Beriallord

I played PoE in closed beta for months, and liked the game and the closed beta community. But now that open beta has hit, the community has taken a turn for the worst, and its gotten so bad its not even enjoyable for me anymore. I had a few people I played with but they all quit playing, and went back to Diablo 3. I think its the influx of young teenagers, when the open beta community was mostly composed of adults.

Vinderkarr you might like Path of Exile, its free to play. Its an ARPG. But my personal opinion, the game is a solid ARPG, with a good character development system and game play, but the community for the game is terrible. The same issues I got with League of Legends, I got with PoE. Game has the potential to be fun, but is destroyed by the community. But to be fair I don't enjoy random communities in a lot of game. PoE is not the worst, but definitely one of the worst. Honestly I was surprised how much they've improved Diablo 3 recently, and I decided to go back to it. IMO Diablo 3 right now is in a far better state than PoE is. I can simply ignore the community of D3, and do trading via the auction house with no interaction, and if a community is bad, which D3's community is, I'd rather things be like that.

I highly recommend custom fan profiles at the very least for anyone doing crossfire/sli, because the stock fan profiles by the manufacturer are often inadequate for air cooling 2 GPUs, due to the top card sucking in hot air from the bottom. I got my fans running 80% at 80c, and a gradual incline in speeds relative to temperature. During heavy gaming the fans stay 80-100% fan speed. Its loud, but I usually wear headphones while gaming anyway, so I don't hear the fans.

For under $1000 I can build a PC that will likely be superior to any of the next-gen consoles, and will likely be playing these console ports on mid to high settings for 4+ years in the future. I'm talking I5 3570k + Radeon 7950 GPU + all the other components, under $1000. I seriously doubt any of the next-gen consoles are going to have a CPU that can beat an I5 3570k stock, let alone with a decent overclock. The PS2 was $299 on release date, the PS3 was $599, twice as much. How much are the next gen consoles going to be? If they are pushing $800-$1000, then the advantage of consoles being a cheaper gaming platform is going to vanish completely.

The worst new game I played this year was Diablo III. I normally hand pick games, and don't just play anything, and was seriously disappointed with Diablo III.

Am I not part of my district? doesn't a congressman repressent the people of a district? Am I not a person they repressent? If a congressman does not think even one person is important enough who they are suppose to be repressenting they are not doing their job. reguardless how many thousands or maybe millions of other people they represent. Its their fault for not being able to give attention to the people they repressent. But was never implying they were trying to snub me personally, just it's obviously in the public eye I seem to not be important enough right now to even make a robo reply back. Be realistic here, your email is probably on page 5297 of this congressman's email page, and for them to personally sift through these and get to you is like hitting the lottery. If someone was sending you that many emails, would you personally have the time to sift through each one and give an adequate reply back to each and every one of them? Even if your congressman spent 24/7/365 reading and replying to emails, chances are they would STILL never get back to everybody. More realistically this congressman probably picks 10 random emails a day or something, and gives a well written response to. You are taking this personal, and being sorta immature about it. lets be realistic.... for one thing personally attacking me calling me immature will not help your arguement. Another thing we are not living in the 1800's... A crongressman has a staff that goes through these emails and paid well to reply to all matters of attention wheather it's personal or just a robo reply. If a congressmen doesn't have a good enough staff to beable to handle simply just replying back to the people they represent they are obviously not doing a good enough job as a repressenative... If you are active enough in the political system you would probably know this if you actually write your congressmen a lot. It's a matter of knowing they themselves or their staff has even taken the time to go through and read the peoples concerns. And yes Most people would feel better if they were actaul replied back instead of being ignored reguardless if its a personal reply or just a robo reply back. But this is besides the point... lets not shift the topic off track... I've written Rand Paul on several occasions, and haven't always gotten a reply back. I got a robot reply 1 time, and I'm not even mad, because I know I'm just 1 person out of an entire district of concerned citizens. I don't feel like I'm individually important enough for myself to be given any special attention. I don't have to write him that much, because I already know he is going to vote against the stuff that needs to be voted down. The ones voting Republican aren't doing so for them to compromise with the Democrats, they are voting them in to stonewall them, which is exactly what is going to happen with the gun control bill. Its going to be stonewalled. Won't even go up for a vote in the house. I doubt even some of the Democrats are going to back it.

