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    Fast 8 (2017)

    That makes sense, they worked well together in f8 and Statham pretty much stole the show for the action scenes - the plane sequence was head and shoulders over any of the rest of the fights, and the second best was the prison break, also mostly for Statham ;p Movie was fun - the plot is more...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

    Meh, I thought it was good, if not up to the standard of the first one. My main complaint was it felt overproduced, rather than the quirkiness of the first one - kind of like the new star wars movie - at every point they go with the least risk option, which makes it disappointingly predictable.
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    Silicon Valley

    What? Of course they are, that's literally the core of how they work.
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    Doctor Who

    I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't great or anything, but the new chick was pretty funny.
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Sci-fi humor isn't all that common. Um, Redshirts by Scalzi and Wilful Child by Steven Erikson spring to mind. Can't really think of anything else offhand. Looking at Calibre tags in my library, some people have some very strange ideas about what humor is - 'We Are Legion ( We are Bob )' has...
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    Billions

    Pfft, like she didn't know that to start with, she'd be a pretty shitty psychiatrist if she didn't.
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    The Flash

    I think last episode was a new low in stupidly manufactured drama. Not wearing an engagement ring ? Seriously, that was just utterly weak sauce.
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    The Expanse

    Why would that tilt you ? It's so they are upright when under thrust.
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    The Expanse

    I think it was deliberately confusing, but my take was that Bobbie told her ship they were under attack just as it started going over the orbital mirror. The ship captain opens fire on the mirror to destroy it so he can see what's going on on the ground, and then the UN ships fire on him because...
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    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Wait, is there some meta-humor going on here that went over my head, or did John Oliver just unironically run a piece on interesting news stories not getting any coverage because the media is too busy bashing Trump ?
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    The Magicians

    Quentin is a fucking idiot, nothing new here ;p Margot gets all the best lines. 'Your *actual* kingdom is *actually* at stake' ;p
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's a curious choice, aluriel is waaaaaay harder than krosus.
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    Travelers

    They mention that due to the tech they can only go back as far as the last person they sent. That means the present time is always happening in a fixed order and not being revised. There's actually reasonably good indications that what the present timeline is getting fucked up by people from...
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    The OA

    Fuck that ending. Double salt for being so incredibly shit that there's zero chance of a second season to make it not worthless ;p
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    For mythic+ ? Sure they do - 1 min cooldown AOE stun is huge, and darkness is pretty handy. Ironically the mobility is mostly theoretical because it's all used on cooldown for the dps rotation.
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    Dark Matter

    The actress is 22, so that seems unlikely.
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    Westworld

    I like how sad and defeated MiB looks without his hat.
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    Westworld

    There's much simpler explanations - one, it makes it easy to program the hosts to not see them, two they are usually picking up hosts that have died violently and been lying around in the sun for hours. That shit is nasty, and you don't want it all over your clothes ;p
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    Westworld

    Well, if you overclock your CPU because it blackmailed you into it by threatening to reveal your illegal porn habits to your employer, then i figure you deserve what you get ;p
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    Westworld

    Those dudes aren't supposed to have any access, white guy managed to steal some admin credentials from somewhere to run his pimping operation - his ass is immediately fired if he gets found out, which is plausible reason for blackmail being effective. 'I might get fired' vs 'I might start the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The dps to tank ratio for mythic+ is slanted the worst I've ever seen it in wow - whenever I search for pug dps I get 3-5 870s in under 30 seconds. It's an incredibly toxic environment for everyone who isn't super geared - it's hard not to take being rejected 40 times in a row personally - and...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It doesn't account for anything, it's just filtering all the normal parses for people who have that legendary equipped. You can infer whatever conclusion you wish from the results. For that particular comparison, I'd suggest that void bolt is used too often for the wrists to gain any...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, not really. Warcraft logs actually lets you do parse breakdowns by equipped legendary, which gives you somewhat of a broader view of how good they are. In some cases the good ones are as much as 10% better than the awful ones, but overall they are a lot closer than you'd think. Warcraft...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    DPS in randoms are so whipped they will agree to anything. Try it - vote kick a dps completely at random with a comment like 'Tank is an asshole', 90% chance they will agree and kick them. I've had people agree to 'Just say no to votekick'.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    The first time you log in each day you will get a spectral acorn appear in your collection. You can add them to decks like any other card. When you use them you get 3 mana and threshold and they permanently change into a squirrel card, basically they are one shot buffs.
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    Westworld

    I'm pretty sure it's 'reverie' not 'revelry' btw, just makes more sense in context.
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    Westworld

    Minor nitpick - that doesn't actually have anything to do with the turing test at all. It's literally that a person typing to a chatbot and a real person can't tell which is which with more than 50% accuracy. It probably needs a better test these days, as it's not so much chatbots passing the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ignore pain is (28) * Attack power * (1 + $versadmg), so it basically double dips on versatility - versa multiplies the size of your IP, and then multiplies it again by reducing the size of hits being absorbed. ( e.g. a 1 mil IP will absorb 11 hits for 100k but nearly 14 hits for 80k )
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Demon hunter is way better than monk in that respect. The problem there is that for dps, 3/4 of your mobility skills are part of your rotation, so you spend the entire fight derping around like an idiot with a -75% chance to avoid mechanics. Tank wise I found it great fun though.
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    Frequency

    I thought this one was decent for the first episode.
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    Westworld

    $10 says it's a real gun, not a smart gun.
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    Marvel's Luke Cage

    I thought it was pretty good overall, but rate it last out of the marvel netflix ones - the bad guys just weren't compelling compared to the ones from previous installments. David Tenant made up for a lot of the shit in Jessica Jones, as the incredible fight sequences did for Daredevil, where...
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    Westworld

    Hype exceeded. That was awesome. Abernathy's speech was some chilling shit right there ;p
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Spectacular waste of gold, sell them all.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    The constructed ladder has no entry cost. You just go in with your premade deck and fight people, it gives various prizes for reaching different leagues, and the top 64 of cosmic league go into a cash prize tournament at the end of the season.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hunter sprint is on a 3minute cooldown, it's been a particular nuisance for me given how fast tanks are now.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As far as I know, legion crafts do not use your crafting skill for anything, so it's pointless unless you want some draenor crafted toys or whatever. Exception is probably engineering - there's lots of teleport toys that have a min engineering skill to use.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hmm, I see a lot of complaining about demon hunter mitigation, but a quick comparison among my various alts suggests they really aren't that different at similar gear levels ( slightly lower physical mitigation, higher avoidance ) and demon spikes is a far better active mitigation than anyone...
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    Starting WOW - looking for advice and info

    It's waaaaay mpre important that you enjoy playing the class you pick than any other consideration. Don't try and plan out 'the best' optimal path at the expense of fun. If that means you both end up playing pirate rogues and have shitty queue times, that's still probably a better outcome than...
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    Fall 2016 Anime Thread

    Puella Magi Madoka Fate/Zero Here and There, Now and Then and for something rather more lighthearted Cyber Coil