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homunculus Member (Idle past 5463 days) Posts: 86 Joined: |
In the scientific sense of an unknowable prime actor, it can be viewed as an entity or agent.
source; Homunculus - Wikipedia
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
I got my girlfriend addicted to WoW. Issues of videogame related strife are now a thing of the past, as she occasionally encourages me to play more. 3 of my friends have gotten their wives to play. Your situation is a common one. However, my girlfriend utterly refuses to play video games. There's still some realted strife here and there, but she treats it like an addiction. I/We figure her efforts would be better spent on getting me to drink less
How have you felt about AoC so far, CS? I bought it because of the more mature basis, great premade backstory, more brutal combat, and absolutely beautiful graphics. The graphics are unmatched. The mature basis and brutal combat ("come on!? boobs and decapitation ftw!" as one friend put it) are a plus. I really like the Robert E. Howard world of Hyboria and how close the game has stayed true to his vision. I didn't realize that he wrote all his stuff before Tolkien. I also really like the combat system. I played my firend's WOW toon the other day and fighting consisted of pressing auto-attack and waiting for the battle to finish. It seems so "out of my hands".
I then determined that I didn't particularly like a lot of things about the game engine, Like what? They've fixed a lot of the bugs and memory leaks and things that were causing so many problems in the beginning. They really just released the game too early. The PvP stuff is up and running, the mini-games are really cool but I suck and there's some people out there who are really good Also, at the high end of the game there's a lot of ganking going on.
and never really found a class I enjoyed much. another down side is the lack of races. Some friends are playing EQ2 and seeing the rat-men and frog-guys makes it seem to kiddy to me. Plus its really colorful and ghey. I like the dark brutal setting of Conan. As far as classes, there's always the basic fighter, or a tank or a healer or DD mage. I have a level 74 Demonologist that makes the phrase "glass-canon" an understatement. I just like character development, I guess, which you can get from any MMORPG. I like Conan in particular for the 'other' reasons. The look and feal, the setting, the combat system.
But I know they've made some very significant changes over the months since release There's a lot of little things that they've added that I've found helpful. Looted items display the vendor price that they go far. No more wondering which item to drop and which to hold when your bag is full. There's pretty much a pathfinder for every zone so you don't have to spend any time traveling. and most of the bugs have been removed.
Is it worth me picking it up again for a second chance? If you only played the game in the first few months after release, then I'd say go for a second chance. The really improved it from there.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
It kind of started as a private joke.
In the mid 80's the company I worked at used the common user-name convention of prefixing the last name with the first initial, like the Dilbert joke about Brenda Utthead constantly asking to have her user name changed. So my username was "dwise". We also got a few of the first-generation Macintoshes (which were brand-new at the time) to do some of our documentation on. Each of us had a system diskette (no hard disk on those suckers) and a data diskette (3.5-in and colored, just like in Star Trek! Cool!) and we each labelled our diskettes with our username. Then my data diskette filled up and I had to expand to two data diskettes. I labelled the new one dwise2 and went back and labelled the first one dwise1. Then one day a co-worker read the label of my first data diskette and started laughing. A few years later when I signed up for AOL and it wanted a screenname, I remembered that incident and used dwise1. Quite unintentionally on my part, a few creationists had chosen to try to pick fights with me because of my screenname. More notably, when I emailed Kent Hovind for clarification on his solar-mass-loss claim, in order to weasel out of supporting his own claim, on two separate occasions he tried to pick a fight with me over "dwise1". Edited by dwise1, : added explanation that that was when Macs first came out
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Modulous Member Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Whenever I read you telling that story I wonder if you have any children with the same initials, and whether they will choose for themselves a screenname of dwise2 - and their rather convoluted explanation for how they came to choose that...
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Actually, if there had been another Wise with first initial of "D" who had gotten a username after me, then that person would have been dwise2. Such is the username-assignment convention.
Kids' initials are IAW and MDW.
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Nighttrain Member (Idle past 4021 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
From Urb. Dict.---night train - High Potency (18% ABV) citrus flavored fortified wine. It retails for just $2.69 for a 750ml bottle in most markets.
Sounds about right--$2.69 a bottle--cheap and nasty. :-p
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
You know, I never noticed your name had a 1 (one) on the end.
Certainly make me not the wise one, eh?
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2540 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
IAW I am wise? Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 639 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Yes, but only the part of your body that you sit on.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 93 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Kids' initials are IAW and MDW IAW = I Am WiseMDW = My Dad's Wise
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2540 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
leave it to a brit to figure out the wit.
I could not make anything work for MDW. Hope you don't mind the fun, dwise1.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
No problem. I've gotten that all my life.
What does get me is how hard it can be for people to get the spelling of my last name right. Throughout my childhood, I could not understand why they'd always ask me how to spell my name, a simple, very common four-letter word. That mystery wasn't solved until I started learning German in high school. Then when I was stationed in North Dakota, even after I would give them the correct spelling they still insisted on using the German spelling. True, it's the anglicized form of a German name, but that name was Wies, not Wei.
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Artemis Entreri  Suspended Member (Idle past 4256 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: |
Wikipedia writes:
Artemis Entreri is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Entreri is depicted as a ruthless assassin and the arch-enemy of Drizzt Do'Urden, the protagonistic dark elf. He is the creation of author R. A. Salvatore, first appearing at the end of the 1988 novel The Crystal Shard, the first book in The Icewind Dale Trilogy. He makes regular reappearances in subsequent novels by Salvatore, reprising his role of main antagonist to the hero Drizzt Do'Urden. Entreri's character has been well-developed in the series of books by Salvatore as well as in official material for the Forgotten Realms setting itself. Portrayed as a cunning and tactical assassin, Entreri lives an empty life, devoid of any kind of pleasure, existing only to kill. Credited with being one of the best assassins in Faern, he is a highly composed and calculating man, with fighting skills rivaling those of his enemy, Drizzt Do'Urden. [1] Artemis remains one of the most popular D&D characters. He was voted 5th in Underdark All-Stars Poll on Wizards of the Coast website [2], and was also rated as one of Dungeons & Dragons' top 20 most infamous and most powerful villains. Race: humanCulture: Calimshan Class: Fighter/rogue/Assasin Alignment: Lawful Evil Age: mid-40s Forgotten Realms - Wikipedia it was either this name or Ronnie Dobbz, or steal my favorite name (from my brother): Po_the_ Ads_Toner Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given. Edited by Artemis Entreri, : I spell bad
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Thelazia Junior Member (Idle past 5560 days) Posts: 5 Joined: |
Thelazia are a type of fly that don't bite, but rather survive by eating tears....I couldn't resist.
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4217 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
So then do we call you tearman?
Edited by bluescat48, : pushed wrong button There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
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