In Germany, legal alcohol buying age is 16 for beer/wine, 18 for everything else (even if it's watered down 4% stuff). Smoking age got changed from 16 to 18 like... 3 years ago.
Actual drinking age (again, for beer and such) is 12 when you're accompanied by an adult, weed smoking age is 18 iirc.
Cannabis laws in Germany are rubbish anyway. You can own it (up to three times as much as in the Netherlands, depending on state), smoke it, but buying it is prohibited. Yeah, right.
Oh Maz, one of the guys in my new guild is in the Danish army. It's weird, he's been in war and all that and I've met my fair share of war veterans and they've all been the kind of crazy I just want to stab in the face (but won't because they've usually done a good service to someone or else at least risked their life for a cause, or are related to me) but he's just ******* serene. It's almost creepy. But nice and calming. He said the Danish army takes good care of their people's minds. That's nice.
As for my own family history, on my dad's side my great grandfather got killed by some Dutchies in WW2 and my grandfather killed some Frenchies in WW2. On my mum's side, my grandma got put into a concentration camp because she was involved in some activities related to possibly overthrowing the government, so it's all good.
I managed to just barely not Godwin this, right? Right?
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#2653
Jul 14 2010 at 5:22 PM
Wow, so many people with military families.
My own has been involved in the airforce about as long as there's been airplanes. My Grandmother's Uncle was a WWI flying ace, my Grandfather worked in the military lab where they designed some of the first air-air missiles, and both my parents were in the nuclear silos, and I have enough other family members involved to lose track over who did what.
For better or for worse I have a bum knee that kept me away from that military stuff (that and my parent's insistence I go to college). Probably for the better...
My own has been involved in the airforce about as long as there's been airplanes. My Grandmother's Uncle was a WWI flying ace, my Grandfather worked in the military lab where they designed some of the first air-air missiles, and both my parents were in the nuclear silos, and I have enough other family members involved to lose track over who did what.
For better or for worse I have a bum knee that kept me away from that military stuff (that and my parent's insistence I go to college). Probably for the better...
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
#2654
Jul 14 2010 at 6:32 PM
My families military ties aren't that strong, we were never involved in any fighting. My dad was in the merchant navy during the Falklands war, and my grandfather on my mothers side was involved in cracking the Enigma code. Although, my great grandfather on my dads side fought in both world wars, and survived, only to die about 3 years before I was born, I think.
#2655
Jul 15 2010 at 10:16 AM
I haven't checked for myself lately, but I don't think there have been very many people in my family who've been in the military. I have one who briefly served in the first Gulf War, but aside from that, I don't know about anyone else.
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#2656
Jul 15 2010 at 11:40 AM
My family's bonds with the military really disappeared after my grandfather left the NAVO, my dad only joined because he had to.
My granddad however worked for the NAVO most of his life, and he served in Indonesia although I've never heard him say a word about that and it's pretty much a forgotten thing in our family. With what the Netherlands did there it's not something to be proud of and with how my family works I understand why it's the way it is, although I'd like to know more about it.
Not that I expect that to happen though, he'll never speak about it and I think he'd be angry if I asked him about it.
And I do not want to see him angry... He gave me a speech a few months ago after giving me the money to buy a camera that that money better be well spend and I've never been as scared in my life, the man is terrifying when he speaks like that.
Edited, Jul 15th 2010 7:41pm by Aethien
My granddad however worked for the NAVO most of his life, and he served in Indonesia although I've never heard him say a word about that and it's pretty much a forgotten thing in our family. With what the Netherlands did there it's not something to be proud of and with how my family works I understand why it's the way it is, although I'd like to know more about it.
Not that I expect that to happen though, he'll never speak about it and I think he'd be angry if I asked him about it.
And I do not want to see him angry... He gave me a speech a few months ago after giving me the money to buy a camera that that money better be well spend and I've never been as scared in my life, the man is terrifying when he speaks like that.
