Hyperstrike
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Quote:Which one? In the cut scene or the scene just before that?Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Total props for Malaise's last line.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Leandro
Spoilers. Highlight to read.
I wasn't expecting Malaise to actually be killed off, and I am wondering what's going to happen with Manticore now that I had to politely kick his ***. While I am pretty sure that the previous episode (with the death of Alexis) was supposed to be the What Episode, this was the one that did it for me, with all the consequences piling on top of each other. I am still not terribly impressed with the arc, but at least now it's heading somewhere.
I just wish it didn't exemplar me to 40. I hope the last few episodes finally go to 50. It doesn't make much sense for (what's left of) the Phalanx to be fighting level 40 stuff.
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Quote:Yeha. Don't get me wrong. If you were to get one for gaming, it'd do okay. But Intel is better bang for the buck right now.Originally Posted by Kioshi
Thanks a lot for the answer, Hyper, I had the feeling you could enlighten me in a simpler way than me reading the tech sites, although I'd surely do my research in case you said the chips were fine for a gaming laptop. Glad you mentioned they're power hungry since I'm thinking about a laptop.
Trust me. NOT possible. Your chances of surviving a fall into a black hole are better.Quote:But I'm probably sicker than you from the Apple fanboys around me, 
It's an expensive boutique computer. As such, it's a sign of affluence. And some people like to appear affluent.Quote:especially since Brazil has been rising economically and Apple has been all the rage here lately. I see the appeal of Mac OS X of course
Why get an ACME Barato when you can get an Apple Macintosh!
Yep.Quote:but tbh most of the recently converted Apple using friends I have complain about viruses and freezing and etc, a problem I never had on windows (although I never used Me or Vista) - and on my previous mac I ran XP for months without going to OS X because of CoX and never had problems, despite disliking XP's interface (I like 7 a lot tho).
Yeah. I've seen them. Unfortunately, you get all these little nasties when you have to deal with emulation. In a perfect world, everything in emulation would "just work". Reality is a bit nastier though.Quote:But if I were a serious gamer I'd have bought a PC because while I'm enjoying that for now I can run Skyrim at almost max settings for example (I can do max if I drop to 1920x1080 but at the native res from my display I have to tone down some things but it looks better in native anyway), I know it won't last long due to not being able to replace the GPU, and besides CoX it's the only PC game that has gotten me hooked for a long time 
- and for gaming the conversions are sucky sometimes because of those emulation shenanigans I don't understand well, I use the windows client on CoX because I can play on max 'everything' for 12 hours straight if I want, the mac client crashes about once per hour no matter what I do, I bet you checked out the flood of complaints in the mac forums here.
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Quote:Nope. They don't outperform equivalent Intel setups in gaming. Nor do they outperform equivalent Intel setups in server duties. It's something of a massive boondoggle for AMD at this point. The chips are huge, power-sucking beasts that simply don't deliver. POSSIBLY the next generation of the chip might be more palatable, after they do some platform tweaking and lower the power requirements (a die shrink could do wonders for them).Originally Posted by Kioshi
Hey Hyper do you think the new AMD chips outperform Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Intel stuff or are at least competitive? Nowadays I only look at the more popular review sites and all I see is Intel talk.
I'm just going to say that I am, emphatically, NOT the market segment that Apple is looking to service and leave it at that. Apple had their "Hook 'em while they're young" chance back in the late 70's with me. An uncle of mine decided to have me go PC instead and I've been thanking the man ever since. I'm just not constitutionally capable of being told that fixed platform is "all I need".Quote:I could go read anandtech and all but I'm looking for a simple answer for now - I'll probably need a notebook next year and I was an AMD fan until 2000 when I started using Apple - so I'll look for a 15.6 gaming notebook in 2012, my 27 inch imac is not exactly suited for travel (and yeah all my friends who say they have 'seen the light' because here in my country the Apple crazy began like, 2 years ago, find me strange for liking windows and preferring Android over the iPhone, I guess I just like variety. Funny thing is, I was actually flamed by lots of them on facebook when I posted 'wow Windows 7 runs really smooth on my core duo 1.66 mac' - my previous mac that was struggling with OS X - and whenever they need Apple tech support they come to me lol).
Apple would never understand someone who was doing full immersion liquid cooling. I think my pics of my lexan setup are still floating around someplace. Maybe I'll post them sometime. -
Okay. Anyone else having this issue?
