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Re: June 2nd

September 31st? Is that between September 30th and October 1st? I always seem to miss that day?

Re: closed beta applications

I and a friend both just received them last night.

Re: Champions Online - Server Names

I would definitely be interested, but with the caveat that I have 3-4 friends who aren't on these boards very often, but are Champions players from way back and I would vouch for them, if necessary.

Re: June 2nd

Sounds like a good birthday present to me.

Re: I didn't create him, but now I wish I did!

hmm, weird. none of those links work for me.

Re: [Alera - Furies of Calderon] Advice on Summoning/Elemental Ally

Watercrafters can also sense others emotions and were used to move ships at sea and hide them from Leviathons. I will watch this thread with interest, as I enjoy these books and the magics involved (Aleran Furies, Canim Blood Magic, Marat Bondings (which allowed a Marat bound to an Aleran develop fury crafting)).

I think preset elemental controls for each type of crafting would work. Your level of power would be how many points you want to put into it. And number of furies would be how many different ones you would want to purchase. The reason I say EC is that we have seen windcrafters fly and increase there SPD while increasing vision.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Princep's Fury by Jim Butcher: Alera vs the Vord with some cold revenge and a new High Lord.

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Up to this point also, can't wait for First Lord's Fury. Love the various magic systems (furies, blood magic, symbiotic magic(marat)). The point in cursor's fury where he does an excellent job of showing why a phalanx works, even against superior forces.

 

Friend of mine has been loaning me the Thraxus series. Noir detective in a fantasy setting.

Re: New Screenshots: Lemuria

Anyone know how they are doing the underwater. "Rentable" breathing items or can you build into your character underwater abilities?

Re: Jokes

I think this is not only from other countries, but also northeast coast to midwest and west coast. 2 things stand out to me on that:

1) When I worked at a small computer store, there was a couple who flew out to go to a local convention and decided to stop by our store. They started asking us which buses to take to get to where they wanted to go and we all stared at each other in bewilderment. They commented that next time they came out they would make sure to rent a car.

2) Not driving, but a similar story. My brother was stationed at the old air force base in the early 90s. One of his group was from the east coast area near the adirondack mountains. One day, he looked up, saw Mount Baldy to the north and decided to go for a jog up to the mountains, since in his opinion they couldn't be more then 10 miles away. Half a day later, and seemingly no closer to the mountain, he decided the people telling him they were 50+ miles away might have been right. (A history teacher I had used to joke that the settlers who crossed the adirondacks didn't realize that those were just foothills compared to what they would see).

Re: Champions Online on MSNBC

"Heroin" is a drug.

 

Heroine is a female hero.

You don't know what her power was. Maybe she also threw them off Heroin.

Re: Champions Online on MSNBC

I loved the triple floating blasters in front of the hero and the swarm of thugs piling on the heroin and being thrown off. And who were the invisible guys?

Cryptic bought up by Atari. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171726

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I'm finally getting around to finishing Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I started reading it back when it was only a novelette feature in a sci-fi magazine, then read the first three books. The gap was so long before four that even though I actually bought the book I had lost interest in finishing it. I grabbed three & four on audio for a long road trip and my new longer commutes.

 

Re-reading three I find that I remember so little of it I may as well be reading it for the first time. Probably a good thing i picked it up, even if I'm not overly thrilled by it. King has always been a 50/50 writer for me; I either love it or I hate it. I remember loving the first Dark Tower and I absolutely love the character of Roland, the Gunslinger. The rest of the series has been very 'meh' for me. I'd still like to finish the series but overall it is just ok.

I enjoyed that series up till book 4 or 5, though my brother says that books 1-3 were altered since he read them way back when based on what happened later. I got them all on Audible, which may have helped. To me the books took a serious left downward turn once

. The series as it began had such great promise, it was a great dissapointment.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Got the complete Sherlock Holmes. Got through the first two disks and have the third in the player now. Ronald Howard and H. Marion Crawford come across as a unique Holmes/Watson team.

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Hadn't heard of this, how do you compare it to the Jeremy Brett series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086661/)? I consider the Brett series to be the best version of Holmes done so far.

