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The thing is, the 1978 Superman did get the ball rolling for "modern" superhero films. Or would you rather give that honor to the 1989 Batman?
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Personally not a fan of the HD 6790. The "let's disable even more of an HD 6870 to fit a certain price point" mentality doesn't excite me. Flashbacks of the HD 5830.
I don't have a problem with a pair of HD 6850s. Should be $30-40 more.
Also serious overkill for the motherboard. Talk about tossing in everything AND the kitchen sink. -
And whatever build is currently "active" is the one the respec affects.
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I take it that everyone caught Carol's callsign, Sapphire.
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I'm simply betting that the skitters/cooties are analogous to dogs or are just a different species that was previously conquered/enslaved.
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On one hand somebody wanted to do a GL movie. On the other someone else knew that every scene off Earth, every moment Hal's in the suit, nearly every other GL would be a CGI construct, would raise the cost of the movie. I'm visualizing the amount owed on a gas pump while someone is filling up their super Hummer.
That's why the training took 2 minutes. That's why the bulk of the other Lanterns look like they were done on the cheap. Somebody was watching the cost going up and up and probably cut off the purse strings. Then they were forced to edit together what they had done and try to make a cohesive film out of it. Which is why some of the scenes didn't flow together at all.
I still thought it was enjoyable. However I do laugh at some of the reviews that simply didn't realize that GL predates a lot of films that they said the movie was ripping off from, like comparing the ring to the Force. -
Well it was interesting. It's like Walking Dead with aliens as the big bad.
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I'm really starting to hate ATI all over again. Problem is there isn't a similar performance card from nVidia for a similar price, at least for the cheaper build. I've been considering changing out the HD 6950 1GB for a GTX 560Ti.
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Quote:Well if you jump into the wayback machine there was a belief that less than a dozen commercial computers would ever be needed in the whole world.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
My first computer was a minicomputer.
My next was an 8088-based microcomputer.
And even in '79, there was talk that full-blown computer systems weren't needed at home and that other appliance-type devices would serve better.
While it may be hyperbole, it's not quite as hyperbolic as you'd imagine.
And of course back in the late 70s there was talk about computers weren't needed in the home. They were still primitive, expensive toys that stored software on cassette tape, unless you spent the big bucks on a floppy disk drive. VisiCalc finally make the Apple II useful for business but for home use? Other than computer nerds there wasn't a reason for computers at home. The only person I knew in high school in the late 70s with a home computer was the father of this tall (really long legs) girl and it was a Commodore PET with the non touchtype friendly square key layout. Couldn't understand how he could type on it, her dad was huge and had Thing fingers.
Other than a few games from Byte and Creative Computing you had to type in, written in BASIC or had a BASIC loader of an assembly program that was coded as a long list of DATA lines, there really wasn't anything useful a computer could do in the home.
Computers had to take over the office first and then they flooded into people's homes. And still there weren't any really killer apps for the home until maybe Quicken, and of course Office as kids learned to use a computer to write their school reports instead of a typewriter with a correction ribbon. But there were PC games. The D&D Gold box games. Ultima, Wizardry, Loom, Sierra adventure games, Microprose Sid Meyer games like Pirates, F-15, F-19, Gunship. Boot floppies, code wheels, manual keyword look-up for copy protection. Prodigy, Compuserve, local BBS sites ruled online. But really there wasn't anything the computer was needed for in the home.
The game consoles that came after the game crash of the 70s brought gaming into the home bigtime and it was a lot easier than needing to install an Adlib MIDI card and know enough to pick an unused IRQ. You didn't need to reoptimize your autoexec.bat and config.sys for every new game as each needed just a little bit more memory. Sony gave us the drop in CD with the PS1 and the rest was history.
Sure for us old timers, finding a workable driver or upgrading the hardware is second nature for PC gaming but that doesn't work for the rest of the world. And once you take PC gaming out of the mix, what is needed in a home computer today? Web browsing and reasonable video playback. Yes Office is still around for those who need to write reports but a quad core i5-2500K isn't really needed for that.
Me and my friends own full blown PCs because we all work with computers as developers or web monkeys or IT. Our parents own computers because we insisted they do. But all they use it for is web browsing, e-mail and some casual gaming. And for most of them, a 2nd or 3rd gen tablet with a keyboard dock for the few times they need to write more than a line or two would be sufficient. -
If you remember the architect then loot, crafting and the consignment house was already there.
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For a character builder there's Mids.
