Memphis_Bill

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU View Post
    Ok...that made me laugh...what movie is that from?
    UHF.

    (As video here.)


  2. (Just because I haven't used it for a while.)
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by WanderingAries View Post
    Yeah, I will admit to purchasing said binder, but have summarily discarded it over time as I didn't feel like wasting trees on the updates that sorta came, but didn't.
    There were... what, two updates total?
  4. Memphis_Bill

    New computer

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    3) The HD 6770 is a rebadged HD 5770 is a low mid level card (AMD didn't have a 6000 series GPU for that price point). It should handle minimum to moderate UM. As for AMD cards in general, AMD drivers are somewhat hit or miss with this game. One month the latest driver works fine, the next it doesn't. There is a topic on the Tech board about what AMD drivers work well.
    If you want to see what the 5770/1gb looks like, moderate UM, find any of my screen shots. It did funky things with the fog in the old DA (made it more like a clipping/draw distance issue than fog) where my less powerful nVidia card on another system rendered it beautifully, for instance.

    (Honestly, I'm at the point of swapping it out for a new nVidia card. Though it works fine in everything else. Just for the "pinstripes" in some shadows and the little issues here and there.)
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by WanderingAries View Post
    With the enormous amount of information here one can deduce the following possibilities:

    1) Underpowered GPU;
    2) Insufficient RAM;
    3) Overheating GPU;
    4) Windows 7 hates you;
    5) You forgot to give the hampster beer again;

    Lookup COH Helper and HiJack This on the forums for instructions on how to post their output as that seems to be the number one request in these cases.
    Viola! The post you were talking about. With links to both programs.

    Also, #5 is mostly a problem on Pinnacle.
  6. Memphis_Bill

    COH/Windows 7

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by WanderingAries View Post
    Edit: Where'd my Signature go?!?!
    You're Premium, not VIP, if I'm reading the color-coding of names properly. I *believe* it nuked my signature when I dropped to premium as well.

    Also, if I'm reading that right, the launcher is saying it's installed onto a folder on the desktop - not just the icon itself, but the launcher.

    (I'm reading "Start in: C:\Users\Khaaaaaaaaaaaan! (just kidding)\desktop\cpu3\coh2" as the location. Kind of wondering just where it put COH itself.)

    From the launcher, highlight City of Heroes. You should have a downward-pointing arrow on the right. Click that, pick "Properties." Either highlight the path and copy (control-c) that, or alt-printscreen (which should just copy the active window, in this case, the COH properties window.)

    Should look something like this (mine's in a non default location)



    Also, the reason the images are so hard to read is that Photobucket is messing with them by auto-resizing them. To fix this:
    • Log in to photobucket.
    • Click on your name in the upper right. Go to "Account settings."
    • Click "Album settings" at the top (it'll start with personal settings.)
    • First thing under "Album settings" will be a link to "View upload options." Click that, and at the bottom, pick "Best available (while staying under 1 Mb." - unless you have a very big image, this should keep it from resizing your photos.

    (I end up manually resizing the artwork and such to make them smaller for the forums when I go to show that off - and keep a larger version in a different directory.)
  7. However, being level 18, you're just past the start for running Drowning in Blood, for 15-50. Go get a team and give that trial a shot. Have fun. And read the info from clicking the green Shivans.
  8. Wow. Horrible experience there.

    Still, you have a system you're happy with (it sounds like) in the end. So... why are you not in game? Get to it!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    Edit:
    @Memphis Bill
    The truth hurts.
    Waiting for you to say some. You don't know me.

    Quote:
    Most people are "angry about Windows 8" only because "where did my precious desktop go?".
    If you were talking about someone's first reaction? Maybe. You're talking to someone who has used it for months, however. And who uses multiple operating systems. I'm not wedded to any particular setup.

