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Did you know there was coffee all over Europe by the 1700s?  I bring that up because my IRL news revolves around preparing for my annual pilgrimage to the Ohio Renaissance Festival!  My favorite time of year begins with our late September/early October trip to the Ren Fest and ends with our Halloween wedding anniversary.  My hopes were dashed to get a long gambeson (I think they call it a warrior's tunic) from Son of Sandlar.  Unfortunately, I just don't have 1k dollars to spend on high-grade leather.  However, I've got some money and I'm looking forward to being there to check out their hand-crafted goods and to hopefully add to my costume.  It's coming up Saturday!
 
Also, I'm planning on making "formatted" versions of Metal Monday spotlights I did before making this a "thing", because those bands deserve some better descriptions than they got.  Let me know if you want added to the Metal Monday mailing list and/or want any or all of the back catalog.
 
In Wildstar news, I jumped on Seeger last night, set up my tank built, read a guide, and practiced on a few mobs.  I'm at least in shape to run some normals and get into some kind of groove with the rotation.  It's been a while since I ran content and I've never tanked, so I feel a little too nervous to jump feetfirst into vet stuff.  I have to get used to atomic spear and polarity field, but I should be good to go by Sunday.  We're going to run something then, whether it's world content or some normals to get in sync.  So if you're on Exile Evindra, come hang out with the Blazing Saddles on Sunday!  Tonight, planning on leveling Donne and maybe running some RP in chat channels if anyone's interested.
 
It's a quick one today, have to run to a meeting about finishes in this MRI chamber.  Have fun!	
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			Charles the Second (British king who followed after the Puritans) during his time actually banned Coffee for a week then lifted the ban so he did not end up like Charles the First. And why I know that I have no idea.	
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Charles the Second (British king who followed after the Puritans) during his time actually banned Coffee for a week then lifted the ban so he did not end up like Charles the First. And why I know that I have no idea.
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I was wondering when someone was going to spin up a new one. I would have, but couldn't think of a witty title. :(
 
Thanks for starting us off, VicVanMeter!
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			I was wondering when someone was going to spin up a new one. I would have, but couldn't think of a witty title. :(Thanks for starting us off, VicVanMeter!	
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			I just realized I've been clicking on random forum threads for 5 minutes unable to think of things to say. I think that means it's time to go back to bed. Just like last night my playtime got short because I realized I was literally facerolling.Conclusion- it may work in other games, but doesn't really pan out well here. :)	
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			Coffee never actually improves you, with people who drink coffee regularly it just puts them up with non-coffee drinkers, hopefully I am correct or I will look like an animal which is very similar to a donkey.	
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I just realized I've been clicking on random forum threads for 5 minutes unable to think of things to say. I think that means it's time to go back to bed. Just like last night my playtime got short because I realized I was literally facerolling.
 
Conclusion- it may work in other games, but doesn't really pan out well here. :)
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
Thank you Vic for starting this thread. I was sitting here trying to think of what to say to start one. I think I need more coffee, brain is still sleeping :)
 
 
Scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast. Along with coffee. On my 3rd cup and still want to go back to bed. I think it's the drastic change in the weather :(
 
Logged on my Domi last night to do some gathering/farming to earn more plat. I want to be able to keep my account active by using CREDD. I was looking at her crate and found all kinds of items I would love my Exile to use on her plot. Carbine really needs to add an account bank, so I can give items to my other faction alt.
 
Not much else to report. Logged off to watch TV and snuggle with my hubby on the couch. Much needed time :)
 
Hope you all have a great day!	
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Raiding, that's all I've been doing since Friday.
Addicted to it.
I can't get enough...!
HELP!	
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In historical news...
 
The Great Gale of '48, as it was called, hit Tampa Bay on this date in Florida history. It happens to be significant because the next one to hit was in 1921! We have had 93 years of misses in the Tampa Bay area!
 
In Nexus news I got nothin' :(	
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Raiding, that's all I've been doing since Friday.
Addicted to it.
I can't get enough...!
HELP!
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In historical news...
 
The Great Gale of '48, as it was called, hit Tampa Bay on this date in Florida history. It happens to be significant because the next on to hit was in 1921! We have had 93 years of misses in the Tampa Bay area!
 
In Nexus news I got nothin' :(
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Coffee never actually improves you, with people who drink coffee regularly it just puts them up with non-coffee drinkers, hopefully I am correct or I will look like an animal which is very similar to a donkey.
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Sure!! What time??
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Coming to help kill things on Sunday?
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Morning lovelies,
 
I braved the kitchen for a cup of coffee, tried to pay homage to those Shriekers in the way of fresh food, but on and on they went. My sleepy, coffee-less mind wasn't really having it so... I dipped my fingers under the faucet and flicked them with the water I collected. Wow. They shut up. I don't really see that as animal cruelty, since it's just another method of a "squirt bottle training trick". Now, whenever they squawk, I make like I'm going to splash them. Seems to be working.
 
Not overly thrilled with such noisy birds. My sister had a migraine yesterday, so she wasn't so thrilled either. Haha. 
 
Pumpkin Spice coffee again this morning, no breakfast. I'll snack on Cirinde's.
 
Speaking of Cirinde.... the guild I joined is called The Crimson Cross. They're a lovely group of players, already into raiding, with 250+ members on the guild roster (not sure how many are alts), but we've 26+ on at night usually. It's very comfortable. Lots of channels to dive into on TS3. I found a cozy home away from home there. Everyone is mature and banter is acceptable because we all have a good sense of humor.
 
I've taken to giving everyone pet names, like this poor dear I call Mighty Mouse whenever I see him because he has those big mouse ears on his Aurin with a "Mega Man" costume that reminds me too much of Mighty Mouse. Can't stahp, won't stahp. ;) I also make it a point to develop a new nickname for Mandrias (Candy Mandy, Manderoo, Mandilicious, Mandy Pandy, etc) whenever I see him log in.
 
A few from the other guild I was in, who weren't part of my core Saviors, also joined up. It's a happy-happy elated moment to find us all a good home to settle down in. Wish I'd been able to sit upright last night, the ragweed was killing me so I missed out on a dungeon run. Oi. Mother Nature, less pollen please. KKThnx.	
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You can't?
 
 
 
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Good question... O.O
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			Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?Day off! Yay! But I work the Friday morning shift FROM HELL tomorrow so there's that. All the weird stories are NSFW so no telling those on the forums. That being said, I ate Cheerios for breakfast again because I love them. I always have a (giant) box of Honey Nut, Cinnamon and Regular flavours in the pantry. Today, the plan was to do some adventures on WildStar but after waiting 30 minutes for the queue to pop, I kind of just quit and logged out. Not necessarily a bad thing because I realized that I have this giant pile of paperwork due for Saturday! Joy.Today's picture is none other than my favourite Overlord of All Things Awesome, Mondo Zax! I don't need a reason to post a picture of The Zax.In WildStar news, I did a few adventures last night and got to experience the joys of meeting one of the (apparently) many toxic players. This one specifically was from Pergo so off to the PvP megaserver he goes, woohoo! Scored a Gold in War of the Wilds and Silver in Crimelords of Whitevale because the tank was inexperienced. I also finally found the will to start doing dailies. 17 days worth of unending pain inbound. I'd rather do adventures and champion a faction like I can do on WoW. Less painful. Beyond that, absolutely nothing. I haven't touched RP or Housing yet, the latter because I am way too greedy to spend money on it. Currency $.$Also, I am down for some dungeon crawling on Sunday. I should be around all day. Before 10pm would be nice ; I work early the next morning.Danger ahead! Danger behind! Maybe danger sideways.	
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Rocio was chatting at the bar with a Matria and her grumpy consort, trying not to cheese him off for giggles, when another matria, a friend, invites him over for some sort of party. At first, Rocio refuses, wanting to avoid conflict and potentially damaging her reputation, but she insisted and Rocio was happy to accept.
 
Then he went to a small area to discuss today's RP event. Rocio is excited about it.
 
It's kinda cool having a fantasy arc in a scifi setting.	
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Ok I'm usually on about 7am eastern on Sundays! How 'bout then??
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Good morning everyone.
 
It's Thursday!
 
That means two things:
 
1) Work begins at 7:00 am today.... ugh.   Today is a coffee-on-the-run day.
2) I get to play Wildstar tonight!!!!!!!! :D
 
Last night I didn't play any Wildstar, but I *did* post a thread to start getting my guildies organized for ThaydFest.  Big events don't run themselves, and so I gotta make sure that we have people to help judge the contests and so forth.  Really looking forward to the 18th :)	
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*jams out to the song*
We got 18% on x89 last night before we all panicked and died haha..well half the party was down around 25% which is a shame.
Our next time in is Friday*. But I wanna go again tonight xD
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Quick break from meetings. It's been a busy morning, and the rest of the day shall be as well. Breakfast was an English Muffin with Bacon, Egg, Cheese, and Tomato.
 
 
I wanted to get the thread started, but was sadly caught up. So maybe I'll be able to start it tomorrow and figure out something witty for the title.
 
Got our new modem set up last night. It felt so good to have internet that actually ran at speeds we're paying for without disconnect!
 
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Last night in WildStar, we never got our Swordmaiden running because we didn't have anybody that could heal. Le sad. But a few of us got some 15-29 PvP going instead, which was fun. 
 
Tonight, Daggers are running a Vet Siege and a normal Malgrave. We've done Vet WotW two nights with multiple groups, so Siege should be interesting. Folks will have to actually work together and listen instead of running willy-nilly like in Normal. 
 
My plans include the Vet run, as well as taking care of guild business, including cleaning up the guild bank, which seems to be a nightly occurrence. 
 
Other than that, nothing really to report. Feeling "meh" due to the nasty weather here today, plus having to actually be around people. Ugh, people. Dislike meetings.
 
(Also, I plan to use my lunch break to actually make a forum avatar. :P )	
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Tonight, Daggers are running a Vet Siege and a normal Malgrave. We've done Vet WotW two nights with multiple groups, so Siege should be interesting. Folks will have to actually work together and listen instead of running willy-nilly like in Normal. 
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I love Siege of Tempest Refuge, but it's probably my least favorite of all the adventures because it's just so random - you get a bad combination of things in a wave, and it just destroys you completely.  Our win/loss ratio on normal modes is something like 60/40 still just due to this.
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I love Siege of Tempest Refuge, but it's probably my least favorite of all the adventures because it's just so random - you get a bad combination of things in a wave, and it just destroys you completely.  Our win/loss ratio on normal modes is something like 60/40 still just due to this.
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			Honestly, that's why I want to do adventures with a guild group that isn't worried about medals.  I want to try all the different paths.	
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Rocio was chatting at the bar with a Matria and her grumpy consort, trying not to cheese him off for giggles, when another matria, a friend, invites him over for some sort of party. At first, Rocio refuses, wanting to avoid conflict and potentially damaging her reputation, but she insisted and Rocio was happy to accept.
 
Then he went to a small area to discuss today's RP event. Rocio is excited about it.
 
It's kinda cool having a fantasy arc in a scifi setting.
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Morning everyone! Hope you're all having fun and in good spirits on nexus...
 
Sadly real life duties have kept me from deploying into the field lately. These last two nights in particular were busy, but really rewarding as I got a commission that was really fun to do and I got to teach a class at an elementary school low poly modeling.(my old teacher asked if I'd be willing to do an after school workshop with the kids for fun) They really enjoyed the last part when I showed off a project I was working on as the children were asking questions about how they make stuff like Frozen and Despicable Me and I let them pose the model and stuff too.
 
Such a fun night parents and kids seemed to have a great time.
 
 
In Wildstar related news though, I'm going to be picking up on my stalker or medic a bit more. I think I'm going to shelf my warrior for now until drop 3 comes at this point...
Love warrior tanking, but ugh...
 
In regard to adventures, they're a lot of fun if you try different paths, but often in pugs you only get the "optimal" path that are often because they looked at guides that said "This is how it should be done, for various reasons(like one path is bugged usually)	
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This morning I'm trying something new with my coffee.
 
I have a thing of honey that's made like 10 miles from my house. I've heard that eating honey made in the area you live helps with allergies, because it helps you build up an immunity to the pollen that you're going to breathing in.
 
It has to be pretty local though for it to work though. I don't like much sweet in my coffee, so just a few drops and I can't taste it much.	
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This morning I'm trying something new with my coffee.
 
I have a thing of honey that's made like 10 miles from my house. I've heard that eating honey made in the area you live helps with allergies, because it helps you build up an immunity to the pollen that you're going to breathing in.
 
It has to be pretty local though for it to work though. I don't like much sweet in my coffee, so just a few drops and I can't taste it much.
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Or you could just swallow a teaspoonful and be done with it......
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			Honey is good for you!   Better get it while it's still here 	
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I actually don't like the taste of honey, way to sweet for me.
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Which is why I suggested just getting it over with...
 
I'm not sure of the 'health' benefits of a 'few drops' of honey in coffee anyways.
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Honey is good for you!   Better get it while it's still here 
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			I don't drink coffee much(don't kill me) but when I do I like a little honey in it, it's not too bad really. I'm more of a tea person though...	
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For men?  A lot of health benefits for coffee   :)
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			Considering making an exile alt circle/guild called "Bring out your Mordesh"...hehe	
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Good morning Forumites.
 
Still not playing much other than getting all my alts to level 3 and doing housing plots.
 
Just put up a thread for 9/25 feedback, because they didn't. I was excited when I saw 'Upgrading' this morning and immediately clicked on Patch notes to see all the things they were fixing. Then almost spit out my tea when I saw the most minimal patch notes ever LOL.	
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And Rocio was never seen from again. Party is a trap! Run while you can >:D
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I don't know when I'll be able to play, my internet seems to have the plague. I love playing for a game while I can't play it, while mom doesn't call the ISP to fix it while she passive aggressively is annoyed but just sits there and pays for Internet that doesn't work half the time.
 
