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    tAinted gRail: fAll oF aValon

    This was me, I only tried it for the first time standing on the edge of the ocean getting buffeted by the waves in pursuit of the "very special" whatever for the quest. It took about 10 min to get the hang of it for me, but then it was pretty easy. What an amazing game. Act 1 was just so good...
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    tAinted gRail: fAll oF aValon

    I realized that early on, and slowly transitioned down from whatever of whatever to 48/185 when I leave the stash. The opening music may be weird, I was just struck by how quickly the opening music started and how much he sounded like Chris Cornell, one of my favorite vocalists of all time. I...
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    tAinted gRail: fAll oF aValon

    I am just starting this. I am winding down this season for POE2 and tried NIOH 3 and kind of bounced off it. When this game's starting screen came up with someone who sounded like Chris Cornell, I was immediately hooked. Been playing as a mostly mage based on this thread and my Elden Ring...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    My blood sugar's low and its 5:30AM and I decoded this in a terrible way. My first thought was "Throw pugs AWAY? WTF??!!11!@%%##" Then as the grape juice kicked in, I understood what was happening and decided no action required. Picture kinda related and by FSR rules:
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    I think they've done a great job of translating at least the graphic novel to screen so far; I think that maybe some of the stuff I thought would be had been moved to the end (The small folks gassing Dunk up, as someone up thread said) I heard tonight had been cut and not moved. I think they've...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    There is nothing wrong with that, comradrierie of video game playing brothers, etc. also:
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This ad about why Socialism sucks is brought to you by Reality™. Now imagine the whole economy is run this way, and they shoot people who don't meet those quotas. It's how millions of people starve in every Marxist system and why they all have to be backed up with totalitarian force of arms...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I swear PVP based MMOs are almost like Communism, in that they keep failing and people keep trying them regardless of the outcome. Other than Shadowbane? or maybe Archeage or possibly original UO (debatable), has anyone done open world PVP successfully? I know lots of games had it has a tiny...
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    Ashes of Creation

    See, some of those IDEAS are amazing! in concept but someone has to make them work well. And make them work well on a small level. Make a single city work like this. All MMOs are graphical front ends for databases and database interactions/transformations. Per Daidraco, I think they were...
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    Ashes of Creation

    The originals were delivering a base level of functionality in a static, theme park world. What Steven and Intrepid were trying to create is massively, massively more complex, involving destructibility, weather, seasons, day/night cycles, player building, PVP, and evolving world, etc et al AND...
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    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    Took my daughter to see this. It was OK; she was a fan of the game/experience whatever it was. It was showing at River Oaks Theater, which is an old-school cinema, non-stadium seating, for instance, 4:3 screen, but she was hyped, so we went. Sound mix was what most people said about Tenet...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I paid for a key but have had serious concerns since Intrepid and Steven had their falling out with Narc. I guess it was too much burn and not fast enough to get to release. Edit: You just can't launch with WoW/More than WoW functionality straight out of the gate. I mean, Elon could fund it as...
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    I sold cars for a couple of years as my day job during the week after I changed direction from Law Enforcement, and it was a great learning experience. I was pretty good at it and worked at a couple of dealerships, selling Fords, BMWs, Pontiac/GMC, and used. There were good sales and bad sales...
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    Path of Exile 2

    Update: I switched over to running Abyss and got a few of good Omen drops that let me put together a build for less than 100 Div, which while maybe not having some of the ultra rare items, did allow me to put together a build for my plant druid that worked pretty well; asset inflation also...