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  1. Downhammer

    RIP Powers Boothe

    He was strangely prophetic in Red Dawn
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    Factorio

    From my own part time playing and from looking at what others are doing on youtube and whatnot this game really has a circular progression. You joke about not knowing what electric mines do but after spending games optimizing all of your advanced tech you'll think "I wonder if I could do that...
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    Trump's Russian Connection Thread

    If they have any unsold copies of that "Reasons to Vote for Democrats" book they could just give it a new cover and sell it as "Trump's Russia Connections"
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    Factorio

    One of my co-workers recommended this after we were talking about our kids playing Stardew Valley. A couple of days of minimal sleep and piss poor work performance later and this gets a double thumbs up from me. I looked at some videos when I started and was totally confused but I think just...
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    RIFT

    If you were a founder and/or purchased the vanilla box there's a good chance you have quite a bit of the game unlocked even if you haven't touched it since then. You get loyalty credit for every $ you've spent so if you bought the original box and subbed a couple of months you'll have things...
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    What makes your skin crawl?

    Hillary eating "a hot dog with no bun." I'm not even talking the tin foil hat interpretation.
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    Everquest - Live Servers

    The progression that didn't obsolete itself every expansion/patch and the community are my fondest memories. As a guy who hates voice comm in games I also miss useful and entertaining zone/guild/group chat.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I'll second that. I don't buy a ton of games but I've gotten some good deals on some older games that I had forgotten about by watching this thread.
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    Netsmas in July

    Paying it forward
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    Site Move Megathread?

    Gone for a week on vacation and this shit happens. Glad I got the noows before an Aug joined date. Now to see if rererolled gets through the work filter; the old site was listed as porn...go figure.
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    Survivor

    They (the producers) absolutely know what the votes are during the final tribal. I'm pretty sure Probst has said if it's a tie they would revote or whatever on the spot. That way the airing of episodes and confessionals wouldn't unfairly sway a revote.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what I don't get about this new scheme. If you can't ever out-level content then what's the point. Just gate the raids behind some attunement or key quest that is approximately the same time commitment as what leveling would take. Add catchup mechanics for alts/late comers. Boom...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Getting stuck in the kneeling position after looting was my personal favorite.
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    Survivor

    If the rumored 3rd medevac is true I kinda hope it's Tai and he takes both idols home with him. Super idol is just too powerful imo especially when there were three idols in play originally. Just the threat of it is enough to cause alliances to turn on themselves as they all go into individual...
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    Survivor

    I think others have mentioned it before in these threads but I really would like to see some ponderosa type videos of the school yard picks. They'll give 5+ minutes of airtime to the individual reward winner picking a friend to join them but totally skip that dynamic in the mid game.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I couldn't give two shits about the cloak or ring once the next expansion drops, take those out whenever if you want to keep their mystique. Removing the quest lines that provide a majority of the continuity of the expansion is just dumb though. You might as well just remove the raid zones...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    For what it's worth, I run all the gold naval missions on several alts without the oil rig. Usually get a couple oil reward GR missions per day which is enough to keep things running. I'm sure I could make more by doing all the treasure missions but fuck grinding rep on alts. As far as the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guess is that the number of people who got the WoD Strider was way less than the panda one because fishing is a pita, especially when there are other easier ways of getting fish mats. By making a strider only useable in its own expansion they add extra incentive to do the fishing grind.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The problem right now is that nothing competes with the mission tables for gold/effort. Your best bet for the 5-7 months remaining in WoD is to level alts to 100. Whatever you could have farmed in the time it takes to level an alt will be surpassed by what that alt generates daily with minimal...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There isn't much money to be made actually making anything that any of the professions make. What I tend to run on my extra guys is JC for their daily quest which rewards ~225g per day, and inscription which averages maybe 100g a day on the partial receipts their follower makes. They are also...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Unless they changed something, you don't even need to suicide. The room doesn't close so just run back up to the teleporter and he'll reset.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Negative. They only have to die while the 1 second Flame Breath debuff is on them. You can get the kill shot during debuff and it counts.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think it's actually easier if you can aoe one shot them. You only need to kill them while the breath debuff is on, which lasts a second or so. Just time your aoe to hit right after the breath cast and you'll get credit even if your aoe does the kill shot.
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