    What I find - I'm going to say "amusing" - is that you're so up in arms about how you're being "attacked" for your opinion, yet you're so eager to put down an opinion that's contrary to yours.
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    I just defended my opinion about how I would like to use computers against comments that TRULY looked like "I just hate the way it looks, I want the old way I'm used to".
    Perhaps you should re-read those comments, because they are not about looks, for the most part. I have actually used it - for several months now. Have you? I don't believe you've answered that.
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    So clearly, the people who attacked my opinion, and I replied to, were "stuck in their ways" like the old man who doesn't want to use a simple cellphone because "I'm fine with my wired phone in my house instead of some newfangled doohickey that works exactly the same but I'm too stubborn to see the truth".
    Your opinion is not truth, and you were not attacked. (At least before you started acting like your opinion - one that seems rather uninformed about Win8, to be honest - was $deity's own truth.) Yet you put down people who have an opinion - one, in my case, borne of USING the product for months - different than yours.

    Have you used Windows 8 at all? For any reasonable length of time? Even one hour straight?

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    I'm sick of the desktop after years of use because of a few reasons.
    1) I'm sick and tired of a desktop at a desk that is never the proper height or design for my uses.
    2) I'm sick of the "computer chair" that supposedly "helps posture" but only makes you want to slouch(especially when paired with a desk made with a different goal in mind) or throw the chair out.
    3) I'm sick of the hot lap of laptops and the fact that they still require a mouse when you have no comfortable place to put it.
    4) I'm sick and tired of losing my mouse on the screen in City of Heroes, where all the effects in a big battle make me have to find where my mouse pointer is before I can click a specific enemy or something(yes, tab targeting still is slower).
    I just want to put my finger on whatever it is I want to click, saving time and frustration.
    So... you're all for windows 8 because of a bunch of things that have absolutely nothing to do with windows 8? And what makes you think that the metro touch-centric-ness of it will translate into being able to "put your finger on whatever it is (you) want to click," or that it would "save time and frustration?"

    The finger is not a precision pointing device. Never has been. And I know many of the touch screens won't work with "just" a stylus - you have to have the right sort. At which point you're slowing yourself down more.

    Quote:
    (Edit: You can clean your hands and the screen periodically as well. It's not like a normal monitor doesn't get dirty very fast just from DUST that it attracts through static and the fact that dust is inevitable. So, cleaning is not a big problem.)
    Um....

    I look at the difference between my computer monitor (needs cleaning, oh, every few months) and my Nook tablet (needs cleaning fairly frequently, even with washing hands, etc.) - there's many, *many* orders of magnitude difference between the two.

    If your desktop monitor gets *that* dirty *that* fast, there's an environmental issue, or you're sitting in an industrial environment.

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    Everybody can keep the option for a mouse and keyboard, no matter what the screen looks like those will always work. I just want more options because I am tired of the problems with the mouse and keyboard that nobody bothers to fix.
    And the issue people keep bringing up which you keep wanting to dismiss - and again, it doesn't sound like you've actually *used* the free Windows 8 Consumer Preview (full install of Windows 8 as it sits right now) - which you can use the free Virtualbox VM (from Oracle, which works beautifully with the Win8 CP) if you don't have a PC to dedicate to it - to see how it impacts normal use.

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    You know one thing that bothers me?
    Why the hell has somebody not made a "gaming trackball mouse" yet?

    I know, from experience, that a trackball mouse(laser of course) is superior to any other mouse, especially for gaming, but nobody ever makes them with enough extra buttons and certainly not well placed. It baffles me how this has not been made yet, despite the wide adoption of trackball mice in business and gaming, where carpal tunnel is common, areas that have a use for the quickly accessible buttons.
    "Wide adoption?" Really? (This coming from someone who used a trackball for some time. Heck, if it weren't wireless, I'd be using this. But not on my gaming system.) I can count the number of trackballs I've seen in a business environment (that didn't come preinstalled on a notebook - something phased out long ago when trackpads were introduced) without needing extra fingers. And gaming - unless you're counting Centipede machines from decades ago - on one hand, even without using a finger for the one I used to use. That is not "Wide adoption."

    You may find something like this useful. Not a trackball, admittedly.

