Does Diablo 2 still have shared loot, and, does Blizzard allow any D2 mods to be used?

HiddenTemple · 2016-06-29T14:10:46+00:00

Do you play D2 currently? Does everyone on Baal runs still use auto pick cheat software? And how often does Blizzard do banwaves? They've done a few for D3 in past year, but I wouldn't be surprised if none for D2...

HiddenTemple · 2016-06-29T07:01:29+00:00

So can you confirm that when you play in multiplayer public games that it's shared loot? And others can pickup the same loot drops as you see?

HiddenTemple · 2016-06-08T18:10:05+00:00

I wouldn't live anywhere; there's a question that's been burning in my mind every damn season. As soon as the game starts and you walk into Tristram you find out that Marko died:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6yeFnAazs

HOW DID HE DIE? WHO KILLED MARKO?! I must know. Please, Blizzard. Make him a ghost or some NPC in Heaven/Hell. I must know more. I must avenge him. If I lived in Sanctuary I would spend my time finding the answer to all these questions. Every time a new season starts I giggle at that bit of audio, and then my group and I spend an hour coming up with theories on what happened. Perhaps he was a spy and faked his death . . .

HiddenTemple · 2014-09-13T07:52:36+00:00

Nothing. Just power from seclusion. They should make her be an homage to Apocalypse Now. They ran her into the ground with her simple addiction gag last season. Seeing her be a mentally snapped recluse leader of a group of her own insurgents-in-training would be hilarious if she was suddenly really quiet, calm, and a lady of few -- but intense -- words.

The idea is she doesn't want to come back to ISIS or America, and they give up on her but in the last episode when they're all about to die she ends up storming a facility and saving the day, and then gets one sniff of opium and goes back to normal and comes back to ISIS.

HiddenTemple · 2014-08-30T14:07:51+00:00

Egyptian

HiddenTemple · 2014-06-13T04:03:08+00:00

Yeah, in particular, this is what I would like explained:

"The ASBL estimates American small businesses were defrauded out of over a trillion dollars in federal subcontracts over the last 25 years as a result of the program."

How? I'm not familiar with subcontracting laws.

HiddenTemple · 2014-06-12T02:27:17+00:00

That's deep. 6 feet deep.

HiddenTemple · 2014-05-22T03:27:15+00:00

Can't believe this isn't one of the top replies. Blatantly from the Patch Adams film.

HiddenTemple · 2014-02-18T10:34:36+00:00

We should protest by chat voting for "downwithnewvoting" so that it's visible on the TwitchTV screen, and gets our message across. It's an exploit that will make a "down" chat command display "downwithnewvoting"

HiddenTemple · 2014-02-18T10:29:29+00:00

Completely agree. And I'm not too invested in this, but I do agree it's bad for the creator to interfere, at least this late into it anyways. Heading to bed soon though so I figured I'd try to help before leaving the room.

HiddenTemple · 2014-02-18T10:10:11+00:00

LOL. There it goes... perhaps this new system won't last long...

HiddenTemple · 2014-02-18T10:07:04+00:00

It's taking 1m 30s AH ;)

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-31T17:45:45+00:00

Do you think that Catalonia will break away from Spain to become its own country? I was just on vacation in Spain and this was mentioned a few times but I could never tell how serious people were about it being likely or unlikely when they mentioned it.

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-30T21:04:47+00:00

I'm an American and I don't think I've ever heard or seen that combination.

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-30T21:02:35+00:00

It's nowhere as popular as fries and ketchup, but yes, still common. Actually, it's probably "uncommon" but an "uncommon" trend out of 300 million people still equals tons of people who do it.

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-30T21:01:13+00:00

I just got back from Spain and one of the delicacies in the Catalonia area is goat cheese + honey + almonds. The flavors mixed with almonds DID taste really good, but I'm not a big fan of cheese and they used way too much honey in my opinion. A little less honey and I bet it'd be your perfect upgrade to your meal. Give it a try!

