Memphis_Bill

I agree with this (generally,) but if everything else is fine... well, if you have four sticks of RAM, that board only takes two.

Crack the case open, see how many sticks of RAM you have, how many add in cards, etc. (and which you use - if you're using a separate network card, f'rinstance, most current boards have one built in, etc.) and find a board that will fit all of it. (If you don't want to - which, given the thread, I doubt is the case - programs like speccy can also tell you some of this.)

But yeah, try to save some cash on it, too, in case more is wrong - if you start looking at CPU, RAM, etc. being out, start putting it toward a new system.

Sure looks like it.

I'd worry about that only slightly less than I'd worry about the rumored extensive use of pink tutus in Diablo III.

Personally, I'd hold off on buying the blu-ray drive unless you're planning on watching blu-ray movies on this PC (and that goes into a few other things like having to have a protected path, etc, etc.) They'll get cheaper. Buy one when you actually need it.

(For instance, I didn't buy a CD ROM drive - a blazing fast 2x one >.< - until OS/2 2.1 came out on 30+ floppy disks. Made for a long install. I didn't bother with a DVD drive until more games started coming on DVD as opposed to multiple CDs. I won't put a Blu-ray drive in until either Blu-ray burners (and media!) cost less or games start coming out on it with regularity. I can't think of any that do now, and I'm not buying Blu-ray movies ATM.)

Also, I'd be surprised if you actually bought a new CPU or GPU in a year - two, sure, but even then I'd be surprised if these didn't handle the games and whatnot you're throwing at it.... save needing six cores/twelve threads for something.

Prodigious would be correct. Prodigal would be something that is wasteful - the "prodigal son" was the one that blew his inheritance partying.

I personally would probably have said "immense" power instead.

The writeup is interesting. Something bugs me about it, but it's been long enough since I've looked into the Ruularu/Shadow Shard lore that I can't put my finger on what (or if it's based simply on remembering something wrong.)

Edit: I'd put in links to the source of specific information, as well. I don't recall the "Ruularu was a sorcerer the dream doctor found" bit, for instance. And IIRC one of the books in the Midnighter Club has some bearing on Ruularu, or is hinted at it (cutting off a piece of his consciousness.) Ahh, here -
I end up reading that more as Ruularu being an "alternate dimension, could-have-been" of the Dream Doctor.

Plus, as far as the "council" mentioned,

To me this reads less as a created "being" and more as having forced itself into existence (something seen here and there in other myths - an idea portrayed with will giving itself shape as a godling.) But again, that's my read of it, and I may be piecing it together differently and missing or misremembering some info.

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It's not that it's an I7, it's that it's Socket 1366 (think I'm remembering that right) that makes that distinction. i7 = Hyperthreading. i5 = No hyperthreading, regardless of socket. (I'm running an i7-860, 4 Gb RAM. No triple channel available. Socket 1156. Quad core, eight threads.)

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Edit: But yeah. Shop for a good power supply. Currently running a Corsair 650w, though I'm not doing Crossfire. (I do have the headroom to.)

You don't pay extra for preorders. You DO pay extra for collectors edition stuff. (As well as pay for specific editions.) Anything like that, they will not give away. By comparison, the devs even told us when they announced the COV preorder helmets that they'd be giving them away somehow later.

Generally because Tanks and Brutes have Footstomp and are designed with the defense and resistance out of the box to deal with the aggro - and get more of it.

Note that a Peacebringer is not a tank. Different situation. So this comparison is badly flawed.
No, it isn't. There are plenty of people who believe, for instance, that our President is not a US citizen, born in Kenya or Indonesia. Belief does not create fact, nor does it make it more acceptable as evidence. Also - and I mentioned this in reply to a question about PC brands - people don't tend to spontaneously come out in praise of something. Think of how many "SB is bad," "KB is bad," "PUGs suck," etc. posts there are. Now think of how many posts people have made saying "Hey, this was an awesome experience!" People complain loud and long and let you know they don't like something. Rarely do people just say "Hey, that was good use of XYZ."

I do. I have several, and have played them (literally) for the past several years. I have never had this request made of me. Nor have I had it made to my Peacebringers, which also do a fair bit of knockback. This is over five years of playing these (started my first PB in 7/05.)

What you have here is an "assumption." This is, as you'll notice from basic things like spelling, different from a "fact." This assumption has not held true for me for said 5 years because I do, as you put it, play sensibly. Hell, I've had people *complement* me for using knockback thoughtfully.
Nice strawman. Utterly irrelevant and proving nothing.
More assumption.
I'll counter your anecdotal evidence with more anecdotal evidence:

I don't get these requests/demands to not use KB. Have someone else come on a team (Illusion controllers, Energy blasters, etc.) that *doesn't* pay attention? You'll see those requests.

Much like Stalkers getting a bad reputation for not being team players, the fault is not with the powerset or the effect. The fault is with players not paying attention/bad players.

And it can work just as well with a team that isn't struggling
More, frankly, useless commentary, for all the points brought up before.

So don't do it. As the point has been made repeatedly, use your OWN powers with some thought instead of just spamming them at whatever comes up with a targeting box. This goes for anything with KB, anything with debuffs, tanks, scrappers... IOW, everyone.

I went with soul for glowy tentacles and spinning people around in midair. *shrug*
4 points will take care of something like 98% of the knockback in game. Most of my squishies don't need more.

Well, here's the thing - Positron or Castle, some time ago, mentioned how they were probably driving Jay crazy with all the jetpack(ish) pieces they were requesting. This might be stuff getting introduced with NPCs, I'm not sure, but that's from better than a year ago.

If it's potential player pieces, other than not being satisfied with how they scale/look across body types, I have no idea why they're holding them back.

Um... There's also a call center in Florida. I was with them way back when they were Software Support, then Maatrix Marketing, then Convergys.

The problems with some (SOME) third party places like that?

- The techs get bonuses for volume. Yeah. I fixed problems. My calls also took longer, so I got paid *less.* Doesn't help I was often fixing something a script-user screwed up. Competence and actually wanting to *fix* a problem isn't rewarded.

- They're limited on time. 10-15 minutes per call. More than that and they get supervisors breathing down their necks, threats about jobs, etc. (Not saying Convergys in particular, just the way some are.)

- They're not *given* information. Some of the T2s and supervisors may have a contact with the client company - but they often aren't going to *have* outage information. Or open enough 'net connections they can look for themselves. (It's just as much fun when supporting software. "Version what? There is no version that... released three days ago and on the site, huh?")

You *can* get good third party support - working for one now, the company doesn't care if I spend 2 hours on a call (they'd prefer shorter, of course) as long as it's fixed. But the meatgrinder 3rd party ones... eesh.

ISP-wise, I've had better luck with Comcast in my area than I did with Embarq. Comcast has put in new lines, and actually given me information and actually *checked* things. Embarq? Every problem seemed to result in "Well, have a new modem." I think I have 3-4 of them boxed up still.

Yes, to all of the above. However, if you don't like a snipe on a blaster with its four second windup, you'll *hate* it (twice as long, or at least it used to be) on a Stalker.

Have to read it with the following comment about "not so much play-wise." There's plenty of reason you may have to hold a position - "We cant' abandon this or XYZ happens!" You can write plenty of stories around having to hold an area (see also "You shall not pass!")

But play-wise? meh. It seems - outside of PVP - to fall into either "Frustrating" or "Boring." The closest I can think of in the PVE game is the Croatoa "Stop 30 Fir Bolg from Escaping" mission. Now, *I* enjoy it - but I try to keep any from escaping at all. (And actually manage to at times.) But it's certainly not on the top of many peoples' favourite mission lists.