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  1. Djay

    The D&D thread

    Finished my first ever campaign as a DM. Took about 9 months to go through Frozen Sick and Call of the Netherdeep for 4 players. Was fun...they got the good ending and seemed happy with my DMing. Now we're moving to another DM for a heavily modified (so he says) Dungeon of the Mad Mage...
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    College Football 25

    Apparently 5,000 players accepted the deal within the first 12 hours. 85 players x 138 schools would be 11,730. So almost halfway there in the first 12 hours. The high profile guys might hold out for more money, but the majority of players will have their real names.
  3. Djay

    College Football 25

    Probably as simple as a line of code that references a database with players who rejected the offer. If first_name and last_name match optout_name, then error: cannot rename player this. Of course, you just get around it by misspelling the name or adding a hyphen/character.
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    College Football 25

    I didn't have 2014, but I did boot up 2013 and play for several seasons a year or two ago. Been looking forward to this for awhile...even applied to work on it, but I didn't have enough experience with...I don't remember. Something I would have easily learned my first week on the job, I'm...
  5. Djay

    The D&D thread

    This is my first campaign DMing, so I feel it all the time. The first several sessions, I would ask for feedback a lot and wasn't very confident. Early on, I would get really anxious if they missed something or were on the wrong track, so I tried to guide them more...now I realize that letting...
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    The D&D thread

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    The D&D thread

    4 hours every week for us. Every so often we'll get a 2nd session in if everyone is available.
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    What If...?

    Not going to act like Season 1 was gold, but Episode 6 of S2 was "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" levels of horrible.
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    The D&D thread

    I don't know if I could DM without VTT right now. FG does have a few annoying quirks, but being able to have multiple different sources up in front of me and google saves me a lot of headache. The other experienced players also help a lot, in that they'll often know the rules if I don't. This...
  10. Djay

    The D&D thread

    I first started playing D&D senior year of high school...we only got about 2-3 sessions done. Then a group of friends while I was in college...we played a lot more, but the DM was constantly rebooting or switching games. Several years ago, a friend of mine wanted people for a LMoP campaign...
  11. Djay

    The Marvels (2023)

    Actually watched this yesterday...my local theater only had 1 showing all day and it had less than 20 people in there. I usually need to see how I feel trying to rewatch a Marvel Studios movie before I rank them, as sometimes I'll enjoy them in the theater, but have no desire to ever rewatch...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Rogue stealing Captain Marvel's powers and putting her in a coma, finally giving us a fully powered version of Rogue has been my dream since they introduced Captain Marvel and the rumors of bringing the X-Men back to the Marvel Studios universe started.
  13. Djay

    Loki

    I disliked the first season. I really liked the second season. I think you'd be missing too much context to skip the entire first season. If you're interested, you might as well give it a go...it's not like it was "Falcon and Winter Soldier" levels of shit. The first season just wasn't...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is my exact experience working with offshore nearly daily for 10+ years. If I don't explain everything in detail, step by step....they get lost and can't figure it out. This is at Fortune 100 companies. There are a few good ones, but, as you point out, most of them are able to move here...
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    Ahsoka

    I was underwhelmed when I saw Thrawn. The face just doesn't look like what I'd expect...it feels "droopy", like he should have a stronger jawline or something. I'll probably get over it in a couple episodes, but it was distracting every time he was on screen in this first episode. Overall...
  17. Djay

    All Stephen King Books

    Without going back and rereading it, I can just say that my feeling was that it was abrupt and not satisfying. It may have been an appropriate ending...but not the type of closure I prefer from my fiction, maybe? Again, I'd have to go back and reread it to give a more nuanced opinion of it.
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    All Stephen King Books

    The Dark Tower were the first Stephen King books I read. The ending didn't bother me that much, so I didn't get the hate on his endings. The Running Man was the next book I read, because I loved the movie...the ending for that was the worst ending of any book I've ever read, so that tainted...
  19. Djay

    Remakes You Would Like To See.

    I don't want them remaking movies I liked. Movies that had a good premise and/or source material, but then flopped? Sure. Timeline by Michael Crichton comes to mind...I loved the book, but had no idea it was made into a film until it was already on DVD. The Dark Tower would be another good...
  20. Djay

    Ted Lasso

    This one was at least tied into football and was written well. It was built up in previous episodes and fit within the story unlike some of the other stuff they've hamfisted in. The Denver Broncos speech and Roy's press conference were great. Whether the storyline needed to be in the season...
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    Ted Lasso

    I love that the response to this episode is going to be people googling Keeley Hazell and finding her sex tape. I didn't even recognize her in this show, though, and I'm pretty sure that she was the reason I learned Page 3 was a thing in the UK.
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    Ted Lasso