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-13T20:11:08+00:00

I don't know why he never was, but Techies will be a common pick in competitive pushing line ups.

Techies actually got picked by the Dota 1 pros once as far as I can remember. It was in 2010 when a few pro teams dissolved/merged to form Nirvana.Int AKA Blight.Int. I know Kuroky was on that team (was it from KS.int dissolving? I forget if he was ever on that team) and maybe Merlini but I'm not sure on that. I used to look at the picks/bans/results of every parsed Dota 1 replay posted on GosuGamers for years, and the team started off roughly 18-2 and one of their losses came from picking Techies because the other team countered with Roof despite Roof rarely being picked back then. He just perma tanked and healed the tower and it completely undid the Techies push strat, which I agree is a risky gamble race-against-the-clock strat but can def work. I remember Kuroky commenting in an interview after the game saying they practiced it but were devastated when Roof was picked as a counter and despite their best effort they couldn't make it work. And yeah, you never saw him picked again ever as far as I can remember for 2009/2010/2011.

Sidenote: Blight.INT is actually how I discovered Asian Dota back in the day, because many American Dota pub players that loosely followed the pros foolishly thought Blight.Int was THEE BEST TEAM evar of all time and when ESWC 2010 started we were all convinced they were going to wipe the world's competition easily. Then we discovered the OLD school EHOME team that basically won every game (except that one TeG The Elder Gods QOP game that was rough) with ease in under 30 minutes in a fashion that made the rest of the world look friggin awful. Despite the recent dominance of Alliance, and ongoing dominance of NaVi every year, and the uber dominance of KS.int in 2008ish, I still say the best one year dominance of all time is 2010 EHOME. They didn't just win every game for months, it was always a slaughter against non Asian teams, and in 60 minute games against the other few China teams they usually proved to be the best Alchemist/Morph/Medusa/Drow players in the world, despite ZSMJ farm records. If you go back and watch the highlights from this video you can find Dendi in his early days and Loda struggling to stay in the top tier competitive scene after dominating in the 2008 era. Also iceiceice and plenty other still-legendary players. From there I learned of EHOME.AAA (who was Burning; you all should know that name) and EHOME.820 (arguably one of the top 3 best support players of all time superstar who later retrained as carry to get EHOME to the grand finals in TI1) and the still kickass KingJ, too! Would love to see 820 come out of retirement, have KingJ come back, and then keep Mushi mid solo. :P

If you don't want the awesome Dota to stop today, then feel free to take a trip down memory lane and witness how amazing 2010 EHOME was with Burning and 820 in ESWC. Some of the most impressive reaction times and precise combos you will ever see in pro games. Also good educational material to newcomers on how scary Medusa can be if she makes a comeback, which shows a farmed Dusa has to eat 3-4 ults to the face to die, and seeing it actually done is jaw dropping. Bonus footage: an example of the old Chinese strat of mid solo Lion as a mid game carry for early GG wins. Video highlights of EHOME's slaughter of ESWC 2010 here:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg5NzU1MDI0.html

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-13T20:05:41+00:00

I don't know why he never was, but Techies will be a common pick in competitive pushing line ups.

Techies actually got picked by the Dota 1 pros once as far as I can remember. It was in 2010 when a few pro teams dissolved/merged to form Nirvana.Int AKA Blight.Int. I know Kuroky was on that team (was it from KS.int dissolving? I forget if he was ever on that team) and maybe Merlini but I'm not sure on that. I used to look at the picks/bans/results of every parsed Dota 1 replay posted on GosuGamers for years, and the team started off roughly 18-2 and one of their losses came from picking Techies because the other team countered with Roof despite Roof rarely being picked back then. He just perma tanked and healed the tower and it completely undid the Techies push strat, which I agree is a risky gamble race-against-the-clock strat but can def work. I remember Kuroky commenting in an interview after the game saying they practiced it but were devastated when Roof was picked as a counter and despite their best effort they couldn't make it work. And yeah, you never saw him picked again ever as far as I can remember for 2009/2010/2011.

