Aggelakis

He didn't really ask a question. It looked mostly rhetorical, what with the following several paragraphs explaining why it doesn't work that followed. link

I have local friends. Heck, a couple of them are on my fb list. I keep in touch with them largely through the phone. It's a new-fangled wireless contraption that lets you talk long-distance via voice without having to be attached to a computer or wired into your house.

I don't spend "all my time on my computer in Facebook or whatever talking to my remove friends", btw. Nice attempt at condescension. It takes about 10 seconds to read a status update, another 10 seconds to make a comment (if I do, which most of the time I do not), and then it's on to the next status update from someone else. All in all, it takes about 10-15 minutes to catch up on Facebook if I don't go there for a couple days. If I visit daily, it's typically just a few minutes. I visit daily so that I can do other things instead of sit on Facebook for 15 minutes at a stretch. It's part of my daily "I'm awake but I'm not happy about it" routine: breakfast with a side of internet. I don't, in fact, lose any time with my "real life" friends because I wouldn't be spending those few minutes with them anyway.

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I live in Seattle. Most of my family is back home in Iowa. My mom, my sisters and brothers, cousins, nieces and nephews... almost all of them live within one state of Iowa. (One brother and sister-in-law live in Connecticut.)

Yep, I can just drive down the street and chum up with them. Family gatherings are easy! (NOT.)

One of my friends from high school is moving to Austin, TX (put a bid in on a house and got it last week, woohoo! posted pictures too, nice house). Another one is moving to Florida (or has already, not sure, hasn't posted in a while).

Yep, I can go out and have dinner with them. Easily. On a semi-weekly basis. From thousands of miles away. Sure.

I have one friend who regularly goes between Missouri and SPAIN. Now that's easy to get to! If it weren't for Facebook, I wouldn't know where he is at any given moment.

I have a few people on there who are my boyfriend's friends from when he lived in California.

In fact, a very large majority of my fb list does not live within "go out and have real [friends/family]" distance, mainly because of the awesomeness of the internet making the world much "smaller", so I know people from all the hell over the place.

So get the hell out of here with your "go out and have real friends" comment. Thanks very much.

I have one person like that on my fb list. I hid her from my news feed, and only go to her page when I'm curious what drama's going on now. (Which isn't often.)

If you're using dual-, triple-, or quad-aspect IOs, you can sometimes ignore scaling altogether.

Using multi-aspect IOs for frankenslotting is a GREAT way to never have to worry about exemplar scaling. Of course, if you don't want to frankenslot, you'll get hit by exemplar scaling more often.

Did not.

I remember that guy. He was awesome. If awesome actually meant 'pathetically sad'.

This?

That's Onyxia's head, the icon for the achievement for killing Onyxia. Each achievement in WoW has its own art, just like our badges. (Although, just like our badges, some of them get reused, or minor changes.)

There already is a link. Now you're REALLY showing your age...blindness.

I have no idea why this made me laugh that loud.

There are only 2 or 3 witches in Pocket D, so that's obviously wrong!

Wins the thread!!