FrostElfGuard
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This idea shows a lot of community spirit! It also shows very good character.
Re: being able to satisfy all requests. You won't be able to. However, you can satisfy requests as best you can.
Example: If someone wants 7 Ice Shard runes, and you have only 3... then give the 3 at your normal rate. (6 runes).
then... you have to give the other 16 runes (4:1) out of the "junk" rune pile.
Junk runes are runes that no one generally uses. For me, that's all melee rules and (DE) confusion, (WE) Transformation, (WE) Recuperation, (DE) Soul Catcher, (BM) Spiritual Healing, (BM) Reiki, (BM) Shield wall... etc...
Your rune hunters will be still collecting runes at a very fast rate...so you can afford to give away runes. If not... just charge your normal rate. Key here is your rune hunters (rune farmer) will be making more runes all the time anyway.
I find I give away runes to make room (sometimes)... particularly if I spot a new player or someone I recognize in need.
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crisps = uk way of saying potatoe chips
Back to our regularly scheduled goodies thread.
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I thought the Fellowship is where the wizard dies and ring gets detroyed, but everyone lives in the end except the evil people.
And a member is a naughty bit.
The end.
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The other sad thing about this is this: life is a competition. Competition for salaries, mates, houses, apartments, level 216 first, whatever.
If the berieved family just roll over and play dead... then the drunk driver (or speeding driver or driver) will collect his money and his lawyer will collect his/her money... it's all in what you can squeeze out of life. Or... if they're insured... then it could fall on the insurance company... which will then increase the insurance rates for the family... which means it affects the family again.
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RFID is bad bad bad.
Why bad? 'Cause it allows people who shouldn't know stuff to know stuff.
This is Bill Gates style technology... that is, something developed for one purpose that can easily be used for some very wrong other purposes. BG made java able to access your hard drive... which it never was designed to be allowed to do... a huge security hole... thank you Mr. Gates.
In the war against crime the police are always wanting more tools to catch the bad guys... trouble is... who is watching the police as they become more and more powerful? I can't argue this one well. Bruce Schneier can. He's an international security expert (and milllionaire). He has quite a lot to say about security and trade-offs.
What his main argument boils down to is this: security is an arms race. You develop a new way to foil attacks (theft, etc...) and criminals come up with a new way of committing their crimes...since they are only insterested in quick-path (least effort) solutions.
Example: someone came up with a thumbprint lock for cars. They tried it out in Malaysia (or somewhere else in Asia). You can't open the car door without the thumbprint. So. What's a poor thief to do? Oh. Right. Cut off the thumb. Needless to say, that was the end of the thumb locks. What customer would want to lose his thumb AND his car? Attackers adapt.
The RFID thing: attackers will just have invalid RFIDs or ones that mutate so they can't be tracked. Regular people... well... they won't. And the rich? Well they won't have to RFID, or theirs will be better than the average Joe's. And if so... then the attackers will be emulating theirs.
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I found a better link about RFID from Bruce.
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The farmer's prank is a purgatori quest that doesn't show up in the log... but grants a skill point and an attribute point.
Doable once per level of difficulty. Nightwolfe's page has a great write up on it.
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I'm got the name from Nightwolfe's page on quests. I'm going to assume--and yeah, you know what that means!
that the long name comes out of the quest log or such. Rather than... say... her head! 
I'm not in the game right now so I canna check cap'n!
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Possible name change:
The Forgotten Swamps of Azschabrag
instead of
The Forgotton Swamps
!?!?Yes, No, Maybe So?
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I had been planning on watching "A Knight's Tale" for a while. A friend had dumped his VHS tapes and DvDs on us when he moved away... and one of them was AKT.
Watched it the other night. I enjoyed the film. And that's saying something... since I'd been so turned off by Medieval dancers dancing to rock music... which is how they sold the film here when it was released.
Heath Ledger was an excellent actor, had a pretty face, and worked on at least a few great projects. (Great writing is actually the most important aspect for an actor's career. Actors don't create the words...they shape how they are experienced. Without tons of supporting work, the actor can only produce mediocre work. Kinda like the lead singer in a band. Without the band, they're just Kelly Clarkson.)
