How to kill your survivor paragon for dummies

Long time no see and the rest. However, this lesson was sooooo frustrating that I really have to write about it.

So, there are three prerequisites:
1. be greedy
2. be stupid
3. you don't usually fumble with the keyboard, but you absolutely must do it when you realize that you're dying

Looks like I met these criteria and managed to make short work of several months during which I brought that paragon to be an almost Indomitable Survivor. Almost, yeah, there were less than 100K points left until the second tier of the Survivor title.

How on Earth did I do it? Easy: I wanted to do the Tihark Orchard mission and get the master's reward for it. I was hungry for XP, okay? Tihark Orchard is a rather easy mission, but one has to enter it alone. No heroes, no henchmen. So, I managed to kill The Hunger in Moddok Crevice, and I got killed by a pitiful actor while re-enacting the victory of Turai Ossa over Palawa Joko. And the fake Palawa Joko only causes -2 health degeneration with his Life Siphon hex.

So, I beat him, but I was hexed and my life was slowly going down the drain. I realized that and I wanted to resign the mission, but... you know, fumbling with the keyboard in a moment like this is worse than any "death by lag".

Of course, that was not my only mistake. Why the hell didn't I take some Skalefin Soup with me, huh? That would have slowed the degeneration. And why didn't I, at least, use one of the Mysterious Summoning Stones I had in the backpack? That's a real mystery. If I used one of those, I'd have saved my energy for regeneration skills. And then I chose to type the resign command instead of hitting "M" and map-travel to the outpost with a double-click - which means the same thing.

Bah! R.I.P. Dayo Sundance! And she was not just any survivor... I accidentally realized that the Survivor title was still enabled when she was level 18, and only then I started paying attention to it.

*sigh*

Internet Exploiter

I guess I'll never know who called Microsoft's browser Internet Exploiter. That's not supposed to be important but, somehow, the (in)famous browser lives up the expectations created by that nickname. Or true name, if you please.

I can't sleep so I'm reading Slashdot. At 3 in the morning. And guess what I've stumbled upon? A brand new article that's pointing out the fact that the fabled Internet Explorer 8 is making secure sites insecure. Geez, that was supposed to be the best version of IE ever! And you know what's worse? The fact that, according to The Register, the vulnerability resides in a browser component that was designed specifically to protect against XSS attacks!!!!

However, it looks like there are ways in which we can protect our poor data from being molested by attackers.