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    MTG thread

    Yea a lot of the power of black lotus is because it can come down turn 1 and/or is a artifact. Having to pay 3 mana to turn something into a black lotus isn’t really a competitive play. For casual EDH sure. But too slow in modern and not powerful enough in legacy. Having said that, I think...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Total index fund, total bond market fund and total international fund. Adjust the percentages to your risk tolerance. I split evenly amongst the 3, but consider upping the bond amount if you are more conservative / shorter term investing. Also, I recommend everyone have a little play money...
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    MTG thread

    Pretty excited for Arena to be honest. Hearthstone with MTG cards is fine by me. I ended up selling my MTGO collection to Cardhoarder as well. Figured I would get out early before the rest of the casual players realize Arena will be all they need. I was "4th in line" friday morning to trade my...
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    MTG: Arena

    I'm pretty sure it won't be replacing MTGO aka Magic Online (unless it's a reskin or a mashup of Duels + MTGO ). If they do anything detrimental to the MTGO economy lots of people would flip their shit. They stated a while back that they wanted to ease players into the MTG world. That entry...
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    Tale of Toast

    Gameplay is king, if people can still play Ultima Online, Runescape, EQ, etc then if this game is solid content and mechanics wise, people (including me) will play. If you have a limited budget, concentrate on the game itself, you can always re-skin shit when you get popular.
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    MTG thread

    Yea I play MTGO, I just sold most of my standard money cards and rotated over to modern. Modern is so much more fun, the metagame is so diverse, the games move quicker and are much more interactive. I was playing a Blue Green home brew in standard ( Nissa, steward with counter spells and...
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    MTG thread

    So you were basically correct. Marvel wins the day overall and you can indeed slam 30 zombies into a deck and turn your cards sideways to win, even a pro tour. You whiffed on the Mardu, but that is just because everyone was ready for them. So standard is now who get a the first aetherworks...
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    MTG thread

    Can I bid on just the Homelands pack? If so, I will open at two dollars and fiddy cents.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    OK, server just came down. Backup being made and @Control will take over from there. Nothing lost, just probably a few hours of downtime here until Control can get thing back up. I'm available on Discord still (Sailfish) if server issues arise.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Sorry about this guys. No data lost, just hit my limit on our Server (MS Azure). It will be back up Sunday. Longer term we are looking at alternative options.
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    Visions of Grandeur (making dad-servers great again!)

    If Control is willing to accept you guys (aka your characters) in some form or fashion, I would be happy to share it with him. I would also be happy to let him take over the server as well. Sorry guys, I just don't have time to manage the server. I know if I log in and say hi people will msg me...
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    How much income is enough?

    I was going to post the article that someone up top already. I think the question boils down to "How much do you need to not stress about money anymore?" If your an unhappy person, lotsa money not going to help that. If your a happy person, but making minimum wage, some extra income will help...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    angular-datatables I would be plugging DataTables into this thing, even if its a medium amount of work, will pay off.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    I will wait for Jysin to reply here, but I changed time trash to have 25% less HP and 25% more minimum damage. They ran it today and looks like got to Phase4 before stopping for the day, so I will take that as a good sign. Also hopefully fixed some bugs with PoTimeB instances, it is now a...
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    Crowfall

