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  1. Gorth
    It could also just be confusing the objectification as used in social philosophy with the very human tendency to categorize everything. E.g. thinking of a person as a "blonde", the guy with the weird moustache or "that obnoxious one" (rather than thinking of a person as employee #712, the cleaner, Star Trek redshirts etc.). The former (IMHO) being a way of remembering people who are otherwise indistinct to us, the latter a true regarding of someone as an "object".
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    I think I can relate to most of these points. Except possibly not giving a damn about the entertainment industry these days. Bands come and go, one hit wonders come and go, movies gets advertised and I don't remember the name (much less watching anything, not even youtube of them). I guess there really is something about the age thing. Maybe it's the comfort of familiarity that I return to the "oldies" when listening to music or the rare occasion where I can sit through an entire movie on the DVD player. Point in case, I keep hearing *about* this Biber guy, but I don't think I've ever heard *him*. Same thing about this young girl, what's her name that keep ending up in court with drug/alcohol issues. It's almost like a completely alien world to me.
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    I believe it is massless, and weight is dependant on mass, so I don't believe so. I may br wrong. Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of connection between mass and energy?
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    First day back at work since before Christmas. Catching up on few hundred unread emails...
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    Back after almost a month of absence. Cursing the injustice of classic commendations. One character has 500+ coms and nothing to use them for. Another character could easily use them all, but has to do all the grind now to get the artifice schematics I want for him Dear Bioware, How about letting stuff purchased with Classic Commendations be bound to legacy? Best regards, Gorth. PS: Managed to catch a bit of the Rakghoul event. Too similar to the Gree thing in structure to feel "new". Nice tunnels though and the infections are a bit funny to watch on Alderaan
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    Nah, it simply slowly approaches, people chatting on the crawler while waiting and when it's getting close it completely vanishes without a trace, leaving everyone muttering stuff like wth and wtf in less polite terms Finished the first Heroics for the Binocular mission... car jumping was fun. Took us a bit to work out why the end boss kept regenerating. One of those facepalm moments when we realised the healing droid hiding behind him, out of sight was the one doing it. Spread out a bit so we could look around him and interrupt it when it started to heal him to full again. Then we started on the second (last?) heroics, but it was getting late and after figuring out the mines and the turrets, we kept wiping against the droids, so had to call it a day eventually. We didn't know if they were endless or eventually would end respawning, but without a healer in the team, we probably were a bit challenged (two tanks and two dps'). Ah well, only one heroics to go, will get there eventually. This damn well better be worth it.
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    I tried using my speeder halfway to the cron and back to the starting point... no luck, no balloon to see anywhere The other two guys who had waited for it the second time also gave up in disgust and moved along. Ah well, I got a few days to play just after New Year and before going away on RL travels.
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    Got my third toon through the process too. Honestly can't be bothered with a 4th looks like the lockout is timed so you can do it exactly twice before the event goes away (and I missed out on this the first week, collecting enough rep to even get admitted to the fun bits). Hmm, is it just me or is the Jawa balloon bugged? Tried twice in 3 days with 2 different toons to board it. When it's 50 meters (rough guess) from arriving at the sand crawler it just *puff* disappears. Nowhere to be seen >_
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    Since I've got some time off between the two holidays here, I've been indulging myself to the game 24/7 for a few days. Managed to also get my trooper in on 16 man Xenoanalyst II (which was quite a bit easier than 8 man actually). SM only though, I'm not a masochist. I wonder if I can squeeze my smuggler girl through the process too before it's over. I may not be able to buy any of the stuff I want this time around (I should have been doing two ops per toon then, but can't because of the lockout), but I should have a good starting position when the event gets around again eventually.
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    Arachnophobia

    Gorth replied to Cultist's topic in Way Off-Topic

    Happened to me last night taking the garbage out. Head and upper body just entangled in a sticky web, that some industrious spider had put up in the evening.
