Sorry I've been out of touch for so long, guys, but I'm really struggling to keep on top of the workload that's piling over me without my personal crew backing me up...
confused Anywho, putting such accustomed concerns aside for the moment, I see that we have an assortment new cover graphic placards to help attact new patronage.
biggrin What's more, they've even thought to include
concise instructions for the none-too-bright "n00b" element:
[LINK] xd There was an animated flash page (which can't be hotlinked here for obvious reasons), but I guess the powers-that-be opted to take that down for user bandwidth considerations.
I'm a bit late in announcing this (for obvious reasons), but you've still gone 1 last chance to cash in on this golden opportunity, folks.
The Hegemon
Batman: Arkham Asylum (the game) is addicting! It's certainly the best comic book game I've EVER played, and I've played a few.
See, I
told you it would be a goodun, champ.
wink But speaking of gaming considerations...
Chief Magistrate OVERSEER
Chief Magistrate OVERSEER
The Hegemon
The biggest redeeming factor of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen game is that you can unlock G1 episodes for doing stuff.
Actually, I'd have thought the saving grace would be the recently announced downloadable content packs:
[LINK]Hey, checkit -- new updates on that expansion pack, guys:
[LINK]And finally, the package sees commercial release:
[LINK] biggrin According to the official statement, the new DLC pack includes 3 new multiplayer gaming environments (a tiered urban Cairo map, a sandstorm arena, & an East Coast cityscape), with a bunch of additional character models to play with, like Jazz (apparently resurrected from the previous movie), Soundwave (complete with dual deployables), & Sideswipe (with or without "G1" colour scheme), plus further cosmetic skins to upgrade for a Stealth Bumblebee or G1-esque Ratchet.
3nodding Most anitcipated of all, I'm betting, would the the incorporation of all-new G1 Optimus Prime, G1 Megatron, & G1 Starscream (with optional Sunstorm motif), plus movie Jetfire (restricted to multiplayer sessions only).
pirate Should be enough to render a dull title with some more appealing sparkle.
Nacchan
King Smeagol
Nacchan
What does "fanny pack" mean? I know it's obscene. It's not obscene in American English, but I'm so ******** curious now.
Its a small bag that goes around the waist and the bag part goes over the crotch.
There's another JET here from NZ who lul'd when an American dude said it and was like "hay that's vulgar. It means something different in New Zealand."
LIES AND AIDS. I am informed now.
Yeah, it sounds like your friend is full of crap,
Naccers.
lol While the term "fanny" is understood to infer your
a** over in the good ol' US of A, throughout the British Commonwealth, this expression is actually colloquial slang for
v****a.
heart As such, there's no way "fanny pack" could be substitutional for
a**l sex.
BioBlade
Sorry folks, it'll take me a little time to readjust. I'm still trying to figure out where a damn comic-book shop is. Found an adult video-store though.....that was interesting. We don't have those back in my old town.
Hey, hey -- now you're talkin' my language!
Nacchan
I only have this to say about the new promo..
"AND IF I CANNOT BE A TAMPON, I AM DETERMINED TO BE KING."
I have absolutely NO idea what this could be in reference to...!
surprised But then again, upon reflection, I
may have recieved a private message alluding to something along these lines, actually:
Ema Nymton (PM)
Hiya, Chiefy! ^_____^ Seeing as how you're a BOY, you might not be aware of this gender-exclusive offer. > w < Voting in the poll awards you a pretty Tampax Flowing Dress, plus there's a survey which will grant you 200g for your trouble ~ just thought you might like to tell all the nice people in the Pretenders roleplay about it, so no-one misses out. Ah, OK --
now I follow...
sweatdrop
Speaking of promotional matters,
Gaia Online has brought about a new RIG incentive, if you're into that kind of thing.
razz But that's not all from the private messaging front...
The Hegemon (PM)
I would like to know more about the exact nature of the A.R.C. vessel and the voyage itself. I understand that Cudboy would be the ideal source as most of it was his idea, however I have no way of reaching him at the moment and you are more or less the definitive source on TFP canon. I don't know much about the ship, the voyages, or what the original mission plan was. I think that if I knew more about these topics I'd be able to help flesh out my character a little more. It's difficult to write about an event as significant as mounting a cross-galaxy voyage without knowing the particulars.
