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The zillion rocks will actually do much more damage, for the same reason they program nuclear weapons to explode in the air over the target, rather than when they hit the ground. If the rock hits the ground the crust will absorb much of the energy. If it's a zillion small pieces they'll all burn...

I also hated this. The problem is that the average movie viewer isn't going to get the premise at all, while the more informed viewer is going to be just as confused because the "solution" in the movie doesn't actually solve the problem. Blowing up the floating island mid-fall solves nothing...

The problem with purely active tanked Stratios fits is you'll be hard pressed to kill passive-tanked ratters, which is most of them. All the rats will switch to you when you turn on a warp disruptor and you'll have a hard time tanking the mission/anomaly and the ratter's weapons at the same time...

Farming mobs to skin them isn't really limited any more than farming mobs to trap them. It's just dumb because it's going to bring out the botters and griefers in full force.

Felblood just got changed to dropping from the Barn to dropping from gathering professions in Tanaan. Let us all welcome back the million underground mining/herbing bots and skinning griefers. (Anyone can skin a corpse that's been looted, so bots will just stick to people, following them around...

I hope there's no follower ilvl raise. I ditched the salvage yard in favor of another crafting hut so I could stockpile soulbound crafting mats in preperation for 6.2. 2400 total required to equip someone with 3 crafted and four epic gems, value is going to shoot up, especially if primals can be...

The idea is, when you cap, buy barn rush orders to turn into felblood when 6.2 drops.

IMHO you should switch from Inn to Lumber Mill now just to farm GR and Barn orders unless you already have enough Treasure Hunters that you can get triple or quadruple gold from every mission. Spending 10 GR for a 100g mission is dumb, that's only 10:1 conversion and Barn rush orders are going...

You can group with other people and you all get the caged animal item for trapping one.

Remember that you absolutely need to have a level 3 barn when 6.2 launches. The top-level crafted gear is ilvl 715, but heroic HC gear is only 710, which means mythic progression raiders will pay any price for felblood. If your server has a top25 guild on it you can probably turn felbloods over...

Eh, the main difficulty of the TBC heroics was the fact that there were so few abilities compared to today and how few of them actually worked on shit in there. Even if they for some reason decided to tune the DPS/HP numbers of Shattered Halls to exactly what they were in early TBC, the dungeons...

I didn't say "good movies," I said "hit movies." Hollywood only cares about the money, and before Avatar, original sci-fi generally didn't make much money. Actual hits that made like 4x their budget or more were stupidly rare. Out of all of those, only Armageddon, Independence Day, and The...

Armor always worked on H+F Suplex, the issue was that when it first came out, when you got picked up you were unable to take any actions until you got smashed, so you couldn't activate any of your cooldowns. Brewmasters, however, still had stagger to survive the hit since it was always up, and...

PoF and OKC have plenty of eights and nines on them, at least in my area. They'll never actually respond to messages, but they're definitely on there.

BrM can still Guard for a million and they still have the lowest DTPS of all tanks, they're fine. The real problem is the changes made bears overpowered, not that Monks are weak now. If you're taunt swapping the boss every 30 seconds then their massively buffed Savage Defense has 60% uptime...

Children of Men actually lost money. I forgot about the Matrix, but everything else you put here was after Avatar. The fact that original sci-fi pretty much always failed let to some pretty ridiculous shit in the 2000s. The I, Robot movie was filmed as a standalone movie and had absolutely...

Comic book movies are so popular because "original" sci-fi has an exceptionally poor track record at the movies, James Cameron is pretty much the only director that can make it work. Think about it. In between Terminator 2 and Avatar, how many science fiction movies that were not direct...

From what I've seen, having kids instantly makes people absolutely stupid about money, and it's one of my biggest fears about having kids. People have them and their finances almost instantly turn into a debt-ridden abyss. I have two co-workers in my department alone that have household incomes...

If she's unemployed and they're not married, it's not fraud.

