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Well I tried unplugging my ethernet to force offline mode and... no lag. So apparently I was getting server lag from battle.net even when playing solo vs AI

Anyone else having a problem with the game lagging? Never had any problem at all with Wings of Liberty but I havent played it in a long long time and now the game periodically slows to a crawl for what seems to be no reason whatsoever. It is as if I am playing with someone who has a horrible...

All of this HAS to be the result of their servers being completely overwhelmed. The whole point of the Glassbox engine was to have distributed computing take the heavy lifting of complex pathing decisions and thereby allow the game to make use of a ton of these 'agents' to simulate every aspect...

I am so angry that Young Justice got jettisoned for lack of toy sales. It is so far superior to the actual product of DC Comics these days its not even funny. I can only imagine what they had planned for a Season 3 if they had gotten one. I somehow suspect it would have involved the New Gods...

Hmmm while it seems you can play for awhile with the Sim City servers down and then later synch, you cannot change to different cities in the region (since that requires a synch with the servers) which obviates most of the cool features of an interrelated economy. Oh well, these are poor mining...

I made a private three city region to play around in, turning one city into a bedroom community for the other two. Right now I'm at a point where I need to level a large chunk of city 1 in order to focus on industry and exports there, but I think I need more regional mass transport from the...

Crucia is still alive in a new body, so can still have to deal with her again I am sure. Beyond that it seems clear that the Infinity Gate will be opened and that leads to the other planes of existence. How that manifests in the middle of an expansion is anyone's guess though.

Well they have already taken the series into very dark places as well as having storylines that are tangential to the actual plot and yet handled well. They have set up Tarkin as a serious badass and so a post-Clone-Wars series that dealt with Bail Organa, Palpatine, Tarkin, etc. could be...

Spoilers for season 5 finale

It took me a couple days last week once I was 90 to get 460 for LFR and then I was able to get to 470 for the Heart of Fear / Terrace of Endless Springs raids this week. Running a Warlock up now and since queues are much longer Im actually questing a bit in Outland. Boy the burning crusade...

Lorewalker Cho is probably my favorite NPC currently. The voice acting and writing for him is truly excellent.

I got my Monk to 90 and maxed out his Valor and LFR stuff that same day (cannot for the life of me get to 470 ilevel for the second set of LFRs this first week) Now levelling up a Warlock and exploring the zones I missed out on. The new Badlands was actually pretty good, nice mixture of epic...

We watched season one of Homeland and found it.. wanting. Fired this up a couple days ago and am already at episode 7 and loving it. I never really thought much of Kevin Spacey before and now I do so he was very wise to have poured himself into this as deeply as he did. Corey Stoll is also...

Jesus Fucking Christ In one goddamn episode the Young Justice writers managed to reboot Apache Chief, Samurai, and El Dorado. Three characters that were complete jokes invented for the 1970s SuperFriends show and they made them cool in a way that the DC Comics New 52 dipshits only wished...

Jesus. Have the balls to show a more reasonable scenario : bunch of fundamentalist Texas / deep south nutjobs in the military do this as a coup and replace the whole Situation Room international morgan freeman stuff with an internal Pentagon witchhunt to see how deep the junta goes. What do...

Cartoon Network had their "upfronts" today (they always synch theirs with the New York Toy Fair owing to where their bread is buttered) and Clone Wars was noticably absent from the list of returning shows. I'm guessing that Disney is gleefully yanking it over to Disney XD.

The true 'city' really is the Region. Each of the individual maps can and do share various services and such with others in the region and are not even remotely intended to be standalone. The best example would be New York City. You would have one map for each of the 5 boroughs plus places...

You can upgrade streets and avenues. The only thing you cannot do is change a street into an avenue.

Based on all the comments I went looking on Amazon and the game shows as shipping in "1-3 weeks" so apparently they burned through the entire stock of it. None of the local brick and mortar stores carry it naturally.

