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  1. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Maybe in the .ini somewhere. You can turn off the third person and action cams in the options at least.
  2. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Nah, it's viable on the ladder and thanks to Thaurissan it's no longer an autolose to control warrior. Still pretty heavily favored for the warrior, but not 95-5 like it used to be. Probably more like 80-20. Does ok against patron warrior, and does fine against the rest of the field. Pure face...
  3. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I was responding to someone else who said he was dead. I acknowledge that the scene was ambiguous, I just don't think he is important enough to have survived given how much they've trimmed down the story for the shows. If I remember the books correctly, you don't actually see him die there either.
  4. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Syrio is dead because he had a wooden training sword and held the King's men off while Arya ran. I don't think they actually showed Meryn kill him either, it was just implied. Although I'm pretty sure he is dead. If the hound had known Syrio held all those men off with a wooden sword, he might...
  5. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Long War - UFOpaedia Infantry will be a bread and butter class throughout the game if you build them right. Snipers aren't quite the killing machines they were in the base game, but they're still an ok class and disabling shot is a campaign saving ability if you aren't save scumming. Assaults...
  6. Gavinmad

    Memories, Emotions & Shit Threads

    I have seven different computers running scripts to constantly f5 on the forums at all time. But really I finished my post, posted it, saw yours, and quickly edited in a quote of your post in the window where you can edit your post before it says 'edited at X time'
  7. Gavinmad

    Memories, Emotions & Shit Threads

    Alright, I'm going to set what might possibly be a forum first and complain about a positive tuconet. Team Pelican? Pelicans?!?!? FUCK YOU BRO! CATS FOR LIFE! I was listening to it while playing Hearthstone. It's catchy generic pop music.
  8. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Just to play devil's advocate, who is he training with that makes him elite? To pick an example, someone like Selmy trained under the best swordsmen in Westeros, same with Jaime Lannister or any of the Kingsguard before Robert died. I could practice swinging a sword at a dummy for three years...
  9. Gavinmad

    Memories, Emotions & Shit Threads

    God, shovels vs bats, cats vs pelicans, sci fi setting 1 vs sci fi setting 2, there were some great absurd arguments
  10. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I mean he basically teleported Drogon and Daenerys to the Dothraki sea in the books. They're described as being thousands of leagues from Meereen, and there are a bit more than 3 miles to a league, so at an absolute minimum they're 6000 miles from Meereen. Unless the book said Drogon flew for...
  11. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    If he dies in Winds of Winter it will be some shitty writing. At the very least his death should have some important ramifications or something. That dude who got roasted by one of the dragons was kinda dumb, but he was just some random Martell son wasn't he? If GRRM introduced Aegon only to...
  12. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Why do you have a spoiler tag in the spoiler thread? There is absolutely no reason for Varys to be lying about Aegon. Why would he have bothered with his little speech to Kevan as he lay dying if he wasn't telling the truth? Even Tyrion is convinced that the boy is really Aegon, and he's not...
  13. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    The country is randomly picked, but yes, it is normal. Base assaults are tied to countries now (instead of there just being one alien base in the middle of nowhere). Since it is theoretically possible to play through without ever losing a country, it would be impossible to beat the game because...
  14. Gavinmad

    Memories, Emotions & Shit Threads

    Thanks, now I've been listening to Alizee for the last half hour.
  15. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Learn to flank nub. But yeah the opening few missions are pretty rough. I would turn cinematic mode on but not jack up the difficulty if you're having trouble. Hell, I still play on cinematic mode my first new game after a major update to the beta. It's not that your accuracy sucks...
  16. Gavinmad

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Jon has never had anything more than basic training with the sword. He's competent, but he'd get cut to pieces by a real swordsman. He might beat Jaime if Jaime is still having trouble using his opposite hand, but that's about it.
  17. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

  18. Gavinmad

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    I occasionally check the sports entertainment thread, where someone posted the gif. I don't watch wrestling lol
  19. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Except when RNG combines with good draws and you just get blown out. I was in a match earlier against demonlock, and after a struggle I managed to get his board clear with a flamewaker out on my side. He responds with a 4 damage implosion on my flamewaker and I lose the game right there. It...
  20. Gavinmad

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    She gets kicked in the face, lands with the middle of her spine on Naomi's boot, and probably whips the back of her head into the canvas too. She isn't faking that pancaked look afterwards, she damn near got killed. *edit* Yes, I'm aware pro wrestling is fake. That is a badly botched move...
  21. 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.
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN
  26. 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...
  27. 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...
  28. 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.
  29. 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!
  30. 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...
  31. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Nah, Curse dropped in July, Leeroy/Buzzard nerf was september.
  32. 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.
  33. 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...
  34. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

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

    XCOM 2

    Yes. You also need Enemy Within because Enemy Within is just strictly better than the base game.
  36. 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...
  37. 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...
  38. 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...
  39. Gavinmad

    Castle

    Yeah but that was like what, 4 episodes?
  40. 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?