UberGuy

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rooting around in my screenshots directory.

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view: details. sort by: date modified

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That's what I do when I go in there. Of course, since I am constantly poking around in other directories and loading up 2+GB of stuff in RAM, Windows happily flushes my directory window settings (it's set to remember the max of 400).

I never said that was hard. But for me, alt-printscreen, mouse to my quickmenu, paste and alt-s is a lot easier than /screenshotui 1, printscreen, pulling up an explorer window, navigating to my screenshots and then making sure the sort order gets me the latest one. Oh, and then /screenshotui 0.

I could make a shortcut right to my screenshots directory, but I don't go in there that often.

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I realized that when immense wealth and power were declared not indicative of success. I almost wanted to reply with "You Fail TEH Real Life Shiny" at that.

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If you view Rush as the voice of a political ideology, then measuring how much money he made doing it is like measuring how successful a resturaunt owner is by measuring the thickness of his hair.

He is, in my opinion, no longer the voice of that ideology. Once upon a time, he had a much more signficant support base among its adherents. Since that ideological voice is what I know him to tout himself as, I do not find him successful. Sure, he's a commercial success, but I consider him a failure at what he once set out to achieve.

This is why I find your pride at being compared to him humorous. That you can't understand why I'd think that just makes it better.

Since I don't take UI screenshots very often, I usually just use alt+printscreen. You can then paste that into the bitmap or rich text editor of your choice. It's a lot easier for me to make sure I got the screenshot, too, as opposed to rooting around in my screenshots directory.

Just a suggestion.

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Funny that folks care about Rush's ratings. The fact that he has clearly been very successful at doing what he does is foolish to deny.

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Didn't that pair of sentences fail some sort of internal consistency check?

There's a restaurant down the street. It's got good food, a nice atmosphere, and a pleasant appearance inside and out. It gets good online reviews, and has a repeat customer base that's friendly with the owner.

It would be foolish to deny that the owner is successful. However, it would be reasonable to point out that he's no Ray Kroc (the founder of McDonalds) or Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs is apparently considered quite personably unlikable, but he has taken a very hands-on approach to making Apple a household brand name and a major player in the computing and portable device world, against many odds. From what I've read of the man, I would despise him in person, but I find his successes hard to dispute.

In that light, I do not think that much of Rush's achievements. Yes, he's successful, but I consider it "success" much as I might consider that restaurant owner successful. He has found a niche and is holding on to it.

I'm a moderate Republican and my parents are quite conservative, and neither of us listen to Rush any more. For me he's too far right and for them he's too much about the entertainment and glamour of what he does. Neither of us agree with his messages any more, which to me does not smack of success.

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So if a sports figure has questionable morals you dismiss their athletic ability ?

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I fail to see the parallel. And to answer the question, I may indeed begin to care less about a sports figure's athletic achievements if they exhibit questionable morals. It really depends a lot on in what way I consider their morals questionable. Some so-called moral failings are human failings we may all know somone who's done, but magnified by the lens of pervasive media. Some are quite hard to accept, and some reflect directly on their sports performance (performance enhancing drugs, for example.)

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An entertainer a questionable personal life, it must have been luck or being in the right place.

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Again, the parallel between a sports figure and a public figure seems extraordinarily poor. I do not see meaningful analogies in a sports figure, whose performance is far more quantifiable in terms of scores, and a public or entertainment figure, whose popularity waxes and wanes directly with the fickle temperment of society at large. Very few people seem to have thought Scotty Pippen was an awesome guy, but despite essentially being in Michael Jordan's shadow for some time, he was still well-regarded as an athlete. What's the analogy there for a talk show host?

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Would you discount JFK because of the uses he put his office to? Or that he inherited great wealth ?

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Hypothetically, since I don't "discount" him? The former yes. The latter no. Frankly, becoming president isn't a personal achievement. It takes the effort of hundreds of people and a party consensus that the candidates cannot fully control, and is heavily dependant on prevailing social, political and economic factors at the time. They make the effort to get in the race, but they have cruicial but limited control what happnes then.

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There are people I can't stand, have agendas I despise, but who have achieved amazing things. You dismiss such to your own detriment.

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There is a difference in dismissing someone and believing that either

1) That they are not something I would aspire to be
2) That there are better examples I might aspire to.

