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  1. Deruvian

    Games that gave you the most bang for your buck

    Tribes 1. Got a copy of it for free in high school. Played an insane amount for probably 4-5 years, I'd assume at least 200 days played.
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    Buying a car?

    Just bought an A4 a few weeks ago. Drives supremely well, very happy with it.
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    Path of Exile

    I have like 25 tabs or so and it honestly feels like too much. I think somewhere in the 15-18 range is about right. It starts getting really hard to keep track of shit when you have that many tabs. It's also a huge pain in the ass to organize them. I usually keep the first 5 tabs open as...
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    Men's Fashion

    I just purchased a pair of black Ferragamo oxfords recently and have been very happy with them. The design is timeless and the quality of the leather and overall comfort are tremendous compared to some of the lower end oxfords that I've worn. I don't at all agree with the comment about paying...
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    Path of Exile

    I think the problem is that you can ride almost any build into the high 20s low 30s and have the appearance of being well built. I know when I first started, I'd end up having some shitty build that would inevitably end up using molten shell as a crutch more and more until I felt essentially...
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    Path of Exile

    I've noticed that too. Enemies just stop doing anything. I wonder if it was a recent patch.
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    Path of Exile

    Just killed merc piety in HC last night, finished the entire game 1-67 solo. Also, god knows how, managed to get clipped with a merc vaal slam and lived to tell the tale. He was enfeebled and I had fat fingered my granite pot of iron skin a second before it happened, did about 3700 or so on me...
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    Path of Exile

    I'm not an expert on summoners by any means, but few things I noticed: Don't make the build to 120 points, unless you have a really good idea of what the low priority nodes are that will fill out the last 15-20 or so. You missed the second 'Body and Soul' node. I would avoid the whole...
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    Path of Exile

    Been rolling with a build that seems absurdly op for the last day or so. I got remote mined spectres with LMP and health and I have the extra spectre node, so I have 2x LMP'd mobs from Solaris temple that shoot the LMP fireballs that fork. So my LMP combined with their native LMP makes each of...
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    Men's Fashion

    I just recently got tired of not having a professional interview suit and went off the deep end spending a month's salary on a charcoal Ermenegildo Zegna suit. It certainly fucking fits though, jesus.
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    Path of Exile

    If you want to re-roll let me know I'm about to start another guy on HC.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    TONS of fucking sirens going nuts right now, can hear them everywhere.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Fairly sketchy. I live within the search radius and now that this has been called off and its getting dark, I'm almost considering just driving off to my parents or something.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    I live a mile and a half from the manhunt zone. It's eerie and silent outside, no cars on the road. Everybody has been told to stay home, work is canceled. Wild.
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    Path of Exile

    Maybe a gem that lets you attack 3 times instantly per swing with 30% less damage, which is effectively LMP. For chain, maybe add 1 instant swing per mob in melee range? Melee would shred then.
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    5 Best Games of All Time

    Tribes 1 Diablo 2 Everquest Goldeneye Starcraft
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    Path of Exile

    Randomly desync'd while kiting a huge pack in merciless, bleh.
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    Path of Exile

    I would think you could use blood magic auras to keep the low life maintained and also get whatever benefit from it. I just found a pretty legit bug - If you use a reduced mana gem to cast auras, you can actually yank the gem out after and the auras will stay up at the reduced cost. Really...
  19. Deruvian

    Path of Exile

    I paid a chaos for LMP because I was lazy. Don't regret it at all. I keep running duelists to 12 or so for LGOH, though. I found Doedre's Damning the other day, so I could potentially have dual curses for those tricky fights without the extra 4 points. I'm running a new build that I came...
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    Path of Exile

    Got one shottesd by cruel vaal's hammer on my 50 templar. Underestimated its range. 2100 life and good resists and armor, sort of surprised. Just got eldritch battery too; definitely dissapointing. Btw, temporal chains + unlimited curse is so OP. The unlimited curse is literally that; even if...
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    Path of Exile