    I guess that's better than just a Kickstarter, at least there's a small chance for some profit. But the company would have to go public or get bought out for big bucks. Consider this a game purchase with a $50 scratch ticket added on.
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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I believe the main point of this game so far was to make the developers / owners a shit ton of money. Beyond that, as a casual gamer I have yet to actually see any point to this game.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Sigh, I've been tolerating your neckbearded attitude towards me and the "new" server since I started it up, but now I'm annoyed. I get it, you don't want to play here. Maze was awesome, I suck. We heard you the first 5 times you said this. Please go play on Storm Haven or whatever and stop...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Hmm well not sure on that one. Unless we remove NO DROP from all the items, I would have to go to each NPC and update the items they drop. Personally, I am ok with the majority of items Velious+ being NO DROP, because there's lots of loot available in Classic / Kunark which will help new players...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    I just upped the ZEM on Hole from 1.0 to 2.0 , upped Growth Plane as well. I would try those too spots. I really don't want to move Droga around to be honest. I prefer smaller changes.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Nagafen's Lair ReReborn and ReRerolled is up, still running. I've got 12 hour rolling backups, we've been fairly stable over the past few days here. Adding an auto-restart on crash script tomorrow. For the record, I happen to have a lot of "coding" experience, I'm not going to post my resume or...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    The backup version of the server is up at the moment. I don't really have time to support it much. If you hop into discord chat in the evening I can probably re-flag some of you, but no promises. If you want to become a GM and help out a bit find me (Sailfish) in discord chat. This is...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    If you login to EQ emu now you will see a "[TESTING] Nagafen's Lair " Server. This is running a database copy from 9/4. If you have a minute, please just login to the server and play for 5-20 mins to ensure the server is stable, go see if spawns are up, etc. DO NOT PROGRESS, THIS WILL PROBABLY...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Working on it now, no promises. I will announce the info here if it gets up and stable. Just to warn everyone, we have a Database backup from 9/5, so there WILL be a rollback. Join discord chat for more up to date info.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    I just setup a discord chat, if anyone is interested in helping to coordinate a new server setup, please join and we can start discussing Discord
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    OK well thank you Maze for posting the data. Now, what do we need to do to get the server back up and running? Do we just install vanilla eqemu, copy the binaries over, import the backup .. and profit? Also lets coordinate so 3 of us don't like set this up.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    He replied this morning over at: Nagafen's Lair (Reborn) - Page 3 - EQEmulator Forums I really wanted to vocalize how butt-hurt I am over this, but I figured the mods would delete it, so I kept it civil. But I highly encourage others to go call him a faggot and remind him this is probably why...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    I mean yea I 100% understand not wanting to maintain all this free stuff for us, but holy crap that sucks. That's like 1000's of hours of gaming, just down the poop shoot. Hopefully he can at least hand the DB / Server off to someone else. But to blow it all up, really shitty thing to do......
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Vonguru-Today at 8:07 PM Chances are that server won't be back up until sometime tomorrow. We have to restore from backups too dating back to 3AM this morning So I'm trying to contain my E-rage. I realize this is a free server and all, nothing guaranteed. But why the fuck are you letting this...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Toxxula forest 1-4, then Lavastorm 5-16, then head into Sol A. Once your bored there go to upper guk. Once everything is green there head to lower, roughly level 25-28. Hit up sol b effreti / fire giants any time after 38. I bound myself inside lguk waterfall live side area and only killed...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Ya this server is a lotta fun. It's the working man/ I have a life EQ nostalgia server. Me and my buddy 4 maned Nagafen at lvl40 last night, was a lot of fun. Tried phingel this morning and he kicked our butt, guess I will go back at 50 and try him again. Check the starting area NPCs for good...
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    My buddy and I are on here as well. I am Mrfish / sailfish - SHM / MNK. My buddy is mugatu / zoolander - ROG / ENC The server is a ton of fun so far, like Ez-mode p1999 type vibe. We hit lguk at level 24 ish and farmed gear and levels until 35. Onto slob now. You can duo kill Nagafen at...
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    Donation Status Enabled

    This pal-pay thing. Good one.....wait your joking right?
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    Everquest - Phinigel server

    Lockjaw / Ragefire was a lotta fun, XP was manageable. I could keep my 40 hrs week job and level to max. Phingel XP is only fun for the sadists and people who have 50+ hours a week to dedicate to the game
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    Nintendo releasing a mini version of the classic NES this holiday.

    Similarly, I hate using my hate using my credit card when I goto the grocery store, waiting in that stupid line, making small talk with the cashier. It's soooo much easier to just pick what I want and walk out. Seriously, fuck both of you. I understand pirating Final Fantasy or whatever...
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    Everquest - Phinigel server

    I had a lot of fun running 2 accouts on Lockjaw, some light raiding. I considered starting over on phingel, but who the fuck has 40 hours a week to level and keep with the pace. It's just stupid to make a super accessible server with instanced raiding, then lock it up behind the xp rate. The...
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    New Progression Server confirmed

    To be honest, I wouldn't call the end game raid scene "a mess". I joined a raiding guild on Lockjaw last week. So far I've been on 4 raids, Fear, Sky, Hate and The Hole. We've taken down multiple minibosses and got Yael. It's been really fun. Guild starts scouting for targets 30 minutes...
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    DFO: Dungeon Fighter Online coming back. Global this time.

    Just spent the last 30 minute trying to start thing game, but it kept getting stuck launching while there was a small "xigncode3" loading window in the bottom right of my screen. I guess this is their crappy anti-cheat program or something. Based on my google searches, it acts very arbitrary...
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    Albion Online

    Don't pick it up just yet. Their "winter beta" will be ending in a week or so. Wait till the next beta phase. All the reading I've done makes the game look pretty fun, very UO like from my perspective...very much worth trying..
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    MTG thread

    You need to put the "sacrifice" ability on the stack before the "reduction of toughness" resolves. You can sacrifice in response to him casting the global reduction spell, creature, etc. but once that resolves and becomes active, all creatures whose toughness is 0 go directly to graveyard, no...
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    Gamasutra Article - "The Top F2P Monetization Tricks"

    I initially went to put it there, but looking at the last ~30 or so topics, they were all directly about a video game....So i figured the "general" forum of a gaming related message board would work..