    Heh...no idea why I said Rome when half the episode was devoted to the red light district and windmills. I actually liked the Triangle Offense -> Total Football thing, but the rest of the episode was mostly filler.
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    Ted Lasso

    I like this season more than S2, but all the stuff with Keeley and Rebecca should be cut out...I tune out whenever they have their moments. The whole thing with Rebecca in the houseboat in Rome? Unnecessary and boring. Keeley being gay and managing a business? Forced and barely tangential to...
  24. Djay

    The Last of Us

    I told my gf at the beginning of the season that the girl reminded me of Ashley Johnson. I didn't realize Ashley Johnson did the voice in the game (I didn't play it), so when she showed up I got excited. As far as the moral aspects of this episode, I did ask her if he's a hero or a villain...
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    The Last of Us

    It's been a great show except for 2 really slow episodes. It's the only show my gf is excited to watch every week. Neither of us played the game. I still think it's all predictable, but I guess I've watched too much tv in my life. Luckily she doesn't get annoyed when I call things out 30...
  26. Djay

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Yeah, the last seasons were not great, but I was looking forward to more. Crappy way to leave things.
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    The Legend of Vox Machina

    You could lose Taliesin and CR would be better, imo. Ashley could leave and nothing would really be lost (although I'm loving her as Fearne in S3, but I think that was more of them finding a character to fit her personality instead of the other way around). Those are the only ones you can say...
  28. Djay

    Hogwarts Legacy

    As much as I try not to buy new games that I'm going to play for 2 hours and then forget about and feel bad about not finishing, I think this has won me over. Where's the best place to buy this right now? I think someone mentioned a Steam key from some website, but I can't find the post again...
  29. Djay

    The Last of Us

    Runtime was about 25 minutes shorter than last week's episode. Shortest of the season so far. Could have easily cut 10-15 minutes off last week's episode and put it on the 2nd or 4th.
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    The Last of Us

    Maybe I ruined it for us by saying "and then they fell in love" as soon as Swanson stepped in the bedroom with the clothes, but both my girlfriend and I felt like it was heavy-handed and went on way too long. I guess if it took until the piano scene to figure it out, then maybe the pacing...
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    The Legend of Vox Machina

    Mighty Nein has been my favorite Campaign of the 3, so I really was hoping they would animate it eventually, too. I was expecting it to take more seasons of Vox Machina before they greenlit this, but I'm happy.
  32. Djay

    Marvel Snap

    Not that I don't believe it's possible, but I feel like the Snap subreddit would have posts about this if it was happening. Can you screenshot the game and post it next time you play one of the names you recognize or something like this happens?
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    Marvel Snap

    I'm not sure if there's a matchup calculation that measures how many cards you have from higher pools or what, but I feel like I tend to have better luck with my "Balanced" deck with a lot of T1/T2 cards. It might also just be that playing a random deck fakes people out and they're expecting...
  34. Djay

    Twitch.tv

    Part of the ad program includes that if you agree to run a certain amount of ads (like 3 min per hour or something...I don't remember the specifics) that they will disable pre-rolls for your channel. Higher viewer retention for the reason you mentioned is why small streamers are doing this...
  35. Djay

    The Peripheral

    I thought she created a duplicate stub of her "real" world so that there would be 2 versions of her with the bacteria....one of which the bald lady wouldn't know how to locate. Then they'd kill the one in the "original" stub. Which sounds fine, but Chloe's character and the amputee in both...
  36. Djay

    Blood Bowl 3

    It's a brutal game with poor RNG due to using d6s for almost everything giving, at best, a 1/36 chance of catastrophe nearly every roll. It's combining chess, sports, and character progression that hooks me, but the gameplay itself is infuriating. I've seen more people ragequit this game (both...
  37. Djay

    Marvel Snap

    I've been having fun still...more than any other CCG I've played, but the recent patch with empty caches has killed my motivation to play more than anything. If they don't give proper refunds/compensation within the next day or so, I'll probably move on to something else to fill my time with.
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    Blood Bowl 3

    I was big into the Blood Bowl tabletop community for awhile...traveling for tournaments and even hosting my own. I was hyped for the 2016 release, but when they rebooted again just a few years later it killed any remaining desire I had to play. I took a break expecting the desire to re-ignite...
  39. Djay

    Marvel Snap

    They're adding a "Token Shop" so you can target specific cards instead of hoping for a drop. Still some RNG with which cards appear in the shop, but at least you can pin the card until you have enough tokens. You also start with more tokens depending on what your CL is, starting at 500. They...
  40. Djay

    Black Adam (2021)

    You should get this instead: