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MERRY YULETIDE AND HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE! From out the cold and darkness, light and hope return!
 
Come in out of the chill. Have some ginger cookies and a cup of hot glogg and warm yourself by the yule log.
 
So, Winterfest is in full swing on Nexus. Between my four favorite characters, I've managed in rounding out both of the costumes and have socked away a pretty good amount of fences, string lights and other knick-knackery. Took a break from the instance yesterday, but I've been doing a full rotation on the dailies, so I still have a nice little pile of ColdCash. Probably just going to save up until the last day or so and then buy Tex the Mount Flair and just drop the rest on decor. Maybe put aside a few things to sell later in the year, or maybe just bank them until the motivation strikes to build that toy store I've been dreaming of. :lol:
 
Speaking of the instance, I think I've finally "mastered" all the various mini-games. I was pretty down on a couple of them for a few days, but after concentrating and applying myself, they really aren't much of a problem anymore.
 
I have to say though, my favorite part of the season has been making Holiday-themed costumes. Both Tex and Sharice have their own spin on a Santa suit ... The Holiday "White" really isn't as bad as some people are going on about, and depending on the dye channel, it's pretty good. I have given up on the Holiday Red though. Bloodfire and Dominion Reds are both much more vibrant and festive.
 
ANYWAY, that's all I have to talk about today. Feel free to chime in with what you're doing, share a screenshot, give us a story. Talk to me, Nexus!	
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Morning folks!
 
My last (scheduled) day of work for 2015.  Tomorrow is going to be a festive fun-filled day of cursing out a faucet (I despise plumbing) and participating in that bloodsport called "going to the Mall two days before Christmas".
 
For the event so far I've gotten the slippers, the shoes and the earpiece.  I'll probably get the helper shirt too and maybe Papa Phineas'
 
Just for giggles I levelled my baby 'slinger from 3 to 15 over the last couple days.  Towards the end of the night a purple dropped... then I read it.  Ability Tier unlock :blink:.  Well now.  She's only meant to be an RP character and I already have a maxed slinger attuned to DS.  Guess Pykke or LJ are gonna get a free unlock :lol:	
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Not much going on here- hoping to get another clean shot at System Daemons tonight before Christmas. Not sure if it will happen or not. We did some pulls on Sunday with some new players and a bunch of people learning new stuff (and a slightly motified strat), and I thought we did pretty decent. But I figure, practice is always good. We definitely have this boss on farm with our strongest players, but holidays it's hard to pin people down (like I can talk- I was out Friday myself!)
 
So figures are crossed we can get a group together. But if not, will just chill and run some dungeons, I think.
 
My wife and I had our anniversary dinner out this weekend. It was great fun- took a cooking class where we cooked steak and mushrooms in a brandy cream sauces. Yum! They did the steak pretty much the way I always do a steak, but the sauce was cool to learn. I made it again on Sunday just to lock in the recipe :)
 
Funny, when all the kids were out of the house and before we went to dinner, my wife said "I wish we could game tonight". Haha! Yes, she's come over to the dark side :DAnyway, just trying to relax for the holidays and not stress over raids- if they happen, they happen, but real life >>>> raids.	
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We did some [system Daemons] pulls on Sunday with some new players and a bunch of people learning new stuff (and a slightly motified strat), ...
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Ayup... Three Tank Strat where one of the tanks is spatially challenged.  North! North! Noooooooorth!  Hrm, might not be so bad if the pillars had markers that show the direction they'll rotate.
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Here is a pic of the food we made- delicious, though I think we could work a bit on our plating :P
 
 
 
 
 	
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			YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTE AND LOOK SO HAPPY!  :wub:	
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			The couple that raids together . . . :p	
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For some reason I really love the shape and colour of that mug in the OP... and desperately want to own it. :P
 
I've been playing Fallout 4 pretty hard the last week or so, partly because I finally have the time with winter break, but also because of even more frustration with WS....
 
