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    posted a message on Greetings natives!
    Greetings!

    Enjoy your stay and stay here forever!
    Posted in: Introduction
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    posted a message on Happy Thanksgiving!
    Quote from Jackzor

    There's a place called Batman in Turkey? In that case I give thanks for the creativity of Turkey's city naming service.

    Holy cow! O.o

    Anyways Happy thanksgiving from Australia!
    Posted in: News & Announcements
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    posted a message on 10 Things that Sound Dirty at Thanksgiving But Arn't
    Quote from -Mephisto

    I want to stuff your turkey with my special mix

    mmmmmmmmmmm... mustard...
    Posted in: Off-Topic
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    posted a message on Recently I lost some stuff
    Yeh guys that's fine.

    Technically I guess I should be on Asia servers as I'm aussie and USwest has terrible ping but whatever
    Posted in: Diablo II
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    posted a message on 10 Things that Sound Dirty at Thanksgiving But Arn't
    Quote from Lt. Venom

    Christmas Dirtiness in all its Dirty Glory! Go!

    I thought long and hard about, but I'm either useless at finding them or they don't exist.

    Either way I had a chuckle at the OP
    Posted in: Off-Topic
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    posted a message on Recently I lost some stuff
    This... thing... annoying thing as described here:

    EDIT: ooooooookay, no linking to other sites, so basically the thing is that when you die and then equip items in order to retrieve them from the nasties, if you click on your corpse, retrieve all of the items except for the ones that are meant to be in the slots you currently have replacement items in, die again, then say "screw it", leave game and join again, you lose one of your current corpses, the one with the least vendor value. This happened to me today and I lost two items that I value dearly.

    I lost

    Guardian Angel
    Unique Templar Coat - Socketed with Um rune for resists.

    Alma Negra, socketed with Pdiamond for resists.

    And that is it.

    I play on USWest, NON-ladder, SOFTCORE. account name eskanasi.

    I figured a few of you might have items or replacements for those seeing as it's non-ladder and no one cares about that. I know that the items in question are not particularly valuable but without them my smiter is gimped as I don't atm have anything to replace them with.

    I'm not asking for you to socket them, or to give me a pdiamond or Um rune, the items themselves would do.

    Sorry guys but I'm just feeling so annoyed at this loss I'd thought I'd ask. Thanks.
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    posted a message on Poor man's smiter
    I feel that this post made years ago about the poor mans smiter should be brought up again for any players who complain of being poor in Diablo 2.

    http://www.theamazonbasin.com/d2/forums/index.php?showtopic=63770&st=0&start=0

    is not only a brilliant guide, but a brilliant write up, the wonderful way he wrote that just left me feeling giddy.

    On another note what level do you have to be to have lvl 6 Life tap charges spawn in shops? He didn't say but my lvl 88 barb won't spawn them and so I would like to know how high I have to go.

    Comments on the linked post anyone?
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    posted a message on Crossbows = Guns

    Holy COW that's cool. I want that. I want it baaaaaaaad.

    On another note I don't really care about the reloading business or the dual crossbows of death that shoot miniature jockeys carrying cheese wire between them.

    I just hope there are a sizeable amount of explosions and eye candy for her.
    Posted in: Demon Hunter: The Dreadlands
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    posted a message on When Arena was announced for D3...
    Quote from ErU

    in D3 i will have to wait a good 3 minutes to get it on? Every single time? Ops, thats a fail.

    So you're basically assuming that it will take 3 minutes each and every time to get into a pvp match? That isn't necessarily what will happen. It depends on the number of people in the queue in the first place and how many individual arenas the host server can have running at one time, as long as lots of people go into queues and the server can host a theoretical unlimited number of arenas then you're good.

    Anyways there shouldn't be this much hate over pvp in d3. It doesn't even matter, the game is ridiculously PVE orientated. and that's all there is to it. And quite a lot of people are making references to D2, when that game is not only old and pretty broken (though fun), but wasn't made like D3 is being made. A lot more money, time (oh the time), effort and overall polish is being put into the game. I don't see how the addition of arenas could possibly ruin the game.
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on The Demon Hunter Unveiled
    Quote from Cute Cow

    I would personally rather have him look slim, feminized and sexy like the male wizard. Why does Blizzard love to have ugly male characters and attractive female characters? The male witch doctor and male barbarian are old, yet their counterparts are young. The male barbarian is even overweight. Talk about the double standard used in the design department. It must be composed exclusively of ugly, overweight and old males.

    So you're saying that they must model the characters after themselves? I don't think so.

    I would not mind him to be an emo anime douche, as long as he's buff and tall, I think it's about time Blizzard made a good-looking dude for their games (have you SEEN dwarf males in wow? yuck).

    One thing I do hope is that she has a sense of humour in her dialogue. Might offset the complete seriousness of the other characters (kicking ass in style and with nice one-liners?)
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    posted a message on Two Questions one thread
    I played the barbarian the most, lvling 2 different ones to 89 (never had the motivation for 90+). My first was a berzerker and leap attack barb (which was basically my own speckle build) who specialised in axes and really was able to kick some arse in normal and nightmare, but failed in hell due to berserk taking away his defence rating.

