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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    My thoughts from first ep or so on ones that I didn't reject, with the note I am biased mostly toward interesting storyline : Sidonia no Kishi - I liked this the most of the starter episodes by a long way - a lot of stuff going on, very much show not tell. Nice touches of humor that fit well...
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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    Hearing the main guy's thoughts was a bit jarring though, given he seems to legitimately believe he sucks. Oh woe is me, I am a terrible mage, all I can cast is time stop and nuclear explosion. Lol.
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    Hannibal

    Thinking about it, it works as a coincidence. Consider why he kept her alive in the first place - having a witness that could identify someone else seems a really handy thing to keep in reserve. Also, it did not seem to be brainwashing, she never saw him, just heard his voice. A voice...
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    The Expanse

    If it helps, leviathan wakes is not even remotely similar to game of thrones. I am not sure how well the human stuff will translate either. The detective is such a downer, and TV has a low tolerance for horrible people with no redeeming qualities.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    It was kind of gradual improvement other than ep 17, which was great by any standard. Ep 12ish maybe ? I'd probably start from 10 though, everything from then on starts to tie together so some things won't make sense otherwise.
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    Continuum

    Easier than that I think - the time 'loop' collapsed when the original Alec didn't go back to save Emily.
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    Captain America: Winter Soldier

    The ending was a bit silly :
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    Age of Wonders 3

    Mixed first impressions for me - I like the depth of well, everything, the combat and building aspects. However, the launcher with it's unsubtle demands to make yet another online account is distasteful, and the way it overwrites the in-game graphical settings with the default the launcher...
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    Rick and Morty

    Yeah, I found the rest amusing but not really funny. I got some good laughs out of this one though. Rick is such an asshole.
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    That's kind of silly even if it wasn't a sham academy that got blown up. Gamagoori is like 25 and ryouko is a first year who has attended maybe 6 minutes of classes.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Was that last beta weekend or before ? Because I can't see how that's possible - level 2 weaponsmith was 2000xp, crafting an item used 6 ore and gave 50xp, completing a tech tree node required 3 items and 200xp, work orders required 3 items and gave 200xp. Normal nodes gave 4-5 ore and were...
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    Suggestions for a new author / series of books for me to read?

    Obviously not as original, but I liked them, other than Zoe's Tale which bugged me a bit - sometimes the same story from someone else's point of view can be interesting, but this one did not work for me.
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    Suggestions for a new author / series of books for me to read?

    In no particular order : Use of Weapons - Ian Banks The Neutronium Alchemist - Peter F Hamilton Pretty much anything by Alistair Reynolds Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold Peacekeeper - Laura Reeve Old Man's War - John Scalzi Trading in Danger - ElizabethMoon Iron Sunrise - Charles...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    I tried a bit of crafting in the beta weekend, it looks like they doubled down on the make it painful, make it hard, make it annoying qualities - 2 hours of farming got enough basic mats to drain all my accumulated funds with required bought materials and get 1/3 of a bar into level 1...
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    The description says 12 episodes covering the same stuff as the OVAs, so that gives them about 4 minutes of extra time over the 6 OVAs. It's *possible* that it's not a cynical cash grab, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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    Warlock 2: the exiled

    The first one was, so I'd imagine so. The first one had absolutely awful AI, but the mechanics allowed for crazy overpowered stacking/combos, so it was actually some pretty good fun if you don't mind steamrolling the AI. I'll probably pick the second one up when it's on special some time...
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    The 100

    It is not necessarily a linear relationship, they might be able to fix oxygen scrubbers much faster if they are offline, but not have enough capacity to keep the current population alive with one turned off. Like trying to repair a car while driving it.
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    Dark in setting or dark in storyline ? Because darker than black isn't a particularly bleak setting. If it's dark storyline, try some of the Urobutcher's finest like Puella Magi Madoka ( you may wonder if I am crazy when watching the first episode - it's a trap ! ;p ) or Fate Zero, also...
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    Banshee

    No, walking up to your uncle while he is naked, checking out his package, and then going in for a hug is totally normal behavior, and in no way suggests she is desperate for his cock ;p
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    Continuum

