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    EQ TLP - Mischief (Free Trade / Random Loot)

    Mischief was kind of experimental and it was a wild success. Vaniki was experimental and it wasn't. I have to hope that the success of Mischief far outweighs Vaniki's underperformance and they continue to try new things.
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    Path of Exile

    Essences were bananas, Scourge/Beyond mobs fucked ass, Chaos resist was important more/sooner, different mods or mod combinations could fuck your shit up requiring you to be strong enough to overcome big resistances or near immunities, that kind of shit. It was just rougher all around. I had so...
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    Path of Exile

    I've complained about this before but I'm 40/40 now for Lake of Kalandra so I'm going to complain about it again. This league put an unreasonable amount of pressure on characters to get their shit together. I got fucking railed by showing up with a "I'll figure it out as I go" attitude regarding...
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    EQ TLP - Mischief (Free Trade / Random Loot)

    The same as RF/LJ with the introduction of instanced raiding and a shitty exp rate.
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    Rick and Morty

    So Dan Harmon wanted to talk about writing and used an episode of a cartoon show as the medium with which to do so? I liked it more than the train episode and in general it had more bits I liked than I didn't like but I'm just never sure what we're doing with these.
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    Path of Exile

    Rusty Scarabs on the global drop pool plus a basic 3 for 1 upgrade recipe with a chance for a Maven awakened support gem on any witnessed map boss? Lots of good stuff in here.
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    What game(s) had a final area/boss that ruined the game for you?

    My only completed run of that game I was using most of the no leveling setup (where you junction no random encounters during your first hour) and it was still a pain. Even without doing random fights that game is grindy as hell. Related to that - This year I was trying to finish up my first...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Recommend me a book.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Watched Don't Worry Darling. It's the new film directed by Olivia Wilde with Chris Pine where she said that Pine's character was based off of Jordan Peterson. I like this kind of stuff in general and I was really curious what the fuck that meant. The film takes place in a 1950s Stepford Wivesy...
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    Path of Exile

    Boy can Modified Atlas Grind suck my balls.
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    MTG thread

    Between now and the sun going out it was always going to happen at some point but I didn't expect to see it until the game was effectively dead.
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    A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)

    Given the shit economy of the late 1970s and early 1980s and growing up poor as dirt this has been a favorite in my family my entire life.
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    I'd love to know their full list of demands for Actiblizz to decide it wasn't worth the money. No Western progressive bullshit wouldn't get the job done. They must have also wanted something like 100% of collectible user data. Hell, maybe China didn't really want them at all. We've seen them...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    You guessed it Unrelated
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    Alien: Romulus (2024)

    Too soon after Alien:Covenant. That one was heinous.
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    The D&D thread

    They're worse than useless. They're grievance officers. They're anchors. They are being paid to find problems and problems they shall find. The more problems they stamp out the harder it will be to find new ones and the more granular their complaints will be until the entire thing is lukewarm...
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    MTG thread

    The weird collector's edition 30th anniversary thing is something to keep in mind but I think it's more his involvement in sealed product that is the issue. It's way harder to buy and hold sealed product for resale a few years down the line when there's a mountain of different things being...
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    JRPGs

    FFT Dancers are might be the most OP thing you can do relative to the investment. You show up, you sing Nameless song, a couple enemies are turned in to frogs and you crush the fight with your superior numbers. The class itself has bad stat growth so if you have a character be a Dancer for the...
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    JRPGs

    Wiegraf and Elmdor on the roof are easy spots to brick on an initial play through. Those fights are little puzzles and you might just not have the right tools to negate some of what's being thrown at you. I had a very early run as a kid die a death because I leveled Ramza up 15 or 20 levels...
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    The Video Thread

    He's written a couple books on social engineering and does consulting work now I think this is the one of his I read and it was pretty good. Kind of related?
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    Path of Exile

    Zipping about some maps and seeing Shakari jump out of the dirt or Innocence start lasering you I was fine with. Every once in a while you get a mini boss with flavored loot explosions and some of the different 'splosions were a good time. The rest of it is not great. Like you said they nerfed...
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    Path of Exile

    Oh, you're right. I forgot about the altar manifesto. There almost certain to shake up the bossing/altar strategies.
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    Path of Exile

    So the current strategy is to mega juice maps with all the rarity in the world, the proper sextants, the proper scarabs, do a specific map that doesn't have the boss up right away so all the alters cannot select boss mods, clear the map and then go back and pop your rarity gen content like...
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    Path of Exile

    I'm honestly surprised they just nuked the whole thing. It's in an acceptable state as it stands but that said, good.
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    JRPGs

    At the end of each encounter you gain permanent modifiers to your faith and bravery based on how much they changed during the fight. For every four points one was increased or decreased you get one permanent point. With Ramza it's super easy for him to always be rocking 97 bravery as he's got...
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    The D&D thread

    I got you fam You want to be the guy on the bottom.
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    JRPGs

    I will say that if you attempt to go big in the Deep Dungeon it goes back to being pretty fucking hard. You start to need all that OP shit you were crushing the campaign with when everything you fight has twenty levels on you. It's also big exp and you level completely beyond the scope of the...
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    EQ TLP - Yelinak (True-Box Timelocked Progression)

    I've seen it but I too couldn't find it. All I remember is them blowing all their cash on scratch off lottery tickets.
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    Path of Exile

    There There's like five or six of those single issue manifestos scheduled to come out prior to the expansion reveal.
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    The D&D thread

    WotC tripped over their own lady dicks trying to apologize for printing Spelljammer content that had whatever this monkey pirate race is in it. No part of this monkey-squirrel thing is coded African or coded black but here we are.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    Left her suit is also nicer
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    Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Series

    On Final Fantasy 2 https://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff02 The site has text reviews for almost the entire franchise. They're in depth and really good.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I got to see Gallagher twice at the county fair. This was obviously well past his prime (county fair, lol) but he still put in a ton of effort and the shows were really fun. He said his doctor told him not to swing the mallet anymore but he was still swinging that mallet.
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    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I keep saying this but it's too bad Vaniki had shit implementation because it was a lot of fun. The low population for the duration is going to keep us from getting anything experimental again.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    But you can afford cocaine! And sexy bitches! AND GODDAMN WHEELBARROW FULL OF OXYCONTIN
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I'll never understand how people with money get hooked on hobo shit like huffing computer cleaner.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This is bullshit. The only programs he authorizes are ones where his character is the dom. There's only so much demand for getting railed by Dukat dressed up as a king or a sultan or whatever. And I don't care what he says there's no way his penis is that big. unrelated
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Well it sure came through in the book. I put it away at maybe a quarter in. It was not a good time.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    I started the book and in his own words he was a manipulative degenerate of the highest order. I gave up on it after he went in to detail about how he used money to control people. I thought it was going to be something more like Moneyball or The Big Short and less of a dude recanting an...