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The Dog & Duck / Re: A rant about the BBC

« on: November 21, 2008, 08:46:25 AM »

I ended up taking a hammer to it in front of the dude on the 6th or 7th visit.

Hilarious! I guess I learned something then, I'm certain that never used to be their policy (re: game/dvd tellys). The thing is I can't find that information on the tvlicensing.co.uk site - where did you get that link from?

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The Dog & Duck / Re: A rant about the BBC

« on: November 20, 2008, 02:44:47 PM »

The licensce fee is so worth it, it isn't funny.

Not to me it's not. I haven't watched the beeb for... years. I don't listen to the radio. The closest I get is the bbc website, which I do tend to read but if it would save me 140 quid a year, I'd drop it for a commercial news site in an instant.

All I use the telly for is wii/xbox and dvds. Yet I'm forced to pay it, under the threat of criminal prosecution and draconian fines because I own a tv which is capable of receiving their signal even through the aerial hasn't even been plugged in for 2 years.

Yeah I'm one of "those" people.

I'm not really advocating the abolition of the entire organisation, just the enforced nature of the license fee. The way I look at it is this. If you watch the bbc, you listen to the radio, and you read their news; you're probably happy to pay the license fee, right? So why not make it a subscription service like sky channels etc. If you pay the subscription you can go to bbc news site, you get all the bbc channels on yer telly. If they cannot survive on the revenue from that, and that alone, then they do not deserve to continue without either embracing advertising or trimming some of the fat out (bbc 3.. 4, 5? how many channels are there?). It's an archaic model that needs to be updated for the times.

Why should I be forced to subsidise a service which I do not even wish to make use of?

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Warhammer Online / Re: assist

« on: November 20, 2008, 12:29:12 PM »

anyone that isn't a tank or a primary healer should abuse the shit out of it.

I just made a /assist macro and bound it to 'f' which was the default key from WoW lol. Not that I ever press it, because my DoT that ticks for 50 dmg isn't gonna kill anyone but it's good to have there for comfort's sake.

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Warhammer Online / Re: Shadow Warrior - the Shadows bring nightmares

« on: November 20, 2008, 09:43:52 AM »

I'm sure it's more 'straightforward' when you play the class, but this all sounds way too complicated for my simple mind

I've even unable to travel due to lack of funds

Seriously? Often? I've respecced a ton of times, sometimes 2-3 times a night, and bought several purple wounds talismans for myself and I'm still swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck!

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Warhammer Online / Re: World Domination

« on: November 20, 2008, 09:27:42 AM »

So you've got to;

- Push the front to a fortress.
- Take the fortress within an hour of the zone opening.
- Push the front to another fortress.
- Take the fortress within an hour of the zone opening, and within 12 hours of the previous fortress take.
- Lock the capital city zone (no time limit is stated for this).
- Complete two 'difficult' PQs involving killing a 'prestige' NPC each.
- Drop the king within 24 hours.

Sounds hard as hell. I can't see it happening unless one side is caught flatfooted, or massive population imbalance exists. Taking a fortress within the space of an hour is a pretty big sticking point I think, and if you fail during the course of that hour - the entire racial conflict is set back to square 1 :O

I can't see Order on Karak-Hirn acheiving this, am I being too pessimistic?

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The Dog & Duck / Re: Star Trek XI New Teaser

« on: November 20, 2008, 08:58:56 AM »

When the original idea was proposed a few years ago, I just shook my head. And now, I think I've watched that trailer six or seven times.

Same.  More so as the last couple of trek movies - anything after Generations - have been really dire.  I am so looking forward to XI now

Say what now? First Contact was bad? *shakes head* Generations was... ok. Insurrection and Nemesis were not so good, yeah.

I think this looks like a good brain-turn-off sort of film. I'd still prefer they were doing a new series or somesuch moving forward rather than more Kirk wankery, but oh well.

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Lord of the Rings Online / Re: so i have been out of the game and have questions thread

« on: November 19, 2008, 12:11:12 PM »

You've been able to dye items for as long as I can remember in LOTRO. Scholars make 'em iirc.

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EVE Online / Re: EVE Online Thread

« on: November 19, 2008, 09:03:46 AM »

Damn you people. You're making me want to play again and I don't have time for two online games ¬_¬

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Warhammer Online / Re: Inactivity Purge

« on: November 19, 2008, 09:00:39 AM »

You can get rid of Mellir, but would be grateful if you'd keep Ganymede. Not sure when I last logged in to him, but he's an 'active alt' for now at least.

Tamaryn, Erynn you can remove since my dear lady wife has decided that WAR is a pile of shit

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The Dog & Duck / Re: A rant about the BBC

« on: November 19, 2008, 08:57:01 AM »

Because streaming media over the internet has a real cost attached. A broadcast's a broadcast, doesn't much matter how many people are watching, but every additional user on iPlayer means more infrastructure the BBC has to put in place to handle that load. If they were to allow the world to access all their programming free via the iPlayer then they would have to implement a massive increase in their infrastructure, which would be paid for my muggins here namely by an increase in that accursed license fee.

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Warhammer Online / Re: Guild Alliance - Prospective.

« on: November 19, 2008, 08:47:28 AM »

Nice of them to let us know 

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EVE Online / Re: EVE Online Thread

« on: November 18, 2008, 08:59:06 AM »

Privateer 2 was so good.

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World of Warcraft Retail / Re: A Wow Thread

« on: November 17, 2008, 01:31:20 PM »

because you where somewhat of a burnt out junkie the last time you managed to escape your home town and now on your return beautiful elven women are throwing cheap bags of heroin at your comfy feet?

Nailed it!

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World of Warcraft Retail / Re: A Wow Thread

« on: November 17, 2008, 08:51:24 AM »

Love PA

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Warhammer Online / Re: Flying Dwarfs without Velcro!

« on: November 16, 2008, 02:04:09 PM »

You don't actually fly the gyrocopters like in WoW quests or owt like that. They just zoom off and bomb one of the 5 BOs.

It's Thunder Valley btw, sucky scenario. It's way too big, you'll rarely even see any opposition there, people just zerg around and cap the flags behind each other.