Zombie Man

Lex Luthor saw that and became a monk.

You need to stay long enough for the badge to register, which isn't always immediate.

Are you sure you don't already have the badge? Maybe it will show up on re-login?

I got betta.

You must have done something to deserve it.

Have you tried saving all binds and then reloading them in place of relogging?

You mean several billion atoms of antimatter, right?

A one time event doesn't make a trend, I agree. And I agree that not all gender-bases decisions are automatically sexist... I've said as much when I said I wasn't looking for exact parity.

Except that other things were said in private. Which colors my perception because now I'm privy to a trend.

And so when I see the tops of the Steampunk Pack for females is all corsets and lace and skin... I'm not surprised.

I'm pretty sure Arcanaville remembers the no-kilts-for-men statements which prompted a lot of linkage to utilikilts to show the devs just how dumb that was. Else she would have called me on that. I'm not going to try to dig up five year old threads.

Reminds me of a table top role-playing session where the GM dropped the players into the middle of a desert sandstorm but described it as: "You are in a very hot orange haze and can barely see two feet in front of you. You feel hundreds of little pinpricks painfully dance on your skin."

Then one of the players shouted, "IT'S *RADIATION*! RUN FOR IT!"

Or, I can just go by the person's self-admitted sexist reason for the decision which they put into a public forum.

There it is.

You're using 1 GB out of 2 GB even before you start CoH. Then, CoH wants to use another 1.3 GM (on low settings!). This means you have a lot of pagefile caching out to the hard drive to create virtual memory. And accessing the hard drive is the slowest form of memory. That is precisely why your load times are slow.

First of all, get rid of Turbo. It's not disabling near enough background processes as you need disabled.

Second of all: I strongly recommend a fresh reinstall of Windows. You do that by backing up all your data; Make sure you have an install disk; Then hard drive wipe and reinstall everything.

If you don't want to go that route, you have a lot of hard drive cleaning to do. You have way too many programs that are resident in your memory. A properly behaved program loads itself when you call for it and unloads itself when it's done. And if they want to be resident all the time, they ask permission first. Your computer is full of programs that have loaded themselves into the startup registries without your knowledge or permission.

Cut and past the HijackThis log to here and look at the report:

http://www.hijackthis.de/

And read this to understand the report: http://www.pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml

Jumping to 4 GB RAM will help, though, nothing will help that oldish and underpowered graphics card you have. And it won't solve the problem of all the CPU cycles the other programs are stealing.

If you want to see what load times would be like with all those other programs turned off, follow the instructions here.

You have avatars of females with male hats and yet you begrudge others wanting other 'male costume options' for their female avatars.

You get into this discussion over and over again. And yet you take a seeming high road as you leave this discussion saying that doing precisely what you did isn't worth it.

What other contradictions are there you'd like to entertain us with?