Father Xmas

It's taken some time but JJ Abrams Micronauts movie now has writers. No idea if it's going to be animated or live action.

The upside is the writers are the ones who did Zombieland and are also looking to do a Zombieland based 1/2 hour comedy for TV.

Now you got me wanting to look for my copies of Ogre and G.E.V..

Take a look at my $725 link (currently $675 and change due to "instant savings") and lose the parts you already have. Case and PSU is $130, Win 7 OEM disk is $100. That gets you pretty close to $400.

AnandTech's benchmark database can give you a reasonable idea about CPU performance compared to your current system (they are using a GTX 280 in their gaming tests, which is slower than a 1GB GTX 460).

So far I've only had the usual mishap with faces on some of my characters, standard head model. It seems every time they revamp the character creator it messes up some of the faces. Good thing I have like 50+ free costume tokens on those characters or I'll have to solo an hour to make up that Inf.

I've found posting through a proxy is a problem.

Okay you have an Earthwatts 500 watt PSU so a 1GB GTX 460 won't be a problem. It can handle up to 444 watts at 12 volts. The reason I ask is that older designed power supplies don't skew their output to 12 volts like modern PSUs. The 12 volt part of the supply feeds both the CPU and the video card (which is 95% of 12 volt wattage used in most systems).

For instance the cheapest 500 watt PSU at NewEgg can only put out 240 watts at 12 volts. You can still find these is lesser cases. That's why most graphics cards have a minimum power supply wattage and a minimum number of amps at 12 volts requirement.

DC is the current publisher of Space Ghost. Makes it a valid crossover.

I believe both the Launcher and CoHHelper uses .NET 2.0 framework. That might be the problem, part of it may be corrupted.

Just tossing it out there as an idea.

Plus the Zombie Talk (okay Talking Dead) at midnight EDT after the 1st repeat showing at 10:30p. Also marathon of last season starting at 2:30p.

So new episode "tonight" at 9p, 10:30p, 12:30a and 4:30a with Talking Dead at 12a and 2a (all times EDT).

Or since they haven't been selling them since Auto Assault was closed, five years ago, they've finally gone an invalided all those old serial numbers.

The GTX 460 is rated at 160 watts. Since we don't know the details about GP's power supply it may be a gamble. That's the reason I suggested only the GTX 550Ti which is rated as using around the same amount of power as his current card, a 9800GT.

I'm like you. The first thing I do after a patch is applied is to do a verify/repair. And it sort of bothered me that it reruns the verify. The flag that was used in the past was a register entry, this isn't the case anymore.

It happens because the launcher sees the patch file in the game folder. When it runs the verify, it deletes the patch file(s). The verify/repair does download a small patch file likely consisting of the checksums of the current client version to verify against.

If you delete the patch file(s) (.ncpatch) before launching the game but after you manually verified, you won't trigger the verify.

So now we have Peter back in a world(s) where he died as a child but having the memories of how things were.

And here I thought the universe only had a grudge with Jack and Allison's relationship.

And what? Connor's apparent job is simply to tank for the team and keep taking blows to the head. You go with your strengths.

The last dream I can remember, that I can talk about here , had me and a friend of mine pulling a heist at a department store in Japan. I have no idea what neurons fired to come up with that scenario.

Most of my flying dreams had me in a flying vehicle of some kind, near space capable.

The I Win Button power, only 1 billion paragon points.

I believe that's the category for NPC costume powers like the temporary ones we get at Halloween but you have access to them permanently. Last I heard they were pulled from the market, maybe they had a conflict with the Halloween versions.

I always thought it was funny that we can stop criminals with a non-lethal version of a flamethrower.

We can't car or blimp surf. We can't ride in a moving boat. The Rocketboard acts as a costume part and not an independent object we are standing on.

Because of that your character is stuck in a non standard stance, turned at the hips relative to your shoulders and head. Because of that neither of the starting stances for an attack animation is attainable. It's not the same as Power Slide, which is simply yet another Sprint, because you don't shift back into a neutral stance when you stop moving.

Now an idea, not knowing anything about how their animations work, to have you square your hips with your shoulders when you stop moving so you are now facing in the same direct as your feet, with the board perpendicular to you, which would put you into the normal on the ground stance. Still attacks that use the legs would look silly.

My last token arrived in September when I expected it, the same day I got Vet Badges before Freedom. I expect my next one when that day arrives in October.

Generator Rex - meh Come on, the "party when the folks are away" was old when Tom Cruise did it in Risky Business.

Young Justice - Great episode. Yes the Joker was oddly restrained compared to his usual portrayal. Loved Artemis's naked line. Plan B rocked. I also enjoyed all the cameos of the League including Guy and Plastic Man.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold - YES, Space Ghost and Batman. Fun opening story for us old folks who use to watch Space Ghost on Saturday mornings. Main story did have some good parts like the old Batmobile and Batman outfit and "classic" Aquaman.

Ben 10 - missed the 2nd half, I'll catch it tomorrow. But the Gwen-10 was funny.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - normally miss it for Nikita so I'll catch it tomorrow as well.

Well to be fair to that emcee, if you look through the additional material on the first Iron-man DVD the villain sketches of what became Ironmonger were labeled Crimson Dynamo.

Then in the second movie they sort of merged Crimson Dynamo with Whiplash, muddying the issue further.

I was thinking about that myself (it's been a while since I designed a rig around Socket 775). But in the case of 4, 1GB DIMMs he could go to 6GB if he swapped a pair of 1GB DIMMs for a pair of 2GB ones. Still would need to use something like CPU-Z or check in the BIOS to find out what he currently has and what the DRAM settings are so he can buy a pair that match speed and timings.

But like I said, I don't he'll see much of an improvement by adding memory. Now if he is stuck with a 32-bit OS (not sure) he isn't seeing all the memory he currently has installed so going to 64-bit Win 7 would allow all 4GB he currently has to be used.

When this happen to me it was because my firewall wasn't letting the game talk to the login server (it was right after a patch). Giving the Firewall my OK fixed the problem for me.