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Yeah, hyperbole struck. It's more like having a bunch of companies offering shit for top dollar when it's worth pennies, if that. So instead of being legalized theft, it's really just a lot of shitty collusion between the (old) primary content delivery service for television shows. Thankfully...

If anything, the cost of cable channels in general is legalized theft. There's a lot of gray area to the concept of media and theft, as far as I'm concerned. Take the series Letterkenny, which is fucking amazing. Except there was (there might be now, but there most certainly wasn't 6 months...

The Matrix may be a New Hope, but Reloaded/Revolutions sure as shit weren't Empire and Return, haha. The first Matrix movie was, like I said, amazing. But the pseudo-intellectual philosophical sophistry of the third is -not- worth anyone's time to put more than idle thought into. Its very...

Life is feudal The search function can be a bit wonky at times. The colon probably threw it off. There's a few folks who purchased it; I'd check the other thread and see who dove into it; early access MMOs from new devs don't inspire a lot of love around here generally. See that "Revival"...

The Edge is putting a -lot- of extra homework in to a work that is accidentally interesting as a three part movie series, not an intentionally interesting three part movie series. The first movie was absolutely amazing, and the second movie had moments. The third movie was a bunch of nonsense...

Dave Chappelle shows were great. Couple of lulls in the Austin show, but they both delivered. The faces of random dudes and girls in the front rows when he would talk about trannies/gays was fucking hilarious. Why go to a Dave Chappelle show and get front row tickets when you apparently don't...

Terraria/Minecraft/Etc work great as single player/small group games. Their concepts do not apply well to MMOs. Going forward, I hope other devs at least paid attention to that concept and realize that the Fuckhead Factor(TM) of the MMO playerbase means you simply cannot have mechanics that...

Lynda Carter as WW is a fan thing; it has nothing to do with comic book portrayal. She's ideal because horny 12 year olds (no idea on age demographics here. What are we, 30+ as a reference?) remember her fondly while fondling themselves. But compared to literally the entire history of comics...

I think people, and specifically *our* people, are a lot more cognitive of overt media shenanigans than they were literally 5 years ago. Yeah, it is a literal thing with theatre stage productions to just use whomever. However, to a casual person who has even a little inkling of what is going...

Sleep is definitely my favorite stoner metal band, because it just f'n carries across each album, every album. Electric Wizard and Kyuss are honorable mentions, of course.

The mechanic of players being able to do stuff to the environment and have an effect on other players from a content standpoint is the bad part; it has nothing to do with how it was intended. As it was presented (players getting to modify the world around them) it is a bad MMO mechanic. My...

FF2's progression system was sort of based upon ability usage... kind of. If you took a lot of damage, your HP went up. If you used specific weapon types, those types would go up. Which sounds kind of awesome, execpt that it hamstrings the shit out of you in trying to progress through...

You counter my gameplay argument by directly referencing actual gameplay in a game, while what I was referring to was the fact you play a card game as a primary means of progression in the game I was talking about. Logic and relative comparisons aren't your strong point. 8 had shit broken...

No, but anyone who thinks that 8 is better than any game in the main series has a pretty shit opinion. It's not even really up for debate; 8 is the worst game in the FF main series, with only 2 and 13 close behind. The rest of the games are magnitudes better, bad stories or not. The mechanics...

Is Rude another 8 apologist? He sounds like an 8 apologist.

That chick up there with the fugly tats and massive fake tits is Ariane St. Amour. She actually looked fairly bangable at one point a few years back, but she got way into the plastic surgery game and just kept getting work done. Definitely a chick, just one that has had enough surgery to raise...

That paper kind of glosses over the term scientist in general. What types of science are being included? Are we including "soft" sciences? Are we including theoretical astrophysicists? Are we including anyone with a PhD as a scientist? Are we only looking at sciences as determined in the...

Sausage Party was not that good, in my opinion. Footnote with swearing CGI food and a ham-fisted message about religion. An interesting paper to turn in for a creative writing class, but it just wasn't that great as a movie.

