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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...

...and making the transfer of funds from wealthy, financially disciplined countries to corrupt governments more streamlined and efficient.

Somebody understands me I can relate, sort of. I know I'm throwing hissy fits and temper tantrums at the moment over it. Might or might not change my mind in a few weeks time (sub still runs for a month and a half) I do worry if they are going to add on top of what already feels like a "broken" leveling path though. There is a noticeable "bump" still around level 50, it isn't a smooth, transparent transition going from say, 45 to 55. Many reminders everywhere still that there is a level 1-50 game and a level 51-55 part tacked on to it. I wish they would have had some kind of "upgrade" path to never commendations. In PVP you have an exchange rate between WZ Commendations and Ranked WZ Commendations. It would be nice if they had offered something similar to those who has 1000's of classic commendations and nothing to use them for. E.g. allow people at level 55 to buy basic coms at exchange rate 5:1, elite coms at 15:1 or whatever less arbitrary number that would make sense. At least people who grinded stuff before RotHC would have a chance to get something for their work, rather than being left with their face in the mud... [dramatic voice]Why oh why [/dramatic voice] do they still have level 50 HM FP's? Some of those are great to play and quite "educational" mechanics wise (some nice insta-wipe pulls here and there to temper the occasional over eager mara/sent). Yet the rewards... Level 50 gear and classic commendations just isn't worth it. A nice one-off experience for the story elements. Re-balance them for L55 HM play. Force people play them all at least once to qualify for GF Ops. Speaking of assassins... I think our guild master is obsessed with them, he has no less than 3 L55 DPS assassins. My own 3 main characters are currently my old Powertech Tank, a DPS Juggernaut and Operative Healer. Sort of trying to be at least competent if not mastering all roles. Also got a L55 Assassin Tank, Shadow Tank, Gunslinger, DPS Commando, DPS Guardian, DPS Sorcerer and a Sniper (and a Jedi Guardian tank and Sage Balance/PVP Spec close to level 50), in various stages of gearing up, some in mix basic com/elite com gear and the sniper in a mix of elite and ultimate com gear. Just a wild guess, I can probably get them the same gear in 3-4 weeks now that it took me the previous 9-12 months to get them. Which is why i probably feel completely unreasonable and peevish at the moment

So... update 2.8 (i refuse to call it "patch", because that implies it fixes something) hit the street. Verdict? Entirely opinion based, but in the almost a year and a half I've been a subscriber, this is the worst I've seen. The thank you from Bioware for being an avid player, putting in a lot of long and hard hours getting characters geared up was rewarded with?... giving it away to everyone else for basically free. Thank you, thank you very much for such appreciation. Never mind the new bugs introduced, but removing the crafting materials from the fleet vendor now means, a number of schematics (still sold by the vendor who just dont have the materials anymore) means, forget about heroic space missions on future characters. Grade 7 upgrades not sold on CM and materials unavailable to craft those missing from the vendor selection. 16 Man ops in groupfinder... with bolster... just to ensure that no skill playing your class and no gear is needed to "qualify". Seriously?... You would have thought they had seen what happened when people leveled up through the now infamous "KDY Academy", which has become a meme all on it's own. Teaching every possible way to fail at "real" flashpoints. Throwing away Elite Coms and Ultimate Coms just for doing HM Flashpoints... I guess besides pissing in the face of older customers players, they with one brilliant stroke removed any incentive to run dailies and weeklies on the various planets. Oricon was getting a bit stale. No need to ever do it again. Nor makeb. Nor anyplace else for that matter. Expect queue times for DPS in groupfinder to explode. Good thing i got a couple of tanks (and only run with guildies). And yeah, the bugs. There was plenty to go around. All in all, a big thumbs down and it made the decision to abandon my subscription rather easy.

Remind me again, exactly why does the European Parliament exist? I remember for 20 years it used to be a practical solution for disgraced or semi-retired politicians, which could pull in favours owed and get sent to Bruxelles. The idea being, they could line their pockets and be out of sight at the same time.

A personal favourite of mine (Sofia Vergara).

Maybe devaluing isn't the right word, but "destroying it" is such a loaded, emotial word. It does remove a potential avenue of sale. The market reacts to it in typical market economy fashion. It's now heading towards everything being software as service. There will not be downloadable products in the future, just a few influential corporations offering online accounts, giving access to play on their servers. Same is slowly happening in the movie industry with the likes of netflix. A sign of tomorrows digital distribution market. In the case of gaming, it's the diversity and the prices that are going to suffer, because there will be fewer outlets offering competing products. Australia is a good example of what *could* happen, price fixing makes digitally distributed products between 50-100% more expensive (without any added cost of distribution) simply because of lack of competition (bless their little hearts at Gamersgate and GoG).

Lawful Neutral is so dull... (said the Chaotic Neutral guy). As for Gromnir... don't let the lack of skill points in diplomacy fool you. Just stay honest. Welcome to the squad TrueNeutral. it's a task that does indeed sometimes require two personalities, which needs to be kept separate.

Most likely dangling something attractive in front of their noses and having the audacity to charge money for it. I'm pretty sure that we both know very well how the music industry (as a very obvious example) has been treating both consumers as well as artists, in that light I can't help but feel that your interpretation of my words is rather disingenuous. I fail to to see anything "disingenuous" in that. Please explain exactly how the music industry is forcing people to take matters into their own hand then. The hyperbole used in the post referred to makes it impossible to take it serious.

Most likely dangling something attractive in front of their noses and having the audacity to charge money for it.

Somebody seriously needs to get a grip on themselves somewhere... Racist would be to call them clowns because of race. I don't see the cartoon doing that. I see it calling them clowns because of (sub)conscious choices done by the party members and their voters rather than genetics. If their first reaction is to try to put a foot down on free/opposition press, you are headed in a very bad direction. Bonus question: How *would* you draw a stereotypical South African? White, Black, Asian? MCA's stickmen?

Can't say I've ever heard the name before But: 1. Consider myself lucky that the cyclones, floods and bushfires usually don't happen in my area (and grab an umbrella if more than 200mm rain is coming down in one day and I have to get out). 2. Lament the loss of a good sportsbag. 3. Christmas tree... like those on postcards???

When you give the ebook to the next guy, do you delete it from all your devices? Otherwise it sounds very much like copy infringement if you copy the ebook, keep a copy for yourself and pass the copy onto someone else. Pretty much this. As implied in the word "copyright", it's who has the right to make copies of his/her work. If you lend somebody a paperback book, you are not copying it (i.e. a new paperback book doesn't pop out of thin air so you both have one). No idea how ebooks work, but if creating multiple copies of the product, you are entering copyright infringement territory. If you were to give the other guy the actual physical device the ebook resides on, so you don't have it anymore yourself... I guess you could argue you didn't copy it, but actually lend the one and only copy to somebody else.

Oh, yeah. Didn't read it properly. Oops So effectively add an extra user to the server that is the "jukebox"?