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    The Big Short (2015)

    There was a nontrivial amount of out and out fraud as well with a heaping helping of it during the fraudclosure aftermath. I have some sympathy for the regular people but of course everyone is responsible for the decisions that they make. Practical mathematics isn't really a part of many...
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    The Big Short (2015)

    When I was a youngin' if you walked in to the bank and tried to get money for nothin' they would show you the door. Countrywide advertising all over cable TV that you could buy a house with no credit no down payment no job didn't make any sense. Banks? Handing out money? That just isn't how its...
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    I wish they did more event servers in general.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Was it 2019 where they released that strange "start at 85" server no one asked for?
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Project M was so blindingly red hot popular when they experimented with it I still can't believe it went nowhere. If there was a Project M TLP it would be a ridiculous success. Given that Aradune and Rizlona launched at the end of May (having been announced in April) and are a full month away...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    They've been teasing a face turn for her for years and in alternate universe shit she often finds herself on the side of the good guys for one reason or another. Hell, quite a few of Batman's classic Rogue's Gallery don't need to be villains at all anymore.
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    The Stand

    Episode 3 is a little better with a little less time hopping but the show continues to use music horribly. Nick Andros is a Salvadorian anchor baby because of course he is. It also adds an extra racial layer to the beating the character gets. If they didn't already give you 95% of Harold's arc...
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Can't Eagle Kick when you're lying on the ground not pumping damage.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's not a boost or a carry obviously but giveaways are still advertisements.
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    The Stand

    They really did this story no favors with the non-linear storytelling, tube neck makeup and pop music. There's some good stuff in here but when a character's introduction is when they're already at or close to Boulder there's just no tension. We're two episodes in there's still no idea what...
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Sure, same site.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    This comic is actually really decent. https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-Mirror-Broken/Issue-1?id=112444
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think Limit has used them a little on the world first stuff but not much.
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    The Stand

    If they do something like a char or two an episode with the story all told the same way it's going to be rough. I threw in the original made for TV movie and the opening stuff is still pretty decent. Having the first scene of the show being the cleaning out of a church six months after the...
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    The Stand

    The best reason I can think to use some non-linear storytelling (or edit it that way once its done) is the realization that the second half is nowhere near as interesting as the first half. See also the original miniseries, It Chapter 2 and many of King's novels themselves.
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    The Stand

    They rush through 80% of Harold's arc which is so strange to do first. Also he has already has his "maybe I could just stay here, people seem to really like me" crisis but instead of it being Nadine that fucks all that up for Harold he's all in on Team Evil after one vision from Flagg. I guess a...
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    The Stand

    So for episode one - I don't know if the whole season is going to be the same way but the non-linear storytelling did this episode no favors. The fun part about apocalyptic fiction is the build up to the collapse and then the collapse itself. By having the first scene of the show be about the...
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    EQ TLP ramblings

    Even losing the race I had a ton of fun and look back on it fondly. Once it was month two of PoP and everyone was rocking 90% of BiS to then go in to LDoN who fucking cares.
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    EQ TLP ramblings

    I wish they did more event servers like Selos. Getting dumped in to Luclin naked and trying to do raid content was interesting. With the regular three month unlock cycle everyone has plenty of time to get enough gear for the next expansion's content to already be trivial the second it releases...
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    That's Charlize Theron in 2 Days in the Valley.
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    The Stand

    Given that a big big chunk of the book is building towards a military conflict (that never, ever happens) I wonder if he was planning to have one and chickened out.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    If you're not basing all of your decisions on aesthetics I don't know what to tell you.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I feel personally attacked. Unrelated
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    It's more that the fruit is so low hanging that the Activision bean counters can't help but walk face first in to it.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    It's easy money so we'll get it eventually.
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    Tenet (2020)

    Thinking about it more I like this explanation the most. It explains my experience perfectly - too much brain power allocated trying to figure out what I was seeing and its implications.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Having skipped a few TLPs it does look like people have finally gotten the memo on the good classes.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I would think Classic numbers will play heavily in to their timetable. The stronger they hold the later 2021 they can push out TBC.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Whether or not you have to put in any effort at all is an entirely different issue.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    If you really get a hair up your ass the list of shit you can do slightly better or tricks you can show up to a raid with is a long fucking list. There's basically always one more layer of autism available.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Necros parse well in Classic, well in Kunark, and then dip for a few expansions. They just don't get as much out of Luclin or PoP AAs as other dps classes and their most effective dots don't work on all targets (which is true for every era). None of the dot consolidations introduced have yet to...
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Kunark too but that's a speck in the rear view mirror now.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Do her in open world with enough people in the zone and she won't even AE.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    That's pretty sweet guys.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    If you make mana a priority through your race and gearing SKs can pump out some respectable numbers.