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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Not just you, it adds nothing of interest. Island expeditions are supposed to be a new thing, but they are slow, tedious and worthless. If a quest designer came up with an idea for a world quest where you killed 500 mobs for 300 azerite they would get slapped upside the head for being a dumbass...
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    Impulse

    Just finished this one off. Last episode set up 3-4 more interesting storylines than the rest of the season, so I'll probably watch more if they make it. Overall i thought it was decent. Nothing whatsoever to do with the book, which is a shame, because it was a great book, but a decent story...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    VDH is crazily overpowered, in healing, dps and survivability. BDK is good. Warrior seems ok, haven't seen a single bear or monk tank in anything over normal dungeons. Pallies seem to be made out of cardboard, the ones I've had had their health spiking up and down like crazy, living on the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, they just missed nerfing the other ones the first time round, they'll kick the other pets in the dick next patch.
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    The Expanse

    "Don't worry, I'll take you with me" Good old Amos ;p
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    Impulse

    I'm not sure why they kept the name, it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the book at all. As far as I can tell, the only thing they have in common is a chick with a weird name ;p Still, pilot wasn't awful, will probably watch the rest of it.
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    Spring 2018 Anime Thread

    Hitomi is best character, although I give an honorable mention to Hina's "apprentice".
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    The Americans

    With the amount of long drawn out silent montages to music, the finale felt like I was watching a french arthouse film. It was ok i guess, more of a fizzle than a bang, but I guess they were sort of stuck with some level of historical accuracy, not like they could have them assassinate the...
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    The Expanse

    I'd imagine SyFy still has the rights, and if HBO/Netflix tried to buy them off them, would be met with a hearty 'Go fuck yourself'.
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    Deadpool 2 (2018)

    My face is still hurting from laughing too much.
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    The 100

    "There are no good guys" Genghis Clarke rides again, I approve. Also is it me, or did her tits get huge between seasons ?
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    The Expanse

    If they were magnetized to hold against 3+ gees you'd need a prybar to pick them up if you dropped them. Individual straps for each tool in the case could work, but that's a lot of work to protect against stupidity, and if they are too dumb to safe the case, they are too dumb to safe the tools.
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    The Expanse

    Netflix already bought in didn't they ?
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    Legion

    "DON'T touch anything !" "... mooooooo" Hahahaha. How do you even come up with insanity like this ? ;p
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    What did you just read?

    Yeah, that one is definitely my pick for best web serial I've read, and probably best superhero story I've read overall too. Def wins "best four word chapter" of anything award too - damn that was harsh. Author has done two others, Pact and Twig, both of which are good, if very different from...
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    Lost in Space

    I liked it. If you don't like the first two episodes though, I wouldn't bother with the rest - they set the scene pretty well. Top notch production values, decent to good acting, reasonable story, nonsensical science, overall pretty fun. They have to be the most half-assed colony expedition...
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    What did you just read?

    Broken Earth is very good. I liked Night Angel, but it's pretty rough work compared to Weeks' Lightbringer series ( which is really good ). List like that are usually just to troll for outrage for page views, but I've read most of them in that and ignoring rankings, there aren't any that I...
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    Titans

    Wow, those are some amazingly bad costumes.
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Well, on the one hand, I think the screen door on the normal vive is outrageously bad, but on the other hand I think their pricing on the vive pro is greedy as fuck.
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    The Bard's Tale 4

    Oh god, watching that guy was painful. "<End Turn>... <End Turn>... <End Turn>... NO ! WHAT THE FUCK, STOP THAT !" Game looks surprisingly good though
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    Stellaris

    For Determined Exterminators, you pretty much have to do everything yourself so I go with : Power Drills, Superconductive, Bulky ( You have to build robots everywhere anyway, by the time you want to do mass migration the cost is trivial ) and Uncanny ( everyone hates you anyway, what are they...
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    What did you just read?