The last time I went to a Toyota dealership the agent I talked to not only pulled out all the cliche bullshit ("If it was silver you could have it for that price, but this is a premium color!") but when I left without buying anything he ended up stalking me for weeks. Even after I stopped...

90 to 95 percent of criminal charges in the US result in a plea bargain. You want us to build 20 times as many courts as we have now and report for jury duty once every two weeks rather than once a year?

How do you suggest we clear the backlog of cases with no plea bargains? You already wait a year for a felony trial even with them. Get rid of plea bargains and they'd have to stop prosecuting misdemeanors entirely, there would never be enough court time to hear the cases. The fact that you're...

Paradoxically, it's the fact that we use common law and that everyone gets the reasonable doubt standard even for minor crimes that results in our high incarceration rate. There aren't near enough judicial resources to prove every single minor crime beyond a reasonable doubt. In Europe, they...

That was kind of the point I was getting at. If you're in a position where image is important, you get an escort so you can fuck and then she'll leave without causing any public drama or ratting you out to your wife/girlfriend/family/employer. But if you're a single guy and not in such a...

Yes. Absolutely. Why do you think welfare exists? There are people that will make something of themselves if given a leg up and people who won't. For the former group, welfare exists to help them become productive members of society. For the latter group, it exists to placate them so they're not...

I don't get this at all. Why would a single guy ever want to use escorts? Even if the money is no issue. Escorts are something you turn to if you're stuck in a no/low sex marriage or are no longer attracted to your wife, or if you have to maintain a clean image that prevents you from hitting the...

MMOs are pretty unique in that they're basically the only hobby that both requires a specific time commitment and doesn't require you to leave the house. If you play on a sports team your wife obviously knows you're not available when you're not present, but with MMOs that's less clear.

A lot of the bugs are subtle and not noticed until you don't have a pre-bug save left and it just ruins your game. The bug where equipping stat boosting items can cause your stats to slowly and randomly increase without limit is the major one here.

Well, they're definitely not going to let you use firearms in a residential neighborhood, so I hope you're up for running them down and beating them to death personally.

I swear, some days here are indistinguishable from a Dilbert cartoon. "There was a DIF (direct immune fluorescence) assay yesterday that didn't get done, why didn't you take care of it?" "There was no paperwork posted, and it wasn't on the master log either. I had no idea it existed."...

The biggest giveaway for me is the ones that specifically state they're looking for someone 7+ years older than they are.

This is mandatory in politics. If you want to win enough Republican support to win an election, you need the support of the Tea Party, the libertarians, the NRA, and the religious right. Good luck managing that while giving a direct answer on anything. These groups are pretty notorious for...

Do they actually message you and literally say they're looking for a "Stable New Daddy with Money"? I've gotten plenty of messages where I can pick that up from the subtext, but no one actually comes out and says it.

My phone's software has a bug that randomly causes it to cut out all audio on calls. The call still connects, but you can not hear anything the other person says and he can't hear you. I don't have a landline.

What group PvE still exists in EQ? When I played that last most of the group content was actually soloable by many classes.

What I'd really like to have explained is how having lots of sex with different partners is somehow physically destructive, but having lots of sex with the same partner is not.

Gender roles of the 1950s = no divorce, and your new 18-year old wife moves right from daddy's house into yours. If she turns out to be crazy, you're stuck with her. Women are married off early before you've had a chance to establish a career and life of your own, so the quality of woman you get...

For Brewmasters, Mastery is worth more than Agility and Haste has a value that's very near zero.

I realize it may be technically legal for the judge to do this, but the vast majority of people still see it as misconduct. Nobody would ever make plea bargains if that type of thing was common. They're questionable enough as it is right now from a fairness perspective. It would be just like if...

Fax machines. Why do people still use fucking fax machines? There's no plausible reason for this, but there are plenty of companies that will only accept correspondence either via mail or via fax. Why? I could see mail only if you need original copies of something, but if you're willing to...