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  1. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I was judging by the face and that she is much smaller than everyone around her when walking through the cyberpunk train station.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    This is already common in EQ TLPs with the Plane of Fear. Again, 30 years of game experience and metagaming means that Necromancers can solo in there with little risk then sit around selling loot rights to no drop class armor for Krono. This happens consistently. No reason to think it won't...
  3. TJT

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    The aesthetic is pretty cool. They have the cyberpunk city down pat. Them making the girl uglier with the pixy hair and also looking like a 12 year old is going to make it a bit awkward staring at her ass in a g-string. But I guess Koreans gonna Korean.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Peak Classic MMO experience. People forget that the Classic Everquest style MMO has 30 years of metagaming and technological advancement ontop of it now.
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    Gothic Remake

    Yeah, LMK what you think. I have this on my list to play after I get through a bit more backlog.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Gothic 1 Remake is out. I am looking forward to playing this when I have time. Need to get through Rogue Trader first.
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    Moonwhisper Games (Turtle WoW Team) - Unnamed MMO

    If they are purposely targeting a WoW clone in the same style as WoW classic I think they have a reasonable chance at success. Their audience was never all that big. No reason to believe that they will be making something that isn't a distinct WoW derivative.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Might take a few years, but I am confident it will get back above $100k.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    We all have some amount of nostalgia for the emergent gameplay player item market. But it actually sucked. Some system that allows you to sell items to other players while not sitting there spamming chat must exist. Right up there with basic binding and retreat for all classes.
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    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Getting back to playing this. I just started over. I love this game but I kinda dislike the structure of turns. Officers are mostly for pumping up your big damage boys with extra turns and stuff. Doing this every single turn gets a little tedious.
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    Widow's Bay

    This is a cool show but I hated the acid trip episode. That one was really not well done at all. IMO.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Really, you don't have to make a WoW clone but letting anyone bind in a tavern is a bread and butter design that is totally loyal to DND in every way. Letting all players gate to said tavern even every 12 RL hours is completely fine. You can go beyond that too. The scariest zones don't even have...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    The item in question was only available to evil races and only ported you to The Overthere, an evil race stronghold. One that was also in Kunark and thus worth even less in later expansions. Making it a niche item in general and used only because melee had literally no other options. That you...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    For real. Just having Scrolls of Town Portal or whatever be reasonably available for melee is completely fine. Literally anything other than melee having to bind in the furthest away locations and casters getting a free shortcut for their own convenience. You are punishing a player for class...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Melee not having Gate was already unnecessarily punishing. Y'all are nuts if you want to add more tedium in a social game. Like if you steal any two things from any MMO it should be gate for everyone and Ritual of Summoning. Spending an hour running somewhere to play with your friends was...
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    Moonwhisper Games (Turtle WoW Team) - Unnamed MMO

    I guess these guys are going out on their own. They've gained a lot of experience in the structures necessary to maintain a WoW type game with a small audience. You would be 1000% correct to assume that they are, deliberately, making a WoW clone type game with various changes. If that is the...
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    Secret Labs Titan chair

    Aeron. Best chair I have ever had.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I am going to take a small like $10k position on SpaceX. We'll see if I regret it in a few years.
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    Home buying thread

    After about 2 years of researching areas across the USA we've decided on buying a house in Laramie, Wyoming. We went on a recon vacation across the state seeing Casper, Sheridan, Laramie, Saratoga, and some smaller towns. Of all of those, Laramie has what we want. As someone who grew up in a...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I am pretty confident SpaceX will be a good long term hold. I intend to just throw down like $30k out the gate and sit on it for years. Is there a different opinion here someone can provide?
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Realistically this would be just a cool factor thing. Mega nerds can at least dial their utility spells so they have a marginal advantage and autistic nerds who can muscle memory 30 spells have a huge one in PVP (which is gay but some people like it).
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    Car ?'s

    We are traveling and the rental place gave me a jeep wrangler. I realized I had never really been in one or driven one in my life. The closest thing would be a beat up 1974 international scout my dad had as a farm truck. I hate this car. Its cramped, wind blows through it with a hard top, and...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Yes, creating a system that provides a pathway for items to exit the game mechanically (disenchantment) is a recipe for utter disaster. You just created a magical sinkhole that allows players to destroy items for a benefit. This is even worse than a malicious player destroying items for fun just...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    It amuses me that making a game this way and adding in a disenchanting/recycling type profession (which I always loved a lot thematically and gameplay wise) really fucks up the game economy. The old WoW devs were very forward thinking in that regard. You can't have a recycle system if stuff...
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    Job Hunting

    Can you elaborate?
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    Job Hunting

    I like keeping busy. I want to do something at least part time. Something that involves more getting out of the house rather than sitting at home. Not manual labor, I was not trying to communicate that I was even attempting at doing manual labor. Knowledge work is fine but something onsite and...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Expect more of this! https://www.rtk-ai.app/
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    What are you playing?

    This makes it hard to determine which is more badass.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    God damn the Raphael track pumps.
  30. TJT

    Job Hunting

    Not sure I want to go full wrench and I understand that I sound insane. I love programming, I enjoy the complexity and problem solving as anyone in the field can relate to. In the past 20 years I have developed tax applications, healthcare data infrastructure, billing transaction systems...
  31. TJT

    Job Hunting

    I am not against it or anything but IDK where to start with much of this. All I got so far is to take the HVAC course at the community college just to familiarize myself with something.
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Got through it. I appreciate that some sideplots finally progressed. Excellent quality Carl.
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    Job Hunting

    I wouldn't overthink it. I don't intend to enter this space until I am like 45. But I am planning out how I do that. It will be nice to be out of the house and onsite around the area doing stuff. A great change from the WFH/office life I have known my entire working career. It's a long way off...
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    Job Hunting

    Not sure what you are looking at but I don't see much of that kind of work in it. Access points for the control mechanisms aren't in impossible crawlspaces but external places like the roof. Side rooms that have no climate control and so on. I've been watching this guy's videos. A lot of it is...
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    Job Hunting

    I am beginning to sketch out my exit from the tech industry. As much as I love programming and problem solving I am nearing 20 years of it now. I just don't really think I want to do 20 more years of it. Be it as a management or some other tangental role. But I still love technology. Something...
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    Dating

    How can you be 75 years old and act like this? What?
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yes I know you can knock her unconscious but most players wouldn't stumble on that naturally is all I am saying.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yes, faggot ass places like Edward Jones won't let you sell anything without discussing it with the branch manager of your location directly. My mom is a dumbass when it comes to investing but inherited a large portfolio that's at EJ. Those guys straight rob you taking almost 2% of your gains...