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  1. Rod-138

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Smart formula that they had for the mass appeal with the whole animal cruelty thing. there’s some kind of bullshit stat im maybe making up that reads people are so desensitized to human death in movies at this point, but animal death triggers way more emotion. Movie was fine, but missed...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I think it’s better to get 4-4.5 with a bank you’re already set up with and feel comfortable with vs shopping for temporary rate winners. Just take the excess and throw it in the fidelity money market or whoever and you don’t end up @ uncle earls awesome bank
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    Dating

    My wife was on a date and the music was flowing hard, but her dude was standing cross armed and I could see she wanted to dance. I was on a week’s supply of roids from a minor car accident and felt unstoppable. Asked her to dance and the dweeb was like, sure go ahead. We danced and I got...
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    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    Just got to book 10, first read through. I’ll try to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of Erickson I am feeling having freshly gone through this thing. Character building and world building are top notch. tone is good, not great. I’d say the whole series feels desperate. Everyone...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    If I recall, Muab Dib did in fact have the ability to mind fuck Feyd so hard that his head would explode. He chose to beat Feyd in Feyds peak arena, a 1v1 duel, but then also explode him at the end to flex his mental. Like, look at me and underestimate me, and you will all suffer the same...
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    Investing General Discussion

    That’s kind of what I aim to do at work. Sadly, even when you’re right about a sector you have the same problems you always do, mostly regarding timing the exits / entry. Like right now, say you exit your 20% tech to the tune of dropping to 10%. You shift that 10% to energy expecting summer...
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    Investing General Discussion

    No, just regular stonks trading. Sadly, I think its par for the course in the industry once you get to a certain level of overlords. Also, you hear and assume lots of nightmare scenarios once you get bought out and while lots of them have been true, and shitty, they mostly leave us alone...
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    The Boys

    The Deep will nobly sacrifice himself and drag Homelander down to Mariana's Trench with the help of 1,000,000 gay starfish.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, but we were just a little 5 man firm with a staff of like 15. When rates were low and money was cheap, like 1-2 years ago, the small to midsize national firms started a buyout frenzy and our owner bit the bullet and took the money. Thankfully we’re located a few states away and can...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I can somehow see there is no current viable carrot on stick endgame and still say I’ve enjoyed the game and will make a second class at some point. They made the game for casuals and maybe underestimated the power of dads and single people, but not by a mile. My neighborhood bros are ex wow...
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    Investing General Discussion

    My little firm got acquired and my shitty new overlords are making me get consent to trade my personal account, like I can front run my baby dick less than 1 million dollar account to any meaningful degree. They say I don’t have to pre clear ETF trades, so I’m either going to have to go all...
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    So My Wife Died...

    Like I said he’s got engineer brain at least on the outside, talking about all the tasks he has to do etc, but you can tell he’s lost emotionally. You reminded me to reach out and check on him, he’s a good dude, but didn’t socialize much bc we were such degenerates.
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    So My Wife Died...

    My neighbor just lost his wife a few months back, they were 37/38 and he’s raising a 3 and 6 yr old. Car accident for her. His situation was clear as her family was from Singapore and his is Houston (we’re near New Orleans), he moved back to Houston to be near his mom and brothers. He’s a...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I just did capstone at 63 on rogue and it felt pretty awesome. I tried at 62 and got him to around 50, but I didn’t feel like it was really happening. I noticed if you’re close to a big paragon spike thingy, then it’s best to maybe up for that. I also noticed that sometimes you should use...
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    From

    Dang I can’t watch season 2 on Prime. Yeah no shit, cut down some trees for lumber and barricade the fuck out of everything.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Question for mid /end game (55-65), doing rogue. Do you guys keep it simple and go with the highest computation attack power weapon or try out stacking abilities of lower dps weapons to maybe have a higher deeps? or is that factored in ? Sorry if retarded
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Leveling kinda slow post 50
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I really hated the story and much rather the simplicity of d2 acts + different vibes and enemy types of the acts. Even better, go no story and go D1 style where you progress from human lands straight into fucking hell, but without the dialogue and forced events. Overall though, anytime you...
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    From

