We make a gallon of sun tea every two or three days with a mix of black tea and a peach blend we get from our local tea purveyor.

Ale

anyone still in to this? I am reinstalling now. VIP member, due to my lifetime sub....not that I realy know what that means.

Chris

It means you get most of the content and perks f2p'ers have to pay for, for free, as well as a monthly stipend of 500 TP.

Ale

I believe you mean de-pantsing.  Pantsing would be putting them on.

Nope, pantsing has long been the term for yanking someone's pants down.

Ale

I don't see how anyone could claim Osama was scoreless.

Ale

There's no official RP server in America for LOTRO, is there? With this transfer, if the European servers become available for US players, you'd suddenly have access to a real RP server.

How is the RP server different?

Ale

It enforces certain rules (at least in theory. It has slipped a little since the early days). Among these are naming conventions (if your name isn't appropriate to the setting, you must choose another one) and a requirement to never be out of character in public (ie. when talking with the Say command).

Wow, that last one seems like it'd be tough to enforce. Do they rely on other people reporting it?

Ale

In a way, the birthers are vindicated. He could have released it earlier if he'd really tried.

Ale

If only he waited one more day.  Then Zeke could have said I TOLD YOU SO

Maybe Zeke was spending his little vacation getting on the Prez's case.

Ale

There's no official RP server in America for LOTRO, is there? With this transfer, if the European servers become available for US players, you'd suddenly have access to a real RP server.

How is the RP server different?

Ale

The fact that the Hawaii excuse is just a matter of convenience.

Come on, give it up already people......I don't completely accept what has been presented as an official birth certificate of Obama.

Deal with it.

Waitaminute here. I grew up in Hawaii and while I wasn't born there I have a lot of friends who were. Does this mean that you wouldn't accept any person born in Hawaii as being a legitimate candidate for President of the United States, simply because you don't like the way Hawaii handles birth certificates? WTF? Are you anti-Hawaiian or something?

you've arrived at the scene of the shooting hours after the suspect has left....

Goddammit! I was held up trying to explain why my Virginia safety inspection sticker was a photocopy.

Oops, late again.

So Naednek, what is your opposition to assisted suicide?

Ale

PLEASE BAN ME.

I've had enough of this place. and if i'm not banned, i'll be too tempted to return later.

MODS, PLEASE BAN ME.

If you wish to leave the forum, you can do so yourself.  I don't believe in assisted suicide. 

i've already told everyone to go fuck themselves.

surely this is a ban-able offense.

You can do better than that. Grow some balls and really let loose.

Ale

Alefroth, blakadar.....come on, where you guys at?

this is a golden oppurtunty. The zekester is melting down again!

 

Sorry, didn't want to feed your persecution complex 

Ale

Second, it's beneficial for Obama to be criticized loudly by unbalanced people.  He hopes, not unreasonably, that folks will focus on the loony-tune criticisms of him rather than the more reasonable criticisms that he's a spendthrift, an oathbreaker, and an unapologetic adopter of policies he once criticized.

Thats the lamest excuse i've heard so far. And also the most convenient.

He's the mutha-effin President.....I think he can override Hawaii's rule regarding his birth certificate.

JUST SHOW THE FUCKING THING ALREADY 

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Congratulations.

You are now officially nuttier than Michele Bachmann.

That's quite an achievement.

If you work hard and pace yourself, you may soon be crazier than Donald Trump, and closing in on Glenn Beck.

Congratulations.

Despite how smart you think you are, you're right at the same level as some others here that really have nothing to offer but insults.

Obama has gone out of his way to dispel other criticisms of him, yet he continues to avoid proving everyone wrong once and for all by just showing the damn thing. He has actually jumped on the chance to make the "right" look bad time and time again, so why isn't he doing over proof of his birth? This is a golden oppurtunity.

As far as i'm concerned, right now there's a 50/50 chance that he wasn't born in the U.S.

Your move, Obama.

You've got to be trolling, because there is no way someone can be that dense.

Ale

Thanks Zeke.  Parodying the idiocy of Birthers by pretending to even partially support their stance is a great way of showing how ludicrous the whole thing is.  I'm glad you're on the side of the sane on this matter.

You have to admit that without Obama officially dispelling this conspiracy, it's always going to leave a shadow of doubt. He's doesn't seem to have had trouble up to this point defending against the critics over many issues, yet this one remains.

And since when is it ok to follow blindly? Bush haters certainly didn't.

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He has dispelled it. Some people are just too stupid to realize it.

Ale

edit: Ok, I'm late to the party.

That wouldn't test my hues, it would test my patience. And I failed.

Ale

It's Witchfinder General, or The Conqueror Worm in the States.

Ale

He has made a lot of movies. Have you actually seen this?

I have. It's a great performance by him. Not his typical hamminess.

Ale

Ale

War of the Gargantuas?

Ale

I think you're over-reacting.

Ale

Honest to God.  There have been a couple of funny ones in there, but the wave of annoyance wasted them.

Also, Daehawk, you need to see a therapist.

I was thinking someone near Tennessee just needs to get him laid. Anyone?

Ale

I am not a liberal or a Democrat but isn't clear that if Ryan's proposal was enacted as is the net effect 20 years down the pike would be the poor and elderly dying off much quicker while the wealthy who can afford health care would live longer lives?  There is precious little in the plan that addresses job creation or even renewing the countries sagging infrastructure...instead it guts renewing the infrastructure.  To me it seems more like a plan to ensure the wealthy remain very wealthy until the country crumbles.

Winnah!

Ale

Some blah-blahs from the Bioware rep clearing up some things. Honestly, I don't remember there ever being a body of water in the SW films (I do remember some toxic goo pools), much less swimming, but apparently there's much dismay you won't be able to swim through water in the game at launch (you just walk through it is my understanding). Perhaps later in the Aquaman and Field & Stream Expansion.  

