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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28280 on: January 31, 2018, 09:48:43 PM »
Why would it matter if I'm wearing underwear to the raid?

Starro never wears underwear!!

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28281 on: January 31, 2018, 11:27:43 PM »
Always hope......

.....and perhaps plan a commando raid on their HQ and "creatively acquire"  all digital and hard copies of the game and any legacy hardware that was used to run it.

You might want to kidnap the dev team and knock over a few banks.  Devs to put the game back up and the money from the banks to pay for the data center and networks needed to make it all work.

I think it better to wait on one of the successors.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28282 on: February 01, 2018, 12:48:31 AM »
You might want to kidnap the dev team and knock over a few banks.  Devs to put the game back up and the money from the banks to pay for the data center and networks needed to make it all work.

I think it better to wait on one of the successors.

One step at a time. Have to have the game first. 

As to Devs, I suspect it wouldn't take much arm twisting for devs like Synapse, BAB and Positron to lend a hand.

As to the money.....yeah that would be an obstacle.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28283 on: February 01, 2018, 03:09:19 AM »
Why would it matter if I'm wearing underwear to the raid?

That determines whether or not you should be wearing a kilt, of course.

Wait, what am I saying? The answer to whether you should wear a kilt is always yes.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28284 on: February 02, 2018, 07:44:44 PM »
Starro never wears underwear!!

The Justice League wears theirs outside.

Nobody in DC knows about proper undergarments.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28285 on: February 04, 2018, 01:30:48 AM »
One step at a time. Have to have the game first. 

As to Devs, I suspect it wouldn't take much arm twisting for devs like Synapse, BAB and Positron to lend a hand.

As to the money.....yeah that would be an obstacle.

The software is probably too old.  Yeah I'm sure the game client runs even on windows 10, but I thinking more the server side code.  It would likely need some rewriting for all the security holes it has that need closing or the libraries it used got patches that are incompatible with the code.  Programming isn't my strong suit even though I went to college to learn to program computers.  I went into system administration instead.

I'd almost say it would be easier to get a successor that looks like it running than to try and get the actual server code working.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28286 on: February 04, 2018, 05:40:38 AM »
The Justice League wears theirs outside.

Nobody in DC knows about proper undergarments.

Those are trunks, dammit.  Not underwear. 

You wear them if you don't want your junk plainly visible through your Lulu Lemon Super Hero outfit that has to be tight enough to wear under other clothing.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28287 on: February 05, 2018, 03:27:50 AM »
Those are trunks, dammit.  Not underwear. 

You wear them if you don't want your junk plainly visible through your Lulu Lemon Super Hero outfit that has to be tight enough to wear under other clothing.
Also early 20th Century bodybuilders/strong men wore outfits like that to emulate the look of being half naked without actually showing a lot of skin, but that's neither here nor there.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28288 on: February 05, 2018, 04:50:04 AM »
Also early 20th Century bodybuilders/strong men wore outfits like that to emulate the look of being half naked without actually showing a lot of skin, but that's neither here nor there.

So did late 19th century-early 20th century male ballet dancers.  Nijinsky caused a scandal when he went without them.
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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28289 on: February 09, 2018, 09:44:44 AM »
I'm not fond of the Superman, Batman minus trunks look.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28290 on: February 09, 2018, 03:00:18 PM »
That's just silly.  Trunks was neither of their sidekicks.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28291 on: February 10, 2018, 12:55:12 AM »
All this talk of (under)pants brings this to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQEAiZJMco

Actually, this might be more fitting to the discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN3wQ9D_b0I
« Last Edit: February 10, 2018, 02:59:16 AM by Tyger42 »

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28292 on: February 10, 2018, 09:21:51 AM »
We taking bets on how long it will be until someone drops by to chastise everyone for keeping the band together?

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28293 on: February 10, 2018, 09:23:27 AM »
I'm not fond of the Superman, Batman minus trunks look.

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Looking like a Ken doll is so 1990's...

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28294 on: February 11, 2018, 12:01:35 AM »
Those are trunks, dammit.  Not underwear. 

You wear them if you don't want your junk plainly visible through your Lulu Lemon Super Hero outfit that has to be tight enough to wear under other clothing.

I think it would work better than, supervillains would always be trying to look up because they are uncomfortable from the outlined junk - making them vulnerable.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28295 on: February 16, 2018, 04:12:21 AM »
The software is probably too old.  Yeah I'm sure the game client runs even on windows 10, but I thinking more the server side code.  It would likely need some rewriting for all the security holes it has that need closing or the libraries it used got patches that are incompatible with the code.  Programming isn't my strong suit even though I went to college to learn to program computers.  I went into system administration instead.

I'd almost say it would be easier to get a successor that looks like it running than to try and get the actual server code working.

It is old enough that these things would ironically probably not be a problem.

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28296 on: February 16, 2018, 09:50:58 AM »
... are we there yet? :(

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Re: New efforts!
« Reply #28297 on: February 16, 2018, 11:25:58 AM »
Why, you gotta pee or something?

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« Reply #28298 on: February 16, 2018, 11:33:37 AM »
No.  I've had a crappy two months and I want to play a game where I get to be a superhero, defeating supervillains and eldrich abominations, and not just game after game of playing as Prancy McBowstring, Elvish Ranger, who dies if he dares face the might of two squirrels at the same time.

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« Reply #28299 on: February 16, 2018, 11:49:56 AM »
Sorry you've had a crappy time of it; same here, pal. Ironically, I'd be surprised if nobody ever made a character in City of Heroes named Prancy McBowstring. Well, maybe not ironically, as it would probably have been a defender. Of course there were no squirrel infestations around Paragon City....