Yes, but since everybody expecty syrup just to stick around nobody really thinks that those trucks are actually nicking syrup. Somebody is bound to have the paperwork so no need to be nosy. Diamonds, yes. Syrup? How do you fence stuff like that? It leaves quite a bit of a trail if the barrels leak. Also ants could be a problem.
Diamonds! That's where it's at!
Luckily for Runic the rest of the world feels a need for this game.
I don't see a need for Borderlands 2 but I don't run around with a sock stuffed down my pants and advertise that as a universally accepted fact.
I'm sorry if I have melted you, you beautiful and delicious and adorable and absolutely fabulous unique snowflake. Still love ya.
D3 is not D2 and won't be saved from ruin until the dev team learns a couple of fundamental things they could have learned from D2 which at release was also a completely different game from what it became the following 5 years.
1) An ARPG lives and dies by its pace and responsiveness. Having to skip cut-scenes, the sheer amount of crowd control the player character is subjected to and the slow movement speed is a complete antithesis of what an ARPG is supposed to be.
2) Even tho the original D2 devs also hated it the most popular feature of patch 1.10 of D2 was the inclusion of cross-class skills. The player loved it, the devs hated it. The D3 team permanently shut that door by including a non-mana based resource system. They can not pull this off without doing a major revamp of the game.
3) The sheer amount of handholding that's going on in D3 boggles the mind. D2 and torchlight limit you by level and stat points in what loot you can wear. D3 limits you by class. Want to play a DH with a fat 2hander for whatever inane reason you can come up with? Sorry, you can't. Want to play a completely dex based barbarian with a crossbow? Nope. 'Do as thou wilt' was replaced with 'because we say so'. You want to be a melee WD? Well, only the classic melee characters get a flat 30% melee incoming damage reduction.
4) Their reliance on a completely gold based economy is stupid. Nobody ever managed to pull off an interesting gold based economy. Either it works somewhat(as D3's does) and is completely boring or it doesn't and becomes a nuisance. This may sound like a weak point but what the gold based, AH centric economy does is it doesn't encourage bartering and trading. This was a major community builder. There were a LOT of successful websites/forums that started out as barter towns, grew into real communities and kept D2 going way beyond its due-date. D3 is an anonymous hodge-podge.
5) Character progression is non-existant in D3 or beyond frustrating. It is not unreasonable to expect to be able to finish the game on inferno difficulty with only what you picked up yourself within 100 in-game hours. That should be the yard-stick. The goal of the grind-fest should be mindles mass murder of unsuspecting demons to blow off steam or to gather loot to be even more efficient in said mass murder or to gear up twinks with a silly character concept. But at no point should you feel slow and gimped. Inferno mode is completely inaccessible.
6) At release and at the moment the game screams 'we haven't thought this through'. The 30% flat incoming damage reduction of monks and barbs say 'we haven't tuned the game properly'. The auction house ui with only 3 filters for 6 possible properties on rares made the AH next to unusable. Increased incoming damage in multi player games in an already overtuned game made grouping unattractive. The crafting system made you broke if you weren't very, very clever using it. The very rare legendaries were completely unviable on inferno mode(especially the weapons). The damage scaling in inferno is completely off. They advertised the game for PvP(god knows why) and they still haven't delivered.
7) Tying real money to gear limits what they can do to improve the game. Once real money has changed hands for loot you can't reasonably nerf or buff stuff that has been sold without getting yourself in real hot water. And I sincerely doubt their RMAH cut is enough to cover the financial, legal and PR headache that follows.
I'm sorry, but the team that made D3 didn't take a look at what made D2 the game of the decade and only added supreficial improvements. If they don't learn that their approach to D3 was completely off then they will not be able to salvage it whatsoever. The whole game feels like the core mechanics were designed by the Blizzard B-Team. Art and music is wonderful, tho. But at the moment it is a polished turd.
Tin cans? You know that beer in tin cans is effectively dead? The canning process involves more heat than beer is supposed to survive. Don't do that. Pasteurization is bad for beer.