Re: Brokeback Mountain: SV, you might find him ugly in that movie. The way he held his face through the entire movie made me think he was ugly. His face is closed. His body language is closed. Brilliant work.
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I had heard that only Magic melee damage matters to the Beast...and it must be filtered by the Weapon of Legend.
This means that you have to be creative.
Any combat art that increases your chance to hit will increase your damage over time (dot).
Any combat art that multiplies your melee damage will help (Hard Hit is your best bet--which would be delivered for a Daemon by Descent, the other half of Soaring Daemon.)
Socketing Magic melee damage rings will boost your magic damage.
For a Battle mage, will Blackstaff's set boost your magic damage (melee) or just magic damage (spell)?
With the IP significantly increasing damage...I'm wondering if that Daemon wielded the dagger, but had lots of fire damage socketed. Could be the key was as you say boosting your damage through the roof to overcome the Golem's huge resistances to everything that is not Magic melee.
Looks like something I need to explore. I've never done the True Warrior Quest Chain. (yet).
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Also: for instance, the resistances in Silver difficulty on armour are lower than in Gold difficulty.
The maximum CA values are higher in higher levels of difficulty.
For instance, maximum Far Sight in bronze is +26. Even if your level 1 Trade Dwarf (the only character likely to see it at level 1) buys something from a Bronze Merchant with Far Sight +27 it will change in his inventory to 26.
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When my mum was a kid she was hit by a drunk driver and was left temporarly paralized etc. The guy got off with it because his wife had just had a baby, so he was celebrating.
Justice is a word. Not a reality.
It all depends on who you know...
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R.E.O. Speedwagon for the win Alex!
Happy Australia Day!
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I'm going to wear my tin foil hat in case of emergencies! (Has NO ONE seen the movie "Signs"?)
The tin foil hats in "Signs" were handsdown the absolute best part of the movie!
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As an aside, quest rewards sometimes are items, and about 1/2 the time the quest item is an item it is a green item.
I going to interpret this as, gosh, hey! They get an item... but hey, the one they "rolled" is too high!...k. Give 'em junk then! Ok!
The quests I'm speaking of are the Bellevue through Mascarell quests --which in Bronze I'm very very familiar with. As a set, I could get a set item or a regular item just about anywhere. And... for quests, I've often received level 10 set items even at char level 1. So, perhaps the quests have a level of 10 at minimum?
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Hmm... walking around in public without being able to hear shouted commands (due to listening to music on iPod or whatever): DUMB!
Hmm... being tasered and bitten by a police dog. I think I would sue... but then, I'd be able to hear police's commands and I would obey. So, I probably wouldn't get tasered or bitten. Why would I sue? Assault is a crime, and if the police assault me, they should pay for the crime the same way any other criminal would. Wearing a badge means you are they to uphold the law, not break it! I'd also have the dog destroyed. Why? 'Cause if a non-aggressive person like me gets bit, then, the dog is too aggressive for his/her job. And the taste of human blood is what non-police dogs get destroyed for too.
Hmm... I bet the victim Derrick doesn't know his rights or the law. He probably feels dumb for not complying... but remember folks: when you're tasered, you could lose control of your bodily functions (#1, and #2). More shame for him. This would be a horrifying experience to go through. The article doesn't mention it, but he probably was arrested too. And put in temporary holding too. This too, would be pretty horrifying for the average high school student.
I bet he's still in shock.
Being a jerk doesn't merit all the badness that ensued here.
I was a jerk back then too (high school). I hope outgrew it!
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I'm using the Daemon, so you see my problem.
I was wondering if at lv 216, "trading" becomes useless.
Or can it still produce items which are over lv 216 themselves
What I'm trying to find out is wether I can get just as good items when I've reached lv 216
Daemon can't take Trade Skill.
Any other character can, and can shop (providing they keep up their trade skill) for better items.
