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  1. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Maybe your post wasn't very clear?
  2. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Yeah sounds like you'd need a large flat area with multiple river systems to supply enough water to stick around for a month. Know anywhere like that? Well they thought this lake could flood in their own myths: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unu_Pachakuti So given they had a word for it, they...
  3. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Floods happen all around the world, it's not a unique event that happened once.
  4. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    So you don't know anything about geology or this event, but because you think it would be more interesting if it explained a bible event, you are doubting "mainsteam" and "official" explanations. The flood story is originally from Mesopotamia so it's likely just a river flood. That would...
  5. Chris

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Apparently the government is simultaneously grossly incompetent and a machievellian mastermind. They have hundreds of people in on this conspiracy and none of them ever talked, but they kind of forgot about making new identities. The government is also evil enough to fake a tradegy like this...
  6. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I loved the guy in Breaking Bad, but seems like he's just an approved woke globalist actor now and should be avoided. Same with people like Pedro Pascal and Michelle Yeoh that keep showing up in nerd stuff.
  7. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Also jumping back in to prep. Had a very good setup on PS4 and forgot to save it when swapping to PS5. Resubbed January to fix it and only managed to get Paladin up and running for the new raids. Spent hours yestersay getting all tanks and healers done. I like to have a similar setup on each...
  8. Chris

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Hit max level on my Bhaalspawn playthrough. Honestly this should be the base experience but I get why it wasn't. I went evil so literally everyone is dead: Gale - cut his hand off at the portal Karlach - cut off her head for Wyll and the Paladins, then killed the Paladins anyway Wyll -...
  9. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I just thought really hard about this... Zelda has a better open world mechanically with the climbing and weather/environment effects. Exploration rewards are probably about equal since you won't be using most of those weapons. Combat in Zelda can be totally vanilla or insanely inventive...
  10. Chris

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I can't imagine being so arrogant that you think that anyone with a different view must be purposefully lying. But there's at least three of you on this forum. So you already pay for the expensive, shitty part of universal healthcare? Why not go the whole way? NHS is shitty true, it's been...
  11. Chris

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    That's all true, what I'm saying is that they probably won't do that and will choose one of the possible theories because Hollywood knows better.
  12. Chris

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    That's already how it works. You could have universal healthcare for less than what you pay now, but lazy people would benefit, so you pay more to screw them over. Same thing with welfare, if more was spent on it and related things like education, you'd end up spending less on crime and medicare.
  13. Chris

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    It's going to ruin the mystery of what exactly he is surely? He'll end up being a Maiar like Gandalf? Was always the safest bet but... why...
  14. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I had that whole setup, I just never stood still and Leap aim doesn't work on console. Charge doesn't need aspects, grants unstoppable and option for 50 rage from the unique (Tibaults Pants I think?). Ended up with 3 shouts, the frenzy ultimate, dual swing and charge. My setup was mostly self...
  15. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I found leap totally underwhelming even with multiple aspects, used charge instead. There's a unique that gives you 50 rage on unstoppable, so that and one of the shouts gives you 2 sources.
  16. Chris

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Not sure where to post this and sorry if it's in the Gamegate thread somehow. A YouTuber, Reiketa Law, has had the most spectacular self destruction I have ever seen. Just search Rekieta on YouTube for your choice of people covering the drama. Guy has gone from the #1 YouTube stream during the...
  17. Chris

    Warhammer 40k

    Jesus, how many did you buy!? They also sell packs of 10 of just helmets.
  18. Chris

    Warhammer 40k

    Cool where are the beakies from? They are different to the ones I used.
  19. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Cool what's the Druid build?
  20. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I want to see some absolutely vile shit from Miquella and fighting him as the final boss of the DLC, there's enough Griffith from Berzerk parallels, I am ready. I even mistook Griffith as a female character when first introduced, which vibes with all this St.Trina tranny stuff. However he may...
  21. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    What's the deal with the leaderboard? I cleared the southern area and got about 180k then explored after the timer ran out and found a northern area. I guess there's a loop you have to do going south then north then south hitting the revive pylons to get 600k? Then pray for keys to drop...
  22. Chris

