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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    This movie was great fun. I wasn't expecting Cruise's character to be such a worthless piece of shit, but it made for great entertainment. The master sergeant's speech walking to the barracks is a nice wink at the situation. I laughed at the literal handwaving they did about how ridiculous...
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    EA shuts down Mythic Entertainment

    Same as individual person level - if you judge someone's work is producing less money than you pay them, it's cheaper to fire them than to try and get them to do better. You don't need any tax writeoffs to make that appealing when the bottom line is $$$. It's sort of a curse of publicly...
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    Medicare Coverage Ban on Sex Change Surgery Has Been Lifted

    I think you'd need a pretty big increase in institution capacity if you are going to round up all the circumcised men.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Welp, it looks like beta invites are going to become significantly more useful soon. From thefriday updatethey are planning for the june content patch to include, as well as the AH, the first bit of PVE and a much more sensible solution to gencon bonus stuff ( they were originally going to...
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    3D Gaming

    I consider the 3dvision set to possibly be the biggest waste of money I have ever spent on hardware. The effect can be kind of immersive, but the drawbacks are just too frustrating - second monitors are a huge problem, room lighting is a huge problem, the glasses are uncomfortable and...
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    Dominions 4

    I'd offer a different opinion to Grimsark - you need to learn a *LOT* of stuff to play even half competently. The AI isn't a match for a strong human player, but you are not going to be a strong human player for a very long time. Plus, you can always plays Middle Ages and Ermor ( the undead...
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    Doctor Who

    It'd surely be at least half his fault with him being busy with Arrow in a different country.
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    Penny Dreadful

    Any time there's no face and lots of coverage (e.g. frizzy hair ), it's a pretty safe bet that it's a stunt ass.
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    Dominions 4

    Dammit, this thread prompted me to start it up again, and I got crushed mercilessly. Sigh ;p I just can't resist playing the undead, even when I know it's going to end in 5 on 1 gangbang with more priests than vatican city. Still, what other games can you field an army of 800 zombies...
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    Dresden Files

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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    If you have any latency then this is actually a pretty effective way of avoiding telegraphs, rather than waiting to see it and then moving.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    I dunno, 30% off the width of electrocute is going to be really annoying, it was hard enough to hit multiple things with it to start with, given how they run all over the place ;p
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    X-Men: Days of Future Past.

    This was an excellent film. Really liked it. The opening was great, I loved the way they were expert and working together. Best performance to young magneto for his verbal bitch slapping of professor emo.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    It's easy - low level play on the esper is horrible, both their builder and their super ability root them in place. I'm surprised they got as many votes as they did.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yes to all. Beta key if anyone wants to try it out. Keep in mind there's no PVE at the moment, so the only thing you can do without spending any cash is to duel other people with a starter deck, or play against a pretty weak AI. Send me a PM if you use it, so I can edit it out. edit...
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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    The field is left clear for Fedor's perfect woman ;p
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    That was the last dungeon revamp. First pass they nerfed the shit out of specials, which made it too easy. Second pass they buffed the shit out of white damage. Most people have said it keeps constant pressure on heals.
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    Interstellar (2014)

    I don't think so, as far as I remember the book also ended with her discovering the 'message from god' in the digits of pi.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Hmm, reading Hasbro's annual report for 2013 to see how much of a big deal for them this would be - hoo boy. Gaming revenue was up 10% to 2 billion, with first credit given to magic the gathering for year on year revenue growth with extremely low manufacturing cost. Yeah, they are almost...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    The art and the names are the only thing that are copyrightable, game rules can't be copyrighted. It's all about the patent claims.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yes, this. They don't expect to win, just to drain crypto dry. Them going out of business is a win for them anyway.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    That definition of "copied" has no hope of winning anything. Which is a good thing, because being able to copyright 'a unit with 2 attack' would be unbelievably stupid and disruptive. The actual patent for MTG ishereand is actually pretty well written, specific and descriptive, which I...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    If you've seen the holy grail, they were comparing the dreadfort attack to the attack on the rabbit. More from the silliness than any direct connections. Which is fair, that scene was pretty terrible and made no sense.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    At raid level I can't say personally, but reports are that stalker and engineer tank are pretty close but warrior has huge threat problems. This seems to be a problem at lower level as well since last patch - the war tank I ended up in hycrest with lost aggro every few seconds ( was in right...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    You can, the path to algoroc from the main city is just through the underground tunnels, you come out of the mountain se of the town there. Be warned though that going into the starter zones puts you at the start of the starter zone, rather than the end, so it's a long hike to get out again ;p...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yeah, their plan on that front is a large F2P PVE side. Unfortunately they seem to be epically behind schedule, and have no signs of any of it available yet, and no ETA. Still, I think the gold/plat economy will be pretty solid whenever pve does go in - the gold cost of rolling the PVP chests...
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    The 100

    Hey, both are plausible for the same reason. This is a useless bunch of juvenile criminals, they would probably have an even chance of either freezing to death after running out of matches or burning their camp to the ground.
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    Hannibal

    Spoiler alert, this show is set before Silence of the Lambs.
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    Orphan Black

    Literal LOL at that rescue ;p Got some amusement out of Bell too - 'what, what ? what just happened?'
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    hex.tcgbrowser.com is one.
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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    Sidonia wins the Bear Grylls survivalist award this week. I continue to be vexed by the implication that two robots holding each other is somehow more efficient than each of them using their engines separately though. Brynhildr wins the 'fair and balanced' battle award for the month though...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Not sure what happened for you, but I have had to trouble leaving drafts after being eliminated - they just mail the 5k gold to you when it's eventually won. I actually received it in the middle of another draft I had started.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    If you mouseover the list on the left, it'll tell you what each gives. Interestingly, the chest upgrade works on legendary chests to turn them into primal chests. I'm not sure, but I'd guess there's a 'super' primal chest type too to cover the double upgrade roll.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yes, very. The card set is deep, with interesting interactions, and well balanced. Draft puts everyone on an even footing card wise, and has a few levels of extra strategy observing what's being passed. The limited cards for draft decks also lead to some fun effects you wouldn't normally see in...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Yeah it kind of does actually. The shift depends partly on class as well, but 15 is mounts, housing, the adventure map and for a few classes ( like engineer ) a much more solid skillset. I'd give it to 15, play with housing a bit, do the adventure - if you've done that and are uninterested...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I read that as just bait to make people think he'd let them go because he was a softie underneath overall, which gets shattered by showing him shooting the dog with the rifle, proving that he actually is a dickhead afterall and totally wants to kill them. You don't throw people out of a jet...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Meh, it's true, for reasons not related to degree of casualness as well - the time taken to clear the newbie dungeons is so long and the xp is so bad that any gear drops are immediately invalidated because you would be several levels higher if you'd just leveled through that same time. Side...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    He's a big bastard - seeing him all pissed off and focused is an awesome contrast ;p
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    You sure it wasn't that you leveled up ? There are pretty steep diminishing returns on xp for low level mobs. I admit though, I didn't try killing the same mob over and over, but did circuits of the same areas ( like halstead's claim or the little voodoo guys ) - didn't see any drop in xp...