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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah, Steelheart was really good, if not Way of Kings level good - a bit too predictable and there are a lot of logical problems with Steelheart's secret weakness were my main gripes. Redemption was good, but it's basically a story fragment, doesn't really go anywhere or conclude anything...
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    Saints row 4

    I'd like to offer a heartfelt 'fuck you' to the australian goverment, for delaying the release by a month to add more censorship.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    No, in many cases it is flat out incorrect - not 'this 'area' is bigger than it looks' or 'it might show up there and somewhere else as well', but having the creatures you need directly under a different area marker on the opposite side of the zone. On the bright side, at least I didn't find any...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Paladin vs Warrior seems the same kind of setup as WoW DK vs Pal to me - Pal gets 20% damage reduction and chance to block, War gets 25% extra hp and the ability to create damage shields as part of their combo. That could easily swing either way depending on player damage relative to hp at 50...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It's sold by the culinarian supplier in unlimited quantity for like 4 gil.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I did marauder and glad to 20, tanking the three starter dungeons a fair bit on both. Survivability seemed pretty similar for the two of them, marauder skills were significantly more interesting, cycling the aoe cone, 2 hit chain that buffs damage, dot etc. Gladiator on boss mobs on the other...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Different race/appearance or server. Also more starter crafting rings ;p
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You can't skip it for additional characters, sooo slooooooooow.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Nah, expect health percentage based specials from new bosses I think. Possibly partial damage reflect as well.
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    Summer 2013 Anime Thread

    Not so far, everything after the first big fight has been a long meandering slog, with occasional good moments that really serve to highlight how much time is being wasted on random bit character introspection.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I do dual horus with echidna. Have to be careful on early rounds though, the little guys hit for nearly 10k each so fumbling a round is probably instant death.
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    EQ Never

    Two of my friends are twins, and they played the same character/account in EQ for years ( could only afford 1 computer/sub ). I have no idea how they managed to do that without going completely crazy.
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    Continuum

    It doesn't need to work out - it already has been worked out - he gave the photo to Alec.
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    Continuum

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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Ended up taking me 58 knights to go from 1 to max. Nothing like adding the fifth batch of 5 knights, seeing no skillup and having a sudden panic that maybe you are feeding them to the wrong mob or something ;p
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    Card Hunter

    Another set of keys if anyone needs : GYVL-PSCJ-KCVQNDVT-SQJX-YJLPHSQB-LVCQ-SWXG
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    What did you just read?

    Magic Rises, Ilona Andrews - The 6th book in the Kate Daniels series, this one was excellent, as usual. Demon Girl/Keelzebub/Mistress of Souls, P.S. Power - start of a series about a high school girl who is a greater demon that has been hidden in her current life. This one was interesting, a...
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    Doctor Who

    He's unquestionably a better writer than a showrunner. It's kind of typical for creative types moving into management roles.
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    EQ Never

    Depends if the skills are similar or not - e.g. weak slash, strong slash, uber slash type stuff - if they were all different though, e.g. pike with extra long range attacks, and armor piercing attacks, or broad spear with sweep attacks and pushbacks, you'd probably end up with everyone wanting...
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    EQ Never

    It's actually really simple economics. When you set a sub price at, say $15, you get the people who are willing to pay more than $15, but you get no more than $15 from any given person. When you set a sub price at zero, you get the people that like the game but are too cheap to pay $15, but...
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    EQ Never

    See, that actually wouldn't be too bad - there's room for a diablo style group combat experience. GW2 wasn't that though - group PVE was boss mobs that took 5+ minutes to kill while constantly running in circles and rolling all over the place. It was also the worst group PVE I have ever...
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    EQ Never

    I see a few mentions of 'advance as warrior' etc, was there any mention of what that actually involved ? Find/unlock new skills ? Increase hp ? Increase attributes ? Actually, for that matter, any mention of whether they even have character attributes ? I'm assuming it's of the 'mana is...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Blue Odin going 3x god to match athena makes sense, but what are they going to buff green odin to ?
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    No, not really. Also /sadface - I got 1 skillup out of 47 knights. And I thought 47 was going to be way overkill, sigh, back to the farming.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Which difficulties have people gotten angelrings on ? I have done master 12 times without seeing one.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Oh damn, I was thinking I could ignore porings this time ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Because you have a dark team but not a light team - leaders that give 2xhp or 2xatk to dark monsters will give neptune 2xhp or 2xatk if his sub is dark, but not if it is light.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Along those lines, change neptune to dark instead of light, having his poison available will make a lot of stuff muuuuuuuch more practical.
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    The Wolverine

    The earnings of HBO shows aside, I have bad news. This movie was bad. All the good action was in the trailer, the rest of it was angsty moping or blurry shakycam to indicate that getting shot actually hurt that time. It also had the stupidest evil plan since the mask of zorro. The 3D...
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    The Wolverine

    And is the most successful thing that HBO have ever done. That must mean it's awesome right ?
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I have a huge backlog so went pretty easy this sale. Dishonored Dust Recettear Sword of the Stars I've only played Dust so far, and it's probably worth what I paid for the lot of them, so that works out well ;p
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yeah, genkibowl sucks, the skydiving was the least fun bit of the entire game for me, although the murder car was pretty amusing. The alien invasion movie one was pretty funny, and had decent story, the alien guns are kind of lame though. Trouble with clones was pure awesome ;p
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yeah, that one is a must-have for the obsessive compulsive - having the ability to autosort all your guns and ammo and display them nicely on wall racks, the armor/costume dummies, etc etc. It has a few balance altering options that provide extra convenience, but they are controlled by separate...
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    Terminator Genisys (2015)

    Yah, I wish they'd kept the original ending, 'the studio wanted audiences to leave on a happy note' is the most bullshit excuse for butchering an awesome ending ever ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Out of curiosity, what's a theoretical 0 stone clear of legendary earth dragon ? As far as I can tell, any team that can do 100k hits to clear round 1 can't survive the boss hits.
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    Dresden Files

    Really funny thing about Codex Alera was that it was the result of a bet. He was having an argument with some guy about whether you could make a good story with a lame idea, and Butcher bet he could do a good story with any two lame ideas of that guy's choosing - he chose Pokemon and lost Roman...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yeah, it's a pretty good 4X, it is built in a terrible engine though, so has problems with weak graphics, memory leaks and shitty late game performance. I wouldn't recommend it at full price, but it's not hard to get $10 worth of value out of it if you like that type of game at all.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I am not sure if you realized, but you can lay traps with any of your characters during the build phase and then play with a different one ;p Using the same tower setup every level is also outrageously wrong, but fair enough if you only played lower difficulties/levels. Regardless, don't get...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Dungeon Defenders - 682 hours player Orcs Must Die - 14 hours played Orcs Must Die 2 - 8 hours played Dungeon Defenders has a metric shitton of open ended content built on third/first person action plus tower defense, backed by a multi class levelling/diablo loot collecting. OMD is pretty...
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    Summer 2013 Anime Thread

    Yikes, Fate/Kaleid is a crime against good taste. It's like remaking Schindler's List as a slapstick comedy starring Tyler Perry.