/critical post initiated
 
After mostly finishing AnNex I went and began a winter plot, which I mostly finished again and then promptly started yet another plot (this one with a hard sci-fi, Mass Effect-like theme), which was stumped by a nefarious housing bug. So I went back to the winter plot and upgraded it some (about 400 fine detail objects added, but I'm not sure how noticeable most of it will be given how small the items and how spread out the plot is). After that I realized that I had exhaused the housing vendor, and most of the architect items, which left only the auction house as a source of new decor.
 
Now, I've been bothered by a few things with the game lately, no big deal. That happens. I was still able to have fun with the game and once I get enough patience, will fix the ongoing issue with Akko's plot. But the most frustrating of all blocks is when you're not actually bored or feeling burnout or stopped by a bug, but cannot pass some annoying design obstacle that prevents you from continuing to have fun. For me overall, that obstacle is now more than ever the shittiness that is our auction house. I know I could find hundreds more items that would suit (or be made to suit) my winter theme, but here's what I have to do to get those items: 
Scroll through auction lists and write down the name of every single item that interests me, then when that's done, input every name back into the auction search bar and buy the item.
 
OR
 
Scroll through auction lists and watch as the search results reset to page 1 after every single purchase.
 
 
As you can imagine, neither of these options are fun. They're time-consuming and tedious and the more grand your plot, the more time-consuming and tedious it is to find those uncommon decor options you haven't used yet, especially if you need some of them in bulk. It doesn't matter if I search for recent postings or cheapest item, I'm still going over and over and over through these lists in some mundane fashion trying to get new, useable decor. Watching as item after item is repeated for me (if I didn't buy it at one price, why do I need to see the same item listed at a higher price over and over??)
 
Consequently when I tried to upgrade the winter plot again a few days ago, the whole auction process (and also the absurdity of this block even existing) just pissed me off and I logged out.
 
So yea, still able to enjoy the game, still recently dropping money on the game, still want to support the game.... but please do the entire world of Nexus a favour and upgrade this turd of an auction house. I don't know how many times I can complain about this part of the game before frustration just leads me to say "*cupcake* it". :(
 
This is one of the rare times when I am legit upset and will freely admit it. This shitty auction house has got to go. <_<  Every time I see its unchanging shittiness sitting there, so long after launch, so obviously bad at what it does, so easily fixed... it makes me want to flip tables and walk away.
			
				
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Good afternoon!
I'm making coffee and I'm about to start work. Final hours before a couple of days break... one might think...
However, yesterday I got a phone call from the staffing company I've been working for up until a couple of months ago and they had a job offer for me, and got sent to an interview this morning. 
The interview went well, it's the perfect job that involves using my educational skills... so a "real job". However the job is to be done on a short deadline, and the sooner the better. If the job gets done well, I won't have to worry about jobs in the near future (no preassure). I'm still waiting for more info about what exactly needs to be done and I'm getting a bit nervous... hoping that it's just a busy schedule delaying and not a change of hearth in giving me the job. I really want this chance! Even if it means lots of work over the holiday. 
So, until any contract is signed... I keep taking care of my current... underpaid job. Even if it's underpaid it's somewhat secure... and good enough to pay for rent and bills, and more flexible than many other jobs out there. 
 
In game I've got the things I want, costume and mount flairs. So I'm all happy and done with the event, it has been fun =) Leaving town tomorrow, so it's a shame that I will miss out on the remaining login giveaway chances :( But I will still be able to follow the forum :)	
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Heh. I just knocked an 8 hours project out of the park in 3.5 hours. No changes, approved after less than five minutes with the client.
 
THAT is how you do holiday work, boys and girls. Put your head down, turn the Christmas carols up loud, make a huge pot of coffee and GET 'ER DONE!!!
 
Now, what the heck am I gonna do until 1 o'clock? :lol:	
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Heh. I just knocked an 8 hours project out of the park in 3.5 hours. No changes, approved after less than five minutes with the client.
 
THAT is how you do holiday work, boys and girls. Put your head down, turn the Christmas carols up loud, make a huge pot of coffee and GET 'ER DONE!!!
 