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Jimmy Carter is the perfect example from the otherside. You may think he was a complete idiot, but he was president and your chances are somewhat less than 1 in 300 million.

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If I was concerned with becoming the president those odds would be different because the actions I would take in pursuit of that goal would make it more likely. As such, that "statistic" is less than meaningful.

Any any president you can name, plus Rush and most other people in the public eye (or public office) got there on a mix of effort and a significant dose of being in the right place in the right time. There's no doubt that there's some savvy involved in what most of them did to get there, but I find little about it to particularly look up to. I judge them on what they've done with the position, and if my best way to judge Rush is his net worth, forgive me if I don't find that so inspirational.

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You don't have to imagine.

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Which is why I found it humorous.

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What do you call that ? Fail ?

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I call it pandering to a narrow demographic. Imagine what someone with a wider appeal could achieve.

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one of the most successful speakers of all time

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You saying that about Rush is the funniest thing Ive read in weeks, if not months. Thank you.

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I'm a Republican and I find it humorous.

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The fact remains that there are a few individuals that dish out at least as much if not more bile on a daily basis, that never get called out by the rest of the community here.

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Your personal biases against certain posters here give you selective memory. I have argued vehemently with the person you come ever-so-close to naming in your post, and I still frequently disagree with his argument style. However, the fact remains that I have little reason to argue with him when he and I are posting in a thread both arguing with someone else.

I frequently disagree with you in threads on some fine point or other, and I do not always choose to disagree openly. There are a variety of reasons why I might not reply in argument, which convolve how tangential the point is, how strongly I disagree, and how important I think the tangent is.

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I think it was peterpeter that started a thread not so long ago that seemed to ask The Market forum to look at itself and wonder if we deserved the reputation as the new PWNZ.

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Like pwnz, we are frequently faced with posters who come in, ignorant of what we do and why we like it, who sometimes spout usually misinformed vitrol in our direction. That gets old, and lots of people get tired of trotting out reasonable attempts at discourse when it is met with unreasoning conviction of a different viewpoint. It's one thing to meet people who disagree with you philosophically. It's another to have them both disagree with and openly attack your own philosophy, and than ask that this be met with a calm demeanor for months on end.

Some people handle it better than others. Some people care more than others. It's not your job to be the watcher of how much others handle it or care.

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It would be a lot easier to accept that everyone is wrong when the stoop to insults and personal attacks, if the standard was consistent. In my experience that hasn't been the case.

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There's a problem. One person involved in the contrast you've set up is at odds with the market forum regulars, and one is not. If, for the sake of argument, we dislike neither, which one are we more likely to argue alongside? Don't mistake standing on the same side of a line with someone as whole cloth acceptance of them.

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Even here, we have someone calling someone else a troll, which is an absolutely clear violation of the forum rules. Yet somehow that isn't criticized, but to instead focus on one person, while continuing to ignore the behavior of others.

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I don't know about you, but I consider the forum rules to be like taxes. They're a neccessary evil for a functioning society, not some set of virtues to which posters should aspire.

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My theory has always been that the devs are wrong, since the label "Monster" is very inconsistent throughout the game

The "Monsters" in door missions (Psychic Babbage, RSF Kronos, Jurassik in Numina's) have AV stats, they should just be labeled AV's.

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They aren't AVs, though. They don't have the PtoD, per se, for example, though they have something similar.

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The outdoor DE Monsters have *almost* GM stats (a level 50 Lattice has 70k hp, while a lvl 50 Kronos Titan GM has 73k) and should IMO be the baseline for the "Monster" label

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I'd agree that the DE Monsters and the Monsters we find in missions should have different labels, as they are not the same.

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God I'm so tired of people complaining on these damn forums

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I missed where someone was complaining. I see some observations and a question.

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Demonizing people that don't share your views has worked so well.

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You should walk your own talk.

I just got a Positron's Blast triple on the end room of the LGTF.

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This contradicts the prevailing wisdom

Be prepared to be told how what you did does not satisfy the criteria.

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Be prepared for AF to claim the prevailing wisdom is what he says it is, and not what it's been explained to be in the past.

