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Well I have a suggestion for Yeahlight: make your own custom server, but also make a classic server using Project EQ's database. I just checked out Project EQ's website yesterday, not knowing entirely what it was. It is in fact exactly what Yeahlight needs: he made the server code, they made...

Even playerauctions only lists 18 items (including WTBs) for all servers, and 81 account offers that are full of 'never been owned' powerleveled accounts. That is still FAR FAR less interest than eqmac or p99 considering the relative user base sizes.

Sony half-assed their progression servers because of the development costs to do it 'right', I assume. Maybe the growing popularity of p99 and eqmac will convince them to devote more resources to the next one. Incidentally while I was looking at redguides, I noticed that like 90% of the RMT...

Yeah I was bored not having EQ to play and did some googling to see what the evils were doing and found that thread. Also, they are getting MQ2 to work for eqmac's PC client; and if for some reason they can't get a PC client working, they will port it over to the mac because "the mac client is...

Actually I agree with this in a way; melee and tanks especially need to be supported by the group's other members. My friends and I generally powerlevel our tanks after our other characters get higher. We also work together to gear him. I think playing the game like Diablo 2 and leveling...

Actually, at the time, more people were against spending all those billions on the Apollo program than were for it. NASA got the funding it did because lots of stuff NASA does is useful to the military. One reason we had shuttles instead of capsules was because the military wanted the ability...

I concur with this. Ogre SK is the best tank for group oriented content on p99, IMO. The stat bonuses of Ogres are not trivial in this era; it's not just the stun immunity. He'll also have clarity always available, which is important for hybrids. (standing regen) The exp penalty for that...

I couldn't log in to give it to you if I had wanted to

Now I'm sad I burned out last winter sitting in FG for many hours and camping that stupid ring. One motivation I have to make my videos is to record some memories of a server I might be cut off from at any time. Although the funny thing about EQ, it eats up so much of your time that being...

Extreme powerleveling, at least for first characters, kills the desire to play. Everybody I've powerleveled quit soon after. In some cases every day for the better part of a week to a high level only to see them quit days after it ended. When you get a paladin from 1 to level 20 in a 2-3...

Not only were cracked staves 1pp+, but some rusty weapons and all cloth armor pieces from level 1 decaying skeletons vendored for 2g. Level 8 spells cost over 4pp each after all, so a plat wasn't that much. Level 8 wisps could drop greater lightstones that vendoered for 4pp and could be...

Ladar Levison is a freedom fighter and a hero. Men like him, Snowden, andNicholas Merrillkeep this country from dissolving into what the founders rebelled against. Respect is due. All the liberals who don't criticize Obama because 'he's our guy' can go fuck themselves.

He either boxed a cleric out of group/logged one in to res or he's a liar. You don't do repeated large AoE pulls without dying, I don't care how good you are. Since I still play the game, and actually did this last week, I can speak to this. First, 4 wizards is redundant. 3 is the most...

I know that. I said you can opt out ofGooglescanning your email by using something like Lavabit. Incidentally Lavabit's main selling point was that they encrypted user email with keys that included the customer's password, so even Lavabit themselves could not read customer email without it...

Actually the reason why the Gazughi ring and Mosquito boots are so expensive is because charmers use them to instantly break charm. Instantly breaking charm is important when you don't perma pet and you charm stuff to low health, break charm, and kill it. Also, they are rare. I don't know of...

There is a difference between algorithms scanning keywords in email to better select the ads to deliver, and algorithms scanning email for keywords to determine weather or not a human is going to read it or if it should be archived in a database somewhere. Furthermore Google tells users they...

Many of my favorite memories of EQ are really simple stuff. Watching it rain and listening to the thunder as a newbie; watching the high level mobs roam islands while on a boat; people getting excited to buy sharpening stones off of other players in Qeynos since the nearest vendor for it was in...

I made a new video. If you liked the previous ones, you'll like this one; I put a lot of effort into it. This will probably be the best one I ever make for EQ.

Storming a terrorist compound in a foreign country (that we're not already occupying) would constitute an act of war if I'm not mistaken. America loves its double standards, but imagine our reaction for a moment if a foreign power we didn't like very much sent armed combatants into our...