Now, what the heck am I gonna do until 1 o'clock? :lol:
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			just wasting some time at work waiting to get into ds and finish up tonight.  only one more pair then avatus pulls.  life/air should be fun.	
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			Oh my gosh I feel so awful for my husband right now. xD Last night he was trying to craft some gear to get his warrior ready to raid with us on Wednesday. I had a Genetic Power Core rotting in my inventory, so I gave it to him, he got the rest of the mats together, and started crafting gloves... only to realize he forgot to put the slider to support rating instead of assault, so he had tanky stats with assault rating. >_< Oof, that was a blow. But he sucked it up, farmed up the mats again (though I didn't have any more power cores to give him), and a little bit later started to craft them again... TWO PERCENT FAIL CHANCE AND IT FAILED. I wanted to cry for him. He finally made one a third time, but now he's out of plat to actually unlock and rune the dang things. Augh crafting why.	
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Augh crafting why.
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Impressive indeed =) You can't take rest of the day off? Because it sounds like you certainly deserves it :)
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Now, what the heck am I gonna do until 1 o'clock? :lol:
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Be a forum warrior like me and post your perspective on useless discussions that more than likely go nowhere or contribute to anything in the long run. :P
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Good day all!
 
I haven't really done any of the winterfest stuff yet for various reasons, raids, time, and Star Wars being among them, but looking forward to having a bit of time to relax and do as I please coming up. We usually get the 26th as a holiday... but not this year since it falls on a saturday =(. 
 
Had a good week of raiding last week and we downed Maelstrom Authority and Fire/Earth pair to jump to 6/9. Gloomclaw is the last guy we have to work on before we start regularly downing pairs. Trying a new modified loot council system as well, which seems to be working decently well, although I still need to work on a tracking system for who gets what. I don't know what the week holds in store, but hopefully we can get a decent clear in during the holidays. 	
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Nah. I do enough of that  - and to be perfectly honest, if I even *look* at any of other other "Top Threads" right now, I'll probably go from "Funny Tex" to "Omega-Butthead Tex" in about 3.2 seconds.
 
Seriously, except for this thread and the Winterfest feedback thread, everything else on the top of this forum is nothing but crying, doom-saying and general crab-applie pie horsecrap that doesn't need me throwing guzzoline on a grease fire. :lol:
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			I am sort of quietly giggling at the "no new raid content" crowd. I mean, seriously, how many of those people have actually done a full-clear on the raids we have now? I guess that doesn't matter. What matters is, a year for now when they DO beat it, they'll have another tier waiting on them ... and then they can start the process of asking for even MORE raids they haven't beaten.	
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I am sort of quietly giggling at the "no new raid content" crowd. I mean, seriously, how many of those people have actually done a full-clear on the raids we have now? I guess that doesn't matter. What matters is, a year for now when they DO beat it, they'll have another tier waiting on them ... and then they can start the process of asking for even MORE raids they haven't beaten.
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Well, I *could* ... but my work week consists of several projects every week. The one I finished today usually takes me all day Wednesday, but because of the Christmas days off, I still have to finish all my other work before I leave tomorrow afternoon.
 
That, plus working last Sunday, is the price I pay for a four-day weekend.
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Had a good week of raiding last week and we downed Maelstrom Authority and Fire/Earth pair to jump to 6/9.
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Good morning/afternoon all, 
 
I haven't really done much more of the winterfest event but it is more than likely going to change as I never realized that you could actually get a pet from it. Being a collectaholic it means I need to dive back in and try my luck to see if I can get it to drop.  
 
So far I have been working on alts and then realizing I never had a Medic alt so I created one trying my hardest not to have his first name start with Doc or Doctor.  I also discovered when doing the starter area that you could create your own little snowman army I had posted a pic in the bug thread I created but im hoping this is not a bug and/or as such doesn't get fixed. Here it is again below
 
 
Overall im still having fun in the game and I dont know how much time I will have to play over the festive break as it will be spent with family. So before I forget and incase I don't get a chance to say it later I hope you all have a fantastic time over Christmas and New Year as I plan having a drunk Christmas and an even drunker New Year and then realize im not 21 anymore and suffer for a good few days afterwards.  	
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Good morning/afternoon all, 
 
I haven't really done much more of the winterfest event but it is more than likely going to change as I never realized that you could actually get a pet from it. Being a collectaholic it means I need to dive back in and try my luck to see if I can get it to drop.  
 
