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    Crowfall

    So basically he is calling them pussies. Ever wonder why they call it an 'MMO'. Do you ever say "hey guys, check out thisMassively Multiplayer Online". Massively multiplayer online ... what? Game? Shouldn't the acronym be 'MMOG'? And isn't the 'online' superfluous, I mean, if there's 1000...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Heh. Weight loss is a$60 billion industryin the US alone and 99% of it is "eat less, exercise more". Do we really need a guy with nutrition PHD to tell us to put down that next Oreo? Epitome of #1stWorldProblems.
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    Mortgage refinance offers

    I get re-fi offers in the mail every week for 2.75% 15-year VA. Not sure if worth it because I'm sitting on a 3.75% VA loan 30-year with no PMI (due to being VA). One thing I always notice is there is some bold-face "AS LOW AS 2.75%" but then there is some bullshit fine print "APR 3.058%"...
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    What was the crappiest computer that could run EQ 1999-2000?

    Yeah, I remember those Celeron processors were kind of a joke. I ran it on a PII 300mhz with a Diamond Monster Voodoo 3. Ran good mostly but had to turn off particle effects for raids. Also, Burning Woods always lagged due to all those translucent leaves.
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    North Korean Hackers Attack On Sony

    Doubtful IMHO that North Korea had anything to do with it. The "must have been state sanctioned" seems like a line of BS to save face after getting hacked yet again. It isn't any question that Sony is a soft target after the massive PSN fiasco.
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    Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade

    Why doesn't Games Workshop just make Warhammer Tabletop Online? Isn't Magic The Gathering making a shit ton of money with their online game?
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    Exodus: Riddley Scott does DeMille

    ^ Yeah. Flood: The dude wiped out every man, woman, child, puppy, and kitten on the planet because some of them were being bad. Tower of Babel: Somebody built a tower too high, so now I'm gonna scramble all your languages. Tree of Knowledge: You two disobeyed me so I'm condemning all...
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    Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy

    Holy shit. She looks like an alien. WTF? Pic from back in the day. Ok she wasn't a supermodel but certainly wasn't bad.
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    Wasteland 2

    I got an extra Steam key for the standard edition. I'll trade it for something RPG-ish. PM me. Didn't realize I had it until I logged into the KS backer center.
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    Downtempo

    Wow this is probably the most solid electronic album I've heard in a while. Every track is nice. Reminds me a lot of Chicane and Sasha.
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    Movie's cliches and techniques

    Not trying to be acontrarian, but just forget this thread and go to TV Tropes. Jitter Cam - Television Tropes Idioms Found Footage Films - Television Tropes Idioms Bullet Time - Television Tropes Idioms Fight Scene - Television Tropes Idioms- this page is awesome
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    Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy

    Low (no) hopes for this but wouldn't mind being pleasantly surprised. Siamese and Gish are two of the best rock albums ever imho, but they lost me after Mellon Collie which I thought was kinda 50% filler. Here's a cool documentary though:
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    Heroes of the Storm

    Got invited and finding this surprisingly good, even though I didn't care much for DOTA2, LOL, HoN, or even the original DOTA Warcraft mod. Probably played about 20 - 30 games of each whenever they were released and just lost interest. I dunno, shared XP and getting rid of tedious mechanics...
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    Dracula Untold

    Hmm this got slagged critically. 24% tomotatometer: Dracula Untold - Rotten Tomatoes Although I guess I'd watch it on Netflix. Seems like a perfect "wasn't that bad" Netflix movie.
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    Lena Dunham got RAPED........BY A REPUBLICAN!

    A lot of people just jelly because they can't get with this:
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    Overwatch

    I guess I missed something but ... why not?
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    Jerle Committed Suicide Today

    That AR-15 thread is some grade A trolling.
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    Blizzcon 2014 - Who's going?

