++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[alfa147x]

Damn. Alabama on the board with 3



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[alfa147x]

Not a good start



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[alfa147x]

Gsu moving fast



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[eldorado99]

ned.

 

[alfa147x]

Whoa. Looking good



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[eldorado99]

i wonder if diablo 3 will be any good

 

[shortylickens]

"Push harder" I shouted at my wife when she was in labour. "Fuck off you arsehole!" she screamed back at me. Bit harsh I thought... it wasn't my fault the car broke down on the way to the hospital.
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I got thrown out of the pub quiz last night and banned, one of the questions was "Define the meaning of the word niggling"... so I'm guessing "small black baby" was wrong.
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Just got back from a friends funeral who drowned last week. I got a lot of abuse from the relatives about my floral tribute in the shape a lifejacket. But as I told everyone "It's what he would have wanted".
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At Michael Jackson's trial Dr Conrad Murray stated that although Michael had got so thin that his pyjama tops were still adult size, he could squeeze into children's bottoms.
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I will never forget my childhood summers when we would climb inside lorry tyres and roll down hills... they were goodyears!
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A dying granny tells her granddaughter "I want to leave you my farm. That includes the villa, the tractor and other equipment, the farmhouse and $22,398,750 in cash." The granddaughter, about to be rich says "Oh my granny, you are so generous. I didn't even know you had a farm. Where is it?" With her last breath, her granny whispered "Facebook".

 

[shortylickens]

HOW TO KNOW YOU'RE READY FOR PARENTHOOD

MESS TEST: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flower bed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.

TOY TEST: Obtain a 55-gallon box of Legos. (If Legos are not available, you may substitute roofing tacks or broken bottles.) Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream (this could wake a child at night).

GROCERY STORE TEST: Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop at the grocery store. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.

DRESSING TEST: Obtain one large, unhappy, live octopus. Stuff it into a small net bag making sure that all arms stay inside.

FEEDING TEST: Obtain a large plastic milk jug. Fill it halfway with water. Suspend from the ceiling with a stout cord. Get the jug swinging. Try to insert spoonful's of soggy cereal (such as Fruit Loops or Cheerio's) into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor.

NIGHT TEST: Prepare by obtaining a small cloth bag and fill it with 8 to 12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 8 PM begin to waltz and hum with the bag until 9 PM. Lay down your bag and set your alarm for 10:00 PM. Get up, pick up your bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen more and sing them until 4am. Set alarm for 5:00 AM. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

PHYSICAL TEST (WOMEN): Obtain a large bean-bag chair and attach it to the front of your clothes. Leave it there for 9 mo. Now remove 10% of the beans.

PHYSICAL TEST (MEN): Go to the nearest drug store. Set your wallet on the counter. Ask the clerk to help himself. Now proceed to the nearest food store. Go to the head office and arrange for your paycheque to be directly deposited to the store. Purchase a newspaper. Go home and read it quietly for the last time.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT: Find a couple who already has a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their child's discipline, patience, tolerance, toilet training, and table manners. Suggest many things they can improve as well. Emphasise to them that they should never allow their children to run riot. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you'll have all the answers.

 

[shortylickens]

Gordon was the proprietor of a bar in Glasgow. He realises that virtually all of his customers are unemployed alcoholics and as such can no longer afford to patronise his bar.

To solve this problem, he comes up with a new marketing plan that allows his customers to drink now, but pay later. Gordon keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Gordon's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into his bar. Soon he has the largest sales volume for any bar in Glasgow.

By providing his customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Gordon gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, he substantially increases his prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Gordon's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic president at the local bank recognises that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Gordon's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern because he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral!

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS. These 'securities' are then bundled and traded on international securities markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as "AAA Secured Bonds" really are debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb - and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Gordon's bar. He so informs Gordon.

Gordon then demands payment from his alcoholic patrons. But, being unemployed alcoholics - they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Gordon cannot fulfil his loan obligations he is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and Gordon's 11 employees lose their jobs. Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%.

The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of Gordon's bar had granted him generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off his bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

His wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, his beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multibillion pound no-strings attached cash infusion from the government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never even been in Gordon's bar.

Now do you understand?

 

[shortylickens]

A Greek and Italian were sitting in a Starbuck's one day discussing who had the superior culture.