    Doctor Who

    I think the living an entire lifetime thing was a bit unbelivable so the less said about it the better. Like she fucks a load of guys because they sense something off with her and leave her, she joins one political campaign, then drinks wine in her sad flat until she dies. When this happened to...
  23. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Hit 100 for the first time! At Pit 55, should be able to get to 60 without any problems. Haven't Masterworked anything yet, waiting for a good item but haven't upgraded anything in 20 levels and Greater Affixes just seem to hit health mostly. Build guides seem like shit, leaderboards don't...
  24. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Yeah always reminds me of how FF14 builds up the visual language of boss telegraphing gradually throughout the game until you have extremely complex one shot mechanics which you can competently navigate by the end of the game. D4 just suddenly decides that it has positional mechanics now with...
  25. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    That's the old model of capitalism, that's not how it works now. Now it's about getting the most money this quarter to get your bonus shares, keeping things running until you can sell the shares, then reinvesting it in something you are not ruining. It's naive to think that the people in...
  26. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    The adults are in charge, their aims just don't align with ours. There are two things going on at Disney: 1) Stakeholder Capitalism. Everything is about churning out loads of content, cutting costs and increasing prices to hit a quarterly earnings increase. Long term the company goes to shit...
  27. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    How many giant granite blocks over a few thousand years? Not saying this is how it was, but they could have spent 100 years on each one. I meant that Atlantis has to be magic to us. Like let's say that Altantis was on Thera and used the magma to smelt Steel chisels (that nobody else could melt...
  28. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Levelled Dust Devil Barb and it's better than Necro. Shotguns most things dead immediately and beating regular Duriel in the first phase (you need to do 75% of his health at the start of the phase transition). Helltides have gotten old already, not sure I can do another season of this. It's...
  29. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Don't think you are reading my posts properly when you apply my comments on hieroglyphic carving to masonry stones, when I mentioned both separately in my post. If every stone was like the one in your picture, then yeah something is wrong, but there are very few like that so they would have...
  30. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    I've been to Karnak, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hapshepsut, Colossi of Memnon and The British Museum. How about you? We were talking about carvings, I've seen them in person and they are great, but it's a relatively shallow chisel it's not a mystery. If you want to talk about the...
  31. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Who are "they"? Is it the Jews again? Archeologists do say that civs developed in their own timelines with cross contamination via trade. Iron wasn't really an advancement in materials afaik, it was just easier to find and make once the process had been figured out, so way more people could...
  32. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Yeah it's caveman tier art, it's really derpy. Maybe the Ancient Atlanteans didn't fuck anyone because these people were so stupid that they couldn't even carve cartoon animals convincingly even after being given metal tools that later mysteriously evaporated. I'm being harsh, I can appreciate...
  33. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I've seen that too. I recognised the wall locations as those ambush spots, but could just be a coincidence. Anyway the game just crashed so time for bed I guess lol.
  34. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Figured out invisible walls. Helltide is phased, so invisible walls are those bone roadblocks which are in the non phased version of the map. So yeah, shitty coding.
  35. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I'm getting regular crashes and the occasional rubber banding/invisible walls on PS5. I'll take the occasional crash in something ambitious and technically challenging like Cyberpunk, there's no excuse for reskinned Diablo 3 code.
  36. Chris

    Doctor Who

    Just saw the episode... I guess it'll be explained in the finale. I enjoyed it, but it's weird as fuck and I don't think it'll do the ratings any favours. They nicely captured the existential dread that English people have of walking into a rural Welsh pub, they left out the talking in a...
  37. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    What are you talking about? Gobekli Tepi technology is crudely carved pillars, we just didn't have any evidence of hunter gatherers building structures that far back. As for the other stuff, cartography errors and oral history are well understood. People are getting too excited over almost...
  38. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I was talking a little more broadly than just the actor as you can tell from my post, perhaps I should have said reboot. Like Henry Cavill was fine as Superman but the shared universe planning and snyderisms sucked. But I can't imagine a full Avengers recast while still being in the same...
  39. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    What was the problem?
  40. Chris

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Other than the shitty movies and box office bombing? You need a new take on the characters after time away to recast, then the movie has to be good. I'd argue that Christian Bale Batman was the only successful DC recast with 8 years away and a tone shift. X-Men had a successful recast after 5...