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    Wheel of Time series

    I was wondering if someone was going to grab that! My phone is old and I need to get a new one, so if I dunk it in water I'm not worried about it, but collector's hardcovers I have a hard time with. I'm super OCD about the stuff on my shelves. Kids come over and touch my video game...
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    Wheel of Time series

    I always have a material copy of any book series I follow/like, then a digital copy. Just makes it easier; I've been rereading wheel of time in the bath etc off of my nook app on my phone, and I would never take a hardcover near water. Little sad that they're doing this, but there's no way I'm...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    BF had his account hacked at some point, and he got is restored, but it had been over 6 months by that point, so unsure what their cutoff is. Both his diablo and wow account were hacked (I've told him numerous times to fucking get an authenticator, jesus) and they restored everything, INCLUDING...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, LFRs and coins have a demoralizing effect on me. I know that technically I have the same chance as before, but only getting gold makes me rage. Thing is, in old LFRs even when rolling against others I used to come out with a few pieces every raid. Maybe I was lucky but I felt like I was...
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    What's your poison?

    Disclaimer: I've never had Hennessy XO, it's a little too steep for my tastes. Generally stick with VSOP but mmm mmm. Enjoy a good bourbon or scotch most times too, though I am not as particular about it.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I always had a tough time playing a warlock; the playstyle never really appealed to me. The closest I got to having fun with it was when they changed destruction to be a bit more like a mage; ie, lots of bursty shit that proc'd etc. Destruction might still be that way now, but apparently it's...
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    Well, now what?

    Raids weren't hard in EQ; any raid that was often times "hard" was more an issue of how many fucking clerics or enchanters you had, or how long you could outlast shit. Things in say, GOD were a bit different, because they started introducing things that required something more than just CH...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ow at ruining my ability to force proc fingers of frost with freeze on bosses/mobs that can't be rooted. =/ Farm upgrades are awesome; new pets are always fucking sweet. More dailies and more trolls can eat it.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So, does anyone know how feral druids are doing as far as dps? Most sites are putting resto druids as the worst healer in heroic content, balance as amongst the worst dps, and guardian as the worst tank. I don't like the feel of balance in MOP much, so I plan on respecing to feral, but in...
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    Do you sneak into movies?

    Only did this once, and it was accidental. Girlfriend and I were meeting another mutual friend for Avengers; he calls us while we're in the lobby. We're about to pay for tickets but he tells me he got us seats, which we interpret as he bought us tickets. I was surprised (Since he usually...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I just really dislike that MOP reversed entirely good solutions for issues in previous expansions. We're back to one bonus heroic a day; professions + recipes are stupid, VP items on rep vendors, and the way reputation was handled in this expac can blow me. Yea, I mean I'll vouch for the...
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    Wheel of Time series

    I started WOT in middle school I think - I was a huge fan of LOTR, and at the time was going through the Dragonriders of Pern series. Someone had told me about WOT, and I checked it out at the book store. Originally when I read about it it didn't seem appealing, I can't quite remember why...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think we're stretching it with "best expac ever", considering MOP really pushes a lot of things that run counter to what people often say they want from an MMO. (And if you aren't playing casually, this xpac left you feeling alienated.) I'm not sure I know which one is the worst; the lore...
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    Biographies

    Heroin Diaries was amazing. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life was good; it's Steve Martin. Maybe not really autobiographical, but I liked The Salmon of Doubt, which was Douglas Adams. It's some posthumous collection of previously unreleased articles/short stories, as well as his musings on...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You know, there's a bunch of things that drive me nuts, but one of the ones that keeps cropping up is mobs that don't drop loot. If you're making me grind them for a quest or daily, and they have the same amount of hps and abilities as other shit, they shouldn't just vanish. I'm not exactly...
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    The Hobbit

    I liked it; it was interesting reading people's comments in here, because I posted to friends that I couldn't understand why the hobbit was getting totally shit reviews. That's not to say it didn't have some failings, but man people were ripping it apart. The one thing that I could see was...
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    Wheel of Time series

    Ohh, totally forgot about the 13 number thing. I wouldn't ignore the Forsaken idea though; I sort of thought for awhile that he was a Forsaken. Not one we know, but perhaps a new one that swore fealty to the dark side in exchange for power. Before weird shit starts happening with Taim, you...
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    Wheel of Time series

    Aes Sedai are super hard to keep track of; I also found the Forsaken rough to keep up with - once they start dying and being resurrected etc it gets choppy. Each of them has like 3 different names - their Forsaken name, then whoever they are posing as, then sometimes another name that other...
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    Wheel of Time series

    It gets way better when more action/more movement starts happening, so even without Sanderson Jordan was still on his way to making the characters readable. However, when Sanderson took over, a lot of the things that he had a hand in was really developing the characters from farm boys/girls...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't hate Pandas as much as I thought I would, that said my monk is not one of them. I'm super jealous they get double well fed buffs for raids though, wtf.
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    Wheel of Time series

