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Top 6 most annoying walkers.

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Feb 062012
 

I’ve come with the idea to make this blog post today, because I almost kicked an old woman while trying to go to work (overslept again). She was staying in a very narrow path and dozens of people were trying to get around her, while she was obviously doing something important.

Something that kept her mind away from the people that need to get to the bus or the subway FAST.

I was so obsessed with my phone that I saw her in the last moment.

So this blog post is about the most annoying people you meet while trying to go somewhere quickly

… and how to avoid them 🙂

The slow granny

The slow granny

The slow granny

The one I have described above is the most annoying. (and most dangerous)

The slow granny does not care you are in a hurry. She is doing something very important and needs to stay exactly in the center of a very narrow snow trail.

She is occupied by reordering the bricks in her purse.

Why do I call them bricks?

Try to make the old granny move away.

She will swing her purse and hit your head or crotch with sharpshooter’s accuracy.

You will FEEL the bricks inside.

How to avoid the slow granny? Simply get your sorry bottom around her. Don’t comment. Don’t try to move her. Just go. Around.

(Granny image source va_sfak@flickr)

Mannequin with huge ... smile.

Mannequin with huge ... smile.

The show-case stopper

This one is the second most annoying (and dangerous) walker.

Imagine you are in an underpass or  a sidewalk with some shops beside you.

You are walking vigorously behind someone and (s)he suddenly stops and starts drooling in front of a show-case. It is either a

  • Heterosexual male, that just saw a mannequin with enormous … eyes.
  • Homosexual male, that just saw *fabulous* pair  of shoes or
  • Heterosexual female, that just saw anything worth her attention @ 100%.

Whoever of the aforementioned DOES stop suddenly and you can crash your chin in his/hers head.

How to avoid? Never walk vigorously behind a huge hulks, trendy looking boys or slow walking girls. If they stop suddenly you may get b!tch-slapped. Either verbally or literally.

(Mannequin image source Paul Laury@Flickr)

Hitchhiker

Hitchhiker

The hitchhiker

He is less dangerous breed but at least as annoying as the previous two.

  • Huge backpack
  • Walks slowly and looks around all the time or
  • Walks vigorously and looks back all the time.
  • Tries eye contact with you, regardless you are not interested at all and asks a question in barely understandable English.
  • Needs long and through explanation to where he is trying to go, regardless he is seeing you are in a hurry to somewhere else.
  • Sometimes asks for spare change …

How to avoid the Hitchhiker? Simple:

  1. Don’t speak English.
  2. Don’t allow eye contact.
  3. Walk beside him, without taking his presence in mind.
  4. Keep walking, even if you are the last person on earth, (s)he is sexy and there are no sheep around.

(“The answer” image source Patrick Hoesly@Flickr)

Wheels and luggage

Wheels and luggage

The shop-loading worker

Do you remember Gandalf shouting

You shall not pass!

  • The shop-loading worker will park his bus in the side walk.
  • Even if there is place for you to quickly pass by, the worker will occupy it with a wheeled unloader and will quickly block your way.
  • There will be at least one more person with him, so even if you can find a gap between him entering the shop storage room, the other will find a way to block you.

Want to avoid this slowly working bunch? You can’t. Wait patiently or risk going to around the bus from the road-side.

(wheeled luggage, image source m_dougherty@flickr)

Staring kitten

Staring kitten

The “go-before-me” starer

Narrow trail in snow.

You are in a hurry.

There is another person walking against you.

There is not enough space for both of you to pass each other on the narrow path.

You step in the snow to let the other person pass.

He steps in the snow too and allows you to pass.

Says nothing.

Just stares at you and waits.

VERY annoying! You are already knee deep in snow and you did nothing.

Don’t avoid him. Just say “thanks” and go quickly.

(Staring kitten, image source xlibber@flickr)

Steps in the snow

Steps in the snow

…and last, but not least…:

The stalker

I don’t know about you people, but I really hate being followed by someone that’s walking with the same speed as mine.

It makes me walk faster and faster and often the stalker also tries to keep the pace, making me even more vigorous.