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    Got a slight taste of the Gree event. A nice diversion from the usual grind. Only one daily rubs me the wrong way and that's because it feels like Oricon/Makeb. Too small area with way to high respawn rate to accommodate the large number of players. You often end up fighting the same mob more than once during boss fight because they respawn again... and again... and again... Maxed out in my weekly Gree rep and unlocked a few extra missions. Ran around the galaxy and found all relays. Wasn't too hard. Grand total of 4 grey helixes so far. Still a long, long way to go before getting that lightsaber and sniper rifle I would like
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    I noticed that at the vendor store... what *is* isotope-5 used for (too lazy to google)?
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    Isn't that the very definition of "marriage"??? I'm a slightly similar situation most days, because of time zones, but I *do* have the option of playing Saturday and Sunday mornings, which is where I mostly do flashpoints and weeklies that has heroics in them. Most work days, if I show up in section x, there will be between 1 and 3 people (myself included), so no chance of doing the Aurora Cannon for example. On a Saturday morning, there may be 20 there, takes no time to organise a group for it. I could have sworn my screenshot showed both Yeah, went a bit overboard with the accuracty. The story behind it is the random number demon that dogs my every attempt at reverse engineering. Doing a batch of 5, no success. Doing another, all failed. after a total of 25 failed attempt, I set 5 companions to craft them for a total of another 25. Of course it now succeeds on the second out of the 25, so I was stuck with an inventory full of mid level accuracy augments. I added a number of mk5 (or was it mk6) augment slots and added the augments rather than just wasting a lot of them (mailing a bunch to some other alt) As said, not going to do much about it before reaching level 55. Got close to 300 basic coms (270 or so) for buying a few armour pieces with 69 mods and then I'll see what I come up with after whatever distrubution Bioware put into those and then get the relics/implants/ear pieces etc. I noticed (when equipping my dps commando) that the vendor armour is somewhat frugal on accuracy, which is why I still made a least some of those augments for level 55. Of course, if I was obsessed enough, I could probably start adding up all the numbers beforehand in a spreadsheet, but frankly, I'm too lazy. Augments I don't need gets handed down to my Sniper who is approaching level 50. @Hassat: Nice character. Social X, huh... not much for doing stuff alone???
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    Sort of. 110% tech accuracy and 100% ranged accuracy is the aim. Don't want to tweak it before adding decent relics, implants and ear pieces, then all my "expensive" level 55 augments, adding one at a time so I can see when I hit the target.
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    66 gear and a splattering of low level blue augments. Relics, ear piece and implants way overdue for upgrade (were state of the art around level 27 or so). I do have a dozen purple level 55 augments and kits in my storage bay, 1 for each slot (mix of cunning, accuracy, power and critical). Just need that last level (then I can also use some of those basic coms she has accumulated to buy 69 mods). @Hassat: Yeah, some of their designs really look like... not sure what really. I wouldn't want to be caught dead in it. The Kuat uniform was nice though, actually bought that one off the market. Edit: Didn't take a picture of my Sith Warrior as that one is a bit embarrassing at the moment. I just bought some nice gear for him off the GTN (purple something vindicator etc.). Problem is just, while purple level 50 stuff, some of it was tank gear and some dps. I play him as dps, but hasn't bothered replacing the mods in the chest piece yet. Besides, he wears the bounty hunter mask and look more silly than funny, but it was the only thing I had that covered his face under the hood without removing the hood entirely.
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    Let me guess, you like Chiss?
  17. Gorth
    Happy Holidays Obsidian [begging]How about some seasonal/topical stick men drawings from MCA?[/begging]
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    For a gunslinger (in my experience), alacrity and surge are the dump stats. Your skill tree should provide some critical bonuses, so it's not a priority (although it doesn't hurt to have some extra). Damage (cunning/power) and accuracy is where it's at. Don't forget augments as you reach higher levels . In case anyone wonders why you would want accuracy to be higher than 100%, it's because it starts negating enemies innate resistances and dodge/evade abilities. The "ranged" tab on your character sheet is the one that matters Hmm... isn't it time for a bit of a fashion show again. I think I'll try taking a shot of my gunslinger (and character sheet) when I get home.
