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    What did you just read?

    I just finished Kill All Normies. It's about chan culture, toxic elements of the internet, and the alt-right. And it's fucking hilarious. The audiobook is like having the narrator from The Second Renaissance - explain 4chan and all the vile shit connected to it. It's not too long and is a...
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    Everquest - Coirnav Progression Server

    The attitude you should have is "the good team is the one I'm on."
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    December Holiday Festivus Retro GOTM - - Final Fantasy

    The GBA version is mostly the same with some bonus content and GBA emulators are a breeze to set up in that there's nothing to set up.
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    Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

    I like the game so much I was willing to mindless grind in search of a level cap and to see if anything weird happened with items and/or crafting. It's a steal for ten dollars. It's 100% pointless but I do find it interesting that crafted gear just seems to scale forever even if everything...
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    They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

    I just finished watching it and thought it was just alright. Reducing the first world war, even focusing just on the British, down to 109 minutes doesn't really do it justice. In its presentation the scope and duration is really lacking.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I hate this enough for it be the odds on favorite.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If we don't fight the sword I'm going to be so disappointed.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Uncontested? They're all jobbers. The last one died after losing a game of basketball.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I expected the reveal to be that the sword itself was driving people on both sides to violence through some malign psychic influence. That's why, despite everything accomplished in Legion, the two sides were back at each other's throats. Maybe one of the sword's powers is to make everyone...
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    Hearthstone

    This is some excellent card design. It has a lot of implications without being unfair.
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    Artifact - The DOTA Card Game

    Keyforge and Artifact (which are both Garfield designed) are each just fascinating to watch enter the market. They've both made some pretty fucking amazing decisions and I can't wait to see how they turn out in the end.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's one more thing they made a decision to do worse than the previous expansion stacked on top of all of the other shit they did worse stacked on top of a leveling system that is ugly enough to do from start to finish that when weighed against my desire to see the other side of the story on a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Systems that encourage players to make and level alts help player retention. Alts keep people playing, let them experience aspects of the game they otherwise were not going to, and see more of the story. Well, they would if leveling wasn't ass.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    ...why? I really appreciated how in Legion when I went to make a Demon Hunter after leveling my first character to 110 that the mission table had +exp awards and that the invasions were piles and piles of experience. It was like getting a pat on the head for having going through the leveling...
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    MTG: Arena

    What she said.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    This is what I always think of -
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Arya has let to learn what role Jaqen H'ghar and the Faceless Men played in the death of her father and take a torch to the entire House of Black and White. We've all got our pet arcs we're cheering for.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's fine to have that in place for a time but when you're facing down the barrel of a new content patch open that shit wide open. The whole last month should have been one stack per three bosses per difficulty. You're going to have 370 gear at the LFR difficulty in a couple weeks but people...
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    R.I.P. Stan Lee

    He's got a point kind of? He's a super atheist and played his part in the death of God as much as anyone else. Our metaphysical foundations in the West have been blown apart and one of the things we're trying to use to create a new cultural underpinning after the demise of Christianity are...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Could be worse -
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    This is the worst retelling of Dances with Wolves I've ever seen.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I'm unsure of the etymology for the term "gank" but I always thought it referred to killing someone in any asymmetrical manner.
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    Everquest - Coirnav Progression Server

    All of the Enchanter pets can dual wield at all levels if you find yourself between groups. They're little buzz saws.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    When one of the Transformers came out they did a parody episode for most of their shows where it looked legitimate for a minute or so until it devolved in to robot noises and nothing else. It was pretty clearly a response to all the people that asked them to review it so they could see a movie...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I didn't like their Half in the Bag stuff at all for years but I eventually came around. It didn't hurt when they started to put the VCR repairman skits on the far far back burner. Their early stuff with that concept I found unpalatable.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Bullshit, I know a dwarf when I see one. Unrelated -
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Buy a run, go on the run, ban everyone forever, repeat.
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    League Of Legends

    I watched it a few times and still don't know what the message is.
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    Artifact - The DOTA Card Game

    I think it's minimum 40 no maximum.
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    Artifact - The DOTA Card Game

    What it's got going for it is the ability to buy cards from and sell cards to other players. There's so many people, a whole generation of them probably, that don't really have any experience with a model that doesn't give you stuff just for showing up. Now, it's damned possible that you just...
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    League Of Legends

    She's a lulz random sparkley anime girl. There's no way she's not Shiva : Eater of Worlds at release. Is there lore with that frog at the start of her teaser video? Suicide is not something I expect to see referenced so glibly from a company like Riot.
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    Artifact - The DOTA Card Game

    Am I correct in that you can play the free phantom casual draft mode without having to spend the 20 bucks on the starter crap?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I always had the impression that at the conclusion of the story we'll have forged a new kingdom, magic will have fully returned to the realm, and hence forth shall be the summer that never ends. It's ultimately the story of how a new golden era of peace and prosperity was brought into being. I...
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    Possible Star Trek Next Generation reboot

    There's not really anything wrong with Star Trek : The Slow Motion Picture. It's very, very faithful to the show. I know people really like RLM but I'm going to plug SFDebris here right quick. He's been doing Star Trek reviews for a long time now as well as reviews of many other nerdy...
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    Possible Star Trek Next Generation reboot

    There's one episode where I think it's from the perspective of Odo reliving some memories and in that we see Kira. She's just straight up assassinating dudes and lying to the Po Po. At the end of the episode Odo has to face up to the fact that she totally murdered dudes and lied to Odo about it...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I don't know why u hatin'. People with a massive chip on their shoulder are living breathing walking dynamic content. Some of them turn out to be legitimately great even.
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    Everquest - Coirnav Progression Server

    Tox is pretty good. The area by the Paineel zone in is full of stuff to murder of a variety of levels that also isn't social.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    That's ok Mark, it's not like Lucas knew right away either.
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    Artifact - The DOTA Card Game

    That's really the question. Hearthstone, while not being A+ in game play very much allows the viewer to "play along" in manner that's almost interactive. You get to analyze the board and devise the play and then see what the player does and how their decisions turn out. Competitive Magic the...