July 9, 2008
CoX - Unappreciated
Was on a large PUG the other evening and we got a police band mission -- "Stop Archon Roget and his bodyguards."
Quoth my character, "Archon Roget -- he's the wordy one, isn't he?"
Beat. Beat. I'm waiting for the LOLs.
"I dunno - we'll have to see," someone finally said.
Man, a line like that would get dice thrown at me at a tabletop game. I know -- it has.
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April 25, 2008
Ding!
Elseblog, I mentioned this year's balloting for the Eagle Awards. Not surprising that there were some good gaming webcomics in there.
Though it didn't mention Ding! by Scott (PvP) Kurtz, which is even more game-centric (WoW in this case). Though, naturally, many of the themes cross-over to other games (at least to CoX and LotR), such as:
Good stuff.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention I was reminded about Ding! by BD.
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April 2, 2008
LotRO: Well, Fred, you knew this job was dangerous when you took it ...
Via Avo, LotRO's April Fool's post. "Amon Hen" indeed ...
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February 7, 2008
FFN on LotRO
Why they don't put the One Ring in play ...
(BD opines, probably correctly, that Margie and I would be staying out of the way, looting the bodies.)
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January 7, 2008
Acronym
LOTRO? LotRO? LOTRo? LoTRO? LoTRo?
I've seen all of these used. The official site uses the first. I'm inclined to use the second, just because as a title (as seen on the official site), the title capitalization of the letters.
"Oh, you spell it LOTRO,
And I spell it LotRO,
You wield a longsword,
And I wield a longbow,
LOTRO, LotRO, longsword, longbow,
Let's load the whole thing up ..."
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October 4, 2007
Keep this posted next to your monitor
Should I Stop Playing this Game? A decision matrix for married folks
Yeah ... been there, done that. It helps -- I guess -- that Margie plays, too. :-)
(via BD)
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February 16, 2007
"If I had two dead Teckla, I'd give you one"
(via Les)
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February 15, 2007
Too damned much crafting for my taste
If only Real Life was more like an MMORPG.
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December 28, 2006
Comic relief
Bill Amend is going from doing Foxtrot daily to a Sunday-only schedule come the new year. Why? Lots of reasons, I'm sure ...
In related news, QForce defeats the Secret Mastermind behind the Fir Bolg!
(the latter via BD)
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October 18, 2006
It doesn't pay to pressure the Devs
Proof positive.
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September 7, 2006
Par-tay!
From the Top5 Comics list, 1 September 2006:
The Top 7 Things Overheard at a Superhero Party
7> "HULK WANT HEAR 'PURPLE RAIN!'"
6> "Do you think anyone should tell Sue Storm only her costume goes invisible when she's drunk?"
5> "I found out the hard way that (a) the red chair was PlasticMan, and (b) he was really happy to see me."
4> "Sure, they can fight crime, but just look at the Teen Titans now: Boys lined up along one wall; girls lined up along theother."
3> "Supergirl and Powergirl came in the same outfit this year? Awk-ward!"
2> "With great power comes great responsibility... and my world-famous Spidey-Tater-Salad!"
and the Number 1 Thing Overheard at a Superhero Party...
1> "And let's give everyone just back from the dead a big hand!"
And Honorable Mention to the Runners-Up List:
"Can you believe Elektra's wearing white after Labor Day?"
"Hey! Whose idea was it to play Twister with Plastic Man, Mr.Fantastic and Elongated Man?"
"Maybe they wouldn't put you to work in the kitchen every time, Cap, if you didn't carry around a giant serving tray."
"Please, Logan! Not in front of the Runaways."
"So, what kinda mileage does the Batmobile get?"
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August 30, 2006
Battle Cries
Fun thread on the boards about battle cries and "color" tell-binds. My favorite:
Whenever I make a bot, my battlecry is always "Error 404: Battlecry not found."
Brilliant.
I actually haven't use Battlecries for some time (I remap that F-key to the "Typing ..." bind, which I also regularly forget to use), as saying the same thing over and over again is (except in the above case) boring.
I do, though, love to create cascading tell-binds (pressing "T" says something witty and then loads another keybind file that resets "T" to say something else witty next time). I started that with some of my "team" toons -- Ho Ho, Fazenda -- but have it now on most of my regular toons (except, ironically, Psi-clone). The most right is Mr. Ravenous, with 29 different ones; I try to limit myself to doing it no more than once a mish (usually against the big boss), so that the humor stays fresh.
My only regret is that it's so annoying to manually generate the files for them.
My personal favorite is one of Ho Ho's lines:
"I call this the Venus Butterfly Axe!"
Cracks me up, every time.
