John T

I hate it when a "new forum format" doesn't let me choose a dark layout. I find glaring white internet pages fantastically irritating. The fact that it seems to take longer to load is also not an improvement. edit: This new format is so irritating (imo) that this is good-bye until it goes away. Good-bye.

Re: The cranky thread Woke up with my head completely packed full of slime, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, eyes watering. Seems more allergic than sick, but I'm kind of a mess at the moment. Will "take something" and see what happens. Been a long time since my last sinus allergy attack. No fond memories.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Spent time biting (and webbing, and poisoning) the Free Peoples in LotRO today with my Spider. I hardly even qualify as a casual PvPer in any MMOs, but I always have fun on those rare occasions.

Re: The cranky thread Well, if they're badly made, I suppose.

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Re: The cranky thread You're a back-stabbing bureaucrat and sleezebag suit?

Re: The cranky thread I'm out of work again. Not the end of the world, certainly. Michelle's newest contract makes (at least) twice as much as my job and her unemployment benefits did - about 80k a year. Even an improvement over her last excellent contract. We're both getting used to the contract work gig. My own wasn't up for another 5 months, but my schedule there was very incompatible with her new job, and they weren't interested in negotiating a change. Fair enough. I wasn't interested in jeapordizing her new situation in favor of my own. No hard feelings either way. But I always feel "at loose ends" for a while in the aftermath, regardless of how it comes about. Directionless. I've hated that feeling ever since my days in the USAF.

Re: The cranky thread No problems are petty that consume your mind and sap your will. They may be "small", but when you feel like an ant, a golfball is a mountain. Sometimes, you just have to find a way to let go, to loosen your deathgrip on it long enough to open your hand, see it for what it is, and deal with it. Venting it to friends is a way to do that, even if we can't exactly help... other than by being sympathetic ears, so to speak.

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Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... You ever get that feeling that someone's watching you?..

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... Ai wuvs da bouncie kassle!

Re: The cranky thread Consistency is the key.

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... GETTIT ORFA MEEEE!!!

Re: "Neat" Pictures That relfection you see on the floor is caused by my drool...

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Re: Philosophy & Principles of Power Design A point to make here regarding the subtlety of design available to the game. I designed an almost identical power to the one described above, but built it as a selective, no-range, ranged aoe attack, because I wanted the attack to be "so fast that it couldn't be blocked, only dodged." I'm all for taking the "simplest" approach possible to simulating the desired effect, but I'm pretty avid about understanding the nuances of exactly what a player is trying to achieve.

Re: The cranky thread Drat... forgot my lunch at home, today. *mutters*

Re: Philosophy & Principles of Power Design Indigo Inquisitor, the newest Herald of Galactus.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread The Minnesota Vikings brush their teeth? Or was it unused?

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Re: What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting? Well, I'll preface my comments with this: I despise most Iron Age comics. They're a large part of the reason I stopped reading comics entirely. That being said, I do at least know *why* I feel the way I do about so many of them. Thus, I can readily define the one thing that (for me) make a *bad* Iron Age setting. The one overriding trait that galls me the most about them is what I refer to as the "With Great Power Comes Great Douche-baggery" syndrome. I don't have a problem with heroes that are, at their moral core, "just human" - I've played in several such games. What annoys me are "heroes" that seemingly have a *lower* moral center than most normals, and even many criminals.

Re: Musings on Random Musings "Field of Morons" Or am I picking on Kevin Costner too much?