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  1. Eidal

    Science Ethics and Racism in Drug Enforcement Thread

    R-r-r-r-ragequit.
  2. Eidal

    Science Ethics and Racism in Drug Enforcement Thread

    I know, you've already linked that. An appeal to majority rule? This dialogue doesn't go any further than someone saying: ("I disagree with the outcome of the Nuremberg trials.") and me saying ("Well, I think you're wrong. If you do shit like that again, maybe we'll stop you again.") You...
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    Science Ethics and Racism in Drug Enforcement Thread

    Hodj, My issue is that you can state: "X is unethical." and substantiate it with "Plus, these guys agree with me" until you're blue in the face but if the Chinese scientists say ("lol no") then there really is no discussion to be had. Appealing to some objective codification of ethics in...
  4. Eidal

    Science Ethics and Racism in Drug Enforcement Thread

    Hodj trying to connect the is to the ought and failing. And when someone else disagrees with you, how do you resolve which ethical system is the one true system? Burn the heretics?
  5. Eidal

    Valve adds paid modding

    I would have assumed something like that would quickly draw down the wrath of lawyers.
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    Valve adds paid modding

    I dunno man; I like paying for things I like. If I played Skyrim, I'd appreciate seeing my favorite mod creators get paid for their time. If they really don't want money then they'll take their work off-platform and I'd just install the pirated version and use it. I'd like to see some...
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    Valve adds paid modding

    Shrug, I can see that there are some issues here. But you can't tell me that the status quo of people clocking thousands of hours in modsfor freewould continue indefinitely. It seems natural and inevitable that both Steam and mod creators would look towards some method of monetizing the hard...
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    Valve adds paid modding

    That's a good point. It will be interesting to see what mod creators and valve do to deal with this.
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    Valve adds paid modding

    I guess if I whipped out the Visa and just randomly bought 100 stupid mods without investigating it at all I might get burnt by shitty products. This goes for practically any shopping experience. Given the competition now and in the future, this just doesn't seem like a reasonable concern.
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    Valve adds paid modding

    Yea, I don't get it either. Mod-makers voluntarily choose to use this service, and mod-buyers voluntarily choose to buy the mods... Someone tell me again what I'm missing here, other than a game company trying to make money and a bunch of people rabbling about how its just greed. How dare...
  11. Eidal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    This is just a clever way to make sure you launch into an explanation indicating it was solely your choice every single time a friend asks why you stopped doing your hair like an angst-ridden teenager. Well done, though.
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    Path of Exile

    Who is going to poopsock the 5d self-found league? Top 35 from each (SC/HC) get keys! The salt on reddit is real. edit: Teaser about how no one picked up on the hint dropped on Morsexier's stream... speculation: check Path to Exile card text.Path to Exile (Conflux) - Gatherer - Magic...
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    Valve adds paid modding

    Modders don't get fucked if they voluntarily agree that Steam can sell their content and keep 75 percent of the proceeds. What am I missing here? If modder A can do better on his own then he ought to, and if modder B thinks he'd do better with Steam he can do that.
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    Red99

    There is a difference between actually playing with the second account compared to using it to do a quick trade or give buffs. I doubt the devs would come right out and say it, but my buddies have years clocked on 99 and have done that the entire time (along with many others). As long as you...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    This makes sense, given the propensity for injuries from deadlifting. People always say ("Well with good form...") but, well, you know how that goes.
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    DDO (D&D Online)

    Amazing players dont play builds like that.
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    Red99

    When I played R99, my friends said that the staff is tolerant of people using dual accounts for buffs/trades. No idea how factual that is. They had some serious pixels across their accounts so I doubt they'd be risking the banhammer for a buff.
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    League Of Legends

    http://cloud9.gg/news/thank-you-hai Hai stepping down... into C9 Management. Not a bad scenario all-around. It's fun to speculate on what C9 might do if they are able to get a talented carry mid-laner.
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    Path of Exile

    Recent News: Divination Cards (???) Path of Exile 5 day solo race beginning on the weekend to reward beta keys. Chris keeps hinting at Cutthroat, too.
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    DDO (D&D Online)

