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  1. Shouldn't this be in Suggestions?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by seebs View Post
    What's Ninja Run?
    Power from the Super Booster IV: Martial Arts.

    Same endurance cost as Super Jump or Super Speed.

    Same jump movement control as Super Jump (change direction in mid air).

    25% of the jump height of Super Jump, 5% of jump speed of Super Jump, 40% the run speed of Super Speed.

    No anti-aggro or stealth field of Super Speed.

    No slots.

    Flips at the apex of the jump and arms swept back pose while running.
  3. It would disable ads, if they had any to display, which they don't, not for a long time now.

    Another "feature" rotting on the refuse pile of "heh, lets try this, it'll be neat".
  4. Father Xmas

    So I saw Machete

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake View Post
    ok so, back to the movie, apparently pulled in 14 million. not disastrous, was beat out by "the american" at 16 mill.http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....office-reuters
    Clooney Vs Trejo? I think the ladies will allow themselves to be dragged to The American over Machete.

    Edit: Really need an audio read back of my posts, my mind always insert the words I left out.
  5. Father Xmas

    Upgrade fail?

    Well ... the higher voltage goes hand in hand with the higher transfer rates and faster timings. They should have a DDR3-1066 or -1333 setting with more conservative timings that can handle 1.5 volts (which is the DDR3 spec actually).

    But leaving them set at 1.5 volts while running them faster and at the better timings would be a problem.
  6. The funny thing is I totally forgot that Brawl, Sprint and Rest are inherent powers with slots. I keep thinking about AT inherents.
  7. Well if the preliminary weekend box office numbers hold up, Scott Pilgrim beat both The Expendables and Eat Pray Love in per theater box office. Of course the other two are in double or triple the number of theaters.
  8. I wasn't trying to make a "search first noob" post, sorry if it came off that way. I was simply showing that others have discussed it and the devs altered the patch notes to drop the Syndicate costume set as a feature.
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    Ninja Run combo

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JayboH View Post
    No, they are not. You will be unable to pick the fitness pool - it is being removed and made into an inherent. If they nerf the inherents, which no one has even hinted at, then they are nerfing stamina for everyone, because you will never be able to pick stamina as a power ever again the way you used to.
    Yes that's my point. But there are a number of different ways it can be done.

    1. Everyone simply gets the power pool and it's powers for free at the level they normally become available (6/12/12/20). They can be slotted but essentially everyone gets four more powers by level 20.

    2. They simply buff run, jump, fly, regen and recovery and drop the pool.

    3. A combo of the two. They appear as powers but can't be slotted but their effects scale with level.

    I'm just concerned about all the respecing I would need to do if they free up the power picks I previously used for the fitness pool but then have the problem of freeing up slots to use on additional attacks or toggles, assuming we still can slot the fitness powers.

    Looks like I'm going to need to finally Frankenslot.
  10. Yes, was a fan of Samson and Goliath as well. Shazam and his dog.

    A number of these were little 5 minute cartoons that were part of a larger animation block, that may be a reason for their obscurity.
  11. Well there really isn't an industry standard for reporting response time, it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

    But you should be aware the 2 and 5ms times are the very best time and doesn't represent the mean time of the panel. A pixel may be able to go from any value to full off or full on in 5ms but going from 25% on to 75% on may be 25ms. 60Hz is 16-17ms BTW. On top of that they only can achieve those times by actually displaying the wrong data for a moment as the panel is actually over/under shooting the target value and then take a while to stabilize at the correct value. Example of what I'm talking about.

    Then there's input lag for the whole display on top of that, time from frame data received to frame being displayed, that isn't discussed on the monitor's spec sheet. Example of input lag, last picture on page. Both monitors are being driven by the same card, the time displayed on both monitors should be identical.
  12. Well then, everyone with the problem.
    1. Open support tickets for the pseudo-deleted characters.
    2. /bug the problem including steps to reproduce it.
    3. PM Ocho or Mod 12 about this thread so he can show it to the right people.
  13. Father Xmas

    So I saw Machete

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pouncer View Post
    Reminds me of Ann Coulter's review of War of the Worlds. She interpreted it to be some kind of liberal political statement against the war in Iraq. I guess no one told her the story was written in 1898.
    Well the "Is it terrorists?" line that gets repeated by the kids during the early part of the film combined with the image Tom Cruise covered in people dust do sort of reflect on post 9/11 America.

