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So this just happened:



Literally the WHOLE other team was raging at me. They were /spitting on me as I was killing them and when I'd pop out on a healer, their whole team would gun for me.

Monkeynips isn't anyone I know, btw. He just started following me around near the end and assisting me.

I love PvP.

Edited, Apr 29th 2012 12:12am by Theophany

I've accepted no matter what I do, I'll never get wrecking ball. We actually set me up for it (I had two pocket healers) and I still died at 19 because the other team got them in CC.

Maybe with Recup I could do it pretty easily now with a healer, but meh. Wasn't even trying for it in that BG, I was just doing everything I could to @#%^ their team up.

I have wrecking ball.
But I actually got it at level 82 or something, by smashing people in Isle of Conquest with a siege engine.
I had a ridiculous amount of killing blows.

I actually got mine on my hunter at 19 not twinked and killing twinkies because hunters are/were lololoverpowered at that level. I felt bad about that though so I redid it at 80 in all battlegrounds but AV and IoC. Because both of those BG's suck assballs.

Edit: Also, Theo, please tell me you at least can appreciate the design of my awesome new cups.

Edited, Apr 29th 2012 11:53am by Aethien

They're not for drinking beer, I've got about 20 beer glasses for that. Those cups are for drinking tea or coffee and just general awesomeness. ^^

If I paid €10 for a bottle of beer I better damn well drink it from a glass so I can enjoy the smell and flavour to it's fullest.
Also, I've got a pint glass, a weizen glass, a bunch of tulips (because Duvel tulips are <3), some chalices, flutes, snifters and a small egg shaped glass from Brouwerij 't IJ. It's important to drink a beer from the appropriate glass and frankly I just like beer glasses. Also, beer glasses are pretty <3

Edited, Apr 29th 2012 4:42pm by Aethien

Actually, stronger beers like imperial stouts shouldn't be refrigerated. Of course, if you're drinking cheap pilsner serve it as cold as you can because then you won't have to taste it.

Lol, that might be even more awesome without any context...

I'm writing a paper right now, while listening to the ME 1 and 2 soundtracks (not listening to 3, because I haven't beaten the game and don't want to hear the music out of context first). It's going to make it epic.

Which is good, because my topic certainly isn't. It's about how Elizabeth I's feminine identity was central to her ability to head a global empire.

Sounds fun.

Also, holy hell it's hard to give a clear, concise, and eloquent synopsis of the genealogy of kings and associated heredity issues that begin with Edward IV (meant Henry, doy) and last through Elizabeth I...

Especially since shared names just make everything choppy. And they're all intermarrying so their claims are so muddled anyway.

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No, seriously. You get Edward III followed by Richard II (grandson) who is deposed by Henry IV (grandson of III by third son), Henry V (son), Henry VI (son) who becomes king at 9 months old. So he's challenged by Edward IV, who takes the throne (and more-or-less keeps it). His son Edward V disappears at age 12 (seriously) and his uncle Richard III takes the throne.

And then HE is deposed by Henry VII, who is descended by Edward III by an illegitimate relationship with his son, John of Gaunt. Then you get Henry VIII, who annuls his first marriage (leaving Mary illegitimate in England, but legitimate to the Church). He marries Anne Boleyn, who has a daugther. He has her killed, and declares Elizabeth illegitimate (making her unrecognized in both England and by the Catholic church). Edward V follows from his marriage to Jane Seymour, but he dies shortly into his reign. So then you have a huge mess in England, debating who has the right to inherit--whether or not Mary/Elizabeth are heiresses to the House of Tudor or not, and whether they (as Women) should be allowed to inherit at all.

Big. Mess.

Edited, Apr 29th 2012 3:39pm by idiggory

Ugh, there's a ton of intermixing in there too. Henry VI is rightful king of France, as son of the French princess and given the right of inheritance in the treaty following the battle of Agincourt. But he's so young when Henry V dies that it just doesn't happen (that's right--Henry VI was heir to both England and France but was denied BOTH).

Not as hilarious as the instances where the King of X is vassal to the King of Y, so they occasionally have to fight a war with themselves...

The only upside to this paper is that I get to talk about Francis Drake.

Ewewewewew.

And do you know about Walter Raleigh instead?

...

Well, he was one of the major players in England's takeover of Ireland, as well as a privateer. He was one of the backers for the Roanoake Island colony in Virginia, which was completely depopulated sometime between his voyages (and until recently, we didn't really have any clue what happened to them). He chased after El Dorado for sometime, and sacked Spanish settlements along the way. He was eventually arrested and executed, more or less because King James didn't trust him, and it allowed him to appease the Spanish.

There's also a good chance he was Elizabeth's lover.

Expensive pilsners are also best served chilled. I prefer pale lagers and according to Michael Jackson (the writer, not the musician), pale lagers are best served well chilled, at around 7ºC, which requires refrigeration, unless you've got a wine cellar and live in a very cold country (my parents' wine cellar is not 7ºC).

Mostly, though, I prefer my beer refrigerated because it's more refreshing. Same reason I prefer to drink cold water.

True, the same goes for more beers. but I tend to prefer the heavy stouts and such. Although I've been drinking IPA's lot over the past few weeks. That pungent pineapple smell/taste really grows on you.

Edit: Pigtails, I was talking about the time of the drama, some 76 years ago.

Edited, Apr 30th 2012 12:01am by Aethien

We're a pale lager drinking nation.

It usually has me desperately searching for something to get the bitter out of my mouth.

Don't worry I rated you down a bunch of times to celebrate.

That's how it works right?

Damn straight. I rated you down a bunch to celebrate as well.

Wait...

So is my country and you've got Mikeller, Beer Here, Olfabrikken and some other really good breweries.

IPA's are an acquired taste, like the more vinegar like sours, the Belgian yeast and the coffee/cocoa bitter of stronger stouts. IPA's took me by far the longest to get used to and now there's one more style of beer I like that is bloody hard to get...

A sobriety test in that it tests to make sure you're not sober so you won't notice how severely retarded the people in your BG/LFD group are?

Who knows, maybe you suck less when inebriated and you'll finally be able to get wrecking ball.

Shouldn't this be two guys?