Overpowered Ability Concepts #12

41) Insensitive. Passively blocks all damage. If the summation of potential damage inflicted onto this unit over the last 10 seconds exceeds this unit’s total health, this unit is killed; otherwise, this unit will remain at full health at all times.

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42) <insert ability name here>. Created from the lack of coding knowledge, this unit glitches when casting this spell. Enemy units: inflicts damage, slows, stuns, hexes, or reduces armor. Allied units: heals, increases attack speed, increases movement speed, increases attack damage, or increases armor. Duration of buffs placed as a result in this ability range anywhere between 1 to 6 seconds (1d6). When cast, this ability has a slight chance to glitch causing three of the following affects: 5% chance affect targets this unit. 5% chance to swap positions of target unit and this unit. 5% chance to target another nearby unit instead of target unit. 5% chance to sell an item from target unit’s inventory (full refund). 5% chance to double duration of buff placed. 75% chance to activate random spell (initial ability).

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43) Tyrannical Seizure. This unit may claim any building as its own. Any gold gained from controlled building is transferred to this unit. Any units produced from the controlled building are under full control of this unit. (Merchants and fountains are not buildings).

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44) Parasitic Nuance. Attaches parasite to host unit. Parasite slowly grows while on host unit. Parasite springs into action upon host unit’s death. Health and attack are proportional to the host unit’s health and attack and increases with duration on host unit. Parasite will kill host once health and attack is double that of the host.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #11

33) Terminal Link. This unit channels a link that binds all nearby enemy units in a chain. All damage inflicted to affected units, including this unit, is transferred to the last unit in the chain until last unit is killed or this unit releases binding.

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34) Critical Effort. Percentage chance with each attack to grant bonus damage on next attack. Bonus damage is calculated as part of this unit’s attack damage.

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35) Gigaburst. Inflicts damage to target unit. If target unit is killed by this effect; splashes residual damage to nearby enemy units. Effect continues with each affected unit.

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36) Fabled Winds. Inflicts damage to nearby enemy unit and hides nearby allied units. Actions performed by allied units while under this effect do not reveal unit.

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37) Toxic Spear. Hurls a spear at target location coating nearby units and vegetation with toxins. Permanently reduces health of affected units. Vegetation withers and dies; nothing will grow in affected area.

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38) Moon Lance. Advances game clock 12 hours. Destroys all illusions, summons and controlled units (with limited timer), and wards. Revives all heroes. This ability is automatically triggered upon this unit’s death. Refreshes cooldown for all items and abilities, except for this one.

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39) Fighting Spirit. This unit will automatically engage in combat. Gains experience with each successful attack landed. Permanently increases this unit’s attack and movement speed for each unit killed by this unit.

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40) Four-leafed Clover. Passively increases percentage chance of all abilities and items. Passively increases bounty from units killed by this unit.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #10

27) Strategic Endeavor. Passively rewards unit for successfully participating with called actions such as: destroying enemy tower within 10 seconds; killing enemy hero within 10 seconds; defending allied tower for 30 seconds; calling missing enemy hero and enemy hero appears within 10 seconds; healing or replenishing mana for allied heroes when below 50%; allied hero healing or replenishing this unit when below 50%; notifying allied players of new enemy hero equipment, items costing 1500 gold or more and purchased within 60 seconds; placing wards at designated ward locations.  This unit must be the one to call the action.

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28) Best Combat. This unit cannot attack any unit directly. Passively counters all attacks and spells when directly targeted by enemy units. Percentage chance to dodge damage and effect from units directly in front of this unit.

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29) Bombastic Finale. This unit channels otherworldly energies that inflict minimal damage; targets nearby enemy units. This unit gains all bounty from affected enemy units that are killed while this ability is being channeled.

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30) Art of Zen. Drastically reduces this unit’s movement, attack, and turn speed. Amplifies this unit’s spell damage and effects.

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31) Codenames. The dead tell no tales. One player is randomly selected to carry out a secret mission to assassinate a hero unit within a time limit (typically 5 minutes) failure to follow through on assassination results in punishment (typically death). Grants friendly fire when target hero unit is an ally.

