Cinder Kitten Charity Drive, Patch 5.0.5 Hotfixes, Patch 5.1 PTR - Build 16281

Originally Posted by Phlegethon

The difference is: The US has a stupidly high budget for "defense" they can cut to support their own. COuntries like Haiti don't even have the money to buy grain your traders store on ships because the price isn't high enough.
I hope the "fiscal cliff" comes into effect, bam 500 billion to spend on that "worthy" cause.

I'll just send my money where they need it.

Way to turn death and destruction from a national disaster into a political conversation. Pathetic.

OH god, finally. A MUCH needed buff to Disc.

Originally Posted by Karagar

I'd love to get the kitten (and the other Blizzard Store pets for that matter) but unfortunately as someone living in the US with an EU WoW account i can't (the EU Blizzard store doesn't take the type of credit card i have). >.> Its nice that 100% of the profits will go to charity though.

Have someone in your guild or a close friend buy it for you and gift it too you....then you just pay back your friend with real money.

Wish there was a mount to match the Kitty....that would be even more awesome.....

Kind of impressed its 100% this time, i remember the last time they were only donating 50%. Might actually support this.

Originally Posted by Xucuroz

Kind of impressed its 100% this time, i remember the last time they were only donating 50%. Might actually support this.

They could have donated nothing at all, would that have made you happy? I mean, clearly 0% is much better than 50%.

People are so jaded these days. Why is it a bad thing for a corporation to make money? Blizzard/Activision isn't running a charity, they are running a business. Stop being mad for them wanting to make a buck. Hell you pay them a monthly fee to play WoW, you paid them to buy WoW and every expansion. Don't be mad at them on one hand for wanting to make a buck and love them on the other hand enough to continually pay them each month to play their game.

I will be getting one of these fine firey felines. I'm a ginger, so it has a special place in my heart. Oh, and i love cats. I don't own any cause i'm a little on the allergic side and live in an apartment where it would cost too much for me to own one, but i love the little guys!

Originally Posted by Syenite

Rich people in the US? The US is except for its mere size in a position equal to Greece. Yea sure, a few people are vvery weathy, but the country as a whole is pretty damn broke.

I'm sorry? Where on earth do you get your economic information from? Greece is in a depression and is close to being a failed state. America has 3.5% GDP growth, dropping unemployment, and a government able to enforce its laws. So again, how is America anything at all like Greece?

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Originally Posted by Granyala

While I do not agree with the general America hate, you do start a lot of wars. Most recently: Afghanistan and Iraq. They were just ... unnecessary. This whole "war on terror" is just political BS to be able to go to war, for whatever reasons.

Every logical thinking human being knows that you cannot defeat a loosely structured organization with independently operating cells through conventional warfare. It's just not possible.

Umm...other than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I challenge you to name a war STARTED by the United States.

I have more faith in today's society if I just assume that high levels of stupid are actually just successful, yet pointless, attempts at trolling

Originally Posted by Swizzle

I'm sorry? Where on earth do you get your economic information from? Greece is in a depression and is close to being a failed state. America has 3.5% GDP growth, dropping unemployment, and a government able to enforce its laws. So again, how is America anything at all like Greece?

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http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Face it, your country is broke. Also the spread of wealth in the US slowly starts to slide down to 3th world proportions. So expect living conditions to drop and crime flourish even more than it is doing now.
Also the reason the US goes to war a lot also has it's ties with the arms industry being the biggest industry in the US. Also the second biggest industry is very illustrative: the trash industry. Considering everything has to be big in the US that doesn't surprise me though. The US is adapting very poorly to the future TBH and it will hit the hardest when resources run out as you are running a 'waste' economy.

Originally Posted by Swizzle

Umm...other than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I challenge you to name a war STARTED by the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...sion_of_Panama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

Face it, your country is broke

Wrong. They have the ultimate tool : the USD printing press. As long as they have the dollars making machine , and the other people on the planet still use and accept dollars, they are not broke and won't ever be .

Originally Posted by Xucuroz

Kind of impressed its 100% this time, i remember the last time they were only donating 50%. Might actually support this.

The donations for Japan with the Cenarion Hatchling was 100%. Can't remember if they have done any charity donations since that one.

Originally Posted by vandam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...sion_of_Panama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

As a Serb, I wouldn't dare call a NATO bombing of Belgrade a "war", neither would I call a singular invasion a "war". War is a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations. NATO is not a state, and Panama never fought back, ergo neither instance you linked are wars. Seriously, it looks like people just want to shit on the US for whatever. Let's not forget that the British have invaded 90% of the world, with only 22 countries through history escaping their wrath. Why not call the British out on their aggression?