    Just brought the whole fucker down for maintenance. Sort of wondering how long this open beta will be sustainable for. I'm not sure what server expenses are at that scale, but I'm going to assume that their FTP and donation revenue will have trouble offsetting the costs.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    FIOS rocking it in Boston:
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Have TNG on DVR record on the BBC America network. Watch them with the gf all the time.
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    Path of Exile

    I've lost a few witches on HC and sort of want to branch out to other builds. Can you guys recommend a melee build with high AOE damage and high survivability? Not looking for any totems.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    I was actually thinking that last night, Err. i think pretty much confirms it. 95% of Lumi's posts seem to call somebody or something retarded.
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    SQL performance tunning and DBA thread

    I work as an analyst in my companies finance department. I think that my managers are afraid of any products that are not in Microsoft Office suit; Excel functions are about the limit of their IT prowess. Although there are a number of deficiencies in the SQL functionality that I have access...
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    SQL performance tunning and DBA thread

    Query is in Access.
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    What do you do?

    Where do you work? Health IT firm What do you do? Finance Analyst (Revenue / Reporting) Wages? $52k in year one; essentially my first job out of college (few contract things prior) Bonuses? 25%, vested over 3 years (so you get ~8% per year over 3 years; at 3 years with the...
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    SQL performance tunning and DBA thread

    Interesting stuff on indexing. So knowing this, would an index on small table PK join on large table FK cause significant speed gains? I suppose my other question could be posted as such: Why are is the bolded line of SQL below giving me such gains in query speed? It seems like the logic...
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    SQL performance tunning and DBA thread

    I'm in a simlar situation, I love the database work, though. Good reporting and serious competancy in SQL have to go hand in hand. Here are a few questions while I'm here: In MS Access, does using subqueries confuse the JET query optimizer? Is there any general size threshold for deciding...
  31. Deruvian

    Men's Fashion

    My general problem with the dress line is that they still have fucking ECCO embossed on the leather. I'm very anti-logo on my clothes.
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    Men's Fashion

    I have had these in Micro-Plush or Cashmere. I'm not sure if that fits your stipulation of 'non-lined', but I love them. I find the Micro-Plush wears a little better than cashmere; cashmere will flake off a bit and can rip easier. http://www.totes-isotoner.com/produc...urPicks&page=2
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    Liquors & Cocktails

    Glenlivet 12 was my favorite for years, very drinkable beginner scotch. These days I favor the Macallan 12 or Glenlivet 15 more. Glenlivet 18 is good too, more expensive, though.
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    Games You Bought in 2012

    Portal 2 Skyrim Diablo 3 Everquest (Does this count? I paid for 7 boxes of subs or so but did not buy VoA) Path of Exile XCom
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    Men's Fashion

    Pretty much dress like the old dudes from the Viagra commercials. Describes them to a T.
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    Path of Exile

    Been playing this on HC with my free time for the last few days or so. It has been very entertaining and addicting, and feels much more like the successor to the Diablo series than D3 does. Just now ended up de-syncing and dying with no mobs within 40 or 50 feet of me. Sort of a bummer, but not...
  37. Deruvian

    Men's Fashion

    True regarding pleats. I suppose what I should have said is that you will see pleated pants occasionally accompanying a full suit, but in a stand-alone business casual get-up, they are rarely appropriate. From what I have seen, cuffs on pants are only applicable to pleats. As recently as last...
  38. Deruvian

    Men's Fashion

    One last thing worth mentioning is the impact that shoes have on your casual-wear outfit. Wearing athletic sneakers all the time, while comfortable, really pigeonholes your ability to be stylish, especially in the winter. There are a number of things that look retarded while wearing athletic...
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    Men's Fashion

    Styleforum.net has a lot of great information. They tend to focus on very high end, but if you ignore this fact you can still learn a lot there. Saks Fifth Avenue outlet and Nordstrom Rack have great options for shoes at reasonable prices. Nordstrom itself has two big sales a year, one right...
  40. Deruvian

    What's your poison?

    Usually the above french oak or Macallan 12.