    Yeah, TF2 with Disney graphics. Care meter not exactly pegged: |--|--------------|
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    The Metal Thread

    Holy shit this is 19 minutes of the most ridiculous technical wankery, but somehow it's catchy. Defnitely worth a listen because some of the riffs are just insane. Surpsingly there's a lot of youtube covers of this stuff. I never knew sweeping picking arpeggios on a 10-string bass was...
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    Titanfall

    Got bored with Destiny and went back to TF on Xbox One. Gotta say: - Frontiers Coop is pretty fun and pretty challenging, at least if you are queuing with randoms. Have yet to 3-star any map. - Frontiers is very fast XP if you regen. I regenned finally (only regen level 2) and got level 14...
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    The Metal Thread

    But for radio rock it isn't bad, and there is very little radio rock I like. Though I'd vastly prefer circa-Leviathan Mastodon. Just saw the new Cannibal Corpse vid. Even average Cannibal Corpse stuff is better than most death metal bands. Vid is pretty well done and and obviously riding the...
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    Rebel Galaxy

    Looks pretty cool. Not many games about capital ship fights.
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    Burma

    Been there. Went over the Thai border. Place is a shithole. They *take your passports* at the border. If you aren't back on time they close and you cannot leave. Town was a shithole full of beggars and sketchy as fuck taxi drivers that want to drive you to very unofficial looking tours to places...
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    Everstar : Dragon Age + Persona

    Up to 6 player coop and classless character progression. 18 jobs, 65 abilities. Seems like there isn't much risk backing it because they have devs from a bunch of AAA games:
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    Everstar : Dragon Age + Persona

    Worth a look if you like Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age, or Persona. Everstar by Psycho Sorted Kickstarter Some gameplay gifs since Vimeo and KS vids aren't forum embed friendly. Combat looks like BG/DA but more physics based.
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    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    Best exploit in early EQ: if you pressed left-and-forward or right-and-forward at the same time, you ran faster than if you just pressed forward only. Newbie physics programming errors ftw.
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    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    I hit 20 on my Titan about a week ago, so what's the path to get upgrades? Been doing strike queue and bounties but even on level 22 just getting garbage drops. Like level 18 blues, greens, whites. Haven't found an upgrade in a week at level 20. I'm assuming there's a better way to get gear then...
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    Legend of Grimrock 2

    Big question is will you be able to keybind attacks? The first game was 5/10 without auto-hotkey and 9/10 with it. Imagine WoW without being able to hotkey anything, manually clicking icons only, and you get the picture.
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    Home buying thread

    Nope just checked. Looking at my account online I have: - the original 360 month loan at 4.25%, which says paid off - the 3.99% loan for 355 month period, which is active, and I made sure there was no change in principle So it looks like the next rate drop will work the same way. One...
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    Home buying thread

    So ... my mortgage company (Freedom Mortgage) keeps lowering my rate. My loan started last year at 4.25% 30-year fixed, they 3.99% 6 months later, and are now lowering it again to 3.75%. I had to re-sign every time but was charged nothing each time. I kept trying to look for hidden charges but...
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    Titan has been cancelled.

    DietMountain Dew ... because that will make a difference.
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    Best Credit Card with Cash Back Rewards

    I've been using a Discover Card forever. They were one of the earlier cards to offer cash back rewards. I usually: - pay for absolutely everything with Discover Card (payoff 100% every month so no interest) - push the cash back rewards over to a Discover Bank high interest savings account...
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    Wasteland 2

    Well that launch trailer ending had a jizzfest of celebrity game designers. Maybe this + Xcom + Shadowrun will get more people in turn-based strategy games.
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    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    I can understand it: (1) the levels are a long boring slog solo, which is compounded by (2) no matchmaking (unless i missed it, you can't even talk to people in your fireteam unless you are in party in xbox live?) (3) 30 FPS, some might not care but ugh I can't stand it, either way it is...
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    Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

    I played through BG:EE, The Black Pits, and am currently maybe 15% of the way though BG2:EE and haven't run into any bugs. Pretty sure that even if you do, most of the save game editors should work? Anyway, will definitely be getting Icewind Dale as well. Doing a 6 character game again, using...
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    Your Own Photography

    What are you taking these shots with Drek? Any post-processing? Some of yours are approaching NatGeo quality. Also, is there any way to approach this quality fairly cheaply?
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    Albion Online

    Yeah, look at WoW PVP servers. You get almost nothing for ganking people in WOW, yet it still happens a lot. (at least on every server I was on).