I think some of the workings of the universe, are beyond the capability of humans to unravel. The best we will be able to probably do is have a "general idea", etc theories. But we won't have the technological prowess or the ability to put all these theories to the test. I think a whole lot of discretion needs to be considered when toying with the most dangerous forces of the universe like black holes, or antimatter. Either one of those forces could be capable of setting off a chain of events that could destroy the entire planet. They are trying to create micro black holes in the particle colliders around the world, and I sorta look at that like children playing with matches. Do they even know what they are screwing around with or what the consequences are for playing with those forces? They claim they are only stable for a small fraction of a second, what are they trying to do, make a stable one? Then what? How do they control it? I really don't think they got any clue what they are toying with. I agree with the statement of "nothing ventured, nothing gained", but I also agree that "Curiosity killed the cat". Personally, I think these forces should be left alone, because any attempt to harness these said forces will guarantee that something goes wrong, its called Murphey's law, and mistakes with forces that destructive, and there might not be any second chances. We harness nuclear power, and reactors are going to melt down, not a question of if, but when. If we screw around with black holes, or antimater, a screw up is guaranteed to happen, not if, but when.

Am I not part of my district? doesn't a congressman repressent the people of a district? Am I not a person they repressent? If a congressman does not think even one person is important enough who they are suppose to be repressenting they are not doing their job. reguardless how many thousands or maybe millions of other people they represent. Its their fault for not being able to give attention to the people they repressent. But was never implying they were trying to snub me personally, just it's obviously in the public eye I seem to not be important enough right now to even make a robo reply back. Be realistic here, your email is probably on page 5297 of this congressman's email page, and for them to personally sift through these and get to you is like hitting the lottery. If someone was sending you that many emails, would you personally have the time to sift through each one and give an adequate reply back to each and every one of them? Even if your congressman spent 24/7/365 reading and replying to emails, chances are they would STILL never get back to everybody. More realistically this congressman probably picks 10 random emails a day or something, and gives a well written response to. You are taking this personal, and being sorta immature about it. What is the point of giving a robo reply, that is just a "here is a generic automated reply because I don't have the time to read/reply to all these emails". Would that make you feel better if you at least got a robot reply?

So this is a personal attention thing? Its not you they represent, its your entire district. I'm Colourwheel, and I'm supposed to be important enough where a Congressman has to stop what they are doing to personally get back with me. In the mean time this said congressman has no telling how many thousands or maybe millions of other people they represent, but its their fault for not being able to individually give you a reply and filter you out from no telling how many others who are trying to contact them as well. I'd guess they hand pick a few emails and give a reply to, or whatever they have time for, and that doesn't mean they are trying to snub you personally. And I think you are being unrealistic expecting a reply from a congressman.

It seems to work for me. It let me get as far as the choose username. Maybe its a regional thing? Does this link work? http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/register.php

I'm not defending government or anything, but in a way that seems kinda selfish. Chances are they are being flooded with 10s of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of emails, and don't have the time or the ability to filter through it all to return an email to you personally.

I was able to register on Grim Dawn forums the other day no problem, they didn't even make me verify an email address. And their project definitely isn't a sinking ship, they are keeping people updated on the progress being made. Its a small team, and they aren't going to move as fast as a big studio with a large budget.

If anyone remembers Titan Quest, well part of the same team that worked on that game is working on a new game called Grim Dawn: http://www.grimdawn.com/ I personally thought Titan Quest was an excellent ARPG, one of the best, second only to Diablo II. So at least the legacy of one of THQ's games will be continued with or without them.

And this is why guns are literally flying off the shelves right now. People generally know whats up, and many of those guns in that video like the AR-15, AK-47, or the Saiga 12 are next to impossible to find on the shelves in many areas. And those 33 round Glock magazines, I haven't seen those on the shelves anywhere in 2 years. I got 2 of them for my Glock 19 and I paid $60 a piece for mine. Last time I went to Cabella's, couple days before Christmas I saw 3 people at the counter that wanted to buy an AR-15, just to find out they were sold out. The reason that people are going into a frenzy to buy these up, isn't because they want to defend themselves from criminals, but because they fear the government. The ones rushing in a frenzy to get these guns now aren't doing so if they intent to just hand them right over to the government if they pass an assault weapons ban. And many of them are coming to the harsh reality that it might be too late to get their hands on these, due to them being an incredibly hot commodity right now. Ever since Obama got elected, certain firearms have been difficult to find, and the price has gone up substantially on many due to supply and demand.

