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Yes and no. He did die, but when the little girl asks the Oracle if they'll ever see him again, the Oracle says that she believes they will. It makes sense, in the continuity of the Matrix. He's already died and returned once; he more fully integrated the machine code which was implanted in him (re: Architect's comment about "given certain abilities") than had any previous incarnation of The One, as evidenced by his Matrix-like powers in the real world; and he was directly connected to the machines and the Matrix during his final battle with Agent Smith, which would have permitted the machines to "download" his mind, and possibly his consciousness (if Agent Smith can upload himself to a real body, then there's no reason Neo's mind couldn't be copied, stored or uploaded to another body in a similar fashion).

Some Matrix fans also postulate that the "real world" was just another level of the Matrix, an illusion beyond the illusion. If that were the case, Neo could still be alive, but in yet another illusory reality, or perhaps even completely disconnected from the Matrix and in the real real world.

I'll be keeping my eye on this. The Matrix was the film that changed how, and why, I watch movies, so I'm always keen to see news about it.

I have it, but I haven't taken the opportunity to test it properly yet. It's slotted in Health on my TA/Dark, but I'm also using the Cardiac Uncommon boost, so it's extremely difficult to tell whether it's actually making any difference.

I'll put it on my list of things to test, but it won't be right away. I'm having trouble getting Hero tips to drop for a rogue corruptor (averaging one tip for every 1000+ defeats), and until I figure it out, I'm focused on that problem.

Not from the explosion, but from the accompanying shock wave which accelerates particles to such a degree that they become cosmic rays (Fermi acceleration). The supernova ejecta itself would take so long to reach Earth that... well, matter expelled from a supernova travels at approximately 10% of the speed of light, so it would take over a decade for every light year of distance traveled (presuming no energy is lost or dissipated, which is unrealistic, but not something i know enough about to even attempt to factor). At a distance of 30 light years, you're looking at a minimum 322 years before the ejecta reached Earth. Even Proxima Centauri, if it were to blow right now, wouldn't "hit" us with material until ~41 years later, at the earliest.

Look at the Crab Nebula. In nearly 1000 years, ejecta has traveled less than 6 light years (11 light year diameter).

For cosmic radiation, as I said previously, where the responsible star goes supernova is less relevant than a host of other things, such as particle density or energy. If the source is visible, meaning the light has traveled far enough to reach Earth, then the cosmic rays are either also already at Earth, or they'll be there very shortly (on a universal time scale, of course).

I'm not putting any stock into the 30 light year guesstimate in that article. Matter from a supernova wouldn't be of any concern to us for so long that we'd find a solution, if one was necessary or possible, before it arrived, and cosmic radiation would be unavoidable regardless of how far away the source was.

The closest star to ours is 4.3 light years away, but if it went supernova right now, it wouldn't affect Earth at all for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, unless a gamma ray burst happened to directly hit the planet.

If we dodge the GRB, then in a few hundred or thousand years, the shock wave and particulate matter from that star might intersect Earth's orbit, at which point it might nudge the planet into a different orbit, or it might simply dump more stellar dust than normal into the atmosphere, or it might have no effect at all. Since we've never actually witnessed the effects of supernovae on planetary bodies, at any distance, anywhere, we really have no way at all of knowing what, if anything, would happen.

But it's really the GRB that you'd have to be worried about, not a physical impact or interstellar fires. Gamma rays travel at the speed of light, so by the time you were aware of a GRB, it would already be here. Your skin wouldn't melt off, the oceans wouldn't boil away and the planet wouldn't be in any danger of suddenly exploding. Instead, the ozone layer would be strongly affected, depleted and thinned to such a degree that skin cancer rates would rise world-wide. Some species of plants and animals would be at risk of extinction, due to lack of tolerance or adaptability to higher UV levels. Smog and acid rain would increase as well, which also holds the potential to drive some species to extinction. And since some of those species which could disappear are directly linked to food sources used by humans and domesticated animals, starvation and hunger issues could rise significantly.

GRBs also emit very, very, very energetic particles, referred to as cosmic rays, which travel at nearly the same speed as gamma rays and light, and could penetrate our magnetosphere and contaminate living organisms (leading to radiation poisoning) and compound the atmospheric problems caused by the GRB itself, if it were relatively "close". But realistically, we don't actually know how close "close" is, or how much cosmic ray particulate GRBs generate, or how dense cosmic rays would have to be to overwhelm or penetrate our magnetosphere, or how cohesive they'd be over any given distance, or even if they'd follow the same path as the GRB. In fact, cosmic rays already rain down on our planet from all over the place (and are currently thought to be remnants of ancient supernovae), but they're mostly deflected by the magnetic field.

