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terryclothFred Perry's gold-digger's always been one of my favorite comics, since I discovered it shortly after getting sucked into comic books by Sandman. It's changed a lot, but it's still pretty good... and recently he's apparently been also doing a webcomic related to it at http://gd-tangent.tsunami-art.com/
I did not know that. Until recently. More recently than he started doing it, by several years.
The link there is actually not to the webcomic related to gold digger (which is 'northern edge guard') but to a comic that's been chronicaling his adventures in FFXI... most recently, a blow-by-blow report of a tough fight against some boss monsters.
I don't have the memory or energy to do that sort of reporting for City of Heroes, don't worry. Sometimes I wish I did, though. }:)
Last night I spent a lot of time playing Civ IV, because I couldn't connect to the logic server (argh), but eventually I got on and made 7.5 bubbles for Aci in less than three hours. He's already 28, so I finally got pet gaze, a single-target hold... which is really underwhelming in a group that's tearing through enemies as fast as that one was. Especially unslotted. It's like freeze ray -- it needs a lot of enhancement before it'll be perma on even a single enemy. Although if I cosmic burst first and then pet gaze a little later after cb wears off, that's usually enough time to kill a lieutenant.
But still, wow -- that was a really good pick-up group. Although we got so used to charging in guns blazing that we did sort of wipe twice trying to break into a container ship... there's always at least three groups clustered near the entrance of those, close enough that you'll get them all if you melee them in-place. I've seen four, but it was three this time.
Civ IV... I started a second game playing on the next-highest difficulty, which is still slightly handicapped against the computer. I'm still 'winning', but I can't just roll over the computer like a steamroller with a swarm of a single type of unit, at least. Actually, the last two wars I had against the computer ended in stalemates, where I'd take a couple cities and then run out of steam, to the point where I was happy to accept when they sued for peace.
The hardest part of it on that difficulty was during the massive barbarian wars, though... I didn't have access to Iron or Horses or even Copper for a loooong time, so I was stuck building archers facing down barbarian axemen and horse archers. It was scary! I had three cities that could each build an archer a turn, though, so I eventually swarmed over them and overran their silly little barbarian cities. Nya.
I did not know that. Until recently. More recently than he started doing it, by several years.
The link there is actually not to the webcomic related to gold digger (which is 'northern edge guard') but to a comic that's been chronicaling his adventures in FFXI... most recently, a blow-by-blow report of a tough fight against some boss monsters.
I don't have the memory or energy to do that sort of reporting for City of Heroes, don't worry. Sometimes I wish I did, though. }:)
Last night I spent a lot of time playing Civ IV, because I couldn't connect to the logic server (argh), but eventually I got on and made 7.5 bubbles for Aci in less than three hours. He's already 28, so I finally got pet gaze, a single-target hold... which is really underwhelming in a group that's tearing through enemies as fast as that one was. Especially unslotted. It's like freeze ray -- it needs a lot of enhancement before it'll be perma on even a single enemy. Although if I cosmic burst first and then pet gaze a little later after cb wears off, that's usually enough time to kill a lieutenant.
But still, wow -- that was a really good pick-up group. Although we got so used to charging in guns blazing that we did sort of wipe twice trying to break into a container ship... there's always at least three groups clustered near the entrance of those, close enough that you'll get them all if you melee them in-place. I've seen four, but it was three this time.
Civ IV... I started a second game playing on the next-highest difficulty, which is still slightly handicapped against the computer. I'm still 'winning', but I can't just roll over the computer like a steamroller with a swarm of a single type of unit, at least. Actually, the last two wars I had against the computer ended in stalemates, where I'd take a couple cities and then run out of steam, to the point where I was happy to accept when they sued for peace.
The hardest part of it on that difficulty was during the massive barbarian wars, though... I didn't have access to Iron or Horses or even Copper for a loooong time, so I was stuck building archers facing down barbarian axemen and horse archers. It was scary! I had three cities that could each build an archer a turn, though, so I eventually swarmed over them and overran their silly little barbarian cities. Nya.
