Bill Z Bubba

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is this screwiness just for coh?

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For the most part, yes.

Right before I bought my 8800gts, and this was a major reason I did so, I was playing The Witcher. With whatever Cat driver I had at the time and the X1950XTX, I was getting a lot of graphics issues. Cleaned out all the ATI software, installed the 8800gts, and all those issues were gone.

That may have been Witcher specific just like so many of the issues here are CoH/V specific.

Don't worry about what I said about your screenshot. It looks fine and you probably won't notice any difference if you hop cards.

ATI users need to know the following for this game:

Disable Bloom
Disable Depth of Field
Keep Water FX Off or Low
Disable Desaturation FX

Allow the CCC and not the game to manage FSAA and AF.

This may or may not change in the future.

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Sure there is!

Just click on 'Download' if that is available, if not you might have to right-click and select View Image, but either way you're bound to get a URL like that that you can directly link to.

Though I would REALLY DISCOURAGE this practice, as it makes it practically impossible to comment on the picture or find the artist who did it and it's just bad form if you ask me.

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Well there ya go.

I see and understand the arguments against doing this, but the mods have already laid down the law. If you link off to a dynamic page that may be clean today but not tomorrow, you are taking the risk of having your post nuked.

There's no misunderstanding, misinterpretation or ill will about it.

Does it make life in this forum inconvenient for you? Absolutely. But rules usually do.

As an aside and for the record, I find the rule stupid. A link is not a picture. Folks have the choice to click a link or not click one.

Using Soul Train's redirect idea is one way.

Saving the picture to some other webspace, like that which is often provided by ISPs, rather than linking to a site well know for its NSFW content is another.

There doesn't appear to be a way to directlink to images hosted at deviantart so that nothing but a single image appears.

I read that thread, Ironik. Someone stated that the artist's DA page was also linked and that page was full of NSFW content.

A lot of people seem to be ignoring that.

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A stunning lack of understanding of what is being asked and discussed.

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Oh really? So you are seeking guidance on what is NSFW?

You shouldn't be. That's even more simple to understand:

NSFW content is whatever LH, Ex, Niv and Kos decide it is.

If you want some safe guidelines, look to the corporate world:

Sex, nudity, racism. All NSFW.

I haven't misunderstood what's being discussed. I'm simply mocking those attempting to weasel around it.

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I am going to put some emphasis this discussion again since I just ran into it in this section again.
If your NSFW is one click away, the post is coming down.

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So if you post a picture on DA, and a person who makes a comment on it has a horribly disturbing gallery, you can't post that picture, even if it was of fuzzy bunnies or something? Or are we only going to refer to the ARTIST'S gallery?

I'm not trying to be snarky, but that "one-click" thing gets really hazy on places like DA and other places where there are links and links and links to everything. You can click to the front page of DA from any piece posted here and that could potentially have NSFW material. Also, if you're pulling things down for having NSFW pieces one click away via DA, you wouldn't know that unless you were signed in on your DA account, and you yourself have enabled those pieces to show. "You" referring to anyone.

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I don't understand the confusion here.

If you post a link to NSFW content, the link gets pulled.

What's not to understand? A page full of links is not NSFW. A page full of NSFW pictures is.

A link going to a page that does not have any NSFW content on it will be left alone.

A link going to a page that does not have any NSFW content on it but does have links to NSFW content will be left alone.

One click means one click.

This is not rocket surgery.

Slapped back in my old X1950XTX to test something else, loaded the 8.7s, zero change.

Bloom, Depth of Field, High Water and Desaturation FX ALL disable CCC managed FSAA.

I post here because I admire the skill of art creation. I admire it because I am completely lacking in ANY ability to put to paper or hard drive an image from my brain.

I am quite skilled in many other areas of life, but drawing/image creation is the one area where I am a complete and abject failure.

That and you're all a bunch of dirty, dirty {censored.}

I really don't want to know, but this made me laugh:

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Please use your back button to return to the previous page.

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Ahem... while it may not "speak volumes" why are there less subscibers now than a year ago?