If I could call them and tell them to get down here or switch ISPs I would have already done it.	
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			Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I finally was able to play WildStar last night for about an hour. Learned a valuable lesson. Just because a Chua Esper looks like he is alone does not mean that he is. He might just have 3 stalkers in PvP gear surrounding him.	
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Good morning Forumites.
 
Still not playing much other than getting all my alts to level 3 and doing housing plots.
 
Just put up a thread for 9/25 feedback, because they didn't. I was excited when I saw 'Upgrading' this morning and immediately clicked on Patch notes to see all the things they were fixing. Then almost spit out my tea when I saw the most minimal patch notes ever LOL.
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I thought that was a hotfix to cover up some kind of exploit?
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I don't know when I'll be able to play, my internet seems to have the plague. I love playing for a game while I can't play it, while mom doesn't call the ISP to fix it while she passive aggressively is annoyed but just sits there and pays for Internet that doesn't work half the time.
 
If I could call them and tell them to get down here or switch ISPs I would have already done it.
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Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I finally was able to play WildStar last night for about an hour. Learned a valuable lesson. Just because a Chua Esper looks like he is alone does not mean that he is. He might just have 3 stalkers in PvP gear surrounding him.
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There goes my "5 fixes in this hotfix" bet. My expectations are way too high apparently.
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ATT is like that.  They're very sensitive to the weather because so much of their network is still twisted copper until you get to the fiber network.
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Considering making an exile alt circle/guild called "Bring out your Mordesh"...hehe
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So.
 
I am thinking about giving away a CREDD or two as grand prizes for ThaydFest events.
 
I have to decide still but I feel like with all the uncertainty over the merge and drops and everything else it would be a good way to help reassure people.
 
What do you all think?  Am I projecting too much?  Or would it be a good statement from a server morale perspective?	
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So.
 
I am thinking about giving away a CREDD or two as grand prizes for ThaydFest events.
 
I have to decide still but I feel like with all the uncertainty over the merge and drops and everything else it would be a good way to help reassure people.
 
What do you all think?  Am I projecting too much?  Or would it be a good statement from a server morale perspective?
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Maybe too much. CREDD are worth 30 days time each. I don't know what ThaydFest is, but maybe some cool crafting mats, Signs of things, and other stuff like that could be adequate.
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This morning I'm trying something new with my coffee.
 
I have a thing of honey that's made like 10 miles from my house. I've heard that eating honey made in the area you live helps with allergies, because it helps you build up an immunity to the pollen that you're going to breathing in.
 
It has to be pretty local though for it to work though. I don't like much sweet in my coffee, so just a few drops and I can't taste it much.
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So.
 
I am thinking about giving away a CREDD or two as grand prizes for ThaydFest events.
 
I have to decide still but I feel like with all the uncertainty over the merge and drops and everything else it would be a good way to help reassure people.
 
What do you all think?  Am I projecting too much?  Or would it be a good statement from a server morale perspective?
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I think it could work as a grand prize, but you'd have to figure out how all of your events could culminate in one overall winner, or you'd have to come up with an ultimate event that includes everyone who could possibly want to participate so no one feels left out.
 
I really wish I was going to be around on the 18th. :( It sounds like a lot of fun.
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I think it's kind of overkill based on our events. I think items appropriate to the events are better options. (Besides, that's at least 7 plat you're just handing someone... Most items we have for prizes are 2 plat max, and based on the events I know of from Daggers' end, there's no real feasible way to combine events to give an overall grand prize from the grand prize winners.)
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I live like 7 miles out of a small city(or big town I think it's like 80k pop) would any other network be any better? Also this is a shitty house made in like the 70s I think, pretty sure all the wiring in it is still copper. Or is not all copper wiring created equally?
 
Honestly I told my mom I'd pay more, out of my fairly small SSI check to just get internet that works even if I had to pay for it by myself, but she won't switch. I can understand maybe having contracts on cell phones and such, but just because you have phone or such from a company doesn't mean you have to have internet from them right? Course I'm guessing with her aggravating attitude she won't do it because a new company would have to run new wires or something and she seems allergic to anything that is trouble even though it will fix the issue. Kind of like my dad which makes it ironic that she fusses about the same thing she does half of the time.
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We need more prizes.  I think I'm going prize hunting this weekend.
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			RPers don't even need to win real items. One character rolled on imaginary loot in our first adventure and got a jewel-hilted cutlass and was thrilled.	
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RPers don't even need to win real items. One character rolled on imaginary loot in our first adventure and got a jewel-hilted cutlass and was thrilled.
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Click here to see details on this ThaydFest thing that Neph's on about :)
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			I added the loot rolls just as a gimmick for a treasure hunt. Now all event-ture mobs must have loot tables	
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			I think Tex moved to The Secret Society with his wife. Don't know if is a permanent move or not. He is pretty good at saying goodbyes, and as far as I know he hasn't posted a farewell thread. Hopefully it's just a break.	
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Thanks. After clicking on that, and reading it. One thing comes to mind.
 
