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  • General response regarding average to slightly-better-than-average health and disposition. Reciprocal query.

    Positive emoticon.
    Only because I can. Do what you will with it, but I'm posting it here.


    EDIT - Oh ****, nevermind. PMing it to you cause it too large.

    Also - Get trolled. APRIL FOOLS DAY.
    Introduction

    The ultimate goal of this guide is to provide a quick reference for each hero in one thread. The information is as compact as possible while still giving enough insight to be worth reading. It can be used as an alt-tab guide or simply as a source of references for you to learn understanding the game. I also try to include some of the not commonly known or too obvious tips and tricks for each hero with the intention to also provide some benefit for more advanced players.


    Why this guide?

    It has been done before, I know. Many times.
    The main reason I am writing yet another Big Hero Guide is the fact that there currently is no complete "All-Heroes-Guide" available which is up to date and somewhat insightful (in my opinion at least). This guide is loosely based on SyyRaaaN's Big Hero Guide which unfortunately was lost a few weeks ago.
    Another reason for writing this is to become more familiar with each hero and hopefully improve my own understanding of the game.
    And last but not least to give back something to the HoN Community who is nothing short of amazing! <3

    Who am I to tell you how to play your hero?

    I am the typical pub and f-list player, hovering around 1800 PSR with around 1000 games played (4 accounts with 1700+ PSR). I do have some competitive DotA background in division 2b but this is more than 3 years back. I am not involved in the competitive HoN Scene (yet?) but I do follow it closely, watching a lot of replays (VoDs) and soaking up every information I can find.
    I consider myself - especially after writing this guide - to have a pretty good understanding of how the cookie crumbles in HoN.
    But still, don't take everything I say for the one and only truth. A lot of information in this guide is based on my experience and judgment of the current meta-game. There are always different opinions and points of view. This is why I encourage you to constructively (i know, weird word isn't it?) reply to this guide when you feel that I was completely mistaken in some aspects. You can also provide feedback by sending me private messages on the board or in-game (Newti).

    Thanks!

    How is this Guide organized?

    As I stated previously, the structure is loosely based on SyyRaaaN's Big Hero Guide. However since this guide is no longer available, the only thing in common are structural aspects. The content is 100% based on my own judgement and not taken from the Big Hero Guide. I also expanded the Idea of the Big Hero Guide, going beyond just listing skill builds and item choices.
    You will also find brief justifications and tips on how to play the heroes.
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    RADISH , Raphanus sativus (nat.
    ORDER
    ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
    ORDER, HOLY
    order Cruciferae), in botany, a fleshy-rooted annual, unknown in the wild state . Some varieties of the wild radish, R . Raphanistrum, however, met with on the Mediterranean coasts, come so near to it as to suggest that it may possibly be a cultivated race of the same species . It is very popular as a raw salad . There are-RADIUM 807 two principal forms, the spindle-rooted and the turnip-rooted . The radish succeeds in any well-worked not too heavy garden soil, but requires a warm, sheltered situation . The seed is generally sown broadcast, in beds 4 to 5 ft. wide, with alleys between, the beds requiring to be netted over to protect them from birds . The earliest crop may be sown about the middle of December, the seed-beds being at once covered with litter, which should not be removed till the plants come up, and then only in the daytime, and when there is no frost . If the crop succeeds, which depends on the state of the weather, it will be in use about the beginning of March . Another sowing may be made in January, a third early in February, if the season is a favourable one, and still another towards the end of February, from which time till October a small sowing should be made every fortnight or three weeks in spring, and rather more frequently during summer . About the end of October, and again in November, a late sowing may be made on a south border or bank, the plants being protected in severe weather with litter or mats . The winter radishes, which grow to a large size, should be sown in the beginning of July and in August, in drills from 6 to 9 in. apart, the plants being thinned out to 5 or 6 in. in the row .
    The roots become
    FIT
    fit for use during the autumn . For winter use they should be taken up before severe frost sets in, and stored in dry sand . Radishes, like other fleshy roots, are attacked by insects, the most dangerous being the larvae of several species of fly, especially the radish fly (Anthomyia radicum) . The most effectual means of destroying these is by watering the plants with a dilute solution of carbolic acid, or much diluted gas-water; or gas-lime may be sprinkled along the rows . Forcing.—To obtain early radishes a sowing in the British Isles should be made about the beginning of November, and continued fortnightly till the middle or end of February; the crop will generally be fit for use about six weeks after sowing . The seed should be sown in light rich soil, 8 or 9 in. thick, on a moderate hotbed, or in a pit with a temperature of from 55° to 65° . Gentle waterings must be given, and air admitted at every favourable opportunity; but the sashes must be protected at night and in frosty weather with straw mats or other materials . Some of these crops are often grown with forced potatoes . The best forcing sorts are Wood's early frame, and the early rose globe, early dwarf-top scarlet turnip, and early dwarf-top white turnip . Those best suited for general cultivation are the following: Spindle-rooted.—Long scarlet, including the sub-varieties scarlet short-top, early frame scarlet, and Wood's early frame; long scarlet short-top, best for general crop . Turnip-rooted.—Early rose globe-shaped, the earliest of all; early dwarf-top scarlet turnip, and early dwarf-top white turnip; earliest Erfurt scarlet, and early white short-leaved, both very early sorts; French breakfast, olive-shaped; red turnip and white turnip, for summer crops.- Winter sorts.—Black Spanish, white Chinese, Californian mammoth .
    Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998

