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Got myself some nice new homes on Coruscant, Dromund Kaas, Tattooine and Nar Shaddaa. Currently only the energy and time to start "decorating" my vacation retreat on Nar Shaddaa. I guess i have to do more HM FP's again as well as OPS to grab some more stuff to hang in my hallways as trophies.

Arrived in Berlin. Got myself a temporary roof over my head and had my first day in the new work place. I'm probably not going to relax properly and kick back until I got a more permanent arrangement though. Time to start hunting those web pages and see what's available in the the general area. You have to admire the German system... you are required by law to register yourself as living somewhere within 14 days. You need an appointment at the relevant authorities. You can't get an appointment any sooner than 30 days. I think I'll go down and visit them tomorrow and ask how the heck that is supposed to work

Didn't vote. Neither game's predecessors have made them "must have" games. I loved Witcher 1 yet couldn't bring myself to bother with Witcher 2. One of those games that is going to hog HDD space never to get played again most likely. Story didn't live up to the first game, combat was awful and the UI horrible, just horrible. At least i managed to play through Dragon Age 1 and 2, although the latter tried very hard to shoo me away with an encounter design that was... not sure what. Intended to chase away players from future games? Never mind that the combat system was just plain boring and a major let down from the first game. So two franchises with decent first entries and sequels that tried very hard to give sequels a bad name. Makes me very apprehensive about a sequel to the sequel for both games

Thread pruned a bit. Remeber guys. profanity in pictures is circumventing our beloved language filter...

Staying in a hotel room at the moment. Removal guys have picked up all my stuff and filled a container with it, ready to ship it overseas. Cleaners will appear tomorrow and give the place a makeover and Monday I'm handing over the keys to the landlord. Wednesday I'll be on a plane to Europe Just sitting here. customising my new laptop and after 30 minutes I already hate Windows 8.1 passionately. I need to find some of those UI improvement tools, this is just bad. Very, very bad.

Just being fashionably late to the discussion... All bow down and offer praise to #pragma !!! The movement, also known as pragmatism and its practitioners as pragmatics is where it's at. Want something done? Forget about petty bickering, daydreaming, wishful thinking, territorial pissing and just get your lazy butt in gear and actually *DO* stuff. It's surprising how much people can do if they free their minds from the shackles of conventional thinking, doctrines and dogma

Sharks are an important part of the Australian eco system. They help keep the surfer population in check by reducing their numbers to sustainable levels, culling the slowest and weakest specimens, motivating the others to move faster and be more vigilant about their surroundings.

Quo Est Demonstrandum (sp?), colonialist rule is better than democracy Semi serious, semi joking. I admire your optimism Bruce, but I don't always share it. My money is on Entropy who always win out in the end.

All you need is love!

Actually... *that* would be funny

My tank... not state of the art or anything, but decent good quality gear all around. I know his absorption is low outside combat, but once he gets the heatscreen buff in a fight, it gets another 25% taking it to 60%

I can't speak for the other guys, but i think we are mostly wearing oriconian gear (i.e. rating 180). I bought some crafted dread forged supercommando mk-x implants off GTN. Relics are still PVP relics as they are better than anything short of Dread Forged. Haven't found an earpiece that is better than my own crafted Microfilament Artifact piece. The oriconian earpiece is garbage with lots of endurance and less mitigation (I'm a powertech tank). Replaced a number of rating 180 enhancements with stuff bought from crafters on fleet for materials and crafting fees (bye bye alacrity and accuracy, hello defense and shield value). Duh... yes. That's because I played TfB just after SnV. Too many large droids around. Titan is the one with the nuclear strikes, Operator the LSD one with all the colours

Sounds good. As said, the Hard Mode version of the fights are a bit more challenging than the Story Mode versions (I've "solo tanked" S&V several times) That stomp attack that Operator IX hammers you into the ground with was a surprise. The animation of my powertech stuck in sand up to his shoulders and trying to wriggle his way out was just too funny. Olok the Shadow is going to be interesting in HM

I don't care how much of it is real, where is the wallpaper version dammit?...

