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  1. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Season 4 starts in 1 hour, lots of great changes. Going to roll DH this time around because Wiz is in rough shape for s4.
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    Things are heating up between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. I think the market is starting to factor in some of the middle east risk again.
  3. Strifen

    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    Nice rebound in energy sector equities today, lets see if it holds up.
  4. Strifen

    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    The Bloomberg commodity index is at a 16 year low. Personally I'm glad to see tech stocks crashing down to reality (fb, aapl, goog, nflx). Last couple years have been similar to how things were during the early 2000's dot.com bubble, tech stocks we're doing insanely well at the time and...
  5. Strifen

    Greece - A New Hope

    Eh, I wouldn't put all the blame on the Greek public for not paying 'nough taxes. The European banks knew exactly what they were getting into lending to a shady country like Greece. Lending money to Greece over the past decade has been a money making machine for European banks but it was a...
  6. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    You really want to use 3 legendary gems. Reroll that crit chance for a socket. Bane of the trapped is amazing and you should be using it. Zeis/Pain Enhancer are also good.
  7. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    If somebody is saying LFM 40's grifts my keys it means that they went ahead and already did the trials and now have multiple lvl 40'ish keys they want to farm. For example if someone is LFM 40's grifts and they have keys, all I need to do is show up to the game with 1 keystone which is a higher...
  8. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Nice. Wizards are in a better shape then they ever have been during RoS. We can finally hold our own in end game groups (now GR60+) in place of a DH, before with firebirds set the dmg just wasn't there. With properly geared tal rashas going for attack speed you can bust out dmg close to a krider...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Yeah Delsere is pretty meh. It's all about tal rasha set for wizards this season. Strifen - Community - Diablo III The dmg output is sick with serpent sparker/taskers and theo.
  10. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Feel free to add me if you need a rush Strifen#1543 Just beat a 56 last night back up to rank 5. Working on getting some 57 keys made and going for rank 1 wiz on the americas. Yup that's why I just leech other peoples keys now. I hang out in communities and wait until people have mid 40's...
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    So all this talk about the "storage tanks filling up" and a price crash down to $30 turned out to be a bunch of hot air. I bet ya when Goldman Sachs was telling everyone to sell sell at $40 oil cause storage was about to hit capacity they were backing up the trucks and buying the quality...
  12. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    It's all about getting into some communities and hitting GR 35+ with a 4player group. Back in oldschool diablo it wasn't worth grouping with anybody and somewhere along the lines they overbuffed grouping and now it's not worth being playing solo. The current meta is all about recycling GR 35+...
  13. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    They could fix a lot if trials were removed and you could just spend a greater rift key to get into the highest level rift you've beaten in time + 1. Also the gap between people still doing t6 and those running 40's speed with exp gear is laughably huge. You're basically wasting your time in...
  14. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I hit rank 5 solo wizard beat 55 on Friday but I've been pushed down a few spots since then. My issue isn't really fishing for the right rift but doing 55+ solo trials for the key's I need is extremely inconsistent. I have to do things like game the system by trialing ~47's then finding a...
  15. Strifen

    Ultima Online - UO An Corp ||| All the IPY T2A pvp goodness with none of the AZ

    The shard feels a lot more complete this time around, bout ~750 clientsonlineright now.
  16. Strifen

    The E-cig Thread

    If you've been a big time pack+ a day smoker, it will be years before your lungs fully return to non-smoker status.
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    Log In - The New York Times "The national rig count had remained surprisingly resilient over recent months even as oil prices dropped by more than 50 percent since June, and it still tops the count of a year ago as domestic production continues to surge. But an announcement on Wednesday by...
  18. Strifen

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    RBG retains its demand because it's such a good raw stat item. A CoF not so much people use it for the haste rather then the stats. If you're a rogue with your 41% haste for example, you're going to want an RBG in your belt slot. Lot of raiders get their 41% haste belts out of sky which reduces...
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    Relevant reading Catching a falling knife in the oil market: Kemp | bakken.com Oil drops 50 percent, a rare opportunity for investors | The Laissez Faire Gazette
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    I'm planning to park money into dividend paying majors fairly soon here. Oil prices can probably drop further, but I wouldn't bet on them staying at $40-50 for longer then a year. Supply disruption is already occurring it's just ~6 months out because the producers are hedged to the wells they've...
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    Okay bros - Oil Prices & Energy Stocks - time to buy?

