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I wish they had said "Feud with George Lucas" 2011-2021 because that joke is going to suck if he actually dies this year.

I mean, it was one of the best things about EQ was the local factionalization; it made the world seem much more real and large. In this part of the world they didn't give a damn about what happened anywhere else, but only cared about their local/regional struggle.

So happy for the people in this thread who are playing!!! secret inside voice:

I preordered, with the above lack, absence, empty space where an invite would be still remains. Not that I care or anything. Better to wait and see it at launch or open beta, for sure! Be-et-tah!!!

Don't play it like a cover shooter, necessarily. I mean , there are times for that but in a lot of cases, and Skill Up makes this point really well, in a way I hadn't thought about: The cover is there for your enemies. It's a difficult shift to make in playstyle. The Techomancer can use cover...

Nada. Nothing. Zero. Bupkis. Naught. Nein. Niente. Edit: Checks again... Still Zilch, nix, rien, scratch, nil, null, sweet Fanny Adams, empty palms and itchy fingers, no email.

I went back and played my Devastator up to all blue gear, almost World Tier 5, repeatedly running "A Bad Day" and getting multiple blue/rare drops per run, and could do it in like 5-7 min a run. I know what the meta runs are for getting Legendary loot are, and will do a few once I get up to WT6...

Maybe with different skill unlocks you will have some variety but right now for the most part it seems there isn't a whole lot of variety to how each class will play based upon how they heal: They can all use all weapons and take different trees but if they only/main way you get health back is...

This is literally the start of quest before the cutscene is over. More senseless brutality from a game that seems to specialize in it. I did a second playthrough of the demo as a Technowhatever, I did it in like an hour, I only died a couple of times outside of one quest where I died repeated...

"Seasons" and "Season Pass" yes, Microtransactions, no. Hopefully they will just be doing more regular, smaller expansions as their "seasons" to avoid the term? I know they have been big on saying no to Microtransactions; perhaps avoiding the GaaS tag is part of that push as well? So I...

They are all repetitive eventually: All that matters is the wrapper and the accoutrement. This one makes some changes to the gameplay formula but it is just not appealing to look at for me. May be worth getting past that, though.

Played some more of it solo, up to World Level 4 and Character level 6. As stated above, the powers and items get way better, and Blues really seem to add to your character/playstyle. I was thinking the item inventory was like the weapon inventory but you have to click on the slot to see what...

I get home from a Dr appt, eager to load up the demo and XBOX Live has decided to stop working, so we switched over and played on PS5. My verdict after playing through the prologue and the first mission in Rift town? I don't know what I expected but the whole game has a kind of ugly/mean...

I need to watch S3 but from what I remember, one of the most memorable characters for me in TV history, all over the line, still pulling for him in the end. This show had ratcheted the tension up to 11 the last time I watched it, IIRC it was almost unbearable how thick the plotting was, like...

"He's the Jason Bourne of Fence Jumping!!!"

They might not be wrong. The gameplay itself is not bad. The Colossus was one my favorite "Classes" in the Looter-Shooter era. Once you got somewhere, the actual combat was fun. But still, who the fuck thought it would be fun to fly and land and fly and land and fly and land and fly and...

After I found out how much amazing tail there was that floated around the PGA, I knew I chose the wrong sport. Fake Edit: I didn't get the joke until I started writing the post. Shame! SHAME on you, sir. :)

Disney Exec: Hey, let's put out a new movie! Money guys: New IPs are hit and miss, expensive, and have a low ROI Disney Exec: Let's convert YA Novels into Movies. Money guys: Been done already. Disney Exec: Well, what about twist endings, what about that guy? Let's get him. Creative guys...

Boil water notices have been lifted, and we have our outside pipes all repaired, finally. I think I must have called every plumber on the West Side of the city but finally got a couple that did the trick. Had one show up with no parts, so I ran him off. Then another showed up with just his...

Just FYI, I live on a cul de sac, my neighbor knows I am taking water out of his pool; in fact, he offered it. Who would have thunk, after all of the Not-Government-Spending-but-"investment" and "Shovel ready jobs" and "You didn't build that" with more federal spending and the largest federal...

Have you seen how cold it is outside? FFS, sir this is Texas.

Houston Metro down to 7k people without power: CenterPoint Energy Outage Tracker We have one busted pipe, outside on the main cutoff to the house (its a copper pipe on an outside wall of course exposed to the north wind, insulated except for the fittings, one of which go pop!). Hopefully...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath My favorite of the HP Lovecraft stories: “Stars swelled to dawns, and dawns burst into fountains of gold, carmine, and purple, and still the dreamer fell. Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside.”

See, here may be part of what you are missing. Texas electrical pricing is nodal, which means there isn't a price for the state or for the region but there are hundred(s)? a hundred plus prices for electricity in the state. These are what spiked super high. You can see what these prices are...

I don't know what kind of utility where they could choose to not provide their service and decide to pay fines because it was too expensive, and regulators would allow it. Nothing about that makes sense to me at all.

This is why every Trading company hedges; at least every Power trading company that is still in business. But the Traders aren't the Generators aren't the Distributors aren't the Retail power companies aren't the ISOs.

Perhaps you know tons. All I can tell you from what I know is that distributors, not retail power companies, that would choose to not transit power to their customers because the spot prices are expensive and pay fines will be destroyed by regulators. It's incredibly highly regulated and...

Well, no one expected there to be a power outage from generation, hence my trimming to the trees but mea maxima culpa on that one. I didn't really even have anything to grill like I do in the summer. Just sandwich stuff which I mostly let my kids eat. Every other winter storm (2018, which was...

Really? Is that how it works? You may want to talk to someone who is in the business rather than reading about it on Lefty websites. Spoken as someone who has never had to deal with a NERC/FERC audit. If companies tried to just "pay the fines" and not energize customers they would be ran of...

Well, here's the thing, big shot. I wouldn't give a good GD if it worked. But it doesn't. It just doesn't. If it did, you wouldn't have everywhere that implements this horseshit have these issues. You wouldn't have to have government subsidize the hell out of it to make it competitive to...

I could not be more angry right now, at almost everyone. Just spent a night with very little food in a 40 degree house after spending hundreds to have trees trimmed to prevent transmission issues that were within my control only to be subject to the weather as a result of stupid human policies...

I could have sworn I saw this explained in the show itself, and I haven't watched S2 at all.

It's telling you that contrary to what Grace Randolph is saying, Gina wasn't "planning her own exit"; Disney hasn't said anything to her, nothing about her other SM posts, and in fact didn't even ask her to promote The Mandalorian. She only found out she wasn't working for them any more when...

This is what Comic pros want to make because they are Woke SJW Propagandists. It's also why print comics are almost completely dead. No one buys this shit. If they make more recent comics into movies, no one will watch those, either. Superhero movies will end if they run out of classic comics...

When it's half price or less I may get it for my kids and I. It looked like it had so much potential.

Wow, I just got done reading all of the above webcomic, which is Kill Six Billion Demons described as "a fantasy/new weird webcomic," in Wikipedia, going since 2013. Start at the beginning. I love the art, deep mythos, got some grrl power going on but easy enough to overlook. I recommend it...

We are so attenuated to now to looking for False Positives. Nothing like living in a low trust society. Isn't she super tall? Some of that height invariably involves increased prominence of features we associate with masculinity.

See, I am the exact opposite. All of my gaming friends are well past the MMO age now, and my grouping is situational. I got so burned out on guilds, etc by thousands of hours in EQ and I have a demanding work schedule. I want to do things at my own pace or push myself and group up with people...