    I thought that was a good start to the series - angry Kira is more entertaining than morally conflicted Kira ;p There is not a hope in hell of 'correcting' the timeline after the damage they did so far though - I wonder where they go with that.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    He's the prince *because* he has a highly trained and well equipped army. Dalinor was just thinking that he'd assumed his army would suck because the guy never did any fighting himself, but immediately realized that was a stupid assumption, because there is no link between how well the boss...
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    I was thinking, 'What, how hasn't he seen that yet ? It's from 2009 ! Then I checked and became very happy when I found it's a new one ;p
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    What did you just read?

    The first book is one the weaker ones, pretty tolkien derivative etc. The second is one of the better ones, and fourth is probably my favorite. Unfortunately there's a depressing decline in the middle ;p
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    True Detective

    They explained the visions as Cohle being drugfucked so badly in the past he still has recurring hallucinations. Given there's no supernatural tie-ins, there is no reason to expect the visions to have any deep meaning, so there's no reason to explain what they are about. I think it's just...
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    You can't target outside melee range, attacks at that range are just wasted mana. I agree that dreamweaver is a gigantic cockblock for an all caster party, it's doubly annoying because dreamweavers were barely even a speedbump for all melee - one bladedancer would cleave any number of them in...
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    There's a chest behind him with a full set of green armor that gives +17ish prime damage aoe on hit on each piece. You might have just vendored it if not paying attention though given it is green and there's no reason to expect that no other armor in the game has that effect.
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    South Park Stick of Truth

    You get far more xp from quests than killing shit. There's zero reason to wander around killing stuff randomly also, as main quest will cap you on level regardless.
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    True Detective

    Had threesome at 15 = child molested sex fiend whore ? Wow, you guys are harsh. Unless there are a lot more cougars than I know of, or the gay population is much higher than expected, for almost every teenage boy that got laid, there's a corresponding teenage girl ;p
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    You might be surprised - the superhero story played straight is the exception rather than the rule with novels. Probably because the dead seriousness about something inherently silly is hard to pull off outside of comic books.
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    South Park Stick of Truth

    Anyway, great game.
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    No, with setups like that it's the healer getting KO'ed that you have to worry about. Pre-liquid membrane heaps of things will instantly knock a druid unconscious if they focus fire, and once they are KO'ed potions are useless. I found the best solution to that for an all might party was...
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    Yes, assuming steam, it's <steamdir>\steamapps\common\Might & Magic X - Legacy\Might and Magic X Legacy_Data\StreamingAssets\StaticData\PartyBuffs. csv Then just change column F for whatever spell you want to your desired duration.
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    What did you just read?

    Runner - Patrick Lee: Ex-special forces soldier with no aim in life finds direction by helping an escaped government bioweapon test subject. I had high hopes for this one, as The Breach is one of my favorite books. This one was a good read, but not up to that standard - plotting was not as...
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    Age of Wonders 3

    I think you might have confused Age of Wonders and Age of Legends -the latter is the age of empires based RTS, the former is the turn based strategy based on master of magic.
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    GM warfare gets you the skill that always hits, always crits and prevents the target from blocking that turn. So it's more a long haul thing, you'll suck for a while. 2H gets some pretty monster hits late game though.
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    Banshee

    Heh, I think the evidence shows you are more likely to survive being taken prisoner by the Taliban than ending up in Banshee county lockup ;p
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    The vendors restock every morning, so you can just rest 3 times and it will have a new set.
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    Might & Magic X: Legacy

    On adventurer difficulty you can go with literally anything. I've been doing the all might, all hybrid, all magic parties for the achieve, and they are all much easier than I thought, despite lacking any synergy. On warrior difficulty resists are a total pain in the butt, so you want some melee...
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    South Park Stick of Truth

    Australian review board are a bunch of wankers. After years of battling 'games are for kids!' retards to get the R18 rating in for video games as law, they still refuse classification to everything they don't like anyway.
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    Sleepy Hollow

    One of them had the most hilarious product placement I've seen yet though !