If anybody took my statement to mean 'gmail uses SSL so nobody can read it!' then God help them. I merely said that employing SSL increases the privacy level and that it shows a DESIRE (desire being the point I wanted to make) for privacy, not that you'll be 100% safe from powerful entities...

You're the one who replied to me, dude. And ethics and law are not the same thing, but morality is the driver for what becomes law and what gets repealed. Ethics matter. I want the government to have to get a 'super warrant' as the eff put it to wiretap INDIVIDUALS BY NAME and then serve...

Dianne Feinstein is the most dangerous woman in America and my least favorite Senator. I say this as a liberal. Her attacks on the first amendment aren't new. Ever more knee-jerk laws passed after a tragedy that don't even solve the problem. It'll be gone if it ever gets to the SCOTUS though...

Yes yes, I know SSL isn't some magic bullet that makes email unreadable by all third parties. It DOES, however, make it unreadable to your ISP when you access your gmail. ISP might also include wifi hotspots and such. My point was that using SSL is basically saying 'I desire privacy and...

This is long. I only visit once or twice a day because I have shit to do. Think of it as multiple posts. There is lots of whitespace. I did not claim it was illegal in the post you replied to. I said it was 'wrong' and 'abusive'. I realize that you're a lawyer-in-training, but try to...

Making 'radical' changes to the FISA court is essentially admitting wrongdoing or at least gross incompetence. What Obama said he wants to do now is make it an adversarial process because... it currently is NOT. There is a term for courts that aren't adversarial-- kangaroo courts. The 'no...

Christ, I actually used a lavabit account to register at tracker sites with. They shall be celebrated as martyrs in the privacy war.

I used to love this show as a teenager. This stuff tends to lose appeal the more science educated you become, but it can still be entertaining. Hah, I still have this

Putting "everyone but me is complicit!" in my mouth is a silly way to argue against me. And there are a small number of people who deliberately live off a small enough income to not pay income tax so they don't have to help pay for the wars. It's rather extreme but I can't help but admire...

I'm not just talking about about the NSA, I'm talking about people who sign up for war after it has been made clear that our military is doing nothing but fanning the flames of resentment toward the United States. Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo, Drones-- ALL of it made us LESS safe. Blows my mind we...

The cynic in me wants to think that the administration cannot possibly be stupid enough to believe that what they are doing is ending the problem of terrorism, and they know full well that their campaigns perpetuate the threat they supposedly aim to eradicate. Obama is either incredibly naive...

I use 3 physical machines to box like that. It wouldn't work on one box because the EQ client is so old that it gets user input in some archaic way which does not allow for the sending of input to background windows. If you use boxing or macro software, you have to tell the OS to bring the...

The number of AAs varies because I have 7 characters; I have one wiz and ench that are the priority of the two pairs, and I'd rather 5 man a group to maximize the Paladin's AA gains because hybrids need a lot more and I made him later. All but one have over 100, and the druid has over 150. I...

Dunno, I get that sometimes. I would guess it has something to do with the PC hack and/or when a lot of data is sent to the client.

I'm back playing here after a 5 month break. Here's another video for the fans:

Lets get real here, this is a 10 year old server that is free to make unlimited accounts-- there IS GOING to be boxing. If you're complaining about two boxing in your group then this ain't the server for you. There is a reason people like fresh servers. Even p99 is stale and extremely top...

Because the box army guild only has three real people in it. If they had like 10 six boxers, they could do whatever they wanted I guess. They tried to recruit me. (and it was sort of tempting, I may join them for a couple raids for kicks) Their inability to find more boxers does sort of...

What, you mean like this? If a key repeater is a 'script' then I'm guilty. I macroed all three stuns (plus /stand) into one button, which I set to autorepeat using my keycloning software. Just like when people do the same thing to raise their skills next to bards in PoK. The official...

We don't need to wait. From Snowden's QA: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...-whistleblower I wondered why this claim didn't get more press. It seemed significant to me.

Keep in mind that the larger the asteroid, the harder it will be to move. I don't see us moving planet killers into orbits without some future tech. With current technology it would take many years just to alter the orbit enough to miss the Earth if it were on a collision course. Also, the...

It's a lot more plausible than you'd think. It's not uncommon, even for games, to test server loads with virtual user scripts. After all, if some random dude can make a WoW bot, the studios themselves surely can. The bots/virtual clients would not have to be anywhere near as sophisticated...