Edited, Jul 15th 2010 7:41pm by Aethien
#2657
Jul 15 2010 at 2:03 PM
Aethien wrote:
And I do not want to see him angry...
Totally!
If there's one thing I learned at a young age; it's that once you've been a flick of your wrist away from vaporizing a half-million people, giving your kid a good lickin', for something they shouldn't have been doing anyway, doesn't really pose a moral dilemma.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
#2658
Jul 16 2010 at 10:00 AM
Last night we were 1 dps short again. One of our ranged DPS had a computer failure of some kind, and hasn't been able to log in all week. So we pugged a DPS. I asked the gal in charge of finding the pug, to find someone who seems like they had a good personality and could listen.
I got what I asked for, he was a nice guy; he also did 2k dps. I got a 0/0/71 Unholy DK (he was dual-spec'd into 0/71/0 frost
) with green gems, no meta, and who yearned for herioc/emblem gear.
Anyway it didn't matter, we needed a warm body for the ICC weekly (Rot+Fester) and someone who didn't mind wiping on Sindy with us, since it was the first time we saw her. Speaking of the dragon, on the last attempt we finally hit the enrage timer so the DK didn't really hold us back thankfully.
Honestly it was tons of fun, though. I really missed doing progression raiding the last 2 months.
I got what I asked for, he was a nice guy; he also did 2k dps. I got a 0/0/71 Unholy DK (he was dual-spec'd into 0/71/0 frost
) with green gems, no meta, and who yearned for herioc/emblem gear. Anyway it didn't matter, we needed a warm body for the ICC weekly (Rot+Fester) and someone who didn't mind wiping on Sindy with us, since it was the first time we saw her. Speaking of the dragon, on the last attempt we finally hit the enrage timer so the DK didn't really hold us back thankfully.
Honestly it was tons of fun, though. I really missed doing progression raiding the last 2 months.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
#2659
Jul 16 2010 at 10:06 AM
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So my druid hit 80 two days ago and I have been farming randoms like crazy. While waiting to que up I saw someone needed heals for a toc 10 run. I told them I only had a 3800 gs and they said they would give me a try. Well turns out I out healed both the other healers. Both healers were pallies. They ended up making me a tank healer and put a pally on raid. I did around 3300 HPS the whole fight. I was happy
#2660
Jul 17 2010 at 12:49 PM
Quote:
I'm on your server, raping your AH.
I do it daily.
#2661
Jul 19 2010 at 12:25 PM
#2662
Jul 19 2010 at 1:07 PM
#2663
Jul 19 2010 at 1:31 PM
Well, I can see you are an angel,
whose wings just won't unfold.
Tune up your harp; polish your old halo.
Well the only kind of man that you ever wanted
is one that you knew you'd never hold very long.
You're sittin' there cryin' like I'm the first one to go.
From the guy who wrote Mr Bojangles.
Ya I'm a redneck...
whose wings just won't unfold.
Tune up your harp; polish your old halo.
Well the only kind of man that you ever wanted
is one that you knew you'd never hold very long.
You're sittin' there cryin' like I'm the first one to go.
From the guy who wrote Mr Bojangles.
Ya I'm a redneck...
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
#2664
Jul 19 2010 at 1:49 PM
Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant `til I fall
Bit late to the party, but I'm bored. And it's better than the original.
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant `til I fall
Bit late to the party, but I'm bored. And it's better than the original.
#2665
Jul 19 2010 at 8:24 PM
So guys, my computer crashes every time the adds spawn on Halion 25 HM apparently, and I can't upgrade it till the weekend. We had an insane number of DCs from quite a few raid members, but even after the worst (including me) got removed, they only got him to P2 once because it kept happening. WTF?
My PC crashes about 20% of the time on Putricide heroic too. At least I should be fine for Sindy and the Lich King tomorrow, but since Putri is now officially farm content, we're likely to do him before the weekend and I might have to wait it out again.
/cry
Edit: Ran some heroics with a guildy on his freshly-dinged 3k GS moonkin. He out-DPS'd people in T10. Fun tiemz.