Pazaak would have been awesome. It's like the Star Wars version of Blackjack Made a bit more progress in our group and killed HM Operator IX and Thrasher yesterday. Those fights are a bit more fun than their story mode counterparts

Manged to get myself entangled in a "progression raid" group. Was quite fun. Starting out with the easy stuff, we downed Dashroode (sp?) as our first step on the way in HM Scum and Villainy. Didn't beat Titan X (yet, but we are getting quite close i think). Looking forward to get my own homestead on Tattooine. Just this little modest hideout to call home

More daily deeds done

Start of old thread End of old thread Spent an obscene amount on money on a laptop Sort of necessary as i'm going to be living i a cardboard box for a while. Just me, my inflatable mattress and a laptop (and internet modem).

Bit the bullet and bought a laptop. Went to Dell's site and purchased the Alienware 17 (32gb memory version) and upgraded the optical drive and Gfx Card to max options. Got 12 months of Antivirus too even if i have no idea if McAfee is good or bad these days. Wanted to slap myself afterwards when i discovered that i could have upgraded the windows 8.1 pro to a windows 7.1 pro. Sucks to be me i suppose, i better start learning how to navigate that piece of quicksand.

Still playing this one. Still having loads of fun. That is, intermingled with loads of frustration. I really should stay away from group finder for at least a month after double xp. Together with the KDY Academy it's a mixed bag of newbies coming to HM FP's thinking it's the first and best place to get new gear as soon as they ding in at 55 wearing greens and blue level 47 mods. Sometimes you get luck and get at least one other "experienced" guy, sometimes you get 3 "failures". Had a CZ Corporate Labs run on my moderately geared assassin tank (all verpine gear, a few oriconian pieces). The dps not only failed to kill the first boss before the enrage timer... the boss was enraged for an entire effin 5 minutes! Thank goodness for a kick ass healer that kept my sorry assassin butt alive during those five minutes. Healer eventually tired of trying to save dps from charged water and we just 2 manned the boss fight in the end. Same when we came to chief Zokar. Then had a CZ Meltdown run with another group where Sandstorm beast enraged... but so close that we got him down before wiping. Then proceeding to the enhanced Vrblter. Guess what, they couldn't kill him. Despite having him constantly debuffed, they couldn't kill him. Took so long that the (under geared) healer ran out of juice three times and... wipe. After third time, I had enough. Thank goodness for guild runs. If it wasn't for those, I would stop doing fp's altogether. Had some fun operation. One Scum and Villainy saw us so way overpowered that we played it like a tactical flashpoint and didn't give a damn about most mechanics. First boss got tanked against first pillar, never moved, just killed where he was. Trash got killed in random order with excessive violence not bothering with cc or kill order. The big droid didn't finish second "cycle" of his 9 phases before he was dead and so on. Only last boss got the respect due because of the mechanics. It was awesome. Didn't take more than an hour either. Finally got around to do the Dread Fortress and Dread Palace runs on my tanks and healers. Still need to complete them with a dps character. Teamspeak is a great invention

*sigh* No way around it, I'm going to need a laptop. Since I'm going to be "homeless" for a long time between packing stuff away in boxes, being in transit for at least 2 months while getting shipped to Europe, I'm going to be without any computer. That cannot be! Started looking at a few web sites, including Dell's, but it's a jungle out there. Anyone out there tried the Dell XPS15 series? Any good? Screen seems a bit small to me and I really don't care one inch about touch screen and much less the lack of a Windows 7 option.

Been a bit absent recently. Moving country is such a hassle. I've been packing and sorting out things, moving to a new job and going to live in my fourth country. Looking forward to telling people "Ich bin auch ein Berliner" (as I'm literally moving to Berlin).

There are fan videos and there are fan videos. That was one of the better ones As for being a fan... don't even remember what year I started playing WH40K. It was the tail end of the Rogue Trader era (still got ye olde rulebook) and 2nd edition was new. 3rd Edition sort of killed it off as my gaming group at the time dropped it like a hot potato, being way too "dumbed down" to appeal to that particular audience. My humongous Valhallan army has gathered dust ever since Still, I bought the latest rulebook for the new edition. Just to stay in touch. I guess that makes me a fan when doing irrational stuff. Best setting I know. Would dearly love to see what Obsidian could do with the IP in a crpg.

Thread pruned a bit. Time to calm down and knock off the personal insults and name calling...

A nice "dreamy" quality to that picture...