Jet_Boy

Currently I'm running Radeon 9250 with 256k, on a P4 2.80gz (single) with 1.5gig of ram. After the last few updates to CoH, my video performance has become, well, "less than stellar" and Ultra Mode seems so far beyond what my current card can handle that I audibly hear it whimper whenever I go near the sliders.

I have a PCI slot, and a PCIe slot that I could put a card into.

I don't want to put a lot of money into the new card, because I'm planing to upgrade the computer soon(ish). I'd just like a card that will give me some better performance as well as let me play some more current(ish) games, such as Bioshock and Borderlands.

Any suggestions?

Actually, I think this is a great idea (and I frakking despise the re-imaging trend as a rule). Batman, Superman, Cap, Iron Man etc... these figures are not simply characters, they're icons. I don't see anything wrong with presenting different visions of them from time to time.

I say, give them to a director, let him tell a story, then give it to another.

Personally, I want Scorsese to do "Citizen Wayne" hehe

(... anyone except Joel Schumacher and Michael Bay. They's already shown they have less creative vision than a Sci-Fi channel exec.)

[QUOTE=tanstaafl;3562132][QUOTE=Olympus_NA;3562069]It's suspiciously close to April Fool's

I saw it, I liked it. My two cents as follows:

Water Theft: As said before, this is one scientist "expert's" assumption of what they were doing. Personally, if they were actually here to colonize, my guess is that thier buring off/processing the water in massive amounts in preparation for terraforming.

Bio-Mechanical Infantry & Drones: I think the infantry were *also* drones of a sort. I don't think we actually saw the aliens. I think we saw what amounts to disposable "Marine" forces (eg. lots of fairly lightly armed, highly mobile, first contact infantry, with a moderate degree of air support) setting up beachheads and securing for the main battle-force. I imagine that their command will eventually bring down thier main troop ships on the coastal regions secured and begin to make advances towards the centers of the continents.

(After all, if you had big **** command and troop ships coming down from orbit, It would more than likely be easier to land them in deeper coastal waters, then trying to find areas big enough and geologically stable enough to land them in... or just having them hover about. Yes I'm looking at you, V!).

My biggest issue was the overuse of the "shaky-cam" effects.

Movie Reboots are just Lazy (fix'd it for you).

Hollywood seems less and less interested in new original concepts that might require them to take a chance at the box office and more in name-recognition-based cheap rewrites/reboots of tried and true properties.

Reboots are basically the Reality TV Shows of the cinema. Usually not (as) expensive to do, and even if they're really, really horrid they'll draw attention (aka receipts) of ghoulish rubberneckers just lining up to see the bodies on the highway.

Sweet Jeebus. No, No, a thousand times no!

There's a billion-zillion novels out there that deserve movies.

STOP RETCONNING THE 80s!!!

Unfortunately, it stays.

The RP reasoning behind this is that the cybernetic implantation of the crab spider weapon/arm array is simply too complex to make it modular.

Personally, I think it's pretty ugly. in that Bayformer way. But, it's nice to see them doing anything with Shockblast/Wave. Hopefully he's get the "Generations" treatment like several of the other older characters have in the past.

I'd like to see it come back, but with the spirit of the 1st movie and less of the "biblical" second and third movie undertones. Hackers vs Programs in the Matrix-world.

My (ongoing) Wish List, in no particular order:

Lairs

Device Power Alt Animations (ice guns, fire gauntlets, etc)

Mystic Power Alt Animations (Runes floating in the air (ala Demon Summoning), wands, staffs)

Jet/Rocket Packs (as alt animations for flight)

Retro Costumes (bubble helmets, jodhoppers, retro space suits, ray guns)

Teleport Pool revamp (including and expecially the Teleport Travel Power)

A setting that allows you to keep things like the Nemesis Staff and Blackwand in hand. (for example, radiation emission actually has some animations that utilize the Staff is it's out)

A generic melee weapons power pool , ranged weapons power pool, and defensive shield power pool. to fill the same tertiary nitch as the Fighting pool (Just a couple of moves plus a couple of self-buffs. Sword, Mace, Pistol, Bow, and Shield.)

Hmmm...

Westworld: Although I'd much rather see Larry Niven's "Dream Park" on the big screen, it's old enough that an updated remake would be a nice thing, as long as they leave Crichton's story alone. No "virtual reality" crap. No 3d gimmick. Just robots running amok with unlikely heroes worked then, it'll work now. One recommendation... keep Yul Brenner as Gunslinger, through the magic of CGI.

Lethal Weapon: They will never match the chemistry between Glover and Gibson. That chemistry is what made the franchise work. I say "leave it the hell alone."

The Wild Bunch: If it's done well, and faithfully. I'm all for it, but it'll be harder then the feat the Coen Brothers pulled with True Grit.

Oh, God: Why? George Burns is gone and it was cute once, as a one-trick pony.

And lastly, Tarzan. Sure, I'm all for that. But keep your dirty, filthy, nasty, pretentious, "re-imaging" paws away from it please. How bout this... have the screenwriters READ THE FREAKING BOOKS and then make a screenplay faithful to them. Don't update it, don't modernize it, don't re-image, don't combine several into one. Just adapt one of the several fine ERB novels for screen.

The Green Hornet is being touted as a "Funny Comedy" and "Gonzo Action-Comedy" by many reviewers.

In short, it's nothing except cosmetically like the 75-year old franchise has been until now, which is what Rogan and Gondrey had been shooting for since the beginning. They basically pulled a Joel Schumacher; taking one of the serious and darker-toned classic characters and crapping "camp" all over it. (Something even the 1966 series managed to avoid)

Don't take my word for it though, I recommend "accidentally" downloading it and taking it for a test drive. If you like it, anti up the bucks and go support it in the theater (or buy the disc when it comes out.) If you don't, pass the disc to someone else to let them test-drive it as well.

Personally, I'll stick to the "real" Green Hornet, thanks.

Ditto. I'll pass it on to Goat (Hero Dawn)

""We need a code word so we know which Beckett to kill when the clones attack."

I almost peed

This is the perfect example of what happens when "vision" is considered more important over "audience."

Brad Wright and Robert Cooper can say how the Stargate Fans "punished" Universe all they like, but the truth of the matter is the fans of the franchise communicated very audibly what they liked and disliked about SGU for two seasons. Wright/Cooper chose to ignore (even deride) that criticism instead of taking it for what it was... a signpost to recover ratings by modifying the show. Instead, they chose to stick to their vision, and now the series is cancelled and cast and crew are out of work because of it.

Pity, I think SGU could have worked with a little bit of tweaking.

JM2C, but I think that everything should drop equally, according to their rarity.

Why?

Because to any given player something is more preferred than another. While Player A wants IO drops, Player B prefers Temps, and Player C wants salvage more than everything else (and player D just wishes he'd get a freaking End Insp before he dies ). The only fair way of doing it is making them equally random.

As an exception to that, I think that - assuming there was a way to do it without sending devs jumping out of windows in frustrations, of course - that the frequency of Health and End imps should increase as the bars get lower to emulate the ability of the characters to coax that "little bit more" out of themselves.