By the time you make 216, you'll be king/queen of Ancaria (really really powerful), so it doesn't much matter about the trade skill.
TherionX has made it to 216 with each kind of Daemon.
Hope this helps.
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My characters tend to get left standing around for months at a time... and thus it is with my level 154 Daemon.
I've exported her to SP and have unlocked up to the start of Platinum in SP.
Why? Cause she's hard core and if she dies, she dies.
I want to play in Niob, but don't want her to die from my lack of understanding of how to play the char after having been away from playing a Daemon for about a year.
So, the crawl to Niob in SP (unlock Gold, Platinum, and Niobium).
So, soooooon I'll be in HC Closed Niob. And a force to be reckon'ed with!
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Remakes. Hmmm. I'm pretty sure there was one good out there. But in general... yup. Remakes are worse.
Stephen King's: Salem's Lot (the original) really had me terrified. Course I was like 12 or something when it came on TV. (And yeah, I got the remake and it is baaaadd.)
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The media won't let this one go.
Today they say there were a lot of different prescription drugs in the place... and that some of them were used to treat depression.
He lost custody of his child when his woman left him (the same one who played his wife in Brokeback Mountain).
The life of an actor is very up and down... you're super busy, or you're super not... many actors turn to drugs (smoking, alcohol, prescription, or other) or have them "given" to them... It's a hard life.
I read somewhere he liked living in New York and had a regular life in Soho.
I'm sad when someone so young ends it all/has his life ended through accident.
The roles he recently played might have affected him too. The last few really don't sound very positive. Perhaps these roles preyed on his mind.
I thought he was great in Brokeback Mountain... and had already borrowed a friend's tape of "A Knight's Tale". It'll be a sad movie now, regardless of how it was meant to be.
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Blacksmith socketing is level 1 (I'm guessing here folks) 'cause then it won't change the level of the item.
If you socket a high level item in a socket you can change the minimum level requirements to equip the item.
A level 1 socketable will never change the min requirements for an item.
re BP level 2: You might be wearing an item that grants "To all combat arts: +1", or something that grants "Bottomless Pit: +1".
I found with "An Eye for an Eye" (WE's version of Attack CA) that I equipped something (an amulet) that boosted Attack. And I was very surprised when AEfaE went up! I thought AEfaE was something other than Attack. Instead, the local name for a CA might just be flavour text.
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What do I hate the most: Violence against humans.
What do I love the most. Well. Sex.
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Hi and welcome!
I too am slightly older than the average "Dark Matters" member.
I've had the privilege of meeting PowerPyx in person at GDC this year. It was nice to see him in person. He was very busy with helping out at the booth. I wanted to help too, but the language barrier was too much. I know only a few words of German. And... almost everyone at GDC spoke (it seemed to me) only German.
I hope you enjoy your time here.
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Hmm.. Disagree with you or come up new categories you've missed.
1. The film based upon a naturally occuring phenomenom. Examples:>> Twister - in which we learned that you can survive the most powerful force of nature by using a belt. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt hang your heads in shame
>> Titanic (contrary to popular belief this is a film about an iceberg) - in which we learned that poor people are happy people
>> 3 Weeks Next Tuesday (the day after tomorrow) - in which we learned that you can run faster than an approaching snow storm.
2. The lead role is an ex Wrestler, fighter or body builder? Examples
>> The Rock, Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgrum, Arnie Schwarzeneggar (ok, I'll let you have Terminator, but only because he doesn't act in it)
3. The film is based on a computer game? Examples:
>> Oh, the list is endless. There are NO good films based on computer games. Not ONE. Ecks vs Sever (Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas) Doom (also fails rule 2 above), Wing Commander (possibly the worst film ever made, after Showgirls), Resident Evil (actually, I like them, but they are still rubbish), Streetfighter (Kylie Minogue is hilarious, but not in a good way)
4. The lead role in the film is an animal. Examples:
>> Any of the shaggy dog films (including the remakes), Lassie, Black Beauty, that one with Kevin Bacon and the jack russel (skip something), the Fly, a return to oz (basically a film about a chicken)
Feel free to disagree or come up with categories that I missed.