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The animated breasts in AoC probably cost us 35% of the under-21 market in the blink of an eye.

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There's animated breasts in AoC?

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Hmmmmm.

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BAB saying a buncha stuff

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That should be stickied.

Crawler, if my backyard wasn't already too small for the witches I have, I would.

Next house, I will be taking in more to give them happy homes. Radar was a WalMart puppy with worms and other issues. Bella was going to be sent to the pound because her last mom couldn't afford to keep her.

Cool on the goop, man.

Since we're being fair to our feline brethren, here's Cracker Jack. But I call him Crackah. He hunts me at night. Keeps me on my toes.

So many pretty babies in this thread. Life would suck so much without dogs and cats in it.

Koschej,

They are beautiful.

It sounds like we're in the same boat, though. From what I've gathered, it's normal behavior. Just vying for supremacy. After a while, they'll figure out who the boss is. I think I'm in an easier situation because my mastiff has a clear advantage over my heeler.

For your sake, I hope they work it out sooner than later.

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and a few who are reading this but not responding could not care less either way. That's fine.

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HI!

Actually she is an English Mastiff. 155 pounds currently. Bulls tend to be smaller. Here's another shot of her.

And found one of Radar.

Bella is one of the gentlest dogs I've ever been around. Except when jealousy and alpha issues come into play. Then things like this happen. Poor Radar. (She's fine now. Nasty scar tissue, though.)

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I have a 16-year-old pug who can go with those JRTs. He's decided he doesn't like me any more and tries to kill me on sight. Fred, the bony bad-breath bitin' bastage.

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What the hell is that nasty puss in his eye? I'd be grouchy as hell with that, too.

EDIT: Since we're doin pics:

Bella and I. Right after my dad and I built the girls their doghouse. I think I'd end up more than bruised if she decided to take a bite out of me. Don't have a good pic of Radar the heeler mutt handy.

Hopes for fast healing, Scarfy.

All the following is OT:

Everything you just stated means almost nothing to me. I'm literally coming into this blind and have no intentions of trying to game on this rig. It's purely a learning platform for me.

So far I've got it Ubuntu 8.04 installed as a dual boot on an inspiron 9400 laptop with XPSP3, on my wireless at work, and fully updated. I've done very little beyond that before with any *nix install.

But thanks for that link. I know we have linux users here that are running CoH.

I think Ms Garrison summed up my feelings about transgendering properly enough.

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So, lemme get this straight.... I post a link to an artist on DA, okay, it's their DA homepage and it meets DA rules and regulations, cool. Then I suggest that they look around, maybe visit her blog, and there is a NSFW picture of Nadya. That's not ok?

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I don't think that's what's being said.

I think the rule is: You can't post a link that goes directly to a page with NSFW content on it.

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You're all totally sick for even thinking about doing adult things with your computer avatars. I mean, c'mon you know that people laugh at you for it right? What a waste of time and money. /jumproot

Srsly.

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I wonder if it's sick to think about my avatars doing adult things with other avatars....

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Only if your avatar is a khel in nova form.

nudgenudgewinkwinksaynomore

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I can't believe theres actually people out there that purchase these kinds of art!! Shame on all of you.......

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Dirty, dirty, dirty.

The whole lot of ya.




Glad to know some of you.

That's pretty cool.

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Hey gang,

In regards to the responses about the ATI/AMD PC, while we have other advertisement for Nvidia, our Director of Business and Marketing had this comment:

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Although it is true that we launched City of Villains with NVidia as our official partner in 2005, ATI/AMD has expressed a strong enthusiasm and willingness to work with us. They are huge City of Heroes/Villains fans and we love that. We will be doing our part to promote them as well, and you can expect to see more promotions with them in the future.

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I know some of you may have more tech related questions (as to how the game runs on ATI video hardware) but that's the info I have for you on the subject at this time.

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Say what?

Does this have anything to do with my ancient ATI thread being suddenly brought back from the dead and restickied?

I've already PMed Positron about this, but if there's more info to share, I'd love to hear it.