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I get the feeling that Tenzhi and I grew to know the x-men through the older comic books. The 80s and even before. While the people who are arguing that the movies are good and that the characters are well developed came to know the x-men during the 90s or just from the movies.

Sit back kids and let grandpa tell ya a little story about the x-men before you get off his lawn. The x-men are kids. They have always been kids. Sure some of them have been in their twenties but the majority of the time the majority of the group has been in its teens.

And they like having super powers. Think of it. If you gained the power of being a super acrobat. Somebody who was so agile and dextrous that you could make the best parkour runners look like they were wearing lead vests and concrete boots. You could make jugglers who had spent a lifetime practicing look like rank beginners. Would you get all mopey and depressed because your feet looked like hands?

And if your powers didn't make you look different it would be even more exciting. You are a teen with the ability to create ice out of thin air. Or move objects with your mind. Or phase through walls. Or fly. Or turn to metal. Are you really going to spend all your time being serious or are you going to have fun with your powers? It's like watching high school athletes complain about how having extra strength and speed make them such outcasts. Then spend their time complaining to each other how they wish they could just be normal.

THAT is the problem with the x movies. It has been a strong theme through the comics throughout their entire lifetime. These are kids and they enjoy having powers and they have fun with those powers. When things get serious then they have to buckle down and be serious as well but they don't spend their entire time being serious. In fact with the exception of Cyclops they spend as little time as possible being serious.

That hasn't been present in even one of the movies with the sole exception of First Class and there it lasted for maybe a minute. And after it happened they got chastised and started feeling sorry for themselves again. The movies have the same tone as the comics in the 90s (which was when I stopped reading them) where everything became dead serious doom and gloom.

Ironically the worst of the movies (x3) actually came closest to getting the tone of the comics right. It wasn't well written or acted but the whole confrontation between Juggernaut and Kitty, the fun that Madrox had with his powers, Wolverine going stone cold killer while charging into the mutant camp, all those things echoed strongly the make up of the comics through the years they were most popular.

Marvel has traditionally had comics where the characters reveled in the power they had and had fun with it even though they took their responsibilities dead seriously. The first Spiderman movie had this attitude. In fact that's why I actually consider Daredevil (the directors cut, not the theatrical release) and the Fantastic Four movies to be superior "Comic Book" movies to the x series. Not better written. Not better acted. but more true to the genre.

Truth be told I would have to say the super hero movie I enjoyed most was probably Sky High just because it really did capture the feeling of having fun with the abilities they had.

And that is why I feel the way I do about the x movies. I don't think they are bad superhero movies. I just think they are bad x-men movies. Kind of like Starship Troopers. It's a wonderfully fun movie, but it isn't Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Personally I'd be happy with an ap similar to that of the MMO juggernaut which can not be named without violating forum rules. And no I'm not talking about Voldemort online. I'd like to see something where you can access your inventory, mail, the market and channels. Considering that's what I'm doing anyway about half the time I'm on.

There is also a good chance this is all a misunderstanding. Dinamo is not a native english speaker and very often the GMs are not either.

If two people who don't speak each others language are communicating through a third language that neither understands well then misunderstanding is almost guaranteed.

Actually it's not much of a wall of text at all. If you try to post the dxdiag or official coh dohicky then yeah it's tons of info. Otherwise it's easy to look through for stuff.

However, even though I have no idea what swap is I'm going to make a guess which is probably a good one. You likely have a low amount of ram, or low amount available due to it being taken up by other programs. So the game is forced to swap graphics information to and from your hard drive which acts as virtual ram if you don't have enough actual ram. If your hard drive is very full or badly fragmented then this process is slowed down even more.

Don't worry Kawkazn. We aren't going to make fun of you for loving 90210 and Hannah Montana.

Much.

Primeval is a good series but if you are going to get into it for the first time don't watch season 1. It really isn't very good and the production values are abysmal. If you have seen a couple other seasons then it's watchable just to see what it evolved from. But if you try to get hooked on it by watching the first season you would most likely give up.

