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  1. Tuco

    Diablo Immortal

    The attraction of low-fun, reliable reward gameplay to online RPG gamers can never be underestimated. These always seem to turn into an arms race where players try to find new and unfun ways to progress while developers try and nerf that garbage (which earns the ire of players). I'd have to have...
  2. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I was disappointed they didn't revamp it in the latest expansion. It's a really fun take on a desert zone.
  3. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Middle-aged white males are the most petty and drama-seeking subgroup next to adolescent girls. TLP shitfests are basically band-camp.
  4. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Are you sure it wasn't a backstab? I set up GINA triggers with my enchanter so I could test / find that my charmed pet was backstabbing, but I found it useful to run with my warrior so I'd know when it was *really* important not to turn my back to a mob.
  5. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Getting that one weird pet in a zone with unique attributes (or just anything that backstabs) and then trying to hang onto them while they try to murder you is a really fun and unique experience in online gaming. It's totally imbalanced, gets tedious to use after a while and can make traditional...
  6. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I miss that part of the raiding scene: studying l337 beta infos on raid mobs, preparing walk throughs and "presentations" to your raid on the mechanics, what everything should do, things to watch out for etc, then having half the raid fail the same mechanics a bunch of times while the other half...
  7. Tuco

    Diablo Immortal

    I'm bitter there doesn't exist a good industry for phone games. The tech is there, the space is just saturated with p2w garbage because the consumer supports it.
  8. Tuco

    Diablo Immortal

    If you bought this shit, got dumpstered by a whale and cried about it, you're as big of a problem as the whale. You're just a cuck instead of a bull.
  9. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    This is a funny paradigm on live servers. Many of the best and most dedicated raiders in top-tier guilds either play EQ as a side-hobby or spend more time raiding in some mid-tier guild. There's just not much to do for them between raid unlocks/expansion releases.
  10. Tuco

    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

    I don't disagree with this sentiment but is there anyone in that crew that you really wish had more screentime? I don't have a problem with any of the cast but their characters were either generally unlikable or generic. There'd be more room for them without Maverick sucking up all the air but...
  11. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Post-raid drama on forums is cold-water on my goal of getting back into the scene when my kids are older.
  12. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    This sounds fun. I'd be curious to hear how it goes with your trio. With how powerful charm is, are there are lot of competitive gearing opportunities without it? Like is a full group with an OK-geared plate tank and healer basically getting scraps compared to a group with a good enchanter?
  13. Tuco

    Love, Death & Robots

    I think he didn't see it was bloody until he started drinking it, which is dumb AF. He got his hearing back because magic. The blood in the river part is kind of cool if only because there are thousands of preserved-looking corpses in the water, probably many from natives in the area so she...
  14. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    LDON is distilled
  15. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Other than farming LDON and the quests/farms you mentioned, what are most organized folks doing at level 40 to get gear in groups?
  16. Tuco

    Love, Death & Robots

    Jibaro: As an entry in an "experimental animation" show this is my favorite. I actually did some reading on this and the background to the dancers was interesting. As an enjoyable show this was painful to watch. I wish they embraced the deafness of the Conquistador more a toned down some of the...
  17. Tuco

    Aquaman 2

    Amber Heard is the most interesting part of an Aquaman 2 movie. Getting rid of her is foolish. They should just recast Grant Gustin as the Flash. Should've been him to start with instead of budget Jimmy Fallon.
  18. Tuco

    Factorio

    Just unlocked purples. I have a healthy external source of iron, oil and uranium. Feeling pretty good about my base but I need to scale up production and am not sure how I want to do it. Will probably start messing around with blueprints once I get another source of coal and copper. I don't know...
  19. Tuco

    Spider-Man

    The Spiderman series of games are one of the few lines that make me feel like a PC peasant instead of a PC master race. If the port/remaster is clean on release it'll be a day1 buy.
  20. Tuco

