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I think this is the only one of Buelman's books I haven't read. Those Across the River, The Necromancer's House, The Suicide Motor Club, The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War were all varying degrees of good to great.

That's my reading of them https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3913568

The coins don't read that way

One in eight for Arrogance or a specific Blessing sounds pretty reasonable.

With the changes to Raise Spectre the target number is gem level thirty for level 85 spectres. That's a tall order. If you were running Wretched Defilers and you hit Returning Projectiles (66% reduced damage at 20, 70% reduced damage at 1) that would allow you to run a big Empower in that slot...

Don't forget that you can merchant recipe GCPs. One 20% quality gem can be sold for one GCP. A combination of gems totaling 40% is also one GCP. I typically have one tab designated to hold all the random quality gems that drop and then the actual proper gem tab holds a more curated pile. When...

I was initially excited at the prospect of getting spell totem support as an imbue so I could wear a real chest instead of Soul Mantle but I had forgotten that totem life is based not on the skill gem but on spell totem support itself.

To the Kinetic Blast of Clustering bros hunting for Returning Projectiles may the odds ever be in your favor. Meta skill, transmuted gem. Returning projectiles do 66% less damage at level 20 and 70% less damage at level one. Odds look around one in forty to hit but there are some other green...

I've been going over the builds I want to play and supports they would want along with how much it changes their PoBs. For spells and minions losing one gem level in exchange for one level one support, assuming the support is fine but not optimal, ranges from 10 to 15% more damage. That's fine...

I just don't want to see an actual minion meta ever again. Being meta is a good way of getting shat on whether you deserve it or not. Not being meta is a good way of getting buffs whether you deserve them or not. I think Guardian, Absolution and Raise Spectre are going to push it over the line...

I feel the same way. The zero percent representation is completely divorced from the strength of the ascendancy. It's the kind of situation where you see something get buffed and just know it's going to get nerfed down the road. I get stomping on some of the meta stuff. What they've chosen to...

Maybe time for a remake

The stuff with Joe Miller in book four is the only time in the series I felt like I was reading something special. Something about it really seized my interest. I kinda had a similar experience with the Expeditionary Forces series where they were good enough to keep going but the stories rarely...

I was giving the imbued gems some thought People are going to wreck themselves chasing specific skill/support combinations. I had to scale back my own plans (bolt Feeding Frenzy on to minion skill) when I saw that would be something like a one in forty-five. If it's a transfigured gem and you...

No one gives a shit because it's Gerald's Game but Gerald's Game is 100% over and then keeps going for another 30 pages. The Stand is definitely worse because it sets up a major armed conflict between Boulder and Vegas to never pay that off to then do the "story is over here's fifty more pages...

It's fine. The dude being asthmatic and coughing through act one made me want to shut it off but it's fine.

None of my shit got nerfed Going to be a good league

Put me down for "this is still going to be too good"

You convince poor tards that the reason they're poor is GGG's fault and then when the underlying loot gets boosted it has a expontential effect on big investment group play juicer gameplay. I watched two videos of super juicers complaining about ground loot and then a third juicer doing a...

Being able to better run the maps you want to run right away is going to really help smooth out league starts. If you hit a plateau or your starter needs more work than you expected you can put everything on hold and grind through a block of maps of the layout and tier you are comfortable with...

I never went and checked a synopsis so I don't know if my concerns ever manifested but I definitely ruined my own enjoyment just the same. I'm just going to assume that at least some main characters exploded. Related to the time skip we get (it's been a while bear with me) Clarissa Mao joining...

I gave up partway through book seven. Doing a 28 year time skip for the concluding trilogy means you can kill anyone off while still leaving yourself a huge block of time to write more stories in later if you feel so inclined. I don't know what happened, I never looked at a synopsis but it...

That he was still introducing new point of view characters and expanding the narrative in book 5 rather than condensing things down to wolf versus lion is a big part of why I've got no real expectation he'll ever finish things up before dying.

I thought it was the dumbest piece of shit I'd ever seen the first time and gold the second. Of all the movies I've disliked and turned around on The Quick and the Dead has the biggest swing.

The parts of Sinners that I liked I liked enough to look the other way on some things. There's just no way there's going to be a kickass folk singing Irish vampire to carry me through this show. X-Files is a honky show with a lot of honky actors and a honky fanbase. It's really likely we're...

I've been waiting over twenty years to see what happens next with Sam in Oldtown, Ser Jaime, Brienne and the other storylines that were advanced in a Feast for Crows but saw little to no space on the page allocated for them in A Dance with Dragons. Tell me all about what would made LotR better...

Not so much, no.

I did one Hunger Games and one Mortal Engines and they were...fine? Got a look around but didn't see any reason to continue.

A few summers ago I gave France's edgiest man, the Marquis de Sade, a try with his unfinished work 100 Days of Sodom and it was just not written all that well. I get it was unfinished and that there's a translation to English probably fucking things up but it did not impress. I have to think...

Adding some of Tukohama's TotA units to the campaign might indicate TotA is finally coming back. Jade Hulk spectre is go!

These are nice. I'm not sure lumping them together for one video was the way to go but they're nice.

We'll get content video tomorrow and then the full trailer Thursday. Personally I think the daily teaser is going to do a better job building hype than getting hardly any information and a GGG employee having to post on reddit explaining why there's no teasers but maybe I'll feel differently...

Yep, that's about what I'm looking for or an equivalent substitute. I know a couple nerds I can count on to not steer me wrong but I'm not showing up for the premiere on my own.

I'm willing to give it a try but first I'm going to need to hear some good things about it from people whose opinions I find trustworthy. New shows typically fail to meet this requirement.

The new ones are fine but that's all they are.

I don't remember if he said where the other films ended up and I'm not going back to look. I'm going to have a hard time believing Jay would rather watch The Gift than Evil Dead 1, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, Send Help, the other Spidermens, etc.

Caught for the first time. It's something I really should have caught on basic cable and somehow never did. Ivan Reitman came a long fucking way from this to Ghostbusters in only five years with Stripes in the middle. I know Meatballs was well liked in it's time but this is more like a work...

I'm not saying that they're equal. I'm saying that George R R Martin's writings were informed by Lord of the Rings (and it's innumerable ripoffs). Which they were. Martin's been asked about and compared to Tolkien a bajillion times. This is my take on what he's said and what we've received.