If at all possible I'd like to know if the ship was disassembled and used to construct the Autobot Central Command in Los Angeles. This would give me some idea of how the bases are constructed, especially if they are built from the remains of spacecraft. I mean, it would make sense for the Autobot Central Command (ACC) to be powered by the ARC's reactors, whereas the outlying bases would be powered by geothermal plants and whatnot. And for the Autobot operations centers to be built with pieces of the ship's bridge, or a rebuilt Combat Information Center assuming it was a warship. This information would help me visualize what assets are available to the Autobots in Phoenix. Take your time in answering these questions, they're not desperately needed, and I can wing it for the time being. Hope I haven't taken
too long to get around to answering these enquiries, bub, but I've had a
hell of a lot on my plate of late.
xp Anywho, figured I may as well step up & make my response
public, so that everyone involved might be able to gleen a better understanding of what's supposed to be the situation here.
smile
Your assumptions about Autobase are correct -- the compound located beneath Los Angeles was indeed constructed from the remains of the ill-fated A.R.C. shuttlecraft, which had crashed there eons before. The intended purpose of this voyage was to act as diplomatic envoy in a worsening dispute between 2 neighbouring planets, which is why the majority of the Autobots onboard were politicians & the like, not soldiers. It's interesting that you assume that the base in Phoenix is powered by a geothermal plant, however -- I'd only ever intended this to be a means of specifically supplying the heat required by the Pretenders gestation processes... but its certainly conceivable that this methodology could be facilitated for stationwide application. The L.A. stronghold runs on the old ship reactor core, though. Any further questions?
TalynWolf
King Smeagol
TalynWolf
well I'm curius, would it be at all pheasable for Blacksight to have had some failed attempts at making some new bodies on storage that he might be able to power up enough and just simply program to move out into the city and then run amok to draw out the autobots and try to gather information on what their capabilities are?
you know basically some bodies that failed a phase of testing but were built enough that they could be used to deliver small bombs to places and just cause havok?
No. Decepticons are staying quiet... I am sure of it. If they find your character's company brand on any of the bots, you are screwed.
well the plan would be to have had the drones made inside the base and not the company, Blacksight would not jeopardise his company or his cover.
as for staying quiet? why? and more importantly for how long?
It's only the ENTIRE point of the roleplay -- nothing to concern yourself over...!
rolleyes C'mon, get with the program --
TF: P is all about transforming robots who have been FORCED to operate in secret, disguising themselves as human beings, because they're Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of the general public, & with their numbers so decimated after 2 decades of hostile reprisals (not to mention exposure to our atmosphere), are left in a uniformly vulnerable position.
neutral I still think the whole drone conceit is lame, personally, but hell, go ahead & roll out the "C-X" decoy units if you're all so determined to have them -- just remember that they do NOT rely upon Pretenders technology, instead making use of synthesized photodegradable latex materials for concealment, alright?
Well, it would appeal that the inevitable has finally come to pass, & dispite better judgement,
Gaia Online is now outsourced with
Facebook.
sad There's no (
informed) denying that this is an incredibly reckless move on the administration's part, as it's effectively opening the floodgates to malicious external access to this site, but what's done is done, & experience dictates that there's next to
zero chance that this feature will be rescinded after the fact.
confused Of course, that's in no way to suggest that we have to
like the decision -- as I recall, when the
toolbar patch was introduced 2 years back, a large number of users had their access to
Gaia intercepted & hijacked, ultimately resulting in them permanently losing their accounts!
gonk I mean, the basic
badge feature is risky enough in itself, but when they upgraded it to integrate with
Bebo's social networking service soon after, there was a major influx of systemic scam & hack attempts.
stressed Coincidence?
stare Yeah, right.
Even the redirection frames (like
this, for example) open up an account to outside manipulation... & don't even get me
started with those bloody
cashback incentives!
King Smeagol
shotesu
Seems easy to solve: make a new account; name it "Agent proxy 2.0", and hand the agents the keycodes.... Not that easy.
One of the agents abused their power...
