LadyCrimson

Me too. It's ok dealing with it in small doses, but definitely not a game where I want to spend hours in combat mode when the repawn is every 60 seconds and they're clustered close together. Don't care about being max level in a hurry since not interesting in group dungeons, so I'll stick to the professions and "playing" the AH. That's the one thing I love about the game ... more than one way to get somewhere. I still love my panther. Wonder what the last skin looks like (its gotten bigger and darker so far). 8 more companion levels and I can find out. Heh.

Find any phat loot yet? Yeah, I'd like one of those companions too. At least they're not part of the expiring coins, so if I miss a day or two I don't lose them all. Have almost all 7 of my chrs/alts with a lvl10 in at least one profession now. One Leadership is almost 13 (can do Rank 3's then), Tailoring and Leatherworking lvl 11 (prof. lvl 14 to do Rank 3, sigh). Mailsmithing lvl10. Platesmithing is lagging behind at 6. Have lots of Guards and other Rank2's ready. One issue is I run out of materials too often now, since I'm not doing in-game combat much to gather extras that way, so I spend too much time creating them via the profession tasks. I figure another week, maybe two... Main cleric lvl 43 (those swamp/skyboat trappers are annoying as all get out) and currently sitting in one of the instances, repeating it over and over now and then just for silver/materials to send to alts. Main Rogue lvl30. Two others past lvl20, rest sitting at lvl 10-15.

I don't have anything to add, outside of a personal preference for very minimal UI's (or at least a UI I can customize to be minimal if I prefer), but it's interesting how much discussion/opinion there is on the "perfect" UI.

After being scanned and poked a little bit, pretty much as I expected: degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis). Probably combo of hereditary factors, past/current injury stress blah blah. While not in the best shape I've ever been in, I'm nowhere near obese, so weight not a factor. Too much sitting in a chair on the computer probably has an effect/hurries things along, tho. Since the only thing in the past that really helped the knees/legs was a smooth cycling motion (I guess it strengthens what needs to be strengthened, in my case, with least impact stress), plus I'm not really into going to the park/riding around city blocks every day, I'm looking for another exercycle type of thing. Problem is, most of them take up so much space and our house/garage is about the size of a large bucket, which is why I got rid of the one I had (plus it was very butt-uncomfy). Anyone ever try something like these mini-cycles that consist of just the pedals? I think you're supposed to use them while sitting in a chair. Think that would work or are they terrible? MagneTrainer-ER Mini Exercise Bike Arm and Leg Exerciser (Amazon link) They claim to work with arms too, but I'm not interested in that aspect.

The Impossible - good acting (especially the young guy playing the older son), didn't seem too Hollywood for a based on true life disaster tale (a bit, but not as bad as some), tho a bit too much human drama for me (but it's well done human drama). It did, however, do what I wanted it to do ... make me go "can't even imagine...at least my life doesn't have/never had those kinds of problems." Still, I think I'll stick to The Shawshank Redemption when I need a human spirit type of lift.

Yes...I should have also stated that tolerance for how much alteration with original source material is always going to be individualistic. I tend to be more annoyed with major chr. personality changes (Holmes being a womanizer, Spock being a lot more outwardly emotional) than actual setting (time period) or props (cars vs. carriages). I might not like that in Kubrik's The Shining he used an axe instead of a mallet, or the way they did the ending, but not to the point I'd say don't call it The Shining. But if the personality of main characters changes drastically, to me it's no longer the same character. I liked the series House largely because of the almost Holmes/Watson aspect of House and Wilson, but I wouldn't call that show "Dr. Sherlock Holmes, in the 20th century." Or in CSI:Criminal Intent, Goren was like a cross of Holmes and Columbo. All great. But don't call it/Goren CSI:Columbo.

Probably the ligaments. Just like with my thumbs/index and middle fingers four years ago. The latter had no grip strength/pressure tolerance (couldn't pick up/carry a dinner plate without using whole palm/both hands) and would pop out too. After about 6-8 months with splints and tape hand joints got better so these days I can pick stuff up again, but they're still a lot stiffer/number than they used to be. Now it's the knees. Hopefully they'll get mostly better eventually too, like the hands. At this rate, a few years later it'll be my shoulders, then a few more it'll be my ankles, then maybe my elbows, and so on. It doesn't feel like the RA pattern/symptoms, but assuming some kind of progressive arthritis. Doc's tomorrow, maybe he'll have some enlightenment...not that I'm counting on that. *whinge*

...I think the making of base materials shouldn't take 15 minutes. I mean, 2 cloth for 15 minutes of waiting, or 8 cloth for 6-7 hours of waiting. Redonkulous. The "mass" material option shouldn't be much more time than making them individually (so maybe 2 hours for 8 cloth). I've still got a ways to go before I have every profession able to create the tier 3 worker to sell on the AH for 50k a pop. Leadership and tailoring almost there tho.

After some stretches, was doing some one-step leg exercise this morning (just gentle stepping up and down the table like step platform) and something popped in one knee so it wouldn't really bend. Had to sorta twist/pull/massage the joint back into proper place, reminding me of when my thumbs were doing that some years ago. Making me a very grumpy camper. I'm a gonna go lie down and sulk now.