Where the heck is Tex? Did he quit too?
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I added the loot rolls just as a gimmick for a treasure hunt. Now all event-ture mobs must have loot tables
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That is an excellent idea. :)
 
People love finding things	
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Sadly he did.  I think most of it was the forums getting to him, rather than the game itself.  Hopefully he'll sort his head out and come back in a month or two.
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That is an excellent idea. :)
 
People love finding things
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...and I like hiding paths in my houses, so it makes things fun. :)
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At first glance, I thought this said "and I like hiding things in my pants" which made the second part a lot more amusing...
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State of the Game write up from Mike Donatelli : http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/state-of-the-game/
 
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Oh great. Now I'm going to have to build a house that looks like pants.
 
/snip pic
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State of the Game write up from Mike Donatelli : http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/state-of-the-game/
 
Vick that would be awesome to see. You should do it!
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State of the Game write up from Mike Donatelli : http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/state-of-the-game/
 
Vick that would be awesome to see. You should do it!
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			Drop 3 release will be early November? Yikes. I will probably be WAY bored by then.	
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Maybe that'll be one of my projects when we get the blank slate terrain option. Otherwise the pants would end up looking like something out of Patch Adams...
 
Google "Patch Adams Convention" and you'll see what I mean...I'm not going to post a picture. lol
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State of the Game write up from Mike Donatelli : http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/state-of-the-game/
 
Vick that would be awesome to see. You should do it!
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State of the Game write up from Mike Donatelli : http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/state-of-the-game/
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And now, proof positive they shouldn't have said anything as players pile on to criticize them because Drop 3 is not coming soon enough.
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You'd have to look to see who runs service in your area.  ATT, even Uverse, uses some very old tech to get to the first relay box, then they tend to be okay.  Cable lines tend to be a much sturdier and better insulated cable.  But you'd want to see who's in your area and how much it costs first.
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I stopped reading at 'We want to rectify that toot sweet.' *cringe*
 
Seriously?! I think they must mean tout de suite....or maybe they just put it in there for me...	
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We did also get a confirmation that megaservers will go live before Drop 3, which is a new development. As far as I'd seen before, megaservers and Drop 3 were synonymous.
 
And, I will be very surprised if Halloween isn't announced in the next week or so, since the timing would be perfect for Halloween to be at the end of October and lead directly into Drop 3 the first week of November.
 
It's not as if October will be empty. It's just going to take people a moment or two to realize it.
 
Best thing Carbine could do tomorrow would be announcing Halloween.
 
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I stopped reading at We want to rectify that toot sweet. *cringe*
 
Seriously?! I think they must mean tout de suite....or maybe they just put it in there for me...  
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/beginrant
 
I hate people like that. Seriously, you're at least being fed information. They could have said nothing, and pissed off another bunch of folks that's probably a lot larger. So they need to go STFU.
 
/endrant
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Oh I would if it was my house, but it's not it's my folks, and I can't move out unless I try to take section 8 which probably isn't a very good idea when I can't even drive, and my only income is a $480 SSI check every month. Even if they gave me the full amount I don't think it's more than like $800 a month.
 
Though I half way wanted to do that so I wouldn't have to deal with her completely irrational stubborness about something that screws her over just as much as it does me, as she's online for like 80% of the day too.
 
Honestly I talked to her about it and she basically said she won't change ISP unless the thing does not work 100% of the time for like two or three months. How insane is that?
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I stopped reading at 'We want to rectify that toot sweet.' *cringe*
 
Seriously?! I think they must mean tout de suite....or maybe they just put it in there for me...
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Well, look up who else is providing in your area.  Do you get cable TV?
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I stopped reading at 'We want to rectify that toot sweet.' *cringe*
 
Seriously?! I think they must mean tout de suite....or maybe they just put it in there for me...
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And now, proof positive they shouldn't have said anything as players pile on to criticize them because Drop 3 is not coming soon enough.
 
At least we know they're on track to hit the back end of their original estimate with megaservers.
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I looked it up, and toot sweet is in the urban dictionary, so I guess it's almost acceptable.
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A topic that we discuss quite frequently at my job these days is how to manage the "internet culture" that pervades our society.  What that means is:
 
- People want instant acknowledgement about problems with our products, in a very transparent and detailed way.
- When people don't get an official statement they will make something up, blog it or post it on reddit, and it will go viral.
- People in general can't stand PR-scrubbed messaging and will attack any content you post online that doesn't have some "meat" or at least technical detail to it.
 
