:) What they said, but we already talked.

I miss 3 month resets.
As much as I would love to balance things I don't play enough to be willing to give up 120/120.

The Macho Man Randy Savage lives no more.
I haven't watched wrestling since I was kid but this brings back lots of memories.

The world is a little less interesting now...

Long Live Bone Saw...

Yeah, when I first made this post it was before they release a lot of information on what kind of guy he really is and that he had done this before. I also thought the same thing about the prostitute angle but I guess there is the possibility that he just couldn't control him self.

I guess I will accept arsehole as I may have heard it and seen it outside of these boards too.

I know it seems lame but it is a quick way to intake half of the stuff mentioned in this thread. Some of it's key ingredients are Zinc and Vitamin C...

Also as Galleri and maybe other have mentioned, any dry hard liquor with a burn to it on the way down usually helps things. If not just keep drinking it and it will cure your ills till at least the next morning.

There is a product called AirBorne and sometimes it can snuff out a cold that isn't too far in, as well as help prevent it.

I have never found anything that really helps though once you are into it.

Conforming is the work of the devil!
You are from Australia? Or some non-US but English speaking country?

I think I have heard it both spelled and said in that fashion so maybe it is a local dialect thing.

Must be some kind of crazy local spelling. Oxford does not accept your word, nor does Scrabble.

Even if that is so iScode he said it is shady as if that is a bad thing?

Yeah Diplomatic immunity was out, that was brought up in an article I read last night some time.

We may all be surprised where this ends up. I don't see him going to prison no matter what the outcome is, but I would say his political career is over, and if he is this unstable than it is all for the better.

Could be the story I posted and 1 other that I got off google news were fairly interesting and eye opening about the facts of some of the stuff he as been upto in his life.

I think the damning evidence is that he left his stuff in the room and was caught aboard a plane. I could understand leaving some stuff behind but if I recall right he left his cell phone which seems very odd.

I am not sure what to think now really. This all seems so convenient though. I know having the power can corrupt and inflate your ego to the point of making you think you can get away with anything but this seems just really odd.

He obviously has money so why not just buy a prostitute. Why risk having your fluff bit off.

Even sexual deviants surely can show some self control if they have the means to get their fix in other ways? right? Was this woman so beautiful that he just had to have her? Her mouth turned him on to this point? She didn't bite?

I will be interested to see where this ends up really. He is fluffed though... His position is gone his chance for president is gone. It sounds like the only thing he will keep is his wife because from the sounds of it she is very accustom to his indiscretions.

http://abcnews.go.com/...redator/story?id=13612519

Seems I have to retract my statement of him not being able to get it up...

Rage vs Elites loved smashing one of the top 3 clans in the game and rage was active and still fairly large.

Rage vs IX got to stonewall several times Rage got crushed though but still a great war lots of activity before wars turned into gangbang gayness.

Rage vs IX (Cripple Fight) Rage got ravaged by RD and IX by SoF Pinoy's fun fight. 24 hour warchats were the best.

LaF vs LCN was my first war with LaF the style of warring they do is much more slow moving and overcomplicated but it still was a fun war probably the last war that was actually fun that I played in. Although I prefer the more unpredictable and crazy warring during the Rage days.

Trixx> WTF is an arsehole? If you mean asshole why yes mine is shady as I do not show my ass in public very often.

archaic> Huh interesting from what I have read and heard so far just with a quick few googles is that Sarkozy and Obama get along beautifully. The big thing I see is France recommending sanctions against Iran. Puts them nice and cuddling in bed considering Iran is the US pet project and next most likely target for operations against.
I really don't have the full grasp but from everything I heard the US and France has never been closer since Obama took office compared to being constantly embattled with each other during the Bush jr. rein.

Pontius Pirate> I have read the same thing on some of this and find it near impossible that old guy can even get it up let alone force a 30 something white American woman to give him oral sex. I am no rape expert but it seems the logistics of that kind of rape is far more complex than just forcing her face down and sodomizing her. The guy looks fragile.

All that aside the main point is that at least in the US and China (as these are the only 2 places I have seen first hand) it is very dangerous to send someone into a retail store without experience in computers and with a large budget in mind.

More than anything else you should send a check list of things to look for before she goes in to ensure she gets not only what she is paying for but the product is functional and the business is stable.

One huge problem when you buy from any brick and mortar is what happens when they go out of business or if they are incompetent.

Best Buy in the states plays games all the time with repairs and they are a major corporation. The biggest thing is make sure you have the proper sales documentation so if need be it can be returned and serviced by the manufacturer directly and for free.

You want to get your mom something that is going to be thick as a dictionary, hot as an oven, weighs as much as a gorilla, and gets 30 seconds of battery life?! ;p
Seems you have a grudge with her.