    Quote:
    FYI, touchscreen control is not "less ergonomic" than a keyboard and mouse, especially considering your argument of a "2 foot screen" is not what a touchscreen is intended for.
    I, like most people here, are arguing about how poor it is for standard computer use. You keep diverting into phones and tablets. (Something you won't, by the way, be playing COH on.)
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    It's the same issue I find with "well endowed" women. They're not attractive when they get "too big", but stupid people still advocate "disproportionate" augmentations.
    The most attractive people have bodily features that are proportionally balanced on them. That's why fit people look better. They don't have "disproportionate areas" like a "bulging"(not proportional to the areas adjacent) stomach.
    You do realize that this is solely *your* opinion, right? And that calling people that do not agree with you "stupid" does nothing to help your own case?

    You do realize that your opinion is not fact for anyone but you?

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    Anyway, I'll defend my opinions and you can just suck it up and take the rant because that is one of very few reasons I even look at the forums.
    FYI, I post a hell of a lot less than any of you in a lot less threads than you think. I also tend to post nicer posts a lot more often, even if they do contain a "casual remark" about the evident state of the game.
    You just "assign an attitude" to my words because this is text where body language and tone is not present.
    "Assign an attitude?" In the last two quotes you've (1) labeled people that don't agree with what you like in a woman stupid, and (2) said "you can just suck it up." Neither of which are neutral statements.

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    But yes, this started out calmer then turned into a real rant. So go ahead and mock me as I just shake my head at how dumb those who mock me are because they ignore the truth about human nature and their own reasoning for mocking me, especially considering mocking someone who isn't calm will only make them more angry all too often(not me this specific time).
    (3) again, calling people "dumb" for disagreeing with you. And (4) assuming disagreement is "mocking you."

    And that's just since I started with the last response.

    Perhaps you should go back to not looking at the forums if this is how you feel appropriate posting looks.

    And while you're at it, go download Windows 8 CP (available here) and the Oracle VM (here) - both free - and learn about them before you start in to how people actually *using* them are wrong in their complaints and criticisms.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
    EDIT:

    Hahaha
    (I fully believe that neither of you misspelled it at the time, but this was just humorous enough to point out)
    :P

    And I say again, :P



    ... ok, yes, that is amusing, but still.
  11. Honestly, I'd be very surprised to find base "things" show up in the paragon market. Just from the nature of them (and lower potential target audience.)
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil View Post
    Is the l in one of the "Valkyrie"'s a capital I?
    No. Friend's character name is Vakyrierising. We were just happening to try to snag it for her at the same time. So we would have no reason to misspell it.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    Have you seen his old henchman costumes? Class isn't the word that comes to mind. In fact, it's about two letters too long.
    Two letters too long?

    CLS?

    You see him and you want to clear your screen?
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin View Post
    Oh how well does CoH run on Linux?
    Very nicely, once it's set up. You do need a third party launcher to install and update. Instructions are, IIRC, in this section.

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    And is anyone able to run on Mac anymore since the got rid of the support for it.
    Launcher's still available for download, last I looked. Doesn't sound like they "got rid of" support for it. The only thing they've depreciated is support for a specific version (10.5) and earlier, since Apple no longer supports those versions. Past that, ask in the Mac section.

    Also, T_Immortalis?

    If you want to be honest, you were the one who started the attacking. People (including me) disagreed with you about Win8, and you immediately started with "Oh, you just can't handle different, you're stuck in your ways." Which is not only insulting, but misinformed. I've run (and via VMs, still run) Windows 3.1, NT4, OS/2 v3, BeOS, and various versions of Linux (specifically pre- and post- Unity,) and tend to have to find my way round OS X a few times a week. I am *not* wedded to one specific interface, or a devotee of any specific OS. I like what works. I don't like what doesn't. Simple as that. I've run Win8 since the developer preview - and things have changed between the developer and consumer previews, for the worse IMHO. I've had time to get used to the way it does things. As I believe I said, I can see what they want for a tablet and phone, but for a desktop, I *don't like it.*

    If you had a stake in Windows 8 - and I don't recall if you said you were actually RUNNING it yet (please note I am, and am speaking from experience with it,) - such as being part of the dev team, I could understand being as... vehement in your arguments as you have been.

    If you're not? Chill. Just accept that people aren't going to agree. If you haven't downloaded and installed the computer preview (in a VM, if you don't have a PC to dedicate to it,) do so, then form your opinion, which will then be a informed one than you had before living with it. (For instance, my folks, back when I was in school, had a Chrysler Cordoba. I couldn't wait to drive that car, it looked like a great one to drive. Actually driving it? Hated it within 10 miles.)
  15. Surprised the copypasta took that long to show up.