Here's the thing: What they are trying to do is move the nature of simulation ahead by a generation. Instead of having all properties of the sim controlled by various algorithms that work off of a series of tracked variables they are instead employing something akin to a finite element model...

The whole point of the show is that these arent sociopaths. People have grown accustomed to the idea that serial killing is the result of sociopathy and that isn't the case for these individuals. Its serial killing as a cult which is a whole different ball of wax and thus makes it harder for...

If I had to guess its to keep the computation demands from crippling computers on the lower end of their spec window. Each of the much vaunted Agents (which are quite cool and honestly the main reason I am interested in this title) means more calculations that need doing.

I knew there was no way we were going to go all season without seeing Red Universe and Lincoln one last time. So that pleased me, as did Olivia going all Dark Phoenix at the end. I'm pretty sure that the tulip activates something in Peter so that if ever they wanted to do more...

It remains one of their highest rated shows. Granted its the CW so that really isnt a terribly high bar to clear but given that Arrow is the only new show they have that is doing well and it just replaced Smallville...

Given the nature of the game that's probably the easiest way to limit what people can do. It is almost certainly just there to test how well the servers handle the load and interaction between cities.

Damn it to heck! I really wanted in on this one.

I must be the only person who truly hates the Scenarios. I had expected to really like them, but they seem to be more effort than running a dungeon but with less reward.

I fear it wont be too long before they redo Blackrock and chop it up rather than the current version of streamlined (only have to do a couple bosses but you can go anywhere you like if you have the inkling) Did UBRS with my Monk before Xmas in a group where we decided to do the whole thing...

I'm calling bullshit on this and it not being post processed. Look at timestamp 0:52 where you see the distortion-field effect. No projected image is going to actually warp the actual objects in the room like that.

So the ability to spend Valor to upgrade gear goes away with 5.2. Interesting way of doing that, instead of segregating the new 5.2 items as flagged unupgradeable they just remove the NPC entirely. This will certain lessen the grind for Valor, but I notice that I only barely meet the 480...

The game certainly has a Planetside / Borderlands look to it and the trailer for the show looked like it might have promise. I hope this is cool but any involvement of SyFy has me scared. Sad because SciFi seemed to do no wrong in the early years (Farscape, Stargate, etc)

Given that we have the Anti-monitor and that the Steampunk people mentioned a Green Lantern coming and saving them in the past who wore a red cape... I'm pretty sure that they are doing Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Where are the damn beta invites for this thing? Surely they arent going to launch something billed as massively multiplayer without having tested how all this interconnection really works right?

Well when I saw that 5.2 was coming soon along with new raid I thought "pfft" why spend any Valor now when I should just save up and spend it all to update my first 5.2 item? This concept changes that and gets me to spend and thus continue to want to acrue (aka play the game) now. It makes...

I will say that the plotline elements of 5.1 being dolled out every couple of days as you work through the daily quests has been a very ingenious way to keep me interested. I hadn't played for well over a month and yet just like that I find myself logging in everyday to push that story forward...

Went to Dalaran on my Monk today and it made me very sad. Dalaran is probably the best-designed most interesting 'city' ever conceived for an MMO. Compact and efficient yet still possessing lots of character and unique architecture that made it look like an actual interesting place. Now its...

Its like those old ads of the woman in the kitchen 'slaving away' to make Rice Krispy Treats. You tell people its really hard to do and then you can justify doing crap all while they wait patiently. Their list of new features is pathetic so they can toss in stuff that they are 'working hard to...

SGR is a relatively easy thing to include and so you can crow about it. Making your game focus on something other than Rakghouls and bug-eyed aliens no one has ever heard of is much harder.

I will say that the Monk minor glyphs are fairly uninspired and particularly so if you are playing a Mistweaver variant. I know that minor ones are meant to simply be cosmetic in nature, but sheesh.

Vastra and Jenny were already a great pair of characters but adding Straxx into the mix elevates the set of them to full fledged ensemble. I know its been said that they are too busy to take on a full Victorian-aged Who spinoff with these three but damn they are pretty awesome characters. If...