Kopi

There's a guy named Dawid in Gainesville...speaks Tigrinia, though, so it's probably not you...heh.

Grr...

Having rode on a nightsaber mount, I really don't find it too appealing. The ride animation just seems weird to me...I'll stick with my horse. *might* try for a ram cause they look kinda cool...

By any chance, did you try to convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS when this happened? Or was that other partition in FAT32 and you're using XP. If so, this happens a lot with XP, regardless of how "backwards compatible" they tell you it is.

The pixel at 255,178 could use a little more red...

You can count on an average of 3-4 dense stones per thorium vein... Why don't you help me farm thick leather so I can get jove to rugged kits (I'm likely 30-50 levels awy from rugged, and I'll probably need in teh range of 14 thick leather per level..so you do the math...ie we need to kill hundreds of furry animals). Then he can level off them somewhat too. Besides, I need lots of rugged leather for my DM runs.

Well...umm...I'm not sure what went on in this thread, but glad to see things haven't changed...

I'll try to keep those days in mind for my bi-weekly onyxia runs I'm setting up with CoL (assuming you'd like to come along).

Armor dmg reduction is a decaying function. As such, while that first 1000 armor will get you from 0-20% dmg reduction, the next 2000 is required to get you to 40%. I'd say unless you're MTing (where you'll need every scrap of dmg reduction when bosses hit you for several thousand), 40% at 3k armor is a very nice standard for high armor classes. After that you want to focus on stats more than anything else.

Well..I do know that gold can be duped with server resets. I've bought things right before a server crashed, and I came back with both the items and the gold I spent (on the AH). Granted I've never intentionally duped the gold, I've just noticed it happen sometimes.

If there were a new brand of tylenol, I would be very worried

Since the drive isn't your operating system drive, this makes the task a hell of a lot easier. I ran into a very similar problem myself when upgrading some of my mother's computer to a ripped copy of windows that had a few interesting goodies that came with it...my fault for not checking, but then, you assume your friends won't do this to you. In any case, there are plenty of utilities that you can find online, order, or possibly find in places like Best Buy, that can read directly from your drive. Now, here's the problem, if windows doesn't think the area exists, then it may in fact be overwriting some of your files. I can't say without taking a look in person (I've always sucked at long distance diagnosis and I blame peoples' general inability to notice important details like flashing yellow/red lights on their desktop that they have to drag windows around to see the contents...*ramble on*). Still, depending on how long this problem has been going on, there's very little chance of this happening as windows is smart enough to overwrite clearly marked important documents before taking a gamble on what may be useless paging memory. The downside of these programs is that they don't reconstruct the files using the drive's index (which makes sense because they're mainly intended for use when someone accidentally opens a compiler and through sheer luck writes an assembly program that manually writes a long string of 0s to the drive's index), so what I'm trying to say is that while the files may be restored, they won't be named. That means you get to open 150 gigs or whatever you had's worth of files individualled and rename them. Hope that helped. Off the top of my head I don't remember the names of the programs I used, but I do remember it took me about 5-10 minutes of google searching to find something that ran off a floppy.

Does anyone else find it mildly disturbing the devs want us to mount Heliacon? Do they know he's underage? No porn for you! I must sound really weird to people who aren't privvy to my guildchat conversations...

The only digital picture I've found of myself was when I was drunk as a friend's going away to afghanistan party a few months ago, and I have this stupid grin on my face from all the cheap whiskey. My roomate has a video camera, but seeing as her first paid production may in fact be a gay porn flick, I don't necessarily want to associate myself with that.

Hey, I started that!

