Father Xmas

I didn't recommend that Gigabyte motherboard. It just sounded like someone thought you were "misinformed/crazy" when you asked if the SSD attaches directly to the motherboard so I was just pointing one out with a mSATA connector for SSD to show such a thing exist.

That Asus motherboard is just fine, sorry for the confusion.

They announced that they are scheduled to do maintenance on the forums Thursday.

Wonder if the NCSoft's crack IT department thought it was scheduled to start Thursday relative to Korea?

The Japanese live action Death Note is a two part movie that simplified the plot some.

I'm more interested in the Death Note adaptation. Bleach suffers from the same problem as GI Joe, Transformers, Dragonball, A:tLAB and X-Men, too many fan favorite characters/moments/mecha that someone would try to stick too much of it into a too short of a film.

Death Note is both easier in concept (write in book, person dies) and overall plot (Light Vs L). I've been following Bleach on AS and just got to episode 240 something. Trying to explain the series and the huge cast of characters to someone who never seen it is nigh impossible to do with glossing over a whole lot.

It's starting to remind of the ol' pull start lawnmower in my youth. I think it took 7 reloads to get this thread to come up.

Exit the game, exit the launcher. Make sure that both the game and NCLauncher isn't running by checking the processes in the task manager. If neither are running then start the launcher up again but don't run the game, just download it.

Well I give a thumbs up on the Studio Ghibli adaptation of the classic story The Borrowers that started last Friday, The Secret World of Arrietty. Even though it's not directed by Hayao Miyazaki, he did help write the adaptation.

Of course all the diehard Ghibli fans have seen it already but for those who haven't yet, it's good. Not as great as Totoro or Kiki IMO but still very enjoyable.

Actually I think super packs may actually improve the sale of standalone consumables because you end up trying them, since they get dropped on you, and players may now consider spending points on them now that they see their usefulness where before a player my have been hesitant to spend the points on X of something when they didn't know its usefulness.

I didn't have a problem with Rick and Company returning the next morning for all the reasons Dark mentioned. Its just the seemingly sudden nightfall in both Rick's and Lori's plots.

Well considering the Black Wolf Pet has a 1 in 333 chance (Zwill's tables) and that there is only on average 0.79 Very Rare cards per pack (ParagonWiki based on Arcanaville's Beta test) that there is only a 50% chance after opening roughly 290 packs (230 very rare cards).

Of course as you get the three VR costume pieces the odds change significantly to 1 in 192. At that point you have a 50% chance in only 168 packs (133 very rare cards).

Something I forgot to mention last week. I'm not sure if it was a local commercial or a national one but during The Walking Dead first showing I saw an ad for this.

Back then it was simply getting the game out, level 50 was always in the cards. Issue 1 bumped it on the CoH side, Issue 7 bumped it on the CoV side.

Yes I mean sun setting. I thought it was still bright in the bar during last weeks encounter with the two guys. Suddenly it's dark outside and they are hiding. Why hang around the place after wasting those two long enough so their friends show up after dark?

Lori hit the walker in broad daylight, which doesn't really do a whole lot to the walker, but now it's dark and the walker was polite enough not to attack until Lori was on the verge of waking up, long enough to get dark?

Speaking of ninjitsu, saw this picture earlier today on Reuters. 3000-3500 women in Iran training in ninjitsu?? Does the US have a ninja gap in the Middle East??

Funny, the arena use to sidekick/exemplar way back when.

Thing was Ridia when the Arena was introduced back in Issue 4, along with Japanese schoolgirls, it was very much a rock/paper/scissors game and if you were the scissors to another player's rock, well you lost everytime. Same was true if you were a melee character fighting a ranged character and they had a faster travel power. Team play was better but a team of hovering blasters on an outdoor map Vs a team of earthbound scrappers still would be very one sided. But for me that was OK. I remember fondly playing my Ice Tank to a draw Vs a regen scrapper or sniping with my teleporting energy blaster until I ran out of endurance.

They introduced the PvP zones with CoV came out. That was when casual PvP became a thing of the past and the worst came out in some players. It's all fun and games until you couldn't get to the zone exit because one or more PvP players simply wouldn't let you go from the hospital to the exit without ganking you. Then they complain on the forums that nobody would play with them.

It's also true that after repeated tweaks to powers in PvP Vs PvE, the devs tried to rebalance the whole shebang to the point that the powers were unrecognizable compared to PvE and for those who finally figured out how to equip and play a PvP character suddenly had to start back at the beginning, relearning how to play.

Who wants to bet Hershel was a Vietnam war veteran?

Is it me or did it get dark awful quick relative to last episode?

Yes, that should work.

I'm guessing you meant $50-250.

With such a small budget I would recommend what you asked for in the first place, an upgraded PSU that can support a modern video card.

Newchemicals has a pretty nice pick of parts in that regard. While the overall maximum wattage is less than the generic PSU you currently have, the Antec ECO 400C likely has significantly more power available at 12 volts (360 watts). That's important because the two biggest consumers of 12 volts is the CPU and the video card.

Edit: Here is another choice for PSU, Corsair CX430 V2.

Upgrading you CPU is quickly becoming impossible as it appears that the rumors of AMD EOLing (end of life) socket AM3 CPUs for the socket FM1 Fusion CPUs and the socket AM3+ FX series, neither will work in a socket AM2+ motherboard. The cheapest AM3 CPU at NewEgg is the 3.3GHz Athlon II X3 455 for $80. Upgrading the CPU, while 50% faster and has a third core, isn't going to give you anywhere near as much bang as the video card but could be considered as an additional upgrade after the PSU and video card if you have the money. Just don't forget to upgrade the BIOS first before a CPU swap.

As for memory, DDR2 is dead in PCs. You have 4GB and a 64-bit OS, you should be able to live with that just fine. The cost of another 4GB (2GBx2) DDR2-800 (guessing here) is around $50 at NewEgg. It'll buy you zero performance improvement unless you are running so much other stuff while playing you are running out of the 4GB of physical memory you currently have.

As for the pointlessness of 3D or overt catering to it in movies, I finally got around to seeing on DVD the mocap/cgi A Christmas Carol from a couple of years ago. Boy did that have scene after scene of pointless in your face 3D (SCTV Count Floyd 3D - OOO, SCARY!) as if the movie was part of a theme park's 3D motion ride.

Well localized gating of content due to local moral and social dogmas is expected, sadly.

For instance I wouldn't expect The Walking Dead to be available in mainland China (based on changes to WoW that was mandated by the Government).

Both megaplexs "near" me have GR in both 3D and 2D.