Rodoan

I think this trailer answered one of my questions from the first trailer: If the future society is smart enough to clone healthy adult aliens and merge human minds with them, why can't they rebuild a parapalegic?

I think this trailer hinted that they have the technology to rebuild him, its just that they withhold it and grant it as a reward for favors done. That's eeevil.

I'm quite excited to see the movie. My only negative at this point is I don't want the whole movie to be "all humans are monstrously evil, except those who become aliens". I'm hoping the villain humans in this story are shown to be a large rogue element of humanity and not the totality.

What, no love for cowboys? They'd work well in a natural pack, and for the upcoming dual pistols. I want my chaps, city dude! (and a duster coat that doesn't look like a modern leather coat would be nice, too)

I've been using BitDefender products since about 2006. At first, I was very happy with the product. Over the years though, I've felt performance slipping (still good, but kinda meh), and have had some notable problems with their customer service and billing, so I'm considering looking elsewhere when my renewal comes up in December.

One pesky thing though is that I've grown to like the Game Mode that came around 2008. I've found it very useful in curtailing one of the bugs I have with the a/v now which is scanning kicking off at times I didn't schedule, ususally during a stretch of CoH. Now Game Mode has been a bit flakey itself lately, but the concept is great.

So I'd like to know are there any really good anti-malware programs out there that also feature a game mode? I noticed this year that PC Mag gave editors choice to Prevx 3.0 and just this month gave it to Spyware Doctor with A/V 2010. Do either of these product have a game mode?

bump--as a reminder that its today.

- one to allow maximum slotting on the last power picked (at level 49?)

- maybe a 25% reduction in end drain between levels 10 and 20. Not complete stamina, that would be no fun, but neither is having to rest between each fight.

- change all inherent knockback to knockdown, so the tank doesn't get ticked at loss of a tight grouping.

- change a cave map to a warehouse map on the fly.

- and just for kicks, one to make the blimp a landable surface, so I could surf on it around Atlas Park.

Is there any pattern to the times of day it crashes? What was different about those two days it didn't crash? It might be a background event trying to run that sets it off.

So, completely isolate to CoH? No crashes when viewing movies online?

After a crash, can you get into the Event Viewer (not sure if its called that on Vista)? You seem quite competant at gathering important data, but just in case you've not done it before on WinXP, right-click on "My Computer", select Manage, Event Viewer, and System.

Assuming you know the time of the crash, you may be able to find and open an error message related to the crash.

Back when I was playing WoW this summer, my Nvidia kept locking up the game, or so I thought. When I finally got round to checking the Event Viewer, I discovered it was actually my antivirus incorrectly demanding an update while I had it set to "game mode". The result apparently had an affect on the video card, which was already working hard with WoW, creating the lockup. So its possible something seemingly not associated is creating the issue.

This is a point recently brought up in another thread. Basically, bad Crey everywhere is a game mechanic which was needed when the game was overrun with new players and street fighting was frequent. You needed the extra spawns.

The suggestion made was that the devs (War Witch?) rework some of the Crey areas, particularly Brickstown, to have bad Crey spawning in the back alleys and have "good" Crey spawning in the streets, even attacking other villain factions. It would make the point that people are confused for a good reason.

Crey definitely has powerful legal, and possibly media control. There's a whole zone gone toxic wasteland thanks to Crey and folks knew the truth enough to call it Crey's Folly. Despite this, Crey still exists and is even considered "friendly" by most? Definitely information control.

I'll settle for an M-lash from the TV show Andromeda. (mono-molecular whip) Those things are nasty!

personally, I'd like a little steampunk. Bring on the Telegraph!

This kind of reminds me of Armin Shimerman's Pascal tapping on the network of pipes in TV's Beauty and the Beast.

I'm curious. Do all the rogue/vigilante changes mean that the rogues will be able to cross from the Islands through Siren's Call to enter Steel Canyon? Or will they have to go through Praetoria? Using the PvP zones as crossing points could add some fun.

from what I've seen mutant and magic are still the tops.

I use tech the most, magic the least. I don't always select the origin based on concept. Many characters I built to play the power set combos, with no concept. On most of these, I've put tech origin because I've found the taser's stun to be quite useful, even at high levels, for buying me a few precious seconds when soloing a difficult opponent. The mutant "dust" with its choke is almost as good. The other origins I'll build strickly as concept, as I don't get much from their origin abilities.