot better than hearing it on the boards and unable to reproduce.

I'm not saying this is the case for the STF bug, but more of a general thing.

Also, not saying this as an apologist, just a Non-Paragon non-NCSoft software developer who knows the values of internal logging for bugs assigned to him in his Non-Paragon Non-NCSoft job and who likes to play devil's advocate.

Edit: also, someone jokingly said this, that QA has to verify and all and couldn't get pass GW and Mako.

If they're using any sort of internal tool to insta-kill the lieuts, or to trigger a Lord Recluse spawn on an otherwise empty map of the last mission while trying to reproduce the bug, something in said tool could be preventing the bug from occurring. Thus they can't reproduce, and thus the bug doesn't get moved up.

$DEITY knows I've had to talk with some of the people from QA at my job for logging bugs caused only when certain things occur with our internal tools.

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Shhhh... Dont tell then about Talos...

There is no AE on Talos *waves hand on the thread, doing the Jedi Mind-trick*

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Keep your Talos. KR has always had the better WW, why not the better WW/Base Porter/AE as well...

Then again, I also start all my character in Galaxy and sometimes use the Galaxy AE...the best AE PuGs on virtue (not farms, actual missions, actual good player created PuG missions) (And yes, I mentioned virtue, so no MRPing either) happen in Galaxy.

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Invincible Reichsman?

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Really? That's awesome to know....

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Someone needs math work...

D2 - Dark/Dark Defender
D3 - Dark/Dark/Dark Defender
D4 - Mighty Ducks 4th Movie...(FLOP)

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Originally, before epics, D3 meant Dark/Dark Defender. Therefore, D4, using the same nomiclature, would be Dark/Dark/Dark Defender. At least that was what I saw all over Virtue in the I0, I1 days.

And yes, I did see D3s in the I0 days.

Not sure how it is on other servers, but that's my 2 bits.

So there's an alternate way to handle this, covered in the link in my sig.

Play your main badger character as normal. You can't play them 24/7. When you don't play them, log them off in a location. Try to get each day job credit to about 99.9%. Then make sure you don't go back to that location.

Once all day job badges meters are 99.9%, spend one Saturday running around the various locations, earning all day job badges in one day.

You're going to the badges anyways, why not try and do it with a bit of style...


In the end, day job badges mean I can be badgeing while at work, not sure how that's a bad thing.

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Candlejack is probably one of the most ridiculous and racist memes on the internet.

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...I thought it was from an episode of Freakazoid...