Father Xmas

Eureka was very silly as the town went from reality, to CGI, to 60's style cartoon, to claymation ...

Warehouse 13 was their take of "It's a Wonderful Life" since that's what the artifact happen to be related to.

Haven, not as fun loving as Eureka and Warehouse but Haven isn't that kind of show.

All of these episodes, like last year's Christmas specials, are very much standalone relative to the season ending/mid-season cliff hangers.

Sorry, can't fix it today due to ... ah ... solar flares.

Sorry, I meant the opening credits that Wolf_Spyder linked when he necroed this thread.

As for the random clips sneak that the actual OP linked to, well it might be a case of art imitating art. Since this editing style is now popular in movies (quick cuts, tight shots, shaky cam), it gets reproduced for an animated feature.

Or it could simply be a case of totally random action scenes edited together. We'll see when the series starts.

I don't mind CyberPowerPC's select of parts. I do mind some of their default choices and their "acme" power supply. Also I noticed while investigating for someone that prices at CyberPowerPC can vary by a noticeable bit depending on which of their dozen or so configurators you start with.

It should be noted that hard drive prices have gone up through the roof due to the flooding in Thailand (something like 55% of Western Digital's hard drives are made there). The $45, 500GB drive that I use in my low end build has gone from $40 in August to $115 today. The 1TB drive that I had used in my high end rig has gone from $90 to $250.

You think parents waiting at the end of driveways are bad, heck the buses go door to door nowadays.

I walked home from elementary school starting when I was 8 or 9. We're talking 1/2 a mile or so, all in 60s style suburbia (1/2 acre lots, not the postage stamp size lots of today).

If you don't let kids experience life through outdoor play, let them do dumb things are learn from their mistakes, then you get idiots. Down side is you are going to lose a few.

I played in the woods and empty lots, explored storm sewers, capture snakes with my hands, play in rusty hulks of old abandon cars (you get cut, you go get a tetanus shot which actually hurts more so you learn not to get cut). So did everyone I knew back then, at least the boys. Didn't know many tomboys.

As for abducted by strangers the numbers are extremely low. Only 115 in the US during 1999 (first stat I found Googling). A little less than one every three days which is why you may hear about it frequently. But it's out of around 72 million children back then.

Yes, during a ZA or a Red Dawn situation I would be hesitant in letting them stray to far out of sight for to long but today? Go have fun, be home for dinner, call if you are going to be late.

The 1985 era was all about selling toys. True with He-Man, true with Transformers, true with G.I. Joe. Thundercats and SilverHawks were just a year or two newer franchises. New season = new characters and/or equipment = new product in stores.

Then the FCC or someone tried to shut down the whole "toy tie in" but agreed to PSAs tacked on at the end of episodes ("Knowing is ..."). Personally I like how that idea was parodied in the 90s ("Wheel of Morality Turn Turn Turn...").

It wasn't particularly shaky for me. When they showed Earth bending there was some shaking of course and the shockwave from Air Bending but the other two didn't shake at all. I think the rest of the "stuttering" of the opening was just poor encoding or capture.

Adding more system memory isn't going to really make a difference in performance.

Another way of looking at it.

You have two characters, one with 1000HP, one with 1200HP. Both are down 500HP. The one with the higher max HP will regen that 500HP because the amount of HP per regen tick will be higher. However if both characters are down to 1HP, it will take the same amount of time.

Now if the character with 1000HP had 20% improvement to their regen, he would recover that 500HP in the same amount of time as they character with 1200HP. Also he would go from 1 to max HP in less time than the character with 1200HP.

At a lower resolution with minimum UM settings perhaps, but definitely not at 1920x1080.

Laptop GPUs that share the same name as a desktop one are actually less powerful than the desktop version. Tom's Hardware has the Mobility HD 5650 in the same tier/bin as the desktop HD 5570 (DDR3).

Besides the cost of the power set it looks like they are also readying an additional four Titan Weapons for purchase as a set.

CoH, red headed step child again.

CoH store problems pre Freedom, well the store is NCSoft's web guys, nothing that Paragon Studios can help with.

Server status page on the website being fixed, well that's NCSoft's web guys department, nothing that Paragon Studios can do.

Paragon Points, transfer token and Paragon Reward token comes at different times, original idea of getting all your tokens up front when you pay your subscription couldn't be done when Freedom rolled out. Well billing and those issues are NCSoft's domain, nothing that Paragon Studios can do.

Forum software, at least hero skin, goes all wonky. Well fixing that is NCSoft's job ...

See a pattern?

It's like renting a building for your store but the parking lot has enormous pot holes and the parking lot lights are all burned out except one furthest away from your front door and the heating system isn't working quite right. But all of that is your landlord's responsibility but it makes your store look bad.

Not even cable repairmen are this bad anymore when it comes to scheduling.

Not on Friday night this week due to some filler movie. It will be on next Thursday the 8th at 10p EST as an experiment as well as it's regular time with another new episode in it's original slot Friday the 9th at 9p EST.

NBC right now is flailing about trying to improve their ratings with the few somewhat successful shows they have, Grimm being one of them, so they are trying different slots.

Fugi aka Fushigi Yuugi. Translation - The Mysterious Play.

Some think Miaka is the most undeserving anime heroine of all time.

Okay, not a great example but you understand my point. One on One PvP doesn't need to be balance so any AT, any combo of power sets, can win half their matches.

The last round of PvP changes altered powers and effects to such an extent that everyone might as well play the same generic character. Of course that's before you take into account players with purpled out characters.

There is an easy fix. I'm sure someone who remembers the exact bind command will be by to tell you.

Edit: Found it.

/bind mousechord +forward

I actually thought it was cooler because it looked like it had a hood which I assumed would be cowl like.

In print game mags can't compete with online game mags. Who wants to read a review of a game that's been out already for two months or a review of a prerelease version that's woefully inaccurate.

Most of the cookies are still to end of session but there are two that are 24 hours.

I liked it when it was Rock/Paper/Scissors.

When they first introduced it in Issue 4 with the Arenas people weren't pleased with;

Travel powers used in combat. Tough to fight someone with Super Speed if they won't get within range of your melee attacks except in passing. Characters with Fly were penalized when they used their travel power.

Mez powers. Not really a fun fight if you are immobilized during the bulk of it by a controller who was use to locking down entire rooms.

Tank Vs Scrapper fights were more about endurance battles since either side couldn't damage the other enough to matter.

Sometimes it was fun, sometimes you felt like the pudgy kid in dodgeball. But this was in a somewhat controlled venue. When Issue 6 came out and we had PvP zones, well then it became the classic gank fest of many on one/few.

Balance is overrated. Someone with a Defender will always have a tough time versus a Scrapper or a Brute. I would never expect the Invisible Woman to take on the Hulk and win as often as she lost.