    Lol. There is a difference between poopsocking and not wanting to play a garbage-tier class that gets shitpumped by trivial content.
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    Path of Exile

    Byr, are you familiar with the basic recipes? Weapon + whetstone + rustic sash = weapon with IPD%; sash rarity dictates IPD percentage? Vendor recipe system - Path of Exile Wiki
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    Path of Exile

    How far have you gotten? What's your opinion of self-found? They hinted at making the game harder, what do you think?
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    EVE Online

    Traak, You should try hunting explorers. If you can run a cloaky ship, you're guaranteed to get kills if you pop into a wormhole in high-sec and sit in a relic site. Or, conversely, if you're bored -- I can bring you down to the Stain region where lots of explorers bounce around. All you...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Tera felt fundamentally different to me in a way that Wildstar didn't specifically because of animation locking. Initially, I hated how it restricted freedom... but then I realized it was instrumental in making my choices have gravity and importance. Wildstar just felt like WoW but more...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Odd. I can't think of a functional difference between WoW and Wildstar except in Wildstar I had to spam my builder and interrupt mechanics took group effort.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Greyform, I'm curious what your routine looks like.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    If you're not interested in WoW for any reason, I don't really see what FFXIV would offer you that wouldn't fall under that same category. Given your recent "I uninstalled WS in min" statement... yea... I'd be astounded if any modern "solo to level cap and then group!!" MMO appeals to you.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    If you're not interested in WoW for any reason, I don't really see what FFXIV would offer you that wouldn't fall under that same category.
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    Path of Exile

    Kripp announced he'd be streaming this. That guy gets a ton of hate for some reason but I don't think I've ever seen someone poopsock a game so hard with such an analytical mindset. He really was coming out with some cool shit back in the day (when he first played PoE).
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    That's the problem with living in the south haha -- Lyrical is probably slimmer than 2/3rd the people down here. Go compare 5'10 250lb to any height/weight chart and, wtf, no, that can't be right. All muscle, baby!
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    These friends just alternate between EQ99 and wow vanilla emus. They want to smoke bowls, bullshit, and grind mobs. The direction modern MMOs have gone aren't their thing; they don't want "twitch" in an MMO.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    This is what my buddy said when we were talking about Wildstar. He prefers his MMO gameplay more laid back... more strategic instead of mechanical button mashing fury. For button-mashing fury he'd rather play LoL in 20-40 min increments.
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    EVE Online

    Logged on this morning to get some sites in. This shows my typical hunting grounds. I've been "living" here for the last week -- its got Sansha Relic Sites (sweet iskies) and its pretty secluded. If I need more systems I just push south a bit further. I'm starting to recognize the locals...
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    EVE Online

    You don't need Covert Ops. You have really strong drone skills so you may as well just poke around for Astero fits and adapt your training plan for that. Looking to move up to Statios/T3 whenever. You'll fail some cans until you get Arch V (for Relic Analyzer II).
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    EVE Online

    Here is the PM I sent:
  36. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Get out of here with that shit. Let me guess, next you'll start talking about thermodynamics, right? /s
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    It is applicable and there must be an answer. Are you being obtuse on purpose? The dynamic "victory conditions" of lguk aren't as black/white as a modern MMO dungeon, but lets go ahead and assume it involves getting some sweet fucking loot. Now we can set up an equation based on estimated...
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    EVE Online

    tldr; ratting/agent running is considered pretty boring PVE by most of Eve. Exploration is better money and has a PVP element to it that might make it feel more engaging depending on what you want in a game. Have you ever done exploration? I subbed last month and finished off Logi V while...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I was hoping Kuriin would show up =P
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Shrug, I'm a carebear at heart and enjoy tough content. Maybe Wildstar was too hard for me, I dunno. It just wasn't fun. TBC-era heroics, Rift T2 experts... those games, they encouraged working through a dungeon, failing, re-attempting, achieving victory. etc etc. Wildstar's model pretty...