It helps to put the casters on that ledge (if you mean the wall with the spears) because when the Bloodlord charges them, they can jump down off the ledge and then the Bloodlord paths around to them and can be picked back up by the main tank.
They did nerf the paladin bubble- if you are bubbled you get a one minute debuff, similar to Weakened Soul, that prevents you from being bubbled during the duration. So yes, they can still bubble, but they can no longer use the self-bubble and then immediately the Blessing of Protection for two bubbles in a row.
That may not be enough (one bubble still lasts 10 seconds, which is an eternity in PvP) but it was a nerf.
This lie gets repeated so often it astonishes me. It was a huge series of reports on the danger of not just terrorism but Al Qaeda, from the Clinton administration, that the Bush admin decided to ignore completely until 9/11. The Clinton administration was significantly more interested in and worried about terrorism than this one until we were attacked.
Also, Whitewater? We spent how many millions on a presecutor to discover that there were no prosecutable crimes involved in a deal that lost them money? It must have been a terrible, terrible thing.
There are plenty of things to dislike about the Clinton administration without making things up.
EQ didn't set the standard- UO did. UO was $9.95, and EQ didn't think they would pull enough people away if they were any more expensive, so they too were $9.95. That was the baseline price until a few years ago, and now they all mostly hover around $15.
But on the other hand, they tried to battle it out using the force (I loved Yoda's block the lightning too) and the were basically evenly matched.
No, they didn't. Not really. Telekinesis! Deflect! Telekinesis! Deflect! I was really stoked when I heard they were going to have a force battle because I hoped it would rock- lots of subtle effects, a heat haze of power expanding around them as they stared at each other unmoving as wind picked up, something... instead we got "well, that didn't work, so I'll throw THIS at you!"
*sigh*
I would have prefered never see Yoda use a saber, but I did enjoy the fight. I hope we never see Palpatine lower himself to that point, though, he's much cooler in my opinion as a consummate manipulator.
Actually, as I recall, the ringbearers do not actually make it all the way to Aman, but go to Eressea, which is an island in view of Aman, from which there is also no return. Only elves and maiar/valar go to Aman itself.
The ringbearers (Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam) remain mortal but are allowed to go to Eressea. (And Gimli may have travelled there as well, and what reception he found with the Valar no tale speaks of.)
One possibility (as put forth here: What is Tom Bombadil? ) is that Tom Bombadil was the spirit of Middle Earth. Note that there are Nature spirits- Goldberry is basically a river spirit. She stays near her river and that's all well and good. Tom, then, is the Nature spirit of all of middle earth. Thus was he first- he awake when the world was made, before the Ainur entered into it, before any of the Firstborn awoke.
It's as compelling as any other theory- I don't think he fits as a Maia, and too frivolous to be Eru.
I went to the nominate a robot page immediately after hearing about this to nominate Daneel- how could they have a robot hall of fame and not include something from Asimov?
Of course, I had the bad form problem on their site, but I'll get that submission in eventually.
Shelob is a sticky point- she's descended from Ungoliant, who isn't of any of the above categories.
As for Bombodil, if he's Maia gone native he's either a liar or was the first of the Maiar to enter Middle Earth- he says he was first. My favorite theory is that he, like Goldberry, is a nature spirit, but while she's a spirit of that river, he's the spirit of all of middle earth... See Essays on Tolkien Topics for that theory.:)
But, in the books we see the Eye take a more active role- when Frodo puts on the ring to escape Boromir, the eye is actively searching for him, trying to find him, and he removes the ring just in time.
According to an interview he had on the Well (inkwell.vue conference, readable via well.com), Whuffie was something from high school, and to his chagrin he's pretty sure it comes from Arsenio Hall's "Woof woof woof!" noises.
Have to agree. Redemption was, on top of everything else, possibly the single worst treatment of something like time travel I have ever read. I enjoy Belgariad/Mallorean well enough, and while I applaud his attempt in the Elenium and Tamuli to make a world where not _everything_ was black and white, as it pretty much was in the Belgariad, I do wish he had managed to find a new plot to put in that world instead of recycling the one he'd already done twice... two more times.
I'll add to the Neil Gaiman list- while Sandman would be my top recommendation, his books are also good. Stardust is superb (try to get the graphic novel version), Smoke and Mirrors is great, and American Gods and Neverwhere are also very good.
Only one in San Francisco/Oakland that I know of...
Which one? I tend to go to the one behind the Emery Bay Public Markey, in Emeryville. Also there's a bar on Shattuck in Berkeley that has Attack From Mars and a few other pinball tables.
I've always just assumed that in the Star Wars universe, space is not a vacuum. This explains a number of things at once:
Sound in space. Spaceships that bank when they turn. Han and Leia leaving the Falcon while it was in the asteroid without decompressing, and winged creatures in the asteroid. (Yes, they were in a worm. But note that Han didn't think any of this was UNUSUAL.) Open doors to docking bays that ships enter (like the one that the Falcon entered on the Death Star. Yeah, they probably actually use some kind of force shield.)
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It helps to put the casters on that ledge (if you mean the wall with the spears) because when the Bloodlord charges them, they can jump down off the ledge and then the Bloodlord paths around to them and can be picked back up by the main tank.
They did nerf the paladin bubble- if you are bubbled you get a one minute debuff, similar to Weakened Soul, that prevents you from being bubbled during the duration. So yes, they can still bubble, but they can no longer use the self-bubble and then immediately the Blessing of Protection for two bubbles in a row.
That may not be enough (one bubble still lasts 10 seconds, which is an eternity in PvP) but it was a nerf.
