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Mark - 28 Nov 2005 21:05 GMT
I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running and
luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few more
countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the game
run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?
Mickey - 28 Nov 2005 21:27 GMT
> I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
> started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running and
> luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few more
> countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the game
> run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?

If you have a second machine, I might let it run, but I surely wouldn't
eschew playing waiting for it, as you could get to be VERY old that way :)

Mickey
Jamie Kahn Genet - 28 Nov 2005 21:38 GMT
> I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
> started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running and
> luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few more
> countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the game
> run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?

What's all that about? This some new (to me, anyway) easter egg?

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet"
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~misfit~ - 28 Nov 2005 22:03 GMT
> I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I
> was in started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the
> game running and luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message
> screen shows a few more countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is
> it worth it to let the game run and hope the clone shows up? Or
> should I just give up?

It's always annoyed me that messages don't have time-stamps in D2.

Anyway, I'd give up. I've done the same thing myself and have basically come
to the conclusion that the only times DC walks the earth is for organised
events where a froup of people get together and sell SoJs. (This has been
discussed here before). It's almost always weekends and it almost always
happens within an hour of the count starting. Only once in all my time on
B.net  waiting for the count ever worked and that took about 8 hours and a
complete clear of all five acts (except the Cold Plains, I had to leave one
super unique to spwan him at and I chose Bishibosh) and then chatting with a
friend in the game for a while. Just about to give up and he appeared.

Since then though I've tried the same thing with no luck, only seen DC on
organised spawnings.
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chaliban - 28 Nov 2005 23:00 GMT
<snip>

> Anyway, I'd give up. I've done the same thing myself and have basically come
> to the conclusion that the only times DC walks the earth is for organised
> events where a froup of people get together and sell SoJs.

<snip>

Someone has been hanging with the Douglas Adams crowd? Or I guess if
could be a typo.
~misfit~ - 29 Nov 2005 01:04 GMT
> <snip>
>
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> Someone has been hanging with the Douglas Adams crowd? Or I guess if
> could be a typo.

It was a typo but I saw it and left it in. I've seen 'froup' used a lot but
don't know where it came from. Could you enlighten us? I've never really
thought about it before but your comment has made me curious. I guess I
could visit Wiki and see.......
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chaliban - 29 Nov 2005 01:12 GMT
> > <snip>
> >
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> thought about it before but your comment has made me curious. I guess I
> could visit Wiki and see.......

yes you could.

Or I can just say that a lot of DA fans, used to use the word "froop"
instead of "group" when referring to themselves. Origin unknown by me
(and I haven't really checked) but possibly a typo first and then
related to being a cool frood. Maybe ArtDent can help us out.
EvilBill - 29 Nov 2005 04:20 GMT
"chaliban" <chaliban@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> Or I can just say that a lot of DA fans, used to use the word "froop"
> instead of "group" when referring to themselves. Origin unknown by me
> (and I haven't really checked) but possibly a typo first and then
> related to being a cool frood. Maybe ArtDent can help us out.

If memory serves, it used to be 'newsfroup' and derived from typos here on
Usenet <g> Don't know about the DA connection.

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~misfit~ - 29 Nov 2005 10:05 GMT
> "chaliban" <chaliban@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>
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> If memory serves, it used to be 'newsfroup' and derived from typos
> here on Usenet <g> Don't know about the DA connection.

I've seen quite a few people using it. I figured it was origianlly a typo
that caught on, a bit like my "Het" when I join AGD games. I did that a
couple times accidently and from then on whenever I joined a game where
there was one or more of the regs I would be greeted with "Het misfit". Got
to the stage where I use it all the time now.
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ArtDent - 29 Nov 2005 20:20 GMT
> > It was a typo but I saw it and left it in. I've seen 'froup' used a
> > lot but
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> (and I haven't really checked) but possibly a typo first and then
> related to being a cool frood. Maybe ArtDent can help us out.

Sorry, I do not know the origin either.  I too have seen it before in
several different ng's and figured it was some kind of 'cool slang'.
Friendly gROUP?  Never wanted to take that much time away from playing to
go look it up. ;)
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~misfit~ - 30 Nov 2005 00:45 GMT
>>> It was a typo but I saw it and left it in. I've seen 'froup' used a
>>> lot but
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> Friendly gROUP?  Never wanted to take that much time away from
> playing to go look it up. ;)

Heh! Yeah I figure it's a type of leet speak, just wondered if there was
more to it. Wiki has nothing. Google was more helpful:

"A froup is ... well, it's a bit difficult to explain. So imagine this:

Imagine you're driving along, minding your own business -- this assumes that
you have a car, or can, in fact, drive someone else's car if the opportunity
arises -- when you begin crossing a bridge over a somewhat large body of
water. At that precise moment you turn on the radio and are instantly
assaulted by the worst music you have ever heard, but all attempts to flip
it off again are met with failure.

As if that wasn't enough, there's a tollbooth up ahead and they'll only take
correct change. So now you're digging into every nook and cranny searching
for that extra quarter you know is -somewhere- in here while speeding along
at ninety-plus kilometers per hour, the music's blaring, and you're surround
on all sides by, collectively, asphalt, water, and air.