In fact if you drink tin-canned beer in Germany people will immediately consider you base, low-brow, uneducated, unemployed, desitute and possibly of dubious body hygiene. Unless of course you are a punk. In which case tin-cans are absolutely acceptable.
Wow, sending somebody to Kloster Andechs and telling them to get a doppelbock without preparing them for what is going to happen is considered manslaughter in some states.
That's the beer monchs drank during the fasting season to keep them nourished. And it will make you very drunk if you drink it like anything you are used to.
If you think the American, Australian and UKian tourists that get piled up in multiple layers around the Bavaria statue during Oktoberfest season are a bit disturbing then look at what happens to them at Andechs. It is a monastery so they were closer to their maker to begin with. So that's only fair, I suppose.
I prefer Schneiderweisse.
You should take the time to explain Bock. I've never seen it outside of Germany and it is a fascinating beer. It's very thick and it feels quite nourishing while getting you very, very drunk. If the name of the beer ends on -or you'd better know what you are getting yourself into.
That was over the course of 12 hours and being a bachelor I only had a cold pizza the day before. We played football and I read a complete Terry Pratchett book. Funny thing is I felt definitely tipsy but not drunk.
If you want to go to the Oktoberfest, go around 11am. On a weekday. That's when the locals go. It starts dumbing down(even more) in the afternoon and you might be puked on in the evening.
Also if you have to go there on a weekend don't go on the middle weekend. This is when the European tourists turn up. They sleep in their cars and won't have had a shower for a couple of days. Hotel prices become silly in that season so this isn't as surprising as it sounds.
If you like the idea of the Oktoberfest, visit Munich in July(preferably a sunny one) and find one of the thousands of beer gardens and go there. You might even want to go skinny dipping at the Flaucher which I wouldn't recommend near the end of September.
You do not want to get drunk on whiskey. The stuff that gives it its flavour is also that wich will make you feel hungover.
And you might look like a complete arse if you simply quaffed it.
They've been constantly raising the prices and this has been subject of endless arguments. Remember: there were beer riots over the beer prices in Bavaria not too long ago. Now the riots still happen in form of angry letters to the yellow press. And politicians who are up for reelection greedily scoop the issue up.
The current price is around 9 Euro 50 cents. Plus deposit for the mug.
I'm sure you can. I never saw it since because why would I look for it? There was a beer retailer in my block and they sold Augustiner. There. Job done. Splendid.
I think Budvar can't be called Budweiser since the Budweiser trademark is older. This dispute has been going on for ages and won't be settled anytime soon.
In the meantime Annheuser-Busch has diluted the trademark so much one could argue that it isn't a badge of quality anymore.
Mass produced beer has become increasingly bad all around the world. But also the beer culture has gone downhill. That is why people still buy bad beer. I haven't seen the chart of the top 10 most sold beers of the world but I wil hazard a guess I wouldn't drink it.
Let me explain how a beer garden in Germany(Munich area) works:
You go there on a sunny afternoon. Next to the place were they actually sell the beer you will find shelves of mugs. The 1 liter variety. You take a mug and go to a big basin filled with clear water were you rinse the mug. There will also be little brushes. Use them.
With your mug you go to the end of the queue. When it is your turn, tell them what you want. Don't be fancy, they only have two barrels. Say "Ein Helles, bitte". Pay in cash. No plastic. Don't rely on them having change. Find a nice bench under a chestnut tree and enjoy your beer.
And have a nice lunch.
You have brought lunch, have you?
If you go to a beer garden they only expect you to buy the beer there. You can bring your own food. Otherwise you might find everything to be a bit expensive.
Everything is trees and wood and wasps and rabbits frolicking on the green. There might even be fucking butterflies and flowers and shit.
Me and a couple of mates once went to the Hirschgarten on a Sunday morning and went home when they closed it. I drank 9 liters of beer, ate 2 chickens, a couple of those giant pretzels with a cartload of Obatzta(a Bavarian cheese specialty) and a Steckerlfisch(a mackerel). All in all I spent 200 Euros on food over the course of 12 hours and felt like I got my money's worth. Best Sunday ever. YMMV.
