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  1. sakkath

    Witcher 3

    I've been playing this with my 4yo son. He laughs when people get sliced in half or beheaded. I'm not sure if I'm an awesome dad or I'm training Australia's next serial killer.
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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    I enjoyed Dune, but I like most of Lynch's movies. I haven't read the books which probably helps, a large portion of the complaints about the movie seem to be that it isn't really related to the content from the novels.
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    Tomb Raider (2018)

    Trailer made me want to play TR & ROTTR again.
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    How to handle a bad VP

    I've had it lucky, most of my bosses have been great. I found that most of them are smart people and I just needed to train them to leave me the fuck alone. Once they learned that, it was all good. There was one boss I had around 15 years ago who was a severe micro manager, but I just quit which...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    What killed it for me was PvP brokenness. Most specifically being 1 shot (by druids mostly), and bard AE song making you lose target on someone even if you had see invis. So to fight anyone who had a bard in group you had to write a target macro targetting their name and mash it in combat since...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Opinions will be opinions.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Combat was pretty clunky. The combat mechanics were good but the engine was very sluggish. Try playing an asian mmo (or even wow) and you'll see what fluid combat feels like. I mean right now I am playing BDO (top tier combat system) and SWL (dogshit combat system), and VG combat is definitely...
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    American Vandal

    Binged this. Wasn't as good as I was hoping but it was still very watchable. Didn't need to be as long as it was, a couple of the episodes were a little pointless but they kept it interesting enough. Premise was pretty great and it was decently executed. Kept you guessing until the end.
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    What IP would make a great MMO?

    Well World
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    Animal Kingdom

    The movie is fantastic.
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    The Metal Thread

    Here's the first 50 minutes of your set
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    Black Desert

    And all because they won't fix drops in Valencia to make it a worthwhile place for high GS people to grind.. So you get 430+ GS people grinding at pirates and sausans.
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    Black Desert

    Areas around Trent, or in Mediah. Depends on your gear level and how hard you want it to be.
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    Marvel's The Inhumans

    I've never seen him say anything like that. I've seen a couple of interviews where the interviewer tried to push him in that direction and he didn't take the bait. He does comment on how hard it is to get work in hollywood as a big half asian guy who wants to be an action star. You can read that...
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    Marvel's The Inhumans

    Lewis Tan (guy who played the drunken master in IF) should have been iron fist. He was supposedly in the running for the role, he can fight and has a lot more charisma than finn jones.
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    Marvel Netflix: Defenders

    Yeah I'd really like to see JJ picking people up one handed by the ankle and flinging them across the room, throwing pianos and cars at people etc. That would be awesome. There's a little bit of that in defenders, but also a lot of her standing around looking moderately disinterested.
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    Marvel Netflix: Defenders

    Agreed, I find JJ to be the most compelling character, and Luke is pretty good too. The shaky cam fight scenes were pretty bad.. it's a far cry from the single take scenes from DD.
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    Marvel Netflix: Defenders

    The first 4 episodes of DD S2 are the best of Marvel/Netflix so far IMO.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My wife & I both wanted to elope, but it would have really upset my parents if I did that, so I hired a rock band and an open bar and had a party. It was pretty great, cost around AUD$13k. My relos are all alcoholics so most of the cost was in the bar.
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    Black Desert

    raid scrolls? do you mean awakened boss summons?
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    The Secret World

    If you don't like the cut scenes then the game probably isn't for you. The games story, atmosphere, world.. that is its real strength, and the cutscenes/voice acting are an important part of that.
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    Black Desert

    I just finally succeeded in getting my blue scythe to TRI. 10th attempt. RIP 66 FS. My guildies all told me I'm an idiot for "wasting" all of those FS but they can get fucked. I was so happy when it succeeded.
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    The Secret World

    Yeah I'm playing SWL and having fun but the combat is definitely nothing to write home about. It's not the worst combat I've seen as at least it's highly mobile. Struggling to think of MMOs with immobile combat though.. Maybe Aion? Anyway if you want good combat look at BDO. One of my main...
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    Home buying thread

    Shrug, I'm not here to say whether they're good investments or not, I'm just saying a lot of people do it for a lot of reasons. Again, 2/3 of Australian rental properties are operating at a loss. Do you really think so many Australian investors are stupid? Of course they're not. Some of them...
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    Home buying thread

    It's not necessarily lying. I'm sure some (many?) of them are misreporting income. But there can be a lot of factors why people invest in real estate to their financial detriment. People see real estate as a safe place to store money as there is the impression hat it only ever goes up in value -...
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    Home buying thread

    Well of course if you can make a profit then you would. But when a property costs $2mil and the rental market means it's only worth $800pw then you can't make a profit on it. To break even you'd need to charge over $2k per week rent, which if you tried would mean your property is empty and...
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    Home buying thread

    The end goal is capital gains. The negative gearing just cushions the loss while you are heading there. In Australia you can bring an investment property loss into your tax return in any income bracket, thereby getting back some of the tax you paid on salary or other investments. Works quite...
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    Home buying thread

    If you're in the top income tax bracket, if you make a $10k loss then you get $4500 of that straight back on tax, that helps cushion the loss while you're waiting for your capital gains.
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    Home buying thread

    I think and know for a fact that (many) people are renting out houses for less than the mortgage payment. In fact, based on Australian Tax Department statistics, 2 out of 3 investment properties in Australia is making a loss. -> There were 1,213,595 individuals with a negatively geared property...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Loved it, seeing dragon vs foot soldiers went exactly how I expected it would. I also immediately suspected (not really) Jon made the carvings. Arya fighting Brienne was dumb, as if you can parry such a large sword swing with that toothpick. Very strong plot armour on Jamie and Bronn. Bronn...
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    Black Desert

    Started trying to get my Kzarka and Bhegs up to DUO (they were both unenchanted). I had a nice stockpile of mem frags and though it might last a while... Nope all gone in 20 minutes!
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    Home buying thread

    The only insane property tax is stamp duty (tax on buying a property) which would be ~$100k on a $2mil property. Once you own it ongoings are very low, there isn't even any land tax, just council rates to cover things like garbage collection and other council services. But anyway, people don't...
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    Home buying thread

    Renting can be a better option depending on the market. In Sydney for example, you can rent a house in a reasonable suburb for $7-800/week. Buying the same house would cost $2mil, or over $2000/week just in interest alone. Renting and investing the thousands per month difference in cost in the...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    They're probably ~4th edition WFB Undead -> kill the general and the whole army crumbles.
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    Black Desert

    Picked up +5 Bheg's for 150mil on preorder. Saw 2 or 3 go before I got one.. I think pre-order of odd enchantment levels and night vendor are definitely the two best ways of getting boss armour.
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    Black Desert

    yep once you've got a spare 100 mil or more start checking the night vendor regularly for boss pieces. 150 mil or so for kzarka, 300 mil ish for dandelion.
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    Parent Thread

    I'm teaching my 3yo to ride a bike. It's awesome fun, one of those dad things I was really looking forward to.
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    Black Desert

    Depends on your class really but your mainhand weapon should be your main focus. You should probably try to get a Liverto which are pretty cheap these days, although for some classes Liverto is considered worse than green weapons I think. I'm 56 and have been for a very long time (because I die...
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    Black Desert

    You wouldn't see Heve or Grunil by 20. At level 20 your gear doesn't matter. Just have fun and enjoy the ride. by the time you've got to 50 you should research what kind of gear you want to focus on in the meantime. I went with grunil and are in fact still using it because boss armour doesn't...
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    New and Upcoming Show list

    Mr Robot 4th Oct