I take it you must live too far to go with her? Honestly you can't send someone who doesn't know computers to buy a gaming or for that matter any high spec laptop. They will get eaten alive anywhere they go. At least here, maybe Canadians aren't as greedy.

PS. If you can buy a name brand laptop with those specs you let me know where. Especially for $2k... That is easily a $4k laptop.

Surely I am not the only conspiracy theory nut that thinks this whole story is a little too convenient?

I haven't really read up on Sarkozy and US relations but I am positive he is the lesser of two evils for the US if the choice for the next president of France is Strauss-Kahn or Sarkozy.

Obviously Sarkozy would want to be reelected.

This all seems so shady.

For recommendations I have to agree with ya Martian.
It will be a long time before I go Dell again due to not just hit or miss on pricing and dropping the good products for crappy HP/Apple copies that are garbage but their quality is also hit or miss.
In fact I would recommend no one early adopt a system from Dell, don't buy unless it has been out for a few months.

Lenovo ruined the rep they bought from IBM. Although in the final years some of the thinkpads were getting iffy.

My current laptop was boutique and made by Clevo, been happy with it and Clevo seems to be a lot more concerned with quality than Foxconn stuff.

Canada? I don't know what online resources you have available but speaking from my experiences in the US.
For Laptops your best option is always buy online 50% of the time direct from manufacturer the other 50% of the time usually you can find a boutique vendor that has cheaper prices or something better.
Xoticpc.com would be a boutique vendor.

Being for your mom though I am guessing you are not looking for high-end gaming laptops and are looking for something lighter and likely long battery life. In that case I would suggest Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Asus, and the like and going direct to their website first and seeing about pricing and for those that do not allow web ordering and customization usually they will give you a list of recommended vendors.

Many people seem to believe by going through a retail store and paying there upwards to 30% markup price that you gain some protection but in reality all you gain is up to a 30% higher price. When your laptop is broken they don't fix it, they send it back to the manufacturer and charge you the repair cost plus the retail stores fee. They save you making 1 phone call and having to keep some documentation handy from your purchase.

tl;dr summary..
Use online means for purchasing.

I sent you a PM on the forums.

[They are current so it makes them a current event]
Anyone know what I am talking about here?
The ones I mentioned along with the UMID Mbook SE and a few others unmentioned are a line of 5inch screened ultra mobile personal computers. They run Windows 7 (Full version not that Windows Phone 7 garbage).

Anyone have one?
I had a Viliv S5 which is a 5inch slate style(no keyboard) but sold it and was looking at getting either the clam shells that are older or the OCS1 when and if it comes out that is a slider that can run at least WoW on it.

Yeah this will hurt NA a lot either this set or next. Pretty piss poor, they gave this idiot a chance and he does this kind of thing to them as repayment.

The first people.

Peter never really existed.

My mom is dead.
That's really mean this close to mothers day. You should feel bad.

Your face is illegitimate.

Huh, thought so.

I highly doubt any of the people you mentioned were illegitimate at least not relative to the times.

I don't know about some of the others but can you describe how Eugene won illegitimately?

While I was Head FR of LaF he had 2 top10s and no one ever said a word about his play, his country was watched and opped by 2 alliances daily.. So please explain this KJ.

To me it sounds like you are talking out of your ass.

.

I am saying whether you invest money or not, neutrality is a must whether it is skin deep or not.

People don't keep coming back to this game because they invested 300 days of play time in their countries and it is chock full of platinum plated jets and tanks with spinner rims. They invested in the community in some way. I invest in my alliance, be it running a country and attempting to netgain or doing other things to ensure my alliance maintains the lifestyle the members of it have come to enjoy. So I will invest a few sets to that end.

Wow the page loaded at some point, now I feel terrible. What a nice gift. Sorry for the confusion.

No difference. I have been in contact with new players too. Some even work for me.

Sure you pay to play WoW and you get to keep and grow your characters and collect stupid fluff, it is still an investment in the community or game.

If not then please tell me why players have been playing earth for 10 years and busy people even bother to program a cloan and surpass the original?

You invest in a community and no one is going to invest in a community with unstable appearing staff.

Not bashing and I am done ford, just stating my point and why I think it is wrong and where I see it going.

Spawn... What people leave? They are all vets from what I see. I doubt anyone on this board has played the game for less than 3 years. I would wager that 50% of the players left in this game predate OMAC. That is likely even a really safe bet.
So no, I doubt highly that either of you are going to make someone who lived through Raves being a moderator leave the game. I will even say those that even knew Mehul existed are probably happy to see active administrators.

It's very simple when/if new players start to play a game many will go to the forums early on to see/learn what a game is about.

Now I am by no means innocent of this but again my name has New Member under it, but if they see game staff acting like a child and/or fluff they are going to run.