The lightsaber he gave Luke wasn't his father's (where did Obi-Wan get it)
Obi-Wan force-grabbed Anakin's lightsaber just before leaving him on the shore of the lava river.
I'd bet if you asked random people on the street in the US, at least half of them would believe that Shakespeare is copyrighted.
Well, 3PO spends several points not so much 'intact', though he at the end he has survived and is intact, so that seems like a fine distinction.
They removed the "Oh Shit" from the VHS and got it rated G, and then put it back on the DVD, as its own chapter.
the Clintons had ended terrorism (by ignoring it)
This lie gets repeated so often it astonishes me. It was a huge series of reports on the danger of not just terrorism but Al Qaeda, from the Clinton administration, that the Bush admin decided to ignore completely until 9/11. The Clinton administration was significantly more interested in and worried about terrorism than this one until we were attacked.
Also, Whitewater? We spent how many millions on a presecutor to discover that there were no prosecutable crimes involved in a deal that lost them money? It must have been a terrible, terrible thing.
There are plenty of things to dislike about the Clinton administration without making things up.
EQ didn't set the standard- UO did. UO was $9.95, and EQ didn't think they would pull enough people away if they were any more expensive, so they too were $9.95. That was the baseline price until a few years ago, and now they all mostly hover around $15.
Heh. I had to look up which of the high schools he went to to see if I had any reason to have known him. Also from Meriden. (He went to Platt, right?)
But on the other hand, they tried to battle it out using the force (I loved Yoda's block the lightning too) and the were basically evenly matched.
No, they didn't. Not really. Telekinesis! Deflect! Telekinesis! Deflect! I was really stoked when I heard they were going to have a force battle because I hoped it would rock- lots of subtle effects, a heat haze of power expanding around them as they stared at each other unmoving as wind picked up, something... instead we got "well, that didn't work, so I'll throw THIS at you!"
*sigh*
I would have prefered never see Yoda use a saber, but I did enjoy the fight. I hope we never see Palpatine lower himself to that point, though, he's much cooler in my opinion as a consummate manipulator.
Do you mean the Scouring of the Shire? That was never filmed and will not be in the extended edition.
Actually, as I recall, the ringbearers do not actually make it all the way to Aman, but go to Eressea, which is an island in view of Aman, from which there is also no return. Only elves and maiar/valar go to Aman itself.
The ringbearers (Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam) remain mortal but are allowed to go to Eressea. (And Gimli may have travelled there as well, and what reception he found with the Valar no tale speaks of.)
Yes, they do. I doubt it's all searches (even excluding the porn searches), but it is very entertaining watching the searches scroll by.
One possibility (as put forth here: What is Tom Bombadil? ) is that Tom Bombadil was the spirit of Middle Earth. Note that there are Nature spirits- Goldberry is basically a river spirit. She stays near her river and that's all well and good.
Tom, then, is the Nature spirit of all of middle earth. Thus was he first- he awake when the world was made, before the Ainur entered into it, before any of the Firstborn awoke.
It's as compelling as any other theory- I don't think he fits as a Maia, and too frivolous to be Eru.
Yes!
I went to the nominate a robot page immediately after hearing about this to nominate Daneel- how could they have a robot hall of fame and not include something from Asimov?
Of course, I had the bad form problem on their site, but I'll get that submission in eventually.
Shelob is a sticky point- she's descended from Ungoliant, who isn't of any of the above categories.
:)
As for Bombodil, if he's Maia gone native he's either a liar or was the first of the Maiar to enter Middle Earth- he says he was first. My favorite theory is that he, like Goldberry, is a nature spirit, but while she's a spirit of that river, he's the spirit of all of middle earth...
See Essays on Tolkien Topics for that theory.
But, in the books we see the Eye take a more active role- when Frodo puts on the ring to escape Boromir, the eye is actively searching for him, trying to find him, and he removes the ring just in time.
According to an interview he had on the Well (inkwell.vue conference, readable via well.com), Whuffie was something from high school, and to his chagrin he's pretty sure it comes from Arsenio Hall's "Woof woof woof!" noises.
Have to agree. Redemption was, on top of everything else, possibly the single worst treatment of something like time travel I have ever read. I enjoy Belgariad/Mallorean well enough, and while I applaud his attempt in the Elenium and Tamuli to make a world where not _everything_ was black and white, as it pretty much was in the Belgariad, I do wish he had managed to find a new plot to put in that world instead of recycling the one he'd already done twice... two more times.
I'll add to the Neil Gaiman list- while Sandman would be my top recommendation, his books are also good. Stardust is superb (try to get the graphic novel version), Smoke and Mirrors is great, and American Gods and Neverwhere are also very good.
Which didn't stop them from using the sphere, tetrahedron, and cube as the Guardian's means of conquering Britannia in Ultima VII. :>
Impossible Mission.
I never managed to win it either, though I still have it for the Commodore.
Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion were incredible books.
Unfortunately... the Endymion pair didn't live up to the standard, in my opinion. Worth a read, still good books, just not nearly as good.
Only one in San Francisco/Oakland that I know of...
Which one? I tend to go to the one behind the Emery Bay Public Markey, in Emeryville. Also there's a bar on Shattuck in Berkeley that has Attack From Mars and a few other pinball tables.
I've always just assumed that in the Star Wars universe, space is not a vacuum. This explains a number of things at once:
Sound in space.
Spaceships that bank when they turn.
Han and Leia leaving the Falcon while it was in the asteroid without decompressing, and winged creatures in the asteroid. (Yes, they were in a worm. But note that Han didn't think any of this was UNUSUAL.)
Open doors to docking bays that ships enter (like the one that the Falcon entered on the Death Star. Yeah, they probably actually use some kind of force shield.)