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You are not. And if true, Earth Prime just scored a huge ace in the hole by befriending the Ritki Traditionalists. They've fought them before, they'll know what to teach us to survive.

the odd thing is the time difference. The Ritki battled their Battalion 100 years back. Why the delay here? One view, I suppose, is that the Oroboros folks managed to manipulate time enough to push back the kickoff by 100 years so far.

"minus the others" as in top billing, yes. I liked a lot of the pirate crewmembers and would like to see them back. Cotton and his parrot were always good for a laugh.

It has. (though you've got a different article covering the same case.)

Agreed. A successful, manly film filled with stars? Its been done before.

The Magnificent Seven
The Dirty Dozen

Not in Rhode Island, just supported by it. Its a New England team, and state borders are irrelevant in such. Boston is only 50 miles from Providence, RI. Even if Paragon City was at the opposite end of RI, you are looking at 100 miles total. Here in the Carolinas, we tend to support the Charlotte sports teams, even if they are in the other Carolina. Its only 100 miles from my home. In major league baseball we follow the Atlanta Braves, but again, its only 150 miles (Well...there is one notable exception: my hometown has one of the Boston Red Sox's 1A division teams, so some follow Boston. Six Degrees of...and all that jazz)

I've not followed Cap closely over the years, but just googling his image shows that he's probably ambidextrous. There's many shots shifting the shield back and forth. The movie poster in this thread also shows him holding a pistol in his left hand. Possibly the super soldier serum grants this ambidextrous nature. It would certainly make him a more rounded fighter.

Thank you for the clarifications, Ghost Falcon. If I may ask for one more, regarding the point above: if a character moves through the GR Alignment System and "returns to the fold" as it were, will they ever be allowed access to those lounges and content? Or will the swap permanently condemn them to wander outside? I'm hoping, even if there is a time limit involved, that one returning to pure hero or villain status will gain access, otherwise, it seems they'd want to remain "pure" gain all the benefits desired (which could be a significant amount of time), then run the GR Alignment System for content, badges, etc.

Trying to figure it out myself. Seems like Alice in Wonderland meets Arkham Asylum meets the Matrix. The thing I can't figure out is if she's interacting with other intelligences or just her own thoughts.

Thank you for clearing that up.

From what I gather, the "flawed capacitor fiasco" as I called it, resulted from a Chinese capacitor company doing shoddy work. The capacitors were passed along to Dell and other companies. The real problem was that Dell not only failed to acknowledge the problem but actively tried to cover up the story and continue selling defective product, rather than forcing a correction in the manufacturing process. That, to me, really takes a hit to the trust relationship. I've not learned which other companies also suffered from the capacitor problem, nor how they handled it. Here is a link to a ZDNet article discussing the case.

You just recently came to CoH, right? and you are considering a CoH rig? Sounds like you're liking our part of the universe.
Thanks for the eMachines comment. I admit to having snobbishly thumbed my nose at them. Perhaps that was hasty. I'll do further checking in a reconsideration.

This sounds...so typical of Sony. I'd hoped for better, but it fits the pattern. Thanks for the feedback!

Great feedback all around, MattMiracle. Thank you! My experiences had left Toshiba pushed to the background with a "meh". Yours is more precise info.

HP/Compaq: I'll flesh out my experiences a bit. I had a project the last 2 years supporting a bank using HP/Compaq exclusively. Server-wise, I cannot really comment. Most servers had been kept in duty too long and were frail. The new servers were too new to show problem patterns. My big issues were with desktops and laptops. New desktop models dc7600 to dc7900 had just under a 20% hard drive failure rate in the first 4 months of service. Mid-aged laptop model nc8430 (about 4 years old) was my bane, with significant patterned failure rates in the vid screen, hard drive, and motherboards, especially at the point of power connections. They also had pattern problems with thermal issues. The new nc8510 and nc8530 models had patterned problems of sluggish behavior.

A good answer, Bill! I would note, though, that an absence of patterned problems also makes a statement. I did a 9-month contract involving dozens of IBM/Lenovo desktops and laptops. There were no patterned problems, just software stuff and the occasional odds and ends hardware issue. It impressed me, surprising since I've become jaded, wondering if anything good comes from China.

I build my own systems, too. Its fun! But mostly I'm asking so as to assist the Average Joe who doesn't know video card from sound card.

Not twice anyways.

First, isn't the upcoming Cathedral of Pain a 24-player raid of sorts?

Second, wasn't there a rumored test, a while back, of trying to allow players to team across shards, like the WoW dungeons and pvp battlegrounds now do? Seems that would solve the small server population problem.

That...is really cool, Nos482! I may just have to steal a few ideas from that. I wonder what it would look like with the earned epaulets?

>>>I'm guessing we've run the course for serial space hero types. Though I'll be delighted to see late submissions.
But lets not monopolize, and keep the thread moving according to Shadowclone's OP. Someone else pick a good topic to design!

Looks like its paid off well! Love the new troll cover and the brown light saber is just about as funny as the bomb-defusing one several posts back!

Now if we can only keep the trolls airheaded long enough to detox...

Skippy, because The Peanut Butter Kid was just too long to type out each time.