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True on the Minotaur, but he also has a lower AV and if he gets knocked down you almost have to use Blitz with him to get him to stand up. I will admit I've sent many a player crowd surfing with judicious use of a Minotaur near the sidelines, though.

All of the Big Guys have their disadvantages, but if you get lucky enough to get doubles on them and get Block for a skill, a lot of those negatives disappear quickly.

Ronin, Bullitt, The French Connection, The Blues Brothers. All great car chases. There's no denying this.

I can't find a link, but there is an AWESOME and brutal car chase near the middle of "The Corruptor," starring Chow Yun Fat and Mark Wahlberg. Not too many people saw it in theaters, but it's one of those underrated gems that you can find in the $5 DVD bins. Solid movie and it's well worth the effort to find.

True story, my Fire/Kin controller finished off the Clockwork King with Brawl.

That was ALMOST as epic as my EQ Troll Shaman dealing the killing blow to a dragon with the shield bash for 1 point of damage. (I used it to interrupt spell casting, and just got lucky.)

OH...and back in the day...Fire/Kin wasn't cool. Not at all. If you weren't Fire/Rad you SUCKED.

Well, the whole last 30 or 40 minutes of Hard-Boiled is essentially one long shootout in the hospital, but I'm a real sucker for camera work that actually requires, you know, WORK. The planning, rehearsing and execution of those shots is extraordinarily time-consuming, but so worth the effort. There's a ton of good stuff following that scene once they start trying to take out Mad Dog. The shootout in the warehouse is also rather awesome, and the opening scene in the tea house is incredible, as well. "Give the man a gun and he thinks he's Superman! Give him two guns and he thinks he's God!" Love that movie.

The fight scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" between Yu Shu Lien and Jen Yu (Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang, respectively) is also outstanding.

And I have to agree with a few people above -- I didn't like what was happening to the horses too much in the initial clip. Plus, stuff just seemed to be happening for no apparent reason other than "hey, wouldn't it look cool if...."

Usually when I see something:

1) Never raise a fuss in broadcast or wherever. There's no point to it. It's like mud wrestling with a pig -- both of you will get dirty and only the pig will like it.

2) Just do a simple petition.

3) For fun, put the character on your friends list and start taking bets in a global channel as to how long it will take for the character to be Generic'ed. Right after "300" released in theaters there were zillions of Spartans suddenly running around. My favorite was "Testakles," but he was generic in under an hour.

There's no "I" in TEAM.
But there is an "I" in PIE, such as MEAT PIE.
And MEAT is an anagram for TEAM.

And what would you propose doing if:

--The merger of two or three specific servers puts a player over the cap of allowed characters on that server?
--Characters merging into a server have the same name? Who gets to keep the name?

The servers do not need to merge. If you feel the need to play on a more populated server, move to Freedom.

NOTE: Norton Internet Security IS a virus.

To be fair, as (I think) Kali pointed out -- Blizzard is no longer Blizzard. They are Activision/Blizzard. At the very top they are run by Bobby Kotick, a guy who doesn't give a flying fig about games. He cares about franchises that make millions of dollars per year and maximizing the profit of said franchises. He's leaving Blizzard (mostly) alone because he knows their games sell, but the management at Blizzard IS being marginalized and pushed aside for Kotick's agenda.

Do not trust a thing this man says.

And it's a shame, because Blizzard was one of the best names in gaming at one point. (This title might be shifting to BioWare at this point.)

Victory had lots of people at that event, as well. It was too hard to get a count hero side, and I saw a lot of characters with the titles for the event red side, so I'd have to assume a decent turn out there.

Additionally, Victory gets pretty decent turn out for ship raids and have recently started running Hami raids with more regularity.

And we've seen no problems with putting together TFs and teams, and I've personally witnessed veterans returning to the game and a few "out of the box" newbies running around with all of 3 badges to their names.

This is on one of the "dead" servers.

As others have said...many veterans ARE taking breaks. Some are returning to reacquaint themselves with the game before the big update. And there is a closed beta going on.

The servers aren't dead. This game is far from dead.

I'm betting this is an appeasement so as not to disrupt the immediate sales and pre-orders of Cataclysm. As others have pointed out, RealID is still going to be used as a Facebook integration and in game for friends lists. It simply won't be used on the forums.

Seriously, DO NOT WANT.

I still will not be buying Starcraft II or Diablo III, no matter how good those games will probably be.

If you turn on the parental controls, that account can not post on the forums.

NOTE: almost 45k responses on that one "official" thread on the WoW forums. Yikes.

Oh, I know. This is anything that's happened here magnified by thousands, and invasion of privacy is a big issue for a lot of people (not just gamers). I used my analogies because there is NOTHING REMOTELY COMPARABLE and used the next best thing. In other words, lighten up, Francis.

Here's a fun link.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=128252

It's a brief history of Activision/Blizzard and should show how we got to this point. (And how a historically great gaming company may be on the road to ruin.)

This is quite true, so it will be interesting to see what really happens. How many times has there been outrage on these forums with people saying they're quitting, only to have subscriptions increase? Most people will not care about this change.

However, I should point out (as I mentioned earlier) I have two friends who play WoW. They didn't care about the RealID stuff at first, but when I showed them the deal Vivendi/Universal inked with Facebook, they canceled their subs.

This is going to be an interesting dynamic to watch, and I'm sure other game companies are watching this very closely.

It will be interesting how a gaming addiction interacts with nerdrage.

Those are a total rip-off. Mine suffocated in the box during shipment.