How to avoid stalkers? Don’t. Let them pass in front of you and stalk them instead with evil grin on your face 😀

(Steps in snow, image source Miles B. at flickr )

 Posted by at 6:08 pm
Feb 022012
 
ACTA Protester

ACTA Protester (image source: Pierre Selim @ Flickr)

Imagine the year 2028 and an ordinary house with the son speaking to his dad.

“Dad, can I take $99 from your VISA. I need to buy a book for school”

“Which one?”

“Dostoyevski’s “Crime and punishment

“Why should you buy it? We have it already!”

“Great, where did you upload it?”

“Uh?”

“Where is the file?”

“What file – see up there, in the library!”

“Paper copy?! Are you INSANE?!”

“So what? I’ve read it when I was your age!”

“You grow in AGE that made things without search, font adjustment, animated pictures, famous quote finder and all other neat things… my friends will laugh me to death!”

“Okay, here is a DVD copy of the book…”

“DAD! Where should I find a DVD reader !? In the museum ?! I almost expect you to give me a perforated card copy of “Crime and punishment

“Well, go to the local tracker and download it from there … $99 is too much for a book!”

“LOL! UMAD! To download an illegal copy of a book?!”

“What do you mean illegal? Dostoyevski’s copyrights expired long ago. The author is dead from more than 100 years and the book is from 1866!”

“Dad?! Do you watch news at all!? All book copyrights are held now from American association of book publishers! You will get me in jail!”

“Dostoyevski is Russian son. What American  association?!”

“Dad, are you an Antiglobalist?!”

“No, of course not! … look. It’s plain wrong to give $99 for a file with text. Why don’t you ask a friend for his copy?”

(The son sighs , rolls eyes and counts slowly to a random 3 digit number)

“Because of the Digital rights dad. He can read his copy on his tablet only. You are so behind present day technology. In short – give me $99 – I really need this book for school essay!”

“Okay, here is one-time permission password to my VISA… $99 was a lot of money in my time.”

“Thanks.”

(after short download…)

“Let me see your book now… what are those pictures? I don’t remember the original to be illustrated”

“ADs dad. The normal copy costs $699”

(The screen is filled with blinking ADs for online casinos, “Win iPhone 10 “, “The true criminals use our private networks”, “Student loans”, “Online lessons” and other stuff. Everything else but not the opening text of the book.)

“So … where is the text son? We need to first watch all ADs?”

“Dad, are you falling from the moon? You can read only with the polarized glasses I wear. Without them you only see ADs”

“!?!?!?!”

“Yes! You don’t want to pay for a book and someone reading it behind you, while you study! This is part of the Terms and Conditions. If you pay, only you can use it.”

“So If I take your glasses…?”

“Retina scan will fail. Dad … please. I need to read it before the license expires. And overtime is expensive…”

(2 hours later)

“Done!”

“You completed “Crime and punishment” in 2 hours!?”

“Sure. It could be 1 hour if there were no AD pauses on every 5 pages.”

“I can’t believe It! What happens in the end with Raskolnikov and the cop!?”

“Who!?”

“But it is in the book! Tell me then, who is the victim of Raskolnikov!?”

“How should I know dad?! This is home edition of the book. Only the opening and a summary. For the whole version of the book, your salary will be insufficient…”

(…the dad is blown to pieces)

“I don’t understand. Where is this world going?!”

“The world is already there Dad. You should have stopped it when you were still young!”

 Posted by at 3:47 pm
Jan 292012
 

Demon hunter walkthrough and maps

This part of the walkthrough is after you get the “Battle!” quest . If you are not yet there, DON’T spoil your game story but refer to previous parts of the walkthrough:

Part 1 – About Kamael and Dubaq

Part 2 – About Inferno

Part 3 – About Stigia and Cave of Darkness

Part 4 – About Gehena

Part 5 – About Distia

Part 6 – About Marlborose and Makerusia

Part 7 – About Arbenus

Part 8 – About Minauross

3 things to do here:

  1. Get hunter level at least to 8! (if you are not level 10 already)
  2. Get to level 70 by grinding (sorry, again – only one quest)
  3. Kill 4 boss monsters (Sharas, Onyx, Elen, Hanin)

By entering the tower you are greeted by Elen and called ghost of the past. (This guy starts to annoy me … stay here and fight … chicken!)

Tower Of Punishment

Map for Tower of Punishment (Tower of Sin)

Start exploring and killing monsters. There are lots of chests laying around but no herbs and ores, so sell your picks to collect more stuff.

