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  1. I'm thinking that there will be the whole "don't want to meet yourself while time traveling" going on so it will be Claudia and possibly Lena who have to travel back in time and save the warehouse.
  2. However if you watch the video of the incident it's obvious that the group was fighting, not dancing. Phoenix tried to break it up, got attacked, pepper sprayed a couple of the guys that came at him. There was one crazy woman who kept coming after him hitting him with a shoe or purse or something and he didn't fight back against her. Then somebody jumped in a car and tried to run over some of the group and managed to clip one of them.

    The cops were willing only to take the statement of the people who claimed Phoenix assaulted them. When the camera man and another person who was there documenting Phoenix's patrol for a book he is writing tried to talk to the police and give their statements they were told to leave the area immediately or get arrested for being accomplices.
  3. It's obvious that they didn't put the bomb inside the shield because then there wouldn't have been a cliffhanger ending for the season.

    I'm sure everybody is going to be back but what I want to know is which artifact is keeping Mrs Frederic from aging. It's obvious that it either is in the warehouse or is the warehouse itself.
  4. Mandu

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    I rate this thread a 7Q
  5. Max temp could have been originally 105C but if a card keeps overheating it gets damaged then its maximum temperature before shut down will keep dropping.

    On the other hand I refuse to believe that a 9800gt can handle everything on maximum settings at a frame rate higher than 5. Even my GTX 460 slows down when everything is maxed.

    However a suggestion Wolf. Since you have SpeedFan use it to set the GPU fan to maximum and see if that keeps you from crashing. If it does then your card is definitely failing and should be replaced. But manually controlling the fan should get you a couple more months of life out of it. It did for my 7900 GT a few years back.
  6. The guy is smart. He knows exactly the way to get the cosplayers to fully cooperate. Notice that he loses virtually every fight. All of them except for the stormtrooper.

    Of course it's also much easier to make a fight look halfway decent if the person with the greater stunt skill is the one getting flung about.
  7. Pay attention people! It's from ZERO wing. They are taking our wings away.
  8. I don't mind misspelling during a mission or fight. often it's abbreviate or hospital and I'm not surprised when the middle of a sentence consists of wwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeerrdddddddddw. However when just chatting in channels I absolutely loathe that kind of typing, and here is the reason why. It shows that the person using the text speak or wrong words (your, you're, yore) doesn't want to go to the trouble of actually trying to communicate but rather prefers to lay the burden of understanding on whomever happens to be listening to them.

    If you have doubts about that then why is the persons response to being corrected almost always something to the extent of "wutever i kno u can understand me n thats all that matters"?

    Let's change it up a little bit. Let's convert that laziness to the spoken word instead of the written.

    "I'm going to McDonalds. Do you want me to pick you up anything?"
    "Me get food. You want?"

    "I'm going to be home late. Could you set up the dvr to record Chuck?"
    "Me late. Get Chuck."

    "I've had the radio and tv off all day so I haven't heard any news."
    "no know no news."

    Sure, given the proper situation every single one of those simpler versions of the sentences is easily understandable. But anybody using them would still sound like a complete idiot. As does anybody who insists on using text speak and constant misspelling.

    Oh and incidentally it's usually very easy to tell if English is a second language. Errors made by a non native speaker almost always consist of syntax and conjugation mistakes. And they usually apologize if they can't be understood rather than complaining that it doesn't make any difference.
  9. Seems to be on Pay Per View on directv already. Debating on getting it or not.
  10. I would have to say that this idea sucks more than an atomic powered hoover with a chewy black hole center.

    As was mentioned it isn't going to be the same actors and it isn't going to be the same writer. It's typical Hollywood. Odds are it will in no way resemble the webisodes that were so popular.

    There will be plenty of blood since what Hollywood has taken from this is that people like blood in their MK. But it will probably have corny dialogue with a lot of pop culture references. Shaky-cam fights. A teenage video game playing kid who somehow winds up in the tournament. A rap soundtrack. And whatever else is flavor of the moment.

    At least that's my prediction.
  11. Nightgaunt. If you are running windows then download and run CoHHelper and then paste the results here. It will help identify your problem.
  12. I just ignore the players who are complaining about what they don't get. And post helpful messages in the help channel or broadcast about how to ignore somebody.

    Precisely because I don't have any patience for entitled idiots.
  13. The NCsoft launcher uses bittorrent technology. You are not only downloading from the ncsoft site but downloading from and uploading to potentially every other player who currently has the launcher open. So for comparison

    Old updater+new patch release = (let's call it) 5000 players concurrently downloading from 2 servers.

    New updater+new patch release = (let's stay consistent) 5000 players downloading from 2 servers + 5000 other players. No I didn't make a mistake in the math. The 5000th player being downloaded from is the single player out there who actually leaves the launcher running while playing the game.