    There are some great opportunities in both energy and commodity/mining stocks which have been incredibly beaten down. There will be fortunes made in these sectors as the middle class grows around the developing world. I'm looking long term though.
  22. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    Oil falls on news that Saudis are preparing for $60 US crude - Business - CBC News If anyone hasn't been following the energy sector recently, oil has taken a massive nose-dive starting in September. Combination of a massive increase in supply from shale oil plays and a slow down in demand...
  23. Strifen

    Major nuclear accident in Europe's largest power plant reported

    Wasn't a major accident at all. I'm not surprised to see Anti-Nuclear Germany pumping out scare mongering headlines though.
  24. Strifen

    Stocks

    Looks like U is on the move, hit $28 over this summer and has rebounded over 50% to $43.5.UXX14 | Commodity Futures Price Chart for Uranium November 2014 Possible it might spike to $100+ over the next 3-4 years in which case a lot of the leveraged miners are going to be 10 baggers.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Phalanx with stampede. You can get a shield that makes phalanx cast twice whenever you cast it.
  26. Strifen

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Over 300 paragons and no gift on season, it sucks.
  27. Strifen

    The Zionists are whining thread

    Israel is major hub for illegal organ trafficking and human trafficking in general. They busted a bunch of rabbi's involved in it a couple years back.
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    Stocks

    I can see higher Platinum, Palladium, and Uranium prices in the future. These are commodities that the growing middle class in countries like China and India will need a lot of for their application in industry and energy production. Big money is eventually going to flow back into the natural...
  29. Strifen

    Stocks

    A lot of junior mining/exploration companies are trading for insanely cheap right now. Bear markets are the authors of bull markets, the brutal bear markets for mining commodities is going to lead to an insane bull market and people are going to be shifting their Krispy Kreme Donut stock into...
  30. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    It'll be a shitload of electricity generated in one highly compact area. The U.K. Department of Energy & Climate Change published this info-graphic but eventually took it down out of pressure from green groups and lobbies. Acres required to power 6 million homes: Wind 250,000 Solar...
  31. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    I would imagine so, Iceland seems like a perfect place for Geothermal with all of those volcanoes.
  32. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    There are five Gen 3 reactors being built in the U.S right now. Four are AP 1000's which is the newest Westinghouse reactor to be approved by the NRC. Here's a bunch of pics of the work being done on the two AP 1000 in Georgia, it's a massive project. These are the first reactors to be built...
  33. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    Anyone interested in nuclear as a way forward should check this out. Somebody who is pro environment and is anti-nuclear just isn't looking at things rationally.
  34. Strifen

    Energy Thread - How to Power Civilization

    Opening this thread up for discussion on the various ways in which energy can be generated, the pro's and con's of various energy sources, breakthrough's in new energy technology, energy sources and their impact on climate change, and just about anything related to the way we power society...
  35. Strifen

    Symbolism Thread

    Sup with Katy Perry? I was digging this song on the radio the other day so I checked it out on youtube and the music video is pretty interesting. "Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries; in it is the language not only of mysticism and philosophy but of all Nature, for every law and...
  36. Strifen

    Why I play Ultima Online

    All the other Ultima Online threads were created by established community members trying to inform others. This is a post by someone who just made the account to post about their shard, its bit of a difference, but I don't make the rules around here. At the end of the day I'm all for more UO...
  37. Strifen

    Why I play Ultima Online

    UO An Corp UO Forever UO Renaissance Three solid choices, haven't really checked out redemption too much but the above three have a good player-base.
  38. Strifen

    Weather

    Nuclear waste is a problem but it's not as big of a deal as most people think it is. Right now all the nuclear waste from U.S reactors resides on the reactor site in dry casks, not harming anyone or releasing any radiation. In terms of the amount of volume of waste produced it's actually quite...
  39. Strifen

    Weather

    I agree there's no sense in reasonably disputing the fact shit can go wrong with nuclear, and when it goes wrong it can go wrong in a big way. However, every single source of power has its downsides to it and nuclear has the lowest amounts of fatalities per kilowat generated out of all power...