I dunno about shift, but assuming you mean "Ctrl" since I use a real keyboard... Ctrl+1 tells Wang, my pet nightsabre, to attack. And Ctrl+2 tells him to follow me.
Sadly my gf won't let me use my other pet, which is a giant crab, because I named it Head.
Want to fill up your tank send the kids in the back yard to dig up taters, peel them, and then chop them up. Pour in a cup of enzemes, add the potatoes, and the water. Wait for twenty minutes for the stew to get up to temperature. Now go for a drive. When you get back, you can then refill your car with your own potatoes in a mere six months! Wow!
Taters take a while to grow, and after all the effort of digging them up I believe they are best used cut into chips and deep fried.:P
I can't really see how Apple can claim some sort of copyright over silhouettes. I mean - the original iPod adds seemed very.... reminiscent of the James Bond opening credits sequences from the 70s. Isn't that Apple's approach to all of their 'revolutionary' stylistic stuff? "We stole it first. You can't have it!"
More info, please? I can't get the WoW forums at work.:P
The reason the playerbase hated Tseric wasn't that they were unwashed 13-year-old n00bs. It was that Tseric approached his CM position as if it made him High Priest of WoW. You can get away with acting superior, condescending, and in general derisive towards your customer base if and only if you are always, infallibly, right. You can't get away with it if you then go to post things that are not only incorrect, but that display your complete and utter lack of comprehension of some of the game's basic mechanics. For instance, the declaration that spellcaster gear was properly itemised because "mana = dps", when then-endgame geared dps spellcasters didn't scale appreciably. The claim that the warrior talent Enrage (a damage buff procced on receiving a crit) was nerfed because "warriors were popping enrage every time the cooldown was up".
If he'd posted as a messenger from the devs, he'd have been excused. Caydiem, for example, passed on outright furfies from the devs plenty of times and was still loved by the community. As it is, when you tell someone that they're an idiot, and in the same breath prove that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about, it will slaughter the community's opinion of you. That's why the forums ate him alive.
Not really on topic but why do you take that crap? Just say "I'm not interested" and hang up. The only reasons I can think of that you'd not do so are either (a) you want to get back with her (in which case she doesn't sound worth it, she's treating you as her cuddle bitch), or (b) you're "still friends" (which probably actually means (a), since if she was really your friend then she wouldn't do that to you, but at least you're admitting you won't get back together.) Or, I guess, (c) is that you don't care either way about her now, but in that case why pretend to listen?:P
On topic now, I always found grinding in WoW to be fun, I'd log my warrior and head to the Noxious Glade to beat crap out of random things. Not for any particular reason even, it's just something I did when I wanted to tune out for a bit. When it comes down to it, beating crap outta things (or setting fire to them, freezing them, sucking their souls out, maybe healing friendly things, whatever lights your fuse) is what you do 90% of the time. If it's not something you enjoy, why play?
Crack ghouls (dual aura ghouls) was good for a while. That was hardly a swarm though, I think the most you usually ended up with was about 20 ghouls. Nothing like the 300 zerglings you could get going if you were patient in SC. ^^
Afterthought - Valkyries are the counter for mass mutes, not cruisers. They're a low damage AoE unit with high armour. Hell, wraiths would do better vs cruisers than Valkyries (especially if there were no probes around... >:)
The counter to mass carriers is stimmed marines with medics. The marines do damage fast enough to take down the carrier drones before they return to the ships and regenerate, and the drones (which afaik are locked onto a single target per flight) can't effectively kill the marines fast enough.
There's an awesome, awesome Boxer replay where a good 6-7 carriers are flying around demolishing his base while his troops take out most of the protoss' key structures, at which point his group of like 15 marines take down the carriers.
"In the news tonight: The Mars rover Lolurpwnt has discovered the remains of internet cafes, complete with mummified Martian gamers, in a subterranean cavern near Mount Olympus. It appears that they were waiting for the release of Duke Nukem Forever."
unless you're asserting that the sky drones should be performing abortions You're ignoring the strong negative correlation between sky drones and the number of pirates... OMG! SKY DRONES CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING!
If you want it, buy it. If you can't afford it, you can't have it. Couldn't have said it better myself. The same goes for music downloaders - "I couldn't afford to buy a 500-cd music library so I downloaded it." BS. If you don't want to pay for goods, then you go without those goods. Don't use the "well I couldn't afford it" as justification for downloading it.
You've never been hungry, have you? Like, really hungry, not just I-missed-lunch peckish?
Regardless, generally, unless a kid has genuine mental problems, a firm-but-fair approach works. A child is like any other half-wild animal; establish authority in a non-threatening way and from there it's smooth sailing. In fact with kids it's even easier - you can talk to them, and they're a helluva lot smarter than a dog.