I liked Strange Journey, but if you're going to ape Etrian Odyssey in a SMT game, do a better job. Like Persona Q!

The argument was that "just like the PVP servers in EQ, people will police themselves" whenever the subject of griefing comes up. The pro-pvp guys also liked to point to the blue WOW servers and saying that it was easier to grief people due to them not being able to fight back. It's been an...

Uh, no. The brain expanding meme is new, and if you aren't up on your memes, it probably isn't nearly as funny as you apparently think it is. This thread is largely the same people talking about MMA that were talking about MMA a decade ago. They just largely don't agree with an incredibly...

Technically, a "server" in this context is an instance of a given environment, so it is categorically correct to refer to both servers and instances as shards. Except it is an outdated term that doesn't reflect modern technology and is a really cringey RP-way of saying either of the more...

Depending on how fast that self-healing was, it is still a slap patch to a really bad mmo mechanic at absolute best and a hilarious mistake at worst. Destructible environments work great when it doesn't effect content access/generation. Tying them together and then having that access be even...

I voted for Gore and Kerry... I think I was slain? I'm not sure, is this like kids saying that stuff is "lit" or something?

When did you take your CCNA/"joke" certs? There's generally a big simulation and 3+ simlets that require you to sort of know what you are looking for, and might not be braindumpable. I took my CCNA in December for RnS, and at the time there was really no info on what was included in the...

9tut.com for your ccna r&s needs, the comments tend to have something resembling recent braindumps linked eventually, and the rest can be easily filled in with actually knowing some routing and switching shit. Except you want to spend a minute with ACLs/OSPF/RIPv2 and -maybe- EIGRP, as the...

The primary problem with the electoral college system is that it turns 40v60 votes into 100% electoral votes, such as California. It works when you have minimal-normal sized populations that skew generally towards one side, where 2-3 electoral votes aren't that big of a deal in general. But...

You have to pay attention to the patch numbers for the speed runs; before the first expac for Dark Souls 1, there were some pretty easy to exploit bugs. One involved using parry animations to get past doors or go out of bounds, another had something to do with ladder animations being off, and...

Apparently it's more likely than I originally thought. Man I hate the pats.

Two possessions and two conversions. Yeah it's math but it's not very likely math.

Dallas/Green Bay game was the most competitive, with the Chiefs/Steelers game showcasing why games played in freezing weather are terrible. I'm happy the Pats are getting punked, however.

I played through the game entirely solo the first time through. It is not even remotely the same experience when played with an NPC helper, let alone with an actual player. I have been running with a couple of co-workers through the game recently, and the absolutely shit-show that is boss...

EQ Reskin: The Game. I mean, that's what a solid 50k people are absolutely foaming at the mouth for. Lets be incredibly optimistic and say 300k. That 300k could easily keep a non-ambitious game like Pantheon afloat for awhile, since it won't require massive server infrastructure. Then you...

Parry is your friend~! Nah he's legit a pain in the ass. Hardest of the non-Lords in the game.

Well... it appears that the album isn't actually as finished as we were lead to believe from a musician standpoint, so it may be even further out than anticipated regardless. I think there's a tremendous amount of pressure from fans (and the uberfaggots who think they know Adam Jones personally...

Man, I'm going to have to reupp and catch up on story quests for Heavensword =/ Haven't played in almost 6 months. Red Mage hurray though!

Hah, they recycled the shit out of their heavier riffs from ... And Justice For All, Master of Puppets, and Ride the Lightning. Not unlistenable, but man they have run completely out of ideas. Time to hang it up, probably.

Very late to the party, but this EP sucks. Year Zero was, imo, an overall better album than With Teeth. Both Hesitation Marks (even though I absolutely love Various Methods of Escape) and The Slip were pretty underwhelming comparatively, and this EP does nothing to make me think he's on an...

Ahh, I was referring explicitly to EQ. There's been a lot of conversation about having -everyone- do similar damage, just having different specialities within a group. The problem arises, as has been brought up, when it comes to raids. If you have multiple groups with a normal xp group setup...