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ReverendDG
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Message 301 of 337 (663498)
05-25-2012 4:22 AM
Reply to: Message 296 by Stile
05-17-2012 11:27 AM


Re: D3 Rares... Why you no drop for me?
D3 disappointed me, i played beta and thought it was fun but it wasn't remotely as good as the evolution of d1 to d2.
it was too dumbed down and the game really doesn't add much in the way of innovation that any other game made within the last 10 years made.
d3 is just like starcraft 2, we waited so long but most of the new stuff pales in comparison to other companies products, the only reason i'd get it is it is diablo.
heck i kept comparing starcraft 2 to dawn of war, a game with some nice innovations and a better story, only reason to play sc2 was the fact that it was sc2.
i haven't got d3 yet, i might when the price drops to something more reasonable like say in the 40s.
maybe... i wasn't really trilled with the classes, i miss the necromancer, the witch doctor isn't the same

"no intelligent agent who is strictly physical could have presided over the origin of the universe or the origin of life." - William Dembski

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Artemis Entreri 
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Message 302 of 337 (663527)
05-25-2012 9:12 AM
Reply to: Message 301 by ReverendDG
05-25-2012 4:22 AM


Re: D3 Rares... Why you no drop for me?
well they are never going to please everyone.
I like that its the same game. to often devs try too hard and make the new game completely different than the old game.
I dont play real time skill (rts) games so i wouldn't know about them.
RevernedDG writes:
i wasn't really trilled with the classes, i miss the necromancer, the witch doctor isn't the same
wait a minute, you are unhappy because there isn't enough innovation and its basically the same game, but you are also unhappy that there isn't the same classes. that sounds contradictory.
Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.

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Stile
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Message 303 of 337 (663531)
05-25-2012 9:37 AM
Reply to: Message 299 by Artemis Entreri
05-24-2012 5:44 PM


Re: alright its been a week
Artemis Entreri writes:
are you still playing Diablo III even though the flaws are widely known.
I am, i just play slowly, (maybe 1 or 2 nights per week, and hour or two each time i play).
Yup, still playing as much as possible. Which isn't too much, actually, I have a level 26 Demon Hunter..
Flaws? What are the flaws? Connection speed or something? I haven't noticed anything, but all my multiplayer games are not public (just me and the wife). Seems fairly stable to us. Maybe something that affects you more at higher levels?
Are the "rares" that you can craft random or does everyone get that yellow head-piece at journeyman?
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Everyone gets that yellow head-piece (and others) as they progress the Blacksmith. But the items you actually craft will always come with random modifiers.
I am playing a barbarian still, but have made a Wizard due to the design flaw.
I'm a DH and my wife's made a monk and a witch doctor... Maybe we just haven't seen the flaws yet?

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Artemis Entreri 
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Message 304 of 337 (663551)
05-25-2012 12:18 PM
Reply to: Message 303 by Stile
05-25-2012 9:37 AM


Re: alright its been a week
supposedly you cannot solo a melee character past normal difficulty. you can solo into nightmare, but you cannot complete it.
A wizard is unbalanced and is the most powerful class in the game, and can solo everything.
I think you have to beat the more difficult areas as a wizard to get access to the items to give to your lower level characters just to get through the game at higher difficulty levels.
Blizzard really dropped the ball this time.
I am in the same boat as you for the moment, I have a level 24 barbarian, and I have not run into the game flaw yet, so I am still enjoying the game, and i only play about 1 or 2 times per week.

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Message 305 of 337 (663556)
05-25-2012 12:26 PM
Reply to: Message 300 by Shield
05-24-2012 6:36 PM


Re: D3
If you still play D3 come October or September, i'd like to play D3 with ya.
Well I played D2 for, like, 10 years so I think a few months should be good. PM your email when you sign up and I'll add you.
sweet drugs

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Message 306 of 337 (663557)
05-25-2012 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 296 by Stile
05-17-2012 11:27 AM


Thanks for sharing your story. That shit really sucks. I'm in a good mood on a Friday so I won't comment further about it.

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Message 307 of 337 (771979)
11-02-2015 6:39 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Larni
01-03-2012 4:29 AM


Re: Random Musings
Spam content hidden. --Admin
Edited by Admin, : Hide spam.