Unless you got a Saiga 12 gauge shotgun with a 20 round drum mag, pistols are probably the best killing weapons indoors. And the shotgun only leaves a bigger mess. Semi-auto pistols typically have large magazines for their size, and are adequately powerful enough to kill humans in close quarters. My point is that he didn't need an assault rifle for Sandy hook, which is probably why he left it in the trunk. I hear the preferred weapon of choice for lots of hitmen and assassins, who are professional killers, is a suppressed .22 pistol. Head shot does the job, and doesn't alert anyone. Suppressors are also legal to own, as long as they have a tax stamp on them. They aren't cheap and in many cases are 2-3x the price of the gun itself.

I got some ideas for 2 of them. Some examples for Priest/Cleric skill sets could be: Restoration -Mostly recovery/effect healing (something like a full heal would be game breaking), and healing spells should be very costly IMO. Protection -fire/ice/poison/light shield + maybe a slight armor or evade buff (useful but not game breaking). Spellcraft Staff defense Armor (in some games like Baldur's Gate Clerics can use medium/heavy armor) Maces Also you should be able to put a Cleric on the front row if you take armor. They should have lower mana gains than mages. Health gains wise, they should be somewhere between fighter and rogue. If you are just going to take armor + maces, then you may as well make a fighter. Also only humans can be Priest/Cleric. Some ideas for Demon: Dark Magic -similar spells to the other classes as far as usage goes, less damage, but isn't resisted. Maybe a life drain spell at 50 skill? Curses - opposite of protection listed above, and maybe a damage debuff at 50 skill? Spellcraft Fire magic Axes Assassination You would have to get reach attack 12 points in assassination, if you want them to attack in the back row with an axe. Its fair because of the extra versatility. I think full axes + assassination might possibly be overpowered offensive wise, if so then maybe ranged or throwing weapons + ice magic to replace them. Also they should have lower mana gains that mages, about equal to priests. Health wise they should be comparable to mages. The added versatility comes at the cost of being squishy. Demon should be a race and a class. Meaning you pick demon as a race, and Demon class is the only one available.

I played Demon's Souls for 3 years on and off, and it was always easy to get back into. I liked invading, and fighting other players more than playing the actual game. The same thing with Dark Souls. I didn't cheat like using the running firestorm glitch on anyone, or swap casting, it was always a legit fight. Huge difference is duping items which can be obtained normally, and using exploits in online play to win like running firestorm. Firestorm was crazy OP in Demon's Souls, if you got a mage build, its pretty much guaranteed 1hko unless you got second chance up. Very few people used it though. The thing about it if someone does use it, its not a full aoe, its got blind areas, which means if you can initiate a backstab animation before you get hit with one of the pillars you can take them out. As cheap as it was, its plenty defeatable, even the running firestorm, if you know how to counter it.

