Hyperstrike

Yeah, when my grandfather got carded at 78, he wasn't sure whether to feel insulted or complimented.

GAH! They still let you people interact with society?!?!?



If it's any comfort, Hyperstrike is pushing version 3.8 himself. And yeah, some of the wear and tear is starting to reveal problems in the baseline coding.

Repeat after me. BRRRAINSSSSSSS!

Compared to you and I? Sure.

[quoteShoot, I don't plan on being old until I get to be 95 at least. [/quote]

Indy was wrong. It's neither years nor mileage. It's a really nasty mathematical function that incorporates BOTH.


Agreed.

Agreed. Which is why I don't drink anymore. Did it for a year in the Army when I was 18 and it was legal for me to drink in Korea. I actually nearly out-earned my E2 pay with the winnings from drinking contests.

Then again, being a medic, I was a bit more prepared for drinking contests than your average dumb schmuck looking to go out and kill brain cells to prove how "manly" he was. A good dinner and lots of water (before and after) work wonders on your capacity.

Heh. I just don't ask peple.

Okay, can't help your aesthetic critique. Not my bag.

As to fixing user permissions.

Log in on an admin account on the machine.
Right-click on the launcher and select Properties.
Go to the compatibility tab.
Avoid the urge to click "Run as Admin" here.



Click the "Change Settings for All Users" button.
Make it look like this:



Click OK, click OK again and you should be good.


As to why it had to change. The old launcher was running into issues with Windows 7 as well.
Instead of simply dinking with the spaghetti code in the old launcher and possibly breaking everything, they went to a launcher that has the capability to move forward.

NICE! Just in doing a little cleanup on the guide and noticed this post.

Good find TJ!

ALL your friends didn't leave the game. There's still a metric buttload (as opposed to those wimpy imperial buttloads) of us still here!

No. What you do is check out my guide to making the launcher less intrusive.
It has the instructions for allowing the launcher to have multiple instances of the game up.

Then:

1. Log in the primary account and log on as someone with SG invite rights.
2. Log in the secondary account and create a character.
3. Have the primary account invite the secondary account character in and give them invite rights.
4. On the primary account, alt to the character(s) you want to invite and have the secondary account character invite them in.

If you hear anything, or have heard nothing after a while, can you drop the information back DOWN the chain?

I'm sure it's all well and good for the bean-counters to know that people are ticked off at this situation. But it'd be nice if we were told either that it's being looked at/fixed or "tough noogies".

Well, the "tough noogies" answer would probably not qualify as "nice", but at least we'd know where we stand.

You already have account-wide badges.

Yes, I know that's not what you're talking about. Just trying to be concise and accurate up front.

Removing badging as a per-character prospect removes some of the extra layers of development a character can go through and would certainly lessen the replay value of alts.

The whole thing about the badging mini-game is that it's OPTIONAL. Sure, some of the badges unlock VERY nice-to-have stuff. But none of it is REQUIRED for gameplay. Even at the highest levels.

[quote[I like making new characters but I really really hate the idea that I would need to get all those badges a second time.[/quote]

Then don't. I have two badging characters. That's it. I feel no real need to get every damn badge on every damn character I have. Good lord! I'd never have time to play!

You're right about taking time. But you're wrong in declaring that it's not "fun". "Fun" is a personal value judgement and varies from player to player.

Again, you're applying personal values to an argument.

Going to forego the standard code rant, since it's only marginally applicable here. "Some coding" is a HIGHLY misleading usage. You haven't got a clue how much (or little) it would entail. Nor the pain it would introduce in other areas of the game's coding.

CAN it be done? Sure!
SHOULD it be done? This is where we are going to see the disagreements.
Finally, if the devs don't want to do it, well, there's **** Creek. What? No! You can't have a paddle!

Because it acknowledges that there are boys AND girls? That it does more than give the barest hint of hanky panky in the little blue box. The general omnisexual vibe in the new one?

Well. To be fair. PBS (at least in Chicago) mishandled Doctor who. I'd see two episodes back to back and they'd be from two completely different seasons. It's like someone in programming didn't quite grok the fact that the show was serialized.