I'm pretty sure they are modeling other things than just what were in the movies.

Ale

Well, her face and boobs have obviously been "enhanced"

I wonder if she's wearing a body slenderizer and/or a fake ass under that dress too?

I think the dress is a slenderizer.

Ale

@Blackjack

I think you can change your default pvp flag settings so stray aoe won't flag you. Right-click your portrait, and there will be a pvp flag option.

Ale

Ew, thanks! You get a cookie. I figured I was missing something obvious -- I'm good at that.  

Man, the patch notes tonight are longer than an un-edited Stephen King novel. I don't think you can make this many balance changes without someone getting seriously upset.  

*They added integrated video capture with quick upload to a YouTube account.

VIDEO CAPTURE
* You can record video through RIFT up to 3 minutes in length. If you add a YouTube account through the Settings menu, RIFT will automatically upload videos to that account!
* Type /record or press CTRL+Y to start recording. Use it again to stop!
* Small icons next to the minimap show when video is recording and encoding.
* Once encoding is complete, you will have the option to upload if you have attached a YouTube account.

Did it help? I checked when I got home and didn't see the options I thought I remembered seeing.

Ale

@Blackjack

I think you can change your default pvp flag settings so stray aoe won't flag you. Right-click your portrait, and there will be a pvp flag option.

Ale

It looks like there is actually some kind of belt on the spatula part, and the goo is actually being rolled onto and off of that.

Ale

Anyone can clean ketchup and mustard off a smooth hard floor. Try cleaning it off shag or deep pile carpeting. 

Yes, but can you put it back down exactly how it was?

Ale

Why would you want to?

I wouldn't, but I didn't think it would be taken seriously.

Ale

Anyone can clean ketchup and mustard off a smooth hard floor. Try cleaning it off shag or deep pile carpeting.  

Yes, but can you put it back down exactly how it was?

Ale

Very sad, I just solved the Iron Pine Peaks puzzle and got a Purple Weapon appropriate for my level which is good for Warriors, Rogues, and Mages -- I'm a Cleric 

Sadly I never quite figured out how the puzzle worked, so I basically brute forced the thing.

What would be good for warriors, rogues, and mages?

Ale

Don't the changes just mean that Bards and Chloromancers are still fine for healing 5-mans, just not entire raids?

Yeah I don't understand the oh no, the sky is falling stuff on bard and chloro.  Chloro may actually be a bit better in 5-mans due to the across the board increase in mage dps, which indirectly increases chloro healing.  It just means that one chloro can't heal an entire raid.

The nerf to Livegiving Veil will be murder in Raids against Rifts, as that's a great way to heal others. It's usually 10 people who need healing, not 5. And keep in mind that you're constantly casting spells to keep others alive, as that's the only way TO keep others alive.

That said - Chloro/Warlock is an awesome combination, and some would say a bit too much of an awesome one. Either they need to buff the others, or just take the easy route and nerf the hell out of the combination.

Sadly, they're gonna take the easy route and nerf. It's gonna piss me off, to be frank. I was quite happy being a near main healer in events and such.

The chloro will still main heal just fine.  They weren't meant to main heal the entire raid group, just their subset.  I don't see this being a major issue.

So only the players in the chloro's group will be healed? Does the public grouping system distribute roles evenly into the groups? I've never noticed.

Ale

I don't really care if unions stay a part of this country, and as i've already said they do serve good purposes sometimes. But members should be able to opt out of dues.....or at the very least, decide where those dues should go. Or those dues income should have an oversight committee seeing where they are going. (ya ya...more big government)

Same could be said about state or federal taxes really.  It's an imperfect solution: when you are working for the collective good, the collective needs to fully participate.  If they don't (as in, don't pay taxes or dues) then it becomes a logistical nightmare.

That's what public opinion of unions now is starting to become, and it's not based on fiction.

Correct. It's based on schizoid paranoia.

Ale

It'd be interesting to see what percentage of profits an average CEO's salary is now. But then their actual salary is pretty small compared to the non-salary compensation they get.

Ale

Yeah, because those are the only two options.

I don't see how you can be in favor of govt. limiting a CEO's salary, but be so opposed to raising their tax rate.

Ale

This is clearly to solidify the base for 2012.  It's nonsense.  'Look we proved we are on God's side by 'reaffirming' the motto that's on the thing we actually worship!'

I'm not a big fan of zeke, but the thread stalking against him needs to stop.  Its completely ruining a bunch of good threads.

How is it stalking? Should we not come into threads Zeke is in?

Ale

The class changes are not a surprise. I agree with them, however suspect they will need to fine tune them a bit to avoid any over-nerf.

I don't understand the changes to Chloro? Were they too good at healing?

Ale

damnit, where's the 'clap' smiley?

Getting the clap would not be a happy ending.

Ale

I cannot express how much I'm enjoying Zekester's attempts to fix imaginary socialism by proposing actual socialism.

-Autistic Angel

It completely boggles my mind how leftist this idea is, and he doesn't seem to realize it. Govt. mandated salaries? Wow, just wow.

Or maybe his trolling is just becoming very sophisticated.

Ale

Just goes to show they've got nothing better to do.

Ale

No, im not ok with it.

I would like to see some kind of progressive earnings structure throughout business in the US, so that earnings are distributed more fairly and greed can be curbed.

SOCIALIST.  SOCIALIST!!!

What i'd like to see is every employee from the bottom to the top get a percentage of profits, but progressively.

So let's say the laborers get 1% total profits, while the CEO/owner would get 5%, as an example.

This way everyone would have a common interest in seeing the company do well, the higher ups would still make a bundle, yet greed would be curbed.

Think it would work?

What happens if it equals more than 100%?

Ale