DoctorDitko

LOL! Yeah, the Kheldian Curse was a big surprise back in the day. If only there had been a way to hide your actual origin, it could have played out like a murder mystery, a game of Werewolf, or a really fancy version of Among Us. As it was -- if I recall correctly -- the leader would kick everyone, log off, and go play some WoW. Missed opportunities.

Fingers crossed! Just custom colors would be tremendous!

Oooh! Nice one! As far as Shang-Chi, I have to give it: 1 star for Jackie Chan tropes (Bus & Building fights) 1 star for Wong cameos (2 Wongs make a right!) 1 star for Trevor Slattery 1 star for writing and sfx and -.5 stars for overly CGI ending So, 3.5 out of 4 stars Frankly, any time I see one of these Marvel movies bringing a comic to life, I am reminded of this hilarious scene from the classic Doctor Strange #55, by Roger Stern and Michael Golden (Oh! How we laughed at the very idea!): Imagine anyone crazy enough to make two Doc Strange movies!

Oh, absolutely! And Russel T did a bunch of great work, I just think toward the end he started falling for his own press releases! I honestly didn't think anyone could rival David's 10th Doctor (a toss up between 10 and 4 as my favorite) and then Matt Smith's mad, brilliant 11th came along, and he, Moffat, and the Ponds stole my heart! Peter's grumpy 12th grew on me considerably. I kept hoping Jodie's 13th would, too, but her North accent is thick enough to detract, and Chibnall is just not that good. If you want to check out a single episode, I think the Rosa Parks one is the best of the 13th, it was actually pretty cool, but it's the best of a poor lot. (And Michelle Gomez was right there!) FIngers crossed for 14 and a hopefully recharged and slightly less hubristic RTD!

Ah! That's what I get for using Process Lasso as my task mangler, it will cheerfully let you shoot yourself in the foot in this way. Good to know the default Windows one has your back. I'll stick with Process Lasso, though, it lets me set core affinity, I/O priority, FG/BG priority and such. Handy for, say, processing video in the background while playing CoH.

Tell you after the next episode.

It hurts so much! I was sometimes embarrassed by the later Russel T Davies years, he can get self-indulgent and fall prey to the "save the world, then save the galaxy, then save the universe" escalation temptation that comics are prone to. But I can't wait for him to return! Chris Chibnall's hubris reminds me of lesser authors who decide to "do an Alan Moore" without actually understanding how Alan Moore goes about re-invigorating a title. The gender-swap wasn't a problem (though Michelle Gomez was right there!) but this series has just been hurting me where it counts, right in my fandom! Does anyone have any insights to ease my pain?

Mmmmmm. In the independent gourmet coffee/bookshop I spent a couple of years working (they "paid" me, but the real benefit was stripped books and leftovers, plus teaching myself the UNIX inventory system) I tried every variety from Columbian to Jamaican Blue Mountain, and by far my favorite was Sumatra Mandheling. My guess would be this is one of those new D-Sync Endurance Modification/Recharge enhancements. (Although, being Starbuck's, they probably have figured out a way to over-roast it and overcharge for the privilege.)

I'm sure you've solved it now, but I thought I'd post this for future searchers. I've run across this issue. In my case playing with the top 3 in-game resolution settings: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 (Desktop), and Borderless (Monitor 1) seemed to resolve it. Sorry, I forget what I started with and ended with, though. I did change it later without the taskbar reappearing. I keep my taskbar on the left vertical side of the screen, incidentally. With wider screens, vertical real estate is more precious than horizontal. FWIW, it's sometimes possible to kill explorer.exe and not be able to start it again. I try always to REstart it, just in case.

That's great to hear! Excellent research! I'm afraid the link from 2019 doesn't work for me, but I have my browser set to paranoid mode. I do have a tiny contribution, in that the open source, cross platform GIMP handles .dds files well. Nice artwork, BTW!

Good on you all! Siderophobia* is curable via desensitization! Good teammates can help a lot. (I have been known to resort to medication, but that can impair leadership abilities if not carefully controlled.) Keep up the good work! * AIEEEEE! An asterisk!

I confess I'm all about the diversity. I don't want any powerset to be the OP FOTW OMG winner. I think they should all have their strengths and weaknesses, but there should be reasons to try every one. One of my favorites is Storm/* Defender. It plays like nothing else. It's a very... extrovert power set for a Defender. And a huge blast to play, once you suss it out!

Weighing in to say, I love that Propel now shows the same weird objects to all teammates. It was pointed out to me that the position and orientation of these objects are still inconsistent among characters, after the attack we all saw them in different places. Not a bug per se, and certainly not a complaint, I'm sure the Devs have more important things to do, just pointing it out. Again, many thanks for allowing me to say, "Eat Buick, b*tch!" and not have my teammates think me insane (for that reason, at least).

It sounds like you are reaping all of the benefits and running into none of the downsides, so enjoy! Can anyone comment on the Radeon drivers? Are they adding similar functions?

