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    What did you just read?

    David Wong was Jason Pargin's pen name from when he worked at Cracked when Cracked wasn't shit.
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    Path of Exile

    Can tease out a couple of builds this time versus maybe cobbling together one (or none) with the earlier versions.
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    What did you just read?

    Book five of the John Dies at the End series. A bit of Lovecraft, a bit of humor, a multi-dimensional conflict and some giant crabs, what's not to like? It started out derivative of the other four books but grew in to a decent entry with a stronger second half than first. There's just...
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    World of Warcraft: Forever

    The "autistically following a leveling guide addon" meta sucks anyway.
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    World of Warcraft: Forever

    I never understood why dungeon exp should be bad. There's a bajillion people on the server and dungeons remove some of them from the open world.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    If Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates both got washed accidents may be harder to manifest than one might think.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    He was the most important wingman in the history of his species. Maybe all species. unrelated -
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    Path of Exile 2

    Bolting a bunch of daily upkeep chores on to PoE1 created an experience that was not always welcome. There's a big difference between wanting to grind a few more maps before bed and needing to grind a few more maps to keep your mappers and farmers going. The league mechanic for this looks cool...
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    Path of Exile 2

    They acknowledged jewels are incredibly powerful. One of the fixes is to change their locations making them part of wheels. I think people wanted the nodes themselves to be better rather than now having to take wheels to get jewels.
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    Path of Exile 2

    I did roll my eyes a little when Jonathan explained how Chain support wouldn't just do less damage now on the first hit making it all upside and no downside. It took two years but we made it. Players don't want baked in downsides on the most basic of basic supports.
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    Path of Exile

    Everything looks good except the patch notes don't drop until Wed. That is a small ass window to parse what's going on. Did the dumpster the Luminary y/n? Tune in 48 hours before launch to see! edit - from the Q&A no new skills and not a lot of balance changes whatever that'll end up meaning
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    The Video Thread

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Horse girls are super crazy even relative to other kinds of lady crazy. unrelated -
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    World of Warcraft: Forever

    That's pretty damn low.
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    Dresden Files

    I would recommend sticking with James Marsters from start to finish but I, as a rule, dislike multiple narrators.