    Yea I did say I remembered that prophecy and Min's viewings all say he dies, but it just seems fucking harsh if he does, and it seems too obvious. IE, so many things telling us he's going to croak, him preparing himself for and accepting death etc. There are so many women bonded to him that...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Chen existed in the comic, in WC3 and was hinted at in early WoW. There isn't a huge amount of him, but there's enough that questioning how he came to be could result in an entire island and expansion. I mean honestly, did everyone just go, HUR THERE BE PANDAS? Now, even with Pandas in...
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    Wheel of Time series

    I imagine not everyone survives, but the last King of Malkier getting axed doesn't strike me as something that would happen. Robert Jordan didn't seem particularly bloodthirsty, and he also never seemed like the type who would kill off important characters just to create "emotion" or "because...
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    Well, now what?

    You can get a couple months worth of playing out of it if all you do is stories and level. I mean, not solid months, but off and on. I leveled all of the empire classes to 50, messed around with pvp, but only did a few Ops before I went, well fuck this. If you're not playing the story, the...
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    Survivor 25: Philippines

    It's interesting, because I had the exact opposite thoughts with Denise. She kept saying "I survived all of the tribal councils" but all I get from that is "I'm not a difference maker at all, I can't help bring a team to the win, but I manage to just be middle of the road enough that someone is...
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    Murders and Shootings

    I guess I don't get that mother's post. I understand that we need better care for the mentally ill before they do something atrocious, which I guess is what she is getting at? But there are some mental illnesses that still allow you to see right from wrong, and the way she describes her kid...
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    Upcoming Games of 2013

    Because I am really interested in this game, and think others should be too, add Remember Me to Q2 Sean! Open world game from Capcom.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, there were some nice changes. The only thing that frustrates me was the blue post along with it; saying we have all these crazy endgame pet battles we can level pets up in. Have they done the pet battles? TBC is easy beans, Cata is pretty easy too, but Northrends tend to be beastly...
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    Murders and Shootings

    I'm just not certain why this needs to be stated. It feels...disrespectful. It's absolutely true, and I guess it can't be helped...events like this tend to make people think about things; some look inward, others lash outward. Either way, I don't know that a thread where people discuss the...
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    Murders and Shootings

    I had another sentence typed out, but decided against it. I was sad that people were coming here with posts like yours, and like mine was going to be so I won't. It doesn't detract from the sadness just because there are other tragedies, nor is it impossible to feel terrible about other...
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    Murders and Shootings

    I get the jaded part, but a lot of the terrible shootings have often been about someone getting back at their peers. Not ALWAYS obviously; I can't blanket statement that, but that's been a general theme. This was an adult, who for some ungodly reason took his anger out on babies. Be jaded...
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    Murders and Shootings

    Yes, but this isn't a topic about malnutrition and dehydration. Taking the thread and turning it into something that every other god damn thread becomes is retarded. Somethings should be above that, and when there's a giant post on the forums about babies starving to death I'll be equally...
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    Murders and Shootings

    Just wanted to comment; I know this is foh, and have a thick skin, but I'm sort of sad to see what this post became. Adults being shot is terrible, high school/middle is worse, but elementary? This guy shot babies; I don't often cry, but reading about this stuff, seeing it unfold...I misted up...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'll have to try that; the majority of my mechanical pets have been getting no love, save the fluxfire feline and cogblade raptor, mainly because Grunty is a humanoid with ridiculous good mech abilities, and feel I am far more likely to encounter an elemental than I am undead in MOP...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can't sell wild pets that you catch on the AH, for some weird reason. Right now it's mostly for achieves/collection - the pet battle thing is just an avenue for even MORE pets, and maybe some cash for the ones that you can sell. I anticipated that you'd be able to catch wild pets, level...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So pet battles are really wearing on me. I hate that even with the most effective set-up against some npc fights, you can miss/have them dodge etc and it can guarantee you a loss. And I'm not even talking "super effective" teams, I'm talking synergistic/super effective teams; for example Major...
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    Good Games You Might Have Missed (Game Suggestions)

    Vessel: Vessel on Steam It's a puzzle platformer with water physics. Absolutely loved it; the music is awesome as well.
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    Parent Thread

    Hrm, that sounds ridiculously like how I grew up, to an extent. My mother had me when she was very young; so end result is that we did not get along. She was immensely overbearing - I can't even begin to tell you. For long periods after I graduated high school, when I was dating a guy and...
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    Neverwinter: PC

    I tried it out at e3 and the game seemed like absolute shit. Which is sad, because it's neverwinter, but not unexpected, because it's perfect world. I don't have high hopes for this game, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
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    Hardest Boss Fights (No MMO shit please)

    Cambion twins at the end of Icewind Dale 2. Part of it was that I apparently accidentally skipped an entire side area full of exp; I roll up and they absolutely destroy me. Horrid wilting all over my fucking face, fortitude save for half except they kept casting it on my fucking CLERIC AND...