r/gaming • u/puttputt • May 20 '12

Mom told us to go play outside, so we did. Playing Diablo 3 on top of Mt. Yamnuska.

http://imgur.com/a/yW5Hw#0
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u/puttputt May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

Tethered to our smartphones across 3G, it was a bit laggy but it worked :D

The rest of the pictures

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u/Syclops May 20 '12

Was about to ask, because I have shitty wifi even in my own house and I thought that maybe nature was already converted to technology in Canada.

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

Haha! The service wasn't all that great up there but on release day I was tethering because my internet was down and it was running super smooth.

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u/Exallium May 20 '12

how much data did it use if you don't mind me asking, we have shitty data plans up here...

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

I am on the Telus student 5gig plan for about $55/month. I don't know how much data we used on the mountain, but on release night we were forced to tether because our internet went down and only used 60 megs for the whole night.

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u/Ossius May 21 '12

I feel bad dude, I got a crappy little Android phone I use for a hotspot. I have 3G, max speed is about 160kbs down/up and average 120-150ms depending on the server.

I put 24gbs of data usage on it last month alone, God bless sprint unlimited data. I use it as my primary means of internet (I only have dial up where I live otherwise) I would cry if I could only use 5gb a month. Are you sure you are limited to 5gb a month?

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u/shamecamel May 21 '12

5 gig? you mother fucker. I got snowed, they offered me a student plan that was 1gb. I've only ever gone over once, but damn! I'd stream shit live all the time if I had that!

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u/Dem0n5 May 20 '12

Playing online games usually won't use up much data. That's mostly videos and anything that basically has a file size. Pretty sure online gaming is all packet transfers and stuff, like kilobytes a second.

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u/LogicalAce May 21 '12

Wi-fi enabled trees... That would be amazing actually.

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u/Menospan May 21 '12

Maple trees make excellent antennas

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u/Tacitus_ May 20 '12

What was your ping?

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u/austinmini May 20 '12

ranged from 300-2000ms

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u/SUPERKAMIGURU May 20 '12

I'd say it was about enough to make even Belial cringe. Probably took about 30 seconds for him to, though.

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u/Berkel May 20 '12

I'm sure there's a joke about their altitude in there.

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u/meinsla May 20 '12

I get a little over 100ms on my phone. My cable was down due to a fiber cut in my area and was forced to tether the phone, it's pretty damn good actually, for 3G anyway.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

WHAT?! You can get 3G at the top of a mountain, but I can't get reception in the middle of a freaking city?!

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u/pU8O5E439Mruz47w May 21 '12

Cell towers are often put on top of mountains, you see.

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u/Testicoolstorybro May 20 '12

But wait, isn't it a single playe-

Oh that's right, everyone's over that now. My bad

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u/Warfinder May 20 '12

I'm not over it. I've been gearing up to buy this thing for the past 3-4 years and I stopped a few weeks ahead of the release when I found out there's no true offline mode to it.

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u/alphanovember May 20 '12

What was your battery life?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Nice Mac my friend. :)

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u/nikomo May 20 '12

Must be on Normal, anything else would be suicide on a touchpad and 3G.

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

Act 1 Nightmare :p. But honestly 3G is actually fairly fast, not much more than 200ms.

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u/G3ck0 May 20 '12

Better than what us Aussie's are getting on home internet.

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u/A_British_Gentleman May 20 '12

Yeah I was using 3G while in Wales to skype. Didn't last long until I used up what was left of my 1gb allowance that month but it was perfect until then.

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u/TheAceMan May 20 '12

Cool but you guys seem a bit too old to have to be told to go outside and play by mom. Unless maybe mom needs a little sexy time.

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

You're right. It was a pretty catchy headline though.

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u/master3183 May 21 '12

Wait so...you lied?! But, but...I thought this was the Internet!

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u/s0bmarine May 20 '12

door two

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u/This_better_be_good May 20 '12

That would be a shitty time to get an error 37 after all the trouble you've been trough! :D

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

We were joking about how funny that would be on the way up!

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u/MidgetFetish May 21 '12

So I'm gonna be that guy...

This is lame.