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July 12, 2006
Best of the night
Best character name: A lizard-man named "Ereptile Dysfunction"
Best NPC dialog: Purse-snatching victim in Atlas: "I hope you get a cut on the clasp! I hope it gets infected, too!"
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June 26, 2006
Like I need more motivation
RPG Motivational Posters. The thread would be even more entertaining if folks didn't reply to posts quoting the entire previous message (including large graphic). As it is, it's now stretching over 242 pages.
And for the MMORPG-lovers among you, there's this accompanying thread. Though, as the plain RPG one I have pictured here (dedicated, in my mind, to War Bones) demonstrates, there's a lot of cross-over between the crowds.
Oh, and RPG Movie Posters, too. Glee.
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June 11, 2006
Signs of the Times?
Is anyone else besides Torchielle bothered that the Talos Island Magic Shop has turned into a Mexican restaurant? Especial para los brujos y brujas, no doubt.
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May 16, 2006
NPC Zen
Overheard running through Perez last night:
Guardian: This ceremony cannot be stopped!
Embalmed Abomination: Grr!
Thorn Wielder: This ceremony cannot be stopped!
Guardian: This ceremony cannot be stopped!
Guard: This ceremony cannot be stopped!
Guardian: We are beyond you.
Guard: We are beyond you.
Guard: We are beyond you.
Guardian: We are beyond you.
Thorn Wielder: This shell is needed.
You could write poetry (modern poetry, at least) out of this stuff.
And, for the record, as much as the Hollows is an annoying place, Perez Park has it beat all (ahem) hollow for annoyance. Even with the map zoomed in all the way and the vidiotmaps background, it's still a PitA to get to places inside the trees, even if you have a travel power.
(And, as Margie points out, why is it that only high level missions in the Hollows have entrances in the buildings right by Wincott, as opposed to the still-low-level, still-sometimes-pre-travel-power mishes that get thrown up in the far eastern edge of the zone, or down in the Mountains of Madness kind of thing?)
That said, I will still take a generic mission in the Hollows vs. Perez, any day of the week.
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April 26, 2006
How to tell if you are a superhero
A long, very amusing list:
For someone with several billion dollars who can sleep with anyone they desire you’re kind of a doleful son of a bitch.When you say you’re driven by a “personal vendetta” you don’t conclude with “against Kinkos.”
You have to remember to say “Ow” when shot.
Your MySpace page has 43,287 friends, all in peril.
RTWT.
(via Solonor)
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February 28, 2006
"... When I'm Sixty-Four?"
Margie and I were discussing via IM something scheduled for tonight that I couldn't remember.
Dave: Oh, well. Must be early dementia.Margie: loony but lovable
Dave: Will you still play CoH with me when I'm 64?
Margie: City of Seniors - love it
Dave: Hobbling across the Hollows. "That's one hell of a curb cut, young man!"
Steel Pin Canyon.
Fighting Ruin Mages. "I've fallen -- and I can't get up!"Margie: They will need to put a rehab center and nursing home next to all the hosptals
Pocket-D converted to BINGO parlorDave: Well, at least the trams all have ramps.
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January 19, 2006
Best CoH Boards Quote of the Day
I swear Paragon City is perfect setting for a new weatherperson fresh out of weatherperson school...
"Today, it'll be sunny, followed by more sun tomorrow, with a 100% chance of sun through the weekend. Except for Dark Astoria. You guys are screwed.'
From Heart_Breaker in this post.
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November 20, 2005
But is she a Corrupter? A Dominator? A Stalker ...?
Never know who you're going to meet in the Rogue Isles ...
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November 13, 2005
The Plant
It's now blindingly clear to me that "Operative Burch" is actually a plant, a test for new villains to the Rogue Islands, an update of the classic, "Well, you've shown us you have the stuff, now take this [unloaded] gun and put a ["click"] bullet in the head of this cop we just captured snooping around, so we know you're on the up-and-up."
I mean, the guy is the first person every new character is sent after.
The so-called "Longbow Agents" there are almost certainly turned or guys in captured costumes, too.
I'm just sayin'.
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November 2, 2005
Coming soon to the streets of the Rogue Isles ...
Lord Recluse's Personal Vehicle.
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August 10, 2005
Double Take
Or, as the picture title has it, "Two Babbages, Ten Heroes, and Two Very Unlucky Trolls."
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April 27, 2005
Heh
(via Ipse Dixit)
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April 22, 2005
"He doth bestride this narrow world as a Colossus!"
Hey, look! OFFICER got the new Issue 4 Enlarge power already!
Actually, it's just a particularly vivid example of the zone-into-mid-air bug (where you pass into a zone, find yourself hovering in an odd place, then, as soon as you take a step, you're where you should be). But I thought it was pretty cool.
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