    A big list for this time round - I got partway through writing it up a couple of months ago but then windows update ninja-restarted my pc and I lost it, along with the motivation to finish at the time ;p "Cold-Forged Flame" - Marie Brennan Woman awakens to find she has no memory, but has been...
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    That seems a generally unfair comparison given Hearthstone and Overwatch. Say what you will about overall originality, they are both quite different from anything blizzard had tried before, and with both of them wildly successful, it seems unlikely it will be an environment where new ideas are...
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    Marvel's Jessica Jones

    Figured I'd wait til the end for my thoughts, given it took a couple of weeks, that's obviously not a good sign. Overall I think it was kind of 'eh'. I mean, is there a single thing that happened in the show that wasn't the result of a relationship problem ? Maybe the convenience store...
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    Stellaris

    There's some advantages, like ship experience, but that situation wasn't what I meant - for ships that ftl out, if you win the battle they just pop straight back up in the fleet. Obviously it's better to win with corvettes than lose with battleships, but a win with 50% casualties to corvettes is...
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    Counterpart

    Heh, Action Howard rendered literally speechless. That was awesome, just his expression during that rant ;p
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    Stellaris

    Battleships already have a strong position in that they suffer vastly lower casualties than corvettes against any non-trivial opposition - their extra health means they are more likely to jump out than be destroyed, so you get them back at end of combat. They are also waaay better for...
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    Stellaris

    Scout out your targets and refit to counter their weapons and armor except point defense, which is pretty much useless, and strike craft which are awful. Cruisers are bad ( mostly because of strike craft sucking ) Destroyers with L weapons can be generally useful Corvettes have the most...
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    The Orville

    It's much more Star Trek than Discovery was, but it's not a parody in any way. It's played pretty much desperately earnest with the occasional joke thrown in. An uncharitable review I saw called it Seth doing Trek cosplay, which is a little unkind, but pretty accurate.
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    Stellaris

    That one was non-obvious to me at first, but the health bar on the planet is for the current bombing target, when it hits zero, that targets is destroyed and it starts bombing something else. For invading only a few of your guys can attack at one time, that's the 'combat width' you can see on...
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    Stellaris

    This - it's the little magnet symbol on the system, it means the planet has an FTL inhibitor, you'll need to either conquer the planet or destroy it before you can pass.
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    Stellaris

    Depends on what you want out of them: Synthetic Dawn adds robot empires and mechanics, no benefit unless you like robots and want to play as or against them. Leviathans adds lots of raid boss type encounters for mid-game, with associated perks and technologies etc for defeating them as well as...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's crazily hard to balance group buffs - see the debacle of disc priest this expansion. Think of even a super simple example - if the bard does no damage at all, and just buffs other people, how much do you buff them by ? Assuming 2 tanks and 4 healers , you have 14 dps spots other than the...
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    Counterpart

    Clearly it's not her fault, original Howard is too boring, action Howard won't put up with her shit, what's a woman to do other than fuck some random behind his back ? ;p
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    While I wouldn't disagree with that characterization of Stross, I'm honestly curious what you found offensively SJW in Dark State ? It didn't strike me as particularly preachy.
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    Endless Space 2

    I've actually played a bit of this recently - I got my $10 of entertainment from it, but it's not a long term thing - it's shallow, poorly balanced, the tactical AI is trivially exploitable and it's got huge late game performance issues. It is very moo2 like, I'll give it that - not many...
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    Black Panther (2018)

    Welp I guess we can officially add 'Starting a civil war' to the list of 'Things I should probably have run past my wife before doing'. Hopefully Wakanda has advanced life extension tech as well, because angry man with dead parents isn't getting laid again this century ;p I though this one was...
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    Stellaris

    It also improves the tactical AI significantly, as well as decreasing late game lag - a lot of time was apparently spent pathfinding by the AI players.
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    The Magicians

    Lol at Margo's expression when he suggested they had 'depth and character' ;p She's definitely the best character.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Man, I can see why they went where they did, but