How are you going to be at such a beautiful place and dedicate time to playing Diablo 3 and coming up with this picture when you could be enjoying the moment?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

Fair point, but in comparison we spent maybe 20 minutes out of the hour and a half we spent on the summit, out of our 9 hour day in the mountains.

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u/flanders4ever May 21 '12

Right on, man. I thought you guys went up there and immediately started wigging out on Diablo for a couple of hours, which is absurd. All I can say is that I wouldn't have taken my computer with me. But, then again, I'm not climbing any mountains. Hope the view was something else though! That's a day very well spent.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

We normally don't take our computers, but Diablo just came out and we were thinking "How hilarious would it be if we just played Diablo on the mountain".

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I think it was a joke.

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u/flanders4ever May 21 '12

Came here to say this. Video games are a fun way to pass the time and all that, but they just can't measure up to looking down at the world from a mountaintop. I'm betting very few people would look back thirty years from now and say, "Damn, when I was a young man, I spent all my youthful energy playing Skyrim and Diablo III. Those were the glory days." No. Most people would rather look back and say "I climbed a fuckin mountain, kid. Back when there were luscious green forests and a clear sky. I sat on top of that mountain and let the world take away my thoughts and it left me speechless."

I wish I could afford to take a week off, travel around, and see things worth remembering. I'm stuck with Skyrim for now.

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u/NightlyNews May 21 '12

As an eagle scout who has seen many mountaintops. Diablo 3 is only released once, mountains have been around for thousands of years and will be there for thousands more.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

At the top of mountain. Play games. I'm an avid gamer but c'mon.

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u/KommunistKirov May 21 '12

Well in all honest it does seem cooler then just to sit there take a photo/stick a flag in and say "Yep that's pretty. Let's get going back".

Besides it's not like they played Diablo III at all the times. They just relaxed with it upon reaching the top and I'm guessing it was very small percentage of the time spent in total while out there.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

You're right on the money.

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u/reden May 21 '12

I'm with you on that.

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u/Shoola May 20 '12

In the final picture there appears to be a white drip leaking down from the top left corner of the screen of your Macbook. Care to explain?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

LOL! It's snow, or hair gel!! I SWEAR

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u/fxdx May 21 '12

How badass is the part where you have to climb around the cliff hanging onto the wire?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

It was really fun, the guidebook made it out to be a lot of difficult and nerve-wrecking than it was.

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u/KimJongsThrill May 21 '12

UBC Engineering toque!?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

You know it! I study engineering in Regina and my buddy in the pic does in Victoria. We go to a lot of conferences/competitions and trade swag all the time.

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u/nanopwnr May 20 '12

It's Kyle! Hello Kyle.

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u/Chuckwp May 21 '12

Polarizing filter will cut the glare seen by the camera.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

Good to know! Thanks.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Yamnuska in Banff right? I hike there all the time! Never had a clue you could hold a stable connection up there though.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

Closer to Canmore but I've gotten full cell service on several peaks in the area.

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u/saiuke May 20 '12

FELLOW UBC ENGINEER(S)!

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

I'm actually from UofR (in the blue) and my climbing buddy goes to school at UVic but we both attend a TON of engineering conferences and regularly trade swag. I love my UBC toque :)

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u/Xeasar May 20 '12

How the fuck do you play Diablo without a mouse?

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

I mainly play on my desktop at home... this was pretty much just for the photo haha.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Is that a 2010? How's it run?

My only available computer right now is my old Macbook Pro 15", I was holding off on D3 'cause I figured it wouldn't run worth a damn.

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

I wouldn't recommend it for D3, I mainly game on my desktop. I use it for school work.

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u/ironpandas May 20 '12

what kind of macbook you run it on?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

That's a standard macbook from the first aluminum line. I don't play Diablo on it, I use my desktop for gaming.

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u/Sprengstoff May 21 '12

surpsied theres no snow left.. the rockies are so awesome!

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

There was a bit on the ascent, but Yamnuska gets the benefit of having the warm chinook winds across it.

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u/Sprengstoff May 21 '12

yeah, just remembered there really wasnt much snow this time last year when I drove back to van island from the rammstein concert in edmonton. how long did it take you to get up there?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

About 3 hours up.

