Hyperstrike

Call it what you will.

Then something really REALLY screwy is going on with Trapdoor. Because the patch was supposed to fix it so that simply pulling and holding him in the lava wasn't supposed to be enough anymore.

They "fixed" his regen so that he spawns bifurcations regardless and distances from them is irrelevant. They also upped his regen so as to make simply pulling him into the lava not enough.

Completely, 100% serious.

Not any more it doesn't. Maybe prior to the patch yeah.


Then it's a bug. Because I have exactly zero reason to lie about this.

Went at it again today and had the same problem. I was so pissed off I logged out for a while.

Then went at it a third time and had no problem. Was about to have someone come in and help me when I took a run at it.

Not sure what the hell happened the first two times. I made sure to kill off any extant bifurcations before dragging him into the lava in all three attempts.

In contrast, I simply tank-and-spanked the Holtz/Honoree mission.

Realistically, I think it's utter BS. How is this different from someone who goes out clubbing EVERY ****ING NIGHT? You can't tell me that interactions in scenes like that aren't every bit as shallow. And don't give me this BS about face-time being a massive differentiating factor.

Addiction is addiction. Period. Whether it's to a drug, a game, or some other social outlet, it's still a problem.

I did. *SOB!*

And despite what daddy L. Ron tells me, I'm still in therapy to this day because of it...

I'm in line right behind you bub...

I don't know what the deal is either. But last night, I was running +0x4 and I could NOT kill him.

No bifurcations out
SS/Inv Brute
75%+ Fury
Double-stacked Rage
Fighting him in the lava
Popping large reds like M&M's

And his HP bar WOULD NOT MOVE.


If I couldn't do it with that sort of combination, something is severely screwed.

And for those advising getting help, I say "why not turn it into a ****ing TF then"?

Then you get thumb-breakers like "Eragon".

That's just it, we didn't end with over 30.

Feel free to try.

On the occasional bad raid, we get people who miss the merits. I'm not denying that. But on most of the raids, you know, the ones that tend to go real smoothly? On most of those, the only people who don't get the merits are those not paying attention.

Keep telling yourself this. Maybe it'll be true some day.



Sorry. Not going to start stacking on silly preconditions here. The point remains that people who go off and do their own thing jack up the raid for others AND themselves.


Again, if everyone is onboard (especially the raid leader), then there's no issue with starting early. Maybe you missed my point about jumping out and usurping the raid earlier. Please go back and actually read what I said instead of assuming I'm talking about us being locked to a specific clock.

No, actually I'm not. Again, you've mistaken what I've been talking about. The issue is with usurping the raid. Period. Please try to keep up.

Note: I'm not talking about everyone who jumped the gun on this raid when I refer to certain people as "cretins". If you dislike my choice of terminology, the problem is entirely yours. Hope it works out for you.

Thanks for your interest. I'm done on this particular subject.

This is, essentially, why I've expressed less than zero interest in the CoP until it's format is fixed. With just about every other endeavor in the game, even if you fail, you still have something to show for it at the end.

At the end of a failed CoP, all you have to show is wasted time and debt.

Excuses excuses!



Get yoh ezz to Mahz!

Okay, the Agility2 line is more or less identical in performance to the Vertex2 line. They're just using a different grade of memory chips for it.

The Agility2 line is spec'ed for a lower total number of input/output operations per cell. So, theoretically, the drive will wear out faster. Realistically, you're still looking at usable drive life WELL in excess of 5 years unless you're doing stupid things to the drive.

As for the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Let's just say you won't live that long. Nor will your kids. Nor will their kids.


As for the 128GB version, that's better. You'll notice with some of the controllers that size of the drive makes a huge difference in the performance. Because the controller is able to access more banks of memory simultaneously.

When you start out with 4+ teams and finish with the equivalent of 2 (after consolidating mid-raid as people log/leave), I'd qualify that as a failed raid.

I'd qualify a bunch of people missing the GM credit (where normally everyone gets it) as a failure.

I'd qualify extensive corpse camping as a failure.

Reject all you want. Compared to a normal raid, last week's run was a shambles.


Honestly, I think you read a bit too much into that.

A warning that jerking around with other people getting one-starred limits your options is a valid and non-threatening warning. If you want to interpret it as a threat, be my guest.

Do you go charging in solo on Hami raids too?

The basic principal of organization in a raid isn't completely alien, is it?



It ever occur to you that not everyone was READY to start? Hence why there's a raid leadership structure, even for something as straightforward as a ship raid.

The raids are set for specific times so that people CAN plan. This way they can get into the zone, get a few IRL things knocked out before the raid begins at it's set time, and then sit down and mash face, undisturbed.

And do you REALLY expect the raid leaders, once they've been usurped, to be all sweetness and light and run a second raid with the same ill-behaved cretins?

THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

Then some people need to govern themselves a bit more effectively.

And jumping the gun on a specifically timed event when some people (including the event leaders) aren't ready is even MORE inconsiderate.

Then show some of this consideration you keep harping on.

Or you can just be selfish... My bad!

Again, the raid is set for a specific time on a specific day. If you can't respect that, politely run your OWN damn raids and stop screwing up the ones put on by others.

Okay, the read speed is all great, fine and wonderful. Just not enamored of the write speeds.

Here's an OCZ drive for Comparison.

You know, every time someone asks for this, they delay it another day, don't you?

1. You worked your tail off for them. You got to enjoy them a hell of a lot longer than others who're going to be activating the packs just now. And, in the future, you'll be able to employ the costume accessories on NEW characters as well.
2. The bloody hell is that they're giving you something. You've been staring at equine molars for too long.
3. If you're disinterested in the game, let your sub drop for a while. Also, you won't be "burdened" by the Vanguard pack then.
4. Actually they're giving you lots of content in the game and giving you this stuff as an afterthought. AND YOU'RE WHINING ABOUT IT?!?!?
5. Bases are something that have been set aside. It's been stated previously that there's going to need to be something drastic done to get bases going and as a development concern again. Right now, they'd rather burn the programming hours on the new game systems for Incarnates. As much of a base-***** as I am, I can't fault them for this.
6. That's "Praetorians". If you're going to whine, at least fact-check your whine first. Otherwise it's just sour vinegar.
7. If all you do is play a toon to 50 and stop playing them afterward, yeah, I can see how you'd think the toon's contribution to their SG was "crippled". I'd still disagree though.
8. As for the "releasing something already available". Yeah, but they're doing it in a different way, empowering their users' choices for costuming. AND THEY ARE DOING IT FOR FREE.

So yeah, this is a "quityerbitchin" post.

A bit of cognitive dissonance here.

It's just nothing says "female empowerment" like...cosmetics?

As FC said, fragmentation isn't an issue. The performance issue SSDs have to overcome are overwrite operations for "sectors" that are no longer in use.

On a hard drive it essentially just overwrites the old magnetic data with the new. On an SSD, the procedure takes longer, as it essentially has to read, verify, wipe, verify, write, verify. Without TRIM, this would eventually lead to performance degradation of the drive.

If you're going with a non-RAIDed SSD on a current motherboard with Windows 7, you have nothing to worry about and no reason to defrag at all. Ever.