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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    I don't think a single person that disliked season one said season two was better.
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    Dresden Files

    Show us on the doll where Robert Jordan touched you.
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    Dresden Files

    I know what you mean.
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    Dresden Files

    Probably. Although I really did not like Harry Dresden the World's Saddest Wizard the book did stay in my thoughts for a few days after finishing it. That's worth another point. There are plenty of books that I have read that have stirred not a single extra moment of additional reflection...
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    Dresden Files

    Sure thing John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
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    Dresden Files

    It's James.
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    Dresden Files

    Finished it up. It takes a turn in tone and structure back to the familiar once and that turn is firmly cemented once From there on out it forms a very decent entry to the series. Rated against all the others I'd be willing to put it in the upper half. Harry does still get sad a couple more...
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    There are a few quest items associated with epics plus the epics themselves that cannot be traded. It's a pretty short list all things considered.
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    18 weeks Velious, 18 weeks Luclin, 16 weeks PoP gets you to 52 for a new launch and new bag purchases.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's okay. Most horses can't talk. unrelated -
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    Dresden Files

    He's getting his shit together as it goes along but we're still a long way away from the wizard that battled one of the darkest horrors of faerie in the heart of Arctus Tor, bested it and shouted to all the monsters closing in "WHO'S NEXT" Harry Dresden Has a Sad is just a big part of this book...
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    Dresden Files

    I'm not fatigued. Dresden is clinically depressed. We're inside his head so we get to hear all his self-loathing first hand. One character after another has a scene where they tell him he doesn't deserve what he's doing to himself. Given the author's battle with depression including a suicide...
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    Dresden Files

    It does not.
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    Dresden Files

    I'm three hours in to the audiobook and I am enjoying it but my desire to listen to Harry Dresden the World's Saddest Wizard is not without it's limits.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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    What did you just read?

    Crazy shit. Anyway I just finished Minute by minute account of a hypothetical nuclear war that begins with a "bolt out of the blue" ICBM launch by North Korea combined with some pretty extensive research and citations. It's a very tight package with the audiobook clocking in at under...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's not a great episode. unrelated -
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    The vote was yes for berserkers and beastlords but the official ruleset has not been released.
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    The Video Thread

    You can't patent food or drink. You can trademark a logo and you can patent a unique process or piece of technology that lets you make the thing but that's about it. unrelated - Finland and alcohol bring you The Beatles Yellow Submarine Even if Coke had an initial patent that shit would...
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    Path of Exile

    No complaints but I too am surprised.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    That might have gotten a pass in 2017 when Discovery launched today it's viewership poison.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Objectivity is going to be tough given STD still had some goodwill to work with when it launched and this was showing up to the party already hated.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Voyager's ratings were low enough that the local affiliate stopped airing them. Two or three seasons in the show just went away. The show eventually came back (and with a marathon to catch everyone up) but putting another Star Trek series on the network could not have been a good idea.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    My liking the mirror universe stuff way late isn't really much praise given it's not the show's proper characters or story.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Back when it was airing, despite liking Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap, I didn't get more than a few episodes in before bailing. All my nerd friends bailed on it too. I did end up watching some of the final episodes of season four and then the finale when it originally aired and the show seemed...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    I know I can't throw stones given Seven was in a skintight suit in nearly even scene she was in but those decontamination gel scenes in Enterprise were ridiculous.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Voyager. Perhaps you were judged too harshly.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    The song in the opening credits had lyrics. The franchise never recovered.
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    Stranger Things

    Maybe secondary viewers (gag) feel negative emotions and that impacts viewership? You're watching a thing, it's confusing, being confused makes you feel bad, etc.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Getting eyeball time from young people is already tough. I have no idea why anyone thought Star Trek would be something that would get their attention. Seventy-five minutes is a big fucking ask.
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    Stranger Things

    I wouldn't have thought those kinds of viewers even cared.
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    In 2027 when you have a server with the full suite of quality of life additions plus two month unlocks for all expansions after Planes of Power I think you'll really have something.
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    Unrestricted boxing with a pile of bonus free trade no level restriction loot and the fast exp has appeal. It's just not going to be a server where a bunch of actual humans have a good time playing the game with each other.
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    With Live exp rates you can get your legacy alts up quick for extra splits of NToV. Four (or more) full clears a week sounds pretty reasonable.
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    Insanely shadows continuey
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    EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

    They need to shuffle all the buckets.
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    The Video Thread

    I've always been partial to Blind Melon's version of Three is the Magic Number
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    Black Phone 2 (2025)

    It is aggressively Nightmare on Elm Street. If you liked the story about a kidnapped boy being aided by the ghosts of his captor's victims well this doesn't really have that beyond the superficial.