    I’m only on ep 2 but I love the creepy feeling, trapped concept, and bad acting. Really gives me 80s vibes with some of this shit dialogue, like a made for tv Stephen King. Bad, but I’ve always liked me some shit lines
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    She-ablo, Lord of the Transition The succubus will all have giant dongs as they fling spells at the noble here trying to conquer his own transition.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Talking about games like D4 and community reactions…I can’t help but think that the process for discovery that made so many games enjoyable has been one of the largest x-factors in games nowadays. Nowadays blizzard or whoever hypes the game by walking you through the important parts that make...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Made it to 12 in 5 or 6 hours with a pug of 5 necros and a mage. Rule is if you’re 80% mana you are puller. The group was crisp and only an occasional deadbeat. Got lucky with the composition and people that actually played. All gnomes 4-5 a kobalds, 5-8 or 9 behind windmill, then head to...
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    Finding a body

    Maybe think of a friend with a dog that’s not retarded and run the dudes shirts in the dog nose and see if he can find him?
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Didn’t mention pickpocket, easy epic, or bad boy cool guy status. This is an unfair rogue smear campaign.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    So anyway, i was able to get my 2 neighbors to play test before launch and they wanted to roll melee, first timers etc Let them get to lvl 5 and rerolled mages just to show it’s not as balanced as most games and one guy was laughing maniacally at the ability to point / kill with the pet...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    If you are a bit of a boss hogg, then PuGs can be awesome. If you sit back and hope for the best, then yeah, you’re fucked. It’s more effort, but you have to type at these mothas, tell them what to do.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    This is classic classes and races, right? No iksar or zerker shananigans?
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    rogue is fine because everyone feels like they have to help pull you along and it brings out the spirit of community
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    MTG thread

    I finally did it, guys. I won over 5 draft games, two times in a row. Sadly I came to realize that I’m playing too aggro and early curve oriented for this format. (Mom+) the insanity of early game last phyrex cycle has my curve around 3 and while I still like early options, it seems like the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I just turned 40 and thought about reevaluating my triple q / S&P 80% and 20% picks, but f it, maybe at 50. 😎
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    MTG thread

    Since last whining i decided to man up and hit the draft with a fresh attitude and more color flexibility when drafting. 2 wins and 1 win and just accepted my brain no longer works
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    That’s going to be annoying when some tranny hooker has infiltrated guild leadership and tries to get their 2nd ranger gear over your shitty main ranger - a play that used to get you free default loot
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    MTG thread

    I was always a 5 win average guy with draft and I’ve shat the bed so hard in these last 2 sets. can’t tell if I’m just getting unlucky or turned retarded, but I’m getting so many 1 win drafts with decks I feel like should go all the way. I am super salty, but still grateful I enjoy drafting...
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    Chat GPT AI

    My fear has always been more about the loner nihilist attempting as much chaos as possible through AI vs some kind of terminator scenario. or who is even more dreadful to imagine with destructive AI? Our government, yikes ! My first example more specifically would be a Mr Robot type kid that...
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    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    I think my GoT experience had me scared regarding all these storylines that were at one point central and haven’t been brought up in 3-5 books sometimes. I’m on 9.5 and wondering about a brother that’s kind of a big deal, an assassin who’s fate was left in the air x 2, and a reborn mage from...
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    Investing General Discussion

    A few weeks ago I decided to buy an IPO just because I hadn’t in like …5 years. Bought the Bullfrog (bfrg) because it had the coolest name and after getting stomped for weeks I received the message from my coworker that was dumb enough to buy it with me “the frog is back on the Lilly pad!’ I...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Maybe the devs were inspired by D4 and added corpse explosion to eq
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Wasn’t original wow Druid OP tank and good dps/heals? Maybe they’re atoning for their sins
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The world, like Norrath, is tough, Jasper. Think about this, though. You walk into Sol A at lvl 18 and loin cloth for gear and you know what happens. You get fucked. Gain a few levels, get yourself a few hp rings, bring some friends that aren’t retarded, and next thing you know you’re too...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    My thoughts: Good: sound effects, combat flow, empty space entertainment (random intrigue going from place to place), forgiving and simple class options on pace with entry level part of game. bad Forced cutscenes, I’m too old to care about this stupid story. Feels like you’re on the park...