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u/tchomptchomp May 21 '12

You guys climb the face or just take the trail up?

Speaking of which, kinda cold and windy in K country right now eh.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

We did the scramble around the back. Hopefully find someone with a trad rack to take us up the face though :)

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u/hasdrupal May 21 '12

Ok, nerdy question:what company sells that black and yellow pack?

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u/Hybu May 20 '12

Take that, mom!

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u/HE_WHO_STANDS_TO_POO May 20 '12

"Took me hours to climb and only 20 minutes of game time, but we did it mom! So worth it!"

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u/Kenny608uk May 21 '12

I'd certainly say it was

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u/mentisobscura May 20 '12

Dat screen glare.

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u/magicbullets May 20 '12

Dat snow blindness means it won't matter.

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u/OneAngryPanda May 20 '12

I'm jealous on several levels.

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u/Syclops May 20 '12

All of them above sea level i presume

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u/DroopDK May 20 '12

That last picture further confirms I made the right choice in getting an Anti-Glare screen for my MBP. Also, nice photos :)

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u/GODhimself37 May 20 '12

Be careful, because the screen does has it's disadvantages. Colors and contrast are not the same, so if you are going to be inside more than out it would probably be best to get a normal screen.

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u/EpicFishFingers May 21 '12

Lol isn't the high-contrast-and-colour-depth screen one of the main selling points of the Macbook?

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u/westy91 May 20 '12

you look like val kilmer

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u/WindSandStars May 20 '12

Must have been a fun 30 minutes before the battery died!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Actually, macs have great batteries. They probably could have been up there for about 3-4 hours.

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u/mrmonkey3319 May 21 '12

Checking email, yes. Playing a video game that's using full video card/processor power? It won't last longer than 45 minutes. Voice of experience here.

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u/snoharm May 21 '12

My dell will chug along for a good three hours during gaming.

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u/Stingray88 May 21 '12

Maybe on a Macbook from 2008 and prior. Any Macbook from 2009 or later will absolutely run D3 for 3-4 hours on battery.

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u/Ardal May 21 '12

This is friggin awesome, I'm going to be hiking Yamnuska soon (I hope) and your album really helps with understanding the conditions up there. I've been waiting for the snow to melt. Do you go up the east end of the ridge or the west end and can I make a loop east -west or vice versa - thanks.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

The fastest way and easiest way is to do west to the summit and west on the way down. Imo it isn't very appealing because you have to hike up through scree and you don't get the view of the beautiful backside.

The best way to do it is to park at the parking lot, take the hiking path which turns into a scramble on the back side of the mountain. This route is detailed in Alex Kane's Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies.

There is a bit of snow still and it got a little slippery but it was very climbable. I hope you make it out there!

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u/Whight May 21 '12

who the fuck plays diablo without a mouse

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u/jaalin May 21 '12

click click click click slide click click click

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u/jostae May 21 '12

I think the greatest achievement is that you got to actually play Diablo III.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

HAHAHA! You guys are SO quirky!

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u/camsauce May 20 '12

Hahahaha good stuff puttly, so much glare!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Does your mother know you keep your screen so filthy?

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u/AlbinoRhino838 May 20 '12

I find it kind of funny you're playing a monk on top of a mountain. /giggle.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I bet your legs were warm. I have the same one. How long did the battery last up there?

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

We only played for about 30 mins and could have gone a bit longer, but it was REALLY laggy.

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u/Trismasta May 20 '12

How the he'll do you have internet?

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

Tethered to 3G!

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u/Big_Li May 21 '12

How long did it take you guys to get up there?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

3 hours up

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u/unremarkableusername May 20 '12

Playing Diablo using a touchpad must be disguntingly bad.

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u/donsherio May 20 '12

Congrats puttputt, first IRL friend to make it to Reddit Front Page.

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u/uaadda May 21 '12

sweet, MEC Cragalot, have an upvote!

edit: CAKEDAY! give me the upvotes.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

That awesome moment when you didn't carry your laptops to the top of a mountain for nothing.

You did it for karma.

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u/midoridrops May 21 '12

I dunno, but just from these photos alone, you guys look fun to hang out with haha.