    Growth is a technical term which refers to the rate at which plants
    increase their biomass. It is generally reported as grams produced per
    gram extant per day. A constant growth rate will therefore produce an
    exponential increase in biomass over time. An optimal or maximal growth
    rate is the maximum intrinsic growth rate of a given plant. Generally,
    for fast growing submerged plants this is a doubling time of 1 to 4 days.
    This means that if your tank is 1/4 full of plants it will be completely
    full in 2 to 8 days. If you then remove 3/4 of those plants, your tank
    will again be completely full in another 2 to 8 days... and so on.

    With this as a benchmark, it is clear that NO ONE on this list has plants
    which exhibit 'good growth'. What successful aquarists have are stable
    tanks with a high 'standing crop' of healthy populations of plants. Of
    course, few would want to have to deal with optimal growth rates!

    Optimal growth rates require at least 20% full sunlight (400 umol/m2/sec
    PAR or 2 klux), moderate to rapid water movement, about 20 ppm CO2 in an
    acidic or neutral tank or a pH of around 8 to 8.5 (which will deliver
    about 45 ppm CO2 as bicarbonate), an adequate replacement rate for
    mineral nutrients (either through fertilization or a flow through
    system) and a FERTILE SILT LOAM SUBSTRATE.
    There is no way that infertile clay substrates can support optimal growth
    rates. This has been proven many times over the past 100 years using a
    wide variety of substrates and a wide variety of aquatic plants.

    Having said that, the use of laterite (which is a highly weathered clay SOIL
    found in hot, humid climates that contains large amounts of iron and
    aluminum hydroxide and little organic matter) is an effective and SAFE
    way to produce stable tanks with healthy plants and a high 'standing crop'.

    If you want to be SAFE, then use a laterite soil. Dont fool yourself into
    thinking that your growth rates will be high. If you like to experiment,
    then get a shovel and find your own mix... you may experience disaster,
    and you may find that your plants have taken over your room during the day.

    Nutrition;

    There is generally a threshold concentration below which nutrient uptake
    will be reduced and be insufficient for the needs of the plant. You need
    a concentration in the tank for a given nutrient that will supply the
    plants requirements without falling over time. For Calcium there is also
    a water column requirement apart from that amount needed within the
    plant. This is because Ca is crucial in maintaining membrane integrity
    and cell wall structure, both of which are apoplastic (outside the cell
    membrane) processes.

    dave.

    Sv: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #724/light and co2

    by "Ole Larsen" <bse9195/vip.cybercity.dk>
    Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999

    Hello all.

    In Digest 724 I posted a message ( question) on the interaction of light and CO2 remembered from a lecture nov. 1997 at Aqua Planta Scandinavica by prof. Ole Pedersen, F. W. Lab., Univ. of Copenhagen.
    Later I promised to come back when/if I got response to my e-mail from O.P.
    Now I have it in photocopy.

