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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within                  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| For the most part, I've been reincarnating as I unlock higher tiers, and I'm on the fourth tier of heavy knight, warrior (male and female), gunner, archer, and thief. I think all the rest are third tier except the skulls, who I haven't reincarnated because I want them to learn their Tera elementals first, and they can't do that on higher tiers. I'm not bothering reincarnating the story characters because, from what I read, there really isn't much of a point unless you're insistent on maxing out everybody. I want to get to ridiculous levels of ownage, but I don't care about the absolute best stats evar!1!! I also read that reincarnating would wipe out the increased counter and movement that I got via the Dark Assembly, and I'd have to spend a few hundred mana to get those back. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| Bleh. Damn you people and your super efficient powerleveling and schwag farming. I still can't beat CoO2, but then again, I have gotten a bunch more equipment and levels since the last time I tried. At least I had a run of good geopanel luck in the item world. I was up against an item general 1 1/2 times my level, and she knocked off most of my best Mythril Knight's HP in one hit. So I chucked her on a critical square and shot her. The end. I got through a different tough item general level by standing on invincibility squares and just spamming whatever. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| I'm not sure what rank my items are, but some of them are better than the $6 million stuff the store sells (I haven't passed the final "more expensive stuff" bill yet, so those are the best I can get). Usually I can only get through a few floors at a time, so I've been bouncing between my best items and whatever other good stuff I find during the process. It isn't the fastest process, but it is working for me, and it's fun.
I'm wondering what monsters you guys find useful. I heard great things about wood golems, so I made one (Forest Gump...har har har). I want some flying creature with good area attacks for the item world (Tink is pretty good, but oftentimes he can't traverse an entire level by himself and kick ass along the way), but I'm not sure if I'd rather train a mothman or a holy dragon. Eh...I might as well try both.  |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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This isn't a Halloween costume, but I did make it myself (except for the wig, which I commissioned because it was way beyond my skills), so it's getting posted anyway. 
I'm Zhang He from Dynasty Warriors 4...the most beeYOOtiful man in the Wei army. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words of a brand spanking new rough draft over the course of November. I found out about it on November 6 last year and figured it wasn't too late to try. A couple of years prior, I'd gotten an idea for a scary story, but I was never able to get it off the ground, so I forgot about it. I figured I'd give it another try and see what happened. I wound up finishing a 50K draft that, for something speedwritten with nothing to go on other than an opening scene and the beginnings of a disturbing back story, really wasn't bad, and I've been polishing it up into a much better second draft.
I'm doing it again this year, only I actually got a bit of planning done beforehand. Again, I have an opening scene (which is from a weird dream I had a while ago - it looked like the beginning of a horror game or movie) and some idea of what's going on, but that's it. Let's see where it goes from there. Any other NaNo participants? |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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Once in a blue moon, I will smoke one clove cigarette or a few puffs of good tobacco through a hookah. Cloves and quality tobacco actually do taste good, and I doubt that inhaling a small amount of burning stuff every few months is going to do any lasting damage. As far as screwing up one's body is concerned, I don't see minor, infrequent tobacco use as much different from drinking a beer once in a while. Judging from my ability to work out at high intensity, my lungs are healthy, and I'm nowhere near prematurely aged. I look several years younger than I am. 
I've never been interested in regular cigarettes because I heard they taste like burning ass, so what's the point? Plus, my dad gets addicted to tobacco very easily, so I was scared to try a puff and wind up hooked. Judging from my experience with regular tobacco, I'm probably more like my mom, who could pick up and put down cigarettes at will, but I'm not trying them anyway. Dip also seems disgusting, so I don't want any of that either. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| (So and so's) brain is like a pile of rocks next to a hamsterless wheel. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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I started at midnight yesterday, and I'm at ~2200 now. I'm stuck at the moment, but I don't really care. I'm way ahead of where I was last year at this time.
