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    What did you just read?

    Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Phillip K. Dick. Dystopian society with science fiction elements and drug use. You know, standard Dick. I've really liked the few short stories of his I've read but I didn't really like this and I didn't really like A Scanner Darkly either. Wasn't too long or...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I ran in to that problem as well. I got in there once and even during peak hours the pickings were slim for a second go.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    REMINDS ME OF A STORY
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Oh, tell me all about Michael Brown.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I've said it before but I think if you did a ClassicPlus server with increased difficulty and a few more modern bells and whistles you could drag everyone back in again. I don't expect to see anything big out of Blizzard for quite a few years though. They're going to be alternating retail...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    "Yo dawg but what about these logs" is pathetic in a way that borders on transcendent. It's like the blinders we never knew we were wearing were removed from our eyes and the world will never be the same. Thank you Ossoi. When it comes to being the worst you sir are the best.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pet coyotes, glass half full! Feels like I've ran in to a lot of burly folks with spoons in my life.
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    1917 (2019)

    The first adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930 has an extended battle that was so fucking long, loud and violent that I taken aback by it. I guess back then they didn't even know to tone it down a bit for audiences.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The new Horde will be a democracy in which YOU, a Champion of the Horde, gets to cast votes to help determine the path forward! GRIND DEMOCRACY POWER TO LEVEL UP YOUR MYSTICAL BALLOT
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Rezzes in WoW work the same way they work in Dungeons and Dragons - gotta click accept. edit - with the level squish also do a spec squish so everyone's just got two with maybe three for druid, then in later years you can start to portion out that vacant design space in the form of new classes...
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    Breaking Bad

    At some point I'm going to have to give the series another run through. One of the themes that other people picked up on right away is the difference between the lessons Walt teaches his real son juxtoposed by the lessons we he's teaching his proxy son - often in the same episode. I also, at the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Disc is basically what I'd expect a necromancer heal spec to look like. A reskin and some new ability names and you're there.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Jaina's undead brother get everyone killed yet while also exposing Baine as a traitor as Sylvanas set up from the start? edit - bah, see Baine already got found out
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    His story is cute. HEY CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO GET THAT SWORD ITEM GUY? NOPE.
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    Joker (2019)

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    Star Trek: Picard

    For having started out as half a step above a throwaway character Nog had, from episode one to the show's conclusion, a major character arc. I really like the episode where he and Jake end up on the USS Valiant behind enemy lines with all the 24th century Hitler Youth kids who get themselves...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm prepping for TBC.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If the rats are only willing to push the lever you built for the food pellet that it sometimes spits out that isn't much of an endorsement for the activity.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Changes are not in the cards but I do like how on retail if there's an imbalance you get a scaling bonus for turning on PvP. For the low low price of getting popped three or four times while leveling I was getting I think 30% bonus exp? You can give people reasons to be the underdog. With very...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Warhammer Online had a good idea when they tried to go the mass PvP route. It's too bad it didn't work. A game that was all about literal army versus army combat would be really cool.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Oh nos, the force has gone dormant/vanished/balanced/etc. Until we restart a new trilogy in a few years. The Force Returns!
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    They love the film and their re:view is a glowing endorsement. Hopefully once it makes it past the automated part and an actual human being at WB sees what's going on they drop the claim.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Not having a from-stealth opener and a real (non-dot) finisher until level 32 was sorta lame but no complaints thus far. Being able to do all the things is sorta neat. edit - bear tanking seems fine
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    It (2017)

    I'd agree with Chuk. It's long but it isn't difficult to follow or anything.
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    It (2017)

    Little ironworks, no standpipe, no tracker brothers.
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    It (2017)

    The interludes are some of my favorite parts of the book. Not doing more than an easter egg or two was such a mistake. How about this. Between the first and second films we film as a YouTube short Mike's grandfather telling him the story of The Fire at the Black Spot. Grandpa is in a hospital...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Going some version of the LFR/Normal/Heroic/Mythic difficulty slider I don't think would be anywhere near as popular as a blanket Vanilla+ hardmode.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    EverQuest eventually introduced substantial +difficulty buffs to bosses to compensate for similar issues. When a new wave of Vanilla servers comes out some time a year or years from now I wouldn't be surprised at all if it had some variety of hard-mode raid difficulty modifier.
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    The D&D thread

    I've been through the 1st edition Tomb of Horrors I think twice. One run was serious and the other was a bunch of grabass. Quite a few years after I got myself a hold of the module and started reading through it. This passage here stood right out - The Tomb of Horrors may be many things but...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Reminder that the book Fire and Blood was bad.
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    R.I.P. Ric Ocasek...

    Damn, I had no idea he was 75. When I was a kid I used to think the video for You Might Think was the greatest thing ever.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Yeah, it's awful. Completely fucks up with what you expect as a healer. How can he be dead? My heal went off. My heal went off.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Only server still flagged "Full" and still with a queue a this hour is Whitemane. You folks sure can pick a server. Goddamn.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    There has to be a CFO or CEO and a posse of bean counters (plus all the shareholders) with incentive to keep those tards from fucking the chicken.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    The server I picked as a backup for when I couldn't get on Whitemane, Westfall, has crept up from High to Full during prime time. I'd be damned interested in seeing the Classic numbers since launch. Have they really trended up instead of down...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    It's not as fancy as the 40 man squad on the boat or camping a streamer's whole world but I really like the subtlety.
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    It (2017)

    If they were willing to go hard on the murder of Adrian Mellon they should have gone closer to the book in that scene - That would have made an impression on the audience.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Applying a multi-level marketing strategy to World of Warcraft, just what everyone wanted. Sell Amway for titles, pets and more!