I had a paper mission I used for a brute so he could build up tip missions quickly. Post patch yesterday:
- Mission title gone from "Defeat Archon Rossi and Guards" to "Defeat BOSS_NAME and Guards"
- Now on a different map.
- All enemies in the mission are gun turrets.
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Well, AMD have bet the kids' college fund on their new architecture. If they don't push it and deprecate their old stuff, it's money wasted.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Beastyle
Submissions open every Monday only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between November 7, 2011 and January 30, 2012).
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Not much here piques my interest. Waiting eagerly for Incarnate solo and small-teams content. Just completely fed up with raiding.
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Quote:Mommy? Howcome that man gots no fingers?Originally Posted by Firemoth
.....though Sword-chucks would be an interesting ranged/melee....(Sorry, insomnia + caffeine = weird ideas) -
Quote:Or build up enough reward points to enable the use of /ah.Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
Maybe I should just start deleting it and avoid WW altogether.
For someone who doesn't want to put up with the crap in the auction house locations, it's like a gift from god/the gods/Bob/the Spaghetti Monster/Joe Pesci/etc. -
Quote:NICE!Originally Posted by StormDevil
Done and done!
(I ended up splurging on a new monitor, actually)
Let me know how that system works once you get it. I'm always interested in people's feedback from different vendors. -
Quote:Yep. I'd go and make sure on each of the tabs just to be safe. But once you've eyeballed it, if you wanna pull the trigger, BANG BANG!Originally Posted by StormDevil
Cool, thanks a ton, Hyper. That's not too far above my price range, so I'm OK with that. It looks like, when I click on that link, all the options you mentioned are already chosen. Is that correct? (Just want to double check before I pull the trigger)
Note that this machine doesn't come with a monitor or speakers. If you were planning to recycle from your current machine for those, all's good.
And enjoy that 2GB 560Ti. It should rock in CoH. -
Quote:Yep. Just as easy as looking for a bunch of random characters...Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
It's as easy as doing a search for odd names like xxckklj
Oh. You were serious.
Which isn't as easy to filter for as you might think.Quote:Not all of them hang out in Atlas, Iv'e seen them in every WW from time to time, with names similar to sdjfhg, ccvmmkn, ghkklkj, you get the idea.
How many letters and numbers are allowed in a name? How many permutations is that?
Just look for double C's right? So "Flame of Mecca" is okay to just DC?
Maybe double K's right? Mekka Kitty doesn't need to stay on right?
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Quote:Currently nVidia is the less-probelmatic platform for CoH. About the only time the drivers have real problems is when the underlying system can't keep the GPU supplied with data (the "timeout" error that some people have been having).Originally Posted by Gaia
Would be worth checking the GIS forums as well - I'm a few years out of touch but iirc ArcInfo had major problems with NVidia GPUs
If that is now resolved then the NVidia GPUs tend to have better drivers for CoH although 11.9 is pretty good for AMD GPUs. -
Quote:Yeah. I have the BOFH calendar as well.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Sorry, can't fix it today due to ... ah ... solar flares.
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Quote:Well, the large inspie you get out of it isn't an insignificant amount of Inf.Originally Posted by Jagged
Every time I have visited Atlas Park Wentworths over the last few weeks there has been a predictable looking level 2 spamming Local, sometimes 2. I didn't think /ignoreasspammer was doing anything because the same guys where still there a couple of hours later when I finished my session. However people assure me that it does get them banned eventually.
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Quote:At this point, this is exactly what is needed.Originally Posted by BlackSun17
As one of my customers once told me, "Enough apologies - just fix it."
If I hear one more mealy-mouthed platitude, about why it SHOULD be fixed but ISN'T I shall grow...irritable.
Zwill, at this point, stop wasting energy apologizing and crack the damn whip on the web guys already.
Apologies don't fix a damn thing. FIXING STUFF fixes it. -
I'm coming in just above your budget here but.
http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Intel...urator/w/95426
Start on their Intel Z68 configurator.
Change the CPU to i5 2500K
Leave memory as is (Free upgrade from 4GB to 8GB)
Bump power supply to 650W
Bump video card to nVidia GTX560 Ti 2GB (Free upgrade from a 1GB card).
Head on to the next tab and add Windows 7 Home Premium (Unless any software you're using REQUIRES Win7 Pro).