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32) Essence of Time. Randomly destroys an item in target enemy unit’s inventory. Inflicts damage over time. Item effects are scaled down until nothing is left. Item cannot be sold as merchants are aware of the curse. Does not affect consumables. Curse is removed if item is used in a recipe.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #9

26) Wrook’s Move. Inflicts damage to enemy units in a line (240 AoE). Additional effects are determined by nearby allied heroes. Projectile speed and distance is increased for each nearby allied agility-hero. For each nearby allied strength-hero, increases area of effect by 120 and stuns for 0.2 seconds. For each nearby allied intelligence-hero, increases damage by 10/15/20% and slows movement and attack speed by 10%.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #8

25) Winter Storm. Globally reduces casting range and movement speed for all units.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #7

24) Cloud Strife. Lunges at target unit from anywhere on the map, damage is proportional to distance traveled. Successful kill by this effect will reset cooldown for this ability.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #6

23) Knife’s Edge. This unit sacrifices itself to inflict damage to nearby units equal to this unit’s health before activation. Increases death timer by 50%.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #5

18) Mayhem. Randomly attacks all nearby units, allied and enemy; increases attack damage, for the duration, when unit is killed by this effect.

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19) Last Laugh. This unit is unable to move, cast spells, or attack. When killed, all damage acquired from point-of-cast is gathered into a single physical attack that is projected towards target unit.

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20) Echo Chamber. Player chat is passively flooded with unanimous support for team via well known international players, regardless of match position.

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21) Habitual Delights. Passively grants bonus damage to allied units that successfully perform a combo; either by themselves or with allied players. Combo bonus increases with each successive action.

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22) Benevolent Influence. Target unit cannot kill or inflict damage.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #4

17) Time to Kill. Passively delays ability cooldowns for a short duration after casting.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #3

16) Descent from the Heavens. This unit unleashes a powerful attack at a target AoE equal to current attack damage; this is treated as a normal attack and prompts attack modifiers.
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Overpowered Ability Concepts #2

15) Ultimate Support. Shares health regeneration with marked allied unit. Multiple marked units will reduce health regeneration proportioned to number of allied units marked.

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Overpowered Ability Concepts #1

1) Unstoppable. Attack damage is directly proportional to total damage received. Death resets damage accumulation.

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2) Evolutionary Advantage. Death of unit passes along buff or stat modifier as a permanent bonus upon re-spawn. Buff may be negative or positive.

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3) Untraceable. Unit cannot be tracked; no unit can gain vision of this unit's sight. Unit will not be visible on minimap.

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4) Cautionary Sensation. Actively locates (one-time ping) enemy units on minimap; passively tracks enemy units’ movement (mini-icons are visible on minimap for the duration after a short time where this unit does not move) on minimap while not moving.

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5) Deafening Stalker. Only the last unit attacked by this unit can see this unit. Reduces affected unit's communication (reduces audio in/out and delays any typed message) with allied units when this unit is nearby.

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6) Unseen Assailant. Successfully killing an enemy unit renders this unit invisible. If this unit attacks or casts a spell, this unit is revealed; does not reveal this unit if the attack or spell successfully kills an enemy unit.

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7) Dreary Aura. Nearby enemy units will have their attack damage, attack speed, health, and movement speed reduced each time they are damaged.

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8) Accelerator. This unit gains bonus attack and movement speed for each nearby enemy unit.

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9) Red State Aura. Drastically reduces accuracy of nearby enemy units; reduces affected unit's attack and spell damage for each missed attack.

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10) Blind Focus. This unit has no sight radius; gains bonus attack damage and gains nearby enemy communication (audio in/out and any typed messages from nearby enemy unit).

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11) Natural Strength. This unit's strength is equal to double the combined bonus strength from equipped items. 

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12) Geological Phenomena. All attacks, spells cast by this unit, and equipment on this unit are infused by the terrain.

• Dirt: Physical attacks are tougher and movement is more fluid.
  