The solution is simply this:  Be transparent, and talk a lot.  Example of what works and what doesn't:
 
What doesn't work:
- A small number of our customers have reported an issue with blah blah.  We're actively investigating this and hope to have a fix for it soon.
 
What does work:
- Hey guys, it looks like some of you ran into a problem with <insert lots of technical goo>.  We've been digging into this and it looks like it may happen because of <insert more technical goo>.  We're still working on figuring this out but if you are running into this, you can help us get to the bottom of this by posting in our forums with <list of data>.  We don't have a fix yet, but rest assured that we're working on it as a priority, and we'll come back next week with an update for you all on where things are at.  Thanks for understanding and being awesome!  ((and then obviously, following up next week as promised))
 
A LOT of companies and PR/Marketing type people (including mine) really don't understand how to talk to the Internet, and it causes huge problems for them.  Gaming companies like Carbine are slightly ahead of the curve in that area, but the reality is that managing the expectations of a huge faceless group of people who are likely to complain about *anything* they disagree with is just plain hard.	
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You guys are ridiculous... :lol:
 
Doing balance testing on the last boss on today's encounter. He's pretty tough. My last battle run- through he knocked out one player. The other 2 were on their last dice. And that's with 3 rolls below 10!
 
... I'm going to probably dice fight this guy until my shift ends. :D
 
I even gave him a cool name! Deathbrought Pumera.	
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I looked it up, and toot sweet is in the urban dictionary, so I guess it's almost acceptable.
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Its actually funny, if they were listening then they would have broken off alot of drop 3's material and release it early like every one has pretty much asked them to ...
 
Things I think should be put in before drop 3 that shouldnt affect other systems:
 
Salvaging fixes?
Technologists expert research?
Rune socket rerolling
Rune socket additions (I added this separately because there are reasons not to, but honestly I do not really see the harm since technically we could have the amount already - 1)
Crafted stat fixes (honestly the longer this stays in the harder it will be to actually close the gap)
 
There are plenty of other things that could probably go in that do not have anything to do with either the new content or the AP/SP changes and class re balancing that should be brought in smaller patches.	
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Its actually funny, if they were listening then they would have broken off alot of drop 3's material and release it early like every one has pretty much asked them to ...
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On a completely different note, lunch today (Yes!!  I got lunch for once!) is Thai.  Yellow curry with chicken and vegetables over Jasmine rice.  YUM. :D
 
So can't wait for the afternoon meetings to be done, then it's a quick trip to the grocery and an evening of Wildstar :)	
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On a completely different note, lunch today (Yes!!  I got lunch for once!) is Thai.  Yellow curry with chicken and vegetables over Jasmine rice.  YUM. :D
 
So can't wait for the afternoon meetings to be done, then it's a quick trip to the grocery and an evening of Wildstar :)
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All I picture is Nephele being this skin over bones worker that is chained to her desk.
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No chains yet, but I'm worried they might try to surgically implant my smartphone if I let them. :\
 
Last night I was on a conference call with China at 10 pm, and this morning I was on a call with Europe at 7 am.
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This assumes it's the storyline content, not the systems material, holding up the drop.  It was my understanding that the bug fixes and systems fixes weren't ready yet, but the Defile content was.
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Also, I live in the future.  I have an office but I'm never there.  I carry a tablet around with me everywhere at work, so I'm always off at wherever the meeting is, and all my stuff is stored in the Cloud.  The only time I actually sit down at the desk is on Fridays when the meeting load is light, and then only so I can do spreadsheets and presentations and admin work for the week coming up.
 
It's incredibly liberating not being tied to a desk anymore, but some days I really miss being able to sit down and focus on one thing at a time and not get super behind.	
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Got some productive work done this morning.  Also got new laptop for book research this year (as I prefer doing my research at the dining room table rather than my very adorable, but limited surface space, antique desk for my desktop.)  It's got an NVidia GForce 880 graphics card with 8G dedicated video ram because....well....reasons.  >.>  That's good for using Microsoft Word, right?
 
Sticking to my rule of "no more morning forums".  Getting ready to pick up spousal unit and setting up new Lappy though, so quick drive by.
 
Afternoon tea (HA!  Yes, there was afternoon tea):  Tea Forte Blood Orange
 
Breakfast:  Mango Sticky Rice (left over from carryout last night - mmm, Thai food.)
 
