{"id":72,"date":"2005-03-16T06:11:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/03\/end-of-an-era\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T12:11:11","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/end-of-an-era.html","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snipehunter2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/snipehunter2.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"316\" class=\"left\" title=\"Snipehunter\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"officer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/officer.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"316\" title=\"OFFICER\" class=\"right\" \/>I dropped one of my oldest alts yesterday, <strong>Snipehunter <\/strong>(NRG\/NRG blaster).  While I liked the costume, the power set wasn&#8217;t sending me, and I just wasn&#8217;t getting the &#8220;buzz&#8221; of excitement from playing him &#8212; and, thus, wasn&#8217;t.  I never even inducted him into the Consortium.  Enjoy your retirement, guy.<br \/>\nIn his place, <strong>O F F I C E R<\/strong> (Optimize For Fighting, Integrated Combat-Engineered Robot, or something like that), a MA\/SR Scrapper.  He first came to &#8220;consciousness&#8221; in an alley in the &#8220;Outbreak&#8221; neighborhood, and just started in on fighting crime.  Lots of robotic goodness (even if he keeps being sent after Clockwork &#8230;), and the MA power is fun.  He&#8217;s my current lowest level character, and I&#8217;ll be running him with Margie&#8217;s <strong>Deep Dark Earth<\/strong> controller once I get a bit higher in level.<br \/>\nMargie and I are toying around with a matching &#8220;husband and wife&#8221; team.  That bodes ill for a couple of the remaining underplayed characters (working on the assumption that we want to keep them on Champion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped one of my oldest alts yesterday, Snipehunter (NRG\/NRG blaster). While I liked the costume, the power set wasn&#8217;t sending me, and I just wasn&#8217;t getting the &#8220;buzz&#8221; of excitement from playing him &#8212; and, thus, wasn&#8217;t. I never even inducted him into the Consortium. Enjoy your retirement, guy. In his place, O F &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/end-of-an-era.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;End of an era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}