Originally posted by Pvt. PrinnySure...as long as it's 50,000 words of a new project. You could always write a short story and add random tangents to parts of it just for fun (or as a writing exercise or whatever). Plus, if my experience revising last year's NaNo is at all typical, the manuscript might wind up in short story territory when you're done. I do have a long part at the end left to redo, but I wouldn't be surprised if the second draft falls short of 50K. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| The site's going to be bogged down for the next few days. Don't worry about it...just get started. You can sign up until late in the month (November 25th, I think), so create your account and begin updating your word count whenever the site will load for you. You can write the novel with anything that can save as .txt, which is what the NaNo automatic word counter requires. (You can update your word count manually, but being declared a winner requires you to submit your manuscript to the word counter on the site.) |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| I went earlier with a group of friends. The theater was a madhouse. We had to go to an 11 p.m. showing because the 10 p.m. show was sold out, and people lined up to get in the theater a while beforehand. Between getting our tickets and lining up, we went to a nearby Barnes and Noble for some coffee, and I wound up buying Maddox' Alphabet of Manliness while we were there. It helped pass the time standing in line outside the theater, and it was very appropriate pre-movie subject material.
The movie itself was well worth the hype. The crude humor cracked me up because it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, and jokes weren't beaten into the ground or overdone for the sake of grossing out the audience. Borat's awkward English was consistently funny and made the content of the jokes all the more amusing. And the wrestling scene (I don't want to spoil it, but let's just say that you'll know it when you see it) had me gasping for breath because I was laughing that much. Of course, the rest of the packed theater was laughing throughout the movie, which added to the awesomeness of the experience. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| *agrees with Xkeeper and NSNick*
I wouldn't mind paying for an expansion pack or something else that is substantial new content. The Guitar Hero example is something that would especially interest me. I think it's fair - and good for both the players and the developer - to release a game that has plenty to do already and then develop more content to be added on later. This keeps the game fresh without requiring the developers to commit to a sequel, and I don't think there's much of a point in bothering with a full sequel just to add more songs, multiplayer maps, or whatnot. I wouldn't pay for trivial crap that doesn't do much for the gameplay, and charging for a crippled version of a game is flat-out bullshit. A free demo is fair, but when people pay for a game, they expect to be able to actually play it. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| Thank you for your perspective, Kas. I can never explain the issue of transgender as well as someone who actually lives it, but I am strongly against the idea of a black and white gender binary because it has been pretty well debunked.
For those of you who think that genitals dictate gender, what do you make of intersexed people who are born with ambiguous genitalia? In many cases, intersexed people have been assigned one gender or another via genital surgery at birth, and they grew up feeling a strong disconnect between their assigned gender and who they felt they actually were. Chromosomes aren't a gold standard of gender determination, either. There are women with XY chromosomes. Human embryos develop as female by default, and they are steered down the male path by the Y chromosome. If that chromosome never activates, the embryo will continue to develop as female. For the most part, the gender that people feel they are matches the gender that their body appears to be, but for some, it's not that simple. People should be able to live as they wish as long as they aren't hurting anyone else, and I never understood the hoopla around issues of gender bending. If you go home with someone who looks like a woman, she never tells you that she has male genitalia, and you find out the hard way, that's deception on her part, not an inherent problem with transsexuality or cross-dressing. I agree with those who think that, for the most part, single-gender bathrooms are silly. Especially nonsensical are single-occupant bathrooms labeled with a gender. I can understand that people could feel awkward in certain communal bathroom situations if the opposite gender were around (for example, say a woman gets her period unprepared and would feel weird asking about sanitary products in front of the guy washing his hands at the sink), but if you're the only one in the bathroom - ever - that's completely irrelevant. Why not just make the bathrooms available and leave it at that? Is a man going to get cooties if there's a long line for the single-occupant men's room and he decides to use the women's room instead? |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| Arwon, that story was excellent. On top of what you said, I would like to add that soldiers must be able to function as a team. Randy's friend has such a deep-seated disgust for people who can fall under the broad label of "liberal" that I wonder how well he can work with people with different political views. One of my friends is in the National Guard, and he served in Iraq. He also happens to be gay, A-OK with his orientation, and supportive of rights such as freedom to marry, so I suppose that that qualifies him to be tarred and feathered with the liberal brush. Could my friend trust a teammate or squad leader with his life if the teammate or squad leader thinks he's one of "the dumbest people on earth" who is "taking the pride out of America" and "ruining the traditional values"? | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| There's 1 of me in the US and 1 in the UK. I have a fairly common British first name and an Irish surname, so it doesn't surprise me that there's an English citizen somewhere with the same name. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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Forest Gump the tree dude is now about a level 250 Dreadnaught. I know that's nothing in the uber-late game (Land of Carnage and whatnot), but he works awesomely for what I'm doing right now.  (I just unlocked the final tier of buyable items, so I'm buying the best stuff and leveling it up to find even more uber stuff and also to get the rest of the team up to speed. I am hurting for equipment right now.) He's pretty much the only character I ever use any more unless I'm running to an open exit (Tink) or I need a distance attacker. I'm sad that my Adamant Knights, Tank and Olaf, aren't very useful to me right now - I loved to use them as tower bases and to chuck wimpy characters out of the way after they did their one thing (like casting a spell) - but I'll just level up a few more Majin Armors and they should be back in business.
