So I took a good, hard look at my City of Heroes roster on the Protector server yesterday, and realized that at least two were never going to be much fun to play. (There’s a third that may or may not make the cut. I’m still debating on him.) Yesterday I blew out one of them, and this morning I blew out the other. In place of NeutrinoStorm and Myne alMyne are a new Defender and Controller (respectively) named R Ken Ettic and The Immaterial Girl.

Ken’s a Kinetics Defender, and Imma’s a Gravity/Radiation Controller. And now I remember why I didn’t play Myne very much: Controllers are hard to play in the early stages. Gah.

I’ll post screenshots eventually, but for now suffice to say that Ken’s a robot (as implied by the Asimovian naming scheme) and Imma’s in a getup somewhat similar to (but not exactly like) Sailor Jupiter, as Dawn noted upon first spying her costume in the game. Ah well. So it’s not like I’m ever going to win any costume contests…

I have to wonder what these spammers think, sometimes. Take, for instance, the following subject line. Please.

“Rock Hard Women!”

I don’t know about you but when I think of the attributes of my ideal woman, neither of the words “rock” or “hard” enter the picture. Come to think on it, “soft,” which is the opposite of “hard,” is one of the things that come to mind. As for “rock,” well, nothing should be rock-like if you ask me. Not her head, not her… well, anything else. Other words that come to mind are “curvy” and “smart” and “smell nice.” No geological terms arise at all.

In fact, usually you come across the words “rock hard” as describing some part of a man’s anatomy. (Abs, people. Get your minds out of the gutter!) So I have to wonder why I’m having rock hard women offered to me as if it was something I’d be interested in.

Bewildering, as is most spam. Funny, though.

The first line of a spam email I received this afternoon:

“Bored with your wife, girlfriend or husband?”

And my immediate thought was, “Yes, all three, how did you know?”

Stupid spammers…

What has become (by far) my main character, a katana-wielding hero by the (somewhat odd) name of Woods Cutter, has reached Security Level 20. You know what that means, don’t you? It’s new costume and cape time!

Look at him, all mean and cool, standing there with his nifty cape and new getup. And here’s what he looks like from the back when he’s jumping all over town:

Pretty cool stuff, huh? For comparison, I offer this shot of his original costume… unfortunately it’s only from the back, and he’s got Stealth on, but you get the gist of it:

That last shot was taken while I was witnessing a serious bit of Hellion-herding, by the way. See if you can spot the other hero in that picture!

Hey, at least I’m getting enjoyment out of my $15 per month…

I figured it out once the fact that the “last updated” indicator for my site on Lil’s blogroll read “October 22nd” had percolated in my brain overnight. Ah! That was the day I changed the configuration on the server to switch from ‘/journal.php’ to ‘/journal’. (The old journal.php-based URLs still work, though, to preserve compatibility with those outside sites that link to specific entries here.) Apparently, ever since that switch, my pings to Blogrolling.com have been all for naught.

The same’s been true for Wendi’s site, which I also changed that same day. The same has not been true for Lil’s site, since it was coded “the new way” from Day One. Dawn and Mari have been running Movable Type all along, so they haven’t had to deal with this at all.

Go figure, eh? Now, of course, I need to figure out how to remedy the situation without breaking the new change…