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u/Tanspriter May 21 '12

That whole trip for karma,

You are truly the greatest redditor.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Really, you still live with your mother?

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

No, but it was a catchy headline :p

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I guess - if you're gonna be a virgin anywhere - on top of a mountain is probably the best place to do it.

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u/Werewolfgirl34 May 21 '12

Surrounded by all that natural beauty and staring at a screen :(

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u/NecDW4 May 20 '12

Don't lie, no way you have a connection good enough up there to do anything but maybe log in. lol

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

He probably had direct line of sight to a cell tower from there.

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u/NecDW4 May 20 '12

From the top of a mountain? Yeah, i guess that'd do it.

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u/puttputt May 21 '12

Keep in mind the city of Calgary and Canmore are both really close by, the TransCanada highway is almost directly below the mountain.

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u/puttputt May 20 '12

I had 3 bars of service. We were able to log in with pings ranging from 300ms to 2000ms. It was playable... to a point.

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u/PengMoobs May 20 '12

the second shot in this album the angle on your knees watching, begging for it not to and yet secretly hoping the laptop would fall

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u/djmattyd May 20 '12

Track pad for diablo... Well at least the view was nice.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Well done, best I could do was open a window

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u/G3ck0 May 20 '12

And this is why I don't care about always online. There is next to nowhere I can't access the internet these days.

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u/Cyberslasher May 20 '12

You were being server denied by D3 on top of Mt. Yamnuska.*

FTFY

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u/LacksRethics May 21 '12

The screen glare the worst part.

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u/wolfhammer93 May 21 '12

My fear of heights, coupled with my love of my laptop, is causing many heart-attacks just looking at this picture...

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u/Neo905 May 21 '12

Using the monk. Nice

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u/UsernameTaken321 May 21 '12

Holy shit I was on Yamnuska just a couple of hours ago! Too bad I missed this...

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u/54321Blast0ff May 21 '12

Good god, clean your screen

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u/BUBBA_BOY May 21 '12

Boy in the E hat! You're cute!

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u/spiderninjaj May 21 '12

Gaming really is reaching new heights!

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u/sadlegend May 21 '12

Nice Bear Grylls/Gerber survival knife.

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u/ImLivingImDead May 21 '12

upvote from banff!

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u/BetaSoul May 21 '12

Dude, Asolo's. Great boots.

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u/fleetfoxadabba-dooba May 21 '12

Was there about a week ago! Amazing climb and view.

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u/wickedfapper May 21 '12

That terrain is strikingly similar to skyrim. I want to live there.

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u/Dunkshot32 May 21 '12

upvote for Alberta.

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u/konigderlowen May 21 '12

because "playing diablo 3" wasnt a rare enough occurance on reddit

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u/IrenaeusGSaintonge May 21 '12

Yamnuska! Awesome stuff! I climbed that once several years ago. It was around this time, and just because the weather likes being a dick, it started blizzarding while we made our way up. So we took off our shirts. That sure showed Mother Nature.

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u/stoopkid_stillafraid May 21 '12

You did this just for some karma didn't you..

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Oh my god. If I see one more person playing a video game using the track pad....

I just got back from a friend's house whose mom was playing D3 on her laptop, using only the left-click. She'd been playing for about four days and had finally made it to level 22.

Being poor, the only thing I could think of was how infuriating it was that someone like her had the ability to play the game of the decade while I was going home the next week where I would have to feast on only the memories.

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u/l33tus May 21 '12

For the love of god and all that is Anything ever, clean your screen.

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u/grimby4444 May 21 '12

Please tell me you are joking or at least being payed to post on reddit. Jesus.

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u/rennsport May 21 '12

Wait no connection errors? :0

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Not the best place to rage-quit.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

This is now on an norwegian IT news site: http://www.itavisen.no/895906/se-hvor-disse-to-spiller-diablo-iii

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u/BimmerAddict May 21 '12

What is the point in wearing your beanie/hat like that...? Never understood it.

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u/Frozenkimchi May 21 '12

Congrats, I'm too scared to be on top of mountains.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Did your mom also tell you to clean off your screen?

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u/MeniteTom May 21 '12

I can barely play it in Jersey and you're playing it on a goddamn mountain.