SHUT THE ******** UP -- where do you get off spreading bullshit like that?!
scream I've already
said that
Agent_Proxy was HACKED, for crying out loud, so you've absolutely NO legitimate grounds to state anything to the contrary!
I, myself, have fallen victim to wirm infringement here at
Gaia Online, which explains that anomalous post of "mine" back on page 87 -- it is not possible to simultaneously upload 2 individual submissions with completely different content unless 1 was entered from a separate location, in another time zone, via the same access codes: an exterior
security breach, goddammit.
mad The people I put in charge of the
Agent are all close personal friends of mine, each trustworthy to a fault, & have all been registered members of
Gaia Online (& patrons of this very RP) since 2004 --
WITHOUT PREVIOUS INCIDENT!
SoulySephiroth
Who exactly are these "agents" I want the real skimmy. I'm tired of this, "Staff" non-sense. I've never heard of an RP using Agents and the like. SO WHO are they, and to be honest, I really dont think we need them. We talk here openly about plots etc. ANYONE of could make a post plot related that "they" would do.
Oh really -- you think the old
TF: P just ran itself, huh, without any administrative oversight from the sidelines? I honestly couldn't give a stuff how any other roleplay is run -- when I was asked to take over as GM of this venture, I brought in my own secretarial staff, as was my prerogative, to assist in all the mundane tasks that go on behind the scenes. We're talkin' the boring s**t you guys don't know about, because it's all handled on the quiet, so none of you have to worry about dealing with it yourselves. The 'Net is an international playground, & as such, there are people jumping on 24/7 -- if you'll take a moment to look over our members list, you'll find that, in addition to the customary American users, we have participants from Australia, New Zealand, & Japan. I'm not 1 of these sad bastards who spends all day, every day, online -- I actually have a LIFE -- so it comes in bloody handy to have a dependable team to take turns watching over the thread(s) while I'm off doing my thang in the Real World. And they've been doing a phenomenal job, so some freakin' appreciation wouldn't go astray!
So, who are the
Agents, you ask? Who the hell are
you?! For that matter, who the hell are ANY of us -- we all operate from behind an assumed pseudonym, wearing the pixellated mask of our customized avatars as we go about our virtual activities, so who's to say that any of us is who we say we are? Hell, what's to even suggest that every single registrant here at
Gaia Online isn't just the same person, armed with a limitless horde of mules & entrely too much free time at their disposal... or, better yet, NO-ONE using
Gaia Online is genuinely in attendance, the entire userbase comprised simply of bots & sohpisticated text parser programs! So then, all such conjecture put side, who are the
Agents? Frankly, what does it even matter?! Do you kick up a stink demanding to know who
admin is, for instance, worrying that you're being decieved somehow by the pretence, or are you happy to accept that this is merely a convenient facade for the staff to connect with their communal audience? If the latter is true, then what's the difference with our own
Proxy? If I came out & said that
Agent_Proxy has been
me all along, would that make you feel any more secure? Well, it's not, nor has it ever been, so you'll just have to accept that this account is manned by my own personal "Shell Corporation" (the original call name at registration, as it happens) & leave them to do their job in peace... because they've been bending over backwards to make this all a feasible reality for you lot. I mean, these unsung heroes have been tirelessly maintaining the upkeep of our official
cast roster, not to mention compiling the supplimental
profile guide, & even went the extra yards to pool their resources into cobbling together a monthly
newsletter... not that any of this is likely to matter much anymore.
But what really pisses me off about all this is the outright
ignorant presumption of guilt following my formal suspension of
Agent_Proxy -- you may as well be accusing ME of being a freakin' hacker! You demand disclosure regarding precisely who's been operating the account, but in light of what's happened to
Ema Nymton since she decided to go public, the others are all too scared to come forward, for fear of copping the same abuse... for something NONE of them are even responsible for, no less! I tell you what, though -- if I find out
who's been flaming poor
Ema with misguided abuse (she's too much of a sweetheart to divulge the information), I swear I'll crash down on you so hard that you'll be wearing your ******** a**s as a necklace.
You know what --
stuff it, you can have your roleplay, you can have your website, you can have whatever assumptions you chose to subscribe to, because I have had enough. That's it, I'm through. Goodnight.
Oh, & "happy" birthday, Cud -- we miss you like crazy, man...
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