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    94.84%... that's not good How much accuracy do you have in your gear??? Edit: Just saw. You have effectively none. No wonder you can't hit the side of a barn Edit2: I would recommend a good gear review and checking of your mods (armour, mod and enhancement). Priority something like Cunning, Power, Accuracy and then down the line critical and maybe a bit of surge, but less important. Edit3: looks almost like you are wearing healer gear
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    What are his stats? I.e. damage, hit percentage, critical percentage etc.? You shouldn't really be missing a lot unless your accuracy is way lower than 100%. I made it my aim (pun unintended) for my gunslinger to keep it at 100-103% and only then start boosting other things, crits and crit multiplier. My smuggler girl was devastating from level 30 something and onwards, occasionally carrying a flashpoint or two (especially after getting both the little shield and the big shield, sorry don't remember what those skills are called, one protects yourself and the other gives damage reduction to everyone within a radius). I have an assassin character, but never really got around to play him, stuck at level 20. But if he's anything like my smuggler, I learned that melee tanks are invaluable companions and Bowdaar became my regular sidekick ever since. I wonder if you have tried gearing up Khem Val with state of the art gear and let him do the tanking while your assassin backstabs things to death?
  21. Gorth
    ...and then there are nice woody words and awful tinny words! http://youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg
  22. Gorth
    Shadowrun Returns was already mentioned... Only other game released so far, which I backed, was Expeditions Conquistador and I quite enjoyed that one (not a perfect game, but I was happy with it). So not much data to base my experiences on. 2 backed games released so far. One I liked, the other one... was found wanting (I seriously hated the lack of a real save game feature).
  23. Gorth
    Did my first complete run of the Oricon daily/weekly. Sure was a lot easier doing it as a group with 3 guild mates (compared to when I unlocked them soloing it). Nice armour, but at this point in time... a bit pointless? I would expect most people would have better gear when they make it to that point. Maybe that's just my imagination. Speaking of armours found an alternative use for my coms after gearing up a few companions. Since I got the respec button on my skill tree, I guess I could start building a second armour set, geared for DPS rather than tanking. At least it would feel less wasteful than just having them sitting in your account and hitting the limit. Decided to try this "Gree" thing. Last time it was around, I didn't have any toons of level 50 (or even close). Picked up the mission and this morning, spending 20 minutes before heading to work, made my way to Ilum. That was a bit of a surprise. Last time I was on Ilum, there was a total of 3 people on the imp side there. Me, a fellow guild member who helped me kill a certain ghost and a random stranger. This time, this instance had close to 60 people all gathered on the platform on the western shelf, throwing music probes, party bombs and massive snowball fights. It looked for all the world like a crazy party in an open air night club Picked up the various types of missions and will have a look at them when I get home from work. I need to work on my snowball skills, only got 3 parcels so far
  24. Gorth
    I wouldn't mind admitting that this kind of backfiring makes me anything but unhappy. About the same warm and fuzzy feeling I get when drunk drivers hit a road tree instead of a family on the footpath. Some misery is indeed entirely of peoples own making and better themselves than innocent victims.
  25. Gorth
    Social Media (one of the most asocial inventions ever) Smart Phones (no, it doesn't make you smarter, it was just some smart guy who came up with the idea and now sell it to people) Virtual Intelligence (virtually everywhere and either not very intelligent or too smart for its own good) Next Gen (sooo last year) Individual (when somebody wants to lump you together with the 7 billion other "individuals" for easier classification) Pro-active (when somebody wants to lead you around by the nose while making you think you are not being led around by the nose). That was just a handful from top of my head.
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