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    Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Series

    I still have my original PS1 and the controller I used to use. I never wanted to be without it on a possible future playthrough.
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    Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Series

    With FF7 there are spots in the open world where if you press down on the controller cloud will walk back and forth and the random monsters are big worms that use a lot of elemental earth attacks. With leveled elemental materia set to earth you'll out heal whatever bits of melee damage they do...
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    The Video Thread

    Oh shit getting there unrelated
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    From Nassim Taleb in The Black Swan The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Which in 3.0 you could use in conjunction with your Wild Shape abilities. Just turning from a dude in to a female bear is the druid equivalent of lights off socks on missionary position sex on your birthday.
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    Snow White (2024)

    So like an Expendables kind of action movie or reverse Charlie's Angels
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    Snow White (2024)

    Pitch Black and the Seven Big Honkies would have been hype.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    They can do whatever they want and I'm never going to play there or be part of that community. It would be better for hardcore if the let it rock and plowed forward despite the setback. "And then we cleared Naxx anyway fuck you" is an amazing end to the story. Getting it all reverted blows that...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I get it but it's a mistake. You have to let these things be what they are. Having the end of this story be "and then everyone had their deaths reverted" ruins the whole thing.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Flagg's utopia where everyone has a guaranteed job with a 10 hour workday and illegal drug use is a death sentence is supposed to be a dark reflection of what would later be regarded as Reagan conservatism. King wrote it a couple years before Reagan would become president but it's definitely...
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    From

    I figured it out. They were all swallowed by the Mists of Ravenloft and transported to that bleak realm where they are being tormented for the amusment of the Dark Powers.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Oh, ok. I was just thinking it would be way, way harder to die randomly to a brain fart or an elite you didn't see if you were in an actual group.
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    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Skimmed it.The entire article works pretty hard to take the focus off of the traffickers themselves and put it on nebulous societal problems. Looks like a lot of wanting more funding for anti-drug programs and other gibs. Also - Time in article devoted to feeding traffickers face first in to...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The Aradune Memorial Server a few years ago had the gimmick of dedicated GM enforcement. I hope they have some good shit set aside for the 25th but I'm expecting disappointment.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I know it's WoW but wouldn't the easier path to max level be to just always group?
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Doing Kael/ToV/PoG/Yelinak/Dain/ST instances twice a week instead of once a week is still just more. After that you've got extra Ssra/VT to look forward to. The better guilds are going to feel obligated to do them. Hell, why stop at just one extra set of instances per week. Why not two or three...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    My concern is that people are going to burn themselves right the fuck out leveling and maintaining several copies of the same character to do extra raids in Velious and Luclin so they can be extra more bis than they've ever bissed before and then just be done forever. Anyone left is going to get...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The PoP, LDoN and Gates of Discord perks aren't very good either. Oh shit double tribute everyone definitely going to stay on Oakwynd!
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I'd not be happy having my character nuked by a fat troll but for people that actually care about HC this isn't a bad thing. Everyone's talking about this and it will get more people playing. It might sound stupid but in this case any press really is good press.
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    The Video Thread

    The only thing that I can think of is a fit person might want it as a means to achieve total muscle fatigue? You do your regular pull ups until you can't do any more and then you start busting out the straps until your arms don't work.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    When the server has native bonus exp, native bonus AA exp, native bonus loot and you've got a couple max level characters in your stable providing more bonus exp while you're doing bonus DZs of the most premium targets of whatever era you are in it'll probably be pretty cool. Right now it's a...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Phinny was popular with a new mechanic (raid instancing) and they did a copy/paste of it to create Coirnav.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    They've made advancements in the past. Sleeper/Combine were neat, Phinny was the first introduction of raid instancing, people like Mischief, Vaniki was interesting, etc. Oakwynd is underwhelming now but it might come in to its own once a few expansions are unlocked. Probably not but maybe!
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I would think the idea with Oakwynd was to have some small perks early and then ramp them up to encourage retention but there have been enough TLPs now that you really need a twist at the start.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I bitched about it before but everything being heirloom encourages everyone to be greedy as possible and scoop up everything they can "just in case." It's annoying as fuck. Free trade is just better. Everything has a price, gear can freely change hands, turn what you don't need in to things you...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The "hook" for classic on this server is an experience boost for leveling multiple characters, the ability to move gear around between them and DZ lockouts by character instead of by account. All of those perks are the same thing - you can do more classic content more times. Every level 50 you...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    If there's a convenient spell you can consistently land on them they could be better but guards are generally more resistant than normal mobs. For Shaman it's probably better to do Hill Giants but maybe not. You'd have to check.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/test-update-07-11-2023-patch-notes-and-discussions.291686/ If anyone wasn't sure about the relationship between big boxers, paid PLs, mass pulling/AEing, etc. and Daybreak (even on a true-box TLP) than allow all of your doubts to be washed...
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    Wonka (2023)

    The bit with the Oompa Loompa was cute but everything about this rings hollow. It wants to be whimsical but is instead spurious. I don't think CGI helps attempts at live action fairy tales in the slightest. It doesn't look fantastical. It looks cheap.
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    Hearthstone

    Algalon the Mind Sculptor fate sealing all the nerds.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I feel you. It also can really hurt replayability.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Somewhere post-Aradune they giga nerfed them. If you were just grinding cash the exp was bad but there was exp. Now they're a tiny fraction of a percent each. I don't remember any patch notes announcing it and it's hard to imagine a situation where it would have been necessary but who knows...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Bind rush yourself a Trainix crown.
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The guards at the gates or that otherwise guard newbie areas are all buffed and not something that makes even a lick of sense to interact with unless you want to die. General town guards tend to be fairly resistant but not absurdly so. If you're inside Felwithe they're all killable but trying...
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    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    They're heirloom. You can move them between your characters. The click at level one only lasts like a minute or two which is kinda funny. It scales up quickly though.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Sounds like
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Where's my healer DH spec you fucks.
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    Silo

    I haven't caught back up on the show but in the book the suit is full of shitty components.
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    Indiana Jones 5 (2020)

    Ninth largest opening of the year so far is a hell of an indictment for the final Indiana Jones film. it's like to have a huge drop drop weekend to weekend and that'll be that.
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    Will Wight

    I like the fighting stuff (the actual descriptions of combat) much less than the character stuff so this one wasn't my favorite. It was like 2/3rds of the way before there was some character development that wasn't power level related but I did like the last third quite a bit. At a time when...