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I'd place slightly stricter requirements on who can buy firearms legally, but I'd allow citizens to own fully automatic weapons. What I mean by that is anyone charged with a violent misdemeanor, including assault, or some form of criminal threatening shouldn't be able to purchase firearms, including anyone who is criminally insane. That means some communication would need to be involved in government, to determine which people are not eligible to purchase firearms. Also in the case of the sandy hook shooting, where the mother made no attempt to secure her firearms from her crazy kid, she should be charged with accessory to murder had she survived. I'm talking hypothetically for future such cases. This would place some responsibility on gun owners to secure their firearms. If she had locked those guns in a safe with a combination lock, this probably would have never happened. Laws that make people criminally liable for not securing their firearms from mental nuts who proceed to murder people, would encourage more people to secure their firearms. Technically you can already own fully automatic weapons providing you can pay the price tag, but you also need to register your ownership of it with the federal government. That is different from normal guns, because you can typically buy a gun second hand from a friend without getting it transferred, and its not illegal. But if you did that with a fully automatic weapon, and didn't register it, that is a federal weapons charge, which could get you 10 years in prison. The prices are heavily inflated on fully automatic weapons that were "pre-ban", because the law isn't retroactive, and more guns that fit the criteria aren't being created due to that. For example, I know someone who owns a fully automatic BAR, its an absolute beast of a rifle, and there are also some pre-ban Tommy guns out there. You could expect to pay around 20-30k or more for one. I asked a gun dealer how much a Glock 18c would cost, if hypothetically any citizen could buy one, and he said around $1100. Its an SMG version of the Glock 19, which is fully automatic. I don't see anything wrong with law abiding, sane people owning them. The only way its legal to own those currently is if you are a licensed gun dealer. Even a police officer has to get permission from the police chief if they want to buy one. Full gun control will never happen in America, because there are 10s of millions of people who simply won't give them up, including myself. They don't have the manpower or the resources to make millions give up their guns, and using the military to do that would be unconstitutional, and it would probably create divisions in government, as well as lots of cases of insubordination. I don't care if they are 10 sandy hook shootings in 1 year, I'd still be against them infringing on the second amendment. As Charlton Heston said, they can have my guns when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. As for the ones advocating full gun control, would you put your life on the line to volunteer to go knocking on doors asking law abiding citizens to relinquish their firearms? Only reason I'm asking this because I don't know many who would. I've asked several military veterans if they were ordered by government to confiscate firearms from otherwise law abiding citizens, would you follow orders? Every single one of them said no, and not just a maybe, it was an adamant no. And I know 2 who told me they would personally turn their guns on the ones ordering them to do it.

Skyrim is more CPU heavy due to the shadows being rendered by the CPU and not the GPU. If you want to make the most of shadows, you are going to need a decently OC'd CPU and even then you still probably wont get consistent 60fps. And even then, you will have to find a balance between draw distance and quality that works for you. I honestly think the shadows are horribly done in this game, and haven't checked out any recent improvements that might have been made with mods. You might want to invest in a CPU cooler, they aren't terribly expensive, and they could allow you to OC your CPU. Something like a Cooler Master Hyper 212+, they run about $25, and its vastly superior cooling compared to stock. And yes they do work on AM3+. Also you can put 2 fans and do a push-pull setup on the 212+ and get even more cooling than with a single fan. And fans are cheap. I use that on my I5 2500k, went from 3.8-4.5ghz, and my temps never go about 55C. 1.351v was the sweet spot for mine.

Losing 100k souls used to be no big deal, but now they don't even have any efficient places to grind for souls, they severely nerfed all previous grinding spots, the humans in the forest don't give nearly as much. I lost around 90 million souls one time, but even that wasn't a big deal, I just dragon head glitched more. :whistling: Honestly I don't like this game anymore. They made too many changes that I thought were perfectly fine as they were. Now if I want to level up some PVP builds on the PS3 version, I basically have to wipe the data, then start over non-patched, just so I can level up 5-6 characters to the 100-120 range and gear them out with the bottomless box glitch. I'm far beyond the point where the regular game is no longer interesting or challenging for me and is nothing but a massive grind put in the way of me making some PVP builds. I've been sticking with the PC version, even though its less active just because I can accomplish what I want more efficiently. I'm done with the PS3 version, its simply not worth my time.

Dragon Age Origins is good, but Dragon Age 2 is pretty bad. It takes at least 4+ years to make a solid RPG, and they spent less than 2 on Dragon Age 2.

I live in an open carry state. That basically means I can walk around on the street with a pistol holstered, as long as its visible. But there isn't much of a need to do that. Even though its allowed, almost nobody does it.

There is always emulation. ePSXe, it runs good even on older PCs. And you can play the games in HD. If you get the game, use Imageburn to create an ISO file from the disk, then run the ISO file on the emulator. Loads much faster.

Its not a gun problem, its a people problem. Just because a few crazy nuts want to shoot people, doesn't mean guns should be limited to law abiding citizens. From what I heard, this Lanza guy had a developmental brain disorder, so its clearly the mother's fault for not securing those firearms. And some sources say the AR-15 wasn't used in the shooting, and was found in the trunk. It sorta makes sense, because pistols can do the job just fine indoors, and an assault rifle is more of a medium range weapon. A glock 19 has a 15 round magazine stock, but you can buy extended mags that hold 33 rounds, and I'd say the Sig Sauer pistol used also had a 15 round mag. 30 rounds with 2 pistols, or possibly more if he used an extended mag, and he also could have carried extra mags. Its sufficient enough to kill 27 people with point blank shots either way.