    My second barb was a strength pure who put all his stats into strength, all of them. He was a WW and zerker cooky cutter build but with pure strength. Unfortunately he needed absolutely godly gear to work as a build due to having no vitality (I even got most of it too).

    However I still remember that every point of damage was multiplied by 25, meaning he just did ridiculous amounts of damage.I remember putting on my perfect war travelers for the first time and getting an extra 750 damage from the "extra 25" damage they gave.

    His point wasn't crushing blow so he was never a boss killer, but I loved him anyways.

    I did actually make a cookie cutter hammerdin and another one for uber boss running. but I never liked them. I also made a lightning sorc that, while able to pump out a ton of damage was never really that good, could only do andy runs.
    Posted in: Diablo II
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    posted a message on Iron Maiden
    I too would've liked to have seen a helm, but oh well :whistling:

    Doesn't look bad, I like the artwork how it's all muted and dark. Not flashy and stuff.

    I like it.

    Now back to history homework :thumbsup:
    Posted in: News & Announcements
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    posted a message on Your thoughts on piracy/illegal downloading
    Quote from PhrozenDragon

    No one is ever going to be able to provide a service anywhere close to B.net for pirated games.

    It's not B.net that I was really talking about, I meant the LAN itself. If there was a LAN version of SC2 up for pirate then you might see some small conventions getting it for LAN for a small social competition. Though now that I've said that they all would've bought it in the first place... Oh well, argument is invalid regarding quality of service of LAN vs B.Net 2.0

    But it's still valid for the removal of DRM's from some games where the DRM's actually can be very restrictive.
    Posted in: General Discussion (non-Diablo)
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    posted a message on Your thoughts on piracy/illegal downloading
    Quote from Turmobil

    Piracy is fine.
    I support freeware developers.
    Blizzard is being a total douche for removing LAN from their games just because Kotick is being a greedy fuck.

    Indie games I have no problem with.
    Just that most of them suck balls and don't deserve my money.
    Especially the ones that call themselves 'art.'
    That's just a bunch of bull.

    As Equinox said, they have to adjust to the new market.
    This is no longer their territory.

    Blizzard took LAN out simply because there are lots of people out there with that attitude. It's an obvious anti-piracy maneuver. And how do you mean "This is no longer their territory"? They are creating the games that you play, and they want to make a living out of it, they have families and in any case themselves to feed, something I think you'll find they definitely don't steal (food). Anyways, why I respect your opinion, I wished you'd kept it to yourself.

    The thing about piracy is that without it many people just wouldn't be able to afford the products their pirating anyway. I mean think about it, I have maybe 50-60 games in my library right now, that's... $6000 if you count it all at $99.99 a game (though some are cheaper I realise), and that's a whole lot of money that most people just can't spend due to them having more pressing needs like food.

    Now, with the above in mind, many companies adjust their prices against piracy, and some pirates use the fact that companies overprice their products to insure against the pirates somehow justifies their piracy, because by adjusting their prices the companies are legitimising piracy. They're saying "We know you exist, but we can't do much more than adjust the prices against your activities."

    That's one aspect, but I would say that most people can afford to buy the games they play, and quite a few don't. And this is mostly what the problem of piracy is, that game companies, which are a BUSINESS, the entire point of which is to make MONEY, don't get the funds to make MORE games. Think of it like shoplifting from your supermarket. You wouldn't do it, it requires luck, skill and balls. Plus you wouldn't dream of not paying for simple things like food that you need to survive. However piracy is just so easy, and your not stealing physical things, and your pirating things that you can do without, and so few people are punished for doing it (and when they are they're handed ridiculous sums of millions that they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to pay off) that people believe in what they're doing.

    The cost of a game company going to court and enforcing their copyrighted material is pretty exorbitant, and that's why they feel they can't take action against individuals, because they have to make back the court cost and money off the person. And that's what makes piracy stick, lack of action due to a failure in the justice system. Though this shifts the blame once again off the shoulders of the pirates themselves.

    I think maybe steam has it right, release a small game for $5 a pop, promote, get people to give it to their friends (it's $5), sell a few thousand copies (it's $5), and then a few months down the road no one is playing it anyway, but the company got their capital.

    Now, removing LAN, I would argue that while understandable, it's not a good idea. Because you are giving pirates an opportunity to provide the LAN service with their pirated product. Meaning that they are providing essentially a superior product to Blizzard. This is also the case with DRMs, the pirate takes away the DRMs of say Assassins Creed 2 and it's a better game for it. I like Blizzards approach of loading your CD-Key into the Battle.net site. And I like how they've not gone DRM mad (removing LAN is definitely not DRM mad, at least you can play offline). Though I hope they provide a LAN service to SC2 very soon.

    /Arguments for and against


    :starwars:
    Posted in: General Discussion (non-Diablo)
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    posted a message on max skills 7?!!!
    Wow, only 7. :turned:

    In D2 you often only used 2 or 3. I don't understand what you're trying to say anyways :unsure:
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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