You will find some pillars with digits and lever up/down messages.

There is control room with 5 levers. Those levers need to be set the way the pillars say in order to open the doors.

For Door one, the columns say to set them in this order:

(Hall of Doom-1) 1-1 lever down.
(Hall of Doom-2) 1-2 lever up.
(Haven of Death-1) 1-3 lever up.
(Haven of Death-2) 1-4 lever down.
(Haven of Death-3) 1-5 lever down.

Door one is in Haven of Death-3. The room you are about to enter is a miniboss room with a stronger version of Kalax named Cold Sharas. She hits with the same pattern but her color  is purple and  her ice attack is 2-3 times stronger :). Get the hunter quest for her! You probably already exchange your hunter points for stuff in Talagaron base, so a little extra will not hurt. Fight sucks as much as with Kalax if you play as slasher. ~2400 for ice slash and 4500 for icicle fall.

For Door two, the columns say to set them in this order:

(Hall of Destruction-1) 2-1 lever down.
(Hall of Destruction-2) 2-2 lever down.
(Hall of Destruction-3) 2-3 lever up.
(Haven of Suffering-1) 2-4 lever down.
(Haven of Suffering-2) 2-5 lever up.

Door 2 is in Haven of Suffering-2. The adjacent boss room has stronger version of Count Peltos named Hell fire Onyx.  Quite weak boss. Can’t compare with Cold Sharas at all. 4 attacks.

  1. Fire column (just step back).
  2. Fire ball (simply endure it).
  3. Teleport (4k damage, just don’t get hit).
  4. Meteor shower (run away, heavy damage).

Takes 5 minutes to beat. Not hard at all.

When both boss fights are behind you, the doors in Tower of Sin-1 will open and you can continue up, but don’t rush it yet, because Here is also the last (12-th) piece of the relic in a chest in Haven of Death-2. Get it and return to Beros in Talagaron base. Don’t rush to return the quest

SAVE the game!!!

Return the quest for 20000 xp and 15000 gold. Have a good look at the relic. If you are not satisfied – load the saved game and return the quest again. (this is called re-rolling). The stats roll differently every time. The things that are always present are

  • +7 on all stats (STR, DEX, INT etc.),
  • Both defences +39-45,
  • +26 on all attack types.
  • Crittical chance +1%,
  • Blow chance +1%,
  • Evade chance (DOD) +3%.

There are up to 3 random bonuses over those 15. Sometimes there is a + on random skill. +1 to +3 if you are lucky.

As with all amulets, this one can carry any of the elements, so if you prefer to play Neutral, Fire, Cold or Light – you have another thing to watch and roll for.

The Amulet of the treasure King also always has 3 sockets for soul stones to enhance in case you are not completely happy with the stats.

Reroll 50 times if you want. It’s worth the patience. My choice was +9 on all stats, Fire element and a +1 Slasher’s Illusion skill. Took me about 120 rerolls. Be patient – IT IS worth your time.

(Mouth of Hell-1 is the best place to train Gun until level 68 if you are not sure you can handle Elen. After level 68, the experience will not be enough and you may try Hall of Doom-1 top ( 8 muttons) or Hall of Destruction-5 (6 ghosts). All level 65-66. Suitable for up to level 70, but quite slow and far. (you may still train with slower pace @ Mouth of Hell-1))

So, if/when fed up with rerolling, grinding and hunting, we can focus on

End game fight x 2

Your way to the Tower of Punishment-3 is open and you can enter the battle with Elen any time now. Whenever you feel ready. Elen is a level 70 battlemage.

You need additional preparation for this battle.

STORE ALL your gold in the network storage. Be sure you came here after you level up and don’t have much XP accumulated. (I will explain in a minute).

Elen fight

Perna will come to try to get him reconsider and another part of their past will reveal to you. Then the fight starts.

Elen will use ice spikes and fire pillar on you and when you go away to heal, he will follow and try to finish you.

Both attacks do considerable damage when you are inside their area of effect, so move and jump alot.

Rarely Elen will meditate and invoke Black dragon breath or will call Count Peltos for one meteor shower strike.

Duck to avoid the dragon breath or move away from the direction Count Peltos is facing.

