Father Xmas

Actually no.

You still regen the same percentage per tick. The value per tick has increased due to your extra HP but your regen rate, the time between healing ticks, hasn't changed.

Regen simply reduces the time between healing ticks. It doesn't care how much HP you have.

Saw this yesterday as well. Puzzled why it wasn't promoted.

Could do without the "evil testicle" caption on the picture. I blame the hip sarcastic spin that today's youth expect in their reviews.

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. - Kirk, Shore Leave

I chalk it YJ absence due to the Holliday season.

This Friday we have an hour of Lego commercials followed by a Batman: BatB repeat, a new Ben 10, a new Star Wars and a Thundercats repeat.

I've only heard buzzing due to my cell phone being to close.

"I have mail order degrees in murderology and murderonomy" - Zoidberg

Batman Comfy Throw Blanket With Sleeves

They also have Wonder Woman and Superman versions.

Amazon

Interesting theory at Cracked.

My only problem with XP 64bit was limited driver support from manufacturers.

There's Jekyll/Hyde and other mad science themes. Gender Bending ala Ranma or Birdy the Mighty assuming of course you have the super tailor. Heck Ultraman time shares a body usually while on Earth.

Well the Martial Arts (Natural) Super Booster Pack appeared at the store for this Black Friday weekend for only 400 PP. That includes all the costume parts, emotes, costume change emotes and Ninja Run for just the cost of the costume set.

I assume since they've done this that at some point the other Super Booster Packs will appear from time to time for special occasions. Maybe something like the Wedding Pack for Valentines event.

Well in EVE a similar amount of real money was destroyed in battle.

I'm assuming the OP is looking to install Win 7 64-bit so they can access all the memory they installed in the system already, in the case of 4GB, adding a 1GB video card, or is looking to expand his memory beyond 4GB.

Since more system memory is always a good thing and can reduce the need to "simulate" additional memory with the swap file on the hard drive. In that case it can improve performance.

Bite the bullet, buy a tube of blank DVDs and start backing up all the stuff you want to keep. You will want to reinstall any programs so the new Windows registry is built correctly but you will at least have a copy of all your data.

Well it's not a problem as long as you don't upgrade from one of the known working drivers. Safe AMD/ATI drivers list.

But since games sell expensive video cards, it has become more important to optimize graphics drivers for every high profile game that comes to market instead of writing a stable, consistent driver that would force the optimizations to be done by game developers instead of the graphics card manufacturers. But NO.

It would be like insisting a compiler company should modify their compiler to make your poorly designed code run faster (because a big chunk of the graphics driver is actually just a compiler for shaders and that's what gets tweaked for high profile games).

After all, it's not like someone would play a seven year old game now, right?

Obviously someone boosted the thread's priority.

A long time ago, like the mid 70s when I was in 8th grade, I went on a school sponsored week long field trip to at the time the Bermuda Biological Station (now the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences or BIOS) to get exposed to marine biology. One of the things we did every day would be to go out, collect specimens, bring them back, study them (sketch, write up your observations) and release them back in a day or two.

One of our teachers snagged an octopus, main body no bigger than your fist, arm span of about two, two and half feet, for us to observe.

Now to do our work we had to remove the specimen from it's tank and put it in a smaller "fish bowl" for lack of a better description so we could bring it to our work area. Now it didn't object to the move to the much smaller tank however when I tried to put it back, well it had 6 more arms than I had and snagged the rim of the tank with a couple of it's tentacles. When I peeled them off would snag the rim with a couple of the ones I wasn't removing, rinse, repeat. It turned into a sitcom sketch.

I learned two things; one, they are stronger than they look and two, the main body feels like a bag of Jello. Now since I didn't want to hurt it by squeezing the body too hard it nearly escaped once it got four or five arms out of the tank, until a couple of my classmates helped getting ahead of it's tentacle deployment so we could get all of it back into it's tank and get the cover with blocks onto the tank.

Oh and by blocks I mean cinder blocks, three of them. Our teachers learned in previous years that an octopus of that size could shift the cover enough to escape when only two cinder blocks were used.

Best Buy tends to stock time cards for the holidays. They might stock game cards ($20, activate at checkout) year round but considering the BBs near me have rearranged their stores three times since last holiday season, that section may have been removed to make more space for cell phones and Blu-ray movies.

Passing of a Grand Master of Science Fiction is always a loss for the genre and it's readers.

That leaves Ursala Le Guin as the last living female Grand Master.

RIP

Well I would look at boutique computer shops like CyberPowerPC, iBUYPOWER, Puget Systems ... can't think of any others off hand but there are a number. They basically have a list of parts you can choose from in each category (CPU, Motherboard, Video Card, Power Supply, etc).

$2000 will buy you a very nice system.

As for what parts, depends on the other games you play.

Personally I would build a system around the Intel i5-2500K and a GTX 570. Throw in 8GB of DDR-1600, CAS 8 memory, and a motherboard that uses the Intel Z68 chipset. It's up to you if you want a motherboard that has two actual graphic card slots (two x8 not one x16 and one x4) and whether those slots can handle SLi (nVidia's multiple video card standard) and CrossfireX (ATI/AMD's standard) or just CrossfireX.

Those are the guts. Then couple that with a hard drive (note hard drive prices are now insane due to the Thailand flooding), an optical drive, a case with reasonable cooling and a descent quality power supply (too many people go cheap here, bad move). Then off course top the whole thing off with Windows 7 64-bit.

Optional doodads include better CPU cooling, a Solid State Drive (SSD) either as your primary drive or as a cache drive for the main hard drive (Intel driver + Z68 chipset gives you this) and a sound card if you haven't blasted out your hearing with ear buds.

Give them the ability to make dozens of characters, some with new ATs and powersets, and then take it away.

Muhuahuahua!

That should teach them to subscribe.

I do have a couple of characters with the axe. It's my ghost close encounter weapon for characters whose normal powers don't work well against ghosts. Most have Sands of Mu.

Either power works a lot better if you have some kind of global To Hit power active.

My ice tanker is in a powersuit originally designed for fire/rescue (it has a hard light hologram of Santa to disguise the origin of the powersuit, he initially swiped it). The ice swords (I'm ice melee as well) are a reconfigured Halligan Bar the suit can generate on the fly. It's also why I've taken the Medicine Pool as well.

I have one costume slot of the suit with the hologram off.

Anyone else thought "Hey, it's the Scottish Mulan". Well not quite but there are so few western animated films where the girl is willing to fight convention and kick butt.

Finally got around to watch SW:CW and Thundercats. Liked both. And I agree on the cute/awkward Cheetara and Tygra.