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    Home buying thread

    So, as an update: Took the builder an extra week and a half to actually get the sod down. But they finally did and we did our walk through yesterday. House was in great shape, no issues at all that we could find. Builder gets the CO and we think we are in the clear to close. Instead, the...
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    Home buying thread

    Jimmies are starting to get rustled: First time home buyer; market in my area is fucked due to high demand so ended up being better to just have a new house built. Simple starter home, good builder, but its taken the full 6 months for them to get it done. Creeping up on the end of the 6 month...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    So, kind of late to this but I finally picked up Elden Ring since its on sale on Steam. Have never played a Soulslike game before, but I've been watching some streams and I'm itching to dive into another RPG after playing BG3. I was just wondering what controller is recommended to use when...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Finished my first playthrough at 130 hours on Balanced. Explored everywhere, did all but like 2 side quests in Act 3, got all the party member quests done. Had an absolute blast with the game, especially as I leveled and got better at combat. Went in as a Good aligned Oath of Ancients Pally...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Not sure, thats an option too. Bit more expensive but I could try that if needed. My cell reception was decent in the area last time i was over there. I have Verizon and when I checked their website it told me the Home Service wasn't available there, but I'm guessing i could go to the store...
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    So, bumping this thread to try and get some info. I'm having a house built in a semi-rural area. Best as I can find the internet options are somewhat limited: - CenturyLink shows as available but its $50 for only 1.5Mbps with a landline, basically option of last resort. - X-finity looks like...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    So, I decided to pick this up since D4 has turned out to be rather disappointing, and its my first CRPG. I'm playing on Balanced difficulty and I started as a Good aligned Paladin with Oath of the Ancients. While I like Astarion and Lae'zel, both are slowly getting pissy with my choices so I...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Someone moved in a couple doors down from me in the apartment complex about a month ago; which I don't care about other than the fact they have a dog. A dog they like to stick out on their second story porch.... a dog who proceeds to fucking howl all the fucking time it is out there until they...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Looks pretty good to me so far, it will be a nice to have a bit lighter story to jump into; this way they don't run into serial escalation after Endwalker. Curious as to the fact that the northern half of the New World is shrouded; I feel like it would be tough to fit all 6 new zones in the...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yes, you will have to be caught up on the Main Story Quest to move forward into the next expansion. There should be a Storyskip available if you choose to do that.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The issue from what I have read, is that due to laws in Japan and such, if SE is forced to crackdown on addons, it would be non-discriminatory. They would have to blanket ban everything. Yoshi-P and many of the other devs are gamers and understand what that would mean, which is why he has said...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Guessing shaman? Or hunter, maybe. Looks like mail armor at least, in the chest area. I did get a laugh that the first armor set looks like something out of the god awful Gods of Egypt movie.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Finished the MSQ last night:
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    You can have up to 100 Leve allotments stored at any time and you generate 3 new allotments every 12 hours.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Hrmmm, Regen and Cure 2 are your Go-To at that level. Probably what is happening is that many tanks read online to just do Big Pulls without realizing that they need to run Mitigation Cooldowns on trash rather than on bosses if they are gonna pull that much. Many tanks fail to account for how...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yep, you can level all classes on one character if you want. There's a couple different ways to level alt classes: - Once you unlock your Daily Roulettes, you can just do those for the once-a-day bonus. Will take longer than other options but its low impact and can be done at your leisure. -...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    All I can recommend is to just take the game and story in stride and have fun. Best way I can describe FFXIV is that its evolved to become a SIngle Player RPG with a MMO shell around it. You can play the Main Scenario at your own pace with the benefit that the dungeons and raids are group...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Jobs are an extension of their base classes, and require a Soul Crystal to activate. A job is a strict upgrade, and there is no reason to remain playing a base class once the job is available. Classes are a relic of the 1.0 and early 2.0 systems where they were still trying for cross-class...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Soken and the music team went hard with the rock theme for Shadowbringers, which i loved since it helped to add to the "Kicking ass and taking this world back" theme. FFXIV really helped show how background and theme music can really help elevate the game, so many good fucking tracks from ARR...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Soken is an absolute madman and I have no idea how Keiko kept it together during that whole song. They must have done some rehearsals of it before hand, otherwise she has the patience of a saint to get through that whole bit without laughing.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    You joke, but this is seriously where I am at with all this. I'm just some dude making $20 an hour, who is looking at all this knowing I am missing out on something that could help me better myself but having no clue where to even start. And the idea of "just Google this shit or go watch some...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    FWIW, the base game (A Realm Reborn) and the first expansion (Heavensward) are completely free to play. So if your bored, you have nothing to lose to just make an account and try the game. I started FFXIV about a year and half ago, after dropping WoW during early BFA and haven't looked back...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    Check to see if you have the temporary confederation penalty. If so, wait it out then start dropping some cash gifts to Durthu. Get your strength ranking greater than his and give gifts to get your reputation with him over 90 or so and he should be willing to confederate. Was how I was able...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    I believe that doing a ritual gives a factionwide bonus, specific to each tree, plus it also unlocks the special tech building for that tree as well.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Kinda thinking that as well. Either him or Alisae. if its Alisae, I'm guessing on a Rune Fencer type, since it would be a natural evolution for her skillset. As for Zenos, hell only knows. People are saying a melee Necromancer type job in chat due to Yoshi's shirt, like a Reaper; but I dunno...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    True enough. Just finished a Scryer Vortex campaign where Rictus went balls deep on the DE's and had most of Naggaroth conquered by the time I consolidated Lustria. Was quite a the suprise compared to how he normally does in Mortal Empires. For your current situation, you could just turtle...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    Sounds like your playing the Sisters on the Vortex. Not sure what to tell you, since when I played them, it was on the Mortal Empires map. FWIW, what I found for the Sisters and the WE in general is that since you don't have to expand beyond the Hearthlands around the major tree settlements...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    At this point, I think I’m going to just going to start a fresh campaign. I’m 180 turns in now and it will be a slog to dislodge the Dark Elves at this point, plus I just discovered they somehow took out the dragon High Elf guy way over on the eastern side of the map, so they have a small...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    That's probably why, I don't have all the DLC yet, only grabbed the free ones and 1 or 2 that were half off on sale.
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    Total War: Warhammer