Goal tonight is to practice with the tanking build on Lament.  Guild meeting last night went well, hired a new officer specifically for RP events (hooray), and in the process of pinning down PvE content.  Welcomed a new member....another aurin, because I'm the only non-aurin player in WildStar anymore. ;)  Planned out the RP events and social activities for the month of October already, dates still not pinned down precisely (but will be posted).  Added some PvE runs to our Saturday calendar, one morning and one evening - so wish us luck!  (I'm sure I will be in touch with Neph, esp for the morning run, if we don't have the full 5.  Most of us will be VERY new at this, be gentle!)
 
Calendar includes:
- Lopp walk-n-talk for mid October (probably Oct 16 - already confirmed with Cory Herndon as continued "Can I bug you about lore questions?" content)
- Homes-and-Gardens IC tour - early October
- IC dungeon runs of 20 content, newbie friendly, Saturdays
- VeritasFest real life meet-n-greet, Oct 10-12, Maryland Renaissance Faire (if anyone goes Saturday and sees a bunch  of people in matching red and gold tabards, that's us!)
- Weekly in game meet-n-greet, Wed evenings, 9pm
- October Shade's Eve Spooktacular, Oct 30th, probably 8 or 9pm - storytelling and costume contest, open RP event
- ThaydFest, October 18, all day!
 
So lots going on!  Now if only SOMEONE WOULD DEVELOP A WORKING IN GAME CALENDAR!  Grump gump.	
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Added some PvE runs to our Saturday calendar, one morning and one evening - so wish us luck!  (I'm sure I will be in touch with Neph, esp for the morning run, if we don't have the full 5.  Most of us will be VERY new at this, be gentle!)
 
...
 
So lots going on!  Now if only SOMEONE WOULD DEVELOP A WORKING IN GAME CALENDAR!  Grump gump.
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Besides, Chains are for locking your woman up in the kitchen.
 
/hides ((As a woman, I can say that, right? :P ))
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And that can be delayed, the class re balancing and AP/SP changes not coming till November are not going to really hurt anyone. But how buggy would expert crafting for technologists, rune changes or even salvaging changes be? They dont really affect many other systems in the game and could be released earlier and would placate alot of people who are only holding onto their subscription because these changes are what they were waiting for.
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We both know that your husband would probably starve if you didn't chain yourself up in the kitchen.  I'm surprised he remembers to sleep with his current workload, let alone eat.
 
I wish I could be home early enough for that adventure run.  Darn time zones :(
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Got some productive work done this morning.  Also got new laptop for book research this year (as I prefer doing my research at the dining room table rather than my very adorable, but limited surface space, antique desk for my desktop.)  It's got an NVidia GForce 880 graphics card with 8G dedicated video ram because....well....reasons.  >.>  That's good for using Microsoft Word, right?
 
Sticking to my rule of "no more morning forums".  Getting ready to pick up spousal unit and setting up new Lappy though, so quick drive by.
 
Afternoon tea (HA!  Yes, there was afternoon tea):  Tea Forte Blood Orange
 
Breakfast:  Mango Sticky Rice (left over from carryout last night - mmm, Thai food.)
 
Goal tonight is to practice with the tanking build on Lament.  Guild meeting last night went well, hired a new officer specifically for RP events (hooray), and in the process of pinning down PvE content.  Welcomed a new member....another aurin, because I'm the only non-aurin player in WildStar anymore. ;)  Planned out the RP events and social activities for the month of October already, dates still not pinned down precisely (but will be posted).  Added some PvE runs to our Saturday calendar, one morning and one evening - so wish us luck!  (I'm sure I will be in touch with Neph, esp for the morning run, if we don't have the full 5.  Most of us will be VERY new at this, be gentle!)
 
Calendar includes:
- Lopp walk-n-talk for mid October (probably Oct 16 - already confirmed with Cory Herndon as continued "Can I bug you about lore questions?" content)
- Homes-and-Gardens IC tour - early October
- IC dungeon runs of 20 content, newbie friendly, Saturdays
- VeritasFest real life meet-n-greet, Oct 10-12, Maryland Renaissance Faire (if anyone goes Saturday and sees a bunch  of people in matching red and gold tabards, that's us!)
- Weekly in game meet-n-greet, Wed evenings, 9pm
- October Shade's Eve Spooktacular, Oct 30th, probably 8 or 9pm - storytelling and costume contest, open RP event
 
So lots going on!  Now if only SOMEONE WOULD DEVELOP A WORKING IN GAME CALENDAR!  Grump gump.
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AAAAAHHHHH.
 
