Schismatrix

Am i the only one who simply read it by doing the inversion in my head?
Maybe there's something wrong with me.
More so than usual.

Most of my villains are on Virtue partially because redside on any server has a much lower average population than blueside. Guardian is a fun server, but when playing redside on any server joining a global channel or two for that server pretty much a must for teaming.

Well, i know Ol' Uncle Walt stood for antisemitism, but i have no idea offhand how he felt about GLBT.

i've found that at least the half the teams i'm on with my Dark/Ice have no kin, but then i don't ever insist on looking for one. i currently have Assault, Tactics and Vengeance and i am considering dropping my nuke since i also run Shadow Fall, Mind Over Body, Hover, Combat Jumping and Darkest Night in addition to the leadership toggles. Awesome as the nuke is, in my opinion it interferes somewhat with the rest of my team support when i have to spend several seconds popping blues and putting toggles back up.

Still, i suppose my build is sub-par by Rigel Kent's standards for taking leadership at all, much less planning to drop the nuke. *shrug*

With the slotting on Fort and CM it makes sense to slot up the rez. i guess.

Well, if you add rows of short spines it's almost like having ridged structures, just place them close together. Assuming the spines are firmly anchored enough to be rigid. Otherwise the waving will make them unconvincing.

i thought that was brain bleach-worthy squicking going on. Oh well, live and learn.

They're called force field bubbles.
Hell, i've had a couple characters who used "Hamster balls for everyone!" to announce when they were re-applying the bubbles.

Generally "Cosmic" powered usually means much more powerful than a normal hero. Tankmages unimpressed by spawns of all AV's or basically anything less than Hamidon and his posse are usually the sort of thing i'd guess is meant by "Cosmic".
Sort of like how Johnny Butane thinks Tankers should be able to endure and deal more damage than everyone else, but with extra glowing added.

Otherwise i'd say that Kheldians already pretty much fit the usual description of a cosmically powered character in most comics, except that they aren't more powerful than any normal character:

• Empowered by a being of pure energy from beyond the stars. Check.
• Able to do things no normal character can do. Like, for example, turning into alien energy creatures. Check.
• Big, flashy power visuals and sounds. Check.
• Regularly battles alien enemies that normal characters will not encounter unless a Kheldian is around. Check.

Well, crap. i currently have no ITF-level alts on Triumph. Actually i'm not sure what my highest level alt on Triumph is right now. Probably a Defender or Scrapper.

Edit: Nope, the two highest are a Blaster and a Controlller. Both quite low. The Controller has a horrible, horrible name that implies i was drunk and feeling a bit absurdist when i made him. If i actually started playing him regularly he'd probably get genericed before level 20 and it would serve me right.

i saw District 9 last Saturday, so i'd say we're right on schedule.

Well, Angry_Citizen just posted a goodbye message because he's leaving for college and won't have time for CoX anymore. He joined in 2004 (making him old school) and is 18 years old. So i'm guessing new school means just starting to notice gender differences and dreaming of getting a driver's license some day?

So, you new schoolers may have noticed hair growing in places it never did before, skin blemishes appearing, mood swings and urges you never had before. It's called Chronic AE Poisoning, and the only cure is to avoid the AE buildings and give all your inf and set IO's to someone with 36 month or higher veteran badges.

If you don't do this very soon you will gradually become the Angry German Kid from Youtube.

Same here.

Definitely before wave 7.

Wait, the original creator is still alive? Wouldn't he be at least in his late eighties by now? That's pretty impressive. (Can't recall offhand if GI Joe dates back to WWI or WWII.)

i'll probably give the movie a miss for now and see it when it comes out on DVD.

Some interesting background there. i hope to eventually find out that more of my conjectures are wrong.

Works for me. Though the Superman of the CoX universe is a bit of a jerk in game. No, make that frequently a lot of a jerk.

Edit: *heh* And a bit later on:

Well, i don't recall Chris being there when it happened. Not to mention the Prawns might have a different view regarding child rearing. Especially when you consider the vast majority seemed to not be especially intelligent or motivated.

With the apparent levels of technology available to the Prawn species, biological included, it's quite possible that different castes and capabilities are created through diet and other cues/triggers. The prawns were also obviously reproducing at an astounding rate given the conditions they were in and the efforts by the MNU to prevent breeding implied by the one scene, and yet their population had basically doubled in twenty years. It's quite possible the young are considered no more than animals/pets until they develop to the point of speaking, thinking and looking like the "adults". i suspect the creatures that were in the pit fighting scene may have been Prawn juveniles before they develop into the adult Prawn form. They breed masses of young and the ones who survive to maturity are accepted as actual members of the Prawn society.

Chris' son was even more intelligent than his father, who seemed far more intelligent than the average Prawn, which is why i'm guessing that Prawn intelligence and motivation is set by caste and mediated through some sort of biochemical or genetic regulation. Possibly Chris and the other Prawn that was killed fairly early on were formerly of a mediator/middle manager caste somewhere between the leaders and workers. At least that's a definitely possibility implied by much of the incidental dialogue and events/visuals seen in the background.

Yes and that has little to do with the Developer account on the forums that was formerly used by Jack Emmert.