Edited, Jul 20th 2010 2:25am by Kalivha
My PC crashes about 20% of the time on Putricide heroic too. At least I should be fine for Sindy and the Lich King tomorrow, but since Putri is now officially farm content, we're likely to do him before the weekend and I might have to wait it out again.
/cry
Edit: Ran some heroics with a guildy on his freshly-dinged 3k GS moonkin. He out-DPS'd people in T10. Fun tiemz.
Edited, Jul 20th 2010 2:25am by Kalivha
#2666
Jul 19 2010 at 8:59 PM
Yesterday I had a retpally in ridiculous gear (at least I assume it was, as he had 30k hp in said gear and his weapon appeared to be icecrown) who did less than a third of the total damage my noobtastic DK tank did.
._.;
._.;
#2667
Jul 19 2010 at 9:57 PM
Sounds like he was slacking.
You can run people through ICC25 hardmodes, though. Let them commit suicide, go on with 24, give them loot.
You can run people through ICC25 hardmodes, though. Let them commit suicide, go on with 24, give them loot.
#2669
Jul 20 2010 at 5:44 AM
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idiggory wrote:
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#2670
Jul 20 2010 at 5:56 AM
Kalivha wrote:
Sounds like he was slacking.
You can run people throughICC25 hardmodesanything, though. Let them commit suicide, go on with 24the rest, give them loot.
You can run people through
Makes me sad. Very sad, since its very true and my guild can't kill Sindy 10 normal. Is it bad that I am hoping I have to heal this weeks 10 man so I can get my druid in to a LK kill 10 man group?
My rogue with a barely 5k GS can almost out DPS a 6k GS lock from my guild.
I can usually beat 90% of the guild DPS when my druid DPSs even though I usually tank and have less good DPS gear. :(
Also some guildies get much lulz when I do BGs with them on my priest. As of now only 1-2 people would I want doing rated BGs with me.
The ****** part is I don't feel I can recruit unless I get the KS as trying to recruit to beat LK10 is well very very very lame and will just result in lulz, the bad kind unfortunately.
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#2671
Jul 20 2010 at 5:58 AM
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#2672
Jul 20 2010 at 6:24 AM
I like the reggae, the Hawaiian song not so much.
I think in part because it took two minutes before he started singing, and the guitars didn't do much for me.
So by the time he started singing I was kind of bored with the song and the singing is.. odd.. for lack of a better word.
Love me two times, baby
Love me twice today
Love me two times, girl
I'm goin' away
Love me two times, girl
One for tomorrow
One just for today
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me one time
I could not speak
Love me one time
Yeah, my knees got weak
But love me two times, girl
Last me all through the week
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Oh, yes
Love me one time
I could not speak
Love me one time, baby
Yeah, my knees got weak
But love me two times, girl
Last me all through the week
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times, babe
Love me twice today
Love me two times, babe
'Cause I'm goin' away
Love me two time, girl
One for tomorrow
One just for today
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
<3 The Doors
Edit: As for your raid, are you the GM?
If so, why do you think people are underperforming/do you have logs?
Edited, Jul 20th 2010 2:27pm by Aethien
I think in part because it took two minutes before he started singing, and the guitars didn't do much for me.
So by the time he started singing I was kind of bored with the song and the singing is.. odd.. for lack of a better word.
Love me two times, baby
Love me twice today
Love me two times, girl
I'm goin' away
Love me two times, girl
One for tomorrow
One just for today
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me one time
I could not speak
Love me one time
Yeah, my knees got weak
But love me two times, girl
Last me all through the week
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Oh, yes
Love me one time
I could not speak
Love me one time, baby
Yeah, my knees got weak
But love me two times, girl
Last me all through the week
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times, babe
Love me twice today
Love me two times, babe
'Cause I'm goin' away
Love me two time, girl
One for tomorrow
One just for today
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
Love me two times
I'm goin' away
<3 The Doors
Edit: As for your raid, are you the GM?