Maybe you do not play any other online games especially more serious pay to play games like WoW for instance, but do you really think that someone is going to see unstable staff and still wish to invest in a community? If you went to a restaurant you have never been before and seen the owner out yelling at customers are you going to go in and eat?! If you are at all logical of course not. There are likely no less than 3 other restaurants within walking distance. Same thing applies here.

Maybe the work he does keeps the game alive for the old players but the game will still die without the new players and new players won't stand for such behavior.

LS. Admins should have no opinion period. They should appear as robots. I am a fluff 50% of the time if I was an admin that wouldn't change and I really don't want to change either of them side what they say belongs under an account that is a secret identity... Well that and with Slagpits temper displayed I worry about the day that he finally snaps. Although maybe he is just one of those online psychos. meh.

Now that's a mothers day gift.
Pfft, it's suppose to be what you got your mom...

Although I am glad that kind of mother's day gifting isn't a normal thing, would make me feel really bad.

The game needs more people'.'

Game Moderators like spawn and Administrators like Slagpit that spaz out like this do not make people wish to play this game. Sorry it is the truth.

Done so much for the game? The last time I visited there were 1k countries playing alliance... Now? 750ish?

I am not even calling into play what he does/doesn't do for the game. He is a fluffing prick.

I have been with this game since Rage had over 500 and 2 or 3 outposts so I could care less what some piece of fluff says to me in this game no matter what is under their name. If I was new I would just go to another game.

See the thing I don't get is, making him an admin is like giving a child some sort of a machine gun arm. What happens when you have to punish this child. What happens when this child is really angry?
If you have watched the movie Sphere... "What happens if Jerry gets mad?"

I won't even go into spawn, he isn't worth the cost of the energy that the pixels use to display his post.

To take it to a server standpoint, Slagpit should have no affiliation with any alliance. I am sure people will jump all over me but it is the truth. It is the cost of being an administrator. If you want to play you create a separate secret identity and your admin tagged account doesn't have an opinion.
I love Pang to death but this should go for him and all of the others. From what I see Qzjul while not creating a secret identity to be an active player with has no stated opinion on server politics at all.

Yes, he is a girl.

I can not load the page you posted so I will respond in a hope you were not trying to be witty or facetious.

This is what I got my Mother-in-law.
http://www.iishang.cn/...%8941S7ZT3AYXP-41054.html

A LaFer could say the sky is blue and Slagpit would go on some half baked rant trying to grasp at anything he can to slander LaF.

You know it is a game right Slagpit? You know Evo is the dirtiest player in the game right Slag?! You do know most of us are just laughing at you, right?

That an idiot like Slagpit can be an administrator has me worried about the future of this game. What's going to happen when something serious happens to him in or out of game if he is this unstable about small talk on the forums.

If what KJ says is true, Lord Tarnava is my new hero.

He didn't really suicide the first time around. He wasn't pacted to any of the alliances he hit although the amount of grabs he did to each alliance was enough to warrant a kill. I still would not call that an actual suicide. Just being a fluff. If a semi-decent sized alliance would do it they would likely be killed but the next set I bet they got some pacts from people who didn't want the trouble.

I agree and many alliances do this but honestly the threat was very minimal at that point. If the spyops were done to someone that hit him there is absolutely no reason and elsewise very little reason. If he had high-spal and opped a number of your countries I would say for sure.

Why not play untagged? You never wanted to retal a tag you don't like hard or topfeed them? You never wanted to play an action game rather than a slow moving Sudoku game.

I was thinking about playing untagged my first set back or playing in a different alliance that was less pacted...

I have no vested interest in this outside of Reps for wasting land that could have been farmed and creating problems for HLW...

but where is the intent to suicide? Really I just don't get it I mean I know his spyop because I was planning on grabbing him up some, I just don't see what would bring SoF to the conclusion.

I really only want some of his acres because he was a pretty sweet target for PSes.

I beg you to grab me... I will fluff SoF up the old school way.
First retal you 200% + an extra 50% wait until I can go on vacation drop tag, vacation, and then come out an ensure you don't have anything resembling a top 10. Then rinse and repeat for as many sets as I can until I get bored. I am not a netter, and netting bores me.. Please give me a reason.
None of this a few grabs = suicide bullfluff, either.

A project like this might even interest my co-workers to play this dead game for a few sets.

PM me if you want my country number.

I want reps from SoF and PDM for the wasted land.

I am at least semi-out of contact for 2 days due to some traveling.

YAY!! Dragonlance! I havn't been trolling this board enough I was afraid you were gone, then I found a bunch of your posts and then here.

Come play next set DL! So long as The Great Firewall dosn't block EE I will be playing.
In China for at least the next 3 months... Possibly for good.

Fazer? No LaF hits were made on you... Ever. SoL and LaF have some kind of pact possibly even friends. So how exactly is your top feed from an ally not unprovoked? You were retaled and charged an asshole tax. You attacked again so that is RoR. Now I have to throw away my country to properly retal you... I am the one being punished by your choices.