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Tradeskills are a rabbit hole of evil. You get to a certain point in the 20s where you start needing stuff from other professions that can't be found on a vendor or farmed, so its either pay exorbitant amounts on the market, or level that other stuff up yourself. And then, hell, you need iron...

Well not really, since what we will probably see is her getting raped and murdered, lol. Unless one of those crackpot theories are true and she is still in Riverrun or carrying the Blackfish's child or some shit.

If you do the quest 'Stroking the Haft' as pointed out a few posts above, you will know the answer to this question. Stuff needs room to manuever, expand and the like.

Very true about Israel. If they were ever truly threatened with destruction, Damascus, Riyadh, Baghdad, Tehran, Cairo, all that would be nuclear wasteland. They are not a people to be fucked with, not anymore.

One thing that is striking me about this game is the seemingly large amount of fantasy-esque names. Sure, you still have Fart Sniffer and the like, but the vast majority of folks I run across are folks with decent names. Is there a crazy strict name filter or something here? I'm not sure if...

Hmm, I thought Palestine existed for awhile as a British colony they carved out of the old Ottoman empire. In any case, it matters not, really, the point is that it is gone and it isn't coming back. And I have to agree, it is not Israel that is screwed when the oil runs out and everyone...

I am trying to find some sympathy in my heart for the plight of the Palestinians, but I can't. If those people haven't learned their lesson yet and don't rise up in violence against Hamas, overthrow them, turn the survivors over to Israel and beg for mercy, then I don't know what to say. The...

I really enjoyed Jedi Knight - to me, that was KOTOR 3 and the central storyline around which all the others revolved. The smuggler had the coolest ship though!

I would say absolutely, if only to get yourself re-acclimated back to the world in a way that just reading the wiki doesn't match. Especially if they are going to be bringing back relatively obscure characters from those games to play another role. DA2 is kind of a slog, and it suffers from...

I don't even think McCain is, though he is suggesting that we are being 'cowardly' and that we need to give Ukraine a shitload of weapons. McCain's answer for everything: give them guns!! He is like the Santa Claus of modern military weaponry.

I for a long time hoped - and still do - that one of these Mass Effect projects was a Mass Effect MMO, though with how 3 ended I am not sure how you continue the story or even the world post-Shepard. Prequel? Something concurrent with his story? They could have easily had that end in a...

Yeah, he really does. He wrote his book, his word is out there, enough already. He is trying to make his firing about his views; the fact of the matter is NFL teams want to pay punters the league minimum. The vikings drafted a guy who performed pretty much exactly the same as Kluwe for a...

All I know is that this isn't truly serious yet. Once Anderson Cooper shows up at the crash site in his black T-shirt, well then folks, its time to get into your bunkers because the shit is going to hit the fan big time.

Judging by the picture of the guy I saw, he got smacked the fuck down hard and is probably lucky to be alive. Well, lucky for now; he is not going to feel lucky after his fellow inmates get hold of him.

Yeah, I am not even sure of the 25% number, I can't find the article where I saw it now. But still, it is a huge portion of the economy to tinker with and you have to imagine there will be repercussions. I would have to do a deep dive into various numbers, but my basic hypothesis is that...

I have recently begun to think that one of the big reasons the European/Canadian social nets work so well - and they have the money to fund them - is essentially because we take care of their defense in the US. We spend 10x as much on defense as any other Euro country, and 2-4x as much as a...

That is certainly not a shining moment in US naval history, but at least we didn't try to point the finger at someone else.

Are you talking like Sister Mary, Kate Winthrop, the characters from the Fantasy Flight Cthulhu games? Holy shit, that would have the potential to reach dangerous levels of awesomeness.

I agree with you there on both counts; Europe needs to take care of their backyard, and there would be no restraint if that had been an American aircraft. Those 40k massed troops on the Russian border would now be getting a very harsh lesson in why nobody masses troops any more, courtesy of...

New Hammerfall single. Templars unite!

From what I understand, the bonus loot you would get for medal-ing now draws from the entire dungeon's loot table (as opposed to just giving you purples for getting gold) - and of course, that loot table is mostly blue loots. So you will get something now no matter what you medal, but chances...

