TerraDraconis
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My only complaint is that the only path to unlock the slots is the TF's and if you solo mainly you don't really have the contacts to get into the right ones.
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And following hearing that announcement I crashed with a fatal error. Actually it seems stuck on the fatal error. ::sigh:: still it was interesting if slow.
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Because you need the keyes?
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Quote:Wait, wait, Arcanaville ... you can't bring sense to a wild emotional speculation party.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
The most straight forward answer to the question of why test Freedom is probably no more strange than the fact that Freedom has the most subscribers and Freedom probably has the most hardware dedicated to it. So if you are going to test the limits of the software architecture, the best place to do so is the place that has the most hardware and the most players to fill it.
I would tend to agree, they are testing something about their software architecture and want to get a feel for a particular load. I have wild guesses but hey they are simply wild guesses based on old wish list items mentioned long ago by devs. Which means that they may or may not be valid anymore. -
The thorn sets auto spike thing. I really really really hate hearing that one running over and over and over and over and over and ... More than any of the others.
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I saw a green sky once when I was in college. The college is up against the foothills and the student center/cafeteria looks out over the sacramento valley. Anyway I looked up as it got darker one day to see literal green clouds like that rolling in and forming a thunderstorm. It was odd but I've only seen that the one time.
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Quote:I'm working on a character on freedom for the Praetorian event tonight. I like the character and and actually considering buying my very first server transfer to move the character off of Freedom just as soon as the event is done.Originally Posted by ChaosAngelGeno
With the Praetorian event coming up this week I made a toon on Freedom server in preparation for the event. Immediately I experienced lag as soon as I hit Atlas. Whatever the devs have in mind for the event, I don't expect it to work honestly. So I hope whatever technology they plan to employ to make events work better for players will work. Since I don't expect it work and the possiblity of not being home that weekend, hopefully server performance will improve.
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Oh now I understand. Everyone who has told me to get a life meant I should be watching episodes of the Life TV show.
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Quote:I did that back in the 90's with the endless mutant wars. Meh I really got tired of Marvel's war of the month or quarter.Originally Posted by Dr_Illuminatis
After over 25 years of collecting I finally reached that point where I dropped all my Marvel and DC titles. Too much focus on events, what happened to the days when an event was special? Now it seems that's all Marvel and DC do anymore. Characterization and moving a hero's storyline forward has been lost. The biggest transgressor of this is Geoff Johns, specifically his Green Lantern run. It started out awesome and we learned a lot about Hal and both his worlds, then the book spiraled down into event hell, stalling Hal's personal storyline for the sake of the event.
There are still some good books out there. I enjoyed DnA's Marvel Cosmic stuff.
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Quote:Not "What's up Doc?"Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I hear you only get to play Masterminds whose minions' only power is to say, "What is it, Doctor?!"
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Quote:They had already setup a perfectly fine exit for him last episode. He was retiring to spend more time with his wife. Ah well I guess they just wanted to kill him off.Originally Posted by Chyll
The cap's death was spoiled by a lot of rumors that the actor wasn't remaining for the 4th season, but he got a really nicely written and acted send off by the entire cast.
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Quote:Well I've been buying ebooks exclusively for the last year and initially I wasn't particularly discriminating in the book and bought it if it looked remotely interesting. I started fairly early on stopping to check and see if it was self published or not and avoiding the self published ones because simply most of them were drek.Originally Posted by Durakken
I think some of what you guys are saying is wrong, though I don't generally buy books, because I don't ever go looking for books and ask is this book from a publisher or is it self published. I look for interesting titles and covers, check out the synopsis, get reviews and suggestions from friends, and then make my decision... Never has the question of who published it crossed my mind when actually looking for/to buy a book.
If I got a good recommendation for a self published author then I would try them. Better yet if they had a free ebook or sample on their website I could read I would read that and depending on if I liked what I saw I would go ahead and buy books from them. But having been burned by bad books with decent descriptions I have pretty much stopped just grabbing self published books. If an author doesn't have any published works from a real publishing house then I tend to avoid them now. -
Quote:Ah yes an example of an author who clearly needs an editor. They apparently wrote a pretty decent book but it has a better book screaming inside to get out around her awkward use of the adverb. If only she had an editor to highlight these sentences that need to be fixed. But the author apparently is so firm in the belief that every word is precious as is that they literally are blind to what is wrong.Originally Posted by Defenestrator
I certainly don't want to end up in the same boat with Jacqueline Howett:
http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/201...ne-howett.html
Read down into the hilarious comments by the author. You certainly don't want sentences like this in your book:
"She carried her stocky build carefully back down the stairs."
"Don and Katy watched hypnotically Gino place more coffees out at another table with supreme balance."
Her response twice in the resulting thread were she tells everyone to F off is amazing.
Every author I know who is published wants an editor to have a pass at their book before publication. An author always is to close to do that pass, or at least usually is without outside help. The very rare lucky ones don't need it but they are the true exceptions. -
Quote:Dog Soldiers is an especially good example of this. Though since I like to dig for bad B sci fi and horror movies on netflix, I do occasionally find a very good gem. But the shear amount of really bad movies I have to get through to find those good movies is amazing. Worse you know the good ones didn't make nearly anything close to what they should have, which is a shame.Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
For some media, you probably need a corporate backer to even afford to make the end product palatable. This is especially true for certain genres of movies and music. A low-budget indie film or album will work fine in certain genres, but only the major corporations have the kind of money necessary for effects-heavy movies, or for the more advanced recording studio technology that a lot of Top 40 music requires.
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Oh and if you think I'm exaggerating read this to get a feeling about it.
