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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Some moved to red, a few went rampage, a few are staying in TMO, and many formed Forsaken.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    You can see Death, Eternity, Entropy, and Infinity in the carvings around the 6 ingots during the Collector's flashback. I assume they'll eventually be seen or felt beyond that.
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    [NO Spoilers] Star Wars: Episode 7 - NO PUSSY SHIT

    What, you didn't like Waru?
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    The problem is that Superman, and most other non-kill heroes, have a huge storytelling handicap built into the character. Obviously, we want to stay true to a character as much as possible, but Superman's restrictions completely tie the writer's hands. Making him kill Zod forces him to actually...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    It's just a few people rabble rousing. Nothing will come of it.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    There's certainly a high chance that shady things are still happening to get around the .DLL. However, any work around is VERY well hidden and not entirely useful. Every raid target has to be face tracked by a person at the keyboard so that the batphone can be fired off instantly. That really...
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    Dungeons & Dragons - New & Old

    I never said anything was "missing" or "cut." I simply said that I wish we had seen more. I'd have enjoyed books on Constructs & Fey like the Draconomicon or Libris Mortis. I would have liked the BoED and BoVD (as sloppy as those two were) on law and chaos. I wanted a monster builder guidebook...
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    Dungeons & Dragons - New & Old

    4th had a lot of great ideas, and it's a shame the tone of the game turned so many people off so quickly. One of my favorite things about 4th was the designer's willingness to break away from 3.X's slavish devotion to modular stat blocks. 3.X had such a focus on hit dice and stat progressions...
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    Dungeons & Dragons - New & Old

    3.5 was an amazing edition. It had a lot of flaws, but find one that didn't. It's taken years for many groups to patch over the holes, and a lot of campaigns are held together with houserule duct tape, but it's still stood up pretty well. Pathfinder's existence is a testament to how well the d20...
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    That scene is actually fairly reasonable.
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    The important thing is that no matter how good the writing is for Batman, he's still paired with Superman. It's almost guaranteed they're going to resort to super preparedness, and it's going to be forced and cringe-worthy. Batman is fine on his own as everyone has already said. When you put him...
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    The problem, as it's already been pointed out, isn't that he's simply "unrealistic"; it's that he's completely out of step with the rules of reality as established in the comic universe. Batman will be put into impossible situations, but he'll still win. This is because the writes will establish...
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    Relevant:XKCD What If? Relativistic Baseball
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    I don't know how much plat is in your bank currently; PM me if you need some. Right now I've got Eyashusa parked in Lavastorm with FR/MR gear on for next Tuesday's Naggy spawn. I use him pretty much every Naggy and Vox spawn, so the account is pretty safe.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    No GMs implicated. Just your standard shit flinging, and someone decided to start posting pictures and facebooks. It got spammed enough that Sirken said stop it and started ban hammering people.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    It generally means (outside of a few zones - OT, SK, etc.) players (mostly bards) cannot take the vast majority of mobs in a zone and keep them tied up. This rarely reaches a level where it requires enforcement. Indoor camps are generally respected and enforced by the rules provided you meet...
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    Stargate Reboot Trilogy

    Shit still rustles me to this day. Sloppy writing at best, and who thought it was a good idea to make the series finale a stand alone piece of nonsensical trash. They could have at least mentioned something about an ascension pact with the Ancients when the Asgard finally decided they're done.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    The general theory is that Euron's dragon egg that he "threw off the boat in a foul mood" was actually payment to the Faceless Men for Balon Greyjoy's murder. Jaqen is supposedly trying to get into the Citadel to get the last known copy of Blood and Fire the book on raising dragons. Euron...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    If he does come back (which, let's be honest, he probably will), I hope he's really messed up from the experience. Victarion's hand is now charred and black, UnCat is a whole heap of nasty, and so on. I'll be really disappointed if he just get back up like nothing happened.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Platlord has been busted several times, and the website always goes down while he restocks. He's been busted before when he's slipped up, but he makes good money and is very careful. He has many characters and mules and supposedly proxies like it's going out of style to keep all of his holdings...
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    Captain America: Winter Soldier

