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His point stands, like it or not. The people who work on adding npcs are not the same people who fix code. Getting angry about it won't magically imbue artists and entry level coders with the know-how to fix fundamental flaws in a 7 year old game engine.

No, we don't. Alpha Sanction isn't our group anymore.

I never gave a statistically absolute case of anything, I asked a question. I'll elaborate though; the thrust of most of the complaints on this thread about the iPad and iPad users seems to be that a significant number of people have been brainwashed by Apple's magical marketing department into switching from their laptop and/or smartphone when those devices would have served their needs better. I think that's baloney, and I think that any sensible person who actually thought that claim through would have to admit, if they were being honest, that it's a pretty outrageous and over the top claim. I think that people who make claims like that ought to provide some kind of evidence, even anecdotally, that their claim has some kind of substance to it. So far no one has; the only people who've said they know someone who ditched their laptop in favor of an iPad also say that those people only used their laptop for simple stuff like checking email, streaming Netflix, etc. That's stuff that the iPad clearly does better than a laptop or smartphone. Those people aren't downgrading and they aren't being brainwashed by Apple's marketing department, they're upgrading to a piece of hardware that suits their needs better than their previous devices.

Now, there have been posters pointing out that the iPad isn't a serious work computer, and that's absolutely true. I don't think any sensible person has claimed otherwise, because it's pretty flippin' obvious. I doubt a significant number of people bought an iPad expecting that from it.

Speaking strictly for myself, my iPad suits my needs better than either a laptop or smartphone would (or a TV set, for that matter), and on top of that it'll be cheaper over time than a smartphone because I'm not paying for an expensive data plan (don't need or particularly want 3G). I'm pretty confident I'm not being somehow suckered by Apple's magical marketing powers, the thing just does what I want it to do better than any other device out there and cheaper than quite a few of them. I'm pretty sure most other iPad users feel the same way. If someone else prefers a laptop and/or smartphone, good on 'em. They know what they need better than I do, and vice versa.

Same with the SAW movies, unless there's a reboot planned that I haven't heard of. And by all accounts the True Grit remake is freakin' brilliant, so it makes a pretty poor example of a reboot that shouldn't have been done.

Uh uh. "I'm sure" and "probably" aren't good enough for me. I'm interested in things that actually happen, not things that some people think probably happen but that they have no real examples of. Lothic, do you actually know anyone who actually used their computer and who got rid of it or stopped using it in favor of an iPad? And if so, what were they doing with the computer in the first place? Just checking email and streaming Netflix?

Exactly the things I use it for. I'm actually kind of curious; did anyone here at any point in time actually think the iPad was going to replace desktop or laptop PCs as work devices? Is this really a point of confusion for anyone? Because I don't know anyone IRL or in my SG who ever had the idea that an iPad was going to do everything a proper Mac or PC could do. I don't understand how anyone honestly got the idea that people were getting rid of their other devices, outside of perhaps a few people who only used their laptops as casual entertainment devices.

Seriously. I wouldn't know though, since I own and like an iPad 1 and am therefore apparently a fanboy. Don't tell my Windows PC or my non-smart cell phone.

There are other reasons besides hardware specs that people choose a tablet, and reasons besides trendiness that folks go for an iPad over an Android tablet.

Sweet Christ, someone other than me liked Cyberrad? YES!

I may have a real answer to the question tomorrow. I just had to geek out at the Cyberrad fandom. I don't care if it was emo, it was cool as hell. At least as I remember it so many years later.

You lose your set bonuses, but you don't lose the IOs themselves. The knockback and damage procs aren't set bonuses, they're IOs with a particular effect, so presumably that's why you kept them.

If you had, say, some hypothetical IO set whose individual IOs had their own properties and then a set bonus that said "chance for knockback" you'd lose that.

Those level requirements haven't changed. TFs have a level range, and characters higher than that range can exemplar down to do them. They meet the level requirement, they just have to run it exemplared to a level where the content is at least somewhat challenging.

It sounds to me like your real issue is simply that you don't want to exemplar down. Fair enough, I can see why someone wouldn't like that, but at the same time there are a lot of players (certainly the majority of those that I know) who don't mind at all and who would like to enjoy the WST rewards on lower level characters. Them's the breaks.

Actually, the level 45-50 strike/task forces give double exp as well. The only difference in rewards is the lack of shards, and as has been established shards will be added to low level strike targets in I20. Problem solved.

If this were the case the game wouldn't exemplar higher level characters down to allow them to participate in lower level TFs. That fact alone clearly shows that TFs are intended to be played and and enjoyed at any level where the TF is accessible (i.e. if you're high enough to do it). If the intention were otherwise higher level players wouldn't be able to participate in them, just like it was in the early days of the game.

Qwerty Rikti-rolled Pocket D once. I missed it, sadly, but I saw the screenshots and they were pretty hilarious.