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The new Star Trek movie - I dunno if it was my low expectations based on the trailers but I thought it was really good. My fears were mostly unfounded and ...

Even more DDO Got my drow druid to level 7 rank 33 and steadily cruising along while making sure not to take any more quests that require a human party pfsh... human party! Ain't nobody got time for that

I asked my wife but she hasn't been in 11 years so she doesn't want to give you the bum scoop We used to have at least 2 people from there, I wonder where they went...

Yes, but I find myself using the standard cleric more often but I'm a squishy mage. It does nice damage though EDIT- There are supposed to be books or something that can increase the rank of companions so that you will be able to get rank 1 (max level 15) to rank 3 (max level 30) but I don't think they are in yet. There is a similar setup for mounts and I think those books/tomes/whatever are already in with rank increasing the max speed

You get the XP from bonus objectives immediately most of the time but it's not a lot compared to what you get for completing the entire quest.

More DDO I tried to take on a level 8 (I'm level 6) 4 man group quest last night by myself with 5 hirelings. Everything was good until I got to a point where I had to split the party and then it all fell apart. 2 hours wasted and no XP to show for it

I thought he was arguing against that simply owning a gun made for a more dangerous household I'm not one to talk though as I own 3 and I don't feel any more or less safe I'm also drunk

I don't really know anything about it but I'll be there in July

Thanks for that, always good to learn something new

Yeah, you can check in game It's one of the little buttons an the top of the screen

Astral diamonds are going at a rate of about 360ish per 1 Zen and you get 100 Zen for $1. Also, you can only buy Zen in certain amounts but I think there is a 3000 Zen option for $30 bucks. Still pricey but you'll be able to get your cat right now, right now if that's what you want.

yes, I do believe they are

puppy Driving in the mountains to see the leaves change

DDO and Neverwinter still

Cancun beach photos This is about as much "swimming" as I do the missus V.v.V

Random shots from the last time I was in NYC

This pretty much describes my situation and feelings about the NRA

Thanks! Looks like the Zenbook is at the top of my list unless something better comes out before mid July

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Sorry, I'm trying to find something around $2,000 USD or less but willing to a bit higher if needed but will probably not go more than $2,500. I'd really like a 13.3" because I really want something super portable but I would be okay with larger as long as it is still thin and light. I'll be using it mostly for travel so I would like to be able to play Kickstarter type games but nothing really graphic intensive. I don't really care what it looks like but sexy is always better than not. Thanks again

I'm currently in the market for a new laptop as well but I was thinking something more along the lines of an ultrabook type if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks

Still level 26 because after playing for a while I got the urge to go play DDO for a while. The problem with that is that DDO occasionally crashes my video card for some reason... I should probably look into that but I most likely won't and just switch back to Neverwinter

Neverwinter is basically DDO: Dark Alliance EDIT- I think for the first 4 or 5 levels your skills are automatically assigned but then you get to pick after that and I think around 10 or so you start to get feat points. Every 10 levels you also get more stat points.

It is micro-transaction bait but you can get them and everything else without spending any actual money. Zen - $1 = 100 Gold/Silver/Copper coins - standard game currency Astral Diamonds - From dailies, Leadership, invocation. Used for auctions and speeding up tasks and some other things Tsomethingrandom bars Coins of (magical critter) - drops from bosses and bounties. Trade for gear and changes for level range Some other coins I don't remember - 2 different ones from invocation. One you can exchange for the different coins of (magical critter) and the other for something else It's part of all the different currencies that the game has that I was complaining about earlier but you can exchange astral diamonds for Zen at varying exchange rates. EDIT a key is 125 Zen or $1.25 or currently about 60k Astral Diamonds and you can refine 24k Astral Diamonds a day but you can get more (without paying money) by selling on the AH or trading things for them I believe.

More Neverwinter Hit level 26 and still cruising along on my control wizard. I'm finding crafting to be frustrating as it's all time based and it's starting to take a long, long time to finish missions. The currency system is also a bit strange for me with all the different currency types