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That's true for a subscalar CPU, without instruction level parallelism. Just about every modern CPU (even single-core CPUs) have ILP, which will at least bring them up to scalar level in the general case, barring pipeline stalls.

Superscalar design adds a dispatcher on top of the ILP, which, as the name suggests, improves upon the ILP of a scalar model. Superscalar isn't expecially new, either. The Intel P5 Pentium was superscalar for integer operations, and the P6 was superscalar for both integer and floating point operations. The P6 microarchitecture was introduced in 1995. The Intel Core microarchitecture is descended from the P6, and is the basis for most of the actively used Intel CPUs.

Multi-core processors simply add on top of the ILP. Essentially, multiple CPUs acting in concert as one, which increases simultaneous instruction processing even further. Of course, in all of the above, a poorly written instruction sequence can stall the whole operation regardless.

A friend of mine is doing research development on many-core processors, on the order of 40,000 cores (apparently, there's some government computer with approximately that many). A quick glance at Wikipedia says there's the Ambric Am2045 available on the market now, with 336 cores.

My computer only has 2.

Manos: the Hands of Fate, sans MST3K

I was going to recommend 12 Monkeys, also a great time-travel mind-bender. It's a bit over the length limit, at 127 minutes. (Actually, cutting off the last ~17 minutes and getting the students to write about it, and then showing the last ~17 later could be interesting, as the ending can totally change your perception of the story.)

A Beautiful Mind is another good one (unfortunately 135 minutes). The story also leaves you guessing until near the end (that is, unless you know the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr.).

I occasionally respond in /broadcast if I'm in a mission and the response deserves shouting.

I believe Tech is referring to the fact that the costume toggles replace your character with a critter's model, and said critters do walk, albeit not with our walk toggle animation.

Or a Rogue/Vigilante?

Rutabega?

I wouldn't complain about Leadership buffs, I use it all the time (and my Fortunata has all three Leadership toggles twice). RO would get even more ridiculous than before, too

But changing the Leadership toggles from teammate-only to ally-only doesn't make a very big difference. Maybe in the Rikti and Hami raids, and a few GM fights (Lusca comes to mind as common for multiple teams, and of course the Winter Lord), but beyond that it seems like a pointless change.

The thread was created because damage procs are no longer especially useful in PT. Due to a (now fixed) bug, damage procs in PT against a large group of enemies was, essentially a nuke.

PT summons a pseudopet when triggered by an enemy. So that the proc enhancements will work, the proc is passed to the new pseudopet. However, the bug was that PT summoned a gas cloud pseudopet for each enemy in range, instead of just summoning one. 16 critters in range, created 16 new pseudopets, each with multiple damage procs (was it 3 procs at the time?), plus all those enemies were held so they couldn't escape the next proc tick.

Now, PT always summons a single gas cloud, so damage procs are no longer so godly amazing in it.

Did you try checking Mastermind Pets.Thug Boss.Fury, Mastermind Pets.Thug Boss.Fury Buff, and Mastermind Pets. Thug Boss.Rage Dampen? That's the Bruiser's version of Fury.

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Never expect a Mids' release before the patch/issue reaches the Live servers.

There is no Forum Cartel. It is not cunningly concealed among the apparently carefee forumgoing socialites of CoX, its trolls and lurkers. No one would suggest that its members have a political agenda within and beyond the forum. Nor would anyone believe, should it be whispered, that the Forum Cartel collects vast sums of money and favors in order to further the goals that it doesn't have. Moreover, an organization that does not exist certainly cannot have the influence or talent pool to develop its own subtle, social martial arts style.

Conversation Judo does not combine common, everyday movements with potent manipulations of internet tempers and stress veins in a devastating and nearly invisible manner. It isn't one of the Forum Cartel's many sources of secret power. It never sees use at the discussions, arguments, and flame wars of the forumites. People to not /quit from it, occasionally silently and occasionally ranting, days or weeks after not encountering it.

Yeah, even for players not using the market, that area is a redside hub since the mid-upper level ferry is there, and the university is there. The zone also has the lower level ferry, the black helicopter, and access to Bloody Bay.

In 13 years, NCSoft has shut down a grand total of 4 boxed games (not sure about their webgame stats): Auto Assault in 2007, Tabula Rasa in 2009, Dungeon Runners in January, and Exteel (which isn't even an MMO) just a few weeks ago.

And honestly, if you had followed the development cycle and launch of Tabula Rasa, you shouldn't be surprised in the least. Lineage, now 12 years old, is still running.

True, resolving the issue with zoning would remove that argument. But it's a fundamental flaw in the way zoning works that the game loses track of who cast what; not something easy to fix. Even Mastermind pets, which in theory have circumvented this problem, still bug out and lose track of who their master is. And they have a much closer tie to their original caster than ally buffs do.

A given effect can be enhanced for either magnitude or duration. IIRC, the choice between the two is made by the effect definition, not the enhancement. In other words, Castle could in theory modify Char such that a Hold enhancement increased its magnitude, while all other hold powers merely had duration increases as they currently do.

In short: you can't have a defense magnitude enhancement and a defense duration enhancement. The powers system doesn't allow for it.

The only alternative I can think of would be to make two defense effects; one allows magnitude enhancement and the other allows duration enhancement. With 56% enhancement, that would get you 1.28x the base defense value for the base duration, and then 0.5x the base defense value for 0.56x the base duration.

In a roundabout way, yes. The power suppression areas put you in Disable_All mode (much like Vengeance puts you in Vengeance mode, flashback/TF restrictions can put you in Disable_Temps mode, Bright Nova puts you in Peacebringer_Blaster_Mode, etc.). Walk also puts you in Disable_All mode. If Walk were disallowed in Disable_All mode, Walk would shut itself off instantly.

As a lefty, I've learned to use right-handed mice with my right hand since I first started using computers

I first fought Protean with an Inv/SS Tanker... I didn't realize there was anything special about him. Yeah, some words popped up on my screen, but then nothing seemed to change in the fight except some flashy lights, so I kept pounding him.