Even then, that's only under "ideal" circumstances. A GRB can emit as much energy in a fraction of a second as our sun can in its entire lifetime (10,000,000,000 years), and GRBs aren't actually infrequent events (they've become one of the best indicators of supernova activity and are a valuable tool for studying the universe), but in order for one to affect us that profoundly, it would have to be incredibly focused, so narrow as to equate to an interstellar laser (even that isn't really exact enough to explain how tightly focused the GRB would have to be, because even those apparently perfectly composed beams of light diffuse over distance). It would be like... shooting an arrow from the moon and hitting a bacterium on Earth. A GRB, and very likely the corresponding cosmic rays, would have to be that precise to affect us.

So essentially, the only answer your question is to say that distance isn't a factor. A star 10,000,000,000,000 light years away might have gone supernova and released a GRB aimed at Earth 9,999,999,999,999 years ago, and the effect would be the same as if that star 4.3 light years away went supernova 3.3 years ago. The supernova itself won't be what puts us at risk of extermination, it would be the GRB and corresponding cosmic rays, which aren't predictable and leave us no time or method of preparation.

The only star you really have to worry about exploding and destroying the planet is ours, Sol. And that's not going to happen. In a few billion years, the sun will enter its red giant phase, at which time Earth will be enveloped, charred to a cinder and consumed by the sun, leaving nothing to blow up dramatically.

No pouches on the helmet or boots, and Cap isn't sporting a rack that would make porn queens jealous. Clearly not inspired by Liefeld.

That's it. That's what I kept trying to dig out of my brain. The helmet. It's a paratrooper helmet with an integrated eyepiece added.

Hm... I can get one for about $30...

Oh come on. Anyone can mix up their booby trap manual with the cookbook. No-one really died... CPR was administered, the longest anyone was "technically dead" was 3:51.

Honestly, I don't know how these rumors get started. It's not like people end up hospitalized and missing limbs every time I decide to throw a little soiree.

It's because it was a drama/mystery/thriller. There were no plans for a sequel when it was in production. Paul Greengrass directed the second and third films after Doug Liman decided not to return to the chair for sequels (he did remain on as a consultant and producer... thankfully). The action in Identity was an outgrowth of the story, a means of exploring the character and motivations of Jason Bourne, as opposed to a plot being glued on to a bunch of gunfights and explosions.

Supremacy and Ultimatum, those are action films. Greengrass didn't direct true sequels, he just mimicked what Liman did in Identity, created as formulaic a copy as he could and stuck to it. Especially for action sequences. I'm not saying that they're bad. I am saying that Greengrass missed something, perhaps a lot of somethings, when he tried to duplicate Liman's work as closely as possible.

Who owned the company 13-15 months ago?

I'm repeating what the lead animator, who knew the animation systems better than anyone else, including you or the OP, posted after spending quite a bit of time trying to find ways to eliminate redraw.

None of this is secret or hidden information. Do the legwork, find the posts and read them yourself.

Indeed.

This horse was buried when BAB made it clear that he couldn't remove redraw without adding all of the necessary animations or completely redesigning that system, either of which would entail an enormous investment of time and resources, and in the case of animations, additional HDD space, memory and processing power. The developers may have it on their wish list, but it's not happening now, it's not happening in the foreseeable future and unless a developer decides to announce that they're working on it, it's best to assume that it's never going to happen.

My main is a TA/Dark/Dark defender. The majority of my characters use TA or Archery. I've been playing TA and Archery characters, with mixed weaponless powersets, since I6. I say that it's easy to minimize or negate redraw time because it is easy.

I have eight or nine spares somewhere around here. I'll dig one out, clean off the fur and ship it right out. Or I can leave the fur on it, if you like. It's Maine Coon! There will be a small additional furcharge, of course.

Be aware, though, that we use real snails for snail-mail in the Lumiverse, none of those fake, two legged poseurs that you people make do with in "reality". So don't expect it before the 21st.

October 21st.

2148.

Why would you want coffee to mug you? I mean, I can arrange that, but... *shrug* your call.

Not happening. If you want your boss to have sexy dreams, you do the forbidden dance.

Done. Congratulations on your promotion to dishwasher. I should warn you, your new employer will say things like, "You can't sharpen stainless steel knives", "You freeze to death instantly in space", and my personal favorite, "You can't say OJ in the restaurant business. A rock star patented it".