I do have other characters who could work well in the item worlds I've been doing, but they'd need a lot more healing. Forest Gump just plows on through. His HP, attack, defense, and 4 counterattacks are great enough as is, and then there's the incredibly useful 3x3 Rush Hour attack. Poisoning, which used to be a major pain in my ass, is pretty much not a concern (unless I'm getting cornholed and temporary loss of effective regen would kill me, but I've been able to make great progress without going through annoyingly difficult item world levels, so I just Gency out whenever I start to get pissed off). Admittedly, his movement is crap (and I chose to equip more high defense stuff instead of shoes), so sometimes he needs to be thrown somewhere, but I haven't had to do that in a while. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination YA RLY |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| I just got to CoO 4 the other day. I hadn't been able to beat 2 because I didn't have any strong range attacks with wide area of effect, but Forest Gump soloed it with ease by spamming Rush Hour. He soloed the next one as well. To my dismay, my equipment was just not up to snuff for 4. I couldn't wipe out all the enemies in one turn with an assortment of wide area attacks, and I got cornholed when they all Illusion'ed me. Now that I have far superior equipment, I'm going to give it another shot. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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| I don't understand the appeal of that lovely Oompa Loompa shade of orange, either. It just looks silly. There are people whose skin turns a natural-looking shade of color when they tan, and then there are those who just look ridiculous. I especially don't understand the appeal of destroying your skin and increasing your skin cancer risk with heavy year-round UV exposure. Most wrinkles are due to a lifetime of sun damage, not from natural aging. People do get exp I'm naturally pasty, and I've been staying that way for years ever since I found out about exactly what the sun does to your skin. If I ever wanted to tan that badly, I'd go get that sunless spray-on stuff. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6310 days |
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Originally posted by emceeI agree. People develop eating disorders for various reasons that don't relate to unrealistic beauty images: to punish themselves, to literally try to disappear, to be able to exert control over something when they feel powerless. Mentally healthy people might get down on themselves because of unrealistic beauty images, but that's not the same thing. It's like how an average person can have a shitty day and flippantly say that their life sucks, but that's a far cry from being suicidally depressed. Plus, how you feel about yourself in comparison to unrealistic beauty images depends on your own concept of how you want to look. I've always thought that athletic, muscular bodies looked awesome, and I always wanted to look like that myself. I don't know why. I just did. It wasn't like I ever had those images shoved down my throat. My dad did have weight lifting magazines with pictures of Ms. Olympia contenders on stage, but I never wanted to be THAT huge or lean. (And without one in a zillion genetics and major steroidal supplementation, I never will be.) And to go off on a tangent, the weight training required to get lean and muscular improved my self-image by making me proud of what my body can do, not just what it looks like. Way back when I first got into weight training, I thought it would be cool to be able to do a chin-up. For a while, I could dangle uselessly from the bar and maybe budge an inch if I were lucky. The first time I hauled myself all the way up felt AWESOME, and it feels awesome to slowly and steadily add more reps over time. I've also come back from a time when, due to inflexibility and assorted disproportionate muscle weaknesses, pretty much every upper body exercise hurt, and I was in rehab mode for a couple of months. It's difficult to get down on my body when I remember how far I've come over the years. |
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