About $1210 shipped with a 3 year warranty.
I know it's a bit outside your budget. But that cost is primarily the OS and shipping. The fact that hard drives have nearly doubled in price doesn't help either. If you already own a copy of Windows 7 and aren't squeamish about installing, you can cut out about $110. The shipping's unavoidable. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Jagged
Just for the record: camping out there was never my suggestion.
Then was was "If they'd just go into WW in AP" a suggestion of?
Yeah, they MIGHT run into a spammer every now and again. But, essentially, what you're asking is that they take up residence.
Why? Because intermittent visits aren't any more effectual than responding to reports of RMT spammers. -
Quote:You mean besides the fact that:Originally Posted by Jagged
Wrong and laughably so. A GM only needs to hear the spam to ban them, they don't have to hunt them down. If they move out of range that is as good as a ban. If RMT spammers want to spam local chat in places few people can hear them, then let them waste their time.
Now please carry on telling my why my "non-existent" suggestion won't work.
- The GMs can't (as in CAN NOT) camp in Atlas Park (16 server shards, some with multiple instances of the zone) 24x7?
- That there are how many instances of WW in multiple zones, in multiple instances on multiple servers?
- The accounts being used to spam are throw-aways with the real money being moved through a website and the inf transaction happening in private chat with real accounts?
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Quote:My YouTube and Google Video accounts are quite in good standing and have existed for years. Yet I was still prompted for this (and one of my videos truncated) before I was allowed to upload longer videos again.Originally Posted by Durakken
>.> Since when? They just want an account in good standing, not a cell phone as far as I know.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jagged
Hey guys,
I don't want to be too critical since its not as though RMT Spamming is an awful problem BUT:- My Global Ignore is full and the list is always completely blue meaning they are all online. The only people on my global ignore list are RMT spammers, haven't you banned any of them? Does /ignorespammer do anything beyond a global ignore?
- Every time I go into Wentworths in Atlas Park there is some character called "dfgyutf" or some such, spamming Local. Every time, without fail
If an online GM visted AP Wentworths they'd get to ban someone every single time, perhaps its something they could do when they aren't directly following up a call?
Maybe its time to add phrases like "urgamestore" to the profanity filter?
Rant rant rant.
Ignore As Spammer silences the person for you and generates a petition to the GMs.
However, the RMT spammers outnumber the GMs and the GMs have more duties than simply getting rid of every RMT spammer that pops up. Worse, the RMTers are using throwaway accounts to broadcast.
As I said, the GMs are kept busy, so they can't sit in WW all the time.
The GMs can't block based on IP address because there's no guarantee the IP address isn't spoofed or a proxy portal address. Moreover, with the state of NAT and DHCP, they stand a good chance of blowing out a number of legitimate users at the same time, and having the spammers back in minutes on a different IP address.
This is not something you can use the "go nuclear" option on. It doesn't work. The only thing that works is deprecating and/or removing the incentives to utilize RMT. Even penalizing people for using RMT doesn't help a hell of a lot. There's always going to be SOMEONE convinced that they can get away with it (and be right).
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Quote:No. This is to keep video file sizes manageable. Beyond that, some tools have problems handling the files.Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose
1) Is there some secret to getting vifs past the 3.95 gb limit I'm experiencing? Totally, newbie here, so lamen terms would be appreciated.
I use Camtasia Studio to combine my files into a single work. Most other video editing packages out there should allow you to drop successive video files onto a "timeline". Then combine and upload them as a single work.Quote:2) Since I seem to be stonewalling into this gig limit, is there a way to splice two or more vids together, maybe even once uploaded to YouTube?
I have several 20+ minute videos up on my YouTube channel to testify to this.
Actually you're going to have long uploads for long videos regardless.Quote:3) Annd lastly, is there a good way to compress the file sizes and still be able to upload them to YouTube?
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Quote:Thing is. The regeneration limit is an artificial barrier put in place by the Time Lords. They were capable of bypassing it when the situation called for it (such as when they offered The Master) a new set of regenerations.Originally Posted by JKCarrier
Whatever the limit is, there are obviously ways around it. The Master "officially" ran out of regenerations back in the Tom Baker era, but he keeps on doing it anyway.
Now that the Time Lords are out of the picture, there likely isn't any sort of limiter in effect now, save mischance and lack of access to proper facilities in which to regenerate.