    There's one thing not mentioned in there. The Op mentioned... well, a bunch of buzzwords. The only time combining servers has any "benefit" that I've seen tends to be in PVP-centric games (which COH definitely is not.) There's another NCSoft game with a bunch of people with wings trying to kill each other like this. They've combined servers a few times, since there are goals your character pretty much MUST meet to advance, get decent gear, etc. that require PVP - so they require a PVP population.

    Even then, I wouldn't call it "successful." And I can't help but wonder if it's part of the reason they've had *mutliple* merges. (They're down to three servers, so there's been at LEAST two merges.)
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lersondaya View Post
    Nevermind, I figured it out. I had to uncheck the little thingie in the lower left.
    Ahh, the "Show free items."

    By the way, if you just want to play and don't want to deal with respeccing (and trying to find someplace to go put all those enhancements) -

    Any character, go to a trainer. Select "Select your build." You'll have two to choose from - the second starts at level 1 (pri/sec are the same, of course.) It'll be like re-training all your levels again (not *playing* from level one, but as if you had, say, PL'd the character and were just now going in to train him - the XP is there and earned, you just have to train the levels in.)

    Mini guide to dual builds is down in the signature, if interested.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by warden_de_dios View Post
    They could just sell personal lairs in the Marketplace and leave the base system as is.
    Except (A) the base system *does* need fixing, desperately, (b) they're against "single man SGs," and (c) apparently the idea of personal lairs/apartments would be too much of a load on the servers, according to them.
  18. It's not just prestige and such. People have salvage stored in the bases, and enhancements. Havng a few billion in purples, rare salvage, etc. go away would make someone decidedly not happy... especially if they don't really "get" anything (like base editing permission) out of it.
  19. All right. So I have some fairly old bases. Went in to do a little editing on one, and saw some... odd info on an item. More clicking around showed this same info on other items. Went to another base, same server (Triumph) - same thing. Went to another server - same thing.

    The odd info?



    Anything crafted has that jihoU as the "placed by" name. And everything shows the same cost. Even something freshly placed inherits this. For the heck of it, logged off, logged into a different account - didn't expect it to change, and it didn't.

    Haven't created a new base in... um... well, a while. (Edit: Remembered one, fairly basic, less than a year old. Same thing, third server.) And didn't see this in Impish Kat's bugs list. Did /bug it in game. Wondering if anyone's seeing this, only seeing it with older bases or all bases, if it's anything to be concerned about (base database slow degradation?) or any other thoughts.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tanstaafl View Post
    The exalted server was hammered, with a newish name reserving system.

    That's how I would explain it. Not too much a strech to reserve two names.

    How they could also log in at the same time without the server going Bamf is the puzzle.
    Pure "luck."

    Note the back and forth tells happen to look like I'm sending tells to myself. Neither of us had logged out by that time - we were on steam or TS or something and had a "OK, I've got her name reserved." "Wait, what? I have it reserved." "No way. Did you put in a space or something?" conversation, then made sure to get away from everyone to compare.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stunrunner View Post
    It does. SIREN is not the same as Siren, as far as the game is concerned.

    Incorrect.

    You can /t Memphis Bill, MEMPHIS BILL, memphis bill, MeMpHiS BiLl, MEMphIs BiLL, etc. and they'll all go to my character. And if you try using any of those names (even though mine's only capitalized as a proper name - first letter of each word,) you'll get "Name is in use." (Yes, I have different versions of me everywhere.)

    Therefore, the game does not consider case.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    It seems like the problem is a narrow definition.
    /seconded.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyger42 View Post
    I didn't really see any suitable answers. A quantum computer in a robot chassis? A computer is still tech. Magic robots? Those are called "golems"...
    A golem has a specific definition. Specifically, it tends to be unthinking - or let's just go with "not sentient."

    Magic robot? Let me take a moment and create a bio...

    It didn't remember coming into being, anything before the rite. Its first memory was seeing the bodies of what it would later know to be mages laying around a broken room, scorch marks still on the floor. It didn't pay them any mind - why should it? They were just part of its environment.