• Vegetation: Spells draw energy from nearby vegetation reducing spell cost and increasing spell damage.
  
• Water: Physical attacks splash or spillover to nearby units.
  
• Stone: The solid surface increases projectile speed and range.
  
• Blight: Spells draw negative energy from nearby blight inflicting an intoxicating poison.
  
• Scorched: Radiating energy increases mana regeneration and increases attack damage.
  

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13) Perspective Invisibility. This unit is rendered invisible to targeted enemy unit as long as this unit remains directly in front of target enemy unit. Attacking or casting spell does not reveal this unit.

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14) Phantasm. This unit can only target one unit until target unit is killed; while target unit is still alive, this unit cannot acquire a new target. Passively attacks target unit when target unit is not in this unit’s sight radius.

My Brand - A Self-assessment of My Goals

Greetings all,

Over the past few weeks, I have been collecting my thoughts about where I see myself in the next few years.  Many friends and relatives are moving on with their lives and I fear I may have become fixated on staying stationary.  I lack inspiration to do anything productive.  In an odd manner, I feel more productive at work then I do with my own prospects.  This may heavily rely on the fact that I make money by performing work.  COLOSSAL CONCEPT!

A few discussions with my sister has me thinking about going off and starting my own business, again.  The first and foremost, to obtain an independent source of income one must identify what will be generating that income.

What skills do I have and what can I apply from them?

• 3D modeling
• Understanding of working space.
• Water filtration systems
• Understanding current methods to purify and move water.
• Structural metal buildings
•  Understanding the limitations of materials, even steel has a breaking point.
• Injection molding and polyurethane molding
• Understanding modern production of low-cost high-strength materials.
• Acoustic suppression systems
• Understanding that making something acoustically pleasing is just as important as aesthetics.
• Microsoft excel (VBA)
• Understanding basic programming.
• Manufacturing solutions
• Understanding basic processes and order of operation.

 Know that I have laid out my skills, I need to apply them to my personality.  What defines me as a person.  Why would someone want to go into business with me?  What is the connection between my brand and my skills? 

• Calmness
• Consistency
• Curiosity
• Drive
• Focus
• Humor
• Imagination
• Open-mindedness
• Optimism
• Originality
• Practicality
• Pragmatism
• Resilience
• Simplicity
• Solitude
• Spontaneity
• Uniqueness

 So, what's the connection?  What are my potential customers' needs?  What can I bring to the table that no one else can do?  What will keep them coming back for more?

If I truly want to change the world... What do I need to do?  What will be more core value in which I build my commercial infrastructure?  How about:

Focus on Imagination with emphasis on Curiosity, Originality and Uniqueness; Simplifying Practical Solutions with an Open-minded and Optimistic Approach.

The short version will have either a cool acronym or a meaningful correlation.

New Toy: Secondary Lens for Olympus OM-D E-M5

I am really excited to be going on a trip very soon. Mostly because I will get some much deserved time off from work. I really wish I had some PTO to compensate for the time off. Oh well. Back to the purpose of this post... I recently received my new lens, M.Zuiko 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 II R (Silver), we'll see how well this lens works with ranged shots while traveling. I have already tested it and the camera does make some strange noises while focusing. I need to play with it a bit more to fully understand the capabilities of the camera.

I was considering sharing my pictures online and have decided that I will only be sharing the pictures I feel are worthy of being shared with anonymous viewers. The few pictures I have uploaded into my DeviantArt account are only the best and are the originals. I truly wish to explore the world and preserve my adventures. It all seems like a very long journey, but I'll leave that discussion for another time.

Take care.

New Puzzle: Ravensburger World Map 1665

32"x48"

New Toy: Digital Antenna ClearStream 2V

This weekend I began the process to reduce my monthly expenses.  My brother suggested that I try buying a digital antenna and reduce my cable bill, mostly because I am being charged $40 per month explicitly for television...  After a few minutes of research, I was astounded to realize that not only would I be getting more channels with the antenna, but that the equipment would would only cost me a grand total of $150!  The estimated savings from reducing my cable bill would save me $550 annually, I say this is a great opportunity.

