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Put the HDD in a Ziploc bag (name brand, not a cheap store brand, you want quality for this), seal it up and stick it in the freezer for a few hours. Then try extracting the data. You'll only have a few minutes before it begins to warm up again, so don't dawdle. It's a trick which worked for me several times in the past. Heat caused HDD platters to expand slightly, causing just enough offset to prevent the R/W heads from finding sectors, and freezing the HDD kept the platters in their normal geometry long enough for the heads to find and read the data. That was what murdered IBM's HDD line, the Deskstar (AKA Deathstar, because the goddamn things died so fast). Don't know if it still works, considering the advances in HDD technology over the past decade (no damn clue what they're making HDD platters out of these days, but just about every material known responds to heat in some way, so i suspect it's an ongoing issue with HDDs), but as long as the drive is protected from moisture (thus the Ziploc bag (NAME FUCKING BRAND! don't cheap out!)), it won't hurt to try. The other possible solution is a board swap, but you need exactly the same model and make of the HDD. It'll work if it's a firmware problem, or resistors/capacitors are shot, or the board developed bad traces, etc., but the replacement board has to be from an identical drive.

Yes. It doesn't convert Repel to KD, so in powers like Singularity, it "doesn't work" (it does work, but it doesn't work on that effect). And if you slot it in a KB or KD power, the KD can stack and become KB, which is not converted to KD, so critters "squirt" (no, not like that (well, maybe, but it's none of our business)) out of AoEs/cones.

I face-planted and ran back to missions a dozen times on one character before I remembered that I'd picked up Return to Battle. It was on the tray, it was highlighted every time I went down, and I still forgot it. I have Misdirection, Shadow Field and Haunt on my Dark/Martial dominator, and I forget to use all of them. I remind myself to use Link Minds... and then I forget after two or three cycles. OSA, Disruption Arrow and Entangling Arrow on my Grav/TA. I become so focused on hammering the life out of things with my melee attacks, I don't remember that I have anything else. Yeah, if it's not in slots 1-6, chances are I've forgotten it exists.

/bind_save (just creates a saved bind file with the name keybinds.txt in the default installation location) or " /bind_save_file filename.txt " might do it. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Bind_save_(Slash_Command) https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Bind_save_file_(Slash_Command)

Told you not to put that in your mouth.

By turning the team size up to x5. Let the spawns do the work for you.

Imodium AD might help with that.

I think it's plumbing. Have to keep those pipes clean!

No, he's saying that we're all dead. And since we're playing a game risen from the dead, that makes us zombies.

There are people in City Hall. They're looking at my character. The game isn't dying nearly fast enough (makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop). Meanwhile, back in the great Hall of Pornstice... *gets the camera* Those dudes on Pornhub will pay serious money for this.

No, no, no. No. No. We're dOoOoOoOoOming this week, you have to freak out and scream about the end of the world. This... happiness just will not do. Also, welcome back, glad you're home again. 👍

Yes, please, and put some beans, beef, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream on them. Chop chop. My dinner isn't going to make itself.

The original forums had plenty of doom threads throughout the entire eight years of the game's first life. The only differences between then and now are the venue and the time stamps. And in spite of that, there's a server with people who were playing during the SCoRE years, who played the game when it was still "alive", who have nearly 20 years of play time and they're still not leaving. The HC servers will continue to operate until no-one's donating any longer, and even if people trickle away, that's going to take a long, long time. The Ouro code is openly available for download, so even after that, people can play. The only thing that will end this game is the end of the universe itself. It's certainly not going to happen because a few whiny chickenshits make panic posts about dOoOoOoOoOoOm over the game not having weekly content updates on one server group. Pessimism is self-defeating. Optimism is masturbation. Accept what's here now, derive what enjoyment you can from it and let it go at that. Bitch can sit his ass down and wait his turn, I'll get to him when I'm ready.

I rather enjoy 1-50+. Level 0 is over before you blink, and it takes two forevers to make it past 50+.

Did you ever play Left 4 Dead? I did. Played the ever-loving hell out of it. Hundreds and hundreds of hours. After a few months of running around, shooting zombies in the face, trying to get Bill to say, "RELOADING!", I noticed something. The lighting. The path to the safe house always followed the lighting. There was usually a short side path you could take, but it always led back to the lit path. The developers used the lighting to guide players forward, without guiding them forward. It was a subtle, but remarkably effective, way to convey information. No-one thought about where to go, they didn't have to, they instinctively followed the lighting. Audio design is like that. When it's done properly, it's capable of conveying information to players without requiring their immediate and direct attention. With audio effects done the right way, players hear cues and clues and never stop to think about what to do next, they just know. Audio effects in a game should be considered and deliberate, used as an information delivery tool. It's not music, and when it's treated as though it is music, it loses all effectiveness at being an information delivery tool. That's why there's a separate music channel in games, so players can still receive vital information through the effects channel. The original implementation of power effects in CoH was amateur design. Continual toggle noise and excessively loud click sounds overwhelmed the senses and made it impossible to discern cues like objective sounds, or audio clues like what attack an enemy was about to use. Those cues and clues might as well not have been there at all, because they were drown out by the cacophonic assault from the effects channel. And neither Cryptic nor Paragon nerfed sounds, they fixed a horrible design oversight by fading loops and toning down clicks so players could hear critical information. Considering that we can't see what's going on half the time because of the same design flaw applied to particles and graphical effects ("MOAR! MOAR, DO YOU HEAR ME?! I WANT THAT SCREEN TO BURN OUT THREE SECONDS AFTER THE GAME FINISHES LOADING!" - J. Emmert), having information delivered through the effects channel is vital to the game's playability. The game is better with fewer audio effects hammering at the player's ears and mind and blocking out useful information. If you know anything about game design, you should recognize that. If you don't know anything about game design, you just learned something, and maybe that can assuage some of your bitterness. Or, at least, give you a reason to pause and reflect before you jump at the chance to insult people who do understand game design, as no-one who does would agree that blowing out players' eardrums with audio effects which mask important prompts is ever a good idea, much less good design.