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I thought the only one it was better than was X3, and just barely at that. Of course I like humor in my superhero movies as well as drama. Marvel has pulled off that combination of humor and seriousness in all their movies. Spiderman, Iron Man and Thor. But the X series just hasn't had it. When they do throw in humor it is always humor at the expense of somebody else. IE making someone else look bad or goofy. The only exception to this I can think of is the Wolverine cameo in this one.

And the real disappointment is that in the X-Men comics the characters were the least serious superheroes in the Marvel universe. And Xavier encouraged it. They were kids, they were having fun. The one scene in this movie where they use their powers for fun and really start bonding they get ******* out by Xavier for not being serious enough.

Well, I've been checking out other places where there are Doctor Who discussions and something was brought up which amused me to no end.

There are some people out there who have been doing Doctor Who slash fiction. Amy/River to be exact. I wonder if this episode will make their brains go boom.

Yeah, I've seen the same sort of streak before. It is always associated with area effect pseudo pet attack. Every single attack that happens while the pet is active misses the target. I've never bothered to save the logs because, well it's pretty hard to track down an error with something that by it's nature is supposed to be random.

So what happened when you fixed it? I'm on the edge of my seat.

If you are sending it in as a /bug report you will never get a response. /bug just just goes toward correcting problems in the program, not problems that specific players are having. You want to be using /petition to report it.

And I just checked the name on Virtue. It is available which means your character has definitely been deleted. Have you by chance ever given your password to somebody else? A family member that shares the account? Somebody who might be annoyed with you? Most the time when a character mysteriously vanishes it had help from somebody who was angry or thought it would be funny.

There is also a good chance that it isn't actually a better video card. I've seen many times people say that they got a better video card because it was newer and it's actually turned out to be a much lower quality card. Video card terminology is confusing and often misleading.

Run this program CoHHelper and post the results here. That way we will be able to see the exact components of your system and drivers.

But just from your statement. There is a website here that rates video cards. The cards that are currently the best out there have a score of around 3000 to 3800. A card that would be medium quality (meaning you could enable a couple ultra mode features but that's it has a score of around 1100.

The 1150 series has a score of 44.

If you are experiencing total system shutdown then it's likely an overheating problem. Make sure that all the dust is cleared out of your system. You can't open it up since it's a laptop but you can blow canned air through the vents and try. Also use a temperature monitoring program to watch your heat levels.

And yet supposedly all the remotely operated gangers that had been dissolved in the past did have awareness. The conscious ones spoke about how they remembered being casually discarded and destroyed in the past.

Again, the conscious ones created by the accident remembered past versions of themselves being operated and then destroyed. In fact the conference they were going into when The Doctor dropped them off was where they were going to explain that remotely operated flesh had awareness. If it had just been the power surge that caused the awareness then they would have just been going in to ask for redundant emergency breakers installed.

Now if at some point they explain that it was a more advanced version of flesh with the consciousness problem removed then I'll be perfectly willing to accept that. Until then any arguments to the contrary are based purely on speculation and refusal to accept that The Doctor would casually kill somebody. Of course my argument is pure speculation as well but I'm basing it on what actually happened in the episodes.

I was shocked by the ending but probably not the way you are thinking.

The entire premise of the two episodes was that the gangers were people too. They had all the same memories and feelings and were every bit as real a person as the originals. It was stressed again and again how much they suffered when they were casually discarded and that they could remember being dissolved and suffering. There were even the eyes that survived that seemingly had some form of sentience.

Then the doctor informs them that just traveling in the tardis has stabilized their bodies so they are now truly human.



And then he casually dissolves the ganger Amy just because she isn't the real deal. Which means that all of his preaching and such trying to get the others to accept the gangers as real people was him lying and stalling for time in order to get the readings he needed. That he didn't consider the gangers to be real people but just a tool. Exactly the same way that the prejudiced humans considered them to be.

Yes I know it was actually just poor writing (and directing) but since it is an episode it is canon. Which either means that the gangers aren't real feeling people after all or else The Doctor can and has casually killed somebody just because they were inconvenient to him.