Lets see.
1) Naturally occuring phenom.
Titanic? wasn't based on an iceberg. It was based on the liberation of woman from the upper class society's role for her. The movie was made to evoke tears and to do it over and over and over. It won't appeal to all, but it has WIDE appeal. Such wide appeal that it is (adjusted for inflation) one of the top 3 money making movies of ALL TIME. Gone with the Wind and Star Wars were also in that group IIRC. The lead man Jack (played by Leonardo di Caprio or whatever his name is) did everything he could "right" in the movie--for the woman. It was a powerful performance from both of these actors (she and he)... and it resonated enough to get tons of young teenage girls to travel to the gravesite of the real man that is the basis of Jack's character in the film. Travel there and mourn what would've been an old man they would have had nothing to with had they met him on the street...
Me: I saw Titanic in Japan. I went with my brother. I wanted to see a movie in Japan. The theatres there sell more tickets than there are seats. So, we stood. For the whole movie. They also try to empty the theatre after the show...but we just went around and back in again. They were too polite to ask us to see our tickets. And we were guy jin. The second time we saw it we had seats. I had cried a lot in the first screening... but the 2nd had me crying for the panoramic scenes of the various high point places of the ship. They had me from the start. When I got home, I waited until I could buy a used copy from a video store. $15 CDN well spent.
Twister: sucked.
The Day After Tomorrow (with it's exciting weather and Jake Gylenhaal): aside from these two things, the movie sucked. However, I enjoyed it for these 2 things. I'll never see it again, but hey, a couple of good hours spent.
2) Ex wrestler/fighter lead.
These films have action appeal. They're not about good plot, good writing, continuity or believeability. They're about raw action. They're about surprise. They're about thrills.
As such, I've really enjoyed a lot of these. Again, most don't have repeatability. For instance, I tried re-watching Indiana Jones (the first one whatever it's called) , but it just isn't as good when you know where it is going.
That being said: Rowdy Ronnie Piper in "They Live" (I think that is the title)... a movie about aliens on earth that are controlling the general population of humans... That movie is one I'd happily watch again. It was on TV, so I guess it was a "made for tv movie", but I liked it. A lot. Haven't seen it again... but, hey, I enjoyed it.
3) Films based on computer games, or mainly containing a computer.
Yup. They suck. (In the biting kind of way.) All of 'em.
4) Animal is lead character: hmmm. Most suck. But some bite! Jaws scared the bejesus out of me! That one had suspense, interesting characters, believable people's reactions to events, and a shark that never stopped being hungry! Compare to Megaladon: Shark Attack 3: where the only good thing in the movie is John Barrowman. Or the one with the intelligent sharks, (Deep Blue?) Crap.
Jurassic Park was good too. Lots of 'saurs. Surprise. Realistic people's responses to unbelievable events... Hmmm. I'm on a roll here. Loved the first and 2nd movies. 3rd one sucked.
What about the Roger Rabbit movie? I seem to recall being irritated by this movie, but many others liking it a lot.
Lassie. Sounds liike kids crap to me.
Now, let's talk animated films:
As I recall, just about the only good ones are: Aladdin. And any of the Sindbad ones (the ones with live actors, not animation only.) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (with Dr. Who's Tom Baker as the EVIL sorceror Sakura!), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger...
One thing my friends and I did once was to watch a really horrible movie on video in the living room and dis it while it played. (Normally in Canada, you watch the film in a darkened room and quietly "enjoy it".) Not possible to "enjoy" the Werewolf film I picked up in Orlando on video for $5---because of cool hologram on the case! Never buy a movie based on a hologram. It should be a rule somewhere.
Riddle for the Day
in Key Largo Beach Resort and General Discussion
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I'll guess blood.
However, nothing is locked in the heart. All the blood comes and goes. The heart itself has its 4 chambers...and 4 (or more?) valves. They stay, but they ARE the heart.
Literal me is kinda sorta stumped here.