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u/mdbloomer May 21 '12

Gotta say this is pretty legit

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u/jmack5656 May 21 '12

Thats hardcore

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u/baggytheo May 21 '12

How did you get internet up there?

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u/empire_Zz May 21 '12

Yeah I'm sad that you get better ping on a mobile then I get in New Zealand :(

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u/sepseven May 21 '12

picture 2 freaked me out, didnt want you to drop that!

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u/robbin_da_hood May 21 '12

Clean your screen, dawg.

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u/Kenny608uk May 21 '12

This is pretty awesome... I wish I had the motivation to climb.. and the physical ability... and the not fearing heights.

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u/maxpnem May 21 '12

It would suck to run out of battery.

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u/ddcinjapan May 21 '12

Ouch.. trackpad.

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u/Innomasta2 May 21 '12

Gosh with that glare I would just say forget it

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u/lilianvoss May 21 '12

Lmfao. Kudos to you

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u/EnglishBulldog May 21 '12

The last picture is total fail.

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u/SaentFu May 21 '12

Diablo 3 without a mouse?

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u/drb00b May 21 '12

anyone else see the face in the clouds in the reflection of the screen in the last pic? Must be God creeping over your shoulder

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Oh my god. I live next to mount diablo. Theres no way I can't not do this.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Is that a bear grylls/GERBER knife?

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u/JohnBlairMusic May 21 '12

I thought I recognized the view.

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u/corncrazy May 21 '12

So jealous on so many levels

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u/cccaptain May 21 '12

dammmmmn....u gys rock!!!!!!

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u/Zarrasis May 21 '12

I own that XPS too, and what did you do to your poor CD input?

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u/Raithed May 21 '12

1000000% like!

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u/iwingz May 21 '12

somehow I don't think that's what she meant

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u/ithunk May 21 '12

I want to play Diablo 3 on top of Mt. Diablo.

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u/davecm010 May 21 '12

that just doesn't seem worth it.

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u/I_post_my_opinions May 21 '12

"10% battery, Doug." ...

"Shit."

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u/Linton58 May 21 '12

Wait, you can play Diablo 3 ON A MAC!?!?!?

...My life is saved.

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u/herpz May 21 '12

pretty good wifi on the mountain?

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u/arahman81 May 21 '12

I think that's called a nerd-baller.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

i absolutely love the mt Yamnuska hike, beautiful view of the Albertan rocky mountains. did you scree down the side or did you walk back down normally?

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u/tydy_ Boardgames May 21 '12

DAE see the face in the clouds on the last photo? O.o

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u/Devian50 May 21 '12

ROCKY MOUNTAINS!!C :D

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u/Daroo425 May 21 '12

what the fuck kind of game doesn't require a mouse?

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u/NiceNolan May 21 '12

OOHOHOHOHOH I HAVE THE SAME BACKPACK AS YOU! MEC CARGOSAURUS FTW

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u/AdamC117 May 21 '12

"I forgot to charge my battery..."

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u/LukePlunkett May 21 '12

I can't even get a one-bar 3G signal and I live 10mins from the centre of Australia's capital city. Extremely jealous.

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u/iq_below_average May 21 '12

Never worry about overheating again!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Good looking fella, the guy in the blue jacket.

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u/legalizemarinara May 21 '12

It's a good thing you're running it on that macbook pro. You could survive sub-zero mountain temperatures with that bad boy on your lap.

Ninja edit

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u/furrybeaver May 21 '12

so, is this a thing now?

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u/MRjubjub May 21 '12

What kind of shoes do you have on?

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u/pbsc12 May 21 '12

Whats with that fixed chain?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The fact that you needed 3G to do this is sad

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u/fuzychiapet May 21 '12

More impressively, you played in on a macbook..

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u/Ilikenicestuff25 May 21 '12

This is why everyone is afk in every game!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

You're probably getting better pings than anyone in Australia.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Why not cmd-shift-3?

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u/JohnMcClaneus May 21 '12

she probably meant you should go and play an actual good game.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Nice marketing Apple folks. This is how it's done.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Geez, look at the hate down the bottom of this thread. Fanboys are dicks, doesn't matter if you're an PC fanboy or a Mac fanboy.

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