I attempted to use a digital antenna at my previous apartment in McKinney, however there was too many obstructions in the way, not to mention my apartment was in a valley.

This beauty works!  Great price and easy to install. Now I need to make that uncomfortable phone call to Time Warner Cable to remove their television service and reduce my internet speed to their standard internet (15MB/s), more than enough bandwidth for playing my video games!

New Toy: Olympus Camera [Updated: 2015-10-28]

This past Sunday I bought an Olympus OM-D E-M5 mirror-less digital camera and an Olympus 14-42mm II R lens. This is my gift to myself for leaving ACS Manufacturing. I cannot wait. The lens should be arriving tomorrow and the camera sometime between Friday and next Wednesday... I am very excited.

I had an opportunity to use the camera when I was browsing a local camera shop. Fell in love with it immediately! The mechanics and ease of use is reassuring considering I would be a novice photographer. No more $15 digital camera courtesy of Sears. I am using this as the perfect excuse to get out of my apartment and explore!



UPDATE (2015-10-15)
So...  The lens I purchased through Amazon arrived last week, no scratches.

The camera, however, is an entirely different story.  The camera was scheduled to arrive on Monday, Columbus Day, a national federal holiday.  What this means is that usual postal carrier would not be available to deliver the package.  Instead, USPS has a contract through Amazon to contract the delivery of packages after hours and on federal holidays.  I received a notification on Monday (5:11 PM) that my package had been delivered, I was at home when I received this notification.  I decided to call the customer service about the notification error.  They told me to wait 36 hours for accidental scanning of delivered item, apparently this is a common occurrence

Tuesday evening, I decided to call the USPS for an updated delivery status on my package.  I ended up waiting a little over an hour and a half to speak with a customer service representative.  We started the inquiry process to find the lost package.

Wednesday, I received a phone call from the USPS local branch.  They informed me that the package was delivered, just not to my address...  Yeah.  At this point I wanted more information as to why this happened and what was being done to retrieve my package.

Thursday (Today), I called the USPS local branch and requested an update.  Their mail carriers can only attempt to knock at the door and leave notifications.  The notification was picked up, so I know whoever lives there is aware of the situation.  Apparently, if the individual that resides at that residence opens the package it is considered mail theft which is a federal offense!  A final attempt will be made on Saturday by the USPS Postal Inspector (Federal Agent).  If convicted, the individual could face a fine.  They informed me to contact Amazon and request a refund for lost or damaged item.

Oh boy, this has become a mess.



UPDATE (2015-10-28)
Great news!  The camera arrived October 17th!  I'm writing the update this late because I was able to file a lost/damaged package with Amazon after previous update.  I received a refund for the camera.  Haven't had much time to fully try it out.  I've taken  few pictures of a park nearby.

New Apartment: Carrollton, TX

It has been a good two years at my apartment in McKinney, but this weekend I will finally be moving a bit closer to the Dallas area. This new apartment will, definitely, be closer to work. Less time on the road ^_^ I just finished my phone call with my internet provider, and there will be a good week without internet... This will allow me time to focus on things around my new apartment and maybe leech off those free wi-fi routers ^_^

Portfolio Update: Commercial Airline Food Tray

I've decided to update my portfolio to show the back-mounted food tray for commercial airliners. This is from my work at Zodiac Aerospace. There are more variations that I will be uploading... Later.

Portfolio Update: Enclosure for Diesel-Powered Generator

Updated my portfolio with some pictures of an enclosure for a diesel-powered generator. There are many key elements missing from the design, this is intended. Although I no longer work for ACS Manufacturing, I feel it is my moral obligation to protect their intellectual properties. The shading on white background looks very industrial, I like it. Autodesk Inventor is truly a great tool.

If you would like your own student version of this powerful 3D CAD modeling software, follow this link:
Inventor Professional: Student Version

The license is good for a year and you can register for free. Majority of the tools are included in the student version. Have fun!