Sprint isn't suppressed in combat. Sprint isn't suppressed out of combat. Sprint isn't suppressed when you're passing an exploration badge, or jumping through the donut in Faultline, or near a War Wall, or idling in Peregrine Island, or at any other time or for any other reason. There are no suppression flags on the power, it can't suppress without that. Additionally, I monitor Run Speed on almost all of my characters, and keep Sprint active during combat on any character with a net Recovery greater than 3.0 Endurance/second, and Sprint's Run Speed has never suppressed on any of those characters. I logged into my Ill/TA with Fly and tested. This character is level 50+ and is at 87.99 mph Fly Speed, capped at 87.95 mph. If there's even the tiniest suppression occurring, this would be the character to see it, since she's only 0.04 mph above the cap. Toggling Athletic Run on and off next to the AP P2W vendor, there's no Fly Speed suppression occurring. Flying around AP, toggling Athletic Run on and off, no Fly Speed suppression. Attacking Hellions, the only suppression is the normal reduction to Hover speed (38.99 mph on this character) when using an attack. Turning off Athletic Run while Fly Speed is suppressed isn't causing my Fly Speed to increase or the degree of suppression to reduce, the character is still at Hover speed. My tests don't support your statements.

Twelve pages, not one person paraphrased the Ready Player One quote I was expecting. People come to Co* for all the things they can do. They stay for all the things they can be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Doctor

I'm not playing musical chairs with browsers, or OS', or platforms, like I did in the 90's. The wars can continue without my participation. Now, can I get back to leveling my headless-with-glowing-eyes Psi/Nin scrapper? I'm losing empowerment buff time AND I HAVEN'T CONFUSED ANYTHING IN THREE MINUTES! THIS IS SRS BSNSS! Also also, ur face is hot garbage. 😛

Okay, links removed and files directly uploaded.

I ran the URLs through a shortener, they're itsy bitsy now. Nothing else I can do. Page cache, maybe, or tinyurl blocked?

Apparently. Fixed.

There isn't much grass in my forest. A lot of Japanese honeysuckle, which I'm ripping out of the ground when it pushes into the valley (but not outside of the valley, because that's hummingbird food). If the test garden does well this year (not enough light in previous years (i really hate cutting down my trees)), I'll scale it over the next few years, using old tires to make terraced raised beds, and start digging a root cellar on the south side of the valley. I also have a lot of wild blackberry and black raspberry pushing into the valley, but those are at least native to the area. While I'm waiting on the test garden, I do some hiking through the forest, on and off of my land, and I always find interesting things. This is a hummingbird moth. Looks like a bumblebee, but no, it's a moth. I've only seen one other, and it was a lovely green and orange. Pink azalea growing wild right on the western edge of my property. Had no idea they were there until this year. And the plethora of green around it, that's wild blueberry. I have two huge wild blueberry bushes down in the valley, and it looks like they're finally going to produce some berries this year. Sunlight does help. That's a pink lady's slipper. It's a species of orchid which grows wild out here. I've known they were there for several years, but this is the first time I've seen them in bloom. Cardinal flower. I have three growing right in my stream, next to one another. They won't bloom until July, but when they do, the flowers are the most velvety, beautiful red, like Santa's coat. This is why I say it's always Christmas in the Lumiverse. This is a species of moss. It thrives under the dense canopy of the mixed deciduous and fir forest in which I'm living. It's evergreen, so even in the middle of winter, there's color on the ground. Downy rattlesnake plantain. It's another orchid which grows wild, and it's all around my cabin. Another evergreen plant, so even in mid-winter, it's there. I haven't seen them bloom yet, but deer tend to omnomnom them before they do, and being close to the cabin might keep the deer away long enough for some to pop. Wintermint. It's not minty, or in the mint family. It's another evergreen which thrives in acidic soil and low sunlight conditions. It grows everywhere out here, and late fall/early winter, puts out a central stalk with a couple of brilliant red berries. In a couple of months, the touch-me-nots (also known as jewelweed) will be in bloom. They grow in every inch of soil not taken by something else, so the entire valley will turn bright orange when they blossom. Four hummingbirds take up residence in the valley every year, feasting on honeysuckle, touch-me-not and cardinal flower. I'm not a flower person, but things like these, things I didn't even know existed until I moved out here, make every goddamn day worth waking up for. There's so much to discover, learn about and experience in person. @PeregrineFalcon is right, get the hell out of the house and go explore the world around you. You never know what you'll find, and you won't realize how much it means to you until you see it. Oh... it's tick season, and the little fuckers are hungry, so DEET yourself. You don't want to get Lyme disease.