Over triple lattes the Greek guy says "Well, we have the Parthenon". Arching his eyebrows, the Italian replies "We have the Coliseum".

The Greek retorts "We Greeks gave birth to advanced mathematics". The Italian, nodding agreement says "But we built the Roman Empire".

And so on and so on until the Greek comes up with what he thinks will end the discussion.

With a flourish of finality he says, "We invented sex!" The Italian replies "That is true, but it was the Italians who introduced it to women".

 

[alfa147x]

yes! Missed field goal!

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[Locut0s]

i wonder if diablo 3 will be any good

Have you been watching it's development? Wave you seen enough gameplay vids to get a rough idea?

They are basically going for a much more streamlined feel to the game. Characters no longer gain assignable stat points upon levelling up, that's done for you. Instead you concentrate on levelling up your skills and can supposedly create any of a large variety of character / play types depending on the specific combination of base class you chose and the set of skills you decide to level up. Everything now revolves around the skill tree which is simplified in some ways and more complex in others. Apparently skills will evolve as you level them and take on bonus effects and even added animations and flourishes. You can perform chain combos to do more damage. Chugging health potions is supposedly gone. There are still health potions but their effects have been weakened to the point where you can't chug you way through the game. Instead they want to make the game more strategic. Enemies drop health orbs that do a better job of healing you.

From the game play that I've seen it certainly does look like they've managed to make the game much more viscerally felt. It does look like you are doing more actual hacking and slashing instead of just a click fest. Though weather this actually translates into the final game or not we shall see.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I have returned. NEF

 

[alfa147x]

Re arranging the living room

 

[alfa147x]

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[alfa147x]

Also cleaning it up...

 

[alfa147x]

also hanging up some art

 

[IndyColtsFan]

nef

 

[alfa147x]

I have some pieces on the way too. Rearranging, cleaning, and putting some stuff up will make thing room look a bit better

 

[Barfo]

Have you been watching it's development? Wave you seen enough gameplay vids to get a rough idea?

They are basically going for a much more streamlined feel to the game. Characters no longer gain assignable stat points upon levelling up, that's done for you. Instead you concentrate on levelling up your skills and can supposedly create any of a large variety of character / play types depending on the specific combination of base class you chose and the set of skills you decide to level up. Everything now revolves around the skill tree which is simplified in some ways and more complex in others. Apparently skills will evolve as you level them and take on bonus effects and even added animations and flourishes. You can perform chain combos to do more damage. Chugging health potions is supposedly gone. There are still health potions but their effects have been weakened to the point where you can't chug you way through the game. Instead they want to make the game more strategic. Enemies drop health orbs that do a better job of healing you.

From the game play that I've seen it certainly does look like they've managed to make the game much more viscerally felt. It does look like you are doing more actual hacking and slashing instead of just a click fest. Though weather this actually translates into the final game or not we shall see.

I have a beta invite and I really like what I've seen so far.
I'm a super casual player though, don't care for complicated tech trees, skills or whatever, I just want the game to be fun, and the beta certainly is.
I really like the "feel" of the game, seems really polished, streamlined, lots of attention to detail, it just works, lol.

 

[alfa147x]

ONE speaker for my bedroom arrived. ONE! The other is set to arrive on Tuesday. Talk about being teased...

 

[eldorado99]

Have you been watching it's development? Wave you seen enough gameplay vids to get a rough idea?

They are basically going for a much more streamlined feel to the game. Characters no longer gain assignable stat points upon levelling up, that's done for you. Instead you concentrate on levelling up your skills and can supposedly create any of a large variety of character / play types depending on the specific combination of base class you chose and the set of skills you decide to level up. Everything now revolves around the skill tree which is simplified in some ways and more complex in others. Apparently skills will evolve as you level them and take on bonus effects and even added animations and flourishes. You can perform chain combos to do more damage. Chugging health potions is supposedly gone. There are still health potions but their effects have been weakened to the point where you can't chug you way through the game. Instead they want to make the game more strategic. Enemies drop health orbs that do a better job of healing you.

From the game play that I've seen it certainly does look like they've managed to make the game much more viscerally felt. It does look like you are doing more actual hacking and slashing instead of just a click fest. Though weather this actually translates into the final game or not we shall see.

no i havent really been watching it at all, i just got bored easily with 2, which seemed like a good game, i just couldnt get in to it. I hope 3 is not like that. :\