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Game is definitely happening boys. Looks better than expected. The real test is getting in the driver's seat, obviously. Watching other people play mmos is never fun, no mater how fun the actual game is to play. Hope they change some of the sound and spell effects. Hard to tell watching...

Wow. In a crowded room of great tv shows, this show is somehow managing to come out on top. I was expecting this season to be really good after how great the last season was, but man they really fucking kicked it up a notch. I'm going to call it now. This is going to be one of those shows (a...

Now that was well done.

North County San Diego is a very silly place to have a game company, financially speaking. It was also the best place I've ever lived, so... I guess it depends on your priorities.

People seem to forget this one when they mention Zimmer. To me it's one of his finest scores. It's a fantastically underrated movie and the score fits the movie like a glove

For sure. Wow was a great game but it never scratched that itch EQ did.

Haha I'm not going to lie- I was thinking the exact same thing last week. I think that's just how the dude's facial hair grows- maybe.

He was a little too obvious. As others have said they could have driven home the point just fine with a subtler touch. But that's something I've said earlier too- this show seems to hyperbolize things in a way BB didn't. That said, the cons Slippin Jimmy pulls are nothing like covert...

Any particular reason they can't self- publish? Digital download etc

Yeah there were several things wrong with the tracker stuff. It looked like an RF unit, which would have a relatively tiny range.

We had a dude that was terrible at simple math in our group. Guy couldn't add his spell damage for shit. When we started using combat maps he would fuck up his squares for movement rate and spell range/radius every time. It got to be a running joke so that when it was his turn we would hang...

Yeah, the scenes have meaning, but (in this case) shooting them long-style doesn't have much meaning. That's my point. The whole montage where Mike disassembled the car could have been done in less 60 seconds and communicated the exact same thing. -Shot of Mike looking at the fully assembled...

Yeah, that looks like exactly the type of thing I'd like. I like off the path stuff but sometimes touristy stuff is popular for a reason. Is there a good time of year to go (or avoid) and is Madrid worth spending more than a day or two in?

Anyone live there or spent time there have recommendations? I'm pretty flexible with my time/location. I was originally going to spend all my time in Spain, but several people I talked to said they absolutely loved Portugal. Lagos, Portugal is the only set in stone spot I have in mind...

Great show, well written, well acted, everything. But man, they are dragging this out for all it's worth. This isn't a new phenomenon to this season, either. The directing and editing components are just glacial. I understand that they are trying to pull as many seasons as they can from a...

Their dedication to detail and scientific realism are two of the things that makes this such a great show. It's the type of thing you can feel while watching. Even if you don't know all the sciencey calculations yourself, you can tell that getting it right matters to the guys making the show-...

Yeah, to reiterate what others have said, the proto is officially a "player on the scene" now. It's a *part* of the story from here on out, but it doesn't remain the main focal point of the story forever. Things evolve beyond what they are pretty quickly. So if you were concerned that the...

They did a great job with casting. The books were excellent at the action sequences and storyline, but the characters (especially the protagonist) were a little flat. The actors in the show are adding dimensions to the characters and doing a great job bringing them to life. Really liking the...

Shit, Audrey did not age well :(. Ed was always kind of a rawbone looking dude, but he's positively ghoulish now. Surprised he hasn't been in more big name stuff- he has a great look for film.

Nah, my ex used to do that shit. Drove me crazy. When I'm watching a show I'm not doing anything else. I'm following the show just fine- but I feel like it's because I read the books. Several times I have caught myself thinking, well, I know what's happening because I read the book, but...

Liking this season much better than the first. Starting to get really impressive as people are coming into their roles and the budget seems to have improved. Definitely different timeline than the books, but I've given up trying to make the two versions mesh and I've just been watching the...

Wizard and Glass was the 4th book- and yeah, the story he tells in that book about young Roland, his friends, and Susan is one of the better things King has ever written.

And yet, the series still manages to be great...

I didn't mean the quest system specifically, no. Last thing I'm going to say on the subject because I don't want to shit up the thread trying to rehash "what happened" 10+ years ago with a failed mmo when we clearly have different perspectives and different ideas about some things (though we...

We must have different definitions of what "turning the game into a theme park and bringing it in line with EQ 2" means.

Dullahan bro, you aren't wrong in what happened, but you have the timeline a little off. I think Denault is confused too, though. The changes you are talking about (turning the game into a theme park and bringing it more in line with EQ2 etc) are absolutely related to SOE- Because they...

Yeah it brings up some questions: 1. Did Drummer betray Fred? I think there is the assumption she did, but 2. If she did, then did the coup people know? And if they knew, was her shooting them an indication that she regretted the betrayal and was moving back into the "fold" with Fred?

Never said the problems were development related. There were several problems from an operational perspective, though. SOE handled customer payment and getting important information from them was a constant roadblock. I don't remember all the issues (it's been a decade), but one of the...

Well, Mars isn't a colony and hasn't been for some time. Plus, it seems things have progressed to the point that no one is going to tell a woman who wants to join the military "Nope, you gotta stay home, do laundry, and pop out babies." The show takes place in something like 2350, not 1850.

Yeah, it's kind of funny. The life cycle of a making a game- especially an mmo- is such that by the time you release the tech you started with is 5+ years old- which is pretty much geriatric when it comes to digital tech. I wrote a long (probably dull) essay once on how to shorten the life...

Sigil used SOE as a publisher and as a result it made some things difficult. Obviously, it was their choice to use SOE to publish (you could argue they didn't have a choice maybe). There is no doubt that Sigil has no one to blame itself, but blame isn't my point. I'm speaking, broadly...

That's assuming they want to be published by DBG. I would think so (the benefits could be significant) but who knows. Ceding control over your game in that way can have negative consequences too- as we learned at Sigil.

I agree, but that's what all the other episodes are for. I don't mind two off the cuff "Robot Chicken" style episodes of pointless creativity in two full seasons. What I'm saying is even with zero plot those two episodes are at a minimum interesting enough to watch.

Look up camping in the Lake Hebgen area. Absolutely gorgeous area and close, but not as popular as the park itself. All that stuff anywhere near YS fills up fast, so I would move quick. Alternatively, you can camp in at Jenny Lake in Grand Tetons. Also close and (if you ask me) even more...

Not a good look for old McQuaid, no doubt. You never want your hair looking like a toupee. Guess he's too busy making Pantheon to give a fuck :emoji_grin:

That's not how he comes across in the book though (if he's playing the guy I think he is). He comes across as a fatherly figure who has nothing but the best intentions for everyone. His whole MO is pretty much the opposite of Machiavellian

Read the book. He's kind of a clumsy writer. He fat fingers the fuck out of the execution but still manages to push some really interesting concept buttons in the process. This is probably only the second time I've ever said this, but this may make a better movie than book. I'll probably go...

See, that's a good example. I don't know how "funny" that is in terms of laughing out loud, but if you don't find that satirically creative and bizarrely perverse enough to be amusing, I can't relate to you.