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Quote from "Shatterer" »

As long as you post by the rules nobody's going to throw pies at you.

I might..

But, in all seriousness, welcome!

What is a social life? :confused:

Thanks again for spotlighting my forum game. Meph's contest is truly a great idea, there should be more people voting! And Nektu's cooking corner is a great place to find some recipes for lots of different things, great to have you 'round, Nektu! I hope that thread stays alive for a very long time.

I'm starting to contribute to the ES portion of the wiki, too. We need flowcharts for each of the skills? I could do that If I knew how.. D:

I just did one for Soul Shiver. I accidentally said it was in the "Cold Skills" tree instead of the "Cold Spells" tree and now I can't seem to edit my own contribution..

D'oh!

Awesome, thanks!

I think I'll save this for later.

*Walks back in*

Heeeeyyyy.... what are you doing wasting all that perfectly good dirty dish water? Gimme somma that!

*Stumbles back upstairs, eyes bleeding, arms destroyed*

..why.. Why..WHY?! Did no one come and help me?! It took me four hours to wriggle my way out of those ropes! Do you know how many times I had to listen to that Joey bastard say "How you doin'"? I'm gonna throw a shoe at Party_Foul when I see him in here next! It's gonna be steel-toed, and have spikes, and have lemon juice on it.

....

I'll have a beer. Wait. NO! How you doin'..? OH GOD!

AAAAHHH!

*Runs out screaming*

Ohh.. hey. Wait. What are you doing?

*gets eyelids taped open*

Quote from "Party_Foul" »

"BEHLOD! YOU ARE DOOMED TO WATCH OLD RERUNS OF FRIENDS FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS!"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

"Dude, you need to lose weight."

"Can you rephrase that in the form of a cheeseburger?"

-Cyanide & Happiness

Welcome!

This is, essentially, the rebirth of my pride and joy.. the Video Game Quiz.

I'm sure a few of you remember participating the last time I was active. You all had fun, right?!

Anyway, RTOA stands for Random Trivia Of Awesome(ness). It will apply the same sort of rules and... applications of the last one. Except there can now be questions about anything! Exciting! Right? No? .... =/
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**UPDATED** Feb. 14th, 2010
Reason: Revised Bomb rules

Question Guidelines
Okay, so. I shall name three categories and supply three questions in each. Each question is letter coded (A, B and C).

"A" questions involve using common sense or having simple general knowledge on the subject. They will most likely take the form of a True or False question, or a "Name the x amount of whatever" question. These are worth 1 point.

"B" questions will require you to have experienced the subject in some form to be able to answer them correctly. They normally take the form of a standard question or a "Name the x amount of whatever," although slightly more difficult. These are worth 2 points.

"C" questions need you to have learned about the subject in some way. Or at least read about it a lot. They vary in form and, usually, will require a substantial amount of extra knowledge. These are worth 3 points.

The Codeword
I will name a "codeword", as I call it, that which, whenever I place it anywhere in one of my next posts, you can point it out to gain a 3 point bonus.

It will be displayed directly above the questions, that location doesn't count. It's there every time, you can't say it's right there to get free points. If it's somewhere else in my post (not including quotes), you may point it out to get a bonus.
Edits do not count, either. You must point it out in your original post.

Bombs
There will also be "bombs" returning. Where if you answer a series of questions (usually 5-10) correctly: you get the option to "bomb" someones points. Normally, that would mean setting their points to zero, but instead will reduce them by half. Mind you, if you get even one of the questions wrong, you've lost your one and only chance to bomb someone.

To gain points:

1. Answer questions, one at a time, from one of the three categories

2. PM me a set of questions, you will gain two points for this. But you are not allowed to answer questions in your own category, you may still answer in one of the two remaining.

A couple rules:

1. Try not to Google answers.

2. You may answer ONE question at a time. (Not one in each category, just one per poster)

AND IT BEGINS!
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Category 1: The Computer
A.) What does GPU stand for?
B.) Name 2 companies that produce computers. (e.g. IBM)
C.) Name the first commercially successful computer to feature a GUI.

Category 2: Foods that end in amburger
A.) Name a food that ends in amburger.
B.) Name a food that doesn't end in amburger
Bonus.) What am I referring to in this category?