I hope you have the patience of a saint.

Various toggles don't force redraw. My bow stays out when I turn on Oppressive Gloom, and the Nemesis Staff isn't shoved back into hammerspace when toggling on Radiation Infection and Enervating Field with my Rad/Energy defender (which is actually really nifty). These aren't cases of specific powers being coded with extra animations, those animations don't actually exist. The powers just aren't referencing the sequencer which despawns the weapons. It's may be a bug or it may be an intentional byproduct of the changes made to toggles (rooting was removed for many) some time back.

Almost all attacks which use real world weapons have accuracy bonuses. Elemental weapons, like Stone Mallet or Fire Sword, don't (per BAB or Castle, i forget which, this is deliberate because those weapons have no redraw time). Some temporary powers which use weapons, like the Nemesis Staff, don't (also deliberate, to ensure that they're not directly comparable to similar powers). Some powers which deal damage and use real world weapons, like Acid Arrow and Rain of Arrows, don't (annoying, but deliberate (Acid Arrow) or too much hassle to fix (RoA)). But in general, weapon-based attacks do have accuracy bonuses (the amount of the bonus is dependent on the type of weapon), and they were originally intended as compensation for the redraw time. In the current state of the game, those accuracy bonuses don't make a significant difference, but it's traditional at this point so the trend is likely to continue for future weapon sets.

You can get healing badge credit by placing the Panacea proc in an enemy-targeted heal.

No, this isn't a rumor. I "earned" roughly 13% toward the first healing badge on my main, a TA/Dark/Dark, when I had the proc in Life Drain. 13% in less than three weeks, compared to the 6% in the entire previous three years that I had accumulated between bugs and testing. Needless to say, I was more than a bit tempted to leave it in that power, just for the "free" badge progress I was getting.

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It's demorecord data, not code from the .pigg files. There are guides, housed in these very forums, detailing all of the steps necessary to make, edit and alter demos using this very information. Use of the developer-provided demo recording and editing tools is most certainly not a violation of the terms of service, any more than screenshots, costume files or AE files. They have entire lists of guides and repositories of information on the subject stickied and linked in the Player Guides and Multi-Media City of Heroes and Villains forums, going back beyond five years, so I'm pretty sure they're aware that players are using the demorecord function.

Handy. Now I can see how much damage I could do with Lightning Rod, Build Up, the Decimation proc and FE (881). Might go ahead and make that scrapper after all...

The Shield Wall enhancements are all set to Buff/Debuff Effects on the Defense attribute, instead of Buff Effects. The result is two Defense numbers shown in the Effects pane. Changing Defense on all relevant enhancements to Buff Effects resolves the issue.

Redraw is not a "nerf". It's a limitation of the game. You don't redraw your weapon because the developers feel that it's necessary to impose some arbitrary penalty on powers which use weapon animations. It's just the way the game works. In order for any weapon to remain drawn when a weaponless power is used, there has to be a corresponding animation which displays that specific weapon in that specific stance when that specific weaponless power is used.

Elimination of redraw would require the creation or reworking of several thousand animations, perhaps as few as 10,000-15,000 or as many as 40,000-50,000, or creating an entirely new animation system from the ground up and shoehorning it in place of the existing animation system.

Additionally, redraw does not increase the more frequently you use a power, as you implied. The time required to draw a weapon does not increase, the time required to animate the weapon does not increase, the time spent rooted while the weapon animation plays does not increase. It is exactly the same, barring latency issues (high latencies, which result in delays between server communications, can root you for longer periods, but that's true of weaponless powers as well), every time you use a power.

Finally, the maximum known value for redraw time is 0.66s, according to a post made by BackAlleyBrawler a few years ago (no longer available due to forum purges. whether there are powers with longer redraw periods, he never stated, nor has any other developer). So even factoring in server response time, unless you're deliberately alternating between weapon-using powers and weaponless powers, your actual loss of DPS or action time due to redraw is negligible. It is not difficult to minimize, or even outright eliminate, the effects of redraw on an attack sequence simply by not mixing your weapon-using and weaponless powers randomly or thoughtlessly.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2288608

"Baked in" is a reference to coding, not to balance decisions. Damage output is a balance decision. Powers reference tables to determine their effects, those references can be changed at will and relatively easily. "Baked in" effects, however, require rewriting code, systems or entire parts of the engine, which is comparatively difficult and/or time consuming.

Vizzini was explaining that it's impossible to best his dizzying intellect.

But... rope, man. ROPE!