    It's not unusual for the source material of a film to be bent to convey a particular point of view. Take the two versions of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Neither match the short story which had a Twilight Zone twist ending about man's first encounter with aliens. The 50s version was about the dangers of war in the post atomic era as well as the Red scare, the remake was all about environmental issues.
  14. Father Xmas

    Ninja Run combo

    I haven't heard if they are planning to nerf the inherent fitness pool somehow (lower base values of each power, make them unslotable or simply buffing of the standard character base values for those four attributes).
  15. There are several threads right after GR's release pointing out the lack of options for females.

    Syndicate Costume Pieces?
    Syndicate Costume?

    It's possible that because they aren't available to all body types, the patch note was change to no longer list them as an available costume set. So the devs are probably aware.

    Edit: Need to stop making 3am posts. Edited for coherency.
  16. Pre ED means the number you get when you add up each enhancement separately.

    This number is fed through the ED mashing equation which limits a the actual value to something in the ballpark of three even level SOs to get the actual total enhancement value.
  17. Combination of a Thesaurus and Google Translate/Bablefish. Also puns, homonyms/homophones/bad spelling, baby name sites (great for names with meaning in foreign languages).
  18. You should be able to find it here near the bottom of the page.

    All files are in Ogg Vorbis format. Depending on your preferred music player, you may need a driver.
  19. Father Xmas

    So I saw Machete

    It's more like white middle America aren't overly familiar with the films of Robert Rodriguez. Machete first appeared 9 years ago in Spy Kids for crying out loud.

    The fanatical right reading into Machete is just like the fanatical left reading into Iron Man. The only lesson here are fanatics see and hear what they want to see and hear.
  20. So it looks to be a Guardian problem and not server wide, unless someone can duplicate this on another server.
  21. Well that depends on what you consider to be ED cap. I always thought of it as pre-ED 100%. For me the math doesn't work out for 4 caps in 5 slots.

    Two dual aspect IOs is equal to 1.25 single aspect IOs, three triple to 1.50 and four quad to 1.75. A level 50 Schedule A IO is 42.4%.

    100% pre-ED would then be 2.36 Level 50 single aspect IOs, 3.78 Level 50 dual aspect IOs, 4.72 Level 50 triple aspect IOs or 5.40 Level 50 quad aspect IOs.

    So to cap 4 aspects you need 9.44 slots for single aspect, 7.55 slots for dual aspect, 6.29 slots to for triple aspect and 5.39 slots for quad aspect IOs. While quad aspect comes very close, I don't think there are enough quad aspect IOs in Acc/Dam/Rech/End Rec and even if they were they would have to be level 50 IOs simple to come close (pre-ED 92.75% for five quad Level 50 in 5 slots).

    Now pre-ED 92.75% is nothing to sneeze at, it'll give you 91.3% post ED on four aspects. But I don't see you hitting 100% pre-ED in four aspects for five or even six slots.
  22. The youngsters don't remember the days when Instant Healing was a toggle, before the multiple regen nerfs, when a /regen scrapper could go from 1 to max HPs in the time it took for one hop of Super Jump.
  23. Take his vehicles. The scallop winged Batplane (I had a model of that as a kid) or the "bat shield" nose of the Batmobile are throwbacks to the 1950s Batman. Even that was before my time and I have no idea what the dialog was like from the comics back then.

    According to Wikipedia, The Brave and the Bold comic took off in the mid 60s due to the Batman TV series and became an exclusive Batman teams up with <blank> comic. I also have no idea what the dialog was like in those comics either.