If you are mid air when the dragon breath starts – use down+A to quickly land.

The fight with Elen is not hard. Bormenta, Kalax and Greed 2 take a lot more time.

After he is down, perna will come and hug him to death … no, just kidding :). Perna will hug him and they will disappear. After this a stronger version of Elen will come named Hanin.

Hanin is horned demon with the same wings like yours and very bad 4x black dragon bite doing 2500+ damage.


There is one trick I confirmed with the game forum.

When you succesfully kill Elen and start the battle with Hanin..

Die!

Use revival without using Cubics.

You will be transported outside and can save between the 2 battles, skipping Elen fight (yes, if you are killed by Hanin and reload, you need to fight Elen again). This way you can go to camp and stock with more purple potions. There are however 3 catches with this death:

  1. 20% xp loss
  2. 20% gold loss
  3. Can’t fight and use magic for 5 minutes.

But this is bearable if you followed my advice to come empty and just leveled.

Hanin fight.

The attack you need really to be watchful is the 4 x Black dragon bites.

All four do 1500-2500 damage and will attack from both sides. If you are slasher, use block (C button) when it starts. If you are not, I prefer you set game speed to lowest and do the following when this attack starts –> Dash right, dash left, dash right, dash left.

Doing this will probably let you take only 1 or 2 of all 4 hits. 4 hits = 6-10k damage. I doubt you can endure it, because at level 65-70 you have a little bit more than this.

The other attack is trivial Fire spill. Will have moderate fire damage and will be endurable. Pump Hanin with your Damage over time and heavy damage skills.

If you don’t want his 4 x Dragon bite often, there are only 2 things, that I confirmed to trigger this attack.

  1. Don’t Jump and
  2. Don’t get behind him

After you kick him a bit, Hanin will hover above and summon 2 crystal doors for breaking. While you break them, he will pump you with fire columns.

Damage is bearable, so you better heal and rebuff good.

When doors are broken he will come back down and keep biting you with the black dragon, until he is below 50%.

If  you make it that far – hard part is over 😉

After Hanin gets lower on health, he will stop using Black dragon bite x 4. (YAY!) He will now start using

  • Fire column ~ 900 damage and
  • Blizzard ~ 1000 damage.

Both attacks are tolerable and you can endure them while pumping him with high damage skills and drinking potions.

12000 xp for killing Hanin. Long dialog with the revived Greed and you are kicked in your old world with the option to get back and save Perna.

Choose “Yes” or you will need to kill Hanin again of you want to continue in Hell mode.

Back in Dubaq, you can finally save game and say “Phew, that was AWESOME fight!”

Hell mode

is accessible from Dubaq base – there is a new purple gate.

From this gate, you can access the hell mode or get back to normal (small icon top right on screen, above your wing will say “hell“).

Everything in Hell mode starts from level 66-67. Slimes west of Dubaq now take 7-8 hits to kill. Dumpas and Varians east of base are level 70-73. Drops are 10 times more rare, but quality gets better (I really liked Soul stone with +20 sword attack).

There are 3 new hunter quests that you can take in the 3 bases. They are all for level 8 hunter, so I hope you took my advice to get you hunter level up. It’s not hard. Just return the drops you got from grinding.

The Hell bosses are:

Asmodeus (Evil God) given by Evan in Dubaq.
Blood demon (Fallen wood king) given by Hotsan in Naru.
Dark Ren (Dragon within darkness) given by Diran in Talagaron.

… but I made this part too long already. Proceed to part 10 of the guide 😉 …

The hunter quests in the Tower:

Target Description/place Hunter points Gold
Hell’s witch Cold Sharas @ Haven of Death-4 1000 1200
Hell’s devil Hell fire onyx @ Haven of Suffering-3 1000 1200
Tendrion Tendrion @ Hall of Doom-1 800 830
Curtus Curtus @ Haven of Death-3 800 830
Betrayer of ancient magic Lawoof @ Tower of Punishment-3 800 830
Unbreakable rock Bradium @ Halls of Destruction-4 800 830
Forgotten guardian Lanax @ Room of Servant-3 800 830
Elen/Hanin Top of the tower (Thanks to Leehangee 1120 1470
Totals 7120 9070
 Posted by at 11:55 am