Father Xmas

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by warden_de_dios View Post
    Sometimes people breaking into cars don't really care what they steal.

    I had a backpack of dirty laundry stole out of my car once.
    I had an air pump and around 50 "discount" coins that are used at the local supermarket for additional discounts on things like baked goods and family bumper pack frozen food.

    But they left my imported anime music CDs. It's nice to know that CDs aren't worth anything anymore.
  2. The Tier 9 power is called Frappe.
  3. Yes, that would be a problem. However I would think Aang would try to teach others the skill or at least try to write down what he knew and how he was taught.
  4. Well Kora is suppose to be Water nation born. Since Water comes after Air in the cycle it must mean that Aang died some 12-18 years ago. If I remember right they were trying to rush Aang's development which caused him to leave so it may be that Kora is being trained slower. The preview seems to show her water and fire bend.

    Also it's been shown that Avatar's have long life spans if they aren't cut short. A hundred years may have passed. With people like Sokka and The Mechanist who can apply the various bending styles as sources of power for devices, society evolving into a "bendpunk" era in that time frame is very possible. Now the story can be about factions using this new "technology" to cause mayhem and possibly war. After 100 years of peace, people may hesitate to believe this new, not fully trained young Avatar warning much like Harry Potter in OotP.

    Just guessing.
  5. I've seen the preview, why couldn't it have floated away by itself? I can believe "the bank has disappeared" being telephoned into "someone robbed the bank". We'll see next week.

    Last week, Felicia's "Holly" was very very "Codex". This week she's a tad calmer and more assertive. Hope that trend continues as to indicate how Holly is getting use to Eureka and all of the regulars.
  6. The Time Police always have to go back and fix that. Usually a rookie's first assignment.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dromio View Post
    I thought the preview for next week's Eureka was funny, where Carter is jubilant because someone committed a normal crime like robbing a bank! Alas, it's not a normal bank robbery though...
    I think it's more likely that the bank simply goes "missing" than intentionally robbed. Somebody probably painted the lobby with Cavorite or put so dohicky or rock sample into their safe deposit box.
  8. The one on The Playlist on indieWIRE? Still don't see any.

    There is also a 2nd live action Snow White movie coming soon staring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Yep...and because of that, I'm not getting too attached to Alphas. Firefly, The Cape, Dollhouse, Terminator, The 4400...history does not speak well...
    Well Alphas is a series about people with special abilities that also have "issues", which is Summer Glau's forte. Still I think she needs to get an agent that finds her roles that aren't kick-butt and/or crazy girl.
  10. It's not bad. I probably pick a different motherboard, one that supports both SLi as well as CrossfireX (to cover all the bases) and includes Lucid Virtu support (for high speed video transcoding) but that's me.

    If all you ever plan to do is to use one high end video card it's fine.
  11. I didn't find any boobies on that page. Then again I have AdBlock Plus and No-Script running so if it was an ad I wouldn't have seen it.
  12. Did anyone else see Summer Glau in the extended coming attractions for Alphas?

    Applaud for the Stan Lee cameo. Totally forgot Will Wheaton pops in from time to time on Eureka.

    I'm not sure that TigerDirect got their money's worth, portraying one of their techs as a peepware installer and a store manager as a thief on Warehouse 13. Myka's not as sexy as a blond.
  13. Maybe during one of the USO numbers. Honestly I wasn't listening for it like the classic 60s Spiderman song.
  14. Quote:
    No, Tier 9 and Tier 9 VIP are the same level, except that to get the Tier 9 VIP you have to be a subscriber.
    And if you are not a subscriber you get zero free Paragon Points and not 400. Being a subscriber is already assumed if the question is when do you get 550 instead of 400.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I missed something. Is there any clue as to which veterans will be getting 550 PPs?
    I think it's when you have Tier 9 of Paragon Rewards filled up.
  16. Current proposed dollars to points is $5 for 400 Paragon Points.

    Now for every 1200 Paragon Points you buy, with real money, you will get a Paragon Reward Token which you can use to unlock a Paragon Reward. You will still have 1200 Paragon Points that you can use to buy stuff from the new store.

    As for the various packs, the "known" cost and items available from the store is limited and may change before Freedom launches. We simply don't know if it will cost the same or cost more or less. We don't even know if the full packs will be available in the store. Link to what we know of right now.
  17. FYI, that Dell model is uses an nVidia GPU as well as the integrated Intel one. Unfortunately which one and the driver you have loaded doesn't come up with CoHHelper.
  18. Just saying Z-buffer takes memory as well as frame.
  19. You went from a 1.25 MegaPixel to a pair of 2 MegaPixel monitors. Possibly the scaling up of all the multiple frame and Z-buffers has eaten away too much of the video memory and now there isn't enough left to manage properly for immediate textures. The changing character texture level or flushing of the texture memory is, for a short time, allow the game to use the remaining memory more efficiently.

    Also I half remember a problem with nVidia and driving two montors with acceleration turned on for both of them, but I'm fuzzy on that.
  20. Also have you disable restart on system crash? That way you may have a better idea as to the why.
  21. Father Xmas

    Memory Issue

    Did you simply try and swap out the old RAM for the new? Worse case you now have 4GB where you once had 2GB.
  22. Don't forget her Dragon Age: Redemption series. Then her VA work for Guild Wars II so she could have stopped by at the NCSoft booth. Is The Legend of Neil still going on?
  23. Hope they have the SHIELD cars that fly, especially after the first demo in Capt America.
  24. Ah yes, bad line management, how I remember it so well back in 1995.

    Well at least you are having a good time. I here Felicia Day has her own booth there, actually probably one of her projects but she has a vendor wristband so who knows.
  25. Father Xmas

    this....

    Same cross-section as split hotdogs on bread, no biggie.