See I read various author blogs, and discussions. regularly chat with authors online, and follow some what the science fiction publishing industry. So I've seen some interesting insights into it.
I do know a pair of authors who are successfully publishing some of their material themselves, but then they have run a small press for years publishing chapbooks of theirs and others. Even their they jumped for joy to get contracts with a bigger publisher to print their books and write new books.
Check out Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden Universe books, they have recently been all reprinted with new novels in the universe coming out over the last few years. -
Oh and you really really should read some examples of the truly horrible stuff that regularly finds its way into the slush pile of any editor. And then thank any god you want that it isn't getting published.
Everyone thinks their book/story/song/game/other art thing is just awesome and will be recognized as such if people just KNEW. -
Any sane author wants an out side force to some editing and polishing of their work. I've seen more than enough published material by people who got to important to edit or self published that just screamed for a pass by an editor. Robert E Heinlein's later works are like that.
Basically a professional shop brings along editors, typesetting, cover art, marketing. These are all things that the creator of a work shouldn't have to do themselves. Oh some can, but then some people are great generalists.
That said the performers who make money and keep it are the ones who learn to do some of all of this hands on themselves. So they at least know if they are getting what it is worth or not.
Still publishing is changing and evolving. It is quite possible that the traditional publishing houses, at least the top tier one will go down in flames. That is more because the six major publishing houses in the US are all owned by big mega conglomerates that have no clue how a publishing house makes money or works. They will want books to be widgets. And for that matter they have recently been found to be apparently using truly horrible accounting practices/software for tracking ebooks.
Still I think that an author who believes that they can do the final edit on their book has a fool for a client and that is something that a small to mid sized publishing house can add along with the other things above.
Really do you want to manage the minutia of publishing your book every where it needs to be published? -
Quote:It has been implied before that Time Lords have living technology. So that part doesn't actually bother me. Particularly since they have implied that the TARDIS is a living thing.Originally Posted by Zikar
SPOILERS!!!!!
What can I say?
I thought the episodes was well written and well made, a great episode by all accounts. However... I don't know... the TARDIS as a person just doesn't sit well with me.
I've never thought of it actually being an individual. More like a dog or something, loyal to it's master. Alive, but not capable of true "thought" or feelings. Not in the same way humans have them.
I dunno. Call me mixed on this.
Be aware, I am by no means saying this is a bad episode, it's a great episode, I just have a personal problem with it.
Basically it was a high level entity folded down into a human body. When in the TARDIS it isn't necessarily sentient and self aware in the sense it is when in a human body. But it is alive and aware of what is going on around it and with it. -
Quote:You just demonstrated it nicely above. Random chance.Originally Posted by Arbiter_Shade
Okay so everyone says that there is merely a threshold to reach in order to get a reward but I have issue with this because...
Dominator: 47 Runs, 20 V. Rare, 23 Rare, 4 Common
Stalker: 58 Runs, 2 V. Rare, 5 Rare, 51 Uncommon
This makes no sense to me at all because WHAT is this RNG set to if the case is merely the threshold. I know without a doubt I "contribute" more on my Dom between debuffs, damage, and control than I do on my Stalker that is merely medicore damage. It isn't a thousand point test but it still gives a pretty weird picture of this RNG you have to admit that.
The fact that it is random it how you end up with the oddly skewed results on the dominator. You should be having your Dominator buy some lottery tickets for you. -
Quote:Top ****** Dwarf Hoarders Extreme Couponing.Originally Posted by Starflier
America's Next Top ******?
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Quote:Yes but that was after they shipped 2 of their nifty new ZPM's off to earth and needed more power again.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Weren't they also getting power from that underwater facility after they found it?
Earth used one for the chair/defense system and one for the intergalactic ship and one stayed back at Atlantis allowing them to dial earth for reports every few days. -
Quote:Yep that sounds very like the random number generator just keeps picking uncommon for you. My second BAF I got the orange rare table.Originally Posted by jdogg_NA
I can honetly say that damage has nothing to do with participation. I have run 22 trials on my shield/elec tank and he does massive AoE damage and have gotten 20 commons and 2 uncommons....All of these trials ended successfully with no problems and each time I never had to go to hospital but I still get crap for drops no matter what I do in the trials. Bad part is the 2 times I got uncommon I dcd upon entering, so no I would have to say that participation formula is not working as intended. If it is working the way they intend it to then I forsee a lot of people avoiding the trials this really needs to be adressed.
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Quote:SG:1 & SG:A had likeable characters and good writing. SG:U only had good writing for the last 6 - 10 episodes of the entire 2 year run.Originally Posted by Cass_
Man SG:1 and SG:A must have driven you up the wall...
Every thing prior to that was pretty substandard and the characters all seemed to be in a race for who can be the most disliked by the audience.
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Quote:Oh there clearly is a ZPM manufacturing plant in the city. The problem is that they haven't found it or else figured out what it is yet. When the ancients took over the city for a while they promptly built more ZPM's using the cities resources. So the tech is there in the city. They just never identified it in the series. Now that the city is on earth at some point they will finally figure out the trick of it and be able to manufacture them to order.Originally Posted by Cass_
The Zero Point modules, why was there no facility for making them in the city? Why the hell would you leave home with out that?
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Well I'm not sold on the reason that they hadn't done anything with the stasis pods but there was a reason buried in the episode. They hadn't checked and tested all of them. And it did appear to take several hours or even a couple of days just to power them all up and test them. And then there was the damaged ones.
Yes well and we only have enough exactly for the current number of crew down to the person. Isn't that such a nice coincidence.
Pity that it's over it would have been interesting to see how they resolved that cliff hanger.