Link to how to do focus targeting/healing in SWTOR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BujnSlyXhGs

How to set up healing frames for party and operations/raids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip4hv8ca-aM&list=UUtak1bdxZ36zutpKwR5UWUA&index=15&feature=plpp_video

Well organized chart illustrating the relationships between
skills and what each skill produces:
http://www.oldrepublic.net/258-crew-skills-map-force-non-force-classes-usage-dependencies.html

Also...the number one result in youtube when you search for "SWTOR dance"
is now the Chipmunk lightsaber dance video

non static link to Thurs 12/8/11 comic: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

I fount this article to be interesting.

"In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind?"

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/

Enjoy

Dias, I am on the Crimson Tide...wave? Train? Anyway, go Alabama in the National Championship game! I even liked the Alabama fight song when I looked it up on youtube, very catchy and fun. Roll tide!

LSU can be beaten...LSU WILL be beaten!! Use this for inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axb23I1aQMA&feature=related
LSU was the defending nat'l champions when we pulled this on them in the Capitol One bowl (we were down 25-24 when this play happened)

At long last (sorry for the delay), here is my Dark Souls review. Please critique below. I take all that stuff seriously and it helps me. Besides, nothing you could say could be worse than what Father Tonto says when I give him my draft. He can be, well, pervasively colorful.

Dark Souls
A masterfully crafted, brutal experience

If someone were to ask you what the most difficult game you ever trudged through was, you would more than likely answer without hesitation, a game that was made back in the 80's. The reasoning behind my conclusion was deduced by analyzing the gaming library from back when and today. There were no such things as “easy” games in the golden age of gaming. They didn't exist; they weren't bred yet. Now I take you through my space time continuum into the modern. What do you see? Mainstream titles that contain no sense of foreboding difficulty. Now of course this oft-forgotten spark of strenuousness doesn't apply to every game today to make the game worth checking out. Bioware still shows us that story is worth a damn if told right (very rarely these days I might add), also along that line Naughty Dog bestows upon us gaming experiences that don't require you to sit in a movie theater to see to believe. But excluding the possibilities of fantastic stories, top of the line presentation, and solid controls, do they seem at all rewarding to you after you've finished them and if not isn't that one of the cardinal reasons why we started gaming in the first place?

Make sure you have joined the guild on SWTOR's site, for prelaunch perks.

Guild will be formed and ready when we hit the server day 1 automatically.

Auto Guild invite for first toon created.

Also will direct you to the guilds server automatically.

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/108294/scarab

DO it now or suffer the abusive trials of having a manual invite later. (Currently has something to do with goats and rubber gloves, and your not wearing the gloves...)

My video of Chip doing the SWTOR lightsaber dance ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM0XQXOD280) has ~450 views in the first week The country from which the most people are viewing the video, is, not surprisingly, the USA. Number 2? Sweden!! Those Scandinavians have good taste (and an affinity for blonde hair?).

Only bummer part? They changed the something-or-other pleated shirt graphic since the first weekend beta--this week the shirt in the video was just a normal, semi-blah grey robe instead of the cool half-shirt with jetpack-backpack look.

I thought Lindt would reign unchallenged as world's best chocolate, but Nama chocolate is a legit rival for the crown. My sister had some when I visited her for Thanksgiving.

Nama is a Japanese chocolate, made by a company called, for some strange reason, Royce. The quality level is extremely high and its delicious. The piece I had was small and rectangular in shape, somewhat soft, almost half way between a fudge and regular milk chocolate. Fantastic flavor and consistency.

Anyway, I am now on the lookout for Nama chocolate. It is apparently not available for purchase in the USA ( http://www.royceusa.com/ won't load here at work, although its not coming through as being blocked, not sure even if it would that one could buy any here). I think my sister said the box they had was was given to her as a gift by a visiting researcher. If anyone knows where to buy some, let me know.

I wanted to take a moment to say happy Thanksgiving to all our members! I hope your day is restful or awesome as your preference runs. May your turkeys be golden and moist and your tummys only get full when you want them to.
My life has taken a few huge steps in directions i never expected over the last few months and wanted to say how thankful i am to have the people in my life that are here and out side of SCARAB.
Now let the gorging begin!!!!
Krystal

Not sure if anyone has seen this while kickin' aroun on the Net but I just saw a WoW banner ad. I said that WoW is now free to play until level 20. Anyone else seen or heard anything about this?

Thal

Please excuse the shameless plug.  My wife and I are delighted to unveil our latest game for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch:  Roly-Poly.

It's a whimsical and silly game about a roly-poly bug climbing a sunflower.  We made it for iTwixie.com, a Pittsburgh-based social network for tween girls, and our testing has shown that most boys like it a lot too.

If you have a kid, niece, or nephew who's into silly games, please check it out as a Thanksgiving boredom buster.  You can get Roly-Poly from the App Store here.

Chuck Norris and Huntering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zzNBlHG4h8

I haven't done any serious table top RPG'ing in decades. However, I've recently gotten interested in runnning a few games to see how it goes but have a lack of players. I would like to run a Call of C'thulhu 6th Edition, Chill and/or AD&D 1st Edition game. Yeah, these are all "old school" rules but that's how I roll.....Old School. I know that there are Scarabs out there that play table top RPG's and would like to get some input from you. I've found a few different programs and a couple of servers to run a virtual game off of but have no experience doing so. Does anyone else have any experience in this arena? Is there a program or server that you prefer? Any advice on starting something up? I realize that SWTOR will be taking up most everyone's time, including mine, but thought is if there are some interested parties, we could take a break every once in awhile to have some personal "Scarab Time" together.

We are now free to discuss

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=10939389#edit10939389

testing...testing

I found an ad for this in my mailbox today:

https://www.bkdelivers.com/#welcome

$2 delivery fee, reasonable. $10 min order. Not reasonable. My arteries are saved!

Can't log in. Sometimes it tells me my password is wrong, sometimes it lets you past the PW stage only to have the play button greyed out. Sigh. The testing forums are also down and others when you go to login nothing whatsoever happens or it takes you to a page that says this page doesn't exist because you aren't logged in. Stress test=megafail.

EDIT: Got to server select screen 3 hours after game was supposedly available, was #1803 in the queue, hit cancel to go back to server select screen to pick another server and got dumped to a spinning icon wait screen, then game crashed. Went to log back in and now its back to telling me my password, ie the one I just logged in under, is not valid. Fucking lame.

http://www.bustedtees.com/yeswecatan/hoodie/#hoodies

While looking for info on the Sith Inquisitor class, I found the screenshot below. The graphics on this character's outfit are really well done...nicely detailed and perfectly appropriate for the class. The shape of the hood is kind of amateurish/rudimentary, but all else is excellent.

All the holocrons are mine...ALL! MUWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
Sorry, just getting psyched up for beta testing tomorrow

Only way the above would be more Chipmunkish was if the hood was down and a blond ponytail was visible...