Category 3: The PS3
A.) M_ta_ Gea_ S_lid 4: G_u_s _ _ th_ Patr_ _ts
B.) State the Month/Day/Year on which the PS3 was released.

Quote from "Nacho_ijp" »

I must go to study, I lost almost all day already

hate finals... *goes away mumbling* hate finals hate finals hate finals

Good luck buddy. Btw that avy is awesome. Clean, well centered and to the point!

Now let's embrace the awesomeness of the bucket

Quote from "deathMars" »

I hope you're all joking about seriously like this idea.

I think you misunderstand "pirate." Pirates don't all have peglegs and parrots. And they exist in the Diablo universe. If you're such a genius what's your idea, old timer?

The story of a scammer who got scammed

What if there was no spoon?

Quote from "Turmobil" »

Well you're ain't the thread creator.
Ask Zhar if you wish to change the game.

Lmao I'm not changing the game. I'm making things easier. I said just copy and paste it so we can read the entire story.

Changing the game would be like:

Zhar: Let's make up a story one word at a time.

deathMars: FUCK YOU! Let's play hide and go seek.

Welcome dude!

Quote from "Donsro" »

What's up!! Finally someone cool. (no offense other newbies)

Dude, I'm so cool I piss ice cubes.

From the writings of Abd-al Hazir -

It must be a strange feeling to be fearless of death.

To be completely detached from all life would be, in my eyes, a fate worse than death. However, one must first be given the chance to taste the good in life before one can miss it. The thought of this saddens me but the reality is that there are those in our world that have never had such a chance...

Over the many years of my life I have travelled far and I now count myself among the most learned scholars in Sanctuary. However, nothing I had seen nor read prepared me for my first encounter with a Dhampir. The encounter I speak of is amongst the most confronting moments of my life, though, I doubt the tale will end the way you expect it to...the way I expected it to. My tale begins with me running for my life...

Time seemed to stop as the dark figure hunting me paused in the shadows.

“Life and Death?” he said - repeating part of my question back to me. The shrill tone of his voice made me shiver in fear. I could tell from the way his expression changed – first deadly, now thoughtful – that my reaction to his vicious approach surprised him. As he glared at me his glistening fangs slid slowly back into the darkness.

“We know both well here my friend.” His bright eyes narrowed and he locked me into his bottomless gaze.

“Why are you here Hazir? This is not a place for scholars to be wandering.” The mention of my name struck me like lightning and I was unable to answer. How could he know my name? Was this someone I had met before? It took all of my resolve not to turn and run in fear from the man hidden in the shadows.

“Yes, I know you old man.” He smiled at my apparent surprise revealing his slightly sharpened teeth and began to prowl toward me again – his body language was no longer enraged but curious.

“You are known among the Dhampir for your extensive writings. We have used your discoveries to aid us in our quest to destroy the ones whom birthed us.” His explanation did nothing to ease the tension I felt in his presence - but the icy fear swimming in my stomach began to turn to burning curiosity.

As the man came forward from the shadows I could finally make out his face. He was dark-brown skinned with straight blood-red hair that ran to down to his shoulders. He made no attempt to move his thin hair from his face. Through the strands of his hair his eyes glowed a lucent blue in the fire-light. Such a contrast of colours I had never seen before! Could this be? I had hoped that I would one day catch a glimpse of the infamous Dhampir but now that I had one lurking before me I could not believe it. The tales I had heard of them were ripe with bloodshed and fear so I had come to expect more of a monster rather than the man standing in front of me. I had indeed studied the vampiric demons that are thought to have created the Dhampir and so I was not so ill-informed - like the majority of people are – as to their true nature.





--- A bit of background spin-off



It is written in ancient scrolls - well past their used-by-date - that the Vampires that served Diablo ‘Lord of Terror’, created the Dhampir in their image with the hope that their children would inherit their strength in a human body. This would allow them to walk through the daylight and amongst a human population without ever being noticed. After spending many years perfecting their blood-binding rituals they were finally successful in creating the first ever Dhampir. He was named Vemenos by his father’s and, if the said scrolls are accurate, he would now be the strongest of his kind. You see, as time passes the Dhampir grow in strength – this is unlike any other demon-kind I have studied. All of my studies have led me to believe that a demon is unable to change it’s form in any way without the use of dark magics. Basically - they do not have a natural growth. If it is indeed true that the Dhampir are subject to change over time, then I speculate that this anomaly is one of the side effects of having human blood flow through their veins.

