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    Loki

    It's a matter of layers. A dog riding in a car knows that it's something that moves around and makes him end up in different places. A human driving it knows how to control it; put it to best use and how to avoid it becoming dangerous. A mechanic knows how the car actually works and can make...
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    Charlie's Angels (2019)

    Clearly this movie needs a gritty reboot.
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Agreed, that kind of artistic wankery is also what got us the fucking recent starwars bullshit.
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    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    He's talking about controlling your character and the gunplay. I agree that this is better in Andromeda than the other games, which is no surprise considering it is the one thing the Frostbite engine was made for. It is smooth and responsive and has a solid feel to it. I also agree with goishen...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    A 144hz would almost be worth it just for the smooth as fuck animations in windows in my opinion.
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    What did you just read?

    These are great suggestions, but are (as far as I can see) books that are directly focused on explaining their topic. What I'm looking for are novels in which the character(s) experience(s) things that leads them to learn about a particular topic, and where the topic is a...
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    What did you just read?

    Guys, I need your help. Recently I read The Phoenix Project because I'm stepping into a more management role in IT and I was blown away with how well practical technical teachings packaged into the shape of a novel worked for me. Looking back, this seems completely obvious, but never mind that...
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    No Man's Sky

    Did they ever get around to doing something smarter with the amount of mutations you can make to a planet? Used to be that there was a set limit, so if you made a lot of terrain edits, for example by building a base in a mountain, it would eventually start cancelling earlier edits. That...
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    The Witcher

    Completely lost here. All I can make of it is that since Anya Chalotra is of Indian descent, she smells bad per definition?
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    Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

    The name isn't gay, it's rock. Like Guns n' Roses. The Thor franchise has gotten and will keep a (quasi) 80's styling, which gives it a nice and fresh vibe among most of the current fare. Based on what I've seen of him up till now, I've faith that Waititi will take the existing and succesful...
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    The Witcher

    I'd like to cash in on my neckbeard allotment and point out that humans are not native to the world of the Witcher and actually came over through portals. As such, it is essentially possible that the races from the humans' original world got mixed on the Witcher world. Now, the event that made...
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    The Mandalorian

    See, the posts by Chukzombi and Fucker illustrate exactly how the makers of this kind of show can't do everything right to all people. If you put some new stuff in, some neckbeard will come out and say "This is impossible, a Bowamba salesman in the Beruga sector would almost definitely use a...
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    No Man's Sky

    The real money is in crafting. If you can set up a farm for a tier 3 component like a cryo pump or circuit board, you're pretty much set. If you up your game to making tier 2 (quantum processor etc.) or tier 1 (stasis device, fusion ignitor) modules, you're going to be swimming in billions...
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    Witcher 3

    The thing that got me with the ending-defining moments was that the "right" picks just really seemed to be CDPR's opinion of good parenting or being a good friend. Most of them are also highly ambiguous in how they actually would lead to the development of certain behaviour in characters that...
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    Gloomhaven

    Played this last sunday. Loads of fun. It's basically D&D without dice and the open endedness that roleplaying and playing with a DM gives. This makes it excellent for playing with people who don't have the time or inclination to get deeply invested in role playing games but like the cooperative...
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    Desktop Computers

    Thing is, the Dell (S2716DG) is consistently over €600 (it's in Dutch, but still conveys the situation) over here, which is something like $700. That's just €100 shy of a XB271HU or PQ279R. All of whom are a bit expensive for a placeholder.
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    Desktop Computers

    This is frustrating the hell out of me as well. Destiny PC will be out in a few weeks and I really want(ed) to have a new screen by then, but I'm running into the same conflicting feelings about buying current gen tech as you. I've looked into things a bit and it seems that AU Optronics is the...
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    Desktop Computers

    Yeah, I bought the 1080ti today, fuck that shit.
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    Desktop Computers

    Any of you guys clued in on the latest rumors in screen land? I'm going to take the plunge and shell out for a 1080ti to upgrade my Radeon R9 290 because I'm getting sick of terrible framerates in most new games. And because I've suffered through bad framerates for a while, I figured I might as...
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    Desktop Computers

    Disappointed there weren't any new "reasonable" monitors introduced at Computex. After the summer I want to buy a 1440p, 100Hz+, HDR screen with either G- or FreeSync together with the fastest Vega or a 1080Ti. But I haven't seen a single 1440p screen with HDR yet, let alone with the other specs...
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    Tablets