    It is from +ACI-Plant, Cell and Environment (1994) 17, 955-962+ACI-

    +ACI-The interactive effects of light and inorganic carbon on aquatic plant growth+ACI- by
    T.V.Madsen (Dept. of Plant Ecolo., Aarhus Univ.) and K. Sand-Jensen (FW Biol. lab. Univ. of Copenhagen).

    It is 8 A-4+ALQ-s so I+ALQ-ll just give a little of the discussion. Those who consider this important will know how to get
    a copy of the complete article.

    +ACI- Our results established co-limitation of aquatic plant growth by light and inorganic carbon and demonstrate marked growth enhancement by inorganic carbon at low as well as at hight light................but the pronounced
    growth enhancement by elevated inorganic carbon at low light and the increase in light-use effiency for
    growth are new observations that illustrate the insuffiency of Liebig+ALQ-s minimum theory (Liebig 1870)
    which is so widely used in aquatic plant ecology.....................The positive effect suggested can result from the
    suppression of the oxygenase activity of Rubisco by increased internal inorganic carbon concentrations.................The savings in terms of NADPH and ATP,
    which are otherwise used in photorespiratory carbon oxidation, can then be allocated to
    photosyntetic carbon assimilation, resulting in improved light-use effiency+ACI-
    The plants were Eleodea canadensis L.C. Rich and Callictrice cophocarpa Sendtner

    This certainly answered my original question (724)
    Hope it interested a few of you
    Cheers
    Ole Larsen
    Lately, I've been having some confusion about Jigglypuff's typing in this game. I don't think she has been constructed in a way that reflects the Normal typing.

    I think Jigglypuff is a Psychic type pokemon in this game. This is largely attributed to her move design. None of her important spam moves (Bair) are attached to her body. And a bunch of her lesser moves are also not connected to her body (Uair, Pound, Nair kind of).

    When she Uairs, she wiggles her hand and people get launched. It's hardly a sufficient blow for its knockback. Wiggling a hand should not have equitable knockback to a flying jump kick. It didn't make sense before, but I think now it does. Same with her back air. She's supposed to weigh almost nothing. And is renounced for a soft, squishy texture. Her back air doesn't make sense.

    This would also explain why she has a resistance to combat. In the pokemon game, Fighting type pokemon are supposed to be super effective against Normal type pokemon, but Jigglypuff ***** everyone if they actually try to fight her. Because Psychic type pokemon have a resistance to Fighting types, this would make sense. Typical Psychic types, especially from the RBY era, also tend to have low health, which is also characteristic of Jigglypuff.
    This girl posted a story about something that happened to her mother. Her mother would every now and then drive miles out into the boonies to see her parents. She describes what her mother told her happened to her when she was driving one night.

    Her mother is driving on a road with corn fields on one side. After a few hours, she sees something lying in the middle of the road so she stops. It's a man lying on his stomach on the road facing the opposite direction.

    A part of her wants to get out of the car to see if the man is okay, but her instinct begins to sound an alarm that something is not right and that she should stay in the car. She decides to drive around the man and proceed forward. After she is several feet away from the man, she looks in her rearview mirror and sees the man in the road get up and walk into the field.
    Late at night on a highway in Northern Ontario, a woman driving her car is reliieved to finally find a gas station that's still open, so she pulls in. The attendant comes out and walks up to the driver's side. He stands there, waiting until she rolls down her window. She slips it down just a crack.

    "How much?" he asks. She tells him to fill it up.

    The attendant walks towards the back of the car and stands there a minute. The woman waits, then looks into the side-view mirror. The attendant is just standing there, facing her. She's feeling pretty nervous, wondering why he's not pumping gas. Then he walks back up to the window and taps on it. "You need to open the flap ma'am."

    Feeling stupid, the woman reaches down and clicks the gas flap open. The attendant walks back and starts pumping the gas. A minute or so later he finishes, and clicks the nozzle back into place on the pump. Then he stands there for a moment. The woman keeps looking at him in the side-view mirror, feeling quite ill-at-ease. She doesn't like this: being alone at a tiny gas station in the middle of nowhere with only this stranger.