I didn't start really getting into Who until High School. Had a teacher running the Doctor Who fan club. Got to see it how it was "meant" to be seen. From "An Unearthly Child" onward.

So was clutching the back of a sofa.

Good point.

Actually not quite true.

Color television first existed back in the 30's and the system we in the US know today as NTSC Color was finalized in the early 50's and color televisions were being sold in the mid-50's. The major push to color didn't occur until the mid 60's though.

Though yes, if you're talking about the German PAL standard that was adopted in Europe, yeah. PAL debuted in 1963 along with Doctor Who and color broadcasts didn't start until BBC2 in 1967.

Looks like you saw the last Christmas Special.

1:
This new Doctor is played by Matt Smith. He's, essentially, the same person from the 60's through the 80's.

The Doctor himself is a humanoid alien called a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. What happens is, every now and again, when he is hurt in ways that would normally be fatal to anyone else, his race can "regenerate". This is usually a fairly traumatic experience that results in massive changes in appearance and behavior (and, incidentally, ain't a bad way to bring on a new actor when one is needed). Now, a semi-important canonical issue is that a Time Lord can only regenerate 13 times.

2:
Matt is in his second season as The Doctor right now.

The original Doctor Who program ran for 26 "seasons" (or series) from 1963 to 1989 with 7 incarnations of The Doctor.

It took a hiatus of 7 years and then they attempted to do a "back door pilot" for a new show with a TV special in 1996. The 7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) passed the torch on to the 8th Doctor (Paul McGann). This was McGann's ONLY on-screen appearance as The Doctor (though he's done nicely in Audiobooks). Essentially CRAPTASTIC handling of the special (plus the fact that it was pre-empted) by Fox destroyed any chance of picking up a new viewer base here in the US (to this point, Doctor Who had been the purview of PBS stations in the US).

Then, in 2005, Christopher Eccleston took the reins as the 9th Doctor in an absolute SMASH of a first season of the new series. Toward the end of the original program, it'd been plagued by budget cuts and accompanying lousy special effects. The TV movie had been...better...ish. And while the effects for the new season weren't Blockbuster Movie-level, they were several very LARGE cuts ahead of the original television series.

The next three seasons saw David Tennant take over as the 10th Doctor, and three years of PHENOMENAL Doctor Who were had. As well as a spinoff show (the first in decades) called Torchwood, which was aimed at the post-watershed crowd.

Then we had a gap year where, instead of 13-ish episodes, we had 4 "specials". Culminating in the exit of Tennant from the role and the introduction of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.

And, we come back to where I mentioned that we're now in the second half of Smith's second season.

If you want to pick up on Doctor Who, viewing all of the previous material isn't strictly necessary. The new series has been fairly scrupulous about either cleanly segmenting the series with each regeneration, or providing enough information in-flight for you to pick up on the particulars. So a recommended starting point would be the begining season of any of the various incarnations.

If you have Netflix, it's REALLY easy for you. You have the first five seasons of the New Series available, PLUS the specials.

3: Hit up Wikipedia. It has a fairly concise breakdown of MASSIVE amounts of Who trivia. The guy with the scarf is Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor.

4: I gave you a basic breakdown of how the original show worked and where you are (in terms of number of actors) who've played The Doctor between then and now. But, in order.

William Hartnell
Patrick Troughton
Jon Pertwee
Tom Baker
Peter Davison
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Paul McGann
Christopher Eccleston
David Tennant
Matt Smith

5: You're thinking of Leela.

So what was it like back then. Before, y'know, dirt?

Wait until you're granted the ability to drink legally.

The liver is evil and must be punished!

You get Dorn only if you're going to toss Panthro around to show how ridiculously more powerful than anything else the bad guys are.

Probably. And I generate enough stuff that something like this would be ridiculously inconvenient.

Might've gone this year. But they screwed my company over last year with registrations. So we decided to do PAX instead this year.

Edit: My colleagues described PAX's dealer area as "The world's largest rabbit warren."

Take a power-nap in the early evening!

You'll likely get done around 10:30-11 or so. That still leaves you with 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Look back. See that bump in the distance? That's The Hill.

This is now your second anniversary of being, officially, too old to trust.

Happy birthday youngster! Welcome to old-farthood.