Weapons of Myth and Legend: a while back we had a GM in our (then, Knights of Anubis) guild on one of his playing alts. Here's what he had to say on the topic of items of M&L that were to be introduced at some indeterminate point in the future... There will, first of all, be a single copy of one of these items per server. That is to say, should someone else be so ridiculously lucky as to be able to initiate the chain of events leading to the creation of one of these items, they wouldn't be able to forge it if one already exists. That said, the path to creating these items will be long and complicated, as well as pretty much unrevealed. It begins with the looting of an artifact item that will need several more items before you can begin the actual forging process. The actual chances of looting this artifact item will be harder than obtaining the deathcharger's reins from the baron...except replace baron with ragnaros. Once you have this item, the other items will be insanely hard to get. For example, suppose you were forging the Sword of Ruin, then you would start the path with a broken blade artifact, and from there you would, say, need to max out skinning and skin a ridicuously difficult outdoor raid boss who would drop only one of these artifact skins per server, BoP of course. Next you would need to cure that hide, so you would need to max out leatherworking and then complete a series of events allowing you to cure this hide. You would also need to obtain some artifact mineral for a hard to reach mineral vein in a raid instance, so you would need to then max out mining and mine this vein, and of course go through a series of events to smelt it. You can see where this is going...you would need to repair the blade as a max level blacksmith. Once you have all the things together, then you would need to complete a series of events to turn the weapon into the final design. He sort of indicated that it would take a well connected person with pretty much unlimited resources a month of nonstop gaming at best to complete all these steps. Of course, these weapons would only be weilded by a hero class, and the path to becoming a hero class was supposed to be one of Blizzard's more closely guarded secrets that also would be much harder for a level 60 to complete than soloing the rogue poison quest at level 20, at least according to him. He also mentioned that using one of these things in PvP outside a battleground would earn you a reputation hit that would take you from exaulted straight to hostile with a single kill in your own faction. On a side note he also mentioned some stuff about paladins "falling" and joining the scourge as deathknights, but I've seen no evidence of how far Blizzard is progessing into that area. However, the point of this post is that, apparently the game has the framework for this (as I've been seeing more artifact type objects being reported as of late) and perhaps they're not too far off. Oh, and apparently there are weapons that work against each other and mutually annihilate each other, allowing the formation of the weapon by a new person, as well as items that, through a similarly difficult chain of events and on a timer for use, would allow you to destroy the M&L weapon they are opposed to.

Never had scotch personally. Absinthe has sort of made me cautious about trying new beverages...

Grats on the epic...I still need tribute runs, btw...*cough* If you guys ever need arcanite transmutes (or for whatever reason find yourself with either a earth or fire essences and want to convert one into the other...) I have 3 alchemists on rotation. I cant gurantee that all 3 will be able to transmute if you randomly message me, but on any given day at least 1 is usually free. Working on a 4th alchemist...how the hell did I get suckered into this job? Druid in a bottle I say...

Xarn won the flask of the titans.

Eh, you're both misunderstanding each other. Gynis is trying to ask "what will you do when someone decides to go on a Skullcrusher posting spree that we paly favorites and never go on a pickup with Aeternum/FP/Solace/your mother/whatever." It will happen. Raz is trying to figure out why Gynis thinks he'll show Aeternum favoritism when he won't (even if he ninjaed that necklace from me on our first Luci kill...and by ninja I mean rolled higher ). Like I said in my 2nd post: it's an administrative nightmare. I hope we're either extremely lucky and don't get any assholes with a grudge (better move on to the 2nd clause of this...) or Raz and the rest of us can plan sifficiently far enough in advance to head off anything.

It looks like Go...

Just remember I made you my bitch with jove

I've lost count... Sigh, I wake up to these sorts of things and think "why did I get out of my nice, comfortable bed again?"

Neither myself nor shoop would ever do anything like this because...well...been there, done that, never wish to revisit that administrative nightmare. But on the same hand it's fair. We really don't see it as fair letting some guy who joined like 5 minutes before the Luci fight and roll a win on some epic drop just because he had good luck. Seriously, that undervalues all the work those people who were there for the hur and a half before the raid actually left, recruiting and trying to get everything organized. On the other hand, systems that are fair are inherently unattractive to people. I think gambling is the best example I can come up with of the pretty much universal human ideal of "I'm going to rely on luck rather than a equal trade of work to get me my reward." Would you join a pickup where you had no chance of getting anything from it? It doesn't matter that you're *just* there to help with this one fight and they couldn't do it without you, if you have no shot at a reward you won't waste your time for people you don't know. Of course if you want to add incentive while retaining fairness, then you have to add rules. At this point you run into the problem that Asimov described so beautifully with tax laws: a flat tax is the simplest system, but then you have people making elss money who it's not entirely fair to, so you make exemptions, and then more cases come up and your tax laws become increasingly bloated until they are so complex the people they were originally intended to help can no longer understand them, and only the people who were originally better off can benefit from what was supposed to help the worse off. Hence, it's a balance between complexity and fairness. We'll see how it goes...

rofl...oh well, maybe this time I'll have a chance at some drops, as opposed to waiting for that magical day everyone else in my class rolls less than 20...