Actually, TBH, that may have something to do with it. My personal experience is that most girls don't like fast cars. They actually like slow, noisy cars that look fancy. They just *think* they like fast cars until they get in one and fatuously answer "sure, go ahead" when asked "do you mind if I push it a little?" Ricers have the right idea - all the extra junk limits performance to the point where their terminally blonde passengers won't get scared if they floor it.
Thank god my gf's different... when she gets stressed she asks me to take her out drifting to blow off steam.:D
Ahhh... since if they implanted it into the left, the action could be seen as sinister. Obviously, however, such an implant in the right hand would be a dexterous business move.
Ah, but if you're being 'fair' like that, you have to reduce the human to a LOT less neurons than the billions we have. I do like the mass/power limitations, though - submarines may or may not swim and all that, you know, but they can still be compared with fish in terms of efficiency. Maybe require all future chess champions to be able to run off tacos?
Modern electric drives are highly (90%+) efficient over a wide range of speeds, whereas Otto-cycle ICEs are terrible at low throttle and most efficient at high throttle. Your friend's solar cars would be showing that power required to move drops by a large amount when you go from 55mph down to 50mph. On the other hand, the GGP with the 240SX is merely demonstrating that the overall efficiency of the system is higher at 80mph with his particular car. This is most likely due to the fact that, like most sports cars, the 240SX is designed for acceleration and so is overpowered with regards to its required power for constant-speed driving. I've observed a similar effect with my car (1989 Toyota Supra). Maximum mileage seems to occur around 130-140km/h, which is simply because the engine is running at higher enough efficiency at that speed to counteract the extra aerodynamic drag. This effect will obviously be more pronounced with more aerodynamic ICE cars, since a small power increase will result in a larger speed increase.
Also, people who talk about taking off slowly are wrong. Accelerate firmly, at about 3/4 throttle (but keeping revs low, I stick to about 2000-3000rpm unless I need more acceleration to change lanes etc). It takes the same amount of energy to get to the limit regardless of how fast you accelerate, and your engine is most efficient at about 3/4 throttle. Once you hit the speed limit, of course, the rest of common-sense 'efficent driving' is correct. Coasting to traffic lights, trying to maintain momentum around corners, braking gently.
Of course, there's the odd time when one simply must ask oneself if it's worth the 50c worth of fuel it'd take to wipe the smirk off the face of the guy next to you in his riced up lancer. And put that way the answer's always 'yes'.:)
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I dunno about shift, but assuming you mean "Ctrl" since I use a real keyboard... Ctrl+1 tells Wang, my pet nightsabre, to attack. And Ctrl+2 tells him to follow me.
Sadly my gf won't let me use my other pet, which is a giant crab, because I named it Head.
Give him a enough millions of years, and sure, no problem.
Taters take a while to grow, and after all the effort of digging them up I believe they are best used cut into chips and deep fried.
More info, please? I can't get the WoW forums at work. :P
The reason the playerbase hated Tseric wasn't that they were unwashed 13-year-old n00bs. It was that Tseric approached his CM position as if it made him High Priest of WoW. You can get away with acting superior, condescending, and in general derisive towards your customer base if and only if you are always, infallibly, right. You can't get away with it if you then go to post things that are not only incorrect, but that display your complete and utter lack of comprehension of some of the game's basic mechanics. For instance, the declaration that spellcaster gear was properly itemised because "mana = dps", when then-endgame geared dps spellcasters didn't scale appreciably. The claim that the warrior talent Enrage (a damage buff procced on receiving a crit) was nerfed because "warriors were popping enrage every time the cooldown was up".
If he'd posted as a messenger from the devs, he'd have been excused. Caydiem, for example, passed on outright furfies from the devs plenty of times and was still loved by the community. As it is, when you tell someone that they're an idiot, and in the same breath prove that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about, it will slaughter the community's opinion of you. That's why the forums ate him alive.
"your house lies in rubles"? They were in the pay of the Kremlin? O_o
Not really on topic but why do you take that crap? Just say "I'm not interested" and hang up. The only reasons I can think of that you'd not do so are either (a) you want to get back with her (in which case she doesn't sound worth it, she's treating you as her cuddle bitch), or (b) you're "still friends" (which probably actually means (a), since if she was really your friend then she wouldn't do that to you, but at least you're admitting you won't get back together.) Or, I guess, (c) is that you don't care either way about her now, but in that case why pretend to listen? :P
On topic now, I always found grinding in WoW to be fun, I'd log my warrior and head to the Noxious Glade to beat crap out of random things. Not for any particular reason even, it's just something I did when I wanted to tune out for a bit. When it comes down to it, beating crap outta things (or setting fire to them, freezing them, sucking their souls out, maybe healing friendly things, whatever lights your fuse) is what you do 90% of the time. If it's not something you enjoy, why play?
