Father Xmas

Since I solo a lot I always take my snipe. Yes it's usually only used in the opening attack of a mob or if I'm trying to pull groups apart but I still take it.

Aw crap, looks like one of mine.

What does the /netgraph 1 look like when the system starts lagging? And it's not a wireless connection but it is a common connection among your apartment complex.

I'm going to guess it's network and not box related. I don't see any thing out of the ordinary in the HiJack This.

Do you know if your temps are getting too high? Did it get extremely hot where you are when this started? One way to check Temps is with HWMonitor which is made by the same folks as CPU-Z. Start it up and leave it running in the background while you play. Once you're done you can check out the max temp values of all the parts with sensors.

Sorry I can't be further help.

I'm sort of meh with El Cazador de la Bruja. I think I would find the story about the other bounty hunter with the little girl more interesting that the one about the two main characters.

The very first alternate costume I every made was a rage suit for Father Xmas and it's all because of that video.

There seems to be a problem with the Steam overlay, see the bottom of this thread.

If it isn't that there is always the uninstall/clean/install driver route. Possibly the change in nVidia architecture from the 9800GT to the GTX 550Ti is messing up.

But first have you tried launching the game in "safe mode". It's an option in the NCLauncher under preferences for the game, a check box. If that works then there is some graphics setting that freaks out the game.

It's on Nick, the parents of the US will consider it a kid's show. I wouldn't be surprised if parents complained about the end of the water arc in the original show due to it's content. Reminds me about the number of parents who were suckered into bringing their little ones to Bridge to Terabithia thinking it's a fun but a little scary fantasy movie but I digress.

As for Amon, did he die? His skills and reflexes might just kick in. His demise was only implied.

I think everything on CN was a repeat this week which leaves me ...

The Legend of Korra

Well that rocked. Needed more Uncle Bumi than just a cameo.

Several people were right about various aspects about Amon (brothers, blood bender). Good to see Asami not being a mole. Someone called how Korra gets airbending.

And of course they wouldn't leave Korra like that before next season, it's still a kid's show. Clifthangers like that upset the little ones to much.

Also before Freedom on the blue side (never noticed it on the red), your origin contact sort of steered you toward certain enemy groups while in Atlas. Now with the tutorial revamp and new introductory arcs, you don't really notice those missions anymore.

Darkness.

Then their was light once ... once photons decoupled from the electrons and protons in the photon–baryon fluid.

Sometimes people think anime is all giant robots, magical girls and high school harem shows (or hyperviolet robot porn according to some in the media). It's simply a medium, animation, and unlike here in the west it didn't get pigeonholed into the "only for kids" slot by the cultural mainstream. In reality it's quite genre and age diverse besides introducing a number of different tropes that we don't see in western animation so it can seem fresh and interesting to first timers. Many go for long cohesive story arcs versus simple episode base stories as well as actual character development and greying the line between good and bad.

No, I haven't seen Darker Than Black yet. So much to do, so little time.

That's because it doesn't work there or the costume editor. However you can use the "Snipping Tool" in Windows to capture it and then paste it in Paint.

Obligatory ParagonWiki link.

Also define "laggy". Do you mean poor framerate, inconsistent framerate, rubberbanding (that is seeing yourself jerked back to a previous position several times when trying to move) or something else.

/netgraph 1 will show you the turnaround time between client and server as a graph on the lower right side of your screen. Tall spiky green/yellow or red lines is a sign of network problem between you and the client (or simply sucking up the all the bandwidth like bittorrenting something). Besides the graph there are a list of numbers, if the number of duplicated, retransmitted or lost packets are increasing like the amount owed will fueling your car, there's probably a network problem. /netgraph 0 will turn it off.

/showfps 1 will display the current framerate along the top right edge of the screen. /showfps 0 will turn it off. Note that enabling the VSync will tend to cap your framerate at 60, 30, 20, 15, 12 ... frames per second. Turning it off will show you the "true" framerate. It's found in the graphics option once you enabled the advance settings.

The GTX 670 is a relatively low power card for it's performance, nVidia finally got their power use under control. Outperforms all the GTX 5xx series cards except the dual GPU one. Only mildly slower than the GTX 680 but 20% cheaper.

Yes it is equivalent to the ending of Gunbuster for this game but I assume you play others as well.

Third Doctor, his first companion. Then came Jo Grant and then Sarah Jane.

Awww, he was such a great bad guy. He was the D-list Rutger Hauer of villains and I mean that with the utmost respect.

Need an actor who screen presence screams badguy and could do a faux German or Russian accent to be your heavy in your next relatively inexpensive action/horror movie, he was your man.

Face off with Chuck Norris at 50 paces with rocket launchers, oh yea baby.

RIP

Yes, you are pretty much stuck getting the same thing again unless you are lucky. The E8400 is a 65 watt, 3GHz CPU. The only way up from there with a dual core is the E8500 or E8600 which are also a 65 watt part.

As for quad cores, and power/heat is an issue, this limits you to the Q9xxxS series of quad cores. They are also rated at 65 watts but all of them run slower than 3GHz. The best would be the Q9550S which runs at 2.83GHz. Good luck finding one of them and if you do it won't be cheap.

Well there is one other possibility, it doesn't cost a lot and assuming the bios can grok it, the last versions of the Core 2 based Pentium Dual Core. They are "limited" Core 2 CPUs by messing with their memory performance by limiting the FSB to 1066MHz (vs 1333MHZ on the E8400) and only has 2MB of L2 cache (vs 6MB on the E8400). The Pentium Dual-Core E6800 is a 65watt, 3.33GHz part that may be able to give you close to the same performance you had for not a lot of money, because it isn't worth dropping several hundred dollars for keeping a Socket 775 system functioning.

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It makes sense. The prequel occurs years before the first Alien film on a different planet. It appears the Engineers had some hand in either "designing" the Xenomorph or was trying to tweak existing species into the ultimate biological weapon.

Since Alien itself had no pre-existing back story, the only thing that ties the two movies together is the crashed Engineer ship with the chest burst pilot. One can make the assumption that "the company" took the info from the Prometheus expedition and made it SOP to track down any Engineer signal if detected which is the reason why the crew was waken in Alien and told to investigate. It also appears that it's SOP to entrust the androids with other missions that the rest of the crew is unaware of.

I love all the "I reject your reality and insert my own" that some people are trying to do.

They are two different planets, two different systems.

Prometheus - 2089-2093 - LV-223
Alien - 2122 - LV-426
Aliens - 2179 - LV-426

Easiest thing to do flipside is to grab CPU-Z and it can tell you if your CPU is 64-bit compatible. Under the instructions line in the processor box of the CPU tab should list something like x86-64 (for an AMD CPU) or EM64T (for an Intel CPU) as one of the instruction sets it supports if your CPU can support 64-bit.

Just saw Korra. Yet another great episode.

Thundercats was alright but the twist made the episode.