Just sayin

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So it's been weeks since I have been able to sit down and watch Alex at 4pm and as such, and mostly because I am mad at MSNBC, I have stopped watching the news and tweeting like I used to.  Now it seems to me that this may have been the plan all along is to get me to stop tweeting and basically interacting with people.  But that's just a little paranoid yeah?  Well I am also missing Bill Maher.  Since we don't have enough to buy lottery tickets AND watch cable then we settle for lottery tickets.  NOW (shameless plug) with Gee no GTE, would be my choice for a NEW show at 4pm.  

The purpose of writing today is that I was just outside having my first cigarette and I thought of the word intrigue.  It's something just less of scandal and it's what happens when there is more to the story that what is being said.  I was recalling one time on Bill Maher's show when Sean Penn got up and walked out just seconds before the end of the show.  WHAT were you thinking?  What regular follower of his show would watch this, knowing he still had his OVERTIME bit to do and that you just WALKED OUT on part of his show; what follower of his would watch your movie now?   Hmm?  Why were you there, oh yeah it was to promote your movie and there you sit through the whole show and basically take away people from the ones that might have watched it.  

I started thinking about him because I was thinking of Samson in the Bible.  He gets betrayed but his has one final day of grace before he takes it out on the Philistines. And this made me think of the word Samson and how it could mean Son of Sam, whatever that means.  And this is the one movie Sean is perhaps remembered for even though I didn't watch it.  Any of you know anyone named Sam?  

So I was thinking of tweeting this unfortunate truth to Bill on Twitter and ending it with the hashtag #justsayin.  I know it urks Bill to say it because he used it on his show once.  He said that people that end their sentences with this are telling truths that they know are annoying in an effort to annoy you.  Now this is the important part right?  Because that is ALL he does.  His WHOLE SHOW is unfortunate truths which, if you're an outstanding comic, is your skill and trade; in other words your skill is to take something out of the ether and perhaps make it real, like an unfortunate truth.  So accordingly, I would deign to advise that walking off the show of Bill Maher is like shooting yourself in the foot and having to go to the hospital.  You did it to YOURSELF... just saying.  You know, he ought to start that hashtag for his show because I am sure people love to annoy comics and this is one way that it could be constructive for his show, and still alloy people to subliminally annoy him.  

It's like what SarahK exclaimed about Jonah Hill is that how wrong would I be to be annoyed at old jokes after I came up with a bunch of fat jokes... it's a ROAST.  But that's what it means to be a comic I think is that you are always getting annoyed by people that want to point out unfortunate truths to YOU just like you point those out in other people.  It's like catching the police speeding.  What's going on there?  What are you convincing me of exactly? (Kill Bill)

And all this and still no Alex.  There's no way I can go back to MSNBC even for Rachel but I just have noone else to watch and get that righteous feel that I used to get, and maybe that's for the best.  

I have begun playing Diablo3 a great deal now.  There are difficulty levels ranging from Master to Torment 1 all the way up to Torment 6.  I, of course went up to Torment 6 and tried it out first thing because I liked to get stomped that way and sure enough it's ridiculous.   I even get stomped on 5 and 4 and 3 and this is on my maxed out character with all legendary items.  I played it rarely a while back since I had Destiny to contend with and Dragon Age 3 which I haven't even gotten half of the story played out yet,  and all the while I thought these people that play at that level must ALL have hacked characters.  This I say because rarely I would follow one of them around the map and they would just BFG(stand for BIG EFFING GUN from DOOM) stuff and I would collect some great loot which was would be totally like cheating, except that I don't work for him, and that I had to take time to SWALLOW... that it was cheating.  

So there you go kids, it's not cheating until the second or third time or even the fourth, because it takes time to UNDERSTAND what you are doing when you are cheating with friends.  

#funnynotfunny

Anyways,  sometimes those characters get kicked out and I get kicked out along with them and XBOX Live likes to revoke letting you sign in and play with others for a while which makes sense I guess even though I am not the one cheating but I am.  Hmmf.  

Oh, anyways so now, even though my character can safely kill stuff on Master and I used to have NO FUN killing stuff on Torment, I am finding more stuff that gives you abilities on the items that make you just a little bit stronger.  And the funny thing is that you have to put together the skills to max out your favorite spells.  This item will add 20% spell damage over here, that item will add 20% to fire damage in general and another might give you critical chance which if you want to make it at all useful should be at 20% but is probably best at 33% if you can get it that high. Critical hits double your damage but are rare and yet this ability is totally tweekable.  The problem is that items have only so many different abilities, a max of 6.  And three of them that you should invest in is Intelligence, Vitality, and Armor.  At least that was my first thought since more hit points(Vitality gives you this) keep you from getting one shotted and allow you bounce around the map dropping spells without taking damage, etcetera, etcetera.  Now I saw something in YouTube that said that it is better to invest in some pieces for defense than others.  So like your head and chest pieces should have armor up and Vitality and your hand and wrist pieces should have speed or critical chance.  So basically once you really start to go through the gear(ie. buying gear and replacing and tweeking abilities) you can really up your damage and survivability.  The problem is that WAY BACK HERE before buying gear you need to get your play style down.  Your gear is gonna have spell damage and elemental damage up modifiers and what not.  After you perfect your gear though, you won't be able to just decide to start using explosive blast after you were all about the meteor spell.  So if you are following my advice, then get used to a play style and then buy gear for it and then prepare to ditch it all once REALLY good gear comes out that requires this spell or that spell because of OMG bonus to such and such spell or ability.  

At this point I can solo in dungeons at Torment 2 and maybe 3, so when I look for parties I look for level 3.  If I go at level 4 it's embarassing to see people destroying mobs and here you are with your DISINTEGRATE spell flowing full blast and you are running out of Mana and the monster is like laughing at you along with the other guys that are wondering WHEN you first learned to LEECH, lol.  Leeching is basically the practice of joining a group and picking up all the treasure without really contributing to the group.  

I sometimes wonder if I am a leech.  That GEICO commercial came out with the PIG hangin out of the window crying WEEEE, as in the little pigggy who cried weeee all the way home but really its about being a leech and being along for the ride.  But if I was a leech, what was I leeching by hanging out at the bar with the band and my sister among all of those OTHER girls and their guy friends?  What was I leeching when I went over to their houses and they told me that I wasn't welcome even though I didn't feel like I had wronged them in any way?  So if I have any enemies out there that don't like me for some reason that noone can explain I want you to answer one question for me? 

What are you trying to convince me of exactly?