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Originally Posted by Tyandor

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Face it, your country is broke. Also the spread of wealth in the US slowly starts to slide down to 3th world proportions. So expect living conditions to drop and crime flourish even more than it is doing now.
Also the reason the US goes to war a lot also has it's ties with the arms industry being the biggest industry in the US. Also the second biggest industry is very illustrative: the trash industry. Considering everything has to be big in the US that doesn't surprise me though. The US is adapting very poorly to the future TBH and it will hit the hardest when resources run out as you are running a 'waste' economy.

I find it funny that your own link counters your awful point. Compare the debt levels of the US and Greece, then try your argument again. Or is 73% somehow equal to 189% and 100% is equal to 234%.

Monstrous Plainshawks are now more peace loving.

Finally, i think this is the mob who have killed me most in MoP while being afk at Halfhill

Originally Posted by NineK

I rather donate to my local redcross that actually do help those in greatest need, the Caribian and not only those affected in the richest country in the world USA.
Why on earth are you asking us to to only help that country who that has the biggest potential to recover fastest and that was mild damages?

Pathetic Blizzard, a slap in the face on those poor people who already had it rough to start with before hurricane Sandy, like on Haiti

You do realize that the US as a whole donated something like 800million dollars to the relief efforts in Haiti right? Your belief that everyone in the US is rich and well taken care of is a joke and the belief of either a) a child or b) an ignorant adult.

Originally Posted by vandam

Wrong. They have the ultimate tool : the USD printing press. As long as they have the dollars making machine , and the other people on the planet still use and accept dollars, they are not broke and won't ever be .

Printing more money just lowers the value of said money and if you keep doing that dollars won't be accepted anymore. Money needs to be backed up by something of value, otherwise the paper it's printed on is worth more than the money itself. Just printing more is a downward spiral if you don't have economic growth to back it up.

Originally Posted by Phlegethon

The difference is: The US has a stupidly high budget for "defense" they can cut to support their own. COuntries like Haiti don't even have the money to buy grain your traders store on ships because the price isn't high enough.
I hope the "fiscal cliff" comes into effect, bam 500 billion to spend on that "worthy" cause.

I'll just send my money where they need it.

Let's say you got your wish. Defense is slashed in half, US bases cannot be supported and are withdrawn. What now? Who steps up to the plate? The UN? Fat chance, a coalition of countries with no militaries more interested in themselves than the good of the whole. The only other country to match the US in army is Russia, so that's out. Not to mention what happens to places like S. Korea, Afghanistan, etc. when peacekeeping forces leave in the interim before another superpower steps up. What if we never intervened against Saddam? What would happen had his intended capture of Kuwait's oil reserves happened? What happens to all those smaller countries all over the world with inadequate police forces that welcome the protection offered? It's not as simple as picking and choosing who to help, and letting those countries burn is not an option, we're far more civilized than that.

Originally Posted by Tyandor

Printing more money just lowers the value of said money and if you keep doing that dollars won't be accepted anymore. Money needs to be backed up by something of value, otherwise the paper it's printed on is worth more than the money itself. Just printing more is a downward spiral if you don't have economic growth to back it up.

They are backed by the strongest army on the planet . And by this simple mechanic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare

The speed increase provided by the Druid ability Stampeding Roar no longer stacks with the speed increases provided by Cat Form or Travel Form.

But 296% travel form speed is fun!

If you don't like the weather/want to be safe 100% of the time from weather. Move to the Moon. Cheers.

Politics in the WoW news comments? CLOSE... TOPIC... NOW...

Originally Posted by Eggwolls

Are you FUCKING kidding me? The FIRST shaman change to be seen since MoP release and it's a fucking nerf? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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Dude, the natural disaster was in the USA. We already give money to other countries that are in need. My gosh. People want handouts all over the damn place...

Euhm, you want handouts yourself mate.... thats one great example of irony.

And you are one misinformed person amongst millions, due to the lack of media attention, wich was more focussed on the US then on the rest of countries hit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...urricane-sandy
69 people dead in 6 countries. In Haiti alone 52 people dead, and hundreds of thousands are left homeless.

Now I do feel for those hit in the US, but I never forget the fact that those people hit in the US even now have it better then the people living on the Caribbean islands wich get hit by hurricanes more often.

The severity of the impact on the people in the two regions isn't comparable at all. Its like comparing a drought in Africa to a drought in western countries. The fomer costs thousands of lives, the latter increases the local food prices at most.

And with the US as an economy being so big, that economy makes relief efforts cheap and might even lead to an increase in spendings wich in terms causes more jobs. On Haiti the people who didn't already live in tents, (still after the 2010 quake) will have to do so now, and might have to do so for the coming year(s).

However to keep things on topic, I do like the idea, and will buy the pet. Its atleast something I can do to help.