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Do you start off with a Vogon cruiser?

Isn't the water whip stuff a pretty basic move? I'm pretty sure Aang and Katara learned it fairly early on. In general one of the minor flaws I'd say LoK has, and I've said it for a while, is that way too many people are way more powerful. It's not DBZ levels of stupid, but it makes sense to ground it somewhat.

Sir You are Being Hunted. Was on a cheap deal thing on GOG. I bet come Steam summer sale it'll end up being same price

See Lightning was meant to be the "when fire benders study water benders" stuff so you'd think other benders could expand their technique somewhat by studying other benders and incorporating into style. Dragon fire bending was somewhat related to Air bending too, being about breath and heat as a life giving element (like air). Toph learnt sand bending, driven the by the incident in the desert but likely got a hand in it by hanging out with one of the most powerful water benders of the time. It's something that could be explored quite well, mixing up the bending styles with different elements.

Wasn't that just straining off the heat in Avatar & Firelord? I know there was the prophecy episode too, though for the most part Aang just made a trench and did some high powered air bending to save the village, not sure he did much "lavabending" directly. For most part Lava is just super-hot earth, so would make sense to be a earth bender trick, though of a higher skill like sand, since they're both somewhat fluid. Probably be hard to learn though given there's not a huge amount of volcanos about compared to beaches (well except for in fire nation I guess, though Earth Benders don't tend to be found there). Creating lava though would need both though, but as I said you can just get a firebender to flame the rocks a bit.

With the "lava bending" would it not be possible it's not just fire benders igniting oil coated rocks that earth benders are flinging? Bear in mind the Avatar was able do multiple due to the combination with a spirit, so theoretically there's little stopping another spirit combining with other people (just got to have the will to not die from it quickly) (mid-edit: oh wait I've now gone through those gifs, yeah I see that guy. Though maybe he's a firebender heating the ground. I dunno. Then again Lightning was a big thing in TLA and in LoK it's a thing a fair chunk of firebenders can do and it's just a job at the plant now.) But yeah on the bender front it'd make sense to see more of the popping up now it's sort of heading to a bit like pre-Avatar days. Maybe even the Lion Turtle(s) might return. I assume this is post-metal bending earth nation city? Those leaves look like they're built to close up and protect the city. Man this should be good if we get some more journeying around. Book 2 was getting there on the whole "leaving Republic City" but still headed back way too often. Oh god...wonder if we'll have more...err Varkas? The business man guy.

Wait is that the "all the electricity suddenly stopped" one? Did that actually turn out to be any good in the end? I know the trailer came out and everyone was all "Wha?" then it just kind of dropped off the radar.

I think it can have it's place where it helps tell a story, but yeah splashing it everywhere just kind of spoils it. I think some nice examples are InFamous, which reflect your "morality" (though it's more posters and such than grafitti) and Watch_Dogs had some Banksy-esque graffiti which was fitting. At the end of the day in a apocalyptic setting writing materials of all kind are ridiculously valuable so sprawling "end is nigh" everywhere would be a bit of a waste compared to "building has good loot", "high radiation ahead", "we're all at the main library ---> 500 yards".

I'm pretty sure a potato would take better quality photographs.

Probably the greatest analogy about coverage about football (at least in the UK): http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf (except I've an archeologist for a housemate, so she'd love this)

I'm not even in that house anymore. Anywho: Communal gaming area. My PS3, TV ain't mine but housemate currently has it. TBH I prefer my TV, it's smaller but it's proper full 1080p and doesn't have weird green marks pop up. And the private gaming area. So this is my new PC as of December (with new SSD as of this afternoon, hence the installers). Same keyboard and mouse though. Headset is housemates old one, it's flaking on the pads but other than that it's alright. Next stop is getting a new headset and some speakers. Mini-easel props my phone up as a tertiary display for film and what not.

For international people. Apart from Zuko I'd say it show next to nothing. All rather contextless fights and explosions.

Yeah ART is likely going to be the big new feature of Android 5.0, currently still in beta and a fair few apps not yet compatible, so not for light hearted. (also requires a Jellybean device) It's generally better cos it makes the apps ahead of time, does mean larger app size but that's less of an issue these days. Likely to find future apps will download already sorted for ART (Android Runtime in case you're curious) . I've a few incompatible apps I make frequent use of so yet to make the leap.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey Swiftkey is now free on the Play store (not sure if it'll be free on iOS 8 too). Pretty cracking and customisable keyboard. Mine is currently Berry Red using the side-keyboard (since I've a bigger screen, makes it easier for one handed use). It's monetised via themes now (you get a bunch of free themes if you'd previously paid for the app) I used to have Appy Gamer (and the tech one they do too), it was okay but I stopped using it for some reason and I can't entirely remember why. I think something along lines of bad categorisation and lots of duplicates on some stories that were a bit hard to filter. But it has been some years, I might check it out again I guess.

MS Abridged

Online stuff is separate from the campaign (though if you're being hacked that'll impede your ability to load up the campaign mission). You're either hacked randomly in the open world, or you're enabling the MP modes from your phone to drop into.

Nintendo should be the one providing software for it. Not really a third parties job to push the Wii U, especially given how terrible Nintendo is with third parties in the first place.

PC obviously. (Given nearly everyone had a bunch of PC games to show)

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-computer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml In case you've seen that shit about the Turing Test been passed lately this sums up my thoughts on the topic pretty well. Especially the "pretend it's a Ukranian kid" shit.

Samsung phones are built to take those kinds of cases to the degree there's special pins so the flap can have an extra screen on it or similar (I think HTC does the same): Also hooray for camera on my watch I guess? edit: yeah fancy case: http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/galaxy-note/accessories/EF-CN900BWEGWW (Give it a bit and I'm sure Apples will have these innovative cases too)

I put my phone in a pocket of its own(or with headphone, since it's usually attached), keys go with my wallet should they need to go in trouser pockets (otherwise it's a coat pocket).

http://imgur.com/a/Y8h6w Comparison between the old and new graphics.

It wouldn't surprise me he has extreme stress or something. He's at the top of a tumbling tower and E3 is a big time for games companies.

It's on shared, so if any other site pushes out resources (or ourselves as well, we got "killed" a few times) then it all goes to poop. This it's currently 2,300MB (of which we're using 300mb and next week will likely be going down to) entirely dedicated, can't get it pushed out. Also we were on 142MB(or 124MB) for the forum, which I had had to tweak bits to get that much RAM allocated for us(which is why the site would get killed). So yeah, 300MB is twice that, and you can see from the above graph, 200MB is the comfort zone. @Ethan: I'd assume it keeps a bunch of the tables for the sites in memory rather than dynamically retrieving it on the fly, which might be what was killing the forum, given over the years we've obviously ended up with bigger tables. Hence my attempting to slice up some of the longer lasting larger threads and enabling the archive feature (btw if there's a thread you want un-archiving pipe up). Which sort of alleviated it, but I could only do so much.