    Movie was awesome. Perfectly captured his moral compass, and the fight scenes were brutal. None of that pussy DC "heroes don't kill" BS. Cap straight up ninja murdered all those dudes, and it was awesome. The Winter Soldier's fight scenes were, I think, by far the best fights in all of the MCU...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    They definitely need to adjust the new aggro changes, but many, if not all, mobs would check nearby players for KOS and add them to the aggro list just for standing around. Sitting was also an additional hate modifier. The approach they took here was to proximity aggro only players that were...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Most boss mobs can be done comfortably with about 36. However, the rapid response times required to FTE and engage the mob demand a lot. This means most raid forces tend to be very bloated to ensure enough numbers for any given pop, or that a raid force will be barebones because they're out of...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    A combination of need, alpha male bravado, and sheer momentum. Vs gear is still strongly needed for most mains. Trak is the key to VP, and controlling him controlled Phara Dar. Plus, people seemed to think that giving up anything was a sign of weakness, and neck beard honor demanded that we shit...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Who contacted you? We're sending out an email blast in prep for Velious to all registered board members but it hasn't gone out yet. TMO is still doing quite well all things considered. We've had a complete change in leadership, and we're facing a resurgent IB. Times are certainly interesting...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Only Longclaw has really been treated casually, and I think it's safe to assume that no one wanted to take it after Mance warmed up to Jon. All the rest of the swords are pretty well contested / lusted after. Looking athttp://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valyrian_steel, I don't remember too...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Hiatus until Velious. Zagum is now leading TMO.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    It was disbanded partly as an act of ...protest. The cooler heads instantly reformed and assumed command. Basically, it's a shake up of a few officer / leader spots, but the guild itself is running as if nothing happened.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    There's rumors of two post-Velious routes. 1) It's strongly suspected that they'll launch a second server with a much stricter classic timeline and that the expansions will release on time since the work will largely have been already done. And 2) They've discussed off and on adding some custom...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    The key difference here is that the developers have finally put in a system that completely segregates the hardcore from the casual. The average player now has a reasonable chance to meaningfully participate in the end game via the "protected" repops. They're protected in that each guild may...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Right, but IIRC the P99 pet aggro nerf will mean that the clerics will eventually be eaten. Wasn't pet aggro changes because they were petting down Vox and Nag? Will they be able to hold aggro over the clerics healing?
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    The charmed giants will not be able to hold aggro well enough to down AoW, and the GM's have strongly hinted that the BP will be nerfed day 1.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Stay on the forums. A lot of good people are working on picking up the pieces in a respectable way.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    That was probably me. There are a few encounters that will give trouble, but that's because they'll have to be relearned. Aside from AoW and maybe Vyemm, most of NtoV will fall in short order. The guild has so many Prayers of Life that we can survive constant AE barrages. Vulak's AE is almost...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    It was Froovy and Internode. Froovy was extremely well-trusted and he played other people's accounts often. He had 10 or so high level characters himself that he frequently lent out as well. This is a huge shock, and a lot of us are in total disbelief at what he did. Of the 86 accounts banned...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I assumed that it'd be better for me just to straight up buy some lite coins, but I had to ask. It sounds like an interesting hobby, and I'd learn a lot. However, it sounds like a bit more than I can chew.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I'm considering mining litecoins as a small side project and to see if I can ever turn a profit. How hard is this to do for someone who has never done it before? I'm looking at dropping around $1600 give or take a few hundred, but I have no programming experience and I've only helped build one...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    The Tesseract wasconfirmed as the space gem.Current rumor is that Guardians of the Galaxy will involve the time gem.
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    This isn't quite accurate. For example, TMO doesn't remove people for inactivity. These days it's pretty hard to get into the guild, but once you're in you're set for a long time. We've only done a single purge of inactive characters who hadn't logged in for 6+ months. Even then we kept some...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Try contacting Sofa, King, & Stupid LLP. They specialize in your exact situation.