Crack ghouls (dual aura ghouls) was good for a while. That was hardly a swarm though, I think the most you usually ended up with was about 20 ghouls. Nothing like the 300 zerglings you could get going if you were patient in SC. ^^
Afterthought - Valkyries are the counter for mass mutes, not cruisers. They're a low damage AoE unit with high armour. Hell, wraiths would do better vs cruisers than Valkyries (especially if there were no probes around... >:)
The counter to mass carriers is stimmed marines with medics. The marines do damage fast enough to take down the carrier drones before they return to the ships and regenerate, and the drones (which afaik are locked onto a single target per flight) can't effectively kill the marines fast enough.
There's an awesome, awesome Boxer replay where a good 6-7 carriers are flying around demolishing his base while his troops take out most of the protoss' key structures, at which point his group of like 15 marines take down the carriers.
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7-s-z 8-s-z 9-s-z draaaag ctrl+1 click draaaag ctrl+2 click draaaag ctrl+3 click draaaag ctrl+4 click
1-a-click 2-a-click 3-a-click 4-a-click enter FOR THE SWARMMMM!!!~!~~!
Good day, I'm looking for a friend! She is escorted by two Grobo-Clones.
"In the news tonight: The Mars rover Lolurpwnt has discovered the remains of internet cafes, complete with mummified Martian gamers, in a subterranean cavern near Mount Olympus. It appears that they were waiting for the release of Duke Nukem Forever."
And conversely, Mars will soon be our primary source of melange. ;)
Speed run is shaving 10 minutes off your commute by disregarding speed limits. ;)
You've never been hungry, have you? Like, really hungry, not just I-missed-lunch peckish?
Regardless, generally, unless a kid has genuine mental problems, a firm-but-fair approach works. A child is like any other half-wild animal; establish authority in a non-threatening way and from there it's smooth sailing. In fact with kids it's even easier - you can talk to them, and they're a helluva lot smarter than a dog.
These frictionless ground-contact-points that neither propel, steer, or brake... they are not wheels.
Actually, TBH, that may have something to do with it. My personal experience is that most girls don't like fast cars. They actually like slow, noisy cars that look fancy. They just *think* they like fast cars until they get in one and fatuously answer "sure, go ahead" when asked "do you mind if I push it a little?" Ricers have the right idea - all the extra junk limits performance to the point where their terminally blonde passengers won't get scared if they floor it.
:D
Thank god my gf's different... when she gets stressed she asks me to take her out drifting to blow off steam.
It is, in fact, a tragedy.
Ah, but if you're being 'fair' like that, you have to reduce the human to a LOT less neurons than the billions we have. I do like the mass/power limitations, though - submarines may or may not swim and all that, you know, but they can still be compared with fish in terms of efficiency. Maybe require all future chess champions to be able to run off tacos?
Modern electric drives are highly (90%+) efficient over a wide range of speeds, whereas Otto-cycle ICEs are terrible at low throttle and most efficient at high throttle. Your friend's solar cars would be showing that power required to move drops by a large amount when you go from 55mph down to 50mph. On the other hand, the GGP with the 240SX is merely demonstrating that the overall efficiency of the system is higher at 80mph with his particular car. This is most likely due to the fact that, like most sports cars, the 240SX is designed for acceleration and so is overpowered with regards to its required power for constant-speed driving. I've observed a similar effect with my car (1989 Toyota Supra). Maximum mileage seems to occur around 130-140km/h, which is simply because the engine is running at higher enough efficiency at that speed to counteract the extra aerodynamic drag. This effect will obviously be more pronounced with more aerodynamic ICE cars, since a small power increase will result in a larger speed increase.
:)
Also, people who talk about taking off slowly are wrong. Accelerate firmly, at about 3/4 throttle (but keeping revs low, I stick to about 2000-3000rpm unless I need more acceleration to change lanes etc). It takes the same amount of energy to get to the limit regardless of how fast you accelerate, and your engine is most efficient at about 3/4 throttle. Once you hit the speed limit, of course, the rest of common-sense 'efficent driving' is correct. Coasting to traffic lights, trying to maintain momentum around corners, braking gently.
Of course, there's the odd time when one simply must ask oneself if it's worth the 50c worth of fuel it'd take to wipe the smirk off the face of the guy next to you in his riced up lancer. And put that way the answer's always 'yes'.