With no denegration intended to FashionSense whatever, we have seen this done before. I mention it only to clarify that we did already know you can create waves and profit from them. In fact, we knew if from a very long and technically detailed post by TheGameMaster months and months before the most famous (in my memory) debate around here about equilibrium pricing and whatnot.

Yep, that's pretty cool.

It's also cool that they actually answered you when you asked about it.

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I wanted to know do widows get the same benefits that scrappers/stalkers get with claws. Specifically the endurance/recharge discount that the set gives?

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Ryu, I think the answer is no, Widows don't get that. IIRC, Widow attacks got their own, new damage, rech and endurance cost forumula that was based off of DPA, not just damage. I think some of that was then backed into Scrapper claws, but honestly I don't rememer the details.

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If you can earn 4000 tickets faster than 20 merits, then it's better.

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The per-recipie average value is way higher for Gold roll recipies than for Bronze, and it contains things you can't get at all in Bronze.

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I haven't done the breakdown on whether it's better per ticket to do bronze or gold. The answer may depend on what side you play on as well, as LotGs and the like tend to be significantly more expensive on villains.

I do know that Bronze makes more sense than Silver in terms of average value per ticket. Whether it also makes more sense than Gold, I am not sure. Honestly, I gave up on micromangeing my slot inventory (invention and market) the way I have to for Bronze rolls. Gold is a lot easier on my time spent dealing with the output.

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could someone please link to this particular patch note? I can't seem to find it.

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It's referenced indirectly in the I14 patch notes on the main site.

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Gold Reward Roll: This random reward will award recipes that were previously dropped by completing taskforces/trials, very rare boss drops, and recipes that are purchasable with merits. The Gold Reward Roll is the most expensive of the random reward categories as the rewards granted are very powerful.

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It looks like the original quote upthread came from an announcement post here on the forums. I can't find it any more, so the forum purges may have eaten it.

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I still don't believe that Soul Drain actually checks on each target though because, unless the devs also changed the stackability whenever they made the Gauss proc unique, it's still supposed to be stackable (if you can break all of the other rules).

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I believe you're right, but that may have to do with the fact that there's only one target for the toHit buff portion of the power, where as FFB affects the Knockback component of slotted powers, which affects opponents.

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They fixed the Force Feedback proc a while ago so that it only checks once per power. That's why it used to be worth a lot and can now be gotten for reasonably cheap.

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Actually, that's not correct, last I read up on it. It is better to slot it in an AoE than a single target attack, exactly because it does check once per target.

That said, it cannot self stack, so it only gives you its normal, one-target benefit even if it triggers on multiple targets. However, multiple targets in an AoE gives a better chance of it triggering due to multiple activation checks.

It also suppresses even in click powers. There is ongoing debate about how exactly this suppression functions, but the evidence seems to lean towards it being benefit suppression instead of activation suppression. This means it is possible for it to activate while suppressed, the suppression to end, and then for you to get a reduced duration benefit with a delay after the intitial activation.

The reason it used to be worth a lot was that it had a 100% chance of activation. The only thing that kept it even remotely grounded in sanity was its suppression.

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Its a video game, Patience isnt the prime characteristic of the demographic.

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For the second time recently, I'll point out that this is an MMO. If it was an FPS I might agree with you. If you lack patience in an MMO, you might consider trying a different type of game.

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Don't worry, the whiners have won again. Patch notes for i15 say you can buy common salvage with tickets now.

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You can buy common salvage with tickets on live, right now. All that changed on test is that they added the menu option in a place where more people will actually notice it.

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90% of what people say here is true , the market is a tool and it should be "usable" by all. the one thing I cannot stand and makes my extremely irritated with is gougers. They buy the entire market of lets say Spell Scrolls ( A common low level salvage ) for 5000 then put all of it back up for 100,000. Now all low level players cannot make any Endurance related IO unless they find there own salvage.

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Sure they can. What someone who does this means is that you can't build that IO right now.

If you're bid creeping and can't get what you want for a price you think is reasonable, leave a bid you do think is reasonable out there and check on it in the morning or after your next mission, or whenever. If the price is never showing up as what you think is reasonable after a few days, then apparently the market isn't agreeing with your idea of "reasonable" pricing for that good.

But if it's really a case of such a gouger, it's very rare for them to keep you from getting that salvage within a day.