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    Sports Entertainment

    IS THAT AMBROSIA DANIELS IN THE IMPACT ZONE edit - fuck, is TNA even a thing still?
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    With the time remaining they've given themselves the ability to scoop any decent, easy to implement ideas people suggest for either the "ultra-casual" server or the "hardcore" server. Changing Trakanon's Tooth to also function as a VP key would be easy and fit the theme. I'm not saying it's what...
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    I have now convinced myself that "ultra-casual" will mean in part minimal to zero key/flagging requirements.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    As they are account bound the krono market is a (sorta) developed economy and is in place minute one on a fresh server. Lots of people have lots of them and are and willing to exchange them for all manner of currency and items, especially early on. Locking down a huge chunk of Lower Guk and...
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    My hunch is that one of the servers will have full boxing and it will be the ultra-casual server that does. Lockjaw and Ragefire early on both had crazy populations and while the later progression servers have been successful none of them have had week one Ragefire oh fuck let's launch another...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I can't tell when Ion is saying something that is true or when he is saying something that sounds reasonable but isn't really true. Were you really concerned about split-raiding and it's effects on the highest levels of play (and how it excludes almost the entire play base from even entertaining...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I watched MethodJosh during the Ghuun race and picked back on his stream now in anticipation for the new raid tier and the amount of prep that people are doing is ridiculous. He's done Normal/Heroic/Mythic Uldir and Normal/Heroic BfD each on like seven different characters. Full cloth...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm positive one of the major reasons given for forced personal loot was to reduce emphasis on world first guilds running split raids. Method, in preparation for mythic, has been doing and is doing tons and tons and tons of split raids. Specifically they are doing runs by armor type to funnel...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't know how it works now but with the old system the weekly Mythic+ chest and emissary armor caches could both spit out the higher level versions of Azerite armor otherwise only available from world bosses or world quests.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    It's what I think we all want - a solid set of rules with a big pile of people playing. It's the other people that make these servers enjoyable both villains and heroes alike.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    I know part of the reason it is so memorable (and why the memories are so positive) is because it was so incredibly short but man I'd like another crack at that.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    Just need Sullon Zek + Firiona Vie rules mashed together, really set things up to bring out the worst in everyone. Also PvP stats should be kept, displayed on their official site, and prizes given out each month.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    I think that happened later.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    edit - I sorta like this one more
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As soon as I made it to 120 I got my welfare 400 and it was some Azerite shoulders. The next layer unlocks at neck level 32. My neck was at 12. I think the last unlock is 40 something? 44? Even with the week to week adjustments that's one big bucket of nope.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I finished up an Alliance character to see their side of the story. Any remaining good will I had towards the game has evaporated. Everything is a chore in disguise. I will say that the leveling was pretty good. I'd like to see them rework the level scaling so you could choose to do an entire...
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    You haven't optimized. You do a little classic, stab Trak, get your epic, disappear, do some Velious, disappear, do some PoP, etc.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was commenting more on the Q&A answer that the delay was due to thematic reasons but yeah. Their official line doesn't make sense so it probably isn't true or is only partially true. Maybe there was some kind of delay planned for story reasons at one point but the more truer answer would have...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    In terms of narrative the conclusion of the Ghuun narrative where you and Talanji present to the people of Zandalar the knife bloodied on Ghuun's corpse is when they should have joined the Horde. I was positive going though that little cut scene that the troll unlock would happen soon after...
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    No one is asking for permadeath. Discord was a gimmick short duration server and not indicative of anything.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    As a list of things that they could do that would fit the theme - 1. Remove augment merchants 2. Reinstate corpse runs 3. Disable the map 4. No /pick zones 5. No instancing 6. No focus effects 7. Remove any remaining out of era tradeskill combines Nothing too crazy. Right now my biggest...
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    My hunch is that the ultra casual server is also the boxing server.
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    Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

    I hope that "hardcore" does not imply a miserable experience rate and instead means something closer to no boxing, no instancing, no pick zones, old school corpse retrieval, no map, etc. Just strip out a bunch of features and let the wolves set upon each other. For the people not interested in...
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    MTG: Arena

    Learn by doing!
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    What did you just read?

    I finished Fire and Blood, the history book that George RR Martin put out last year. I like A Song of Ice and Fire quite a bit, I reread all the books last year, and I like the show. Fire and Blood was competently written but it was just not interesting to me at all. There's a couple very small...
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    Ghostbusters : Afterlife

    In the late 1990s there was an animated sequel to The Real Ghostbusters cartoon show called Extreme Ghostbusters. It had a bit of a multi-cultural pals cast with a Black guy, Latino, goth girl, and disabled person but it was never to the show's detriment. The basic story was that paranormal...
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    The Eating on a Budget Thread

    Anyone say bananas yet? Bananas are a goddamn bargain.
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    MTG: Arena

    There's another way of looking at it. Without a decent F2P ecosystem the whales don't have as many people to to leverage their wallet against. If they can't leverage their wallet they'll move on to something else. A fair model in a decent game that provides the pauper with a reasonable shot at...
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    MTG: Arena

    Maybe some of the suits were finally convinced that this F2P stuff can bring in gigantic piles of cash if you stop being cunts about your model.
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    MTG: Arena

    The set has a lot of cards that are hard to assess in a vacuum but good things at attractive costs. Pteramander could be good? Mass Manipulation is cheaper than that effect usually is. Is that enough? Sphinx of Foresight is another pregame effect. Is that a tipping point? Is the effect powerful...
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    MTG: Arena

    "When you fill up on bread"
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I started back up as I wanted to see the Alliance side of things. The leveling changes combined with the 30% exp bonus for turning on warmode as Alliance mostly fix my prior complaints on the subject. The paladin I'm leveling now is going just about as quick as the one I leveled years ago during...
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    Bird Box (2018)

    If they weren't going to do anything else with that concept than there wasn't any reason to introduce it. You could have done something where the crazies have cell phone footage of the things and that's one of the ways that it spreads. Someone uploaded some video and it got linked on 4Chan and...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

    When I first saw that I was convinced that the medical droid was going to kill her. There was going to be a close up on the droid's instrument arm, a tiny blade would appear, and a small yet lethal incision made. Oh no, I can't stop the bleeding I caused! Danger Will Robinson, danger! Not only...
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    Glass (2019)

    I ended up seeing Unbreakable as part of some big family thing and everyone thought it was terrible except me. If you guys saying it's alright that'll be enough for me to go buy a ticket.
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    Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

    Game is very good solo or with a friend, don't worry about it if it is just you.
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    Scenes from movies that make you cry?

    As a kid Old Yeller and Dumbo beat me up pretty bad. That scene in Dumbo where his mother is chained up and she'd cradling him as sad music plays, oof. I expect to never watch that film start to finish ever again. I remember renting Old Yeller a few times when I was 6 or 7 and somehow forgetting...
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    You could make it super modular and allow the trading of individual characters between players, max level characters as their own in-game currency. On a raid you could treat all the characters brought along as a combined pool and then dole out control as part of the organizing. When a starting...