    Well, they made Finn lose his accent, so somebody was thinking something. One of the theories is that Rey is a Kenobi since Obi-wan is the only other character that also had that accent.
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

    That's what I'm guessing. Doesn't have to be Mara Jade, but somehow Luke finds a force capable woman and they have Rey. She turns dark, takes Ben with her, and adopts the Snoke cover. Luke hides Rey away before going into seclusion. Given the way everything so far has heavily mirrored the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I like cool weapon procs and whatnot as much as the next guy, but the Legion weapons just don't get me that excited. All they did is move the skills you'd normally get leveling up and put them on your weapon. No one will be not using their artifact so it's no different than if they were just...
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    Survivor

    I think they didn't split the vote because they weren't 100% sure they had everyone on board. Split the vote and even just Joe flipping and you get into some possible bad scenarios. A repeat of Tyson's elimination on HvV would have been just as cool though.
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    Fear the Walking Dead

    I don't get that they would be panicked. They were trained soldiers that have been doing patrols out in zombie territory for a week+. I get being a little uneasy over the sheer numbers but that was a shitty response. Just calmly walk up to the fence and cap them one shot at a time without...
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    Heroes of the Storm

    Most of the complaints are that it's a snowball map, but I think that's because people haven't figured out how to defend a punisher push. They don't attack like other bosses do and people haven't figured that out yet. My biggest problem with the map is how the spires work. They're 100% win...
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    Heroes of the Storm

    I don't know if it's just because I play at night, but the treasure goblin mount quest is a bullshit implementation. I've gotten exactly 1 treasure goblin per day; my own. Never get one otherwise at night. Somehow I doubt they'll keep the quest active for 50 days.
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    Fallout Shelter android/iphone

    I enjoyed this game, but probably more because of the fallout IP than the gameplay. The beginning is pretty slow while you build up, but once you get three wide rooms of everything resources start rolling in. It's definitely a facebook paced game where you play for 2-4 minutes several times a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Having one artifact for both your hands does seem to make sense. I was wondering what was up when they said ferals get a dagger. Seems like they'll have to rework leveling content a bit though, or will cats use 2-handers while leveling, and change completely when they get the artifact. Same...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True, a 100k heal can't compete with a 100k shield; but if you think there's nothing that can compete with an absorb you're just not creative enough. Hell, there are tons of systems already in game you could give healers. Damage/heal sharing between tanks like the ring, some kind of 3rd...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The problem is, after running HFC twice on my mains I'm not fucking running old LFRs with absolutely no loot upgrades besides the ring runes. I don't mind the steps to kill the bosses once but remove the stones/runes. A 715 ring is no big deal now anyways, so why make me go through all the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They have a poll up asking what your favorite WoD dungeon boss is. I actually felt kind of bad that I could barely name the dungeons much less the bosses. It's not like I didn't run them either, I just haven't run them since that first month. I can still tell you my favorite dungeon bosses...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guess, in addition to plain misinformation, is that people are just trying to get it done before 6.2 knowing that most of people will switch to Tanaan reps and groups will dry up. That and there's nothing else to do if you already have loremaster and explorer done. Any word on a rare...
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    FedEx Cup

    Apparently those greens were 12 on the stimpmeter. If anything that seems low. The fairway on 16 looked faster than most PGA greens. Those drives were rolling 40 yards perpendicular across fairway and first cut. Overall though, I thought it was an entertaining tournament. Mediocre first...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Regarding the Tower of Joy fight, I always pictured Howland fighting more like Bronn; agile as fuck in leathers while hamstringing knights with his frog trident. In the typical swordfight trope, Dayne has Ned on the ropes but completely ignores his backside and Howland gigs him.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My understanding from reading the Q&A is that unlike the Burden of Eternity the Empowered Apexis Fragment token is applied to the finished item. With the way WoD items have randomized secondary stats this allows you to pick the item you want to upgrade instead of getting stuck with a shitty...
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    Heroes of the Storm

    What's with the back to back to back +xp weeks? Is it just to boost people up to hero league or is there something else going on. My 1-2 match a day ass isn't complaining mind you, but if they're going to continuously have the xp boost why not just change the scale or the order of rewards.