    The attendant then walks back up to the window and taps on it. She reaches into her purse and takes out her credit card, rolls open the window just a crack again, and as she passes the card through looks up at the attendant. He's staring down at her with wide, frightful eyes. She looks away quickly, really creeped out, and she rolls the window back up as soon as the attendant grasps the card. But he doesn't go to the cash booth, he just stands there a moment. The woman can't bear to look at him again.

    Finally he says, with a voice muffled through the closed window: "Ma'am, there's a problem with your card. Could you please step inside the cash booth?"

    "What's wrong with the card?" she asks loudly, with a definite strain in her voice.

    "Something's wrong with the barcode. I'll need you to come over to the cash so we can make a call to the company."

    There's no way she is getting outside her car, on an empty, dark highway, late at night, with only that weirdo around. Besides, she realizes, as a sudden chill overcomes her, how could he know if there was a problem with the barcode if he hadn't even been to the cash desk to swipe it? The woman's breathing suddenly increases as she feels panic creep upon her.

    She summons up a note of restraint in her voice: "Please, can you just call them yourself?"

    "Sorry, but I'll need to see some I.D. Could you please just step over to the booth? It'll only take a minute."

    Realizing he won't let it be, she whispers a prayer and reaches into her purse to check for cash. Yes! She has a fifty dollar bill. Clutching it in her hand she unrolls the window just a crack yet again and passes it through. "Nevermind, I'll just pay cash."

    "Ma'am, are you sure?" he asks.

    "What?" she almost yells, as she accidentally looks up at him again. The same wide, fearful eyes staring down at her. She looks away. "Yes! Cash!"

    "I can fix the card problem, you just need to come over to the phone with me," he says.

    She's really terrified now, and half-screams at the man: "Listen *******, it's cash! That's all your getting from me!"

    "Alright, alright," he responds, "Now you just wait right here and I'll go get your change. Don't move. I'll be right back."

    She can see him out of her peripheral vision, walking backwards towards the booth, always facing her. She can't bear to look his way. She can't imagine what he has in the booth. What if he brings it back with him?

    **** the change, she thinks, just as she realizes he also still has her credit card. She can't take this anymore: **** the card, I'll cancel it!

    She starts up the car and as soon as it hums to life she tears away and off into the dark night.

    The attendant is in his booth on the phone, breathing heavily. An official-sounding voice on the other end asks: "Did you tell her?"

    "No," the attendant responds, "I couldn't."

    "Why not?"

    "He had a knife and a finger to his lips. I tried to get her out of there, but the whole time he was watching me from the floor behind her seat."
    I found myself checking into a hotel last minute on business in another country. Since it was last minute, I could not get a room at the normal hotels and had to book at some place I had never heard of on the outskirts of the city. The area was considered dangerous for kidnappings and robbery. As far as I could tell I was the only visitor.

    There was something very odd about the sole mirror in the room. It was hung at a very strange angle. You could not use it really to look at yourself from where it was positioned but I noticed from my bed the mirror pointed to some corner of the wall near the top of the ceiling. I though nothing of it until I turned out the lights. I noticed for some reason, though the rest of the room was pitch black, I could see slightly the reflection in the mirror...at sometimes brighter and sometimes dimmer.

    It occurred to me then that there was a heating vent over to the left that i could probably see in the mirror if I were sitting exactly in the center of the bed and I was seeing the faint green IR beam reflection in the mirror from a camera mounted in the vent and it was actively moving scanning the room in the dark.

    I went to the bathroom, got changed, grabbed my bag and left without check, grabbing the first taxi I spotted. I am pretty sure to this day I was being sized up for a robbery or worse.
    "Daddy, I had a bad dream."

    You blink your eyes and pull up on your elbows. Your clock glows red in the darkness — it's 3:23. "Do you want to climb into bed and tell me about it?"

    "No, Daddy."

    The oddness of the situation wakes you up more fully. You can barely make out your daughter's pale form in the darkness of your room. "Why not sweetie?"

    "Because in my dream, when I told you about the dream, the thing wearing Mommy's skin sat up."

    For a moment, you feel paralyzed; you can't take your eyes off of your daughter. The covers behind you begin to shift.
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