    Like most young beings, it was curious. After flitting around the room, it found a window - once warded, the wards (and glass) had been destroyed in the blast. It flew out freely into the night air, and soared. It first tried to reach the other points of light it saw, far above, sure they were like it - but it failed. Somehow, it was tied to the land beneath it. It took stock of itself, not feeling anything tying it down, and wondered.

    If it was to be bound to this world, then that's where it felt best for it to explore. It floated along near the ground, unobserved by most it saw. It was unhappy, then. Apparently it was to be alone - nothing paid it any mind (except a cat it came across, which hissed and ran off.) Eventually it found an area full of life - life that wouldn't run away. Making its home in a tree, it started to study "life." It learned it could direct the tree's growth, even make its branches move - though the misdirected growth seemed to hurt it. It then tried the ground, but found its attempts frustrated -then, after having its spire turned to mud and washed away after a rainstorm, decided "ground" was thoroughly unsatisfactory.

    Then it discovered metal. First it tried some of the available forms. Doorknobs could move with the odd, flat tree they were in, but only a little way. The humans it saw (for it had learned what they were called) seemed to find this action fairly annoying, too. It then tried an odd, thin contraption with movable parts - but decided, after the third fall, it didn't want to be a bicycle. It then tried one of the four-wheeled constructions it had found. Fast, mobile, and it could communicate - sort of - with the lights and the horn. Its biggest drawback was that it couldn't see, and was fairly limited in where it could roam.

    It went with the (shortly wrecked) car to a "junkyard," someplace absolutely rich in metals. And there it worked. It learned. It learned to mold metal as it willed. It discovered a way to create motion, to see. Possibly to communicate.

    It ventured out, leaving a hole in the fence. Entering the city, it found its welcoming flashes sometimes ignored, sometimes responded to with a wave and some words it was beginning to understand. This was good! It continued joyously for another mile, flashing and waving at people.

    Then it came upon the gang members.

    It wasn't sure of what it was seeing. Three of these humans, dressed the same, surrounded a fourth who seemed to be in some sort of distress. Surely they were helping the other, who apparently had something stuck to her hands. It flashed a greeting, obviously startling the first three. They let go of the object stuck to the other's hand, letting her fall, then came over to it. They poked at it and prodded it, then started hitting it. It flashed at them to stop, which apparently they thought was funny - it had heard laughter before. They knocked it down, kicked it a time or two, then went back to the fourth.

    It was unhappy. It didn't understand. It did understand, however, that the fourth's distress increased when the first three caught up to her again. It also learned that it had its pride - and a sense of right and wrong. It went past unhappy to angry. Concentrating, it reconfigured the signaling light in its hand, redirecting the metal and glass. It fed its energy, anger and will along those lines, focusing it.

    The gang members, ignoring the "rustbucket," were caught unaware. The three gang members (and the girl they were trying to mug) were knocked down again. She scrambled to her feet and ran toward her saviour, who watched, applying more blasts until they were immobile. It considered going on - it could still detect their life - but it paused, and the woman put her hand on its arm.

    "Don't kill them. You saved me, thank you. Don't ruin it by killing them. I've called the police. Thank you," she said. It wondered if it was being attacked again when she put her arms around it, then decided it wasn't. It watched as she sprinted off, finding someone still in one of the otherwise closed stores to let her in until the police arrived.

    It decided it had a lot to learn.




    .... so there you have a magic creature creating a body for itself out of metal - a magic "robot," self-aware and animated, upgraded (and armed) wholly through its own will.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyger42 View Post
    How on earth would a robot NOT be considered tech? It's pretty much the prime example of a tech character.
    Read the rest of the thread and find out.
  24. Heck, you could call him "natural," if you wanted, since being a robot and all the abilities that come with it are inherent to his design.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tanstaafl View Post
    I've heard that too from a couple threads/people.

    Hard thing to prove and organise a screen shot for.
    I may actually *have* said screen shot. I'd have to look. (A friend and I were both trying to reserve another friend's name, since she was having some issue trying to log on... surprisingly *cough.*)

    Note that we'd coordinated after to try and see if it could happen again - couldn't get it to.