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I wish they kept that scene. The scenes with Banner were some of my favorite.

I don't blame SciFi authors for inaccurate science. They general aren't rocket scientists, quantum physicists, xeno-biologists or virologists in real life. The general public is told that viruses spread two ways, through direct contact or airborne. The notion of particularly nasty viruses like Ebola becoming airborne had already been used as story material so worrying that the new virus on the block, HIV, becoming airborne wasn't a stretch.

As it was what made HIV scarier than Ebola is it's long incubation period in the host, allowing it to be spread only through intimate contact before the host became symptomatic. Ebola burns out it's host too quickly to cause a wide spread epidemic while HIV could take months or years before it became a problem to the host, who died due to other infections masking the actual cause, allowing the infection to spread far and wide before it gets detected as an epidemic.

The full Doctor Who article in EW, which contained this list, also points out how Doctor Who references are popping up in other series with increased frequency as evidence to it's cult status. Everyone knows Trekers, Whovians are a bit more off of the public's radar and therefore references feel more like an inside joke between friends.

I don't have a problem with the MB. It's OK to use a Sandy Bridge in that MB and you do end up saving a little bit of money ($40) going with an i7-2600K Vs the i7-3770K and you don't suffer from the heat mitigation problems that Ivy Bridge has when you overclock.

800 Watt PSU is overkill for a single video card system. I would be amazed if it needs half that while gaming.

Is this a Digital Storm built rig? Asking because I only see reference to a Vortex Liquid Cooling system at their site.

Did you try ParagonWiki?

ParagonWiki: Praetoria

Isn't Endurance only 1 minute to full recovery making each 5% tick only 3 seconds apart? Hit Points is 4 minutes to full.

This, 9800GT, has similar if not slightly better performance for around the same price.

Well I was saying that none on the list have been off the air more than 25 years, maybe 20. Smersh pointed out Twin Peaks at 22.

Otherwise ST: TOS would be there big time. The cult following created by that series allowed they various spinoffs to be churned out for 15 or so years and was the model for all TV cult following since then.

What a cutie.

One thing that's being overlooked is how much business they do in NA and Europe, which I believe most players here are from, compared to CoH sales. It was 28% of NA/Europe's revenue in the 1st quarter and 44% in Q2.

NA and Europe is only 4.5% of NCSoft's revenue Q2, so do you think they are looking to pull out of those markets since that part of their revenue stream is so small? Of course not.

We are getting a lot of new content, costume parts, power sets, etc.

That infers that their are developers, artists, mission designers being paid to create all that stuff.

Since they don't work for free we can infer that someone is paying them and the money has to come from somebody. Since NCSoft tends to shut down games hard when they are no longer profitable, the money must be coming from us players.

And since it's more stuff than we usually got in the same time frame before the game went hybrid, we can infer that they are making more money since than before the transition.

Yea, I'm getting a 403 error, permission denied.

Look at H.G. Wells The Shape of Things to Come, you see those exact same themes nearly 80 years ago.

Also how is Lovecraft's xenophobic casting of of those of not northern European decent in his stories any different than say Hollywood's default racial/ethnic casting of bad guys in movies? It reminds me of a quote from Thank You for Smoking where only Russians, Arabs and villains are allowed to smoke in movies.

The mix has changed a bit over the years. Russian and other former USSR or Iron Curtain countries are now the "new" force behind organized crime. Hispanics are often portrayed as involved with drug cartels in large cities. Asians are making a surge recently just not from the big three, China, Japan, Korea (except North). It's all Malaysia, Thailand and other non-specific southeast Asian countries are also drug gangs or hired muscle. Of course we still have middle-eastern terrorists. I think the only "foreign" culture that doesn't get cast as villains by default in Hollywood are Indians (well maybe in Amazing Spider-Man there's one).

Popular media always cast the minority, those that fall outside the cultural norm at the time, as potentially evil. If you don't understand why someone plays video games, read comic books, SCA, cosplay, anime, are goth or simply have another hobby that none of your friends and family participate in, they are suspect. Look how the media tries the identify the out of the ordinary likes some nutcase has and then blame that for why they're a nutcase. Society likes to cast the "strange and unusual" as threats. Popular media just gives society what they want to hear.

Saw a synopses in Salon but this is the archive.

That's what I was doing on King's Row as well with my namesake when he was around Level 10 at the time. "Well there's only three of them, I can take them." Nope. Perma-mezed and beaten into paste.

Fun times.

The only Rularuu invasion I know of was at the start of Issue 2, Sept 2004.

I also don't think that there's a show on it that's been off the air over 25 years, or even 20.

For Tenzhi's benefit:

1. Doctor Who
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Arrested Development
4. MST3K
5. X-Files
6. The Wire
7. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8. Star Trek: The Next Generation
9. The Comeback
10. My So-Called Life
11. Lost
12. Firefly
13. Twin Peaks
14. Veronica Mars
15. Battlestar Galactica (2004)
16. Community
17. Undeclared
18. Fringe
19. Wonder Showzen
20. Supernatural
21. Popular
22. Party Down
23. Farscape
24. Better of Ted
25. Archer
26. Pushing Daisies

We believe it dumps the texture cache from the graphics card and system memory forcing the game to first reload only the currently needed textures.

Maybe a bind using camdist <large number> (there's probably a cap) along with cam_reset? You could try searching for those commands in the forum to see if anyone posted something like you are describing.

Edit: Bah, ninja'd again.

only gets full mask option. (link to UK DailyMail)

It means you don't have the latest installed. I'm guessing you are not using the NCLauncher to start the game but an old bypass shortcut to an old version of the game.