Then you hear a *thump*thump*thump* coming from the rear of your car; a
quick look in the rearview shows, to your relief, that you don't have a
flat, but then the trunk springs open and seven wild elephants who had been
trying to escape for the last couple of hours make their way onto the
expressway, severely clogging up traffic behind you -- not that there would
be much difference, since you have yet to find that crucial twenty-five
pence to make it past the toll booth, so they would have been stuck anyway.
Of course, the other drivers don't know that, so they start honking and
cursing at you, and the music is still going at top volume.

Against all odds, an earthquake hits, severely disrupting your searching
efforts, not to mention putting you in a somewhat precarious situation, what
with the bridge tipping and swaying every which way. Through this, however,
the coin you had been risking your neck over hits you upside the head, and
it is but a simple matter to grab onto it and make your way through the
tollbooth with hardly a care. Another swift glance in the rearview shows
that you made it off the bridge just in time to see it topple into the body
of water, taking everyone who had been honking at you quite mercilessly with
it. A final rumble of the earth helps your trunk slam shut, and you are
allowed to go on your merry way.

This has nothing to do with what a froup is.

But that feeling of justice, and of pity, of sadness and of joy, of anger
and remorse -- that is what a froup is.

A froup is also where you can make up stuff just like the above to people
you don't even know, and be assured that at least half will take you
seriously.

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pieceoftheuniverse - in other words, it's a bit like a pub."

http://www.zootle.net/afda/froup2.shtml

Quite funny and could be applied to AGD.

I also get this:

"The term "froup" refers to a Usenet newsgroup. It originated in the mid- to
late 1980s in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, first appearing as a typo in a
post by Richard Sexton. The word was quickly adopted by the rest of the
froup -- er, group -- and soon came into general use on Usenet." from:

http://www.answerbag.com/c_view.php/179

And this:

"FROUP:  Friends Routinely Opposed to Untimely/Ultimate/Ugly/Useful Posts
(alt.fan.douglas-adams)" from:

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FROUP

One question, several answers, although, the Douglas Adams version is an
acronym, capitalised, and could be taken as a different term, possibly a
derivation of the original.

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Whitedog - 28 Nov 2005 23:09 GMT
> I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
> started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running and
> luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few more
> countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the game
> run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?

I'd keep it going, but I'm stubborn like that.  Plus, counters have been
hard to come by lately.  I'd say if you don't get any more in an hour or
two, dump it though.
Mark - 29 Nov 2005 12:27 GMT
>I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
>started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running
>and luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few
>more countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the
>game run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?

Just an update. I left the game running, and played a bit yesterday evening
clearing most of Acts 4 & 5. Then went to watch the football game. When I
went to bed around midnight I had gotten 4 more countdown messages since I
first posted. I left the game running overnight and surprisingly enough it's
still up this morning. With another 64 messages. Probably 80 total now over
around a 24 hour period. So I guess I'll leave it up and hopefully when I
get home this evening I'll finally get to face the clone.

Regards-
Mark

Bongo-Fury
Whitedog - 29 Nov 2005 12:52 GMT
> >I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
> >started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running
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> around a 24 hour period. So I guess I'll leave it up and hopefully when I
> get home this evening I'll finally get to face the clone.

Which server are you on?
Mark - 29 Nov 2005 22:45 GMT
> Just an update.

Well the game was still up, with Diablo walking the earth. Brought in my
Skellimancer and went to the Cold Plains to build my army and spawn him at
Bishibosh. When I found him I topped off my 12 Skellies, 6 Mages and 12
Revives, and went back to town for a quick BO/Shout/BC refresh. Came back
and Decrep'd the Clone then ported my swarm onto him. Stand back and refresh
the Crep as needed and I soon had another Annialus. Not a very good one at
that, 12/12/5. After waiting 35 hours, the actual battle was a breeze.

Regards-
Mark

Bongo-Fury
~misfit~ - 30 Nov 2005 00:23 GMT
>> Just an update.
>
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> Annialus. Not a very good one at that, 12/12/5. After waiting 35
> hours, the actual battle was a breeze.

Well done. I'm amazed that the game lasted 35 hours. I'm experiencing server
crashes every few hours here. (I know they're server crashes as my
characters become unavailable for 5 - 10 minutes after the game crashes, the
'central scrutiniser' thinks that they are already in a game).

Congratulations on your tenacity.
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MD-R Ar28senal v2.0b - 29 Nov 2005 12:54 GMT
> I was fooling around a bit this morning before work, and the game I was in
> started with the 'SoJs sold to merchants' thing. I left the game running and
> luckily its still going 9 hours later. The message screen shows a few more
> countdowns, 12 total, but no clone yet. So is it worth it to let the game
> run and hope the clone shows up? Or should I just give up?

I had several "counting" games last ladder but I had ONE anni only in the
end. DClone only appeared in one game. That was fast though (about half an
hour and dozen of countings or so before DC showing)

The funny part is that "counting" games are not limited to hell. I saw
"counting" in both normal and nm games. I don't understand this, maybe
Blizzard want to say "hey you have come to the right server but you are
screwed anyway"

I have see no "counting" game this ladder so far, in all difficulties.
 
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