    Its Eltharion's faction. He's a pretty good sized faction now, around 10 bases. I have good standing with him and good overall standing, but he is in some defensive and military alliances with the Empire and Lizard groups; which from looking up on the wiki, seems to skew how the power balance...
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    Total War: Warhammer

    Picked this up on a whim while i wait for the next FFVIX patch to drop. Previously, the only RTS's i have played were WC3 and Red Alert 2 and 3, so this is definitely a bit different style but fun. Started as Tyrion on Normal difficulty since it was recommended as a good starting point, and it...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The EX trial gives Dyeable versions of the level 80 class gear, I believe.
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    Path of Exile

    So, I'm thinking about playing this for a bit after being away for quite a while. Last time I played I had a Necro Witch with lots of minions, which was fun but I am wanting to try something different this time around. I think I would still like it to be ranged but not minion focused. I'd...
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    Computer Issues

    Hrmmm, will do. Hadn't thought of that. I have McAfee running. Any other ones I should try?
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    Computer Issues

    So, I am having an issue with my relatively new computer (6 months old). I have a Dell Inspiron 5680; with an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 video card, 250GB SSD Hard-drive (which has all my programs and games) and an extra 1TB Disk Hard-drive. I am getting a random...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Moogle Treasure Trove event is back Looks to be running from now till 5.2 drops, which is looking like mid Feb.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    The TRUE Classic Experience!
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah, a lot of folks just assume you can mass pull every dungeon in the game. I tend to pull 2 packs at most, depending on dungeon and the DPS and healers I have. If Ihave lower dps like ninja-bard and such, I'll just chain pull instead. Got tired of being on my SAM and having some derp grab...