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Stumbled upon the shining diamond gem of webnovels: Mother of Learning. (or, in the entirety, "Repetition is the Mother of Learning") It is, basically, Groundhog Day meets High Sorcery Fantasy. The premise is simple: following an incident (involving a vexed Lich necromancer trying to shred a...

One word: Currencies. A currency in your game turns the game into a grind. You can get away with some currencies, like... XP... or gold... because those currencies are earned literally everywhere while playing the game the way you want. But if you have only specific locations for a currency...

The US version hides the beard:

Any suggestions for a theme for singleton?

In my days, it was poopsocking, not diapers!

(slight derail: do not forget the upcoming Event Horizon... TV SERIES)

The solo game need to provide some form of advancement. Typically, a solo player would get crafting components, decent but not too good XP, and mediocre gear. Eventually, you need to improve your character by going outside of solo from time to time, or your level/hour ratio goes down faster than...

You guys were modern! At Nevrax in 2000, we (still) were all about C.

Elidroth will probably chime in, but I doubt there's any significant amount of assembly code in the EQ codebase. It's almost certainly C all the way, except for external tools which probably have an ungodly amount of visual basic in them. But then, there's a reason why C was once nicknamed "The...

The whole point of an escape system is that you use it when things go wrong.

I was expecting to have Classic pull me back to WoW after I shut my subscription down, but as the launch of Classic comes closer and closer, I find myself less and less tempted to resub. I'm still mildly interested in the World of Warcraft, but I think that playing it is now a thing of the past...

Since the regular supply of M20 packs (slowly nearing mastery 30) and quest gold has given me a stock of wildcards, I'm starting to look at budget deck suggestions (5M, 13R wildcards max). However, given the rotation, I'm not crafting any card that goes invalid in october (when the faeries come...

Saw this on my usual MMOlite news channel: Yes. The title includes Everquest 3, and there's apparently some teasing from Daybreak about it. Video above is set to the part about it (which is very, very sparse).

As many, if I try to remember an awesome moment in a video game... the first thing that comes to mind is the clipping plane revealing the Bridge between North and East Karanas. (that and the wet slapping sandals sound that suddenly accelerates and you realize a Hill Giant had just aggroed your...

2/3rd of Giphy don't work either. You just have the presentation tool, but not the GIF itself.

It's James Bond in WW1 (if James Bond was a Mexican-born bisexual woman). With Nikola Tesla as Q. But there's more if you read the second book, once you realize exactly where he's headed, in between the 007esque antics of Luz and her geek girlfriend. And you realize it's a metaphor of the 21st...

And if you have infinite time to kill, and are raiding three months after your first encounter, then yes. It's possible. But the entire design of Mythic raiding is to overwhelm you with things and leave you no margin to decide nor err. That's why each boss has more abilities in the mythic...

The fun part is that we get this discussion twice a year at least. And everytime some explains that you don't need addons for anything except maybe the current boss. For whatever instance of the current boss there is.

Fun bit is that, in Paris we broke the previous record by a while 2°C (109 "only" here). Thing is, the heat wave is not equally spread. Unlike some of our previous heat waves in Europe which are usually due to winds coming out of the Sahara, this one's due to the jet stream stalling. The jet...

You can play until lvl 20 (but can't talk, trade, join a guild - I think - anything that would be useful to bots/gold sellers).

Remember: somebody paid real money for that token. And that's why it's doomed. Not because it's bad, but because Kotick Supreme Council will not tolerate a game that doesn't include lots of microtransaction opportunities for long.

Haven't read it, but Dan Jones' The Wars of the Roses (yes, plural) got shot to prominence because it came out during peak Game of Thrones (given the heavy inspiration of said series). The author wrote a number of books on medieval England.

One of the pet peeves I have with Arena is that you can have more than 4 of the same card. If it's from two different sets. You still are not allowed to play more than 4, but you can have 8 Llanowar Elves since they appear in multiple sets. The difference is entirely cosmetic, but you don't get...

There's a german one as well. Some of the cards I haven't seen in the M20 list, so I presume they only occur in that deck?

Even in mono-red aggro, I'd always mulligan a 1-land.

Honored. I don't know if the Eternal Quintessence (which requires Revered) is going to be available. Otherwise, it's an Azshara trip for every MC run.

Most of the modern game design is increasingly based around the same design mechanics: Daily rewards that try to instill the habit of playing the game Gacha rewards (randomized rewards with rare valuables) Extrinsic rewards (lots and lots of cosmetics and fluffs) Progression bars (lots of...

And that, basically, describe why I hit the cancel button. Because once I'd done all the chores (at that point, they were chores), I didn't want to play anymore. I used to do some pet/achieve/xmog hunting. For the second half of Uldir, I didn't do any of that. On raid days, I raided. On...

Which you could get as fast as you wanted to. That's what we mean by artificial time gating vs "normal time gating". Classic time gating is "spend 40 hours getting the rep tokens. Want a chamber pot or are you reasonable?". Modern time gating is "spend 40 days playing 1 hour every day. Have a...

The XP cap is apparently calculated so that you get exactly 3 packs per week, like before, but only if you cap every day. If you can't play every day to cap... you lose. It doesn't reward the people who play every day, it punishes those who play mostly on weekends. Plus, of course, you no...

Online stuff is not good to read on the public transport, which 60% of my reading time. The online series I read there are the ones you don't see on Amazon.

The interesting bit was still the new "Season Pass" mechanic. Looks like they're copying more standard F2P mechanisms. I haven't understood all of it. Apparently, you have... two season pass levels already? - Free pass = earn packs of current expansion every 2 levels (this sounds like a better...

Once that came out, I dyed all my armor in the correct color for Plane of Hate original cleric armor, and never changed the look ever again.

Someone wanted to me to feel at home in M20?

The TV mini series adaptation of it is good as well.

As an aside, if you like the Reborn series, the 2nd book is ongoing on Royalroad (until it goes on Kindle Unlimited, which require the authors to limit "free content" to 10% of the book max).

I think I haven't laughed that hard on Foh for ages... (since it's obvious that it's the SECOND mulligan hand)

The paranoid think that anytime a company has to add stuff to a subscription, it probably means the subscription numbers are in trouble. The realist think that this actually means the beancounters at least think they're in trouble.

At this point, I don't expect to come back ever. The two previous times, I knew more or less when I would be coming back (expansion). This time, unless they seriously blow their load at the Blizzcon, not going to bother. I might as well click uninstall, so that the launcher doesn't attempt to...

Yep. Did that. Didn't entirely regret it, as I would probably have purchased it anyway. The problems with it came only much later for a casual player who didn't even bother with the RMAH.