I keep a "c:\utils" directory for nifty portable apps such as this, I find Winders largely leaves them alone. And I'll add a second vote for c:\games\CoH! And a further "me, too!" on Norton. It's no Mcaffee malware, but it's usefulness vs pain-in-the-ass-ness has been on the losing side for some years now. I use TinyWall to blacklist new programs with the built-in firewall, NoScript websites I don't know, and run a free Malwarebytes scan when I'm feeling paranoid. And I haven't had a virus since "something wonderful" happened to my Amiga!

I think both have happened to me, but my favorite characters are when both happen at once... Something just clicks and I find the character writing their own dialog, and I lose myself in them almost like a really good in-person RPG session. Reading back over this, it sounds like I'm describing falling in love. I'll own to that. Well, love with particularly synergistic powersets!

Possibly, in the sense that I am deeply suspicious of software that reports back to its makers. Granted, Nvidia has more excuses than most to report back. The Georce Experience can be quite helpful, especially to new users who haven't been tweaking games/gfx settings for many years. Still, the modern drivers in a default install include: The display driver itself. PhysX support. An auto-updater. Reporting on all games installed, including downloading special settings for many games. A streaming server that automatically records the last 20 seconds of gameplay, just in case you want to stream or save it. A screenshot utility with various options to upload to many different services. Telemetry that reports which games you play and for how long, hardware details, and game settings. A javascript engine. Software to support the Nvidia Shield wireless controller. Various hotkeys to invoke the above services on command. If you use all these background services and utilities, you may be glad of them. Personally, my data cap won't allow me to stream, etc. I don't need to waste my limited throughput on telemetry (or ads, helpful tips on settings, or helping anyone "improve their customer experience.") so I have no need for most of the above. I use the aforementioned NVSlimmer to trim it back to: Display driver PhysX (Are we one of the few games still using PhysX? It seems so.) It works well for me. If you make use of the other features, good for you! I still suggest keeping an eye on what's going on in the background. You are the owner of your computer, no matter what the various vendors think.

Laser pico-projectors and micro-LED displays are both looking promising, though. Apple went with microLED displays on their new notebooks. Maybe it'll catch on, and last? We'll see in a few years.

To be sure, the online game managed to take all the great parts of the Champions tabletop game and eliminate them. Whereas the tabletop game was in dire need of computer assistance to run smoothly. Great game, though. It looks like Prowlers and Paragons may be a fitting successor. OT, I usually can get a name I like with one or two tries. But I was bitten by a radioactive thesaurus as a child.

Have you tried playing around with the fullscreen/fake fullscreen/windowed settings in-game? It's possible your gfx card is failing to recognize CoH as a proper game, deserving of top performance. I love my AMD CPUs, but their videocards have never really impressed me. I stick with Nvidia for GPUs, but their software is getting to be a real pain, with too many unwanted misfeatures and intrusive tattleware. I find this utility to be a big help, it lets you pick and choose what bits to install: https://www.guru3d.com/files-get/nvidia-driver-slimming-utility,2.html Sadly, it looks like future Nvidia drivers will be the shitty DCH-style, which you can't downgrade or uninstall. (It's MicroSoft's computer, after all, you're just paying them for the privilege of using it!) In general, Guru3d is a great place to find advice and utilities to tweak your graphics, 'tis highly recommended. You may even find tips for AMD cards to alleviate your issues.

I hope you find what you are looking for, and if you do, please share the image format you are using. I recall on Live there was someone who managed to 3d print CoH characters -- for a hefty price -- but the art has advanced. I'd love to know how it was done.

As others have mentioned, the Upgrade button is a luxury item, meant for folks with more inf than time. I played with it on and off, and now I use it purely as a mid-mission buff. That extra percentage boost in powers can be a real bargain, especially on a TF or similar. Otherwise, especially every level, it is an inf sink to help the economy along. Good on ya for doing it, but don't expect it to be a net win.

Just getting the Inner Inspiration p2w power (and selling or auctioning the insps)* can bankroll many of my alts to the point where I decide if they are fun enough to keep playing. * Sometimes the inf gain for selling to a vendor or auctioning to the public can differ noticeably!

1.0 x 10^6 thanks for these! My 2nd or 3rd character from Live was a Grav controller, and was devastated to learn that his brilliant post-Propel quips (e.g. "Eat Buick, b*tch!") were making his teammates doubt his sanity, rather than making them laugh. Or, making them laugh at him rather than with him. And for those of us using old-school shortcuts and new TP powers to be first to the mission (when character-appropriate, of course!) will no longer have to suffer the scorn of our teammates for clicking the door! I sometimes fell for that temptation, and fulsome apologies did not make up for my teammates being forced to reset or log to fix my impulsive error. Thanks from me and my long-suffering teammates!

"And hearing this, the monk was enli-- Oooh! Patch notes!"