For absolute awesomeness you will have to go to Munich around nowish and steal a beer mug(or a dozen) in the Armbrustschuetzenzelt. Fill it up with Bud Light and tell your guests how once upon a time one of the best beers known to man had been contained in that mug and now it is filled with goat piss.
You might be hit by a meteor shower and a couple of gas giants for this heinous act. God allegedly hates blasphemy.
Words fail me. There's been an awful lot of market consolidation going on in the past few decades. German beer has also gone downhill. You need to be aware of regional breweries or drink the horse pis that's advertised on TV.
People of the Munich area will be able to tell you what the best beer ever is. Hands down. No contest. Won't advertise. Won't expand. Won't export.
Yes, well, that's why I called for a couple of philosophers.
I'm afraid I'm quite unsuitable for such musings since I completely forgot how it felt before I existed. I supose life before conception was dull.But decomposition could be a profound experience.At least you'll not be alone since there are a multitude of helpers of the grave.Perhaps some sort of flute would be in order for the more unruly worms that are bound to show up like trolls in a B-list blog's comment section. Sounds like a marvellous opportunity to quit smoking.
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years? There is only one person in all of human history that will be remembered as the first person to step foot on another world. Even to this day it's likely the greatest accomplishment of us as a species let alone as a nation.
I'm sure you'll get quite a lot of names in your little fishing expedition. And that is a good thing! We've achieved so much in the last 500 years or so(and quite a lot less in the thousand years before that). There are many great names and achievements to name and there will be a lot more further still.
So this might be a flamewar that actually warms my heart:)
But I'm not so sure I'd list Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan. The notion of "nation" now feels so...limiting. It has served its purpose. Time to let it go.
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Yes, but since everybody expecty syrup just to stick around nobody really thinks that those trucks are actually nicking syrup. Somebody is bound to have the paperwork so no need to be nosy. Diamonds, yes. Syrup? How do you fence stuff like that? It leaves quite a bit of a trail if the barrels leak. Also ants could be a problem.
Diamonds! That's where it's at!
Luckily for Runic the rest of the world feels a need for this game. I don't see a need for Borderlands 2 but I don't run around with a sock stuffed down my pants and advertise that as a universally accepted fact.
I'm sorry if I have melted you, you beautiful and delicious and adorable and absolutely fabulous unique snowflake. Still love ya.
...and a very first mod for that has already been created.
D3 is not D2 and won't be saved from ruin until the dev team learns a couple of fundamental things they could have learned from D2 which at release was also a completely different game from what it became the following 5 years.
1) An ARPG lives and dies by its pace and responsiveness. Having to skip cut-scenes, the sheer amount of crowd control the player character is subjected to and the slow movement speed is a complete antithesis of what an ARPG is supposed to be.
2) Even tho the original D2 devs also hated it the most popular feature of patch 1.10 of D2 was the inclusion of cross-class skills. The player loved it, the devs hated it. The D3 team permanently shut that door by including a non-mana based resource system. They can not pull this off without doing a major revamp of the game.
3) The sheer amount of handholding that's going on in D3 boggles the mind. D2 and torchlight limit you by level and stat points in what loot you can wear. D3 limits you by class. Want to play a DH with a fat 2hander for whatever inane reason you can come up with? Sorry, you can't. Want to play a completely dex based barbarian with a crossbow? Nope. 'Do as thou wilt' was replaced with 'because we say so'. You want to be a melee WD? Well, only the classic melee characters get a flat 30% melee incoming damage reduction.
4) Their reliance on a completely gold based economy is stupid. Nobody ever managed to pull off an interesting gold based economy. Either it works somewhat(as D3's does) and is completely boring or it doesn't and becomes a nuisance. This may sound like a weak point but what the gold based, AH centric economy does is it doesn't encourage bartering and trading. This was a major community builder. There were a LOT of successful websites/forums that started out as barter towns, grew into real communities and kept D2 going way beyond its due-date. D3 is an anonymous hodge-podge.