I feel the deepest sorrow for the mothers chosen as Dhampir hosts for my studies of the blood-binding ritual has lead me to believe that their very souls are sacrificed to Diablo – the Lord of Terror - in order to give their children life. In fact, it has been said that as the Dhampir take their first breath their Mothers breathe their last. I speculate that this fact plays a major role in the Dhampirs relentless motivation to hunt their makers.

From birth the Dhampir grow rapidly and after their first year are big enough to pass as a fully grown human. I have not discovered the precise reasons the Dhampir have chosen to fight for light over darkness but maybe the red-haired blue-eyed predator in front of me would be willing to share his story? After all, I have helped them in their relentless hunt to kill their fathers, albeit unintentionally.

"The demons did not anticipate the strength of the human soul that carried on to us through our mothers. Once we were old enough to learn the fate of our mothers and the plan the demons had in store for us we rebelled against our forced fate and began to hunt our creators as revenge."

So began the Dhampir’s war fueled by revenge.
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I am planning on doing a short story from this idea so check out the fan fiction section later on if you want to see what happens in the story.

Cheers
Shibblicious

I read these boards from time to time, but never felt the need to post anything until now. Reading the orange highlights might save this thread from some flaming/hate. So, here goes.

I've been reading random thread about some ideas people have that could be the 5th class. Many suggest rangers, raiders, marksman, rogues, thieves, archers, etcetc. Sound very familiar, yes? But what I haven't heard(and I don't see much in a quicksearch either) is the possibility of the 5th class bearing possibility similarities to the

(http://diablo.gamona.de/media/artworks/)



NINJA (For lack of a better name)
Some people will debunk this fairly fast because they are thoroughly convinced that the 5th class HAS to be some kind of masterful bow&arrow type class. Well, who said ninjas can't use bows? Ryu Hayabusa uses a bow in at least one of his games(though not very effectively). I'm not saying the 5th class WILL be ninjas, but definitely possess similarities(so, in a sense, somewhat similar to the assassin as well). Ninja is just probably the closest I can think of to this type of class, without reusing the term assassin. I can see how a toned down but more assassination-based skill tree related to ninjas can be very possible. Here are some possible skill trees based on this type of class.

Ranged Assassination - Includes skills that have to deal with ranged weaponry, but not to the extent of the amazon's multi-shot. Easily alter skills to affect the projectile only, that way this tree can apply to throwing daggers, throwing axes, bows, crossbows, and javelins. Example skills: Cripple, slow, bleed, blind, critical/crushing blow, piercing(crowd control?), knockback, disable, immobilize, disorient, confuse, apply(to ranged attack) poison/explosive/other, etcetc.

Stealth Movement - Includes skills that have to deal with the class' movements. Example skills: Charge(like paladin), teleport kick/punch/stab/etcetc, reverse-charge(to get away) + throw/shoot ranged weapon, split-image(or something related?), possibly some crippling, bleeding, blinding, disabling, immobilizing, or disorienting attacks. Maybe even feature tools like smoke bombs or something. Heh.

Closer-Quarters Combat - I think it'd be neat if they made this a hybrid of weapon-based melee skills as well as shield-as-weapon skills. This would fit well with the throwing weapons, since they are one handed. Would clash a bit with the bows/crossbows though. I'm at a lost for what types of skills, however. All I can really come up with are the skills featured in Diablo II and/or other classes have them.

Traps - Always possible, but doubtful.

Summons/Pets - Also possible, but doubtful.

Poison - I would've liked this idea, but again not very original and the WD already uses poison.

Bloodlust or Fury - Wouldn't be a bad idea. Considering that there's an alternative mana system, possibly use that for this class too? Perhaps the class' only gets filled up by deaths(blood) instead of just blows like the barbarian might make it interesting. A series of skill and combo buildups with finishing moves/releases?

Comments?
Ideas?
:necro:?
:spam:?
:facepalm:?

Edit: Spelled Ryu's name wrong. Lawls.

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Enjoy. Now I gotta go pick a caption winner. I totally forgot to do that.

8/10 Buckethead is awesome!