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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    I don't know - I thought the first one was excellent, but the second one seemed to do a sudden huge rewind and take 3/4 of the book getting back to where the first one ended.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    From the video I quoted - after he finishes his game, he tools about in the deck builder for a bit, and each card has three equipment icons
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Heh, should we be concerned that both the boss and the lead designer are terrible at their own game ? ;p Interesting that the interface shows 3 pieces of equipment per card, not 2. I wonder if it's going up and the cards are behind, or going down and the UI is behind.
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    Ouch harsh. His night angel books were pretty bad, although I don't regret reading them. I thought his current series, starting with Black Prism was heaps better though. Not really what the OP was after though I suspect.
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    Gritty, darker fantasy isn't as common as you would think. Heroes Die has already been mentioned a few times, and I'd definitely bump that up the list. Child of Fire ( Harry Connolly ) is also excellent and pretty damn grim. The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham probably also qualifies...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    What non-kickstarter means are there for getting exclusive rewards ?
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    IIRC Commie switched to exclusively 10bit high ages ago. None of the hardware acceleration works on it, so it will run like shit on things with weak CPU. This is a problem that's spreading pretty fast though, the number of 8 bit releases is shrinking.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I'm pretty sure it does - balance and game changingness aside, there's not enough space to add another member slot without redoing all their artwork.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    That's actually the most sensible stretch goal they have done from a practical point of view - a intro video is something you can farm wholesale to someone else for a chunk of cash. Too many of the other ones are going to need huge involvement from their existing developers. I agree it's not...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Agree on head games, that's the kind of card that would work well in face to face play, but not so much in online where you can't see the person. General's tent is funny, I like it.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Before she went looking for Gendry, Mel told him that making vagina demons sucked up his life force and making more could kill him. That's why she went looking for someone else with Baratheon blood and picked up Gendry.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Other people pretty much covered the pay to win part. As for how deep the gameplay is - Hex is built very much as a clone of magic the gathering, and the gameplay and strategy on that is *extremely* deep. For an example, Duels of the Planeswalkers is a 'dumbed down' version of MTG where the...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Sucks 8(. In contrast, my compo roll got me lucifer on my loki account, so I am willing to forgive this godfest's general shabbiness ;p They had damn well better extend 2x skillups to the 25th though, moving porings outside the 2x window is weaksauce x100.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Bah at your luck ;p My four refunds were cupid, cupid, dark knight, toytops
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    WTB: mysteriously absent poring tower 8( Clearly the event people are on the ball today ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    4 pulls across 3 accounts : green golem, red golem, blue golem, genie. Mmmmmm quality.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yeah, not a lot to talk about really without knowing the context - they have kind of dropped the ball of PVE stuff, which is pretty obvious from the pledge distribution. The legendary dragon card is pretty neat though - if they have no removal available that's going to be game over in short...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Yeah, it's about that. Also, something helpful for people who are just starting now - with the addition of the account linking, it's easy to backup a good roll that you aren't sure you want to keep without mucking around with root mode and files. If you get something good but want to try for...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    From what I have read, having it RNG dependent is pretty much the point. It's to counterweight skill, so that bad players still win often enough to keep playing. There's also the whole random positive reinforcement gambling thing going on.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Holy shit, I didn't think the stream was all that good, but obviously a lot of people disagreed - pro player tier is completely sold out and it's over 725k.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    This - it's trivial to see that event and godfest stacks due to the level the creatures come at.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    I think that depends mostly on if it's a success or not. If it isn't, then you'd be completely right, but if it is a big success, then the number of people who were not part of the kickstarter will be considerably higher - the kickstarter has what, 5k backers ? Even 100k players would mean the...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I can't imagine any dungeon better suited for Anubis than light legend. It's still a crapshoot ( I think I am about 50/50, maybe 60/40 ) but given the alternative is 'lol, no chance' it works for me ;p After light legend is over though usage is going to plummet I think.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    That mode looks like genius to me. A great way for PVE guys to get in a bit of semi-pvp without time constraints or pressure.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    I thought it was an interesting example of a benefit of the digital format - 10% chance to play it out of the deck for free when one of your guys is involved in a suicide block situation. The equipment makes it pretty crazy - 1/1 chump blocker suddenly becomes 9/9 lifedrain permanently heh...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    It's the combination - 2xhp/rcv is effectively equivalent to 50% resist all, so dual seraphim lucifer can be used for almost every defensive situation, and 2x300k nuke is enough to instant kill a lot of legend bosses, making otherwise super hard encounters trivial - two heroes is a good example...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Not any more - Vrita and Indra combined make a 2/4/2 team, same as greek/norse. Dragons don't get you a lot of variety in skills but there is an assload of available subs in any color you want. Angel also has the reigning champ of OP silliness in archangel lucifer.
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    Pacific Rim

    Er what ? You are suggesting pacific rim is actually about nerdy kid and his transforming car buddy and their quest for the magic glasses and the love of a hot woman ? Obviously you read a lot more into that trailer than I did.
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    Grim Dawn

    Yet another diablo clone ? I think diablo3 has burned me out on the genre ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    You need a really high hp team and/or stall for echidna to be 'safer'. 15.6k will survive an attack from each demon in wave 5, or from lilith in wave 9, or the boss before he enrages. I've been running it on my dark account just because it's a really quick way to spend 50 sta, and I don't...
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    Superhero Novels

    It is - the description is how the characters think about the situation - they don't think of themselves as superheroes, but they are. It's a wide range of people that gained a unique power, complete with a supervillain recruiting followers to take over the world and hero secret society set up...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Depends, you could make an argument for light/light venus as well I guess. I'm always a fan of poison though for resist teams.
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    Superhero Novels

    Hard Magic: I really liked this one. and from the recently read thread - Velveteen vs the Junior Super Patriots
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Blue, green, black. It's a bit annoying because no red means adk sucks, which puts a hurt on green teams. Blue is kind of favored I guess.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Yes, although to be honest between binding my neptune for 3 turns or getting a 24k plasma ball to the face, I was happy to take that trade ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Wow, Laphroaig knows how to bring the pain. Legend is dark and light devil on round 5, lilith on round 9 and round 10 lappy hits for 18k every turn up to 50% life when he starts hitting for 24k with plasma ball. Life seems lower than green, but not hugely so ( I killed him at 990 to go on the...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Eh ? Do you have some secret technique to killing Zeus that doesn't involve 2 hours of painful slogging ? ;p Last time I went in with AO+viper, hera, hera, hades and a demon and it still took forever ( I wanted to use vritra instead of the demon, but all of my low level viper friends have...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I used to use some program to forcibly move stuff onto the SD card on my old HD2 phone - app2sd maybe ? Take a look and see, a program like that might help.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    You are pretty open for options on what to do, but as a fire team, there's two important team members that you can get by farming - the first is naga, the red 'healer' ( she doesn't actually heal directly but gives you a lot of invaluable recovery and a must have slow skill that stops enemies...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    For me it's been crashing a lot when restarting if I close the phone during a round ( for much the same reasons as yourself ). Kind of annoying, I have no problem with trying to stop cheating, a bit less collateral damage would be nice though ;p