5) Character progression is non-existant in D3 or beyond frustrating. It is not unreasonable to expect to be able to finish the game on inferno difficulty with only what you picked up yourself within 100 in-game hours. That should be the yard-stick. The goal of the grind-fest should be mindles mass murder of unsuspecting demons to blow off steam or to gather loot to be even more efficient in said mass murder or to gear up twinks with a silly character concept. But at no point should you feel slow and gimped. Inferno mode is completely inaccessible.
6) At release and at the moment the game screams 'we haven't thought this through'. The 30% flat incoming damage reduction of monks and barbs say 'we haven't tuned the game properly'. The auction house ui with only 3 filters for 6 possible properties on rares made the AH next to unusable. Increased incoming damage in multi player games in an already overtuned game made grouping unattractive. The crafting system made you broke if you weren't very, very clever using it. The very rare legendaries were completely unviable on inferno mode(especially the weapons). The damage scaling in inferno is completely off. They advertised the game for PvP(god knows why) and they still haven't delivered.
7) Tying real money to gear limits what they can do to improve the game. Once real money has changed hands for loot you can't reasonably nerf or buff stuff that has been sold without getting yourself in real hot water. And I sincerely doubt their RMAH cut is enough to cover the financial, legal and PR headache that follows.
I'm sorry, but the team that made D3 didn't take a look at what made D2 the game of the decade and only added supreficial improvements. If they don't learn that their approach to D3 was completely off then they will not be able to salvage it whatsoever. The whole game feels like the core mechanics were designed by the Blizzard B-Team. Art and music is wonderful, tho. But at the moment it is a polished turd.
Tin cans? You know that beer in tin cans is effectively dead? The canning process involves more heat than beer is supposed to survive. Don't do that. Pasteurization is bad for beer.
In fact if you drink tin-canned beer in Germany people will immediately consider you base, low-brow, uneducated, unemployed, desitute and possibly of dubious body hygiene. Unless of course you are a punk. In which case tin-cans are absolutely acceptable.
Wow, sending somebody to Kloster Andechs and telling them to get a doppelbock without preparing them for what is going to happen is considered manslaughter in some states.
That's the beer monchs drank during the fasting season to keep them nourished. And it will make you very drunk if you drink it like anything you are used to.
If you think the American, Australian and UKian tourists that get piled up in multiple layers around the Bavaria statue during Oktoberfest season are a bit disturbing then look at what happens to them at Andechs. It is a monastery so they were closer to their maker to begin with. So that's only fair, I suppose.
I prefer Schneiderweisse.
You should take the time to explain Bock. I've never seen it outside of Germany and it is a fascinating beer. It's very thick and it feels quite nourishing while getting you very, very drunk. If the name of the beer ends on -or you'd better know what you are getting yourself into.
That was over the course of 12 hours and being a bachelor I only had a cold pizza the day before. We played football and I read a complete Terry Pratchett book. Funny thing is I felt definitely tipsy but not drunk.
If you want to go to the Oktoberfest, go around 11am. On a weekday. That's when the locals go. It starts dumbing down(even more) in the afternoon and you might be puked on in the evening.
Also if you have to go there on a weekend don't go on the middle weekend. This is when the European tourists turn up. They sleep in their cars and won't have had a shower for a couple of days. Hotel prices become silly in that season so this isn't as surprising as it sounds.
If you like the idea of the Oktoberfest, visit Munich in July(preferably a sunny one) and find one of the thousands of beer gardens and go there. You might even want to go skinny dipping at the Flaucher which I wouldn't recommend near the end of September.
You do not want to get drunk on whiskey. The stuff that gives it its flavour is also that wich will make you feel hungover.
And you might look like a complete arse if you simply quaffed it.
They've been constantly raising the prices and this has been subject of endless arguments. Remember: there were beer riots over the beer prices in Bavaria not too long ago.
Now the riots still happen in form of angry letters to the yellow press. And politicians who are up for reelection greedily scoop the issue up.
The current price is around 9 Euro 50 cents. Plus deposit for the mug.
I'm sure you can. I never saw it since because why would I look for it? There was a beer retailer in my block and they sold Augustiner. There. Job done. Splendid.