I have no inventory space to make aurin items for Neph! Will have to remedy that!	
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Calendar includes:
- Lopp walk-n-talk for mid October (probably Oct 16 - already confirmed with Cory Herndon as continued "Can I bug you about lore questions?" content)
- Homes-and-Gardens IC tour - early October
- IC dungeon runs of 20 content, newbie friendly, Saturdays
- VeritasFest real life meet-n-greet, Oct 10-12, Maryland Renaissance Faire (if anyone goes Saturday and sees a bunch  of people in matching red and gold tabards, that's us!)
- Weekly in game meet-n-greet, Wed evenings, 9pm
- October Shade's Eve Spooktacular, Oct 30th, probably 8 or 9pm - storytelling and costume contest, open RP event
 
So lots going on!  Now if only SOMEONE WOULD DEVELOP A WORKING IN GAME CALENDAR!  Grump gump.
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That's some serious kurg-power you're packing in that laptop, Norah.
 
For your saturday stuff, let me or Chestnut know what/when and we can poke people for you.  If I'm online you can find me in the BL channel as always :)
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Yay, new laptop!
 
Boo, no morning forums!
 
Yay, tea!
 
Yay, Thai!
 
Boo, Aurin! (You clearly play Exile side too much if Aurin is all you see...come to the Dominion side. It's been overrun by Chua :D)
 
Yay, active guild!
 
Boo, no guild calendar! (Isn't there an addon that gives you an in-game calendar? No idea if it's accessible by multiple people, though.)
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Hee - point of clarification, these were things *added*, not things we'd already pinned down.  But fixed the original nevertheless.  (In other fun news, I actually *should* be there myself - looks like our flight leaves Sun am the day after.)
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OMG seriously??!!   :D :D :D :D :D
 
Yay!!
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Oh....I could totally just transfer an alt to Evindra with all the stuff on her. Hah.
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That's exactly what I did!
 
EDIT:
 
 
...and then struggled with lack of inventory space for several days. :D
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I fully understand the job situation...I'm lucky enough to be employed, but I've been looking for alternate opportunities for several years, with the same issues of over- and under-qualification. The best reason I've been rejected for was simply that I needed to relocate...despite that I told them I had family in the area that would allow me to start right away. The whole job market simply becomes depressing after a while.
 
Although, I think my favorite rejection was in 2009 with a Barnes and Noble manager telling me I needed a Master's Degree in order to apply. :rolleyes:
 
As far as keeping people out of your house...that's just a mean way to treat your groupies! :P	
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I fully understand the job situation...I'm lucky enough to be employed, but I've been looking for alternate opportunities for several years, with the same issues of over- and under-qualification. The best reason I've been rejected for was simply that I needed to relocate...despite that I told them I had family in the area that would allow me to start right away. The whole job market simply becomes depressing after a while.
 
Although, I think my favorite rejection was in 2009 with a Barnes and Noble manager telling me I needed a Master's Degree in order to apply. :rolleyes:
 
As far as keeping people out of your house...that's just a mean way to treat your groupies! :P
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			I'm convinced that employers do not mentally live in the same world as employees maybe even physically. I think they might be some form of Sidhe, no proof on that though.	
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			Is it just me or does the internet not know what the *cupcake* "promise" and "lie" means?	
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Wife and I got Penn Station for dinner, and she'll be on tonight! :D
 
Vic gets to play with Mrs Vic! :D	
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so tonight's been a great night so far. I haven't gotten to play for a few days but rather lovely.
Recruited a few new lovely people into the guild that like pve and rp so yay!
 
Also started playing my medic alt Zoyenka:
 
Also if you ever get a chance to try a Mac and cheese empanada...do it...omg best 1.50 i ever spent...	
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			I leave for several hours and came back to hardly any new comments. ;) Must mean you're all in WS! Good! 	
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Just got done in the Malgrave Trail.  We actually finished this time! (Yay!  The trick seems to be avoiding Area 77).  However we did the one Pell area with the lightning storm and lost 21 caravan members to lightning strikes while we were fighting :(  Ouch!
 
At least we made it to the fort though, really can't wait to do this one more after some of the bugs get fixed :)	
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Yeah, I was in game.  Time Warner had a coughing fit and kicked me off the internet for a few minutes, so now that I'm logging back in, I just wanted to say...
 
... I didn't think this many people would be in Galeras.	
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That's a problem I could stand to have.
 
It's better than what my life has become ... wake up, apply for jobs, squint over details, see the "or equivalent experience" for so and so years, nod because I have it... then come a week later, "we regretfully inform you that you did not meet the minimum requirements" spiel over and over. ;)
 
I'm either under qualified or over qualified.
 
Hey, Carbine, want another community forum moderator? Pretty please? <3 <3
 
Meanwhile... when I'm not brain dead from all the applications and rejections, I'm in Wildstar staring at my house trying to decide the layout of the second floor as Exiles crawl around my property trying to get in to see what I've done. Occasionally I let someone in, it's pretty fun to keep people locked out.
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