If so, why do you think people are underperforming/do you have logs?
Edited, Jul 20th 2010 2:27pm by Aethien
#2673
Jul 20 2010 at 8:40 AM
Horse, I know what you mean. I don't think recruiting good players is at all possible unless you grab the severely undergeared ones or have at least 7 hardmodes down.
I also understand struggling on Sindy to some degree. We're going to start progressing on her in hard mode tonight. Should be easy though because we've already got Putri down and she doesn't seem to be harder than him.
Do parse combat logs to have a better idea of who's slacking when or standing in fire or anything like that. Recount can actually show how bad people are failing on mechanics, too (check damage taken).
About Sindy in general, what part do you struggle on the most? Generally I've found that positioning the raid on the stairs is easier than the Aethien-endorsed balcony tactic.
Have the tombs position themselves at the corners of the bottom of the stairs, and the rest of the raid at the top of the stairs for the beginning of the flight phase; have casters set up a PowerAura that shows Unchained Magic with a timer as well as Instability stacks.
Also never kill any Frost Tombs prematurely.
I'm actually just noticing that they position her facing to the right in that video, we do it to the left but I think it doesn't matter.
Also also, I'm not sure people can be carried through LK/Halion hardmodes yet. Not very easily, anyway.
I also understand struggling on Sindy to some degree. We're going to start progressing on her in hard mode tonight. Should be easy though because we've already got Putri down and she doesn't seem to be harder than him.
Do parse combat logs to have a better idea of who's slacking when or standing in fire or anything like that. Recount can actually show how bad people are failing on mechanics, too (check damage taken).
About Sindy in general, what part do you struggle on the most? Generally I've found that positioning the raid on the stairs is easier than the Aethien-endorsed balcony tactic.
Have the tombs position themselves at the corners of the bottom of the stairs, and the rest of the raid at the top of the stairs for the beginning of the flight phase; have casters set up a PowerAura that shows Unchained Magic with a timer as well as Instability stacks.
Also never kill any Frost Tombs prematurely.
I'm actually just noticing that they position her facing to the right in that video, we do it to the left but I think it doesn't matter.
Also also, I'm not sure people can be carried through LK/Halion hardmodes yet. Not very easily, anyway.
#2674
Jul 20 2010 at 10:16 AM
We're working on Sindy ourselves.
We had problems with people not being able to run out when she sucks you in. Our PuG had the most trouble, I gave up healing him.
And the bombs that go off at awkward angles when you are trying to hide behind the frost tombs took some getting used to.
Oh my favorite was when both healers got trapped and they freed me only to have a bomb go off a second later, that hurt a lot. Unchained magic wasn't giving us too much trouble thankfully...
Just out of curiosity, have any of you guys tried it with frost resist gear?
Also Horse posts good music. We had The Brothers Cazimero playing in the car on the way to work today.
Ok, that's enough random thoughts now...
We had problems with people not being able to run out when she sucks you in. Our PuG had the most trouble, I gave up healing him.
And the bombs that go off at awkward angles when you are trying to hide behind the frost tombs took some getting used to.
Oh my favorite was when both healers got trapped and they freed me only to have a bomb go off a second later, that hurt a lot. Unchained magic wasn't giving us too much trouble thankfully...
Just out of curiosity, have any of you guys tried it with frost resist gear?
Also Horse posts good music. We had The Brothers Cazimero playing in the car on the way to work today.
Ok, that's enough random thoughts now...
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
#2675
Jul 20 2010 at 11:08 AM
The only time we had Frost Resist gear was with a plate DPS offtanking; he kept his weapon and part of his gear but put on some frost resist gear, too.
#2676
Jul 20 2010 at 1:30 PM
I use FR gear as it still has loads of stam and then solo tank since me dieing is not what is causing us to wipe. With over 500 FR the damage is pretty manageable and the boss should be die before it becomes an issue.
Yes, I am GM and I need to start remembering to do stuff for WoL.
Yes, I am GM and I need to start remembering to do stuff for WoL.
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