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Asian man almost loses penis humping a bench

no.spam@gameriot.com (Zenaku) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:24:42 -0400

You know, I've been trying to defend China and everything for the past week or so. But really, I can't say anything in defense to this.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/

Beijing 2008, The Opening Ceremony: Initial thoughts.

no.spam@gameriot.com (Zenaku) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:37:01 -0400

First of all I'd like to clear the air about the whole China issue.

Please please please keep in mind that we are here for the Olympics. Even if you hate the venue, please try to show some respect for the athletes and the people who worked hard to get to this event.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED:

- Beijing, specifically, has gotten a massive overhaul. Olympic venues have been built and roads along with them.
- An attempt (READ: ATTEMPT) at cleaning a mistake that has been left alone for far too long.
- Due to global attention, China has recognized certain humanitarian issues.
- There has been a great effort on the people's side to learn and try to welcome everyone to Beijing. You can't fault them for that.

WHAT HASN'T HAPPENED:

- Media uncensoring. There is still censorship in Chinese media, to some extent.
- Pollution. Yeah everyone talks about it. But think about it this way. All those products you buy? Yeah you know, the ones with the MADE IN CHINA/BEIJING/TAIWAN labels? They are main contributors of the pollution problem. You pay a lower price for these products because they are made by people who are paid a fraction of North America's standard minimum wage, work in ****ty conditions and in factories that aren't optimal for pollution control.
- Humanitarian issues. I've discussed this in someone's blog but, I can't think of any examples of humanitarian issues, but people always love to bring this topic up.

This is only a list that I've made based on what I can remember off the top of my head. Please feel free to add/correct me anywhere I'm off.

THE OPENING CEREMONY:

I'm watching it on the CCTV-Olympics channel as I type, so far it does not disappoint. The effort some of these performers have put into their work clearly shows.

Holy **** the synchronized martial arts bit was AWESOME.

Sager laptops, has anyone heard of these guys?

no.spam@gameriot.com (Zenaku) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:15:22 -0400

Alright here's the deal, I'm looking to buy a desktop-replacement quality laptop. Upon finding out that the laptop(by ASUS) that I had previously decided on was gone, I looked for other alternatives.

I came across one laptop that caught my attention. It looks great and has some very nice specs but I'm hesitant because its a brand that I'm not all that familiar with. I was hoping that some of you computer savvy riot-trolls would be able to help me out with this one.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8660-built-clevo-m860tu-order-p-2411.html

Is the link to the laptop, but I've customized it to have

2.53GHz w/6mb processor
4 gigs of ram
100g/7200rpm hard drive
2g of intel robson turbo memory
windows vista home premium (64 bit installed, 64/32 discs included)

It should come out to around 2100$, unless I've forgotten something. So should I go for it or look for better alternatives?

The Hunter Problem

no.spam@gameriot.com (Zenaku) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:43:42 -0400

These are some ideas I'm hoping to see in WotLK

Smart Trap: Mark an enemy which causes the trap to only activate when the marked target triggers it. Possibly 1 minute cooldown?

Smart Trap solves many problems hunters have with trapping in both PvE and PvP encounters. We could also add in some negating spell resistance bit to help counter the whole spell-hit thing. Traps are our main source of CC and are on a 30 second cooldown. I think being able to land one every minute or so is fair enough.

More Aspects: I feel like I'm being bludgeoned into using Hawk and Viper. Monkey is nice but punishable by warriors. Both cheetah and pack require some ridiculous amounts of timing to pull off, and with the gcd on them its really unreasonable to try. I'm not even going into Beast and Wild. Aspects that have more utility to certain situations would make switching worth something and would add more buttons to click. Obviously a plus.

Smarter Traps: Snake trap. Explosive trap. Immolation trap. While Snake Trap's viability can be argued the fire traps serve nothing but some miniscule aoe damage and a weak dot on a 30 second cd. What I'm hoping for in WotLK are for traps that make the hunter have to choose between in certain situations. A good one imo would be the Stasis Trap. It's got it's roots in WC3 and an AOE stun for like 6 seconds wouldn't be bad when you need to go for a kill.

Trainable Skills: Seriously. Either make Scatter Shot, Deterrence or Aimed shot trainable. It's getting ridiculous when you give rogues clos(yes it was a ****ty 41 talent) and mages ice block(yes they needed the survivability) but you won't even give the only class with a CC on a 30s cd a scatter shot. Or maybe increase a hunters survivability with deterrence?

That's all I really have to say now. Sorry the post was a bit long