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  1. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Man, talk about losing a big hitter. Although I doubt he's acted in anything in a while due to age?
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    Crimson Desert

    For fucking $70, there better not be microtransactions.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    It's funny, because he brings up meditate, and that's one of the best examples of clinging onto a system from 25 years ago without really considering why. Having abysmal mana rates means your group is sitting around constantly doing nothing. This works in 1999 because what are you going to do...
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    Crimson Desert

    If they can get the sound of smacking a tree with an axe down, I'm in. When is this one supposed to release?
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Yeah, the reality is that it's going to be 90% poopsockers after 2 months. This game is never going to get 5k paying subscribers.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    That's because the game isn't necessarily bad, but a lot of the design decisions are. And they have really dug their heels in on those bad ideas.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    And that kind of game just can't exist in 2026 because we live in the era of Wikis and Discord and instant communication and tests that last years where everything has already been figured out. There will never be another EQ because it was a product of a specific period of time, not because of...
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    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    It's been incredibly positive. Just my outlook on everything has been more joyful. It's made me appreciate everything a lot more.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    The funny part is I bet the people who are in the "I want to wait for EA to play" camp are the same ones who will say they want to play this and be in the group figuring shit out, not realizing that the second that EA starts, the 100 people who've been consuming all the alpha content will...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I can't remember who's been posting it, but I think this is the misconception. You blame instancing for deteriorating the social interactions we remember from EQ, but I think the reality is the world changed. EQ was basically a glorified chatroom for a relatively new internet. But a quarter...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    And like has been pointed out over and over, that only works when you're the only game in town and it's 1999.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Yes, although it's significantly smaller than my old one (posted here sometime in 2015). I haven't been to a gym in over a decade since building my own. Whenever we figuring out building a new house though, we'll make a much larger one again.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    They only speed up content by allowing all players to actually play the game. What you're arguing for is essentially restricting access to content for 90% of your players for "longevity."
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    From what I can tell, they're falling into an echo chamber trap. Essentially only listening to their Discord feedback and anyone jonesing for a game to play who will say whatever it takes to get an alpha key by watching their Twitch streams. And while it does sound like they occasionally read...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Glad people are finally coming on board. The game has lackluster interest while it's currently free. And that interest seems to be dropping off fast already. Beta was supposed to start like 5 months ago and is still pushed, but when EA finally starts and people have to pay to playtest this, I...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Finished my rewatch of Breaking Bad, and decided to fire up El Camino. For some reason I remember hearing it was terrible when it came out, but the reviews all seemed pretty decent for it in current year. It was a good "this is what happened to Jesse in that missing year" and him navigating the...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I think the disaster with AoC is causing some butts to pucker when they notice the commonalities between the two, and how suddenly all the criticism leveled on this game looks a lot more legitimate.
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    Rose of Nevada (2026)

    I'm a sucker for time travel, so I'm in. I even enjoyed the stupid drug addict one (Time Addicts?). My top two favorite movies of all time are BTTF 1 and 2, and my favorite book ever is Replay. This one has a weird vintage look to it. Not sure if that's cause I'm not used to seeing movies shot...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I'd like to see some kind of solution where instead of Google or Apple selling your digital information for a few cents, suddenly people are selling their own information as needed to fund their own "free internet" use. Solves two problems. I literally just thought of this on the spot reading...
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    We Dont Need No Stinking Priests - Spirituality, prayer, meditation, new age, gnostisicm, consciousness

    So I had a weird morning, and I figured I'd post in this thread instead of the weird Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant one in the general section. I smoked some weed this morning and everything clicked for me. I feel like a had a spiritual awakening. I've never been religious, and growing up...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Yeah, my wife made me look up some pictures of him a few months back and he looked fucking terrible. Guess he had a pretty grueling battle with cancer. Sucks he was so young. Don't like celebrities in my age bracket dying.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    And here I was thinking it made me want to watch a movie. Where's Elon's bio dome?
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    Westworld

    It's pretty wild how much I don't think we appreciated TV in the past. Or at least I didn't, and only do in retrospect. Probably has a lot to do with not even watching a lot of these shows until later (and some on this list I never did). But take a year like 2011, where you had: Breaking Bad...
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    So you're saying the only reason everyone on FoH likes it is they're homos?
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    This show wasn't even on my radar. Just randomly clicked the thread cause I kept seeing it at the top. Sounds like you all like it, so now I'm wondering if I just wait two weeks to watch it all at once. I blame the title though. It just doesn't really sound like anything but generic slop.
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    Pluribus

    That whole escape sequence was fucking phenomenal. I don't think this show will live up to Vince's other works though only because they're going to be so limited on what they can do with a whole like 5 characters. Maybe people start waking up and that allows them to branch out a bit, but I feel...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I like how Rich hates The Gift because of some random real life lady that has literally nothing to do with the movie at all. I don't know that I ever saw the movie, but I sure do remember Katie Holmes from it.
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    Ashes of Creation

    I'm not sure it was incompetence. You think about their MLM backgrounds, and years ago the engine switch, and to me it looks a lot like the world's first MMORPG MLM scam.
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    Fallout

    That's because not a lot did happen. And I'd say if you didn't play the games (or remember literally zero of them like me), it's even worse. I started falling asleep during the finale. The only interesting part was House's exposition dump, but it didn't even amount to anything. Coop's scenes...
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    Pluribus

    I mentioned before I've been rewatching Breaking Bad, and it's pretty amazing the contrast between these shows. I just watched the season 4 finale and it feels like a near perfect hour of television. I don't really remember season 5, but based on recency, it's the best episode of any television...
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    Weather

    I was like 9 or 10 years old and my mom asked me to shovel the snow off her car. Joke was on her though, her laziness cost her mightily, because I was so young I didn't know any better and used a shovel. You know, like you would to shovel snow. Scratched the shit out of the paint all over. I...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, not so much. Seems like we've been stuck in this +/- half a percent from 1% up. Not sure what breaks us out of it.
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Wow, do you even watch TV? You weren't counting the pages in a book during a 15 second scene, and committing that to memory over a decade later? Were you even paying attention at all for GoT? It's funny how you can tell if someone is an actual autist by the things they post.
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    Italy - Honeymoon

    #multiculturalism
  35. Gravel

    Factorio

    I used Cybersyn. I think I tried LTN many years ago, by Cybersyn was significantly easier to work with.
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    Ashes of Creation

    Don't forget they dedicated zero effort to it. It was basically a free for all. They didn't spend a bunch of time trying to balance classes around each other so PVP would be fair.
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    Ashes of Creation

    They want PVP to work because it's "content" that doesn't require developers to make it. The problem is no one actually wants PVP. Edit: Just barely beaten to it.
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    Ashes of Creation

    Sounds like you'd have a blast in the MnM thread.
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    Ashes of Creation

    Like @rhinohelix stated, they're all trying to launch with a decade of content to compete with something like WoW. It's a massive mistake. It's something I mentioned in the MnM thread a long time ago. They all like to brag about how huge the world is, but 90% of your world will be abandoned as...
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    Weather

    Obviously her rear wheel lubricant froze and so the wheels aren't moving.