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Just preordered the astartes tier that comes with a life size power armour and a herald of slannesh themed fleshlight. https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/
  21. Tuco

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Bioware needs to subvert expectations and make shitlord a playable and viable religion.
  22. Tuco

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I skipped the 2k and 3k series, but I'm going to need to upgrade from the 1080ti i got used soon so i can play EverQuest and factorio.
  23. Tuco

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Let me make a bold prediction: The release of the next generation of GPUs will kickstart the GPU scalping economy all over again. Unless NVIDIA/AMD and all their suppliers are dramatically scaling up production it's going to be a cyclical thing. They are scaling up, of course, but at some level...
  24. Tuco

    Factorio

    Getting into this after going hard on Dyson Sphere Program and exploring the tech tree in Satisfactory. Just started building a railway to a nearby oil field in my save: https://factoriobox.1au.us/map/view/311f949197a2fe87147bf1f2f4a75c6269a3eeeba99f90fc902669ea69fe2e16/#1/nauvis/19/-31/84/0/8...
  25. Tuco

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Glad to see the WH40k getting an RPG. It's one of the most untapped universes and so much media that comes from it is subpar. The premise of being a secret agent of the emperor on exploration missions is perfect. CRPG is kind of a poor differentiator from RPGs when so many classic CRPGs are...
  26. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Would have to be a substantial reward for poopsocking on that server to attract people to do it. Like you said it'd start feel like a live server pretty quickly. Adding challenge rewards would be hard because if you're not in the crew unlocking the expansions you can easily outlevel everything.
  27. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    If you made leveling really slow (even like, 10x slower), a motivated playerbase playing optimally would still spend nearly all their time doing easy content. There'd be raids at every level increase + content release that would have sub-max levels, but those would be exceptions and still...
  28. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Not sure how, since the optimal gameplay loop would be to curbstomp mobs that are relatively easy. It'd just take longer. A successful level-locked server would have the hardcores progressing through increasingly difficult content as they gear up and get new levels at regular intervals. 1 per...
  29. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I don't understand what solution you're proposing and I think you still don't understand the issue I'm conveying.
  30. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I don't know what you think the "issue" is, but the issue from my perspective is that early expansions are trivial. You can get a few people with a pulse together and can curb-stomp everything. The attraction of level-locking is to create a game where players are motivated to go after the...
  31. Tuco

    Wonka (2023)

    Would love to see a crime thriller where Wonka starts a drug empire with a chocolate factory as a front that ends in him going fully legitimate. Breaking Good: A Wonka Story
  32. Tuco

    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

  33. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    A version of vaniki where the level cap starts at one and increases five levels a week until level 45, doesn't have ldon or other ez mode paths to gear and doesn't have special rules to make cc / charm on reds easy or so would be more interesting to me. Not sure how it'd play out and it'd...
  34. Tuco

    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

    Thanks. Would love to see some of the unedited footage or making of for this movie. That vid reminds of how i kind of missed long shots with a wide angle that would be possible to take without heavy cgi. Fury road has a lot of that and there's just something real about.. real.
  35. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    LDON seems like the antithesis of Vaniki. I envisioned Vaniki as being a server for the tryhards to exploit-kill the baddest mobs they could to get loot way beyond what they should have. Unless I'm mistaken LDON is just farming boring and relatively trivial content over and over to slowly accrue...
  36. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Farming LDON sounds like the worst TLP experience. What does farming Natimbi at level 40 look like? Is it charm killing named mobs?
  37. Tuco

    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

    Enjoyed this movie, no real complaints.
  38. Tuco

    Peglin - Roguelike Peggle

    I feel like a lot of us old fucks, including me, have miserly game purchasing habits built from a childhood of having to hustle our nickels together for weeks to get the latest NES, atari, computer game from Egghead, whatever. Now some of us making six figures, have a big ass mortgage for a...
  39. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    Not sure if you've played it but GW2 is a great casual MMO game. What target are you guys going after next? What group gear are you guys farming?