    In general I don't think you can a better full windows experience in this form factor. Of course, the windows experience on tablets is not ideal. There are countless of user experience details that just don't work as well on a Surface as they do on an iPad. The pen and type cover help a lot with...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is it weird that I still read Temple of Veeshan every time people talk about ToV? :( Anyway, where the fuck do I go to get some decent class discussion? I tried Icy Veins, but it's all but completely deserted. I tried MMO Champ, but it's not much better. I read some people in this thread talk...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah ok, but that one is obvious. I just figured there might be some recipe or craft that is disproportionately more efficient at the conversion than a direct blood for resource trade.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So I don't really need gold for shit because I only raid once a week and those consumable costs are covered by Champion missions and random income. However, I've noticed I'm sitting on a stack of about 450 Bloods of Sargeras now, and it does feel like I'm just wasting potential. Given that I...
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Hooking my wagon to Slippery's. Bonus points if there's some political intrige/power struggle and not just military/physical action, but I'm down for both.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    On top of the enormous disparity in how hidden artifact skins are obtained, I think it's really weird how some of their special effects are offensive and actually increase your power, and other are pure cosmetic. With the rest falling somewhere in between. This appearance shit is at the same...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Wait, am I missing the sarcasm here? I did this exact thing thursday evening to gather shards for my vendor pieces. I didn't know about it and happened to me by accident the first time. After that, logging out at the final boss put me back to the start of phase 1, which gave me the opportunity...
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    The Magicians

    What the fuck? First The Expanse, now The Magicians. Several of my favorite books are being..., no, HAVE BEEN serified in a glorious way and I was totally ignorant of it. Fuck m/e. Time to fucking binge.
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    XCOM 2

    This thread is really keeping me from playing the base game. For now, I'll be waiting for the Long War equivalent.
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    Good overview by Acidfly. I made the mistake of waiting quite a while before starting CM's because of my experience with one try I did when I even still had a blue. In reality, they're tough, but you can do them sooner than you think. Lincoln Tunnel Checkpoint is the easiest if you make use of...
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    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    I haven't seen anything on major outlets, but do you guys playing Destiny ever hear Bungie say something on forums or whatever about a PC version?
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    Desktop Computers

    Such a shame that the cost of getting any of this stuff into Europe immediately makes useless any kind of deal benefit you get. I'm hoping Amazon and other big retailers get some decent deals going for us Euro's this time, but I don't usually see anything approaching what companies like Newegg...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As a healer, high 630's is perfectly fine for normals, but your raid has to be somewhat competent, as you can't really compensate for as much fail as you're used to. You see it every expansion: at the start everyone feels underpowered, because they can't kill shit before people start dying. As a...
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Anyone still got a few euro guest passes lying around? Myself and two buddies would like to try it out, but the mandatory box purchase gave us a big WTF. Talk about counterproductive business practices.
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    Ender's Game

    Eh, doubtlessly Card was trying to cash in, but they weren't nearly as bad as you make them out to be. The Bean/Peter books after Ender's Shadow are not parallel stories to the events in Ender's Game. They are relatively generic but entertaining geopolitical intrigue and action novels, with an...
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    Skyrim

    By the way, is it me or is the skyrim nexus absolutely terrible right now?
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    Skyrim

    After wrapping up some big deadlines at work I thought I'd treat myself to a new Skyrim playthrough to check out the new DLC's. Ended up going through the full STEP and GEMS process. That motherfucker took me two fucking days to get right. Things are running and looking like a dream now though...
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    Witcher 3

    So The Witcher 3 basically looks like a Skyrim that's modded to no longer be console-crippled and with a lot more objects per scene. Works for me.
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    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    Some nice footage of the game in action. Fighting gameplay seems a lot like Kingdoms of Amalur to me. They even copied some moves from the Amalur warrior type. World exploration/interaction seems a like The Witcher. Considering these two games were praised for those aspects, it's looking like...
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    Planetside 2

    It's supposed to solve faction issues. They regularly make the faction that is underpopulated the preferred one to balance the three out. However, that just causes a huge influx of newbies, tons of which disappear again. Now, handing out exp boosts is a consolidation tactic: it lets people lever...