    So now downloading during the busiest download times can actually result in higher speeds than downloading during off hours.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by S0ULSTEP View Post
    The second is that it only happens in this game! I can play games like Dead Island, Crysis 2, The Witcher 2, etc which are more graphic intensive games perfectly fine without any graphic hiccups or crashes.
    The big difference is that most other graphically intensive games use directx while City of Heroes uses opengl. Opengl actually has the potential to produce superior graphics with faster draw rates. Those potentials aren't currently being hit on City of Heroes because it's built on the base of a 7 year old engine. If CoH 2 comes out and is built from scratch then you will likely see those graphic potentials met.

    Open GL though is much more stressful on GPUs. This is partly because of the nature of the beast and partly because gpu manufacturers put most their effort into making sure their cards are directx compliant and as an afterthought slap together something to make them opengl compliant. I can't say I blame them since the great majority of high end games released are directx. And that's understandable since the Microsoft marketing machine of course pushes their own product over an open source product.
  15. $150 can get you a video card capable of handling ultra settings. Not maxed out with good frame rate but definitely enough to get a good impression of ultra mode. That is for just the card though, not the power supply.

    Another $50 will get you a video card that will handle pretty much anything ultra mode can throw at it. At least for now.

    If you want to get a good idea of what level of video card you might want then visit Here

    I have the Geforce GTX 460 which handles Ultra with most settings mid ranged to maxed. A couple settings need to be pretty low in order to keep a decent frame rate but by pretty low I mean lower end of ultra, not standard.

    Getting a good video card cheaply is best done without trying to get it immediately. Shop around, look for sales, if you look in stores then look to see if they have cards that have been returned. And make sure you check multiple stores. My personal opinion and shopping style is that I would rather wait a month and get something really good than buy now and get something that's not bad.
  16. I have only one thing to bring into this thread. A mirror
  17. Actually I see far less raging about ideas than the originators of those ideas seem to see. For example (a made up example) somebody might post "I would like to have a version of claws that came out of the fingertips instead of the knuckles.

    Long time player who is blunt says "Not gonna happen."

    Clueless player who can't understand that the concept is to add a type of claw rather than change the entire set says "I like my claws just the way they are thank you very much."

    Long time player who is diplomatic says "What LTPWIB meant is that the devs have said that it would be hard to code because it wouldn't just mean adding in a claws type. It would require redesigning all player hands so that they had actual fingers rather than just being the mittens they are now."

    Me Too player says "Yeah, what LTPWID just said. It's because of the fingers.

    OP says "I don't know why anybody even bothers posting here. I come up with a suggestion and everybody jumps on me telling me it's stupid and will never happen. If you don't have something constructive to say about my idea just shut up. The devs are the ones who decide, not you!!!
  18. Great to see another one of your posts AnimeWarrior. I knew there was something missing from the forums and that was it. Now if only Power would post again.

    For those who don't recognize the name AnimeWarrior252 has a habit of posting a foaming at the mouth rant about something that he has managed to completely misunderstand even though it has been clearly explained.
  19. Peter Dinklage took the best supporting actor emmy. Incredibly well deserved.

    And shame on those of you who thought this thread was about...
  20. You know. Thinking about it I really wouldn't mind Amy and Rory getting their own spin off series. Like Torchwood or the SJ chronicles only set in space. After all there is no reason that former companions have to stay on Earth. And I definitely couldn't see those two settling down to a quiet rural life.

    I would still love to have them as the current companions of course because they work so well with Matt. I just don't want to see those characters fade away to occasional guest spots as so many past companions have done.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan View Post
    Unless they've changed something since Beta, you can complete the new 'tutorial' by using brawl four times. Just tag the initial required Shivans and let the NPCs do the rest. At the 'climactic' final fight, just stand right up in front of the hole in the ground, and go make a cup of tea - the jets kill the others and the giant shivan for you. It's impossible to fall below 1 hp in any of it, so there's no challenge in any of it.

    I loathe the new 'tutorial'. It's a barely interactive cutscene conveyor belt.

    Eco.
    I kind of have to agree with this. I love the look and content of the place but it really does feel like nothing more than an interactive cut scene.

    I imagine that for new players it might be fine but I found myself for the first time ever wanting to skip the tutorial and start directly in Atlas.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coin View Post
    GODS DAMN IT!!!

    Someone took the name TurtleMan!! I finnaly get the chance to make him as a heroic Brute with a shovel, just like I've been planning for months, and someone got the name!!

    I've sent a PM, not holding out much hope though
    So ManTurtle?
  23. When the doctor opened the door to his room you could hear the Cloister Bell. So his room most likely had to do with the Tardis dying. She is after all the one thing he has complete faith in.

    Karen and Arthur have both confirmed they are back for next season (or next series whichever you prefer). So our trio remains intact for now at least.
  24. One of the things I like most about the kindle is that you can sync your books between all devices. So you can be reading on your kindle, pick up where you left on on your phone, continue on your computer, pick up again on your kindle, etc...
  25. Nobody grabbed Mandu. Then again I probably couldn't pay people to take my name.