Lurker Lounge now a hack site

[CelticHound]

I also find interesting that they seem to have gotten so much noise from idiots that when a stalwart member of the community, such as yourself or Tommi speaks up, they respond almost as if there was no difference between you or 'the great unwashed."

Sounds very democratic in some sense though. Sort of a philosophical statement that a 1337 pindle-botting kiddie is as gawdly as Jarulf. :blink:

(BTW, you want rare, gawdly ITAMz? When FoS took on Hell Baal last Sunday, not only was I wearing my Biggin's Bonnet, but I was also using a Cathan's Seal that I had gambled a couple days earlier. How's that for rare?)

The D2.Net SP forum is the least tainted by juvenile behavior in my opinion. Unfortunately, most of the D2.Net articles are pointless and most of the guides they have on the site are not very good either. I have ~300-400 posts at both D2.Net and Amazon Basin. I only registered here to answer a technical question, so I'll likely only get dozens of posts or replies since most of the character question topics are usually covered here.

Could you explain that last sentence? I don't understand what you meant, there.

"Least tainted" is an interesting description. It's also interesting that you say most of the guides there aren't very good. I'm thinking in terms of "you know the tree by it's fruit".

I think the guides either hosted by the LL or at least written under the "trial by fire" of the LL forums are typically in the range of very good to outstanding. That's why a number of guides that end up on other sites get posted here for additional review. (CorwinBrute's update to his bowazon being a recent example.)

I have to admit that there are certain biases that affect how a guide will be received here. For example, the Lounge is explicitly prejudiced against cheating. There's another bias that I have a hard time describing, but is shown in this thread. One problem there is that it wasn't so much a guide to take a certain character through the game from the beginning but a setup once you've been PAed to A5/Hell.

Your thinking of the forum as a "harsh, Darwinian one" does seem to apply to most online communities.

You might be surprised. On a Wolfhound group I used to read - that's why my screen name is CelticHound - Irish Wolfhounds & Scottish Deerhounds - truth would easily take a back seat to unthinking opinion. I'll spare you any stories, for now, though.



-- CH
(if I'm prejudiced against bigots, what does that make me?)

(edit: fix nested [I] tag...)