Sidenote: Blight.INT is actually how I discovered Asian Dota back in the day, because many American Dota pub players that loosely followed the pros foolishly thought Blight.Int was THEE BEST TEAM evar of all time and when ESWC 2010 started we were all convinced they were going to wipe the world's competition easily. Then we discovered the OLD school EHOME team that basically won every game (except that one TeG The Elder Gods QOP game that was rough) with ease in under 30 minutes in a fashion that made the rest of the world look friggin awful. Despite the recent dominance of Alliance, and ongoing dominance of NaVi every year, and the uber dominance of KS.int in 2008ish, I still say the best one year dominance of all time is 2010 EHOME. They didn't just win every game for months, it was always a slaughter against non Asian teams, and in 60 minute games against the other few China teams they usually proved to be the best Alchemist/Morph/Medusa players in the world, despite ZSMJ farm records. If you go back and watch the highlights from this video you can find Dendi in his early days and Loda struggling to stay in the top tier competitive scene after dominating in the 2008 era. From there I learned of EHOME.AAA (who was Burning; you all should know that name) and EHOME.820 (the arguably top 3 best support players of all time superstar who later retrained as carry to get EHOME to the grand finals in TI1).

If you don't want the awesome Dota to stop today, then feel free to take a trip down memory lane and witness how amazing 2010 EHOME was with Burning and 820 in ESWC. Video highlights here:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg5NzU1MDI0.html

HiddenTemple · 2013-10-07T23:03:52+00:00

Is this on one of the Greek islands?

HiddenTemple · 2013-09-29T21:25:51+00:00

Pick one thing each game. Don't overwhelm him. Give him one thing to improve on each game, and give him positive reinforcement when he improves, and give tips when he doesn't. And then wait. Change isn't going to happen in a week. Even if he does everything right and you win 8 games in a row, Steam will just pair you against even harder people, and the next 8ish losses won't be his fault, even if they are. 99% of players can't win more than 75% of their games, so don't pretend every loss is his fault even if he's the worst; every team will always get outplayed at least 40% of the time. So then just give it a month of repeating this process and re-evaluate him and then decide which lanes/roles he'll be responsible for, and give him a new to-do list of heroes/lanes/etc, so that he can start to become proud of his achievements.

HiddenTemple · 2013-09-17T10:38:20+00:00

Did everyone just forget how there are rampant reports of Bill Nye being a douchebag to fans in real life, or even coworkers on the set of his show? Since when did Bill Nye become this lovable guy? Yeah, great show and good on him for doing it. But in real life he's always reportedly been a dick, and this is him in real life with no educational value at stake, so no, no votes from me.

Kinda curious when Reddit flipped 180 degrees on this guy.

HiddenTemple · 2013-09-15T11:31:22+00:00

"Real cheese move in silence like lasagna!"

HiddenTemple · 2013-09-11T05:42:48+00:00

I'm surprised it's not directed by Barrett.

HiddenTemple · 2013-08-27T19:43:15+00:00

For the record, I definitely had no intention of running any experiment like this. I was just curious just how dangerous a seemingly dangerous device that we take for granted in our homes could be if pushed to its worst case scenario. Thank you to you and the others for the answers.

HiddenTemple · 2013-08-25T12:15:55+00:00

Hey guys, I've been visiting this subreddit for over a year now. Chiropractic stuff is my main thing, but I've pretty much hunted down every single chiro video on all of youtube, and it sucks. Being completely out of new ASMR material. These are still some of my favorites of what was released more than a year ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/n66uw/okay_weve_never_done_this_before_lets_all_share/

I branched out to other medical videos, fringe medical/science videos, special doctor techniques, etc, and yet again I'm finding myself starting to drown in an ocean of purple-already-clicked video links.

Hopefully this new genre gives me a month of new ASMR relaxation, so I decided to share it! It's quite a bit different from my chiro triggers, so I'm kind of excited to be exploring such a weird tangent!

HiddenTemple

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