Since I watch the BBC version of Sherlock, which most certainly does not conform entirely to the "original stuff", plus I'm probably one of the few who enjoyed "Young Sherlock Holmes" despite its silliness, not to mention being at least tolerant of the new Star Trek films, I don't think I'm hugely closed minded to remakes fiddling with chrs, formulas, stories, settings, time periods. But there is a certain point, to me, where a remake becomes no longer related much to the original and you may as well just call it something else, as I said. eg, they're mostly capitalizing on the name recognition, not the material.

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I like the all-on-the-bottom approach, regardless of how it's arranged. I've had enough of too many things on the sides and feeling like I have to watch the game in a tiny box or through all these little menus and text readouts that I have to constantly click/move (MMO's, I'm looking at you). At least when it's all on one side (whether bottom or top or 1 side only) I feel like the graphic playing area is ... consistent? Doesn't get in the way? Gives an illusion of not being "boxed in" so much? ... and I only have to move the mouse a bit side to side most of the time, rather than all over the screen to reach different menus. And horizontal tends to make more sense these days since there's more horizontal than vertical space on most monitors. That said, stuff like the combat log could be resizable upwards, for those that really want to see more of it. Those that don't, can leave it at default etc.

I find insects fascinating, used to study them a bit. Obviously I don't like crawlies in my sheets, in my hair, my food/drink, or in my pants, but as long as they don't have deadly bites or something, I'm cool with leaving them alone as long as they're not causing me constant trouble (like termites or mosquito's/fleas or ants in the house might....). Not technically insects, but I love spiders. Jumping spiders especially. World needs more jumping spiders. They are too cool.

It's just a random NPC near an area entrance. Every time you load an area all the "scenery" NPC's change a bit and have different random names, many from other things (like the Chewbacca pet cat I saw). That's the first time I've seen a Drizzt npc.

They're almost all NPC's. All the NPC clerics/guards look the same and tend to cluster.

Not sure, they're too flitty for me to get a good look. Brownish. But with all the Bay marshes and grassy hills there are a lot of types around here I think. Like the big orange bodied ones, to the tiny blueish ones.

Tonight I shall dream of Godzilla sized Downey cats that are ripping roofs off houses to use as play boxes ... and then wake up in a cold sweat.

Ooo....nice macro! I see the odd dragonfly around our yard, probably from the bay marshes ... but they don't sit still long and usually are up high. I think when they show up in our yard, they're hopelessly lost.

I'm not sure if my chr. is glancing over in envy or out of gratefullness that she doesn't have to deal with the backstrain. Drizzt was apparently annoyed that I had stolen his panther. ...not that I blame him, because said panther is awesome. My drow rogue, shooting fireworks into the sky!

The survey stuff makes me nervous/don't like doing stuff like that. I suppose I could make dummy email address for it then delete that mail address when I'm done doing it, but eh...I'll just try to parcel my remaining diamonds into zen then back to diamonds over and over for profit. I gave them money, they don't get more. Not for a while anyway, if ever. Saw some forum posts where people were saying they'd spent like $800 on the game already. In a month. I'm crazy, but not that crazy.

In the specific profession list, if you uncheck the Filter of "don't show high lvl tasks" or something like that, you can see everything possible. Purples only seem to be part of the rotating special tasks, like sorophx said. Good luck getting some of the things you need to make them, tho. I know the purple dragon's egg can come out of the lockboxes (if you get a prof pack from the box) ... no idea if you can get them as dungeon rewards/drops or something. There are apparently some crafting items only available as random chance via the Zen packs. I discovered that about the speed bonus/color tier workers. There's no regular option to make 4 Rank 3 white workers into 1 green worker ... so you have to get the Profession packs, get lucky to get 4 greens, make a blue. Or just get lucky and get purples. Micro-transaction bait again. Or make enough AD to constantly trade for Zen to get the packs w/out spending real cash. Same thing with the blue/purple "tools," too ... tho I'm not sure what those do, exactly. Maybe give a chance of higher stats on the item you craft.

No, they're not mandatory for anything that I can see. I don't remember the questline order but if you reach certain clvls, the other areas open up quest wise (name title becomes yellow instead of red text) and you can just go there and pick up the quests from the people there. And typically, if you're leveled up enough to get quests from the people in a new area, if you go back to Knoxx in the main city, he'll have the starter quest too, if you feel like being a completionist. So basically, clvl dictates what's available/when NPC's will start giving you certain quest chains.

I don't think you are, ma'am. The original poster was entitled "What do passive aggressive ****ing cowards mean" Haha...actually my first thought was it seemed kinda similar to those common jokes re: "what women say/really mean." I guess such lists are rather universal in a way, regardless of the title.

Is that a diaper on that poor cat's head? ...and according to that "what British say/mean" poster, I must be rather British.

I've looked up EVE before ... know a couple 'net buddies who play it. It looks more complicated than I'd probably want to bother with. I do tend to love the simple professions/economics in MMO's tho...often more than the combat/questing part. After leveling up in WoW, that's pretty much all I did - flew around gathering resources/making stuff and "played" the auction house forever. I love how people who seem desperate that their item be bought first, and are willing to drive the prices down in mad cycles to achieve it, affect a weekly market. Bought some Zen when it dived to 300 diamonds per on Sun. night ... it'll shoot up to close to 400 at some point on a weekday and I can sell it back for diamonds again. Repeat. Games are fun.