For info there's ParagonWiki.
If you set up Going Rogue as a new account, your first new character must start in the alternate world of Praetoria. Not a problem if you upgraded your old account.
A Praetoria character can be any standard hero or villain AT and when you are done with the content there, at Level 20, you will be given a choice if you want to go to Paragon City as a hero or Rogue Isles as a villain.
Depending how long ago you played, we now have loot, crafting and a consignment house system. Also player created content.
If you do make it to Level 50, there is now extended content for them.
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Remember, Warner has yet to do a unified DC universe. Heck I'm guessing they never will.
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30-40 years?? So since 1971-1981. So since Apple IIs and TRS-80s roamed the Earth people have talked about PC killers. Heck the IBM PC only came out in 1981. The Altair 8080 was only 1975.
Fine I get the hyperbole but nobody seriously talked about PCs going away. PC gaming sure, after every console generation and we may be closer now simply because of the convergence of resolution between the computer monitor and HDTV. -
Tablets are good for what they are good at. Currently that's a lot of media consumption and very little creation, beyond tweeting and updating your Facebook page.
The reason why they are taking off is simply because they are essentially smartphones with really big screens. Apple succeeded in training enough customers to deal with a touch screen device and got them accustomed to dealing with one foreground application at a time. Yes IOS is now more multitasking friendly with user apps but it still assumes that each app gets the full screen. And since everyone is modeling themselves after Apple, both the interface and full screen has become "the standard".
Will tablets eliminate all PCs? Did the Vespa eliminate Harleys? Of course not. Can the tablet make a noticeable dent in the market for laptops, netbooks and Grandma and Grandpa's PC? Sure. -
The film had some problems. Entire scenes seemed missing, some too short. I'm guessing it's due to the excessive CGI scenes drove the cost of the movie up. It really needed another 15 to 25 minutes to smooth out the flow.
Scenes that felt out of place. The birthday party. The bar fight.
They needed a better way to established Hector's crush on Carol as well as how they all knew each other. It was somewhat obvious with Hal and Carol.
Why did Sinestro turn?
While Thor also had some CGI environments, it did have a lot of physical sets as well where GL had few. Basically only when Sinestro and Hal were on screen together.
It's not Airbender bad. Thankfully few movies are but I think it's closer to Metacritic's score than Rotten Tomatoes. -
Well first, we don't know what you currently have so it's kind of tough to judge what's required to "blow my old gaming experience away".
And second, $600 isn't a lot for a gaming PC.
Doing a quick look at NewEgg I get these. The best of these in my opinion is this one. It has the fastest video card and CPU of those four.
The other choice is going to iBUYPOWER or CyberpowerPC and configure a system more suitable to your budget and vendor preferences. -
Saw this today at BBC News.
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Quote:Meh. Nothing out of the ordinary. I prefer Kekko Kamen.Originally Posted by Gearhead_NA
(Yes, 'Super Naked Woman' actually exists...)
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Re: everchanging ensemble cast of heroes.
So you are going to do X-men. Which X-men? What era? Who's running the team? Who's not on the team but is at the school? As a student or teacher?
So you end up with a team of everyone's favorites and throw in Storm to give the team a little color. But you can't make the team too large or the general audience won't remember who's who.
Through a dart at the collective 40+ years of X-men and you will get a different answer. Thor, Hulk and Shellhead are solo players. And they did change a few key points with those guys. Where's Blake and his walking stick? What about the Gamma Bomb? Iron-man was the closest to his origins but they messed up his enemies.
Trying to condense so much history and continuity into a trilogy or two simply can't be done and someone won't be satisfied. -
It was tacked at the end of my jetpack thread. Stability is going to be a big problem with the center of gravity so high. At least you hang under the fans.
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Except his power came on like a fire hose, directed where ever he's facing. Shaw simply didn't have anything metal on him that could get caught up in that maelstrom.
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Saw it up on IO9 today. Very well done.
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So you know, there are a two flavors of the GTX 460, not counting the 460SE. You can tell them apart by the amount of memory. The slow one has 768MB of memory, the faster one has 1GB. It's not the amount of memory that affects performance in this case, the one with 768MB of memory only has 3/4rds the memory throughput of the 1GB model.
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Uh-oh, looks like one of my designs.
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Ah, the 285 is a single GPU card, a faster clock, lower power version of the GTX 280. Created to compete with the HD 4870 X2 in performance and price.
The GTX 295 is the dual GPU card of that generation.