Recent content by Gravel

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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I can't remember who's been posting it, but I think this is the misconception. You blame instancing for deteriorating the social interactions we remember from EQ, but I think the reality is the world changed. EQ was basically a glorified chatroom for a relatively new internet. But a quarter...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    And like has been pointed out over and over, that only works when you're the only game in town and it's 1999.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Yes, although it's significantly smaller than my old one (posted here sometime in 2015). I haven't been to a gym in over a decade since building my own. Whenever we figuring out building a new house though, we'll make a much larger one again.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    They only speed up content by allowing all players to actually play the game. What you're arguing for is essentially restricting access to content for 90% of your players for "longevity."
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    From what I can tell, they're falling into an echo chamber trap. Essentially only listening to their Discord feedback and anyone jonesing for a game to play who will say whatever it takes to get an alpha key by watching their Twitch streams. And while it does sound like they occasionally read...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Glad people are finally coming on board. The game has lackluster interest while it's currently free. And that interest seems to be dropping off fast already. Beta was supposed to start like 5 months ago and is still pushed, but when EA finally starts and people have to pay to playtest this, I...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Finished my rewatch of Breaking Bad, and decided to fire up El Camino. For some reason I remember hearing it was terrible when it came out, but the reviews all seemed pretty decent for it in current year. It was a good "this is what happened to Jesse in that missing year" and him navigating the...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I think the disaster with AoC is causing some butts to pucker when they notice the commonalities between the two, and how suddenly all the criticism leveled on this game looks a lot more legitimate.
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    Rose of Nevada (2026)

    I'm a sucker for time travel, so I'm in. I even enjoyed the stupid drug addict one (Time Addicts?). My top two favorite movies of all time are BTTF 1 and 2, and my favorite book ever is Replay. This one has a weird vintage look to it. Not sure if that's cause I'm not used to seeing movies shot...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I'd like to see some kind of solution where instead of Google or Apple selling your digital information for a few cents, suddenly people are selling their own information as needed to fund their own "free internet" use. Solves two problems. I literally just thought of this on the spot reading...
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    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    So I had a weird morning, and I figured I'd post in this thread instead of the weird Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant one in the general section. I smoked some weed this morning and everything clicked for me. I feel like a had a spiritual awakening. I've never been religious, and growing up...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Yeah, my wife made me look up some pictures of him a few months back and he looked fucking terrible. Guess he had a pretty grueling battle with cancer. Sucks he was so young. Don't like celebrities in my age bracket dying.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    And here I was thinking it made me want to watch a movie. Where's Elon's bio dome?
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    Westworld

    It's pretty wild how much I don't think we appreciated TV in the past. Or at least I didn't, and only do in retrospect. Probably has a lot to do with not even watching a lot of these shows until later (and some on this list I never did). But take a year like 2011, where you had: Breaking Bad...
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    So you're saying the only reason everyone on FoH likes it is they're homos?