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    Stellaris

    If they are going to do cash whoring then cosmetic stuff seems fine to me - better than having DLC with one overpowered unit or useful feature and a bunch of fluff.
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    Counterpart

    Just think of historically shitty trade deals, like with the native americans. Neither side want to get fucked in a trade so really want to find out what the other guys have got so that they can get favorable terms. You could easily argue that it doesn't actually matter if they get swindled...
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Lol, put Space Hitler in charge of your "diversity" issues. What could go wrong ? ;p
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    What did you just read?

    Well for sci-fi/spy thriller, try 'The Breach' by Patrick Lee or 'The Family Trade' by Charles Stross. 'Waypoint Kangaroo' is also pretty fun.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Surely you mean 'is a rebellious lackey of the female asian who is actually supreme leader of the evil empire' ? And really, shouldn't Saru count as a straight white male ? ;p
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    Counterpart

    I've really liked both episodes so far - it's a very different feel and style of show, which I appreciate, and some great performances. Plus, tits, which there are never enough of on TV lately.
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    True Detective

    I'm still pretty sure S1 was just carried by the acting. It was just as full of overly portentous monologues on random nonsense, McConaughey just made it work instead of looking like a dipshit.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, obviously brewmaster is by the far the best tank at tanking while under 5% life, you just need to make sure your healers only heal you when you are 1 melee swing from death and the theoretical EHP is through the roof ! ;p
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Welp, I have to say to the writers - 'Well played, well played indeed.'
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    Black Lightning

    Seemed kinda generic.
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    James S.A. Corey - The Expanse

    I dunno that that is a fair criticism, given that you are complaining about the ending to an imaginary storyline that you just created ? ;p I'd at least wait til they write it before complaining, heh. Overall I thought this book was pretty good. Not the best of the series, but considerably...
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    Future Man

    Finished this one up, it got even better as it went on - the transporter malfunction ongoing gag still makes me snicker thinking about it ;p
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    He has a few series, all of which I rate at least 'good'. The stormlight archive books are the most well known, and are high fantasy, some of his best work and a one of the greats in the field, in my opinion. Pros include a fantastically detailed and original world, great action with...
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    Future Man

    This was some surprisingly funny shit. I liked the balance they had between humor and seriousness.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's not worth leveling characters solely for this purpose, but if you have alts, you are kind of crazy not to. The gold per time spent actually doing stuff is literally unbeatable by anything except being unbelievably lucky with AH flips. Remember you can fire this shit off from your mobile...
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    Marvel's The Punisher

    I think it would have a hard time in any case, the raw ultraviolence doesn't really fit with Marvel's established brand - there's probably lot of people who liked other Marvel stuff that had a really negative reaction.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As far as I know, all the normal missions reset every 6 hours. "Clearing" them out isn't really a thing.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'd trust those results about as far as I could kick them. Compare the t20 sims as of *now* (after hundreds of revisions, bug fixes, apl updates to make it match reality closer) vs reality Simulationcraft Results Warcraft Logs - Combat Analysis for Warcraft
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    What did you just read?

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    What did you just read?

    Uh, I think you may have missed a chapter or two there somehow.
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    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    I'm not what anyone would call a Trump fan, but the main thing with it is that almost nothing on this show about Trump has been funny. If I wanted depressing political commentary I'd watch a serious news shows - where are the lols ?
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    What did you just read?

    The Secret Throne [Queen of Dreams 1] Peter F Hamilton - Two young sisters find that their father is actually an exiled prince of another land when he is kidnapped by political enemies and they have to rescue him for their evil clutches. This was basically Hamilton does Narnia. It's pretty much...
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    The Shannara Chronicles

    On the one hand, the mediocrity of the first season hasn't really changed, on the other hand, they did double the number of hot young lesbians AND add a hot asian chick. Plus, at least it's not inhumans.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The 7.3 order hall changes were absolutely a buff to gold farming - the original 100 and 200 resource missions still spawn at the same rate, but you also get the new 400 and 500 resource missions as well, leading to roughly double the gold for triple the resources. I find actually logging in to...
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    Fall 2017 Anime Thread

    Soo first up to bat is Black Clover aaaand.. nope.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Eh, I though the first two were pretty iffy, but I liked the third one. I'll agree the show is pretty much a 'fuck you' to the existing Star Trek aesthetic though - the captain is obviously a dangerous lunatic, which is nothing new for trek - Kirk was basically a menace to society - but he's...
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    Rick and Morty

    I dunno why the complaints, sure it wasn't as good as the citadel episode, but that is a pretty gargantuan bar to reach. I mean, just make a list of 10 or so episodes of anything else that were funnier off the top of your head and consider if you'd call any of them mediocre ? I still snicker...
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    The Gifted

    This was kinda predictable, but good fun still. Way better than inhumans. The elf look certainly works for that chick though. It was a bit weird seeing Amy Acker as the mom, kept thinking she looked too young to have 18 year old kids, even though I know she isn't.
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    Marvel's The Inhumans

    You pick those two as the worst ? Really ? The princess's "acting" was almost physically painful. It wasn't the worst thing on TV, but if they were aiming for something to make Iron Fist look amazing in comparison, they certainly succeeded.
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    Summer 2017 Anime Thread

    Nananchi's backstory didn't have much chance of being cheerful and uplifting did it ? That as a great ending to the series. I'd nominate Made in Abyss for best of the season personally.
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    Rick and Morty

    "... half the codes now, half after you finish" Was pretty funny too, caught me entirely by surprise where that went.
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    Dungeon Defenders II

    So this came out of beta/early access a few weeks ago, and I gave it a whirl to see what they'd done with a 2 year beta. It's actually pretty solid now, they toned back a lot on the cash whoring - the only cash exclusive stuff now is skins for heroes and towers, although they have some crazy...
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    Ash vs Evil Dead

    Eh? ED2 was absolutely a remake of ED1, I'm not sure how that would count as a rumor ? Also 10 years ? What ?
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    The Orville

    Yawn. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy ? This was a painful contrast with this week's Rick and Morty.
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    Rick and Morty

    Dayum, Rick & Morty : putting the dark in dark comedy ;p
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    What did you just read?

    I actually just finished the first two books of this recently. My somewhat tongue-in-cheek review : "The story of Awesome man, who is Awesome at everything, his greatest weaknesses are keeping how Awesome he is on the down-low and fending off all the women who want to have sex with him ( but he...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You got to hell ! You go to hell and you die ! Haha ;p
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    What did you just read?

    All These Worlds (Bobiverse 3) - Dennis E Taylor The bobs' efforts to save humanity are getting more difficult after effectively starting a war with a technologically superior and unrelentingly hostile alien species. This one felt like a series end - there's still scope for continuation but...
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    Rick and Morty

    "... fuck you man" Lol ;p
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    Rick and Morty

    Holy shit that was funny. I was worried the rest of the season wasn't going to live up to ep1, but apparently that was misplaced. Best use of a 'Nooooooo !' 2017. PSA : Watch for the end of the credits