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  1. Gavinmad

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    If I want to watch people get horrifically crippled, I'll just watch women's pro wrestling.
  2. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Actually doing some reading and pondering, I think that victory in the first game is still canon, you win the battle but the Aliens return in larger numbers and you lose the war. My evidence for this is that one of the developers posted on reddit several months ago that the volunteer...
  3. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Anyway this is the first time in several seasons I've actually laddered instead of just doing my dailies and quitting, and I forgot how much RNG ruins this fucking game. Sick to death of 4 point implosions and perfect juggles. Or both together.
  4. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    You can control aliens in the 1v1 multiplayer, but not in any single player campaign. From IGN. Can memorize certain map elements that the generator uses, but no more memorizing entire maps.
  5. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN
  6. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Yeah I love gold cards but I'm still missing enough playable legends that there's no way I'll actually spend dust crafting them. Still regret some of the golds I dusted back before I started saving all of them, like my playset of golden mirror entities because 'this card sucks and nobody will...
  7. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    You honestly might be ok to just dive right in to Long War. The things that EW adds to the base game (The Meld resource used for MEC troopers and Gene Mods and EXALT missions) are changed so dramatically in Long War that a familiarity with them from vanilla EW wouldn't really be helpful. Just...
  8. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Nexus only afaik. It's a relatively small download and has its own installer. If you've never tried it before you're in for an assbeating.
  9. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Just noticed this was announced as PC exclusive. Here's hoping to camera controls that aren't so fucking janky this time!
  10. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I'd also get Operation Slingshot and the Elite Soldier pack. Soldier pack is just cosmetic shit, but who doesn't want at least one trooper with the Guile haircut from the original game along on every mission for luck? Operation Slingshot is a mission pack, and Shaojie is my boy. Severely...
  11. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Nah, Curse dropped in July, Leeroy/Buzzard nerf was september.
  12. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    It was the perfect storm of webspinner, undertaker, and mad scientist all hitting at once on top of unleash/buzzard. So you had to play around unleash but also had to be able to answer undertaker before it grew out of control. Hunter was completely unstoppable for a couple months there.
  13. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    You haven't really lived until you've done Iron Man Long War, even on the lower difficulty settings. If you want to play the game aggressively, just play on normal or casual and save scum a lot. The originals punished overly aggressive play pretty heavily, which is why any time you see a lets...
  14. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    It will be 75% off at some point during the upcoming Summer sale.
  15. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Yes. You also need Enemy Within because Enemy Within is just strictly better than the base game.
  16. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Maybe I idealized the originals too much. I mean either way I've still got 340 hours in XCom on steam, and while most of those hours are from Long War, I know I've completed enemy unknown twice, enemy within once, and at least a couple incomplete I/I campaigns. I still love the game even if I...
  17. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Are people forgetting that XCom was actually kind of mediocre or what? It was buggy, full of easily exploitable AI, and had very shallow and relatively linear base building and research, as well as a linear campaign. The remake is a pale shadow of the depth and scope of the originals, as old and...
  18. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I assumed it was going to be a mashup of the Terror from the Deep and Apocalypse plots. Something to the effect of we won the first invasion, but then people were like WE DONT NEED XCOM NO MORE and then a new invasion happens. This seems pretty clearly set in the aftermath of XCom losing the...
  19. Gavinmad

    Castle

    Yeah but that was like what, 4 episodes?
  20. Gavinmad

    Castle

    So is the season going to be very very dull, or are they just going to constantly manufacture reasons for the Captain to be out investigating cases instead of staying at the precinct like the captain should?
  21. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Facehunter is getting good again because it has favorable matchups against most of the best decks in the format. Favored against handlock, hybrid hunter, and oil rogue. Weak against patron (and all forms of warrior) but those are the breaks.
  22. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    If Tyrion said that he was lying his ass off, unless that's another thing they changed dramatically from the books. Before Tyrion kills Tywin, Jaime confesses his part in the nastiness with Tysha, resulting in Tyrion hitting him, claiming he actually did kill Joffrey, and spilling the beans on...
  23. Gavinmad

    Sports Entertainment

    holy fuck if that's not a botch thats one brutal looking move.
  24. Gavinmad

    What's the worst movie you've seen at the theatre?

    Dude, the third one automatically wins because it didn't have a slapstick rabbit chase, a slapstick goblintown chase, or a slapstick dragon chase. There really is no contest here. You can pick out any stupid moment from the third one, and there are plenty, and none of them will ever be worse...
  25. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    From the GoT wiki. In the books Asha never makes that rescue attempt, abandoning him when he won't leave Winterfell. She is captured by Stannis when he retakes Deepwood Motte from the Ironborn, and doesn't even recognize Theon. Stannis is planning to execute Theon for what he did to Bran and...
  26. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Eh, Thaurissan is the stone cold tits in patron too. It's not just about comboing sooner, it's about a bigger combo, and that bigger combo may be the difference between winning and losing. Being able to add free whirlwinds and toss in a frothing berserker to a warsong-patron turn can change the...
  27. Gavinmad

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    the real reason Cheese's jimmies are so rustled is because he saw a vision of his future.
  28. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    A) I read the books between Season 2 and 3 and realized I hate the author and most of the story. B) Perhaps I will
  29. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    So, if I haven't watched anything since s2 ended, would it be worth watching htis one episode? Cause ya'll are going pretty crazy
  30. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Yeah, just had a freeze mage go 'antonidas fireball coin frostbolt icelance icelance' in a single turn. Anyone who thinks Thaurissan isn't the most powerful card in the whole game is crazy. Does it need nerfed? I don't know, but it's definitely more powerful than stuff that has been nerfed in...
  31. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    It is a super op card, and I will be a bit surprised if it doesn't get nerfed. I've been in so many games where either I or the other guy won the turn after playing Thaurissan because of the discount. Also this just happened. Probably a mistake but it was funny so I did it. *edit* Turns...
  32. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    So I'm experimenting with both dragon warrior and conventional wallet warrior without Thaurissan. I don't think he's a 'stick this in every single midrange or slower' kind of card. He belongs in decks with either robust draw engines (handlock, oil rogue, or patron warrior), decks that rely on...
  33. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    The weird thing is that Varys apparently wants to put Aegon on the throne, not Daenerys. So what the fuck is he expecting, Daenerys is gonna show up with her dragons, retake the Iron Throne for House Targaryen, and then step aside for Aegon?
  34. Gavinmad

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    The larger pic size definitely makes his manboobs pop.
  35. Gavinmad

    What's the worst movie you've seen at the theatre?

    Really? Did you not see either of the first two in theaters, or are you actually going to claim that the third one was worse than the other two? Because while it was still a rather mediocre movie, it was unquestionably better than the first two.
  36. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Well I think they realize charge is broken because in the 2 adventures and 1 expansion that have come out since vanilla, there have been exactly 2 creatures with charge, Gnomeregan Infantry and Voltron. So I think going forward, any neutral charge minions will either be shit like Infantry or...
  37. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    If they nerf warsong commander again they really just need to remove the card and replace it with something else. They should just replace it. Charge is such a broken mechanic in Hearthcards.
  38. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well, show Margaery also has a few years on book Margaery. They are 7 and 14 respectively at the beginning of the series. I believe they are only betrothed in the books, since Tommen is too young to consummate the marriage.
  39. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well in the books, before Varys kills him Kevan Lannister (the new regent and Lancel's father) visits Cersei in her cell and basically tells her she's through in King's Landing even if she weasels her way out of the charges.
  40. Gavinmad

    Health Problems

    Yeah having your sleep constantly interrupted/sleeping poorly contributes pretty directly to mental instability. TRUST ME