So far I have been working on alts and then realizing I never had a Medic alt so I created one trying my hardest not to have his first name start with Doc or Doctor.  I also discovered when doing the starter area that you could create your own little snowman army I had posted a pic in the bug thread I created but im hoping this is not a bug and/or as such doesn't get fixed. Here it is again below
 
 
Overall im still having fun in the game and I dont know how much time I will have to play over the festive break as it will be spent with family. So before I forget and incase I don't get a chance to say it later I hope you all have a fantastic time over Christmas and New Year as I plan having a drunk Christmas and an even drunker New Year and then realize im not 21 anymore and suffer for a good few days afterwards.  
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HOW DARE THEY CALL THAT "SNOW"!!!!!!
 
SNOW IS WHITE! PURE WHITE. "WHITE AS SNOW" ... GG CRABINE, Y U NO READ MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY?!!??
 
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HOW DARE THEY CALL THAT "SNOW"!!!!!!
 
SNOW IS WHITE! PURE WHITE. "WHITE AS SNOW" ... GG CRABINE, Y U NO READ MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY?!!??
 
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Hey I think that snow is a blue and not white....oh wait wrong thread  Kappa
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Hey I think that snow is a blue and not white....oh wait wrong thread  Kappa
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			After the flairs and the decor, I just do dallies excluding the carols and instance. I got what I needed so now I can go slow and enjoy the gameplay (like I always have).	
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If pets actually DID SOMETHING (other than cost time and money), then I might try and collect more of them.
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After the flairs and the decor, I just do dallies excluding the carols and instance. I got what I needed so now I can go slow and enjoy the gameplay (like I always have).
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I would love for the pets in this game to actually do something. In Aion you got some pets that could be used for extra storage or some that auto looted for you or others that provided a buff and it would be nice to have something similar in Wildstar. 
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			I bought all my costume and whatever stuff, and now I'm sad because there's... nothing else to spend my hundreds of cold cash on. ;_; Why didn't they put the plants and rocks on the event vendor?? That's what I really want...	
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I bought all my costume and whatever stuff, and now I'm sad because there's... nothing else to spend my hundreds of cold cash on. ;_; Why didn't they put the plants and rocks on the event vendor?? That's what I really want...
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Ugh the christmas rush is already beginning for me at the moment! Today I went xmas grocery shopping, which for a person with extreme anxiety was absolutely horrifyingly bad. I must have rammed my shopping kart into about 20 people out of pure frustration. Also, with my son being home all day instead of school, we've been spending lots of quality time together, we were making presents today for my family and watching cheesy christmas films. Tomorrow we shall make mince pies and eat way too  much food and also finally put the christmas tree up. I normally handmake decorations but this year I've been so poorly I haven't had time.
 
Lots of drawing to do tonight, university work never gives me a break.
 
As for in-game, I haven't logged on :( I just haven't had the motivation to with bot infested bgs... 	
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			Idk, I think the medic animations, if they were holding boxed gifts, would just look like they're handing gifts to the enemy very violently, which is hilarious. 	
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Xmas themed WEAPON SKINS! Xmas tree shaped sword, icicle claws, candy canes for pistols, snowflake for psyblade, wrapped gift box resos, and chimney stack engi gun. If they all had a little snowflake particle effect I would have gladly spent some money on those.
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Yup. Same here. I'll probably run the instance a few more times just to get the flair, but really, that's fairly unimportant to me since I am almost always driving a hoverboard.
 
Probably just buy up a crap-ton of the better decor. I was really inspired to build a toy shoppe on one of my plots - and there is just so much good stuff this season to use.
 
Now that I know there is a Present-Bot pet, I *might* be tempted to bust out some Gold runs, but that's another "meh" kind of thing. If pets actually DID SOMETHING (other than cost time and money), then I might try and collect more of them.
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Oh btw carbine, if you guys read this. I think we can all agree that we would love to see weapon particle effects in the nstore. Whether they're bound to promotional items or we can buy the effects and apply them permanently to a weapon, myself and others would undoubtedly jump for joy. How sweet would a mongoose style weapon effect look on your weapon? 
 
Cause in general, winter fest and the slippers didn't impress.	
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