sinjun

*joins you in being bored*

I wanna be entertained, too!

*tools off to see if he can actually get RPoL to accept a post for a change*

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*chuckles*

Good luck - though that's not something I usually have trouble with. Tonight though, ICQ is being obnoxious.

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Well, I managed to get multiple posts in. And hard refreshing shows they went through. Woohoo!

If the web-based ICQ wasn't so obnoxious, I'd try firing it up.

Oh, random gloat: Level 74 on AQ. @#;+) For some reason, Level 74 took about a month and a half less than Level 73 took, though I didn't feel I played it any more than usual.

You run into Xyfrags yet? Evil, evil things. I flee. Every time. And they're stalking me. Buggers.

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Are those the things that only take 10% damage on every element and hit real hard?

If so, yes, I've run into them. :)

And the java version of icq works much better than that new one they released this January. For the record.

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Yeah. Supposedly the Energy Cleaver hurts them badly, but I'm not giving up my Patriot Blade. Or any of my other weapons. Not to beat one enemy. I'd consider giving up the Mana Scepter, but for a mage, mana-regeneration is just nice. Plus it's rare.

Guardian Dragon might work well, as would Dragon Slayer Armor (the Call Forth the Fire Dragon Level 10 attack comes to mind).

If they didn't have over 3,000 HP, I'd just beat on them with one of the multi-hit weapons. Hrmph.

ICQ's functionality has gone down ever since AOL acquired them years ago. I still contend the 1997-98 releases were the most stable and were very functional. I'll stick with Trillian for my ICQ needs on my desktop, thanks much. @#;+)

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*grins*

Whatever works for you. As for the stupid Xyfrag, yes, I've run into it, and I fled. :)

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Heh. Evil thing. I was running into it every other monster, I swear. At one point I got four in a row. That just annoyed the heck out of me.

Slowly working on getting the cash for the golden set. I've got 50,000-ish. Only what, 950,000 more gold to go!

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I'm not going to worry about that until I can actually see the darn things. Which I don't think I can yet.

Hrm, Maybe I should check. Though really, I'm just not worried about it.

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Well, I figure I'm getting to the point where I don't need a lot of gold to buy up new stuff (I have one or two things, maybe, that I plan on getting), so I may as well start saving up.

The armor and shield I'd like. The axe, not so much. It's melee, I believe. And melee weapons are da debil for my mage.

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*grins*

I think the point to that whole set is just to say you have it. *grins*

Course, I'd have to figure out what to give up in order to buy it... that would be the tricky bit.

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Well, it has the best defensive stats of any armor in the game, I believe (not to say that other armors aren't better in certain situations).

And most of the shields are kinda lame, so the Golden Shield will be useful.

Figuring out what armor to ditch will be the hard part. Werewolf Form/Vampire Form are rare (you can't even get Vampire Form with donations now, I believe), with Vampire having some nice defensive ones. Guardian Ice Dragon, Inferno Steed Armor, and Armor of Sensing are nice and you can't get them in shops (I think?), while the other two slots are currently class armors. Mage Armor is great though. Mana Regen.

Guess I have one rotate slot for class armors right now. Which won't last. Hrmph.

Why, yes, I am a Stat Geek along with a Console RPG Geek.

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*laughs*

See? It's not the easiest decision, is it?

*shakes head*

Ah well ... What can ya do?

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Random Jokes of the Day

The boy is smoking and leaving smoke rings into the air.
The girl gets irritated with the smoke and says to her lover: "Can't you see the warning written on the cigarettes packet, smoking is injurious to health!"

The boy replies back: "Darling, I am a programmer. We don't worry about warnings, we only worry about errors."

Why Client Server Computing is like Teenage Sex

- It is on everybody's mind all the time.
- Everyone is talking about it all the time.
- Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
- Almost no one is really doing it.
- The few who are doing it are...

...doing it poorly;
...sure it will be better next time;
...not practicing it safely.

Software Development Cycle

Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
Users find 137 new bugs.
Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free...

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*laughs*

That's just scary.... it's so true - no wonder it's funny. ;)

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Well, it certainly made me laugh... :)

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Well, it certainly made me laugh... :)

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If computer errors were written as haikus

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

The file you need
might be very useful.
But now it is gone

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, reboot.
Order shall return.

Wind catches lily,
scattering petals to the ground.
Segmentation fault.

With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
File not found.

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist.

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

No keyboard present.
Press F1 to continue.
Zen engineering.

This site has moved.
We'd tell you where, but then
we'd have to delete you.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

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*sniggers* These are going to get circulated around the office tonight, I think. I know a few guys who need them.

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*grins* I might have to share them too!

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