Re: closed beta applications

signed up and crossing my fingers

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Agree.

thirded

Re: Jokes

That had me laughing Edsel, would rep ya, but must spread around. I hope you get out of the hospital for all that soon.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I just finished a Jim Butcher-a-Thon! I'd picked up and read Storm Front' date=' the first Dresden File book just before my birthday. My wife picked up books 2 through 6 for my birthday, and after I downed them, I picked up 7 and 8, finishing up all the paperbacks within a week. This week, I read (several days of migraines impeding my progress) the first Codex Alera novel, [i']Furies of Calderon[/i]. I'll pick up the other two paperbacks this weekend.

 

Then I'll froth at the mouth until the current hardback for each series is released in paperback. Or else, I'll put it on my library wait list.

 

I'd have to say it looks like Butcher is well on his way to becoming one of the greats in the field. He's simply a solid writer who knows how to move a story along. And that's hard to beat. Furies of Calderon was one of the few 500 page fantasy novels I've read in a while that didn't bog down. Heck, that's probably because he had the sense to keep it to 500 pages, instead of adding another 300-500 pages of bloat. If you like a good page turner, you should like Jim Butcher.

I and my wife are both enjoying this series.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Danse Macabre by Laurell K Hamilton. A bit bloated to do 500 pages over a two day period but it is taking time for the character to realise what is going on and why.

 

And I think something is building in the background.

I read this series up to a book or 2 past Obsidian Butterfly. I thought the series had promise, but just got tired of the endless sex stuff. When Butterfly came out, it seemed more the type of story she seemed to start out to write (detective with supernatural powers, etc.), but as soon as Anita went back, back into bed with the Vamp/Werewolf/etc. she went. So I gave up.

Friends who liked the series gave up shortly thereafter, I believe. Part of it is that I read the first 7-8 books in rapid succession, not spaced out as they were written, and so the (what felt like) exponential rise in romance novel writing and the decrease in detective style writing was very apparent to me; whereas to them, it hadn't seemed as abrupt as it was.

I have to give her credit though, if you read the intro to book 1, she explains there that she doesn't know a lot about detective work, and therefore you shouldn't expect a lot.

I prefer Kim Harrisons Witch books or Dresden Files. Even the Sookie Stackhouse or Harper Connolly books seem better to me.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I just finished the first 3 books of the Aleran Codex by Jim Butcher. A little slow to get into, but I really like the magic systems (3 so far) and the races. He bases his main people on Roman culture, including their army. At one point in book 3, he explains through example why the shield wall technique they had perfected worked on stronger foes.

Well worth the read, can't wait for the next one, due in december.

Re: Jokes

The 10 Best "Out of Office" Automatic e-mail Replies

 

 

1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.

 

2. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

 

3. Sorry to have missed you, but I am at the doctor's having my brain and heart removed so I can be promoted to our management team.

 

4. I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

 

5. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged £5.99 for the first 10 words and £1.99 for each additional word in your message.

 

6. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over.)

 

7. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

 

8. Hi, I'm thinking about what you've just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

 

9. I've run away to join a different circus.

 

10. I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as 'Loretta' instead of (insert your name here)

Are these from Scott Adams, the writer/artist for Dilbert? I only ask because I can remember him using the term In-duh-viduals in his first book, The Dilbert Principle.

Re: Jokes

Little Harold was hopping on one foot then the other.

"I gotta piss! I gotta piss!", he cried to his mother in front of her friends.

Mother took him to the toilet and explained to him that next time he wanted to go to the toilet, he should not use those words. She said he should come in and talk quietly - "That's a whisper" she said.

Two hours later, Harold came rushing in again.

"I wanna whisper! I wanna whisper!", he said.

His mother knew what he wanted and took him to the toilet, after which he was rewarded with a candy bar.

That night the urge came on again. Harold jumped out of bed and ran to his father.

"What is it, son?", his father asked.

"I wanna whisper, Daddy. I wanna whisper."

"O.K. son, come here and whisper in my ear."

Re: Master List of Limitations, HD Prefabs

Very Nice and Repped away.

Re: Supress & Dispel: How effective?

I am running a character who uses bardic style music as a power. He has a dispel (18d6 iirc) vs. sonic based powers. He can use his perfect pitch to countersong them.

Re: 007 7.0

Obviously I agree with you on the possibility of a rotated ID. But to clarifiy, there agents designated as 0011, 0012, and 0013.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_allies (See list of "00" agents)

 

Also Bond usually holds the rank of Commander. M is an Admiral.

Thanks for the clarification. You are right about the ranks, my brain had obviously just shut down.