I think Budvar can't be called Budweiser since the Budweiser trademark is older. This dispute has been going on for ages and won't be settled anytime soon.
In the meantime Annheuser-Busch has diluted the trademark so much one could argue that it isn't a badge of quality anymore.
Mass produced beer has become increasingly bad all around the world. But also the beer culture has gone downhill. That is why people still buy bad beer. I haven't seen the chart of the top 10 most sold beers of the world but I wil hazard a guess I wouldn't drink it.
Let me explain how a beer garden in Germany(Munich area) works:
You go there on a sunny afternoon. Next to the place were they actually sell the beer you will find shelves of mugs. The 1 liter variety. You take a mug and go to a big basin filled with clear water were you rinse the mug. There will also be little brushes. Use them.
With your mug you go to the end of the queue. When it is your turn, tell them what you want. Don't be fancy, they only have two barrels. Say "Ein Helles, bitte". Pay in cash. No plastic. Don't rely on them having change. Find a nice bench under a chestnut tree and enjoy your beer.
And have a nice lunch.
You have brought lunch, have you?
If you go to a beer garden they only expect you to buy the beer there. You can bring your own food. Otherwise you might find everything to be a bit expensive.
Everything is trees and wood and wasps and rabbits frolicking on the green. There might even be fucking butterflies and flowers and shit.
Me and a couple of mates once went to the Hirschgarten on a Sunday morning and went home when they closed it. I drank 9 liters of beer, ate 2 chickens, a couple of those giant pretzels with a cartload of Obatzta(a Bavarian cheese specialty) and a Steckerlfisch(a mackerel). All in all I spent 200 Euros on food over the course of 12 hours and felt like I got my money's worth. Best Sunday ever. YMMV.
For absolute awesomeness you will have to go to Munich around nowish and steal a beer mug(or a dozen) in the Armbrustschuetzenzelt. Fill it up with Bud Light and tell your guests how once upon a time one of the best beers known to man had been contained in that mug and now it is filled with goat piss.
You might be hit by a meteor shower and a couple of gas giants for this heinous act. God allegedly hates blasphemy.
Words fail me. There's been an awful lot of market consolidation going on in the past few decades. German beer has also gone downhill. You need to be aware of regional breweries or drink the horse pis that's advertised on TV.
People of the Munich area will be able to tell you what the best beer ever is. Hands down. No contest. Won't advertise. Won't expand. Won't export.
The philosophy department of the Australian University of Woolloomooloo. Ask for Bruce or Sheila. They will help ya, mate.
If it has a commercial on TV it is a bad beer.
This is a universal truth. Even applies in Germany.
You may find that you'll get beer at the Oktoberfest by the liter. And it costs nearly 10 Euros.
Prosit!
William of Orange was actually invited to rule the land because another Stuart had contracted a case of catholizism.
Of course I'm being flippant. Otherwise it would be impossible to maintain a straight face.
The prospect of complete and untter nonexistance can be maddening if you spend too much thought on it.
But then again the wind is southerly. This is a hawk. That is a handsaw.
Yes, well, that's why I called for a couple of philosophers.
I'm afraid I'm quite unsuitable for such musings since I completely forgot how it felt before I existed. I supose life before conception was dull.But decomposition could be a profound experience.At least you'll not be alone since there are a multitude of helpers of the grave.Perhaps some sort of flute would be in order for the more unruly worms that are bound to show up like trolls in a B-list blog's comment section. Sounds like a marvellous opportunity to quit smoking.
I've not been before. I can do it again.
Those were simpler times. They didn't know their knee from their ear-hole.
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years? There is only one person in all of human history that will be remembered as the first person to step foot on another world. Even to this day it's likely the greatest accomplishment of us as a species let alone as a nation.
I'm sure you'll get quite a lot of names in your little fishing expedition. And that is a good thing! We've achieved so much in the last 500 years or so(and quite a lot less in the thousand years before that). There are many great names and achievements to name and there will be a lot more further still.
:)
So this might be a flamewar that actually warms my heart
But I'm not so sure I'd list Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan. The notion of "nation" now feels so...limiting. It has served its purpose. Time to let it go.
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