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Larni
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Message 308 of 337 (771980)
11-02-2015 7:24 AM
Reply to: Message 307 by purvpatel
11-02-2015 6:39 AM


Re: Random Musings
Well I think that....
Hey, wait a minute: this is a spam post!
I feel so stupid.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation
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Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.
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1.61803
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Message 309 of 337 (772398)
11-13-2015 11:45 AM


Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
This was a rather pleasant news cycle to wake up to this Friday the 13th.
Good riddance

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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Diomedes
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Message 310 of 337 (772400)
11-13-2015 12:43 PM
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11-13-2015 11:45 AM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
This was a rather pleasant news cycle to wake up to this Friday the 13th.
Good riddance
Indeed. I think we need to make a slight modification to our drones. If we are going after scumbag psychos like Jihadi John, I would like to see a drone that fires circular saw blades instead of missiles. Would be a fitting end to see one of those beheading douchebags get his head lopped off by one of our Predators.

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AZPaul3
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Message 311 of 337 (772404)
11-13-2015 1:12 PM
Reply to: Message 309 by 1.61803
11-13-2015 11:45 AM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
I won't cheer the death of another human being, but in this case, I have no objections.

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NoNukes
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Message 312 of 337 (772406)
11-13-2015 1:48 PM
Reply to: Message 310 by Diomedes
11-13-2015 12:43 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
Would be a fitting end to see one of those beheading douchebags get his head lopped off by one of our Predators.
Fitting? Perhaps, but only at the cost of removing all pretense of staking out the moral high ground.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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Omnivorous
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Message 313 of 337 (772412)
11-13-2015 3:52 PM
Reply to: Message 312 by NoNukes
11-13-2015 1:48 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
NoNukes writes:
Fitting? Perhaps, but only at the cost of removing all pretense of staking out the moral high ground.
It's hard not to feel some sense of rough justice at the death of this particular murderous thug.
On the other hand, I'm not too comfy with presidents having a license to kill.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
-Terence

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NoNukes
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Message 314 of 337 (772471)
11-14-2015 1:58 PM
Reply to: Message 313 by Omnivorous
11-13-2015 3:52 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
t's hard not to feel some sense of rough justice at the death of this particular murderous thug.
Let's acknowledge that when we use drone strikes to kill thugs out in public, that we aren't exactly using a weapon of surgical precision. Now add some head-slicing-off blades to that mix, and perhaps you might see some possibility of exceeding mere payback.
Does that make it any easier to feel something other than justice?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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Omnivorous
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Message 315 of 337 (772492)
11-14-2015 7:04 PM
Reply to: Message 314 by NoNukes
11-14-2015 1:58 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
NoNukes writes:
t's hard not to feel some sense of rough justice at the death of this particular murderous thug.
Let's acknowledge that when we use drone strikes to kill thugs out in public, that we aren't exactly using a weapon of surgical precision. Now add some head-slicing-off blades to that mix, and perhaps you might see some possibility of exceeding mere payback.
Does that make it any easier to feel something other than justice?
I think you misread my tone, NoNukes. I feel a great deal more than that without any help.
It was rough justice, the kind of rough justice we had before laws and trials, when "let's kill him like he killed some of us" was how things were done. Call it pre-Aeschylus justice, before Athene and Apollo supplanted the Furies.
Call it a war. Call it a lynching. Call it an endless vendetta. But don't call me a supporter of it. Even the early headlines on the drone strike were appalling--we definitely killed somebody; we think it was Jihadi John.
Humans still experience the rage and crave the vengeance that law tries to contain; in some ways, we built the law the way good werewolves have familiars lock them up during the full moon. I was acknowledging that I understand and share some of those emotions, in part because denying the legitimacy of grief and anger won't get us anywhere. The image of a president with a global kill button seemed enough to suggest the many downsides, given this venue.
When we went after Saddam, at one point early on the U.S. targeted a building where he was thought to be hiding. He wasn't there, but a number of civilians were, including women and children. The news reports were saturated with regret at missing Saddam, and all I could think of was those dead kids and their mothers whose lives were considered trivial next to the satisfaction of smart-bombing Saddam on live TV.
I had already warned people that we would lose more American lives there than we did on 9/11, to general incredulity--folks anticipated another turkey-shoot, but the intent to occupy was clear, and occupying any part of the Middle East always ends badlly.
When I heard the 'Shucks we missed!' news reports years ago, I despaired at the lives lost and the lives to be lost and the evil we were going to do to ourselves as we set the entire region aflame.
I still care more about sparing the innocent than hammering the guilty, but I guess I was too telegraphic in that prior post. Consider this an unpacking.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
-Terence

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