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Must win!!!

AFAIK WoTLK shipped with 2 battlegrounds: Wintergrasp and Strands of the Ancients (a very under appreciated BG IMO).

I always loved the little bottle rockets. There are lots of things you can use to "launch" those little guys.

Another IT professional here. All of you forgot to mention OS and software patches that are not necessarily part of the game itself. Every OS out there releases patches not just for functionality but for security. Not all patches can be done without a reboot, which increases downtime. Also, to the person who commented on 30 minutes shutdown time, you obviously have never worked with big hardware. Granted, your little Dell running sendmail can power off within a few minutes, but when you are using Enterprise class hardware real midrange or enterprise hardware, things are completely different. The bigger hardware is a lot more complex and has layers that have to go through a power off event.

I work with dozens of young Chinese people (20s, early 30s). And none of them drink anything alcohol. According to what they have told me, only old people in China drink alcohol, it's considered very uncool among the younger crowd. While all of these people work in the bigger cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan etc), all of them come from the smaller towns and/or farming communities. Just this alone makes me suspicious of the above data.

I think the perma-ban is way too much for this. If it had been the result of hacking or multiple bannings leading up to this or they asked a GM and then did it anyways, then it would have been an appropriate reaction. But they should have gotten a relative slap on the wrist (3-4 day temp ban or something like that).

However, I don't believe for a sec that Karatechop is being totally honest about any of this. The different answers he has given and not willing to state details or giving partial details; that is what kids do when they are making up lies to their parents/teachers. I'm guessing if we heard from Blizz, there would whole other facets of this story that Karatechop is skipping. I just hope that his guildmates and friends don't get affected too much by this.

Playing late at night, I'm almost always in Heroic PUGs. The 2 things that keep hitting me are: First, tanks running off to next trash mobs before the items even appear on screen. Second, the DE of the group rolling Need on every single Blue/Purple drop without waiting to hear if someone, you know, actually needs the item. (I've never lost a good item to the first one, just annoying, but I have lost 3 Need rolls to a DE with an itchy trigger finger).

Merry Winter's Veil to all.

Actually, there is a difference. The SA DVRs won't work with an eSATA enclosure that supports "auto-sensing" or that goes into a power-save mode. Most external enclosures don't do auto-sensing, but some do, like every WD enclosure except the one marked for DVRs. Enclosures that support that go into power-save mode will initially work, but everytime it goes into that mode you have to pull the power cord on the DVR to get it to work correctly. Unfortunately I have experience with this.