Memphis_Bill

I'll be honest, it's not my list I grabbed it the first time I saw it posted, and stuck it in notepad. Whether what you're seeing is normal or not, I don't know.

I heard it was Snarf.

It will be if you want to access all of them, unless you only play - oh, less than ten, or pay for more slots.

Well, unless they're actually dead, it's quite possible that (oh) one was a tank that got a taunt off just before they lost the last bit of END (say, a power crash of some sort) and detoggled, getting stunned.

Or the AI's just being wonky.

Never assume it's you just because you're *not* mezzed.

OK, fine. If you were locked in a room with this guy for a few hours, would you NOT want to use your largest, most damaging attack, even if you didn't need that much damage? >.>

I want to say when you do it'll do a "Windows.old" folder, and otherwise do a clean install - it doesn't copy anything over.

It's a messy way to upgrade. Agree a clean install is really best.

I'm pretty sure that Verizon will see:
and say it's not them, quite honestly - and unless they provide everything (I THINK I'm hearing a separate modem and router - not sure how their FIOS works) support will usually stop at "The modem says it's responding." Or charge to send someone out.

This is the integrated card on that ASUS board, I assume?

There's no specific answer re: HC and supervillains. Or, rather, no need for just one answer. You can:

- See it as villains "upping the game" in response to hero corp showing up (IE, mob controls drug trade in small country, HC shows up, mob hires on villains.)

- See it as Mercenaries being Mercenary and causing trouble intheir time off ("Nobody can catch me if I rob this bank...")

- See it as an internal plot by some HC folks to keep business brisk,

- Mix of the above.

I go for #4, specifically.

Just for a little extra detail (probably at the link) - demorecord is (a) smaller than a video, size wise, and (b) will not show the UI.

If you WANT the UI to record, you'll need to use something like fraps as you play. (There's another - wegame? - available, to my knowledge, and if you haven't bought fraps, it watermarks the top of the video with their URL and shuts off the recording after 30 seconds.)

Even with a demo, though, you'll STILL need something to record it to save elsewhere (youtube, cd, whatever.) So... same as above, fraps or whatnot.

Having USED Fraps... it doesn't (IIRC) do much compressing. Video files - and you'll get a series of them if you record for very long - can grow *huge.* Make sure you have space for them - yes, I'd call 10 Gb "tight." I save mine (when I do them) on a part of a terabyte drive.

It's not "my" scenario when you start adding things and dancing around. The standard EvilGeko "let me add crap and obscure the question" is what's irritating. Also,

... and yet you chose to dance around and hope you had the boss's attention. You have yet to actually explain why you thought that was a good idea, without adding BS. (I don't personally believe you can do much of anything without adding that sort of BS, quite honestly. See prior mention of asking about dinner.)

(Side note for anyone else - I do actually like Geko. Doesn't mean he doesn't irritate the hell out of me when he pulls this sort of thing, though.)

You are, I am assuming, intelligent. I'm starting to question that at this point, but I'm going to stay with that assumption. You are well aware that tangents can come up in threads - such as discussing your "maximal" use, which I laid out specifically as the reason for bringing this up:

IE, "wasting" that power's full potential. Given you have yet to explain specifically what you mean by "Maximal" - which has either a long description of math subsets, relation to art, or a group of Transformers as definitions - I can only go by its relation to "maximum," IE, "maximum effect," such as "Don't use a piledriver to squish an ant."

Your answer - after making up extra critters, etc. that were not in the situation - is to dance around and let them get killed because... what, the power use isn't "maximal," whatever you care to mean by that since in this situation it's an empty term?

And you still haven't answered how using Shield Charge - in MY specific named situation, with ONE boss that can kill your team or be killed with either the one AOE or a few smaller attacks, not your "And all these other guys I just threw in for the hell of it, and this and this and this" - is any more "maximal" (a term you've yet to define to anyone given it fits no known definition in this instance) than using the other AOEs.

If we had splash damage and friendly fire so it would damage your allies, your answer would make sense even with MY very simple, very specific constraints.

As for:
to me saying you weighted it?

Let's see, my situation:
- Teammates unable to help themselves, low health.
- One boss that can kill them, but is low on health.
- Your powers at this point are a high damage AOE or a bunch of smaller powers, either of which will kill the boss.

in response to your "maximal" comment. Your reaction?

"What's the team makeup?" Irrelevant. The team cant' do anything for the next several seconds, but are in danger.
"What enemy group?" Irrelevant. We're looking at one boss that can do AOE enough to kill the group, and will if nothing changes.
"What are my powersets/primary/secondary?" Also irrelevant. You have an AOE and a few smaller attacks, everything else is debuffed and won't be up before the boss kills the group.