Seeing lots of rage over the loot changes that went in today - apparently almost all loot that is dropping now is blue, even if you gold something. Ooof.

Well, at least they knock on the roof before they blow up the human shields to give them a chance to rethink their dedication to the cause. Israeli military's 'knock on roof' warnings criticized - CNN.com Essentially, they fire a dummy missile at an occupied home to get people to leave...

I always thought Terry Brooks' Shannara series had the coolest names. Panamon Creel, Ciba Blue, Walker Boh, Eventine Ellessedil, Damson Rhee, Maw Grint, Rimmer Dall, he had a way with making a neat sounding name. And yes, being on MTV, I have to agree this is destined for a terrible, evil...

We might not but it needs to flow nonetheless or there will be serious fuckery throughout the global economy, as we've seen a number of times. And the reason it flows uninterrupted is, generally, the US Navy.

It would be a long, involved process with no guarantee of success. Now if you wanted to foster that same child, I believe that is a much easier process (depending on your state, there are certifications involved, visits with social workers, I am unsure of the exact requirements), and the...

Man. That looks kind of awesome.

You are probably exactly right and in all honesty, I haven't looked into it deeply enough to really be able to get into the weeds on it. I rely on mostly anecdotes and gloom and doom predictions from a wing of my wife's family involved in that business and suspected to employ immigrants of...

Not just go up 10 cents, but go up a shitload. Having huge ramifications not just for agriculture, but a ripple effect throughout the economy, ours and the global one as well. Maybe totally collapse is a bit dramatic, but I feel there would certainly be extremely unpleasant impacts. I...

Very true. Not many people are going to vote for folks who are advocating shipping their relatives back to a hellhole and who generally revile your countrymen. The big concern is not that Hispanics turn Caly red; it is that they turn Texas blue, which is why they are shitting their pants...

One nice fun cockblock I found at 50 is that you have to wait over a week to even get enough gems to buy that damn key and start the raid attunement process. Fucking cap of 140/week, what is that shit?

Yeah, that is a problem. I don't know what the hell people think they are doing these days, but FFXIV was the same way, Neverwinter too. Most people who click that damn queue button are hoping some hardcore hard charging son of a bitch knows everything and carries them through, no personal...

I have to admit, I saw possible links to Elona (and my beloved Dervishes?????) and immediately started patching this. I loved the story of the original Guild Wars and would love to see Elona and even Cantha (which I wasn't too into) continued on.

I think more nuclear is the answer. We've made it almost impossible in the US to do anything nuclear. So shit, we almost lost Harrisburg and a chunk of central PA a few decades ago when 3 Mile Island got a little crazy. Wouldn't have been a major loss, and I say that as a resident of the...

Everquest did this a long time ago with its Legends server. Stormhammer or whatever. 40 bucks a month for the premium server, increased GMs, dynamic content. I never played on it so not sure how it was, but it has never been tried again in a genre that is essentially a giant copycat system so...

Yeah, I am looking at the CREDD model more as,' I am going to get a free month every now and then' rather than 'I am going to use in game cash to play for free'. I just suck at playing markets and don't have the time to devote to hardcore cash farming. Sooner or later I will get a Trigger...

Yeah, it is unreal. Good luck getting any farming, mining or wood resource past T3 unless you are buying it off the broker. I can't believe it is this bad; there is a serious loophole somewhere that needs to get shut down. Even reporting them is hard because they port so fast you can barely...

Wow. Now that is a superb response. These guys are trying very hard to get people to stay for more than their free 30 days, that is for sure.

As a former tanker, I have no doubt that this is going to kick ass. Especially if it ends up with some of the feel of 'The Beast'. 'Why can't we go home in the helicopter?' 'Because you're tankers!'

CREDD is around 4p 15G on Avatus when I checked it this morning. Carl is right, that isn't going to last, so if you managed to get rich quick off something, make sure you get while the getting is good. Not surprising about the hackers, and the botters - I hadn't really seen any until I got...