You also decided "Well, I add more critters" for some reason.
You also stayed focused, for some reason, on knockback, even after I modified that to "Fine, a high damage AOE to get you out of thinking of knockback."

And like I said, your "Solution" without your added nonsense? Dancing away? Great, the boss still has a pretty good chance of killing the rest of the team. Your choice is, essentially, "Do nothing."

I'm discussing something specifically with geko that has nothing to do with KB. Even if he reads other things in.

You "Fleshed it out?" No, you added in qualifiers to a simple scenario to make it more complicated and weight it in your favor.

It's like asking "What do you like for dinner?" and being asked about table settings, the weather, what kind of car would be used to go to dinner if going there, what the traffic's like, what sort of lunch you had last week and the color of the carpet. None of that *matters,* but you want to obscure and tilt it so far out of the way with irrelevant BS to try to "make a point." Just say freaking "Steak" or "Fish" or something.

I'll also point out YOU were saying I was asking for things that I *was not.* Such as "A KB causing nuke."

You also filled in "Other critters," which I DID NOT HAVE IN THAT SCENARIO. They are, fortunately,d ead. They can, however, still have debuffed the team before dying.

Possible result with MY specific description and YOUR actions?

Boss stays aggroed on one of the mezzed characters, fires off attack, kills the rest of the team while you're dancing around. Congrats. Enjoy your team wipe.

You did not FILL IN FACTS. You make crap up. BIG difference. And it's part of why I hate trying to discuss anything with you, because after pages of posts of you doing that until the original question or statement is so BOGGED DOWN and BURIED under piles of nonsense, you suddenly decide "See, I was right!" when you haven't answered a DAMN THING other than whatever you make up.

If we're looking specifically at a nuke, with one or two exceptions, with one target they won't drain you of endurance on one target. That aside...

... before you answered, well before, so you had plenty of opportunity to see it and I was trying to get you out of "KB," but hey....
And yet you're against using knockback - even PBAOE knockback - against fewer targets than it's designed to hit (less than "maximal," which again, is improper use of the term, whether you're talking math, Transformers or art, and thus is an empty phrase here leading to nothing but assumption on what you mean,) regardless of how it's used.

That aside, how is using Shield Charge a "maximal" use of the power when using, say, Inferno, Omega Maneuver, Dawn Strike, Thunderous Blast, etc are not, which you suggest above with your "I move..." line?

Dual, pfft. I want to quad wield.

Show me where I stated "A KB causing nuke." Especially when I specifically said:

1. Not all nukes cause KB, and
2. Replace with "High damage AOE" if you're so hung up on KB.

I swear, trying to get just a simple, straight answer out of you, and you still try to manipulate it. Tot he point of making your teammates blasters when I said, specifically,

"low health/stunned/generally unable to do anything *right now*"

The situation I put out there has *jack all* to do with KB.

... or be patient and use the "Thanks for being subscribed" stipend.

I did not say a KB power. I said a nuke. While some (Energy, for instance) do KB, others do not (Electric, Fire, Ice come to mind.) You can replace that with "Generic high damage AOE" if you're so hung up on KB.

I suggest, given your comments, you re-read precisely the situation I described. Teammates at low health/stunned/generally unable to do anything *right now* and in danger from a boss. Your one attack that's recharged and ready to go, thanks to the fight that otherwise is just finished, is a high damage AOE - or, as mentioned, brawl and temp powers. Your other attacks won't be back before that boss attacks thanks to a lot of stacked recharge debuffs (and if you DON'T think that exists, you have not been paying attention. One of the - believe it's 20-30 Safeguards - has a good chance of putting you against EXACTLY that if you go to stop a jailbreak.)

This isn't about KB, this is about "Maximal utilization of a power is always the optimal strategy by definition." (Maximal, itself, not being an appropriate word in this statement, but being taken as "If the power won't give you the most bang for the buck, it's not appropriate to use." A high damage AOE is meant to give a lot of damage to multiple enemies. You don't have multiple enemies in this scenario. You have one, with two options - as if you wait for an "appropriate" attack - ST, doing rougly the boss's health in damage - the team WILL die. Thanks to the prior fight, they have no breakfrees to break out of the stun they're in, and are low enough on insps they can't combine.)

You're dodging the question entirely. Trying to, if you'll pardon the phrase, lawyer your way out of it. (And ignoring such things as "You've been debuffed to the point where your next attack won't recharge in 7 seconds" - you've *NEVER* seen a pack of Ink Men, for instance - or something in AE - that could do this? I have.)

And yet you (non generic you) step in to a thread specifically to attack motives that aren't there and question me (non generic me.)

I find that interesting, with the above quote.

After all, if "no one cares," then nobody should attack or question motives... which you, personally, did... which indicates SOME degree or sort of caring about that sort of thing. You don't see dissonance there?